For the back-to-back Billboard Hot 100 charts this year dated Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, no rap songs appeared in the top 40 — marking the first times since the Feb. 3, 1990 chart that the genre was totally ...
Five new albums debut in this week's Billboard Top 10, with sounds that span pop, R&B, K-pop and hip-hop. NPR's Stephen Thompson has the details.