There are no hip-hop songs in the US top 40 for the first time since 1990

There are no hip-hop songs in the US top 40 for the first time since 1990

There are currently no hip-hop songs in the US top 40 chart for the first time since 1990.

Megan Thee Stallion's 'Lover Girl' Ends Historic Billboard Top 40 Rap Drought

(TheStewartofNY/FilmMagic) Megan Thee Stallion’s latest single “Lover Girl” is getting plenty of love—enough to end a historic absence of anything from the genre on the top 40. According to Billboard, no rap songs appeared in the Hot 100’s top 40 tracks—a standard metric that indicates the most popular songs in a given week—on the charts dated October 25 and November 1. It was the first time since February 3, 1990 that a single hip hop song had …

Wot no hip-hop?: The Billboard Top 30 is rap free – for the first time in 35 years

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