New songs from Zac Brown Band and Tim McGraw crack this month's Top 40 for the first time, but a newcomer named Dasha out-anks these two power players. Click on any link below to listen. As always, ...

For the first time in more than 35 years, no rap songs appear in the Billboard Hot 100's top 40. The streak came to an end on the chart dated Oct. 25, 2025, following the fall of Kendrick Lamar and ...

For the first time since 1990, there are no rap songs in the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Kendrick Lamar and SZA's hit "luther," which spent 13 weeks at No. 1, left this week's most recent ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...

What makes a hit song “generic”? Marketability, easy consumption, and the uncanny ability to sound like every band at once. Basically, a song that could have been done by anyone and still have the ...

John Lennon had a knack for stand-alone Top 40 songs: Five of his trips to Billboard's main singles chart weren't part of any original album. Included are songs that became incredibly well-known ...

There was little doubt as to which country song is No. 1 in August 2024. The top hit is No. 1 on sales, streaming and airplay charts to start the month. Fans and critics are also in love with this ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: On last week's Billboard Hot 100, there were no rap songs in the top 40.

Cardi B Plans To Drop Another Album Next Year, Won't Do Deluxe Version of 'Am I The Drama?' The Grammy winner plans to release her third album next year, which will be "different" from 'Am I the Drama ...

In the list below of the Top 40 Funk Songs, which were voted on by the UCR staff, funk takes on various guises, from the earliest R&B detours to the synthesizer and electronic embellishments of the ...