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Hip-hop or hip hop music, also known as rap, and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from African Americans and Afro-Caribbean immigrants in the Bronx, a borough of New York City.
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Hip hop songs from any year which charted in the 2021 Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100; Song Artist Project Peak position "Up" Cardi B — 1 "Way 2 Sexy" Drake featuring Future and Young Thug: Certified Lover Boy "What's Next" Drake Scary Hours 2 "Industry Baby" Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow: Montero "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" Lil Nas X ...
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- Significant Song Achievements
- Significant Artist Achievements
- Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
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Beginning in 1942, Billboard published a chart of bestselling African-American music, first as the Harlem Hit Parade, then as Race Records. Then in 1949, Billboard began publishing a Rhythm and Blues chart, which entered "R&B" into mainstream lexicon. These three charts were consolidated into a single Hot R&B Singleschart in October 1958. From Nove...
Most weeks at number one
21 weeks 1. "Kill Bill" (2022–23) – SZA 20 weeks 1. "Old Town Road" (2019) – Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus 18 weeks 1. "The Honeydripper (Parts 1 & 2)" (1945) – Joe Ligginsand His Honeydrippers 2. "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" (1946) – Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five 3. "One Dance" (2016) – Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla 4. "Industry Baby" (2021–22) - Lil Nas X featuring Jack Harlow 17 weeks 1. "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" (1947) – Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five 16 weeks 1. "Hey! B...
Songs with most weeks on the chart
1. 89 weeks – "Sure Thing" – Miguel(2011) 2. 75 weeks – "Be Without You" – Mary J. Blige(2005) 3. 74 weeks – "God In Me" – Mary Mary(2009) 4. 73 weeks – "On the Ocean" – K'Jon(2009) 5. 71 weeks – 1. 1.1. "You Make Me Wanna..." – Usher(1997) 1.2. "There Goes My Baby" – Usher(2010) 1. 70 weeks – "Step in the Name of Love" – R. Kelly(2003) 2. 68 weeks - "Can't Let Go" - Anthony Hamilton (2005) 3. 66 weeks – 1. 1.1. "Blinding Lights" - The Weeknd(2020) 1. 63 weeks – 1. 1.1. "In My Bed" – Dru Hill...
Longest climbs to number one
1. 43rd week – "Step in the Name of Love" by R. Kelly 2. 35th week – "All of Me" by John Legend 3. 32nd week – "Needed Me" by Rihanna Source:
Most number-one singles
The artists with the most No. 1 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart since October 1958.
Artists with most weeks at number one on the chart
† Pre-October 1958 charts.
Most chart entries
Most entries on chart since October 1958.
Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Songswas a chart composed of 25 positions that represented songs making progress to chart on the main R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Many times, songs halted their progress at this chart and never debuted on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart could have also been seen as a 25 position qu...
- L’Trimm, “Cars With the Boom” The first national Miami bass hit came from Lady Tigra and Bunny D, teenagers with personality for days who met as dancers on a local TV show and had rhyme battles with boys in the high school lunchroom.
- Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz feat. Ying Yang Twins, “Get Low” “Get Low” was the Number Two hit that signaled the peak of the high-energy, high-alcohol-content, shout-happy movement known as “crunk.”
- M.I.A., “Paper Planes” Maya Arulpragasam was a globally connected radical who turned into one of hip-hop’s most forward-thinking artists. “Paper Planes” was a Clash-sampling shot at immigrant-fearing Westerners, complete with gunshot sound effects.
- Jay Z and Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind” This towering New York anthem began as a demo by Angela Hunte, who grew up in the same Brooklyn building as Jay Z, and Jane’t Sewell-Ulepic.
Reportedly featuring over 100 samples and focused on Chuck D, Flavor Flav and Professor Griff ’s revolutionary lyrics, it’s often cited as one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time. 1989 – DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince win the first hip-hop GRAMMY Award for Best Rap Performance for their 1988 hit single, "Parents Just Don’t ...
Hip - hop songs, or rap songs, have roots in much older traditions of African-American poetry and song. "Toasts," are poems, sometimes chanted, that frequently center on the life of an individual, but sometimes told of events as well.
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