Billboard Hot 100 has no rap songs in the Top 40 for the first time since 1990 following rule changes that knocked Kendrick Lamar from the chart.

Maybe it’s because he did it without a lot of glamour and was refreshingly free of gimmicks. Or it could have been just the Everyman image that he effortlessly cultivated. Whatever the reason, it ...

John Lennon had a knack for stand-alone Top 40 songs. As the following countdown shows, five of his 14 trips to Billboard’s main singles chart weren’t originally part of any original album. Included ...