Is country music taking over as the top genre over rap?

[Piff Perkins]

for how long?
the percentage keeps decreasing every year

How is it decreasing every year when it increased every year to become the #1 genre a couple years ago?


Last year we dealt with people claiming the genre was dead because no rap albums had gone #1 on the charts for a few months. That spawned multiple Coli threads and various old heads telling us the rap world was crashing. This year the most important, seminal music moment of the year was a rap beef that culminated in the #1 song in the country and an eventual Super Bowl performance. Next year will be full of record breaking, massive tours from Drake, Kendrick, and Cole.

The ONLY concerns I have about hip hop kinda go together. Whereas there are young, new-ish superstars emerging in pop (Chappell Roan, Sofia Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, etc) there are no new rappers on the horizon who seem like the next superstar. The only new-ish black artist (across rap and other genres) who seems like they might be the next superstar is Tyla, and she has some time to go before reaching it. Labels are pushing resources into developing and cultivating sexy pop stars again but where are the black people? SZA became a superstar last year, sure. But who is next? I don't see it.

And that gets to the second part about development. Right now, black music in general is treated like little more than quick cash/revenue. Some degenerate goes viral rapping about wild shyt, goes 2-3x plat with a couple songs, the album bombs, the tour fails, and then the next degenerate artist is introduced to the same cycle. Where is the next Drake? Where's the next Kendrick? Hell, where is the next Chance or even Wale lol. Is there even a spot for a new big rapper who is a black guy?

 

[keepitrealprk]

everything is cyclical right?

the country bubble popped in like 2019, but it is coming back.

the hiphop/rap bubble popped a couple years back, and it'll be years of recovery.

don't look at video views nor streaming numbers, look at ticket sales.

that's the real indication of what is selling and what is not.

 

[Bonefan32]

T Pain getting that country money too



He's about to perform at a huge Country festival



I hope he makes a ton of money from it,he's very talented

 

[newworldafro]

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Stat wise country is on top whether u want to accept it or not is on you

cap....cats just be saying sh1t w/o any receipts to back it up

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Country is smashing all other genres in live consumtion (ticket sales to concerts and such) outside of EDM and HipHop (HIpHop has the crown there too!)

 

[L $ C]

country music is all over the charts, a lot of guys i know who listen to both have leaned way more into country that hip hop in last 1-2 years

 

[Sk3ptical]

country music is all over the charts, a lot of guys i know who listen to both have leaned way more into country that hip hop in last 1-2 years

Rap still the number one genre buddy

 

[L $ C]

Rap still the number one genre buddy

look at spotify streams or the charts, we dont have anything but luther and nokia anywhere near the charts for last few months. country got 10-15 in top 50

 

[Sk3ptical]

look at spotify streams or the charts, we dont have anything but luther and nokia anywhere near the charts for last few months. country got 10-15 in top 50

nikka rap still the number one genre.

Look at the albums sales for both genre this year and come back to me.

 

[L $ C]

hip hop has had almost no hits this year its crazy, what song realeased this year outside of nokia has actully been a hit chart wise? honestly? anything?

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I know I'm tired of the rap/country collabs.

That shít don't mix and never has

Whiskey whiskey won't you gooooo awaaaay.......

No bytch, YOU go away

 

[Sk3ptical]

hip hop has had almost no hits this year its crazy, what song realeased this year outside of nokia has actully been a hit chart wise? honestly? anything?

Outside off morgan wallen even a nikka like gunna is selling more than any country artists this year.

 

[L $ C]

I know I'm tired of the rap/country collabs.

That shít don't mix and never has

Whiskey whiskey won't you gooooo awaaaay.......

No bytch, YOU go away

what you think of BigXdaplug album? honestly It wasnt bad

 

[L $ C]

Outside off morgan wallen even a nikka like gunna is selling more than any country artists this year.

I'm not gonna go back n forth with u thats cool but honestly just my question like what rap hit exists this year on the charts? idk if weve ever had a year there wasnt really any but 1

 

[IllmaticDelta]

hip hop has had almost no hits this year its crazy, what song realeased this year outside of nokia has actully been a hit chart wise? honestly? anything?

General Billboard hits are called "Billboard Top 200," "Top 100," and "Top 40"...of course there were HipHop "hits" that charted within those intervals