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R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Artist(s) Rap Albums Artist(s) Refs. January 1 Michael: Michael Jackson: Pink Friday: Nicki Minaj [3] January 8 Recovery: Eminem [4] January 15 Recovery: Eminem [5] January 22 Pink Friday: Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Nicki Minaj [6] January 29 [7] February 5 [8] February 12 [9] February 19 [10] February 26 [11] March 5 Recovery ...
Kanye West and Jay-Z's Watch the Throne becomes the fastest-selling rap album in 2011, selling 436,000 copies its first week, beating Lupe Fiasco's third studio album Lasers. It is also the third rap album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. [citation needed] Rolling Stone names Eminem "the King of Hip Hop". [citation needed]
Hot Rap Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard that ranks the most popular hip hop songs in the United States. 77 songs topped Hot Rap Songs in the 2010s. The first number-one song of the decade was "Empire State of Mind" by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys. [1] In 2012, Drake broke the record for the most Hot Rap ...
As hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary on Aug. 11, The Times looks back at the artists, songs and innovations that changed the course of popular culture.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" was the number 1 song of the year, topping the Hot 100 for 7 consecutive weeks. Four of Katy Perry's singles, "Firework", "E.T.", " Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) " and " Teenage Dream " managed to enter the list, with "Firework" and "E.T." being numbers 3 and ...
The Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart ranks the best-performing singles in that category in the United States. The first number one song of the year was claimed by Trey Songz with his song "Can't Be Friends"; [1] it spent the first six weeks of 2011 at number one, and also topped the chart the last seven weeks of 2010, therefore spending 13 weeks atop the chart in total. [2]
The 1980s were hip-hop’s first full decade as a documented musical genre on record, and from ’80 to ’89, rap grew from single to albums, from party songs to social commentary, from simple ...
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2011. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues , remasters , and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable , defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.