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Country’s Killing It, Hip-Hop’s Slipping and Taylor Swift Could Be Her Own Genre
Amid big gains for country and Latin, R&B/hip-hop’s dominance appears to be waning, according to Billboard’s year-end music genre rankings.
1 Billboard 200 releases from Travis Scott, Drake and Rod Wave, among others, hip-hop albums have continued to lose share since the midyear headlines that the genre had not produced any full-length chart-toppers. And while R&B/hip-hop’s overall growth, at 5.9%, was 10th among genres, it finished third on that metric in overall volume, adding 15.6 million equivalent album units over last year, behind only rock and country. Those numbers are larger than the next four genres — R&B/hip-hop, pop, country and World music, in that order — combined and largely stem from immense catalog sales.
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