Hip-Hop Has Officially Dethroned Rock 'n' Roll as America's Most Popular Music

Maxim ^ | July 19, 2017 | Steve Huff

[Trump20162020]

If Drake looks smug and Dave Grohl looks a little stricken in the photos above, there's a good reason: Nielsen tracking indicates hip-hop and R&B have officially become the most dominant form of popular music in the United States for the first time ever.

As HuffPo reports, the reason for hip-hop's supremacy—25 percent of the retail music market over 23 percent for rock—may not be a big surprise.

The reason for hip-hop and R&B overtaking rock is simple: online streaming. When it comes to album sales, rock continues to dominate, claiming 43 percent of physical album sales and 37 percent of digital album sales.

But R&B and hip-hop have come to utterly dominate the online streaming market, where they make up 29 percent of all songs streamed online ― that’s almost the exact same amount as rock and pop combined.

[MissEdie]

Don’t you know, in our post-obama society those guys are too white.

[Dr. Sivana]

What happened to Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael?

[wally_bert]

It seemed that a country music station could be pulled in even on a near dead battery.

I have XM as well and at best listen to handful of channels. Typically OTR on 148 and Yacht Rock are my top picks.

OTR and some audiobooks on disc will go on long trips.

[Vaquero]

Danny and the Juniors said it in 1958.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=egmIP5BkqPI&feature=youtu.be

[Buttons12]

It’s in the mall too. Compared to this nasty audio assault, even the cheesiest country music seems the product of an advanced civilization.

[central_va]

What happens when you play a CW song backwards?

[freedumb2003]

>>All I hear when “Hip Hop” is blaring is the sound of young angry African Americans yelling scary crap.<<

“Hip Hop” = “cRap” = “kill Whitey.”

Period.

[DaveA37]

Hip hop is nothing more than jungle “music” with lyrics.

[Army Air Corps]

All still enjoy an audience.

[Made In The USA]

Agreed!

[Lopeover]

The heck you say!!!!

[TheStickman]

C’rap’ will never replace rock & roll in my house. EVER!

[Blue Highway]

Not to mention you will hear the N-word in every song like a trademark.

[Army Air Corps]

Where did you obtain the incidental music for Wild Wild West?

[Made In The USA]

To your point, there’s bands from 70’s and 80’s still touring today - doubt you’ll see that from these CRap artists.

[Will88]

Hip-hop artists can't rest on this, though—HuffPo also notes that their current dominance "was helped by the release of more than a few dominant albums between January and June, like Drake’s 'More Life,' Migos’ 'Culture,' Future’s 'Future' and Kendrick Lamar’s 'Damn.'"

Dumb article. A few hit hip hop albums released over a six month period do not a trend make.

I did my own study, and did you know that basketball and baseball have overtaken football as the most watched sport in the USA? Yep, more people attended basketball and baseball games, or watched them on TV, than football games during the first six months of 2017.

[trisham]

Agreed.

[trisham]

It’s the only way to travel.

[wally_bert]

This outfit, La-La Land Records.

http://www.lalalandrecords.com/Site/WildWildWest.html

If WWW can get a release, maybe some others on the wish list might happen.

Ones that I would love the incidental music l to have would be Rockford, Ironside, and Streets Of San Francisco.

[Leep]

“Fake news”

Fake music