That’s ridiculous, because no artist should be represented that many times in a greatest of all time countdown with so many other songs and artists from which to choose. That success definitely translated to this countdown, where he easily has 40-plus entries, including more than two dozen as a lead artist and more than 20 in the top 500 alone. 1 artist, period – over the past decade, and he has the record for the most charting songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 list with more than 210 entries there. There’s Drake, Drake and too much Drake.Įveryone knows that Drake has been the No. The countdown airs twice more between now and June 24.) (Spoiler alert: a ranking of the Top 250 songs follows the reactions, so if you’re planning to listen and want to be surprised, stop reading. Note: SiriusXM ran a Top 500 Hip-Hop countdown back in April on Channel 30, and the top half of the chart likely duplicates that one. I gave the countdown a listen in its first airing, which ran from June 17 through early Saturday morning, June 20, and had the following quick reactions. SiriusXM is touting it as “three decades of hard rhymes and dope beats.” It’s really four decades – dating back to the oldest song on their list, 1979’s “Rapper’s Delight,” and hundreds of ‘80s classics, but who’s counting? Pictured (from center going clockwise): The Notorious B.I.G., Eminem, Future, Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Dr. This week it’s the Top 1000 hip-hop songs – a ranking compiled by the satellite radio company (likely by the various program directors for its hip-hop stations, which span the SiriusXM dial from Channel 43 to 47, in case you’re interested). As many of the blog’s readers know, SiriusXM has been running genre-specific, all-time Top 1000 countdowns on channel 177 for the past several weeks. Dre, Drake, Eminem, hip-hop, Hip-hop music news, Kendrick Lamar, SiriusXM, The Notorious B.I.G., Top 1000, Tupac Shakur
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