In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2025, let’s celebrate female rappers’ undeniable impact on Hip Hop, particularly their groundbreaking accolades on Billboard’s coveted Hot 100 chart.

A version of this post originally appeared on the author’s blog, The Illiterate. Remember last fall, when it looked like women, for the first time since the late ’90s, were taking over the pop charts?

Women dominated the UK pop charts in 2023, even as festivals struggled to improve representation and female musicians were shut out of a number of major awards ceremonies. British stars including ...

Despite an increased conversation around the gender disparity within country music, female voices make up only 10 percent of "country music culture," a new study finds. That number represents the ...

Female artists are increasing their presence on popular music charts, but representation behind the scenes is still an uphill battle. The latest findings of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s ...

Members of the new nonprofit took part in an American Pavilion panel in which producer Carol Polakoff promised the new organization would be "revolutionary, paradigm-changing." By Gregg Kilday ...

Powerhouse women dominated Billboard's charts over the first 25 years of the century. Women artists etched some of the most vaunted records ever on Billboard’s charts over the first quarter of the ...

It’s remarkable how a hot IPO can get discussion going. After a 50 percent rise in the stock price of The RealReal, the marketplace for consigned luxury items, following its June 28 public offering, ...

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From September 3, 2016, to September 16, 2017, no solo women scored a No. 1 single in the U.S. Almost coinciding with the beginnings of the Trump era, this was the longest stretch of No. 1 singles ...