Why do they hate Urban music so much. [this is a rant since they took blogs downE!!]
Now on R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, R&B Songs, Rap Songs instead of depending on Airplay from URBAN stations, now it compiles all airplay, streams, and sales so now Pop acts with "urban" songs go #1.
Only 2 Urban artists (Jay-Z and Eminem) have went #1 on Hot Rap Songs dis year and Psy, Flo Rida, and Macklemore have went #1. Flo Rida and Jay-Z also the only black rappers #1 on Hot Rap Songs this year.
Then the R&B Songs Chart they made in 2012 is so USELESS.
#1's on R&B Songs so far:
Rihanna - Diamonds [15 weeks @ #1]
Justin Timberlake - Suit & Tie [15 weeks @ #1]
Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines [19 weeks @ #1]
Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home [12 weeks @ #1]
Beyonce - Drunk In Love [1 week @ #1]
Outside of Beyonce and the bae Drake, those are songs are "r&b" that are listened to by the POP COMMUNITY.
#1 on URBAN Radio: Drake - All Me (feat. 2 Chainz / Big Sean)
Peak on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop: #9
THERE is no ****ing way Rihanna's "Diamonds" should've came close to being the longest-running R&B/Hip-Hop #1 ever when the Urban community was not using that **** like that. There is no way Macklemore should've been #1 for 21 consecutive weeks on any URAN charts, I don't give a **** if they covered a 2Pac song.
Do noT make Genre Charts if they will be exact cuts of the Hot 100, and not measuring what the listeners of the genre listen to!
Nobody uses anything but the Hot 100 & Billboard 200 nowadays. Billboard messed this up long ago. While it does determine true popularity it gives to much weight to pop music to dominate genre specific charts. Genre-specific airplay should be more than 50% of the formula
it makes sense as top 40 is moving in a more urban/R&B direction.. however they should be better at classifying which songs by pop artists should be considered urban - like PSY wth
Why does it matter?
Chart statistics are a nice bonus for stans like u but no one is really newly disadvantaged here, the radio play system continues today as was and there's even a rad new chart reflecting such on billboard.com.
[this is a rant since they took blogs downE!!]
Flo Rida and Jay-Z also the only black rappers #1 on Hot Rap Songs this year. 
