Drake Is No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the 21st Century Chart

Drake Is No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the 21st Century Chart

Drake leads Billboard’s 100-position Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the 21st Century retrospective.

Drake Named Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist Of The Century

Source: Cole Burston / Getty Drake may have been the laughingstock of many rap fans since his beef with Kendrick Lamar wrapped up, but numbers don’t lie.  Billboard  has officially ranked him as the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the 21st Century. With his cache of hits, holding the top spot shouldn’t be too surprising until you realize he didn’t have his first hit until 2009 with “Best I Ever Had,” which means there are plenty of other artists that …

Billboard: Drake Outranks Beyoncé as 21st Century’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist

Billboard’s quarter-century recap puts Drake first and Beyoncé second, reflecting cumulative R&B/hip-hop chart performance from 2000 through 2024. (Superthrowbackparty illustration)In a year when Beyoncé bent stadiums around the world to her will and Kendrick Lamar owned the headlines with “Not Like Us,” Billboard’s receipts say something simpler: over the first 25 years of this century, Drake stacked the most chart points. The trade’s 2000–24 r…