The Pudding

The Billboard Top 100

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You Were Meant For MeMMMbopSay You'll Be ThereFor You I WillReturn Of The MackI Want YouCan't Nobody Hold Me DownHypnotizeThe FreshmanWannabeAll By MyselfIn My BedUn-Break My Heart

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The Pudding

How Music

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Every top 5 song, from 1958 - 2016, so we can stop arguing about when music was still good.

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Methodology: this uses Billboard's Hot Rap Songs Chart. Billboard began publishing this list as a weekly sales-based chart, then known as Hot Rap Singles, in 1989. In 2002, the chart was replaced with a list titled Hot Rap Tracks, based on radio audience impressions monitored by Nielsen Music. The chart added digital downloads and streaming data into its formula in 2012 and was renamed Hot Rap Songs, as it is known today. For simplicity, the animated line chart only displays only songs that peaked in the top 5.

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