This data illustrates the results of a survey level of interest in dance, hip hop and rap in Germany from 2014 to 2018. In 2018, **** million Germans were highly interested in listening to dance, hip hop and rap music.

During a 2020 study fielded in Colombia, **** percent of respondents aged between 12 and 25 years said they had listened to hip-hop and/or rap music throughout the week prior to the survey. Among interviewees aged 65 and above, the share stood below *** percent.

vinnie329/alt-hip-hop-data dataset hosted on Hugging Face and contributed by the HF Datasets community

Media-aineistoa suomalaisista mustista / ruskeista / poc-räppäreistä (N=7).

This research data set is related to the research project The multisemiotic construction of ’new’ ethnicities and (non)belonging in Finnish hip hop culture, funded by the Academy of Finland (2019-2022; project number 315461). The data set comprise a) interview data of Finnish rappers and b) media data concerning Finnish rappers.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Hip Hop Caucus Education Fund

According to a study on representation and equality in the music industry, female artists were most prevalent in the pop genre between 2012 and 2023. While female artists released roughly **** percent of the highest-charting pop songs during that period, they only accounted for **** percent of top songs in the hip-hop/rap genre.

Women in the music industry Gender inequality remains an ongoing issue across all areas of the music industry. According to the findings of a recent report, the share of female songwriters on the Billboard Top 100 charts has stood below ** percent for nearly a decade now, highlighting how little progress has been made in terms of equal representation in music over the years. Meanwhile, an even bigger representation gap can be observed when looking at the share of female producers in the United States. Women working as producers remain a rare sight, and between 2012 and 2020, only * to * percent of producers of the top-charting songs were female. Who are the top female solo artists? As of 2020, Nicki Minaj (Onika Maraj) and Rihanna (Robyn Fenty) were the two top-performing female solo artists in the United States, with ** songs that placed on the Billboard Top 100 charts each. *** out of the top 13 performers in this ranking were women, and while **** of them fall under the pop category, two female artists (Nicki Minaj and Cardi B) release hip-hop/rap music. Considering that the latter genre is particularly hard to break into for women, the recent wave of successful female rappers (spearheaded by Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, and Doja Cat, to name a few) might indicate the beginning of a new musical era.

In 2018, hip-hop and rap music accounted for 21.7 percent of total music consumption in the United States, more than double the percentage of R&B music sales. Other highly popular genres included pop and rock music, whereas just 1.1 percent of all music sold in the U.S. in 2018 was jazz.

Why are some genres more popular than others? 

Whilst music is a highly subjective medium in terms of the listener’s taste and preferences, the top genres in terms of consumption tend not to fluctuate heavily. The catchiness and familiarity of pop music is appealing to a wide range of music fans. Pop songs tend to be easy to listen to and remember, usually feature simple, snappy lyrics to avoid polarizing listeners, making pop overall less divisive than other genres because it is designed to generate mass appeal.

Conversely, religious music by its very nature is a niche genre in that it encompasses, describes or advocates certain beliefs, giving it the equal ability to alienate some listeners while appealing enormously to others, depending on their religious stance.

The hit genre of 2018 was hip-hop and rap, a music style notorious for its tendency to divide listeners. Singer Drake arguably influenced sales within the genre that year, with ‘Scorpion’ topping the list of best-selling albums in the United States based on total streams and ‘Scary Hours’ also making the top ten. Drake came tenth in the list of most successful music tours in North America, with revenue from his live concerts amounting to 79 million U.S. dollars, and second in the ranking was Jay-Z and Beyoncé with 166.4 million dollars in revenue, artists whose music is also strongly aligned with the rap and hip-hop genre.

Other artists in the genre who achieved significant influence in 2018 include Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, Cardi B, Travis Scott and Post Malone, many of whom released songs that year which garnered hundreds of millions of audio streams. The sheer amount of hip-hop and rap music flooding the music industry has had a profound effect on the genre’s popularity, and musicians in the category tend to be prolific songwriters and active social media users. Equally, artists in the genre are arguably passionate about creating music which challenges social norms in a way that rock music has always been famous for.

Eminem is one of the most influential hip-hop artists of all time, and the Rap God. I acquired this data using Spotify APs and supplemented it with other research to add to my own analysis. You can find my original analysis here: https://kaivalyapowale.com/2020/01/25/eminems-album-trends-and-music-to-be-murdered-by-2020/

My analysis was also published by top hip-hop websites: HipHop 24x7 - Data analysis reveals M2BMB is the most negative album Eminem Pro - Album's data analysis Eminem Pro - Eminem's albums are getting shorter

You can also check out visualizations on Tableau Public for some ideas: https://public.tableau.com/profile/kaivalya.powale#!/

Content

I have primarily used data from Spotify’s API using multiple endpoints for albums and tracks. I supplemented the data with stats from Billboard and calculations from this post.

Here's the explanation for all the audio features provided by Spotify!

I have researched data about album sales from multiple sources online. They are cited in my original analysis.

Acknowledgements

Here are the Spotify's Album endpoints. Charts data from Billboard. Swear data from this source.

Inspiration

I'd love to see new visualizations using this data or using the sales, swear, or duration for an analysis. It would be wonderful if someone compares this with other hip-hop greats.

Comprehensive dataset containing 1,396 verified Hip hop dance class businesses in United States with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Universal Hip Hop Museum

Abstract: In teaching and research activities, we have pointed out the need to think about the specificities of Scientific and Technological Education in urban peripheries. In this paper, we reflect on the relevance of Rap. We will try to answer the following questions: what possibilities of constructing meanings about Science-Technology-Society (STS) can be triggered by Rap? Can they favour displacements of meanings that contribute to transformative education? We conducted a search into Rap song groups for referents linked to STS and their interrelationships with the social groups. As a theoretical-methodological reference, we adopted the inspiration of French Discourse Analysis (DA) as preconized by Michel Pêcheux and readings emerging from STS Studies. Eight Themes have been proposed that illustrate the possibilities triggered by the work. We hope that this will be a rich material for the elaboration of more grounded pedagogical practices.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Hip Hop Has Heart Inc.

This upload contains the data set for the study published in Attention, Perception and Psychophysics.

Comprehensive dataset of 1 Hip hop dance classes in Iran as of July, 2025. Includes verified contact information (email, phone), geocoded addresses, customer ratings, reviews, business categories, and operational details. Perfect for market research, lead generation, competitive analysis, and business intelligence. Download a complimentary sample to evaluate data quality and completeness.

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According to a study carried out by Deezer in May 2018, the most popular genre among Americans was rock music, with 56.8 percent of respondents stating that they were currently listening to music within this genre as of the date of survey. Pop and country music were the second and third most popular genres respectively, and 20.2 percent of respondents said they preferred jazz.

The appeal of rock and pop music

The broad appeal of rock and pop music can in part be attributed to how both genres often blend seamlessly into one another and influence other music styles. Heavy rock bands like Led Zeppelin and AC/DC are often more divisive than melodic rock groups like Bon Jovi or Genesis, just like pop music which strays into R&B territory or is better associated with hip hop or EDM. Each have their appeal to fans with different tastes, and the versatility of rock and pop (and music which combines the two) allows such music to reach adults of all ages and backgrounds.

Rock albums also account for the majority of vinyl album sales in the United States, with pop albums ranking second. However, although the resurgence of vinyl has to a certain extent been reliant on the rock genre, this is not the case when it comes to digital music consumption. Rap and hip hop accounted for 22.8 percent of music video streams in the U.S. in 2018, whereas for rock music videos the share was just 7.1 percent. Rock fared similarly when it came to audio streams, once again losing out to rap and hip hop. Taking such data into consideration, it would seem that rock music fans are generally more drawn to traditional formats and are less inclined to enjoy their music via streaming platforms.

Descriptive statistics for trial performance for each decision task.

Descriptive statistics of dance experience measures (no transformations applied) as assessed by the dance experience questionnaire (N = 61).