Billboard's new record

NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - For the first time in Billboard's chart history, the top 10 songs on this week's Billboard Hot 100 list are by African-American artists.
Aside from Beyonce's "Baby Boy," the other nine are by rappers including the latest from Nelly, P. Diddy, Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz, Chingy, Pharrell and Jay-Z, YoungBloodZ, 50 Cent, Fabolous, Ludacris and Black Eyed Peas.

Silvio Pietroluongo, who manages Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, said: "We went back through our lists to the mid-1990s, when R&B was the hot thing. But even then there were always some pop and rock acts as well."

For Billboard's chart was just a matter of time! There is rise of black music to the boom in the video music industry. Experts said part of the reason for the dominance of rapwas that it was a musical form where singles still showed signs of commercial life and radio influence.