Originally <a href='https://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=27880526'>posted</a> on 06/27/2018:


For the first time in history, Rap has surpassed rock to become the biggest music genre in the US with no signs whatsoever of slowing down, according to the end-of-year report published by Nielsen Music.
R&B/hip hop represented 24.5 per cent of all music consumption in the US - the largest share and the first time it had led the measurement for a calendar year. Rock came in second place, with a share of 20.8 per cent.
Eight out of 10 of the most listened to artists of the year fell into the R&B/hip hop category, as did seven out of 10 of the top albums.

While Ed Sheeran still ruled with his third album Divide - shifting a whopping 2,764,000 album equivalent units - albums by Kendrick, Drake, Bruno Mars, Post Malone, Migos, The Weeknd and Khalid also made the list.