{
  "dataset": "Hip-hop's Billboard Hot 100 top-10 conversion",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "as_of_chart": "2026-09-19",
  "as_of_label": "the Billboard Hot 100 dated September 19, 2026",
  "statistic": "Total career Billboard Hot 100 entries, including featured and credited appearances, as counted by Billboard's own per-artist chart-history pages.",
  "source_primary": "https://www.billboard.com/artist/<slug>/chart-history/hsi/",
  "source_secondary": "https://www.billboard.com/lists/every-artist-with-100-hot-100-chart-hits-drake-taylor-swift/",
  "method_note": "Read from Billboard's per-artist chart-history pages 2026-08-15. Ranks 1-7 independently re-extracted in a second pass using a different access method; every entry count, No. 1 count and first-entry title matched. Ranks 21-27 are single-sourced: Billboard's editorial list stops at 86 and Wikipedia stops at 100.",
  "artists": [
    {
      "rank": 25,
      "name": "Ludacris",
      "slug": "ludacris",
      "entries": 56,
      "no1s": 5,
      "top10s": 18,
      "first": "2000-09-30",
      "firstTitle": "What's Your Fantasy",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": null,
      "tie": true,
      "top10_conversion_pct": 32.1,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 8.9
    },
    {
      "rank": 18,
      "name": "Kendrick Lamar",
      "slug": "kendrick",
      "entries": 92,
      "no1s": 6,
      "top10s": 23,
      "first": "2012-08-18",
      "firstTitle": "Swimming Pools (Drank)",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": 92,
      "top10_conversion_pct": 25,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 6.5
    },
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Drake",
      "slug": "drake",
      "entries": 403,
      "no1s": 14,
      "top10s": 90,
      "first": "2009-05-23",
      "firstTitle": "Best I Ever Had",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": 403,
      "note": "Billboard returns 14. Sources that count \"Sicko Mode\" report 15; Billboard bills that record to Travis Scott alone.",
      "top10_conversion_pct": 22.3,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 3.5
    },
    {
      "rank": 14,
      "name": "Jay-Z",
      "slug": "jay-z",
      "entries": 105,
      "no1s": 4,
      "top10s": 22,
      "first": "1996-04-06",
      "firstTitle": "Ain't No Nigga",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": 105,
      "note": "Hot 100 peak No. 50. The No. 17 figure that circulates is the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs peak, a different chart.",
      "top10_conversion_pct": 21,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 3.8
    },
    {
      "rank": 10,
      "name": "Eminem",
      "slug": "eminem",
      "entries": 112,
      "no1s": 5,
      "top10s": 23,
      "first": "1999",
      "firstTitle": "My Name Is",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": 112,
      "dateGranularity": "year",
      "top10_conversion_pct": 20.5,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 4.5
    },
    {
      "rank": 22,
      "name": "Cardi B",
      "slug": "cardi-b",
      "entries": 66,
      "no1s": 5,
      "top10s": 13,
      "first": "2017-07-22",
      "firstTitle": "Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": null,
      "top10_conversion_pct": 19.7,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 7.6
    },
    {
      "rank": 23,
      "name": "T.I.",
      "slug": "ti",
      "entries": 58,
      "no1s": 4,
      "top10s": 11,
      "first": "2003-04-05",
      "firstTitle": "Never Scared",
      "credit": "feature",
      "second": null,
      "tie": true,
      "top10_conversion_pct": 19,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 6.9
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Nicki Minaj",
      "slug": "nicki-minaj",
      "entries": 149,
      "no1s": 3,
      "top10s": 23,
      "first": "2010-02-20",
      "firstTitle": "Knockout",
      "credit": "feature",
      "second": 149,
      "note": "Commonly credited to \"BedRock\" (2009). Billboard bills that record \"Young Money Featuring Lloyd\" and it appears nowhere in her chart history.",
      "top10_conversion_pct": 15.4,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 2
    },
    {
      "rank": 9,
      "name": "21 Savage",
      "slug": "21-savage",
      "entries": 114,
      "no1s": 2,
      "top10s": 17,
      "first": "2016-10-01",
      "firstTitle": "X",
      "credit": "co-lead",
      "second": 114,
      "top10_conversion_pct": 14.9,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 1.8
    },
    {
      "rank": 7,
      "name": "Travis Scott",
      "slug": "travis-scott",
      "entries": 133,
      "no1s": 5,
      "top10s": 18,
      "first": "2015-06-27",
      "firstTitle": "3500",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": 133,
      "note": "\"Upper Echelon\" (2013) is widely claimed as his first entry. It appears nowhere in Billboard's chart history for him.",
      "top10_conversion_pct": 13.5,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 3.8
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Lil Wayne",
      "slug": "lil-wayne",
      "entries": 195,
      "no1s": 3,
      "top10s": 26,
      "first": "1999-07-10",
      "firstTitle": "Back That Thang Up",
      "credit": "feature",
      "second": 195,
      "note": "Billboard renders the title \"Back That Thang Up\" where Wikipedia uses \"Back That Azz Up\". \"Bling Bling\" was his second entry, not his first.",
      "top10_conversion_pct": 13.3,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 1.5
    },
    {
      "rank": 23,
      "name": "DJ Khaled",
      "slug": "dj-khaled",
      "entries": 58,
      "no1s": 1,
      "top10s": 7,
      "first": "2006-06-24",
      "firstTitle": "Holla At Me",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": null,
      "tie": true,
      "top10_conversion_pct": 12.1,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 1.7
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Kanye West",
      "slug": "kanye-west",
      "entries": 177,
      "no1s": 5,
      "top10s": 21,
      "first": "2003-11-29",
      "firstTitle": "Through The Wire",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": 177,
      "note": "Billboard's editorial list credits him as \"Ye\", but /artist/ye/ returns a page with no chart rows. \"Slow Jamz\" entered one week later and is not his first.",
      "top10_conversion_pct": 11.9,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 2.8
    },
    {
      "rank": 11,
      "name": "J. Cole",
      "slug": "j-cole",
      "entries": 111,
      "no1s": 1,
      "top10s": 13,
      "first": "2010",
      "firstTitle": "Who Dat",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": 111,
      "dateGranularity": "year",
      "note": "A Wikipedia-derived reading gives \"All I Want Is You\" (Miguel Featuring J. Cole). Billboard's own earliest row is \"Who Dat\". Both are 2010; the title is contested.",
      "top10_conversion_pct": 11.7,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 0.9
    },
    {
      "rank": 19,
      "name": "Metro Boomin",
      "slug": "metro-boomin",
      "entries": 88,
      "no1s": 1,
      "top10s": 10,
      "first": "2016-10-01",
      "firstTitle": "X",
      "credit": "co-lead",
      "second": 88,
      "note": "A producer, billed on the artist line for all 88. A severe undercount of his real footprint: the records he produced without a billing credit do not appear at all.",
      "top10_conversion_pct": 11.4,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 1.1
    },
    {
      "rank": 20,
      "name": "Juice WRLD",
      "slug": "juice-wrld",
      "entries": 86,
      "no1s": 0,
      "top10s": 9,
      "first": "2018-05-26",
      "firstTitle": "Lucid Dreams",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": 86,
      "note": "May be a tie. Wikipedia states \"All Girls Are the Same\" and \"Lucid Dreams\" debuted simultaneously.",
      "top10_conversion_pct": 10.5,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 0
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Lil Baby",
      "slug": "lil-baby",
      "entries": 160,
      "no1s": 0,
      "top10s": 13,
      "first": "2017-12-30",
      "firstTitle": "My Dawg",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": 160,
      "top10_conversion_pct": 8.1,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 0
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Future",
      "slug": "future",
      "entries": 245,
      "no1s": 3,
      "top10s": 16,
      "first": "2011-04-16",
      "firstTitle": "Racks",
      "credit": "feature",
      "second": 245,
      "top10_conversion_pct": 6.5,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 1.2
    },
    {
      "rank": 17,
      "name": "Young Thug",
      "slug": "young-thug",
      "entries": 98,
      "no1s": 3,
      "top10s": 6,
      "first": "2014-03-01",
      "firstTitle": "Stoner",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": 98,
      "top10_conversion_pct": 6.1,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 3.1
    },
    {
      "rank": 8,
      "name": "Lil Uzi Vert",
      "slug": "lil-uzi-vert",
      "entries": 115,
      "no1s": 1,
      "top10s": 7,
      "first": "2016",
      "firstTitle": "Money Longer",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": 115,
      "dateGranularity": "year",
      "top10_conversion_pct": 6.1,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 0.9
    },
    {
      "rank": 25,
      "name": "Rick Ross",
      "slug": "rick-ross",
      "entries": 56,
      "no1s": 0,
      "top10s": 3,
      "first": "2006-05-20",
      "firstTitle": "Hustlin'",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": null,
      "tie": true,
      "top10_conversion_pct": 5.4,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 0
    },
    {
      "rank": 25,
      "name": "Big Sean",
      "slug": "big-sean",
      "entries": 56,
      "no1s": 0,
      "top10s": 3,
      "first": "2011-03-19",
      "firstTitle": "My Last",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": null,
      "tie": true,
      "top10_conversion_pct": 5.4,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 0
    },
    {
      "rank": 15,
      "name": "Gunna",
      "slug": "gunna",
      "entries": 99,
      "no1s": 0,
      "top10s": 4,
      "first": "2018-06-02",
      "firstTitle": "Life Goes On",
      "credit": "feature",
      "second": 99,
      "note": "Often given as \"Drip Too Hard\". That was his first top 10, not his first entry.",
      "top10_conversion_pct": 4,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 0
    },
    {
      "rank": 16,
      "name": "Lil Durk",
      "slug": "lil-durk",
      "entries": 98,
      "no1s": 0,
      "top10s": 3,
      "first": "2018-10-20",
      "firstTitle": "Off White VLONE",
      "credit": "feature",
      "second": 98,
      "note": "Commonly reported as 2020's \"Viral Moment\". That was his first entry as a lead artist. Counting features, it is 2018.",
      "top10_conversion_pct": 3.1,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 0
    },
    {
      "rank": 21,
      "name": "Meek Mill",
      "slug": "meek-mill",
      "entries": 67,
      "no1s": 0,
      "top10s": 1,
      "first": "2011-11-19",
      "firstTitle": "Ambition",
      "credit": "feature",
      "second": null,
      "top10_conversion_pct": 1.5,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 0
    },
    {
      "rank": 12,
      "name": "YoungBoy Never Broke Again",
      "slug": "youngboy",
      "entries": 110,
      "no1s": 0,
      "top10s": 1,
      "first": "2017-09-02",
      "firstTitle": "Untouchable",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": 110,
      "top10_conversion_pct": 0.9,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 0
    },
    {
      "rank": 13,
      "name": "Rod Wave",
      "slug": "rod-wave",
      "entries": 107,
      "no1s": 0,
      "top10s": 0,
      "first": "2019-11-23",
      "firstTitle": "Heart On Ice",
      "credit": "lead",
      "second": 107,
      "note": "107 entries, zero top 10s, zero No. 1s. The only artist in this top 20 with zero of both, and 14 of those entries debuted in a single week (the Hot 100 dated September 12, 2026).",
      "top10_conversion_pct": 0,
      "no1_conversion_pct": 0
    }
  ],
  "excluded": [
    {
      "name": "Chris Brown",
      "entries": 125,
      "wouldRank": 4,
      "why": "R&B singer. Enormous rap-chart presence and a huge volume of rap features, but his first entry, \"Run It!\" (2005), is R&B and rapping is not the primary mode of his charting work."
    },
    {
      "name": "Justin Bieber",
      "entries": 123,
      "wouldRank": 5,
      "why": "Pop singer. Extensive rap collaboration does not make a rap catalogue."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Weeknd",
      "entries": 117,
      "wouldRank": 6,
      "why": "His first Hot 100 entry was a Drake feature and he came up inside the OVO orbit, but he is an alt-R&B and synth-pop singer who does not rap."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bad Bunny",
      "entries": 113,
      "wouldRank": 8,
      "why": "The hardest call on the board. Latin trap is a rap subgenre and he raps, but the bulk of the catalogue is reggaeton and Billboard routes him through its Latin charts. Under a \"does he rap\" boundary he is in at No. 8."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ariana Grande",
      "entries": 110,
      "wouldRank": 9,
      "why": "Pop."
    },
    {
      "name": "Beyonce",
      "entries": 107,
      "wouldRank": 11,
      "why": "R&B. Her first Hot 100 entry was a Jay-Z feature, which is a good detail and not a genre argument."
    },
    {
      "name": "Post Malone",
      "entries": 97,
      "wouldRank": 17,
      "why": "The most contested name here. He broke through on a rap record and charted on Hot Rap Songs for years, but he has publicly rejected the label and Billboard now routes his work through country. Excluded, and stated rather than silently dropped."
    }
  ],
  "derived_note": "rate = top10s / entries, computed at build time. cohort = the decade band of the artist's first charting entry. Nothing in `artists` is derived; every figure there is read from Billboard.",
  "cohorts": [
    {
      "label": "Debuted 1996 to 2009",
      "short": "1996-2009",
      "lo": 1996,
      "hi": 2009,
      "n": 9,
      "entries": 1220,
      "top10s": 221,
      "pooled": 0.18114754098360655,
      "median": 0.1896551724137931,
      "pooled_pct": 18.1,
      "median_pct": 19
    },
    {
      "label": "Debuted 2010 to 2015",
      "short": "2010-2015",
      "lo": 2010,
      "hi": 2015,
      "n": 8,
      "entries": 951,
      "top10s": 103,
      "pooled": 0.10830704521556257,
      "median": 0.11711711711711711,
      "pooled_pct": 10.8,
      "median_pct": 11.7
    },
    {
      "label": "Debuted 2016 to 2019",
      "short": "2016-2019",
      "lo": 2016,
      "hi": 2019,
      "n": 10,
      "entries": 1043,
      "top10s": 77,
      "pooled": 0.0738255033557047,
      "median": 0.08125,
      "pooled_pct": 7.4,
      "median_pct": 8.1
    }
  ]
}