2018's mid-charts by Nielsen

[ShockPop 7,747]

4 hours ago, OBEY said:

"The R&B/hip-hop genre continues to maintain its lead as the U.S.’ most popular genre of music. The genre has a 31 percent marketshare of the combined sector of album sales, TEA and SEA on-demand audio and video. The next biggest genre is rock, with 23.1 percent of that market."

Pop's decay.

This is due to streaming. Free streaming.

[OBEY 57,107]

Just now, ShockPop said:

This is due to streaming. Free streaming.

Look at Apple Music's charts. All paid users. Hip-hop is ruling there too.