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Podcast: Audiostories
Episode: Are rap and hip-hop losing ground in the US?
Description: In just a few decades, "urban music" has gone from underdog status to a dominant position on top of the charts. But this impressive ascendance is now slowing down in the United States, the home of rap and hip-hop. The two music genres accounted for 28% of the US music market in the first nine months of 2022. That's down from the previous year.Â