Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

Eminem’s Curtain Call: The Hits returns to the top 10 on the Top Rap Albums chart and climbs on the Billboard 200, proving its lasting dominance nearly 20 years later. LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 13: ...

At the peak of the TRL era in popular music — a turn-of-the-century period dominated by bubbly teen-pop stars and punctuated by furious nu-metal rockers — the biggest artist of all was actually a late ...

Meanwhile, Drake sits even higher on the all-time list, with 37 total weeks at No. 1, making him the hip-hop artist with the ...

Eminem has set a brand new Billboard 200 record with his greatest hits compilation album, Curtain Call. Billboard reports that the 2005 project is officially the first hip-hop album in history to log ...

In 2002, 9/11 was fresh on everyone’s minds, while U.S. headlines were dominated by the misinformation-filled campaign to sell America on the Iraq War (which would be authorized later that year). So ...

Eminem’s been at this rap thing for a very long time — and unfortunately, over the past few years, he’s started to show his age. While still as technically proficient as ever, the battle rap veteran ...