How to find the Top Hip Hop Songs This Week

You want to refresh your iPod with the hottest hip hop songs. You are looking for a good hip hop song to play for a special occasion. You want to keep up with the hip hop music scene so you know of the hottest new artists and can keep up with your friends when the topic turns to music. The problem is you don't know where to go to find the top hip hop songs this week. Following are some great tips to find the latest hits in the hip hop music scene.

Crank Up the Radio

Figure out all of the radio stations in your area that play modern hip hop and start listening. You will find a nice mix of hip hop and R&B tunes that are topping the charts right now. Some will be chart toppers from last week and or a month ago but some will be the most current chart toppers.

You can typically tell which hip hop beats are at the top of the charts this week by paying attention to the songs that get played over and over by every channel in your area. The songs that are currently hot will be played once an hour or sometimes even more often. It may feel like you hear these songs all the time no matter which station you tune into. You may even go from listening to a song one station to turning the dial and listening to the exact same song on another station.

If you like the hot songs you hear, look them up online and download to your iPod or computer. If they come from artists you think you can really get into, consider purchasing a CD.

Check out Billboard

Billboard is the most popular chart that ranks hip hop and R&B songs each week. You can also get overviews of the hottest hip hop songs of the year if you want to see what you have missed from previous weeks and months of the current year.

The hip hop stars routinely gracing the Billboard charts can be expected to hang around the music scene into the next year. This gives you a good idea who to watch and who may be on their way out.

You can look the Billboard charts up online and monitor them week from week without paying a thing. You can even listen to clips of the top songs right from the website, which is very convenient if you haven't heard all of the top hip hop songs this week or in a week to come.

Check YouTube

A lot of the artists hitting the top of the charts right now will also pop up with videos on YouTube. You may also see their videos on music television stations. Listen and do some YouTube searches and you can discover some great talent that you didn't know was out there. You can also hear some additional work put out by artists currently racing to the top of the charts.