{"id":14123,"date":"2015-12-10T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T22:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=14123"},"modified":"2015-12-10T17:00:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T22:00:59","slug":"drake-named-billboards-rb-hip-hop-artist-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=14123","title":{"rendered":"Drake Named Billboard&#8217;s R&#038;B\/ Hip-Hop Artist of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ohsodj.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/drake-hotline.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13442\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ohsodj.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/drake-hotline.png?resize=250%2C251\" alt=\"drake-hotline\" width=\"250\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/drake-hotline.png?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/drake-hotline.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Billboard has named Drake the R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Artist of the Year in its year-end report.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret he&#8217;s experienced an overwhelming amount of commercial success this year with the surprise release of <strong>If Youre Reading This Its Too Late <\/strong>and a slew of singles.<\/p>\n<p>Billboard went on to award Fetty Wap the title of Top New Artist. And it&#8217;s no surprise.  He\u2019s the first act to simultaneously have his first four singles in the top 10 of Hot Rap Songs. Fetty Wap finishes as the third-best R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Artist behind The Weeknd.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 4 top R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop artist is also the year\u2019s top female act: Nicki Minaj.  <strong>The Pinkprint<\/strong> (released in December of 2014) ruled as the No. 4 Top R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Album of the year, while she claimed five tracks in the top 40 of the year-end Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs chart.<\/p>\n<p>The publication tabulated sales numbers from December 6, 2014 to November 28, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Billboard has named Drake the R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Artist of the Year in its year-end report.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[366,436,807,1267],"class_list":["post-14123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-drake","tag-fetty-wap","tag-matrix","tag-the-weeknd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-3FN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/drake-hotline.png?fit=250%2C251&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}