{"id":632311,"date":"2026-08-12T01:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/632311\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T01:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:14:17","slug":"cardi-b-earns-hot-rap-songs-top-10-for-10th-straight-year-with-ah-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/632311\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B Earns Hot Rap Songs Top 10 for 10th Straight Year With &#8216;AH HA&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/cardi-b\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cardi B<\/a> captures a milestone 30th top 10 hit on Billboard\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a> chart as \u201cAH HA\u201d debuts at No. 3 on the chart dated Aug. 15. With the start, the rapper extends her streak of posting at least one new top 10 on the list every year to a 10th consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAH HA\u201d opens with 9.5 million official streams, 5.6 million in radio airplay audience impressions and 9,000 sales via physical CD purchases and digital downloads in the July 31-Aug. 6 tracking week, in the United States, according to Luminate. As a result, it begins at No. 3 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-streaming-songs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rap Streaming Songs<\/a> chart and is the top-selling rap song of the week. On the airplay side, it bows at No. 29 on the audience-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-r-and-b-hip-hop-airplay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Airplay<\/a> chart, at No. 34 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rhythmic-40\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rhythmic Airplay<\/a> and at No. 40 on the plays-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/mainstream-r-and-b-hip-hop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mainstream R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Airplay<\/a> recap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn addition to its Hot Rap Songs debut, \u201cAH HA\u201d arrives at No. 5 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a> chart and No. 25 on the all-genre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThanks to the new single, Cardi B achieves her 30th career top 10 hit on Hot Rap Songs and ties Gunna for the 13th-best sum on the 37-year-old chart. Drake ranks first among all artists with 156 top 10s; among women, Cardi B\u2019s total is second only to Nicki Minaj\u2019s 51. Cardi B\u2019s collection started with \u201cBodak Yellow (Money Moves),\u201d which entered the top 10 via a 14-8 move on the ranking dated Aug. 26, 2017. The breakthrough smash later reached No. 1, the first of the rapper\u2019s seven champs to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFurthermore, \u201cAH HA\u201d extends Cardi B\u2019s streak of adding at least one new top 10 single on Hot Rap Songs to a 10th consecutive year, dating to her maiden \u201cBodak Yellow,\u201d the first of three top 10s in 2017. She\u2019s since followed with: 2018\u2019s four, 2019 (four), 2020 (one), 2021 (two), 2022 (two), 2023 (two), 2024 (two), 2025 (nine) and \u201cAH HA\u201d in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhile \u201cAH HA\u201d is currently a standalone single, its impact helps other Cardi B projects rise on the charts. The rapper\u2019s latest album, 2025\u2019s Am I The Drama?, rebounds 18-13 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-albums\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Rap Albums<\/a>. A former eight-week No. 1, the album earned 13,000 equivalent album units for the week, a 10% improvement from the previous week, and secures the Greatest Gainer honor for the largest increase in units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardi B captures a milestone 30th top 10 hit on Billboard\u2019s Hot Rap Songs chart as \u201cAH HA\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[190103,165691,4812,18,117,5266,19,17,337],"class_list":["post-632311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bb-charts","tag-billboard-charts","tag-chart-beat","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-hiphop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117079891142103372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}