Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. DMX recently returned to the Billboard charts with a hit that few ...

INGLEWOOD, CA - OCTOBER 04: DMX performs onstage during the Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour at The Forum on October 4, 2016 in Inglewood, California. Decades after it was first released, DMX's It’s Dark ...

For all his obvious and easily measured successes, there was one metric by which you wouldn't necessarily see DMX as having all that enormous an impact: the Billboard Hot 100. By Andrew Unterberger ...

DMX’s greatest hits compilation 'The Best of DMX' soars from No. 73 (its prior peak) to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart following the rapper’s death on April 9. By Keith Caulfield DMX’s ...

Late rapper DMX has posthumously achieved an accolade after landing at No. 1 on a hard rock chart for the first time, thanks to Five Finger Death Punch. The collaboration debuted at No. 1 on Billboard ...

Zoey Dollarz says stop streaming deceased artists’ music if the family is not getting paid. It appears many fans of Earl “DMX” Simmons mourned the late emcee by playing a lot of his music over the ...