Standing firm against the current, however, Bandcamp is opposing the surge in AI content. Moving forward, the platform is ...

Circle Chart, South Korea's top and longest-running music chart, released the 2025 Yearly Top Best-Selling Albums with Kpop ...

On Wednesday, YouTube announced that it will stop sharing streaming data with Billboard for its U.S. music charts starting next year, citing what they describe as an “outdated” system that weighs ...

Hip-Hop/R&B accounted for 30.7% of all streams across platforms, making it by far the most dominant genre in 2024. This isn’t ...

Kakao Entertainment signed separate memoranda of understanding with China’s Tencent Music Entertainment and Japan’s Line ...

It wouldn’t be the end of a calendar year without a series of best-of lists. But amid the algorithm-driven summaries cultivated by most music streaming platforms, SiriusXM decided to do things a ...

Wed, December 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM UTC Having sold more than 4 million copies of her 12th album in its first week, The Life of Showgirl, Swift naturally claimed the top spot on the Billboard 200, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Madonna returns to the U.K. charts as The Immaculate Collection and ...

However, you listened to music this year, streaming on an app or the old fashioned way on the radio, 2024 was a year that saw breakthrough artists, chart topping hits and a return of some top tier ...

Another relatively uneventful week on the Billboard Hot 100 sees Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” in the top spot for a 14th nonconsecutive week, while The Weeknd’s “Timeless” may not be so timeless ...

Many country musicians could care less about chart success and public reception. However, when a country musician does have a success on the charts it can’t help but feel good. Not only is it ...

Apple Music Classical, the dedicated Apple app for fans of classical music, is launching a new top 100 chart. It will showcase the top 100 classical albums, using data sources even beyond the app ...