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Metallica's Hardwired… To Self-Destruct debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and the record has once again landed in the Top 10, hitting No. 2 last week. Read more: Metallica announce massive North American tour Last week, it boasted 65,000 units—up 413 percent—with 63,000 being traditional album sales, as Billboard reports. Why the bump? It follows the sales generated […]

[Photo by: Calpurnia/Facebook] Finn Wolfhard's band, Calpurnia, shared their debut single last week—and it made an appearance on Billboard's Alternative Digital Song Sales chart, too. Read more: Watch Finn Wolfhard’s band Calpurnia cover the Velvet Underground As Billboard reports, “City Boy” debuted at No. 23 on the Alternative Digital Song Sales chart. The music news source explains that the song sold 2,000 digital […]

A massive congrats are in order for Fall Out Boy, yet again. After earning their fourth No. 1 on the Billboard charts with M A N   I   A, the band have also charted No. 1 on Billboard Artist 100 chart. Read more: Op-Ed: ‘M A N   I   A’ is Fall Out Boy’s best album […]

Metallica's record Hardwired… To Self-Destruct has come in at the top spot of Billboard's Top Rock Albums Of 2017. Read more: Listen to these Metallica-style covers of Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, more Hardwired… To Self-Destruct came in at No. 1 in both the Top Rock Albums and Hard Rock Albums rankings for the year-end lists. […]

[Photos by: Ricky Swift/WENN, Herring & Herring, Maclay Heriot] Linkin Park have earned one of Billboard's Top Rock Artist spots for 2017, among other high-charting acts like Metallica and Portugal. The Man, according to the mag's recent Year In Rock Charts review. Check it out. Read more: Did Linkin Park get kicked out of the […]

[Photo by: HalseyVEVO/YouTube] Halsey is once again proving she's one of the leading artists in the music world today, with her hit “Bad at Love” landing in Billboard's Hot 100 top 10, climbing 11-8. Read more: Watch Halsey and Andrew McMahon perform Jack’s Mannequin’s “Dark Blue” This is her first time landing in the Hot 100 top 10 as […]

Late rapper Lil Peep has made his first Billboard Hot 100 appearance with “Awful Things,” marking his first entry on any Billboard songs chart, the music source is reporting. Read more: Lil Peep’s family announces memorial service for fans As Billboard shared, the track jumped 144 percent to 8.2 million U.S. streams, as well as 190 percent to 3,000 downloads sold.  Peep debuted the […]

[Photo by: Kurt Cuffy] Congratulations are due to Movements, who just landed a top 10 spot on Billboard's new artist albums chart with their debut LP, Feel Something. Read more: See Warped Tour 2017 in all its behind-the-scenes glory The SoCal post-hardcore Warped Tour stars' first full-length, which just dropped Oct. 20 on Fearless Records, […]

[Photo credit: francisandthelights/YouTube] From Grammy wins and headlinging festivals to donations towards Chicago public schools, Chance the Rapper has done a lot of extraordinary things throughout the year. It looks like his continued success doesn't plan on slowing down as the rapper debuts on Billboard's Rock Chart for the first time in his career. Read […]

Twenty One Pilots’ “Heathens” is continuing to break records. Billboard has reported that the song has spent 28 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot Rock Songs chart, breaking the record previously held by Walk The Moon’s “Shut Up And Dance.” The band has spent a combined 60 weeks atop the Hot Rock Songs chart, […]

[Photo credit: Facebook / Facebook] Billboard announced today that they have made an exclusive agreement with Pandora that will add Pandora's streaming data to the Billboard Hot 100, which ranks the week’s most popular songs across all genres, including Hot Rock Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, and more, and Billboard's other streaming-based charts. Currently, Billboard’s […]

As 2016 comes to a close and those end-of-the-year lists are rolling in, Twenty One Pilots' dominance over the music world this year is quickly becoming apparent. Billboard just announced that the AP 342 cover stars topped 12 of its charts this year, including Top Artist (Duo/Group) and Top Rock Artist. Check out that full […]

Billboard is reporting that Pierce The Veil’s long-awaited fourth studio album, Misadventures, has debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, selling 54,000 units (50,000 in traditional album sales). Read more: All Time Low sell 75,000 copies, chart at No. 2 This marks the band’s highest debut of their career thus far. Their previous […]

In November 1894, William H. Donaldson and James Hennegan founded Billboard as a trade paper for advertisers. In the 1950s, music became the company’s major focus.  Today, Billboard doubles itself as a magazine and website. It also maintains various industry charts, such as the Top 200 and Hot 100, which are recognized internationally.   Read […]

With their latest studio album, Found In Far Away Places, August Burns Red have debuted at No. 4 on Billboard’s Top Albums chart, moving around 29,000 units. Additionally, they landed at No. 9 on the Top 200 and No. 1 on both the Rock Album and Independent Album charts. “We are pumped on how overwhelmingly […]

The folks at Billboard have presented a visual and informative article breaking down where money goes in all fields of the music industry. From the artists themselves, to the publicists, to the managers and more, all the infographs can be found below. The plethora of graphs also include interesting attributes for heritage acts, bands like the Beatles, […]

It's been 22 years since Jurassic Park roared its way into theaters. Now, thanks to the series' widely successful reboot, Jurassic World, John Williams' classic “Jurassic Park Theme” has landed atop Billboard's Classic Digital Songs list for the first time, (via Variety). Listen below and feel the memories come flowing back. Read more: Jurassic World sets box office record for biggest global opening […]

With over 146,000 units moved, twenty one pilots' Blurryface has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Late last week, industry forecasters suggested that over 120,000 units could be sold before the period's ending. Stream the LP below and leave the band a congratulations message! Watch: twenty one pilots long for “the good old days” in […]

Billboard has released their annual Moneymakers list, which shows the top-earning musicians of the year. Taking into account sales, streaming, publishing and touring, the magazine has compiled the top 40 earners of 2014. Check out the top ten below, and see the full list at Billboard.   1. One Direction: $46 million. 2. Katy Perry: […]

Last week, Sleeping With Sirens' released their highly anticipated studio album, Madness, to the masses. Now, a full week later, the numbers are in and the band have officially debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. At face value, this marks a 10 position drop from their previous LP, Feel, which debuted at No. 3 on […]