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Sabrina Carpenter - 2024 MTV Video Music Awards - Show

Shaboozey and Sabrina Carpenter rule the charts as The Weeknd approaches

10:26am October 09, 2024

Two of 2024's biggest new hitmakers consolidate their hold on the top of the pop charts, while a pair of stars from a previous generation — Katy Perry and Lady Gaga — both stumble with new work.

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Future has dropped three chart-topping albums in just six months

10:42am October 02, 2024

by Stephen Thompson

This week, the rapper Future hit #1 on Billboard's albums chart for a third time in the last six months. Meanwhile, on the songs, chart, stasis is becoming the coin of the realm.

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Shaboozey's hit 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' is No. 1 again, and joins an elite club

7:21am September 18, 2024

by Stephen Thompson

A 10th week at the top of the Billboard pop chart is quite an accomplishment. Before the 2000s, that was the rarest of feats. In the days of streaming though, it's become more common.

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Sabrina Carpenter performs at the 2024 Governors Ball Music Festival - Day 2

Summers may come and go, but the songs of the summer last forever

10:34am September 11, 2024

by Stephen Thompson

All summer, a wide range of hits were in the running for the biggest songs of the season — country singalongs, rap diss tracks, pop kiss-offs and rock epics. But two took the race down to the wire.

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Post Malone performs at Nashville's Marathon Music Works on July 16, 2024.

It’s Post Malone’s week at the top of the chart, and he had some help

4:48pm August 28, 2024

It's still summer, but signs indicate that the season of Taylor Swift's album chart dominance may be coming to an end. This week's harbinger: a certain face-tattooed rapper-turned-country star.

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Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour – London, UK

Music & Culture

Taylor Swift stays at No. 1, and foils Ye in the process

3:40pm August 14, 2024

by Stephen Thompson

In terms of chart success, The Tortured Poets Department is the most charmed album of the pop star's career. This week, it spends its 14th week at No. 1, holding off a new album by one-time nemesis Ye.

Night Two Of Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour - Amsterdam, Netherlands

Music & Culture

Taylor Swift is back at No. 1, for her lucky 13th week

4:43pm August 07, 2024

by Stephen Thompson

After a short vacation from the pinnacle of the albums chart, Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department reclaims the throne in a week filled with names and sounds that are awfully familiar.

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For the first time ever, K-pop groups have the top two albums on the U.S. charts

6:16pm July 30, 2024

by Stephen Thompson

The latest album by Korean pop group Stray Kids debuted at the top of this week's Billboard 200 chart, and another K-pop sensation, Jimin from BTS, landed at No. 2. Shaboozey keeps the week's top song.

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Eminem breaks Taylor Swift’s 12-week run atop the album chart

7:16am July 24, 2024

by Stephen Thompson

Every album the rapper has released since 2000 has hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) extends his streak. Also: Shaboozey returns to the top of the singles chart.

Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour - Amsterdam, Netherlands

This may sound like a broken record, but Taylor Swift has broken another record

5:00am July 17, 2024

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Swift's The Tortured Poets Department has been the biggest album in the country for 12 consecutive weeks, the longest run atop that chart of her career.

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