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Over the past 10 years, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Pedro Capo has built a steady career on the strength of his romantic lyrics and pop-rock sound. He has recorded soulful duets [...]

BETTING on Vegas GAMBLING IS THE WARM-UP ACT THESE DAYS AS MUSIC NOW BRINGS THE MONEY--AND MAGIC--TO A NEW SIN CITY FOR A HANDFUL OF LUCKY A-LIST ARTISTS, LAS VEGAS [...]

NOT EVEN A PANDEMIC could slow down U.S. record ed-m usic b usin ess growth last year: Overall audio consumption increased 11.6% to 756.8 million album consumption units in 2020, [...]

LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title PEAK WKS.ON WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING IMPRINT POS. CHART LABEL /PROMOTION LABEL HOT 1 #1 SUPERM Super M: The 1 1 SHOT 1WK SM/CAPITOL 1st Mini [...]

WHENEVER A PERFORMER appears on another artist's track--like Justin Bieber with Ed Sheeran on 'I Don't Care' or Maroon 5 and Cardi B on 'Girls Like You'--the stars and their [...]

While bundling albums with concert tickets and merchandise no longer counts toward a chart victory (as of Oct. 9)--and as of Aug. 7 neither will a digital album sold with [...]

19.25B [down arrow] 0.7% TOTAL ON -DEMAND STREAMS WEEK OVE R WEEK Number of audio and video on-demand streams for th e week ending May 14. 13.99M [down arrow] 3.2% [...]

18.85B [up arrow] 2.5% TOTAL ON-DEMAND STREAMS WEEK OVER WEEK Number of audio and video on-demand streams for the week ending April 16. 12.93M [up arrow] 0.6% ALBUM CONSUMPTION UNITS [...]

(128) MEEK MILL Dreams and Nightmares The 2012 album returns to the chart for the first time since 2013 (6,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Feb. 8, [...]

Summer Walker (above) shines on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums as her debut studio album, Over It, begins at No. 1 with 134,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. [...]

HOT ROCK SONGS[TM] LAST THIS TITLE Artist PEAK WKS. WEEK WEEK CERTIFICATION IMPRINT POS. ON PRODUCER /PROMOTION CHART (SONGWRITER) LABEL 1 1 #1 Panic! At 1 73 39 WKS The [...]

'10,000 Hours' by Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber (above) roars from No. 40 to No. 1 on Billboard's airplay-, streaming- and salesbased Hot Country Songs chart following its first [...]

RADIO SONGS[TM] LAST THIS TITLE Artist WKS. ON WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL CHART 1 1 #1 4 WKS TRUTH HURTS Lizzo 17 NICE LIFE/ATLANTIC 2 2 SENORITA Shawn Mendes & [...]

HOT COUNTRY SONGS[TM] LAST THIS TITLE CERTIFICATION Artist PEAK WKS. WEEK WEEK PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT POS. ON /PROMOTION CHART LABEL 40 1 #1 SAL AIR Dan + Shay & 1 [...]

The tease of new music sends Harry Styles (above) back onto the Social 50 at No. 15, marking his first chart appearance in nearly five months and his best rank [...]

TOP ALBUM SALES[TM] LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS ON WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING CHART LABEL HOT 1 #1 1 WK SUPERM SuperM: The 1st 1 SHOT SM/CAPITOL Mini Album (EP) [...]

ON JULY 1, 'SENORITA' by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 2 - 18 spots ahead of where their 2015 duet, 'I Know [...]

The Mountain Goats' In League With Dragons fires up at No. 1 on Vinyl Albums, giving the band its second leader, and sixth top 10, on the 8-year-old tally. The [...]

Gwen Stefani (above) makes a splash on the Boxscore chart as the first totals from her Just a Girl residency in Las Vegas make an impact on the tally. Her [...]

THE TURBULENT ROLLOUT OF KANYE WEST'S NEW ALBUM HAS THE INDUSTRY CONFOUNDED. WITH NO STRATEGY IN SIGHT, CAN IT EVER RECOVER? ON THE NIGHT OF FEB. 10, LESS than 24 [...]

A Super Bowl halftime performance is the ultimate promotional platform for a music artist, right? Not always. Looking at the performers' track sales during the past decade, for the week [...]

The release of Acid Jazz's You've Got To Earn It, a compilation pooling the work of freakbeat pioneers Fleur De Lys, is a cause for some celebration, with early 45s [...]

Dusseldorf's premier showroom dummies have just completed an acclaimed residency at London's Tate Modern, before heading out once more onto the autobahn. Let's grease those gears and show these creepy [...]

An Adele-powered XL Beggars was almost single-handedly responsible for a huge rise in independent albums business in quarter one, but things got even better for the indies during the following [...]

XL Beggars not only single-handedly made up all the majors' losses in the artist albums market in the first quarter of the year, but had another 200,000 sales to spare. [...]

With his 34th charting album, 'En Total Plenitud,' bowing at No. I on Top Latin Albums, Marco Antonio Solis is once again the leading chart-topper in the list's 25-year history. [...]

NO. 2 Taylor Swift Swift, who has spent the most time atop the Artist 100 of any artist (see opposite page), holds at No. 2 with a 4 percent overall [...]

THE FIRST TIME ELVIS PRESLEY PLAYED Las Vegas, the critics hated him. Appearing in the Venus Room at the New Frontier Hotel in the spring of 1956, the 21-year-old hillbilly [...]

THE SURPRISE RELEASE OF DRAKE'S NEW ALBUM, If You're Reading This It's Too Late, is the closest the music biz has come to properly 'pulling a Beyonce' since the diva [...]

Universal rallied to its best quarterly albums performance in quarter three since the closing three months of 2004, after claiming the period's three biggest-selling artist albums. The major grabbed a [...]

WHERE TO BEGIN WITH TAYLOR SWIFT'S 1989? The album overperformed no matter how you slice it (see story, page 13), selling 1.28 million copies in its first week (ending Nov. [...]

The post-holiday decline from last issue's historic Easter numbers is most dramatically illustrated by 'N Sync's previously mentioned 62% decline, but there's evidence aplenty throughout the chart. Consequently, volume on [...]

Aside from Toni Braxton's much anticipated return, the big chart's top 15 also indicates growth for Cypress Hill and Mya, who start at Nos. 5 and 15, respectively. The former [...]

ANTICIPATION for the new Radiohead album has been enhanced by a survey of the '100 best British albums ever' in leading U.K. rock magazine Q, which finds the band challenging [...]

EMI-MEDLEY has logged its best-selling single ever in Denmark with DJ Alligator Project's 'The Whistle Song.' The track bumped Aqua's 'Cartoon Heroes' from the No. 1 slot on the sales [...]

ON APRIL 25 Dutch Royal Mail (KPN) presented two special stamps celebrating the comeback of seminal Dutch-language pop band Doe Maar, currently at No. 1 on the Mega Top 100 [...]

PRODUCTION CREDITS BILLBOARD'S NO.1 SINGLES (APRIL 15,2000) CATEGORY HOT 100 R&B TITLE MARIA MARIA MARIA MARIA Artist/ Santana Feat. The Santana Feat. The Producer Product G&B/ Product G&B, (Label) W. [...]

THE BOMFUNK MC'S have broken new ground for Finnish dance music. After rising to No. 1 on the Finnish chart last summer, their single 'Freestyler' has hit No. 1 in [...]

'DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT' conjures up memories of a pair of 1970s hits. But it's not Thin Lizzy's 1977 song that's back on U.K. radio but King Harvest's No. 13 [...]

IT TOOK AQUA just 48 hours to go quadruple-platinum in Denmark (40,000 units sold) for 'Cartoon Heroes,' released Jan.31. By the first week, the single had not only topped the [...]

MARKET WATCH A WEEKLY NATIONAL MUSIC SALES REPORT YEAR-TO-DATE OVERALL UNIT SALES 1999 2000 TOTAL 66,907,000 69,140,000 (UP 3.3%) ALBUMS 59,625,000 63,191,000 (UP 6%) SINGLES 7,282,000 5,949,000 (DN 18.3%) YEAR-TO-DATE [...]

Despite a second-week decline of 40% from his loud opening sales bang, D'Angelo moves 191,000 units, which is still enough to keep him ahead of the Joneses--and in first place [...]

Opening with spins at 68 monitored stations, Collin Raye earns Hot Shot Debut honors on Hot Country Singles & Tracks at No. 53 with 'Couldn't Last A Moment' (Epic), the [...]

Other awards-related gains on Top Country Albums include our Pacesetter title, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris' 'Western Wall--The Tucson Sessions' (Asylum), which closes with a 106% bike at No.26 after [...]

Billboard's Top Country Albums chart shows several notable sales jumps that are traceable to the American Music Awards (AMA) show, which aired Jan. 17, and the recently announced slate of [...]

UNIVERSAL MUSIC MAINTAINED ITS DOMINANCE of the German album market in 1999, according to chart-share figures just published by research firm Media Control. BMG stepped up to the top in [...]

BMG Win Biggest Gain; WEA Drops To 5th In 2 Areas NEW YORK--After completing its first full year as a merged company, Universal Music and Video Distribution (UMVD) came in [...]

Gospel music, one of the fastest-growing genres according to last year's Recording Industry Assn. of America study, sees one of its biggest acts return to the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums list, [...]

THE REGIONAL ROUNDUP Rotating top 10 lists of best-selling titles by new and developing artists. EAST NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH ATLANTIC 1. Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip 1. Carles Vives El Amor [...]