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Byline: Elysa Gardner, @ElysaGardner, USA TODAY More than 50 years into her recording career, Barbra Streisand has broken her own record. At 72, the superstar is the first artist to [...]

''Anomaly,'' the latest album by the Christian rapper Lecrae, makes its debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for the week ending Sept. 14. The album, Lecrae's seventh, [...]

Byline: Patrick Ryan, @PatRyanWrites, USA TODAY It's another year of blurred lines in the song-of-summer competition, which has sputtered to a close with many question marks but no clear winner. [...]

GOOD DAY Taylor Swift and Wiz Khalifa Taylor Swift had the week's top-selling track after 'Shake It Off' made its debut a week ago Monday. The track sold 544,000 first-week [...]

GOOD DAY Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers It took 37 years, but they made it. The band scored its first No. 1 on the 'Billboard' album chart when sales of [...]

GOOD DAY Naya Rivera Surprise! Just months after breaking off an engagement to rapper Big Sean, the 'Glee' star is married -- but not to Big Sean. Rivera married actor [...]

Byline: Brian Mansfield, @brian_mansfield, Special for USA TODAY Garth Brooks announced his retirement in 2000, three months before the launch of iTunes. But when the 52-year-old country superstar begins selling [...]

Beatles fans, here's something to look forward to: Oscar winner Ron Howard has signed on to direct a new film documenting the Fab Four's early years as a touring band. [...]

Sia Furler, the Australian-born musician who writes monster hits for Rihanna and Beyonc yet has had an uneasy relationship with fame in her solo career, has scored her first No. [...]

GOOD DAY Jack White The musician set a record for vinyl sales as his album 'Lazaretto' made its debut on top of this week's 'Billboard' chart. Of the 138,000 copies [...]

GOOD DAY Miranda Lambert The platinum-blond country star scored her first No. 1 on the 'Billboard' album charts with her fifth album, 'Platinum,' which sold 179,000 copies in its first [...]

Miranda Lambert's acclaimed new album, ''Platinum'' (RCA Nashville), opened at No. 1 this week with 180,000 sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan. But perhaps the most successful music on Billboard's latest [...]

Coldplay's latest album, ''Ghost Stories'' (Parlophone/Atlantic), enters the Billboard 200 chart at No. 1 this week, with sales of 383,000 for the week ending May 25, just six days after [...]

Yet again, Disney's ''Frozen'' soundtrack is the No. 1 album. But there is at least some news on the music charts this week: after a 10-week run, Pharrell Williams's ubiquitous [...]

Another week on the music charts, another couple of victories for ''Frozen'' and ''Happy.'' The soundtrack to ''Frozen,'' Disney's latest animated hit, is No. 1 for a 12th week on [...]

There's not much news at the top of the music charts this week. The ''Frozen'' soundtrack is the No. 1 album for a ninth time, with 149,000 sales, according to [...]

Byline: Brian Mansfield, @Brian_Mansfield, Special for USA TODAY The Chainsmokers' #SELFIE was viral from its inception. The thumping track from New York DJs Drew Taggart and Alex Pall, in which [...]

Eric Church, a country singer with a taste for big rock 'n' roll riffs, opened at No. 1 on Billboard's album chart with his latest release, ''The Outsiders'' (EMI Nashville). [...]

Byline: Edna Gundersen, @EdnaGundersen, USA TODAY A Grammy win doesn't end with a shiny trophy and bragging rights. A week and a half after the Jan. 26 awards show, the [...]

Bruno Mars didn't draw a paycheck for his Super Bowl performance, but he'll probably benefit from a sizable sales boost after the game. Digital track purchases for recent halftime headliners [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIt was inevitable, time marching on as it does, and yet it also hard to believe: Half a century has passed since the Beatles touched down in New York [...]

Lorde may have been the Grammy Awards' most talked-about artist on Sunday night -- more of the 15.2 million Grammy tweets were about her than any other act, Twitter reported [...]

It's still very early in the process, but Bill Cosby is in talks with NBC to develop a comedy. The actor, 76, is reteaming with producer Tom Werner, who co-produced [...]

Album sales declined again this year. Total sales, a figure that includes CDs, cassettes, digital albums and LPs, fell 8 percent from 2012 to 2013, to 289 million. Sales of [...]

The surprise and success of Beyonc's new album last month gave the music industry a feel-good story around the holidays. But now that the dust has settled, the hard reality [...]

Byline: Korina Lopez, @KorinaLopez, USA TODAY Lots of shots: Eminem's famous 'You only get one shot' mantra doesn't apply to Ian Axel and Chad Vaccarino. In just over a year, [...]

Byline: Brian Mansfield Shootout after a show. Nobody will ever accuse Parmalee's members of not having paid their dues. Three years ago, after a show in their home state of [...]

Byline: Brian Mansfield, @brian_mansfield, Special for USA TODAY If you want to know what's popular in Christmas music this year, just turn on your television. From singing-competition contestants to bearded [...]

The big winners on the music charts this week: Lady Gaga, Lorde and the Universal Music Group. 'Artpop' (Streamline/Interscope), Lady Gaga's new album, reached No. 1 with 258,000 sales, according […]

Byline: Edna Gundersen Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2 sold 792,000 copies its first week, enough to land at No. 1 in Billboard and score the second-biggest sales week of [...]

Two Jennifers, Aniston and Lawrence, have turned up with short hair. Hair icon Aniston wanted 'something new and modern,' hairstylist Chris McMillan, who did the deed, told USA TODAY. On [...]

Record sales over the last week were kind to Katy Perry and Lou Reed, but for the music industry over all they were terrible. Ms. Perry's new album, ''Prism'' (Capitol), [...]

GOOD DAY Hayden Panettiere The 'Nashville' star is getting married! Panettiere confirmed her engagement to Olympic boxer Wladimir Klitschko on Wednesday's 'Live With Kelly and Michael,' noting that the couple [...]

Fresh off his Emmy win for best guest actor, Bob Newhart is making his return to 'The Big Bang Theory' as Professor Proton, Sheldon's (Jim Parsons) favorite childhood hero and [...]

The biggest winners on the Billboard charts this week are all one-namers: Drake, Cher, Lorde and Badfinger. Drake, the Canadian rapper and singer, scored the second-biggest sales week of the [...]