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Nashville-based rock band Red claims its fourth No. 1 on Top Christian Albums with its fifth studio set, Of Beauty and Rage, which starts with 35,000 copies sold in the [...]

Blake Shelton (above) extends the longest active No. 1 streak on the Country Airplay chart (counting only nonseasonal, promoted singles) as 'Lonely Tonight' (featuring Ashley Monroe) becomes his 14th straight [...]

The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir scores its best rank in 12 years on Top Gospel Albums and its highest perch in seven years on Top Christian Albums as Pray: Live arrives [...]

Blackberry Smoke nabs its first No. 1 and biggest sales week on Top Country Albums with Holding All the Roses. The group's fourth studio album bows with 19,000 copies sold, [...]

Christian pop singer Jeremy Camp lands his third No. 1 debut (and sixth overall leader) on Top Christian Albums as I Will Follow bows with 18,000 copies sold in the [...]

Sam Hunt (above) nabs his second straight leader on Hot Country Songs with 'Take Your Time' (5-1), becoming the first artist in nearly three years to reign with two introductory [...]

A year after Arista Nashville signed singer-songwriter Cam (born Camaron Ochs), her debut single 'My Mistake' nears Country Airplay. It's unsurprising, given her pop sensibilities: Cam scored a songwriting credit [...]

Jason Nelson scores his first No. 1 on Top Gospel Albums (and his second-largest sales week) with sophomore album Jesus Revealed, which arrives with 5,000 copies sold in the week [...]

Luke Bryan (above) banks his fourth Hot Country Songs leader from his 2013 album Crash My Party as 'I See You' rises 2-1. The set yielded its first No. 1 [...]

The death of veteran artist Andrae Crouch (above) on Jan. 8--the 72-year-old gospel great died following a heart attack--brings five of his classic songs to the charts. Crouch re-enters Hot [...]

Reba McEntire scores a career-best bow at No. 28 on Hot Country Songs with 'Going Out Like That,' her first single in more than three years and the lead track [...]

New York native Francesca Battistelli (above) collects her third leader on Christian Airplay (see Billboard.com/ biz) with 'He Knows My Name' (2-1), marking the most No. 1 songs by a [...]

Brad Paisley (above) scores his 19th leader, and first in more than three years, on the Country Airplay chart as 'Perfect Storm' rises 2-1 (see page 67). The coronation ends [...]

Veteran gospel singer-producer J Moss (above) scores his fourth No. 1 on Gospel Albums (all of which debuted at the summit) with Grown Folks Gospel, which sold 7,000 in the [...]

Tim McGraw (above) scores his first No. 1 in nearly four years on Hot Country Songs--and his first on the list since it switched from measuring core country radio audience [...]

NASHVILLE -- Singer/songwriter Chris LeDoux, who became a cult favorite on the rodeo circuit during the 1970s. died March 9 in a Casper, Wyo., hospital. He was 56. Raised near [...]

Gary Stewart, the vibrato-soaked honky-tonk stylist who once rivaled RCA labelmate Waylon Jennings in terms of bulldozing stylistic boundaries in conservative Nashville during the 1970s, died Dec. 16. Stewart was […]

This week's R&B/hip-hop top 10 is marked by a handful of hard-earned hits by R&B acts: Monica's 'So Gone' (J/RMG), Jaheim's 'Put That Woman First' (Divine Mill/WB), and Floetry's 'Say [...]

A few weeks ago, an adult top 40 PD wrote: 'Have you ever done an article comparing the number of spins relative to the times it takes to get a [...]

Tenth Avenue North celebrates its third No. 1--all of which debuted at the summit--on Christian Albums, where Cathedrals arrives with 11,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That's the group's [...]

Frankie Ballard claims his second No. 1 on the Nielsen BDS-fueled Country Airplay chart as 'Sunshine & Whiskey' rises 2-1 in its 33rd chart week (see chart, page 71). He [...]

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Olivia Lane nears her first national chart ink as her debut single, the plucky 'Steal Me Away' (Big Spark), bubbles under Country Airplay. The Houston native, who has drawn [...]

JJ. Hairston & Youthful Praise collect their second straight No. 1 on Gospel Albums as / See Victory, the choir's fifth studio set, steps 2-1 and sells 6,000 copies in [...]

Already boasting the longest active No. 1 streak on the Nielsen BDS-based Country Airplay chart (see page 107), Blake Shelton adds another leader as 'Neon Light' rises 2-1 to become [...]

T THE ANNUAL COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION Awards shake up the charts, with the show's co-host Carrie Underwood jumping to No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and country album [...]

Worship singer-songwriter Chris Tomlin claims his fifth straight No. 1 studio album (and fourth to bow at the summit) with Love Ran Red, his eighth set of new songs, which [...]

Newcomer Sam Hunt tops three country charts--Top Country Albums, Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay--as his first full-length set, Montevallo, opens with 70,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. (Digital [...]

Christian rap/hip-hop artist KJ-52 (above) sets a career-high debut and rank on Christian Albums as eighth album Mental arrives at No. 12 with 2,000 sold. Digital sales notably account for [...]

Harmony-focused foursome Little Big Town claims its fourth top 10, all tallied consecutively, on Top Country Albums as its sixth studio set Pain Killer bows at No. 3 with 42,000 [...]

Gospel veteran Dorothy Norwood logs her best rank on Gospel Albums as An Incredible Journey earns the Hot Shot Debut at No. 2 with 6,000 copies sold in the week [...]

Florida Georgia Line scores its second No. 1 on Top Country Albums--and first on the Billboard 200--and its biggest weekly sales sum with Anything Goes, which debuts with 197,000 copies [...]

Singer-songwriter Jon Guerra's debut single, 'I Will Follow,' from his Glass EP, gains momentum below the Christian Airplay chart. The Chicago resident is a member of the Vertical Church Band, [...]

Owl City claims its best nonseasonal rank on Hot Christian Songs as 'You're Not Alone' (featuring Britt Nicole) earns the Hot Shot Debut at No. 5. The act--an electronica project [...]

Florida Georgia Line (above) snares a career-high entry on Hot Country Songs as 'Sippin' on Fire' is the Hot Shot Debut at No. 10 while also entering atop Country Digital [...]

Carrie Underwood arrives atop Hot Christian Songs with 'Something in the Water,' marking her first No. 1 on the survey. The Christian conversion theme--a new song to be included on [...]

Blake Shelton and Lady Antebellum (above) bow in the top two slots, respectively, on Top Country Albums and the Billboard 200 (see page 80) as Shelton's Bringing Back the Sunshine [...]

Kelsea Ballerini bows at No. 60 on Country Airplay with her uptempo, take-charge anthem 'Love Me Like You Mean It.' The Knoxville, Tenn., native moved to Nashville at age 15 [...]

Having gained valuable exposure as a featured act on Casting Crowns' Thrive Tour earlier this year, pop-rock duo For King & Country (above) earns its biggest sales week and best-ever [...]

Tim McGraw fortifies his No. 2 standing on the list of artists with the most Nielsen SoundScan-era No. 1s on Top Country Albums as he collects his 15th leader with [...]

Unspoken (above) scores its first No. 1 on the Nielsen BDS-driven Christian Adult Contemporary chart (see Billboard.com/biz) as 'Start a Fire' burns a 2-1 path. Concurrently, the male quartets self-titled [...]

Singer-songwriter Lee Brice (above) scores his first No. 1 in four tries on Top Country Albums as I Don't Dance, his third full-length album, arrives with 39,000 sold, according to [...]

The Walls Group (above) nabs its first No. 1 on Gospel Albums with Fast Forward, the sibling quartet's second full-length studio album. The set arrives with 7,000 copies sold, according [...]

Garth Brooks makes his first appearance in six years on Billboard's sales/ airplay/streaming-based Hot Country Songs chart, where 'People Loving People' starts at No. 25. His new track bows solely [...]

Bay Area hip-pop duo Kalin & Myles nears the Rhythmic chart with 'Love Robbery' (Republic), from EP Chase Dreams, which hit No. 6 on Rap Albums in Duly. 'Kalin [White] [...]

Veteran Canadian rock trio Thousand Foot Krutch (above) scores its second leader on Christian Albums as Oxygen: Inhale arrives with 19,000 copies (digital sales account for 67 percent of the [...]

Brad Paisley (above) claims his eighth No. 1 on Top Country Albums (all of which debuted at the summit) as his 10th studio set, Moonshine in the Trunk, bows with [...]

Following a No. 2 debut on the chart dated Aug. 23, Smokie Norful claims his first No. 1 studio album in a decade on Gospel Albums--his fifth overall --as Forever [...]

Former college football quarterback Sam Hunt snares Hot Shot Debut honors at No. 5 on Top Country Albums with X2C, a four-song, digital EP that arrives with 8,000 sold in [...]

Ohio-born Christian rapper-producer Swoope scores his first No. 1 with his debut appearance on Gospel Albums and a career-high rank at No. 3 on Christian Albums as Sinema arrives with [...]

As Tim McGraw's 'Meanwhile Back at Mama's' (featuring wife Faith Hill) jumps 11-7 on Hot Country Songs, each artist celebrates notable achievements. McGraw notches his landmark 50th top 10, while [...]