2025 was a blockbuster year on the Official Charts, with chart icons like Taylor Swift, Robbie Williams, Oasis and Kylie Minogue grabbing the headlines. Throw in a Geordie Springsteen, Mother Monster ...
Lyor Cohen, the company's global head of music, argued that Billboard's formula for the charts doesn't put enough weight on ad-supported streams. By Ethan Millman Music Editor YouTube will stop ...
A look at 25 chart highlights from 2025. By Gary Trust 2025 marked yet another year of record-breaking, and in some cases record-obliterating, achievements on Billboard’s charts. Taylor Swift rewrote ...
YouTube, one of the biggest music streaming platforms in the world, will no longer submit data to Billboard for its U.S. music charts starting early next year. As Cohen explained, YouTube’s main gripe ...
Most of us learnt that ‘a’ goes before consonants and ‘an’ before vowels – and most of us were only half-right. This Learning with TOI English Hack explains the real rule: it is not about letters, but ...
Sperm whales swimming off the coast of Dominica. The marine mammals have a complex communication system that scientists are working to decode. Amanda Cotton Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...
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Xania Monet, who becomes the first AI-powered artist to debut on an airplay chart this week, is one of several AI-driven acts to chart over the past two months. By Xander Zellner AI music is no longer ...
It feels like the Billboard charts could use a good rap beef right about now. That’s because, according to the publication, for the first time since 1990, there is no hip hop in the Top 40 of the ...
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Taylor Swift continues her dominance as the Official Singles Chart frontrunner track The Fate of Ophelia also tops this week's Official Trending Chart. Following the release of her record The Life of ...
Your new No. 1 album, the proggy and hip-hop-inflected Breach, is by Twenty One Pilots, who last topped the albums chart more than a decade ago, with 2015's Blurryface. Though rock records by Ghost ...