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The first of the important year-end music industry data reports have come out for 2025, from Luminate Data and Chartmetric.

Billboard has announced an upcoming shift in its chart tabulation that will give more weight to music streaming against album sales. Starting in January, the magazine and authoritative record of music ...

YouTube announced that it will no longer share data with Billboard for the creation of the Billboard Hot 100 and other charts because the video platform doesn't believe they're calculated fairly. The ...

As 2025 comes to an end, we can see signs that the music industry may be ready to move on from a model that hasn’t really changed in over a decade. Every mode of distributing music to the public has ...

Spotify announced Wednesday that the company now accounts for roughly one-third of the music industry’s recorded music revenue, further cementing its position as the world’s largest music streaming ...

Billboard is a staple of the music industry, and the publication has been tracking the top-selling albums each week since 1940. Of course, the way we consume music has undergone multiple significant ...