• Twenty One Pilots Top Billboard 200, Taylor Swift Recovers Big Time Post-Awards

    Yet another new performer to top the Billboard 200 as Twenty One Pilots takes the top spot with Blurryface, which sold more than 147,000 equivalent units. That makes the Columbus, OH-based alt group the seventh act to top the charts for the first time during 2015 (including bigger bands such as Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons).

  • Wiz Khalifa 'See You Again' Holds No. 1 on Hot 100: The Weeknd, Ed Sheeran See Gains

    After a few weeks of gains, losses and shakeups on the Billboard Hot 100, this week (May 13), things return to business as usual with a largely stagnant chart. For the fifth week in a row, Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's Furious 7 single "See You Again" owns the charts, with releases from Fetty Wap, Mark Ronson and Walk The Moon holding tight onto their top five posisions.

  • Mumford & Sons Top Billboard 200, 'Fifty Shades' Gets Mother's Day Boost

    Mumford & Sons remains a rock band to beat on the Billboard 200, gathering its second no. 1 record with Wilder Mind. Although the band's original alternative fan base has raised an eyebrow at the use of electric guitars on the new set, sales still came out to 249,000-trailing only Drake and Kendrick Lamar for biggest debut of 2015 thus far. Although nothing to frown at, it's still a relatively low sales figure for Mumford, which sold 600,000 copies of Babel when that album dropped during 2012.

  • Ed Sheeran Unveils Family Videos in 'Photograph' Video [WATCH]

    Ed Sheeran did more than just provide snapshots of his life for the "Photograph" music video...he went ahead and added full video clips. Although most will find the footage of the English pop star to be adorable, some might complain that the media form contradicts the name of the song. If you realize that video is just a quickly-running stream of photographs, it works out. We swear.

  • Wiz Khalifa 'See You Again' Crowns Hot 100 for Fourth Week: Walk The Moon & T-Wayne See Gains

    Wiz Khalifa can say "See You Again" to the No. 1 spot in the United States. For the fourth week in a row, the rapper's Charlie Puth collaboration for the Furious 7 soundtrack tops the Billboard Hot 100. Overall, it's a good week for male rappers on the chart as Fetty Wap's "Trap Queen" ascends to a new high and T-Wayne's viral hit "Nasty Freestyle" breaks into the top 10.

  • Sam Smith, One Direction, More Boost British Album Sales Share in 2014

    The British are coming...slowly but surely enough as the nation's music industry increased its hold on the American album sales market during 2014 thanks to new releases from One Direction, Coldplay, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran and more. Last year's sales were a significant increase in market share compared to 2013, according to the British Phonographic Institute.
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