• 'Guardians of The Galaxy,' 'Now 51' and 'Frozen' Make Billboard 200 a Compilation Affair

    Last week it seemed that compilations had reached a high point, taking both the now. 1 and 2 spots on the Billboard 200, but this week the music collections stepped it up a notch, adding spot no. 3 to the list. The last time the first three spots on the list were held by compilations was during 2009 when Now 30, Hannah Montana: The Movie and the original Twilight soundtrack held the positions.

  • UK's Award-Winning Bestival Is Coming To The US

    If there's one thing that the United States definitely needs more of, it's music festivals, and yesterday, it was announced that we would be getting another one. Next week, British DJ and entrepreneur Rob Da Bank will be signing a distribution deal to bring the UK's annual Bestival to other countries in Europe and the United States.

  • Meghan Trainor All About Those 'All About That Bass' Sales

    We've gotten used to huge tracks such as Pharrell William's "Happy" and Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" topping the Digital Downloads chart for weeks on end but now we've had four different tracks on top for the last four weeks. This one may stick around however.

  • Jessie J Sets High Mark with 'Bang Bang' Thanks to Help from Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj

    The Digital Downloads Top 10 happens to be both opened and closed by a debut track this week. Leading at no. 1 with the second largest single debut of 2014 is Jessie J and "Bang Bang," which features help from Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj. It sold 230,000 downloads, a total only surpassed by Grande's "Problem" for most debut downloads this year. That song, however, fell out of the Top 10 this week. Closing out this week at no. 10 was Maroon 5's "It Was Always You," which sold 95,000 downloads, not at all a bad start.

  • Tom Petty Finally Gets Billboard No. 1

    Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers have been around for a while but he never gave up, and now he's been rewarded with his first no. 1 debut on the Billboard 200.

  • Sam Smith Critiques Vin Diesel's Version Of 'Stay With Me' [WATCH]

    Continuing his trend of politely engaging in bizarre, inexplicably music-related questions during his current Guardians of the Galaxy press tour, actor Vin Diesel treated Capital FM to a semi-karaoke rendition of Sam Smith's smash hit "Stay With Me." Though I personally thought that Diesel's take on the song was pretty cringe-worthy and nothing to be at all impressed about, Sam Smith apparently thought it was "amazing," and I suppose his opinion is more important than anyone else's.

  • Jason Aldean Tops Downloads Chart with 'Burnin' It Down,'

    Country fans continue to prove their loyalty when an act releases a new single. Jason Aldean becomes the most recent performer to shoot sky-high on the Digital Downloads chart after dropping a new song, as "Burnin' It Down" moved 184,000 downloads and tops the list.

  • 5 Seconds of Summer Breaks Numerous Australian Sales Records, Tops Billboard 200 with Debut Album

    This week's Billboard 200 was all about 5 Seconds of Summer who surprised no one with its huge debut for its self-titled debut LP. The group outsold the rest of the Top 10 albums combined, moving 259,000 copies of its new record. That's also the third-highest debut of 2014 thus far, plus the largest debut ever for an Australian group since Soundscan began tracking the numbers during 1991.

  • Sam Smith Stays Off Spotify and Ultimately Wins Over Lana Del Rey

    Streaming has been the hot topic in the music industry and whether it can be utilized to revive sales and provide enough royalties to put food on musicians' tables. Many labels are hoping so, and although many held out in the early years of Spotify and similar services, they are now putting their roster's on streaming sites to promote publicity if nothing else. Capitol decided to try a different hand when promoting Sam Smith however and it seems to have paid off.

  • Sia Tops Slow Week on Billboard 200

    This week was a relatively slow one on the Billboard 200, which allowed Sia to take the top spot for the first time in her career. We don't mean to suggest she didn't earn it: 1000 Forms of Fear sold 52,000 copies, the songwriter's largest sales week to date. However that was also the smallest sales week for a no. 1 in more than two years.
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