Post Malone set a new record for most streams in a week and established the best-selling week of 2018 as the rapper's Beerbongs & Bentleys opened atop the Billboard 200. The album opened with 461,000 total copies in its first week of availability, with the majority of that total the result of a record-breaking 288,000 streaming equivalent albums, or SEAs. In ...
DJ Khaled edged out Imagine Dragons to take Number One on the Billboard 200 as the producer's Grateful sold 149,000 total copies in its debut week. Khaled's latest all-star affair gave him his second straight chart topper – following 2016's Major Key – even though Grateful was largely powered by streaming equivalent albums, or SEAs; ...
Drake is already back in the studio working on a collab with French Montana. Pics of the pair hard at work in the studio showed up on Instagram, while Montana was featured in a brief clip of the track posted to Twitter. Drizzy and Montana previously hooked up on the tunes "Stay Schemin" and "Pop That." The collab comes as Drake keeps busy with promoting his latest album. more...
Cole Swindell has scored his fifth consecutive number one hit with "You Should Be Here," a track taken from his self-titled debut album. The cut, written with Ashley Gorley, is a tribute to Cole's late father. "Finding out that you have the No. 1 song in the country while backstage at the Grand Ole Opry is the coolest feeling in the world," Swindell tells Billboard. more...
Carrie Underwood's greatest hits collection, Greatest Hits: Decade #1, released in 2015, has gone platinum, signifying sales of over a million. The 25 song record spans the first ten years of Underwood's career. The album sold 94,000 copies in its first week, making it the best debut by a hits collection from any artist in more than six years. more...