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Sleep Token's album <em>Even in Arcadia</em> has scored the largest-ever streaming week for a hard-rock album.

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  • Music

Sleep Token is the second hard-rock band to hit No. 1 in 3 weeks

This week the lore-rich, genre-smashing, entirely anonymous hard-rock band Sleep Token lands its first-ever No. 1 album. Elsewhere, on the Hot 100 singles chart, Kendrick Lamar's "Luther (feat. SZA)" registers a 13th consecutive week at No. 1.

May 21, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Fuerza Regida's <em>111XPANTIA, </em>which just hit No. 2 on the <em>Billboard </em>chart<em>,</em> now holds the highest chart position in the history of regional Mexican music

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  • Music

Two Spanish-language albums top the Billboard chart for the first time ever

Bad Bunny's DeBÍ TiRAR Más FOToS and Fuerza Regida's 111XPANTIA hold down the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on this week's Billboard 200, making this the first week in history with Spanish-language albums in the chart's top two spots.

May 14, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
AUSTIN, TEXAS - JULY 04: Singer-songwriter Willie Nelson performs onstage with Willie Nelson and Family during the 46th Annual Willie Nelson 4th of July Picnic at Austin360 Amphitheater on July 04, 2019 in Austin, Texas.

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  • Music

Willie Nelson is still chasing an idealized country in a divided America

Nelson's new album, Oh What a Beautiful World, his 77th solo album and 154th overall, doesn't break from convention, but that's exactly why it feels so necessary right now.

May 01, 2025
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  • Santi Elijah Holley
Alex Warren's (left) "Ordinary" continues to climb up the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 chart. Meanwhile Jack Black (right) scores a surprising record with a very short song from<em> A Minecraft Movie</em>.

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  • Music

Jack Black hits a milestone on the charts, while Alex Warren's 'Ordinary' keeps rising

It's a slow week on the Billboard charts, but Jack Black breaks a surprising record on the chart. Plus, rapper Doechii lands her first top 10 album and Alex Warren's "Ordinary" continues to move up the Hot 100.

April 30, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Between founding the string and jug band Carolina Chocolate Drops and winning a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur grant, Rhiannon Giddens has become one of folk music's foremost advocates for understanding the crucial role of Black musicians in the history of American roots music. This weekend, a North Carolina-based festival that she curated, Biscuits & Banjos, will feature dozens of Black artists performing and speaking on panels about their experiences in the genre.

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  • Music

Carolina to 'Cowboy Carter' and back: A celebration of Black roots music finds a home

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.

April 25, 2025
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  • Jewly Hight
Left: Playboi Carti's supersized blockbuster <em>MUSIC</em> holds at No. 1 on the album chart in its second week of release, but Morgan Wallen (right) breaks a record for songs.

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  • Music

Playboi Carti and Kendrick Lamar top the charts, but Morgan Wallen looms

Playboi Carti's supersized blockbuster MUSIC holds at No. 1 in its second week of release. Elsewhere, Kendrick Lamar's "Luther (feat. SZA)" holds at No. 1and Morgan Wallen charts a fifth top 10 hit from an album that isn't even out yet.

April 01, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
This week rapper Playboi Carti's <em>MUSIC</em> tops this week's <em>Billboard </em>200.

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  • Music

Playboi Carti has the biggest streaming week since Taylor Swift — plus, Chappell Roan goes country

The rapper Playboi Carti's much-hyped MUSIC leads this week in albums. Plus, the rapper Doechii continues to make gains with her recently released "Anxiety" and Chappell Roan finds minor country chart success with "The Giver."

March 28, 2025
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  • Hazel Cills
"You made me drеam / More than I dared," Parton sings on the song. "And I wouldn't be hеre / If you hadn't been there."

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  • Music

Dolly Parton pays homage to late husband Carl Dean with 'If You Hadn't Been There'

Dolly Parton's husband, Carl Dean, died Monday. On Friday at midnight, Parton released the song "If You Hadn't Been There" in his memory.

March 10, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
The pop star Tate McRae, who first caught the public's attention as a finalist on the 13th season of <em>So You Think You Can Dance</em> in 2016, has been bubbling up ever since.

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  • Music

In a slow week for new albums, pop singer Tate McRae reigns supreme

This week, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer Tate McRae debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with her album So Close to What, knocking Drake from the top spot.

March 07, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
The War and Treaty: Tanya Trotter & Michael Trotter, Jr.

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  • Music

The War and Treaty kicks off the party with 'Plus One'

Part of a growing number of Black artists being embraced by the Nashville country-music machine, The War and Treaty is the husband-and-wife duo of Michael & Tanya Trotter. Their new album, Plus One, infuses country with gospel, bluegrass, rock and whatever else inspires them.

February 14, 2025
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  • Phil Harrell,
  • Lindsay Totty,
  • and 1 more
Beyoncé onstage Sunday night at the 67th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, where her album <em>Cowboy Carter</em> received historic wins for best country album and album of the year.

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  • Music

Beyoncé finally won album of the year. Don't mistake this moment for her peak

Her Grammy win for Cowboy Carter will rightly be seen as historic. But for the artist, it's part of a grander thesis long in the making.

February 03, 2025
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  • Sidney Madden
Benson Boone does a flip off the piano while performing his hit "Beautiful Things" at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 2, 2025. Boone was one of several rising artists who made their Grammy debuts this year with far more adeptness than most rookies.

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  • Music

Gen Z conquers the Grammys

Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar won the night's biggest awards, but the real takeaway from the Grammys is that a wave of younger stars has arrived on the pop scene, fully prepared to own the spotlight.

February 03, 2025
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  • Ann Powers
With <em>Cowboy Carter</em>, which also won best country album, Beyoncé finally took home the Grammy she'd most coveted.

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  • Music

Grammys 2025: 10 takeaways from Beyoncé's biggest night

A rundown of all the surprises and snubs of the 67th Grammy awards, from a historic win for Beyoncé to show-stopping moments from Chappell Roan and Doechii.

February 03, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
The duet by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars spent four weeks at No. 2 on the Hot 100 in November before being swept out of the top 10 by the annual rush of holiday songs. This week, it finally rises to the top of the chart.

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  • Music

With the holidays over, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and more stars flood the pop charts

Now that most Christmas songs and albums have been packed away into the proverbial attic, the pop landscape of the new year is coming into focus.

January 11, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Paul Franklin performs at the National Association of Music Merchants in 2014 in Nashville, Tenn.

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  • Music

He's been nominated 32 times for CMA Musician of the Year — but never won

Steel pedal guitarist Paul Franklin set a CMA record as a 32-time nominee for Musician of the Year. Will this year be different?

November 20, 2024
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  • Neda Ulaby
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