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News Articles: Genre: Pop

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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  • Stephen Thompson
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
Cult singer-songwriter Ethel Cain (left), rapper BigXthaPlug (middle) and singer-songwriter Alex Warren (right) all break into the Top 10 of <em>Billboard</em>'s charts this week for the first time.

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  • Music

Three wildly different artists crack the top 10 for the first time

Surprises nevertheless abound in the top 10, as a vinyl reissue lands cult singer-songwriter Ethel Cain on the Billboard 200 for the first time ever and two artists — Alex Warren and BigXthaPlug — experience their first-ever top 10 singles.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
Thanks to a deluxe reissue containing five new songs, Ariana Grande's 2024 album <em>Eternal Sunshine</em> races from No. 87 all the way back to No. 1 on the <em>Billboard</em> chart.

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  • Music

Ariana Grande's 'Eternal Sunshine' takes a wicked leap to No. 1, a year after its release

Ariana Grande's deluxe edition of her 2024 album Eternal Sunshine catapults it from No. 87 all the way back to No. 1. Elsewhere, Kendrick Lamar's "Luther (feat. SZA)" sits in the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for a seventh consecutive week, and Pat Boone makes his long-awaited move toward chart domination.

April 08, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Singer/songwriters Brandi Carlile and Elton John

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  • Music

Elton John and Brandi Carlile almost abandoned their new album

Elton John partnered with Brandi Carlile for a new album of duets, Who Believes in Angels? But the project almost fell apart during its first recording sessions.

April 04, 2025
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By:
  • A Martínez and
  • Phil Harrell
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
Lady Gaga's <em>Mayhem</em>, which enters the chart at the top spot after a long windup that's included three top 40 singles.

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  • Music

Lady Gaga's 'Mayhem' shakes up the charts at No. 1

As expected, Lady Gaga's Mayhem storms to a No. 1 debut, becoming her seventh album to top the chart.

March 21, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
This week, only one album debuts in the top 50: <em>Alter Ego</em> by LISA of the K-pop group BLACKPINK.

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  • Music

LISA is BLACKPINK's latest member to crack the top 10

This week on the charts, only one new album debuts in the top 50: Alter Ego by LISA of the K-pop group BLACKPINK and the latest season of White Lotus.

March 15, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Extended silence during a concert often feels like a gift an audience grants a beloved artist, like Barbra Streisand, whose devotees at one show sat in almost unbearable anticipation to hear her sing.

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  • Music

When music provokes utter silence

Critic Ann Powers considers musical performances that have left audiences stunned in utter silence, and what you can hear when sound falls away.

March 13, 2025
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  • Ann Powers
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
Early in her career, Lady Gaga's antagonistic, transgressive pop sometimes took on political overtones. Early songs from her latest album, <em>Mayhem</em>, seem to capture some of that era's intensity.

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  • Music

Pop needs freaks. Thankfully, Lady Gaga is back

The sometimes-transgressive pop star has a new album, Mayhem, that seems poised to recapture the confrontational darkness of her early work. There's more than one reason to hope it's true.

March 03, 2025
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  • Ann Powers
This week, a familiar face knocks Kendrick Lamar out of the top spot with an album debuting at No. 1 — Drake's <em>$ome $exy $ongs 4 U.</em>

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  • Music News

Drake gets his revenge — on the charts, anyway

Kendrick Lamar won his rap war with Drake last year by just about any measure, but this week, Drake got a small measure of revenge when his new album, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, knocks Lamar out of the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts.

February 27, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
The Weeknd performs during the 67th Grammy Awards.

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  • Music

This week's pop charts are all about The Weeknd — and the Grammys

This week, The Weeknd's new album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, debuts atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, and the biggest winners and performers from the Grammys experience big chart bumps.

February 14, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
<em>Hurry Up Tomorrow</em> is Abel Tesfaye's sixth studio album as The Weekend — and, he's declared, his last under that identity.

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  • Music

What was The Weeknd?

Abel Tesfaye's hedonistic alter-ego meets his end on Hurry Up Tomorrow, forcing listeners to ask just who we've been partying with all this time.

February 08, 2025
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By:
  • Sheldon Pearce
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