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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
We've wrangled the great (like Chappell Roan), the middling and the truly misbegotten musical guests from <em>SNL</em>'s regular season into one digestible list.

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  • Music

'SNL' just wrapped its 50th season: It's time to cruelly rank its musical guests

For a show that's never been shy about celebrating itself, Saturday Night Live was bound to lean hard into its 50th season. But the results were as mixed as ever.

May 19, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
This week, we finally get a shake-up on the <em>Billboard</em> 200 from Swedish hard-rock band Ghost with its new album, <em>Skeletá</em>.

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  • Music

A Swedish hard-rock band tops the charts, while Kendrick Lamar ties an all-time record

The Swedish hard-rock band Ghost has never topped the Billboard 200 albums chart — until this week. Elsewhere, Kendrick Lamar's "Luther (feat. SZA)" holds at No. 1 for an 11th week, tying a record for hip-hop songs.

May 09, 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
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
Shaboozey performs during the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on September 20. Since July, his song "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" has held onto the top spot on <em>Billboard</em>'s singles chart, but this week it falls to brand new song.

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  • Music News

After nearly four months, Shaboozey's run atop the pop chart is interrupted

For 15 weeks this summer, Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" had the No. 1 song in the country, but a new song breaks its streak this week. Plus, pop fans mourn Liam Payne.

November 01, 2024
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  • Stephen Thompson
Sabrina Carpenter, seen here performing at the 2024 Governors Ball held at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on June 8, 2024, in Queens, N.Y., had multiple hits in contention for the song of the summer — but neither "Espresso" nor "Please Please Please" was the season's champion.

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  • Music News

Summers may come and go, but the songs of the summer last forever

All summer, a wide range of hits were in the running for the biggest songs of the season — country singalongs, rap diss tracks, pop kiss-offs and rock epics. But two took the race down to the wire.

September 11, 2024
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  • Stephen Thompson
Sabrina Carpenter’s ascent is complete — this week, she scored her first No. 1 hit.

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  • Music

Sabrina Carpenter scores her first No. 1 single with 'Please Please Please'

The pop star caught the top spot while her other single, “Espresso,” is still holding strong at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Meanwhile: yes, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is still No. 1 over on the Billboard 200 albums chart — we’re at week nine and counting.

June 27, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Taylor Swift on stage in France in May, during the European leg of her Eras Tour. Since its release in April, Swift's latest album, <em>The Tortured Poets Department, </em>has been the top album in the United States for eight consecutive weeks.

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  • Music News

Taylor Swift and Post Malone top the charts again. How long can their dominance last?

One song has ruled the pop chart for over a month. One album has topped the album chart for two months. But there are signs this week that both could face serious challengers soon.

June 19, 2024
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  • Stephen Thompson
Post Malone (left) and Morgan Wallen on the red carpet at the 57th Annual CMA Awards on November 8, 2023 in Nashville, Tenn.

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  • Music

As summer starts, Taylor Swift, Post Malone and Morgan Wallen maintain chart reigns

For the fifth week in a row, Swift's The Tortured Poets Department was the best-selling album in the country. Post Malone and Wallen's "I Had Some Help" repeated as the top song.

May 29, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Country music star Morgan Wallen attending the CMA Awards in Nashville in November 2023.

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  • Arts & Life

Morgan Wallen arrested for throwing a chair from a rooftop bar in Nashville

The country music star was arrested on four charges, including reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct. The chair, thrown from a rooftop bar, landed on the street close to two police officers.

April 09, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
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Country music tops the Billboard Hot 100, but it's complicated

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to NPR's Ann Powers and Marcus Dowling of The Tennessean about how two country songs sit atop the Billboard Hot 100, and the context for this moment.

July 08, 2023
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Billboard Music Awards honor Mary J. Blige as a musical icon

The annual music awards show also featured controversial appearances by Travis Scott and Morgan Wallen.

May 16, 2022
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  • The Associated Press

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