Here are some questions whose answers may date you: Remember listening avidly to "American Top 40" to hear what the week's No. 1 song was? Or picking up at the record store the local station's list of ...

Five Finger Death Punch have a way to go before claiming the most No. 1's on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart, but they did just set another record on the chart with their ninth straight ...

But a closer look at the metrics — at those pesky equivalent album units — reveals that the album is the lowest-performing No. 1 title in almost three years. More Chaos tallied just 59,500 equivalent ...

This is the third in an eight-part series exploring the 1989 murder of Kevin Hughes, a country music chart director who knew too much. NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The bullet lodged permanently in Sammy ...

Beyoncé-Knowles Carter is now the first Black woman to top Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart after her single "Texas Hold 'Em" debuted at No. 1. Her other single "16 carriages" hit No. 9 on the ...

Before the streaming era, holidays rarely had much of an impact on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. You'd see an occasional novelty hit here and there, but generally speaking, the Hot 100 in ...

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Record companies have a few tricks to give old albums a boost on the charts. Stephen Thompson of NPR Music spotted a few, all in this week's Billboard magazine. STEPHEN THOMPSON, BYLINE: One is the ...