SZA’s SOS racks up a seventh consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 111,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 26, Billboard reports. 'SOS' is also the first R&B/hip-hop album by a woman, or R&B album by any act, to spend its first seven weeks at No. 1 since Whitney Houston’s 'Whitney' in 1987. The last album by a woman with seven weeks at No. 1 was Taylor Swift’s 'Folklore', more than two years ago.

Adele’s new album ’30’ blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 839,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 25, debuting with the largest week of 2021 for any album. Album sales comprise 692,000, making it easily the largest sales week of the year for any album. Further, '30' is the biggest-selling album of the entire year with 692,000 in sales, surpassing the total sales of any album over the past 11 months combined, Billboard reports.

Adele has gone back to number one in the UK with her new single 'Easy On Me', scoring the biggest chart figures for almost five years - she had a record 24 million streams in the UK in its first week as well as 23,500 downloads. That is equivalent to 217,300 sales - the highest since Ed Sheeran's 'Shape of You' in January 2017, UK Official Charts reports. In the album chart, Coldplay's 'Music of the Spheres' became the fastest-selling record of the year so far, with 101,000 chart sales, Charts reports.

ABBA's greatest hits album 'Gold' reached a landmark 1000 weeks on the Official Albums Chart Top 100, the first album to do so in UK chart history. ABBA's 'Gold' was released in September 1992, debuting at Number 1, and has gone on to be the UK's second best-selling album of all time -behind Queen's 'Greatest Hits' - with pure sales of 5.61 million, according to Official Charts Company data.

Olivia Rodrigo scores her first Number One on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 Chart this week to the tune of a staggering 283.7 million streams. As her debut album 'Sour' rules the Billboard 200 albums chart and 'Good 4 U' leads the Rolling Stone 100, Rodrigo becomes only the third female artist to sweep all three charts in one week, Rolling Stone reports.

The US chart authority, Billboard has created a ranking of the most popular songs in the U.S. based on Twitter conversations, Bloomberg reports. The chart, called “the Billboard Hot Trending Powered by Twitter”, is unusual for Billboard in that it’s not measuring what people are listening to, but what they talk about.

Chris Cornell's posthumously released cover of the Guns N’ Roses classic 'Patience' has just reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs chart, making it the first time for a Cornell solo song to reach No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock tally, which tracks radio airplay across the United States. Cornell’s take on the GN’R ballad was released by his family on July 20th, in commemoration of what would have been the late rocker’s 56th birthday, Billboard reports. With Soundgarden, Cornell earned six No. 1 singles on the Mainstream Rock chart from 1994 through 2013. He also scored two chart-toppers with Audioslave.

Phil Collins' song 'In the Air Tonight' saw a 1,110% increase in sales after a viral video of two brothers reacting to the song while listening to it for the first time, CoS reports. Tim and Fred Williams, a pair of 22-year-old twins from Gary, Indiana, create reaction videos on YouTube under the account TwinsthenewTrend, and their most popular video is their reaction to Collins' 1980s pop hit, with over 4 million views. The song is climbing the Billboard charts, and it has already reached No. 3 on the iTunes Charts.

Tracks from Kanye West’s new album, ‘Jesus Is King’, currently hold all Top 10 song spots on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs and Hot Gospel Songs charts. Apart from that, the album itself holds the all-genre Billboard 200, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Top Rap Albums charts, Top Christian Albums and Top Gospel Albums chart. With it West […]

Tones And I set a new Australian chart record, with her single 'Dance Monkey' spending 10 consecutive weeks atop Australia's singles chart. Apart from her homeland, Tones And I is now No. 1 in 13 countries; globally, the tune has raked in more than 250 million streams, Billboard reports. 'Dance Monkey' is just the second […]

This week, Billie Eilish earned her first-ever No. 1 single with 'Bad Guy', ending Lil Nas X’s streak of 19 consecutive weeks at No. 1, which set an all-time record. She also became the first artist born in this century to top the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard...

The Iowa masked band's sixth LP, 'We Are Not Your Kind' has gone straight in at the summit of UK chart, knocking Ed Sheeran's collaborations LP off the top spot. It is also the band's first chart-topping album for 18 years in the UK, after 2001's 'Iowa'. The last metal act to conquer the UK […]

Rolling Stone has unveiled five new daily interactive charts tracking music consumption in the U.S - Top 100 Songs, Top 200 Albums, Artists 500, Trending 25 for new songs seeing the biggest gains in popularity every week and Breakthrough 25 for rising artists who have never appeared on the Artist 500 chart. The five charts will update on […]

Lil Nas X has set a new record with his breakout hit 'Old Town Road' - the country-trap tune is now the longest-running Hip Hop song at #1 on the Hot 100, All Hip Hop reports. 'Old Town Road' clocked its 13th week at the pinnacle of the chart, passing the respective 12-week runs for […]

German industrials Rammstein's new album debuted at No. 1 in 14 different countries, and sold 270,000 units. The band's seventh studio album 'Rammstein' reached the top of the charts in Germany, Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Austria and Canada. Loudwire...

Debuting at No. 11 on the midweek UK singles chart is a song 'Let Nature Sing', and it’s literally just birds, Pitchfork reports. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds released the track of pure birdsong with the hope that it would chart and raise awareness for endangered birds in the UK. Vocals on […]