Halsey’s new studio album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Sept. 11), marking her third No. 1 on the list. She previously also opened at No. 1 with her last two releases, Manic (in 2020) and Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (2017). If I Can’t […]

Chinese social media platform Weibo banned a fan club of BTS from posting for 60 days, saying it had raised funds illegally, days after photographs of a customized airplane funded by the fan club were posted online. The fan club account, which had over 1.1 million followers on Weibo, was centered around BTS member Jimin.

Sarah Harding, who died on Sunday (Sept. 5) after a battle with breast cancer, aged just 39, left behind a massive impression on the U.K. charts as part of the pop outfit Girls Aloud. The five-piece, consisting of Harding, Kimberley Walsh, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts and Cheryl Cole, was a pop juggernaut through the noughts,

BRISBANE, Australia — Get vaccinated, get back to concerts. That’s the message behind a new campaign, which gathers the leading players from Australia’s music and entertainment industries, and hundreds of artists. #VaxTheNation launches today (Aug. 6) with a TVC featuring the music of Aussie rock favorites Powderfinger, and a push across the social channels of

ABBA is back, and they’re targeting a return to the U.K. Top 10 for the first time in almost 40 years. The legendary Swedish group last week made their long-awaited comeback with the release of “I Still Have Faith In You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down.” Based on sales and streaming data from the first

Camila Cabello and her Cinderella co-stars took their show to the middle of the road, in the middle of rush hour, for James Corden’s “Crosswalk” musical series. Cabello, along with Idina Menzel, Billy Porter and Corden himself performed several numbers — in front of a slightly confused audience of drivers — from their new Amazon

Kanye West is crowned on the U.K. albums chart as Donda (Def Jam) debuts at No. 1. Following its digital-only release on Aug. 29, Donda snags 20,000 chart sales, with 91% of the total from streaming equivalent sales, and the remainder from downloads, according to the OCC. Donda racked up 33.4 million streams across its

In the middle of performing “Paradise City” — with surprise guest Dave Grohl — Guns N’ Roses apparently had the power pulled on them due to a 10 p.m. curfew at California’s BottleRock Napa Valley. Guns N’ Roses, one of the headliners on Saturday’s (Sept. 4) extensive lineup at the festival, continued to power through

Kanye West lands his 10th No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as Donda debuts atop the list with the year’s biggest week for any album: 309,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 2, according to MRC Data. It surpasses the year’s previous best week, when Olivia Rodrigo’s

The results are in, and in a week of big music releases, ABBA’s return has topped this week’s fan-voted new music poll. Music fans voted in a poll that was published Friday (Sept. 3) on Billboard, choosing the legendary pop group’s two new singles “I Still Have Faith in You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down” as their