From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A look at 25 chart highlights from 2025. By Gary Trust 2025 marked yet another year of record-breaking, and in some cases record-obliterating, achievements on Billboard’s charts. Taylor Swift rewrote ...

Songs streamed on YouTube will no longer count towards the Billboard charts, the platform announced in a blog yesterday (December 17). The change will take effect on January 16, 2026, according to ...

YouTube is pulling its data from Billboard for use in the publisher’s industry-leading U.S. music charts. The decision is in response to a recent change Billboard made to its ranking formula, which ...

YouTube, one of the biggest music streaming platforms in the world, will no longer submit data to Billboard for its U.S. music charts starting early next year. As Cohen explained, YouTube’s main gripe ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Kiss debuts its half-century-old live album Alive! in the U.K.

Ahead of the full reveal on Dec. 9 — after the Billboard 2025 No. 1s Livestream, hosted by Druski — check out three R&B/hip-hop top 10s. By Keith Caulfield The full list of Billboard’s 2025 year-end ...

A geyser sets the tone for comfortable daily routines, and the right type can make a clear difference in how efficiently your space runs. Vertical and horizontal models follow the same basic principle ...

As AI-generated music saturates the market, people are realizing they can't distinguish it from music made by actual humans. Many listeners, and musicians, are ...

The United States has designated Venezuela’s so-called Cartel de los Soles a “foreign terrorist organization”, and United States President Donald Trump says he plans to combat Venezuelan drug ...

The devil is in the details. An AI-generated Christian artist named Solomon Ray has taken the gospel music world by storm after topping the iTunes and Billboard charts with his album “Faithful Soul.” ...