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 ...
Billboard is a staple of the music industry, and the publication has been tracking the top-selling albums each week since 1940. Of course, the way we consume music has undergone multiple significant ...
The change, which YouTube says will take effect in January, will mean that YouTube withdraws its data from all of Billboard's U.S. and global charts. By Billboard Staff YouTube said in a blog post ...
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 ...
A guitarist playing his steel acoustic guitar and recording with a big diaphragm condenser microphone in a home recording studio Leave it to country music fans to call out an AI-generated song that ...
Sometimes the most iconic music doesn’t follow the rules. You’d think global hits would emerge from calculated campaigns, ...