From a klezmer clarinetist to one of the most popular singers in the nation, the year’s best local albums are a charmingly eclectic group as indicative of our critics’ varying tastes as they are of ...

For the first time since 2014, no hip-hop album managed to break the 400,000 first-week sales mark. The numbers tell a story of an industry in transition, where streaming has changed how we ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Sales of Motley Crue's album Dr. Feelgood grew by nearly 15,000% from one ...

Sabrina Carpenter's Fruitcake EP explodes in popualrity, with sales growing ... year. Her album Short N’ Sweet brought her to the top of the Billboard 200 for the first time, and it produced ...

The glowing press around the Cure’s first album in 16 years (and its best in ... it’s getting late/And my fire burns out at midnight.” The ex-Boston band hasn’t lost a step since lineup ...

BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE. Morgan Wallen Last week Weeks at no. 1 Weeks on chart Big Loud/Mercury/Republic ...

Growing up in Massachusetts, Nancia often spent New Year’s Eve tuned into the live broadcast of First Night Boston ... (named after the iconic Boston band’s 1977 album) will perform in ...

From opening for Taylor Swift on the North American legs of the "Eras Tour" to performing on "Saturday Night Live" for the ...

By Keith Caulfield As Stray Kids’ new album HOP debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Dec. 28), they become the first act to ... Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums ...

The Used are celebrating their 25th anniversary with a U.S. tour, highlighting their first 3 albums, 2002’s ‘The Used,’$2 ...

So reads the skeet from Stereogum contributor David Anthony alerting me to the existence of Forces Of Nature’s Transformation, the new album from Boston crust punks Lifeless Dark. Apparently the ...

He added, “I had other albums that didn’t have a strong first week but again, my tour ended up doing super well. And then later on it grows and becomes a larger thing. Why spend all this time ...