The charts will soon give more weight to music that people have paid money to hear. Billboard has announced that starting the week of June 29 to July 5, plays on paid subscription services (like Apple ...

Billboard will change the formula used to create its Billboard 200 albums chart. That means the music industry will have to change its tactics if it still uses the chart to determine success. The way ...

The data and analytics company's note to independent retailers cites a "consensus" for changing how it counts sales across the sector. By Ed Christman Luminate — which provides data to the Billboard ...

Billboard Charts, including the Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200, Artist 100, and Billboard Global 200 charts, will now factor in streams of officially licensed music videos on Facebook when compiling ...

Billboard's influential music chart is about to step into the 21st century as the company announced it will soon include metrics from on-demand Internet streaming services like Apple's Beats Music to ...

YouTube is revising the way it calculates the YouTube Music Charts and 24-hour viewership records. By Tatiana Cirisano YouTube is revising the way it calculates the YouTube Music Charts and 24-hour ...