• Kelly Clarkson Gets Cushion for 'Piece By Piece' on Albums Chart, Brandi Carlile Cracks Top 5 with 'Firewatcher's Daughter'

    Kelly Clarkson found a bit more breathing room on the Official Albums Chart this week, as her new album 'Piece By Piece' gets a nicer cushion over the 'Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack' on the Billboard 200. Thanks to the removal of individual streams and downloads for Beyoncé and Ellie Goulding's singles from the latter, Clarkson won the pure albums race with 80,500 copies sold, compared to 57,000 copies of 'Fifty Shades.'

  • Drake's Studio Donation to Philadelphia High School Now Put to Use [WATCH]

    Drake was so moved by Diane Sawyer's ABC News special in 2013 "Hidden America" featuring Philadelphia's Strawberry Mansion High School in Philadelphia that the Grammy-winning rapper donated a new recording studio to the school. The school can now use the donated studio in light of its recent music teacher hire.

  • Kelly Clarkson Barely Beats 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Soundtrack with 'Piece by Piece,' Tops Billboard 200

    Kelly Clarkson was the big winner on the Billboard 200 this week with the debut of her album Piece by Piece, which sold 97,000 equivalent copies and held off the competition. The effort helped the pop star get even with Carrie Underwood for the title of most no. 1 albums by an American Idol alumni...the country star and Clarkson both have three to their names. This was an especially nice peak for the latter as it was her first no. 1 since 2009, with two other releases in between.

  • Unreleased Second Drake Verse Featured in New Remix of 'Madonna' [LISTEN]

    Having already gotten the co-sign from Madonna herself on the track baring her name, one of the most celebrated tracks from Drake's 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late' just got chopped and screwed by Houston DJs OG Ron C and DJ Candlestick of The Chopstars. The new version is not just a slowed down rework of "Madonna": Drake also gave OG Ron C an exclusive, unreleased second verse which was not found on the original track.

  • New 'Drizzy' Phone App Let's You Text Drake Lyrics

    Have you ever been in the middle of a conversation and come across a situation where a Drake lyric would be perfect, but you can't remember the exact wording of what the Toronto rapper said? You aren't alone, but a new app titled "Drizzy" that was developed by Luc Success will take care of that problem for you.

  • Detroit Giants Big Sean and Kid Rock Come within A Thousand in Sales on Album Chart; Chris Brown and Tyga Debut

    Big Sean and Kid Rock, two proud Detroit natives, were separated by about 30,000 equivalent records on the Billboard 200 this week with 'Dark Sky Paradise' and 'First Kiss,' respectively, but things were a lot tighter when only album sales were taken into consideration. The pair was almost exactly 1,000 apart from each other, with Sean passing Rock in the last day of sales tracking. 'Dark Sky' ended up selling 135,500 copies while 'First Kiss' debuted with 134,500.

  • Streaming Numbers Give Big Sean's 'Dark Sky Paradise' over Kid Rock's 'First Kiss' on Billboard 200

    New releases from Big Sean and Kid Rock demonstrated how big of a role the new metrics for the Billboard 200 could play in determining the placement of an album. Big Sean and Dark Sky Paradise took the crown this week, moving 173,000 equivalent units while Rock and First Kiss came in at no. 2 with 146,000 equivalent units. That 27,000 album difference doesn't seem like a close fight, but actual album sales indicate that physical copies and downloads of the full records had the pair within 1,000 of each other. The other 26,000 can all be attributed to more single downloads and streams for Sean. It's a brave new music sales world...you may have heard.
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