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Normally it's album sales that we worry about...digital downloads have continued to rise and even record-low record sales don't correlate with the success of the hit singles from those albums. This week was the unusual one where almost every song in the Digital Downloads Top 10 saw a drop in sales, and most by a dramatic amount. -
Taylor Swift 'Shake It Off' Video: Singer Posts Second Outtakes Video [WATCH]
The new clip features several interviews with Swift and a behind-the-scenes look at her ballerina scenes in the video that has already soared past 75 million YouTube views. -
Meghan Trainor, Jimmy Fallon and The Roots Tackle 'All About That Bass' on 'The Tonight Show' with Kiddie Instruments [WATCH]
Meghan Trainor may be "All About That Bass," but last night (Sept. 4) on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the rising body positive pop star was all about the classroom instruments! -
Taylor Swift 'Shake It Off' Tops Hot 100 Again, as Ariana Grande, Jessie J and Nicki Minaj 'Bang Bang' Vaults Up the Charts
Taylor Swift may be able to shake off all those haters, but the pop star is holding strong on the Hot 100. After debuting strongly at No. 1 last week, Swift's lead 1989 single "Shake It Off" is once again the No. 1 song in the U.S. -
Taylor Swift, Meghan Trainor Hold Strong on Digital Downloads Chart While Nicki Minaj Conquers on Two Fronts
Last week was a huge sales week for Digital Download...the biggest of the year so far in fact. Thus this week's numbers aren't quite as glamourous but there's still an interesting mix of performers rising and dropping. -
Taylor Swift, Meghan Trainor and 2014 VMAs Make for Huge Sales Week on Downloads Chart
It was a huge week on the Digital Downloads charts, starting with a monumental new single release plus all of the sales that come along with the MTV Video Music Awards. -
Meghan Trainor Accused of Copying 'All About That Bass Melody' from K-Pop's Koyote, but Maybe Both Stole from Phish
As the music industry gets bigger and bigger it gets tougher and tougher to come up with music that sounds totally unique from everything else. Or at least that's the argument Meghan Trainor's attorneys will need to use when they combat charges that the performer lifted the melody for her hit "All About That Bass" from a popular K-Pop track from 2006. -
Ariana Grande, Iggy Azalea Rule the Billboard Hot 100 with Three Singles Apiece as 'Break Free' and 'Black Widow' Launch into Top 10 [VIDEOS]
As if there was any real doubt, the summer of 2014 definitely belongs to Iggy Azalea and Ariana Grande. Thanks to the music videos for their new singles "Black Widow" and "Break Free," the female pop stars each of three singles in the Billboard Hot 100's top 10... a first in the chart's history. -
Meghan Trainor Still 'All About That Bass' while Ariana Grande Sets Digital Downloads Record with 'Best Mistake'
Meghan Trainor kept selling and Ariana Grande set a record on this week's Digital Downloads charts. -
Charli XCX 'Boom Clap' Storms Into Hot 100 Top 10 as MAGIC! 'Rude' Rules for Fifth Week [VIDEOS]
This summer is just full of MAGIC!, and not the Disney kind, either. For the fifth week in a row, Canadian reggae band MAGIC! is ruling the Billboard Hot 100 with its breakthrough single "Rude." Meanwhile, Charli XCX breaks into the top 10 of the charts on her own with her The Fault In Our Stars single "Boom Clap." -
Meghan Trainor All About Those 'All About That Bass' Sales, Nicki Minaj Leads Two in Digital Downloads Top 10
We've gotten used to huge tracks such as Pharrell William's "Happy" and Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" topping the Digital Downloads chart for weeks on end but now we've had four different tracks on top for the last four weeks. This one may stick around however. -
Jessie J Sets High Digital Downloads Mark with 'Bang Bang' Thanks to Help from Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj
The Digital Downloads Top 10 happens to be both opened and closed by a debut track this week. Leading at no. 1 with the second largest single debut of 2014 is Jessie J and "Bang Bang," which features help from Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj. It sold 230,000 downloads, a total only surpassed by Grande's "Problem" for most debut downloads this year. That song, however, fell out of the Top 10 this week. Closing out this week at no. 10 was Maroon 5's "It Was Always You," which sold 95,000 downloads, not at all a bad start.
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