• Taylor Swift Shares Adorable Text Conversation with Ed Sheeran

    Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran may be known for their earnest, heartfelt and introspective lyrics, but that doesn't mean that always translates to text. On Instagram, the "Bad Blood" singer gave a little insight into her text conversations with her longtime BFF and they're not quite as good at rhyming when they're not writing songs.

  • Alabama Shakes and Yelawolf Top Albums Charts, Representing Home State

    Alabama Shakes started high up on the Billboard 200 and now they do the same on the Albums charts thanks to the high-volume of full records sold by the band. The band's Sound & Color becomes the first independent label record to top the chart during 2015, thanks to more than 87,000 units moved...making up more than 90 percent of its Billboard 200 total.

  • Alabama Shakes and 'Sound & Color' Becomes First Independent Release Atop Billboard 200 during 2015

    Alabama Shakes and 'Sound & Color' brought an air of independence to the Billboard 200 this week, as the album became the first independent label (ATO) release to top the charts during 2015. It was easily the band's bestselling week ever, moving 96,000 equivalent copies during its first week. Yet it seemed almost inevitable: The band got to no. 6 with its previous release, 'Boys & Girls', but nearly a year after it debuted. Listeners caught on to the band just a hair too late, and made up for it this time around.

  • New Calvin Harris Biography on Following Path to Stardom Hitting Stores in October

    A lot of ink has been spilled on the rags to riches story of Calvin Harris, real name Adam Richard Wiles, and now a full length biography has been put together on the man who has electrified crowds across the world and crafted some of the biggest radio hits of the past couple years. UK journalist and author Douglas Wright, who according to his biography, has written, co-written or ghosted seven different biographies, has written a new book about Calvin Harris documenting his rise from a low-level employee at a local supermarket in Dumfries, Scotland to one of the wealthiest, most in demand-global artists inside and outside the DJ booth. The book, titled "Calvin Harris: The $100 Million DJ," will be available on October 21, 2015.

  • Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Drake and More: 7 Stars Attend Prom with Very Lucky High Schoolers

    Justin Bieber and his crew made a stir over the weekend when they appeared at a high school prom in California to surprise the students in attendance. The result was a student body gone mad, resulting in one of the more memorable proms of all time without the pop star actually delivering a single song, reportedly. At least one attendee can tell her future (and possibly current) boyfriend about how she danced with Bieber at prom. Some musical acts have gone far beyond just crashing a prom however, actually attending a dance as someone's date. Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Drake: All have made appearances at high school way after attending high school.

  • Taylor Swift's '1989' Louder Than Classic Metallica, AC/DC and Sex Pistols Records. How?

    When you think of "loud" albums, you probably don't think about Taylor Swift. However a new study from Ian Shepherd, audio engineer and founder of Dynamic Range Day, demonstrates that in fact the pop star's most recent release, '1989,' is among the loudest albums of all time. Among the album it trumps are AC/DC's 'Back In Black,' Metallica's "Black" album, and the Sex Pistols' 'Never Mind The Bollocks.'

  • 'Handwritten' and Shawn Mendes Youngest Performer Since Justin Bieber to Top Billboard 200

    We may be witnessing the emergence of the next big young superstar as Shawn Mendes topped the Billboard 200 this week with his debut LP Handwritten. He becomes the youngest performer to top the chart since 2010, when Justin Bieber also did it at the age of 16 (albeit six months younger than Mendes). What makes Mendes' accomplishment more impressive is that he did so without a single on the Billboard charts, drawing almost entirely from hype built as a Vine star (and as an opener for Taylor Swift on tour). He moved 119,000 copies of his debut.

  • Taylor Swift's 'Style' Video Synced With Lana Del Rey's 'Summertime Sadness' Going Viral On Tumblr [WATCH]

    A mashup sync of Taylor Swift's "Style" music video and Lana Del Rey's hit song "Summertime Sadness" is going viral on Tumblr. KQED likens the video to syncing up Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to The Wizard Of Oz film and explains the phenomenon "is due to sheer coincidence and something called apophenia, which is described as 'the experience of perceiving patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.'"

  • Wiz Khalifa's 'See You Again' and More: 5 No. 1 Soundtracks and The Singles That Powered Them

    This week's Billboard 200 featured the soundtrack to Furious 7 reaching no. 1 after four weeks on the charts. What's propelled the album to higher and higher sales every week? For one thing, the release of the film. More importantly however is the new metrics behind the Billboard 200, which now counts song streams and downloads toward "equivalent album sales." When an album has one song that really hits home with the population, that in turn helps the album that features it to move higher on the Billboard 200 charts. For Furious 7, that song is "See You Again," a track by Wiz Khalifa paying homage to deceased actor Paul Walker.
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