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The first sales week for Florence + The Machine's How Big How Blue How Beautiful was certainly the first (and possibly third) adjective featured in the album's title, as the third record from the songstress sold 128,000 copies and took the top spot on the Album Charts, holding off also-rans Taylor Swift and A$AP Rocky. It was the highest sales week of Welch's career. -
Is "New Romantics" The Next Taylor Swift Single? Singer Responds
Taylor Swift has responded to rumors that "New Romantics," one of the three bonus tracks from the deluxe version of 1989, would also be the next single for the performer. Apparently a fan story on Tumblr suggested that Swift had recently wrapped up filming a music video for the track. -
Album Releases Moving to Fridays Beginning July 10 According to IFPI
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has formally announced that July 10 will mark the beginning of the "global release day" on Fridays as part of an agreement between 45 nations involved. For listeners in the United States, that means new albums will no longer become available on Tuesdays as they have in the past but, like films, will be released on Fridays. -
Florence + The Machine Take Top of Billboard 200; Taylor Swift + A$AP Rocky Stick Around
Florence + The Machine booked its first no. 1 effort on the Billboard 200 as mouthful How Big How Blue How Beautiful took the top spot with more than 137,000 equivalent album sales. Although only pure album sales were tracked at the time of the band's last release, Ceremonials, Billboard suggests that this was also the band's biggest sales weeks in terms of pure records as well. -
Katy Perry, Taylor Swift Feud May Continue with New Song '1984' as Response to 'Bad Blood'
The feud between pop superstars Taylor Swift and Katy Perry seems very real, and if a new song registered by the "Teenage Dream" singer is any indication, things are just about to get fired up. According to a new registry on the song database BMI, Perry is aiming to parody Swift with a new song titled "1984." -
A$AP Rocky's 'A.L.L.A.', Boosie BadAzz and Hillsong United Drive Album Sales
Things were looking good for new albums on the sales chart this week, as the Top 3 spots were held by releases from A$AP Rocky, Boosie BadAzz and (somewhat ironically considering the other two entries), Hillsong United. -
Taylor Swift 'Bad Blood' Slips on Hot 100 as Wiz Khalifa 'See You Again' Rises to No. 1
Taylor Swift let her "Bad Blood" boil over to the No. 1 spot in the country for just one week - because now she's on the outs again. After the celeb-fueled new 1989 single jumped to the top spot last week, today (June 3), a more familiar single returns to the peak of the charts: Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again." -
A$AP Rocky No. 1 on Billboard 200 Again; Boosie BadAzz, Hillsong United Follow
Another hip-hop performer takes the top spot on the Billboard 200 with a surprise album as A$AP Rocky and At.Long.Last.A$AP debuts with 146,000 equivalent units in its first week. That may seem like more than his last album, Long.Live.A$AP (which also debuted at no. 1), however that album opened with 139,000 actual copies sold, while the new Billboard metrics also take single downloads and streams into consideration. In that light, A.L.L.A. only sold 117,000 copies. Of course, week two could also be strong due to the surprise nature of the release. -
Ellie Goulding Posts, Deletes Katy Perry Photo on Instagram Because of Taylor Swift Drama
Is there some betrayal within Taylor Swift's arsenal of BFFs? If you believe they should be anti-Katy Perry then the answer is yes. Last night (May 31), Swift's friends Ellie Goulding and Lorde partied with Swift's pop music rival... and then attempted to delete all mentions of it from social media. -
10 Years of YouTube: Most Watched Music Videos, from Taylor Swift to Justin Bieber
It's the tenth birthday of YouTube and no media site should be more excited than Music Times. After all, of all the viral material that gets put on the world's busiest video site every day, so much of the service's biggest hitters are music videos. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the site, we've gathered the most popular music video from every year of its existence, starting with Taylor Swift in 2015 and counting down to...who knows? Something throwback for sure. -
Twenty One Pilots, Zedd, Jamie Foxx and Faith No More Debut in Albums Chart Top 10
Twenty One Pilots had never sold more than 11,000 copies of an album in one week prior to the release of Blurryface last week, but that record didn't need streaming to top the Billboard 200. It also comes in at no. 1 on the albums chart, selling 134,000 copies (more than 91 percent of the album's Billboard 200 total came from actual album sales). -
Twenty One Pilots Top Billboard 200, Taylor Swift Recovers Big Time Post-Awards
Yet another new performer to top the Billboard 200 as Twenty One Pilots takes the top spot with Blurryface, which sold more than 147,000 equivalent units. That makes the Columbus, OH-based alt group the seventh act to top the charts for the first time during 2015 (including bigger bands such as Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons).
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