• John Mayer Admits That He's 'A Recovered Ego Addict' [WATCH]

    After months out of the public spotlight, John Mayer did an interview with MSNBC's Ronan Farrow to explain his ego addiction and why he is staying out of the tabloids. "I'm a recovered ego addict, and the only way that I can be sure that I don't relapse is to admit that I constantly have this ego addiction, every day," Mayer told Farrow. "So I do the Grammys and I go home because if I stay, I get high again."

  • Rihanna, Beyoncé & Katy Perry Are Most Popular Female Artists on Spotify of All Time: Taylor Swift Charts Despite Pulling Catalogue

    Let's hear it for the laaaadies! This weekend, people across the globe will honor International Women's Day, and to celebrate, Spotify has unveiled its most streamed female artists from the U.S. and across the world. Big names on the list include Rihanna, Beyoncé, Katy Perry and even Taylor Swift, who pulled her entire catalogue from the service last year ahead of the release of her new album 1989.

  • Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars Top Hot 100 for Ninth Week as Pitbull & Ne-Yo's 'Time of Our Lives' Rises to Top 10 Status [VIDEOS]

    Can no one stop the funk? For the ninth week in a row, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk" is giving it to you by topping the Billboard Hot 100. Despite the nine week reign of Ronson and Mars, Maroon 5's new single "Sugar" is coming for the top of the charts as Adam Levine sits on the new season of The Voice and Pitbull's new party-friendly anthem "Time of Our Lives" cracks into the top 10.

  • 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.

  • 5 Celebrity Couples Releasing Albums in Same Year: Ariana Grande vs. Big Sean, Jay Z vs. Beyonce and More

    This week marks a high point for the "power couple" status of Big Sean and Ariana Grande: The former's new album Dark Sky Paradise topped the Billboard 200, selling nearly 140,000 copies in the process. That gives him his first no. 1 album, which matches him with his girlfriend, who topped albums charts with My Everything last year. Grande may have outsold her beau but that doesn't necessarily mean she "wears the pants" in the relationship (it's tough to imagine her ever wearing pants, based on her typical stage apparel). Music Times looked back over the last few years and found couples who had both released new albums within a year of each other, researched who sold more and which album was ultimately better, in deciding who ran the house that year.

  • 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.

  • Taylor Swift Talks Love Life, Career, '1989' Follow-Up, Famous Friends & Swifties, Won't Comment on Katy Perry In Telegraph Interview

    Taylor Swift has gone through a massive transformation in the public eye. She went from country to pop, from Nashville to New York, from serial girlfriend to single and proud, from media good girl to a feminist with complex views on the world. Basically, she's become a real woman — who also happens to be a global superstar. In a new interview with the Telegraph, she talks about the changes in her life, her expectations for her career, the follow-up to 1989, her friendships, her love life, her rumored feud with Katy Perry and more. Here's what she had to say:
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