Billboard

SZA & Kendrick Lamar Are All Over the Year-End R&B/Hip-Hop Charts: Countdown to Billboard’s 2025 Year-End Charts

Ahead of the full reveal on Dec. 9 — after the Billboard 2025 No. 1s Livestream, hosted by Druski — check out three R&B/hip-hop top 10s. By Keith Caulfield The full list of Billboard’s 2025 year-end ...

Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars’ ‘Die With a Smile’ Makes History as Year-End Hot 100 No. 1

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars' “Die With a Smile” is the No. 1 hit on Billboard's year-end 2025 Hot 100 Songs chart.
The Economist

You can learn a lot about music and society from 1,200 hit songs

“Uncharted Territory” provides an entertaining and empirical look at how the Billboard chart has changed over the decades.
NPR

After months of the same songs on the Hot 100, 'Billboard' tweaks its rules

Billboard has revised its system of removing songs from the Hot 100 singles chart once they've gotten too old to qualify as contemporary hits. The measure, intended to shorten the amount of time ...
Hypebeast

Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" Hits No. 1 on the Hot 100 Chart

Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" Hits No. 1 on the Hot 100 Chart The first song by a Black male artist to simultaneously top the Hot Country Songs and Hot 100 charts. Music Jul 10, 2024 ...