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Nickelback Earns First Radio No. 1 in More Than a Decade With 'Rattle the Cage'
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Nickelback’s “Rattle the Cage,” featuring John 5, rises a spot to No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart (dated Sept. 26), earning the band its ninth leader at the format and first since 2014.
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Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Breaks All-Time Hot 100 Record With 23rd Week at No. 1
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Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” rewrites the record for the longest run ever achieved atop the Billboard Hot 100 as it scores a 23rd week at No. 1. The smash one-ups the command of Mariah Carey’s perennial “All I...
Ella Langley’s ‘Dandelion’ Becomes First Album by a Woman This Decade With 4 Country Airplay Top 10s
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Add another milestone to Ella Langley’s rapidly growing and already-historic résumé, as well as women’s current chart resurgence.
The singer-songwriter’s “Loving Life Again” lifts four spots to No. 8...
Are Older Catalog Hits Taking Time Away From New Music Discovery?
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Is breaking through as an artist harder than ever in 2026? Rob Jonas, CEO of Luminate, thinks so. “We’re now seeing close to 150,000 tracks a day being uploaded to streaming platforms, which is a material increa...
Rebecca Black on the Evolution of Song Virality: ‘No Longer Are We Being Told What to Listen to’
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In the fifteen years since “Friday” by Rebecca Black went viral on YouTube, the music industry — and virality itself — has changed dramatically. The internet mainstream that once pushed the music video for “Frid...
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