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Billboard polled anonymous high-ranking music industry executives about the artists they feel should have their own label and what their least favorite genre of music is.

Fetty Wap is the first artist in the history of Billboard to have his first four singles in the Top 10 simultaneously.

Since the release of his sophomore LP Dreams Worth More Than Money, Meek Mill has dominated hip-hop headlines. From ripping freestyles during his press tour for the album; to the "All Eyes On You" video where his romance with Nicki Minaj plays out on screen; and, most famously, his Twitter rant that has resulted in a beef with Drake. Mee ...

This week's Billboard 200 chart marks the last time albums will be tallied on a Monday-Sunday tracking cycle as the music world makes the shift to a Friday global release day. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) first announced the change back in Feb. and it has be ...

With 246,000 units sold in the first week, Meek Mill's Dreams Worth More Than Money comes in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The project is Meek's first No. 1 and sold right around 80,000 more units than his 2012 effort, Dreams and Nightmares. In an interesting note,  ...

The Dream left Def Jam at the top of last year and recently formed his own record label, Contra-Paris, through Capitol Records. During an interview with Billboard, The Dream spoke on the evil in the music business and blames labels for only caring about their stock interests and, in doing so, treat their clients terribly ...

With 146,000 units sold, A$AP Rocky's At.Long.Last.A$AP comes in at No. 1 on this week's Billboard 200 chart. This is Rocky's second No. 1 album and his first, Long.Live.A$AP, sold 139,000 in its first week back in 2013. Despite dropping a week earlier than expected, the A$AP frontman still impressed and joins Wale's The Album About Nothing, the Furious 7 soundtrack, Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Bu

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With 66,000 units of his Special Effects album sold, Tech N9ne comes in at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart* for the third time in five years. In 2011, Tech's All 6's & 7's album debuted at No. 4, and in 2013 his Something Else project also came in at No. 4 ...

In an unsurprising bit of news, Jay Z, Eminem and Drake made a ton of money last year. Billboard released its "2014 Money-Makers" list, which ranks the highest-paid musicians of the past year, and Hov, Slim Shady and Drizzy all checked into the top-25. The list ...

Thanks to a No. 3 debut of Yelawolf's Love Story, three out of the top five albums on the Billboard 200 chart are hip-hop related. Yelawolf's No. 3 showing is the best of his career and a much higher first week appearance than 2011's Radioactive which came in at No. 27 ...

Just fourteen days after announcing that he would would be releasing Cherry Bomb, Tyler, The Creator debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 chart with 58,000 units sold. With a scheduled release date of April 14, the album hit digital retailers a day early and physical copies didn't start hitting stores until April 17 ...