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Billboard's Trending 140 Chart is a good tool to measure what music the people are talking about and sharing on social media. Ever since Madonna laid a kiss on Drake on Sunday night at Coachella, Drizzy's song named after the pop superstar has been most shared song within the past two days, according to Billboard’s Trending 140 Chart.  The song ...

Kendrick Lamar continues his victory lap following the release of the critically-acclaimed To Pimp a Butterfly with a second straight week atop the Billboard 200 chart. With another 123,000 copies either sold or streamed, Kendrick's sophomore LP becomes the first album to spend two consecutive weeks at No ...

Nicki Minaj has just become the first female to have four songs simultaneously in the top 10 of Billboard's Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Chart. Her YMCMB brothers, Lil Wayne (first in 2008) and Drake (2011) were the last two males to achieve that. The club banger "Tr...

The Charles Hamilton comeback story almost never happened. Hamilton, the former XXL Freshman, had a long sit-down with Billboard about his hiatus from the music industry and revealed that he contemplated taking his own life. "I wanted to commit career suicide, physical suicide, spiritual suicide -- I didn't care anymore," said the "Brooklyn Girls" rapper...

After taking the hip-hop world by storm with his surprise mixtape/album, Drake's If You're Reading This, It's Too Late lands him his fourth No. 1-debuting project with 535,000 units sold according to Billboard. Dropping out of nowhere on the night of Feb. 12, the ...

Thanks to Joey Bada$$ it seems as if New York hip-hop is alive and well. With his first official album, B4.Da.$$, out and receiving critical acclaim, the Brooklyn MC had a very strong showing on this week's Billboard chart by debuting at No ...

Yesterday (Dec. 3), a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict white NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July killing of Eric Garner, a black man and father of six. Holder was unarmed at the time of his death, which was caught on video and, in August, ruled a homicide by the medical examiner's office...

Billboard continues to make progressive strides into the digital market. In late May, they announced their partnership with Twitter  to form a tracking system called the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts that will rate America's most popular songs as quickly as possible, based on what's being shared on the social networking site. Billboar...

Chris Brown's recent string of trouble has been well-documented in the media, but Brown has, for the most part, remained mum on his life. In the latest issue of Billboard, Brown gave his first post-jail interview and discussed his jail time, being a role model and the outcome of his D.C. a...

Drake continues to put together a legacy in the rap game achieving yet another milestone with his fourteenth number one song on a Billboard charts. His collaboration with Lil Wayne, "Believe Me," has hit number one on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, marking this accomplishment. A ...

The Meek Mill - Wale episode that unfolded on Twitter yesterday kept the two rappers on the forefront of the news cycle all day and paid big dividends for Wale. The D.C. rapper dropped his new song, "The Followers," yesterday afternoon and the song shot up Billboard's "Twitter Trending 140" chart. The ...

Every time you're looking to get that next rep up or run that extra mile, who do you go to on your iPod for that boost? Well, Billboard and Spotify named Eminem as the top artist with the best workout music for their "The Beat That Moves Your Feet." Am...