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Former POTUS Barack Obama‘s new book A Promised Land, released Nov. 17, bagged the largest first-day sales total for any book ever published by Penguin Random House. The publisher announced this week that Obama’s book sold more than 887,000 units in all formats and editions in the U.S. and Canada on its first day of […]
Kanye West has violated Twitter’s rules, NBC News reports. The tweet in question, which was sent out on Wednesday and has since been removed, saw Kanye share the phone number of a Forbes editor. Sharing the personal details of a person is against the social media company’s rules as they see it as a violation of a […]
After putting himself in the conversation with Tupac and Biggie, Juice WRLD has now done something that only Drake and The Beatles have accomplished. On Monday, Billboard revealed that Juice WRLD has five songs in the top 10 of its Hot 100. This makes him the third act in the charts 62-year history to occupy at least […]
Acknowledging that the old way wasn’t working when it came to accuracy, Billboard has announced that they’re changing the rules for how the compile their album/song charts, including the Billboard 200 and the Hot 100. Less vaguely, this means they’ll no longer be counting the sales of albums that came as part of a forced ticket bundle. […]
The numbers are in for the debut chart performance of some of this week’s new releases, including YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s album Still Flexin, Still Steppin and BTS’ Map of the Soul: 7. Billboard reports BTS’ album Map of the Soul: 7 has debuted at No. 1 for the week ending in Feb. 27, which will be the […]
Harry Styles‘ sophomore solo studio album, Fine Line, has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album also earned the third-biggest debut this year after earning 478,000 equivalent album units in its opening week. Of that sum, 393,000 units consisted of traditional album sales. Styles’ sophomore effort came dangerously close to surpassing Post Malone‘s Hollywood’s Bleeding, which debuted with 489,000 album units, while Lover by […]
Last week, Netflix announced that Season 3 of Stranger Things was the series’ most-watched season to date after being viewed by 64 million households in its first four weeks on the streaming service. But how does the platform figure out what counts as a view? Since Netflix doesn’t adhere to the traditional Nielsen ratings approach for broadcast and network television, we’re left taking the streaming […]
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie drew around 6.5 million viewers in its first three days on Netflix, Variety reports. El Camino, which was released on October 11, amassed just under 8.2 million unique TV viewers. The film saw its biggest audience on the first day over the weekend when 2.6 million U.S. viewers tuned […]
The first week projections for Post Malone‘s newly released third studio album have arrived and they’re looking pretty good for the Syracuse, New York-born artist. According to HITS Daily Double, Hollywood’s Bleeding is projected to move around 450-500k equivalent album units in its debut week with 190-215k of that coming from pure sales. Oh, and the project is expected to debut in the […]
Young Thug is poised to have his biggest-ever first week of sales, according to industry blog Hits Daily Double. The official studio debut from the Atlanta weirdo is perhaps his most critically acclaimed effort ever and the streams are following suit. HDD projects that the album will pull in 125,000-150,000 equivalent album units with 4 […]
