YouTube is pulling its data from Billboard for use in the publisher’s industry-leading U.S. music charts. The decision is in ...

It is news that could be sweet music to the ears of record companies. Scientists may have unlocked the secret of what can make a single hit the top five. A team at the University of Bristol have come ...

The internet giant expressed its frustration with the way subscription-supported streams are still weighted more than ...

Machine-learning engineers from the University of Bristol think they might have the master equation to predicting the popularity of a song. Simple, right? The "w"s are "weights," or musical features ...

Lyor Cohen, the company's global head of music, argued that Billboard's formula for the charts doesn't put enough weight on ...