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 ...