The RIAArevampedits Gold & Platinum Awards Program on Feb. 1, 2016, growing from a pure album sales certification process to one that includes tracks and streams. That same day,Thriller’scertification was raised from 30 million to 32 million. Trending on Billboard Related Thrillercontinues to ...
Aespa achieves its second No. 1 on Billboard's Top Album Sales chart with "MY WORLD."
The 2023 Latin GRAMMYs Best New Artist winner wrote the single after a trip home to visit her great-grandmother for the holidays. "I see this song as a love letter to all your loved ones far away," Joaquina said in a statement. "Telling them that no matter where you are, ...
If any artist deems themselves as fly, then they haven’t met the flyest of them all: Missy Elliott. Her talent, style, and confidence put everyone on notice when she released her debut album properly titled, Supa Dupa Fly. Missy has always brought an eclectic and futuristic sound and l...
N Sync hasn't released an album in over a decade, and there's still no artist who can best their first-week sales. It was on their third and final album, Celebrity, that Timberlake emerged as the soulful lead singer, leading him into his own solo career. But before the five m...
it’s easy to forget what a tremendous impact he had on the commercially challenged field of classical music. His robust tenor is perfectly suited for traditional choral music — and his sixth studio outing,Sacred Arias, became thebiggest-selling classical album of all timeby a solo artist. ...
(with the latter three all dropping in 11 months' time). No one would have blamed her for taking a well-deserved creative hiatus after that marathon of releases, but Taylor has proven herself to be an artist of momentum multiple times over. So, the savant of promotional whimsy announced ...
But her life changed after “The Woman in Me,” her Grammy-winning second album released in February 1995, which was the best-selling release by a woman in country music at the time. “I was a poor kid and then a struggling artist all of those years until this finally ha...
“Scream,” a duet with his sister Janet. Two years later the Jackson 5 were inducted into theRock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Jackson was inducted as a solo artist in 2001. That same year he releasedInvincible, which debuted at number one but did not spend nearly as much time on the...
“I Walk the Line” brought him considerable attention, and by 1957 Cash was the top recording artist in the country and western field. His music was noted for its stripped-down sound and focus on the working poor and social and political issues. Cash, who typically wore black clothes and...