Adele Becomes The First Artist To Sell 1 Million Singles In A Week

Adele is breaking records left to right with her new single, “Hello.” After it was revealed that the UK songstress is on pace to move over a million units of the album “Hello” will live on, 25, now the official first-week sales of the song are in, and they’re also in the 7-figure range! “Hello” kicked off with a whopping 1,112,000 downloads – completely killing the record for most downloads sold in a week, previously held by Flo Rida’s “Right Round” at 636k in February 2009. The song also got an impressive 61.6 million streams in the U.S., becoming the second highest number ever since streaming began being counted in March of 2013. (That record still belongs to Baauer’s “Harlem Shake,” which peaked with 103 million – mainly because of all of the fan clips made dancing to the song.) 25 hits stores November 20.


Drake Just Scored His 100th Song On The Billboard Hot 100

Drake just surpassed James Brown in the hits club, now amassing his 100th hit on the Billboard Hot 100. While Brown had 91 hits, Drizzy how joins an elite group that only includes his mentor Lil Wayne with 127 hits, Elvis Presley with 108 hits and the cast of Glee with 207. The accolade comes thanks to the success of his joint album with Future, What A Time To Be Alive. Drake had previously been at 92 hits, but WATTBA gave him a whopping additional EIGHT Hot 100 songs. It’s lit.


Finally! N.W.A. Has Their First Top-40 Hit On Billboard Hot 100 Chart

The N.W.A. bio pic Straight Outta Compton has not only been shattering records in the box office but is also the cause of records being broken on the Billboard charts. According to the most recent Billboard Hot 100 Chart, the legendary group, N.W.A just landed their first Top 40 song ever. Hit the jump for more details.


Drake Beats Beatles Record In Latest Billboard Hot 100 Chart!

It is no secret that Drake has the ultimate formula for creating the hits, and has secured his spot on the Billbooard’s Hot 100 for the past several weeks!


Billboard’s Top 10 Album Sales, Week Ending 3/2/14 … Congrats To ScHoolboy Q On A #1 Debut!

It was a good week for debuts, as there are 6 brand new albums in the Billboard 200 this week! A big congratulations goes out to ScHoolboy Q, whose major label debut Oxymoron is sitting quite comfortably at number one with 139k units sold since its release last Tuesday. He’s definitely the man of the year! Also premiering high are Kid Cudi and Romeo Santos, whose new albums are numbers 4 and 5, respectively. Get the full top 10 below!


Billboard’s Top 10 Album Sales, Week Ending 12/1/13 … One Direction Tops The Charts!

One Direction made history this week, becoming the first group to debut at number 1 with their first 3 albums. Their latest effort, Midnight Memories, scored the top spot this week with a whopping 546k copies sold. Congrats! Get the rest of the top 10 below.


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