Three bright spots in a record industry that continued to dim in 2014: digital streaming, old-fashioned vinyl and the human supernova known as Taylor Swift. Overall album sales fell 11% last year to ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nielsen, the music industry's leading data information provider today released the 2014 U.S. Music year-end report for the 12-month period of December 30, 2013 through ...

"I think we can teach a younger generation about an investment in music, not just the ephemeral consumption of it" By Erin Strecker, Billboard Taylor Swift Billboard Women in Music H 2014 “Being named ...

"It's really cool to be at a music industry event where over half the people in the room have vaginas" By Erin Strecker, Billboard Charli XCX Billboard Women in Music H 2014 “I for one am so excited ...

All throughout 2014, there were clues that the year was shaping up to be a historically bad one for the music industry. Statistics company Nielsen Music, which tracks album and song sales and streams, ...

Pop is worth parodying. Just ask “Weird Al” Yankovic, who landed his first number-one album in 2014, after it was safe to assume three decades ago that he’d remain confined to the Dr. Demento ghetto.

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Cross-genre pairings are nothing new in country music: Willie Nelson has lit up the charts with duet partners ranging from Julio Iglesias to Snoop Dogg. Johnny Cash once collaborated with members of ...

New stars emerged. Established stars got even bigger. And everyone, it seems, had something to say about booties. That was the year in pop music, 2014. It was far from a radical year — it was a ...