Brantley Gilbert, Hunter Hayes & Scotty McCreery Chosen by Country Fans at GACTV.com as Nominees for ACM New Artist of ...

9 February 2012, 9:00 am

ENCINO, Calif., Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Academy of Country Music and Great American Country (GAC) announced today that Brantley Gilbert, Hunter Hayes and Scotty McCreery have been named nominees ...... Read More »

Who Charted? Lana Del Rey Fails to Beat Adele

8 February 2012, 5:04 pm

First! Adele held on to the No. 1 spot on Billboard 's Top 200 albums chart for a 19th non-consecutive week. The British singer's 21 sold 122,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That means Adele's sophomore LP has now spent more weeks atop the chart than any album other than The ... Read More »

Grammy spotlight shines on Adele

8 February 2012, 1:34 pm

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Grammys in recent years have targeted young audiences even as older acts won key awards to the surprise of some music fans, but this Sunday's honors will shine its spotlight on Adele, whose popularity crosses all age boundaries. The soulful British singer, whose album... Read More »

StarMaker Hosts Singing Contest for Hot Chelle Rae Fans

8 February 2012, 8:34 am

Band behind multi-platinum hit “Tonight Tonight” and “I Like It Like That” engages fans with innovative mobile app that allows them to sing along with Hot Chelle Rae on songs from their new album "WHATEVER"(PRWEB) February 08, 2012 StarMaker Interactive, the developers behind the hottest mob... Read More »

Bruno Mars heads back to Grammys with Smeezingtons

8 February 2012, 5:06 am

A whiteboard hangs on the wall of the tiny Hollywood studio used by the Smeezingtons, Bruno Mars' production and songwriting team. It's filled with doodles, including a picture of Alf and a joking note that producer-engineer Ari Levine "hangs out with Jamaican drug lords on the reg."... Read More »

Ask Billboard: Madonna's Biggest Radio Hits

4 February 2012, 2:28 pm

A look at Her Madgesty's most-played songs, Carly Rae Jepsen's new No. 1 and more reader-voted songs that should've been singles.... Read More »

The science behind what makes a hit single

3 February 2012, 6:19 pm

A British researcher discusses his group's computer analysis of why some pop songs soar and others flop. The anatomy of a hit song has remained a mystery to researchers looking to dissect what makes some songs soar to the top of the charts and others land with an embarrassing flop.... Read More »

Richard Marx comes to the Valentine

1 February 2012, 9:31 pm

He doesn't have a hot single on the radio and hasn't had an album top the charts since the 1990s, but Richard Marx is still making hits.... Read More »

M.I.A., Meg Myers, Gotye + More: 5 Must-Hear Pop Songs Of The Week

31 January 2012, 10:18 am

It's Tuesday! Time for another round of 5 Must-Hear Pop Songs of the Week! We've got plenty of sounds to play with this week, including an angst-rock songstress on the rise, an award-winning Australian indie singer-songwriter making a serious splash Stateside and a throwback alt-pop goddess ... Read More »

Kevin Riordan: For nonagenarian, music's still the thing

24 January 2012, 10:04 pm

Dave Appell's greatest hits topped the pop charts in the '60s and '70s. But as his 90th birthday approaches, he's still making music.... Read More »