Kane Brown, who Rolling Stone dubbed “country music’s new outcast king,” captured his first Number One as the country singer’s second album Experiment opened atop the Billboard 200. Experiment is only the third country music release to earn the top spot in 2018, following Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty and Jason …
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The latest edition of the Hot 100 is overrun by Drake: Thanks to a bonanza of streaming, the star has 27 different songs on the chart. His streamers are impressively committed, fervent enough in their fandom that Drake single-handedly accounts for more than 50 percent of the Top 40. It’s …
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Justin Timberlake went from the Super Bowl halftime show to the top of the Billboard 200 as the singer’s new album Man of the Woods opened at Number One with the best-selling week of 2018 so far. Man of the Woods opened with 293,000 total copies, including 242,000 traditional copies, …
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