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Streaming Charts And Streaming Fraud: Why Modern Music Rankings Cannot Be Compared To Any Previous Era

by Paul Cashmere

Streaming platforms measure consumer behaviour differently from the physical sales era. With passive listening accounting for up to 45 per cent of streams and fraud estimates reaching 10 per cent, modern chart rankings represent a fundamentally different marketplace.

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Why Streaming Charts Cannot Be Compared To The Physical Sales Era

by Paul Cashmere

Modern music charts now measure digital consumption instead of ownership, making comparisons with the physical sales era increasingly unreliable.

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Kylie Minogue To Receive Icon Award

by Music-News.com

Kylie Minogue will receive the Icon award at next month’s Billboard’s Women in Music Awards.

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Sean Combs To Host Billboard Music Awards

by Music-News.com

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been tapped to host and executive produce the 2022 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs).

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Drake Named Billboard Artist Of The Decade

by Music-News.com

Rap superstar Drake will be feted with the Artist of the Decade honour at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards.

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The Weeknd

2021 Billboard Music Awards Nominations Revealed

by Music-News.com

The Weeknd will be the artist to beat at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards after landing a total of 16 nominations.

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Bernie Sanders Presents Dua Lipa With Billboard Women of the Year Award

by Paul Cashmere

Dua Lipa virtually received her Billboard Women in Music honour from one of her heroes, U.S. politician Bernie Sanders, on Thursday night.

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Fierce Woman of the Decade Taylor Swift Is Making No Apologies

by Tim Cashmere

Taylor Swift gave an unapologetic fifteen-minute speech upon accepting the Billboard Woman of the Decade award in Los Angeles last night, December 12, 2019.

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Drake dominates Billboard Awards

by Music-News.com

Drake added another nine gongs to his Billboard Music Awards ceremony haul on Wednedsay to clean up with 12.

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UK’s Team Rock Shuts, US’s Billboard Acquires Spin

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

It really is a very tough time for the publishers of magazines. It seems, at times, that there are more titles on the shelves that are competing for fewer and fewer eyes.

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Madonna, Rod Laver Arena Rebel Heart Tour. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Billboard Lists Summer Hits From 1985-2015

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Every year, Billboard tracks the hits of the summer months to determine their annual “Song of Summer”.

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Celine Dion To Receive Billboard Icon Award

by Music-News.com

Celine Dion will be honored with the Icon award at the upcoming Billboard Music Awards.

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Prince Has Five Albums In US Top 10

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Prince has smashed all chart records, putting five albums in the top ten and nineteen albums in the Billboard 200.

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Lucian Grange

Penis Power Dominates Billboard Music Heavy List

by Paul Cashmere

Having a dick is as important as being in the male dominated music business. Only 11 of the Top 100 power brokers in the music industry are women, according to Billboard.

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Tony Bennett. photo by Ros O'Gorman

Tony Bennett Says Lady Gaga Will Be Remembered Like Elvis Presley

by Paul Cashmere

Just 24 hours after Lady Gaga received a Golden Globe nomination for her first ever acting role in “American Horror Story Hotel,” the star was honored today at Billboard’s Women in Music event as the Woman of the Year.

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Lady Gaga Named Billboard Woman of the Year

by Music-News.com

Lady Gaga has been named Woman Of The Year by Billboard.

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One Direction Split Didn’t Start Yesterday Says Julian Bunetta

by Music-News.com

Billboard spoke to One Direction producer Julian Bunetta, the producer/songwriter behind many of the group’s biggest hits, who said that One Direction’s upcoming fifth album was recorded with the four members knowing it would be their last for a while.

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Nick Jonas Talks Style For Billboard

by Music-News.com

As part of Billboards Music Men of Style issue Nick Jonas reveals his greatest fashion regret and the accessory he can’t live without.

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Dr Dre Drops Down Billboard Chart After One Week

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Dr. Dre had the chance to pull off a rarity, the number 1 album in the four major English speaking countries in the world, the U.S., U.K., Australia and Canada. Unfortunately, country’s Luke Bryan prevented it from happening.

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Led Zeppelin Final Three Reissues Debut In US Chart

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Led Zeppelin complete their reissue campaign in the U.S. much as they did in the U.K. with their final three albums coming in between 9 and 13.

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Tame Impala Currents, music news, noise11.com

Tame Impala Currents Tops Billboards Alternative Chart

by Paul Cashmere

Tame Impala have the number one album in the USA on Billboard’s Alternative chart.

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Mariah Carey Boyz II Men One Sweet Day, music news, noise11.com

Billboard Chart Turns 70

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Billboard magazine published their first record chart on this date in 1940.

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Grateful Dead, music news, noise11.com

The Grateful Dead Top Billboard Box Office Chart For The Week

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

The Grateful Dead were, by far, the winners in last week’s Billboard Box Score, taking in $52,232,413 for their two shows in Santa Clara, CA and three at Soldier’s Field in Chicago.

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Michael Gudinski celebrates 40 years of Mushroom, Photo Ros O'Gorman

Frontier Touring Named No 1 Independent Promoter In The World

by Paul Cashmere

Michael Gudinski’s flagship Frontier Touring Company has a new accolade with Billboard naming the company the Number One Independent Concert Promoter In The World’.

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Future Tops US Chart, Tame Impala Comes In At 4

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

American rapper Future has debuted at number one on the Billboard chart with ‘DS2’ while Perth’s Tame Impala have debuted at number 4 in America with ‘Currents’.

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Billboard Names Biggest Summer Songs 1959-2014

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

For the last several years, Billboard has been charting the top songs of the summer, with 2015 currently being led by the monster hit See You Then by Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth which has spent the last twelve weeks at number 1.

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Madonna Achieves New Chart Record

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Madonna is the new reigning queen (or king) of a single Billboard chart.

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One Direction and Katy Perry Are The Top Money Earners Of 2015 (So Far)

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Billboard has issued its 2015 survey of the top money makers in music and One Direction is number one followed by Katy Perry.

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Courtney Barnett, music news, noise11.com

Courtney Barnett Debuts At No 1 On Billboard Alternative Chart

by Paul Cashmere

Melbourne’s Courtney Barnett has the number one album this week on Billboard’s Alternative Album chart with her debut ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit’.

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Billboard Lists End Of Year Charts By Category

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Billboard has released their year-end charts for 2014 breaking down each chart by genre.

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