With a bunch of freshly released new remixes still to push it up on the chart, Madonna’s Ghosttown moves up from #41 to #22 in its second week on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs (week of May 2, 2015). Read More
Madonna debuts at No. 21 on Adult Contemporary with Ghosttown, ending her longest break from the chart, Billboard.com reports. Read More
Madonna makes her debut with a bang onto the Billboard Artist 100 chart, the first weekly survey dedicated to measuring artist activity across Billboard’s most influential charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, Top Album Sales and the Social 50.
The Artist 100 blends data measuring album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming and social media fan interaction to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity.
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Keith Caulfield on Billboard discusses the latest albums chart and how the soundtrack for Fox TV’s series Empire debuts atop the list, winning the battle against Madonna’s Rebel Heart.
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The new Madonna album will compete in a completely different US albums chart, as Billboard will introduce a huge change with the chart that goes live on December 4th, 2014, when positions will not only be counted by the units sold but will also include live streams.
In the new formula the Billboard 200 albums chart will collect data from 1,500 Nielsen SoundScan streaming sources including Spotify, Beats and Google Playin addition to “track equivalent albums” counting ten total song downloads as an album sale. Read More
