The biggest Official Chart race of the year is go! The Official Christmas Number 1 race 2025 kicks off today, Friday 12 December, with sales and streams counting up until midnight (11.59pm) on ...

Al Martino claimed the first-ever Official Christmas Number 1 with Here In My Heart in 1952 and, most recently, WHAM! secured the feat for the second year on the bounce with the iconic Last Christmas.

Disney's latest quarterly results drew a sharp contrast in its entertainment segment. Linear TV remained soft, while Direct-to-Consumer (DTC), or its streaming services, over-delivered. DTC operating ...

Dual female leaders across Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay remain uncommon more than a decade after the charts diverged. By Russ Penuell Few times since Billboard’s Hot Country Songs and Country ...

The number of immigration detainees without criminal records who are held in federal detention centers after getting arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has increased by over 2,000% since ...

On Wednesday, the U.S. seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, a move that sent oil prices higher and sharply escalated tensions between Washington and Caracas, which called the ...

Former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger has defeated Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in the race for Virginia’s governorship, after a long campaign with no primaries. Spanberger will succeed ...

Plus, Summer Walker, NF and 5 Seconds of Summer debut in the top 10. By Keith Caulfield Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl rules the Billboard 200 chart (dated Nov. 29) for a seventh week in a row.

After scorching-hot inflation pushed income-tax brackets and a widely used tax deduction to their largest single-year increase in decades for the 2023 tax year, another round of sizable adjustments is ...