LONDON, Feb 24 - Nigeria's state oil firm NNPC will begin exporting a new light, sweet crude grade called Cawthorne from March, an NNPC spokesperson said, adding to a recent recovery in output from ...

Ghanaian music legend Samini is already reaping major rewards from his newly released eighth studio album, ORIGIN8A. Just one week after its release on February 12, the project made and is still ...

Below are eight charts that capture some of the key milestones and developments impacting global energy transition progress in 2025, as well as key data points to track heading into 2026 and beyond.

Why YouTube is so determined to bump up free streams is not entirely clear. Cohen argues that artists’ work on fan-engagement on the platform is “being undervalued” by Billboard, hinting he believes a ...

Lyor Cohen, the company's global head of music, argued that Billboard's formula for the charts doesn't put enough weight on ad-supported streams. By Ethan Millman Music Editor YouTube will stop ...

Songs streamed on YouTube will no longer count towards the Billboard charts, the platform announced in a blog yesterday (December 17). The change will take effect on January 16, 2026, according to ...

Mariah Carey has officially broken the record for the longest reign atop the Billboard Hot 100, as “All I Want for Christmas Is You” spends its 20th week at No. 1. The perennial holiday anthem, which ...

Seventeen million streams in two months. A multimillion-dollar record deal. A Billboard-charting single. These are the kinds of stats that typically belong to breakout human stars. But today they ...

True-crime documentary Beauty and the Bester (now on Netflix) made headlines recently when the subject of the series, Thabo Bester, filed an injunction to get the series’ release blocked. Bester is ...