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What does it mean to be popular? That’s a question that music fans and music makers alike have asked for ages — but recently with more urgency than ever before, as listening patterns in the digital ...

That precedent includes a situation from 2008, when Best Buy purchased 600,000 copies of Guns N’ Roses’ LP Chinese Democracy. In that case, the albums didn’t count as sales until purchased by fans ...

The latest documentary in HBO Max’s prolific Music Box series, titled Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately?, is about the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper Jay Z's upcoming studio album will go to a million users of Samsung smartphones three days before its official release in a promotional deal, but the distribution is ...

DJ Khaled is just one of many artists who make digital copies of their albums available with purchase of tickets or merchandise. Photo: Jeff Schear/Getty Images for Mentos Gum Billboard revealed ...