Ben Sisario
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Seymour Stein, Record Biz Giant Who Signed Madonna, Dies at 80
With an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music, he championed acts including the Ramones, Talking Heads and the Pretenders on his label Sire, and helped found...
Morgan Wallen’s ‘One Thing at a Time’ Is No. 1 for a Third Week
The country star’s hit-stuffed streaming blockbuster is just shy of one million equivalent sales. U2 opens at No. 5 with an album of acoustic rerecordings.
Morgan Wallen Holds at No. 1 With Strong Streaming Numbers
“One Thing at a Time” had the second-biggest streaming total for a country album, after its debut last week. The nine-woman K-pop group Twice opens...
Karol G’s ‘Mañana Será Bonito’ Is No. 1, Making Chart History
The latest release by the Colombian pop star is the first Spanish-language LP by a woman to open at the top of the Billboard 200.
De La Soul’s Music Is Finally Back. It’s a Bittersweet Victory.
The influential rap trio’s catalog has long been absent from streaming services. Now its first six albums will be available, just weeks after the death...
When Songs Sound Similar, Courts Look for Musical DNA
The chord progressions in Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” and Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” are part of a debate about just how much...
SZA’s ‘SOS’ Is No. 1 for a 10th Time, as Morgan Wallen Waits on Deck
The R&B singer-songwriter matches chart runs by Adele and the country star Wallen, who is about to release his next album, “One Thing at a...
SZA Makes It Nine Weeks at No. 1, and Rihanna Returns to Top 10
“SOS” is now the longest-running No. 1 album by a woman since Adele’s “25” seven years ago.
SZA’s ‘SOS’ Is the No. 1 Album for an Eighth Time
The R&B singer-songwriter has matched Taylor Swift’s run with “Folklore,” the last time a female artist held the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s chart for...
De La Soul’s Dave Jolicoeur, a.k.a. Trugoy the Dove, Dies at 54
The trio expanded the stylistic vocabulary of hip-hop in the 1980s and ’90s, but its early experiments with sampling led to legal troubles, and the...