As you can see, the order of the week’s top four labels is identical in frontline and TEA, as Columbia forges ahead in both measurements, with the Empire soundtrack—#2 behind Interscope’s Madonna in straight sales and #1 in SPS—leading the charge. These graphics will look quite different next week, once the first-week sales figures for Aftermath/Interscope’s Kendrick Lamar have been tabulated. But you knew that.
RIHANNA, GAGA LEAD OSCAR SONG NOMS
David Byrne and Diane Warren have noms as well. (1/24a)
HITS' BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECIAL: ALL THE SQUARES GO HOME
Sisters doin' it for themselves (1/28a)
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HIP-HOP AT 50
The astonishing first half-century of a world-rocking genre.
THE NEXT BIG PLAYER
in the catalog game is...
INDIE BREAKOUTS
More independent music rises at the DSPs.
THE GOP CONGRESS
At last, America can focus 24/7 on Hunter Biden's laptop.
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