The week's most popular albums on independent labels, as compiled by Luminate, based on multi-metric consumption blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums and streaming (audio ...

As the grip of the major music labels continued to loosen in the era of Pandora, Rdio and Spotify, one of the biggest indie stars, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, saw its hit song “Thrift Shop” hit ...

Acknowledging the ever-increasing number of unsigned, independent artists, Billboard unveiled a new top-50 weekly chart on January 20 that aims to shine light on lesser-known artists and buoy careers.

Luminate will incorporate direct sales data from indie music retailers starting in 2024. The improved data will be reflected on the Billboard charts.

By last month, "Lasik" topped the Spotify Philippines Viral 50 chart, likely because of thousands of TikTok users and ...

The U.K.-based Association of Independent Music has complained to that country's Office of Fair Trading about plans to start counting online music sales in the top-selling music charts. The ...

Korean indie band Standing EGG has swept domestic music charts with "Summer Night You and I," released Wednesday. The song topped Korea's seven real-time music charts, including MelOn, Mnet.com ...

Music business executives told Mother Mother to fit in a box when the band formed over a decade ago. In 2020, they finally don’t have to. TikTok Is Giving an Indie Band’s 2008 Music Millions ...