The top country songs of 2024 prove that country music — especially traditional country music — is in very good hands. A full 25 percent of the Top 40 songs from this year are by artists who ...

Her 59 top 10s and 165 top 40 hits (of which “Tim McGraw” became her first, rising to No. 40) are also the most among women, while her 12 No. 1s place her in a tie for the sixth-most leaders ...

The original Broadway cast recording of Wicked reaches the top 40 of the Billboard 200 albums ... marking the highest debut for a soundtrack of a big-screen adaptation of a stage musical.

And analysis shared with BBC Newsbeat shows that about one in four current UK Top 40 hits uses samples ... the music business" but one that's seen big investments recently. In the US, two firms ...