Looks like David Archuleta is playing the runner-up again. The American Idol season seven second place finisher was beat to the top spot by country darling Taylor Swift. Taylor’s sophomore album Fearless becomes the top debut for any country album released this year selling a whopping 592,000 copies in its first week out. Not only did she top the chart, […]

It’s been a great week on the Billboard charts for southern rapper TI. His album, Paper Trail, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album chart, selling over 568,000 copies, and now he’s breaking records all over the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. His newest single, “Live Your Life,” featuring Rihanna rocketed 80-1, replacing his “Whatever […]

Kanye in the studio with Young Jeezy
Looks like you can get your 808s and Heartbreak a lot sooner than you were expecting. Kanye West’s new album was originally slated for a December 16 release but the rapper will be pushing the release up to sometime in November according to the latest post on his blog. […]

Rihanna clinches the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a second week with her newest smash hit “Disturbia,” (which she will be performing live for the very first time at this year’s VMAs) but she faces some tough competition to stay on top in the weeks to follow by American Idol’s season […]

If anyone could unseat Katy Perry’s monster hit of summer 2008, “I Kissed A Girl,” it’s the reigning Queen of the summertime hit, Rihanna. After 7 weeks on top, Katy Perry’s song about girl-on-girl action finally slips to #3, making way for a new #1 song. That song is Rihanna’s “Disturbia” which climbs from 3-1 this week […]

Miley Cyrus continues her steady take-over of the world this week. Tons of stories are coming out, so let’s go over the best ones:
* Miley’s new album, Breakout, will debut at number one on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. The set sold over 371,000 copies in the first week beating out runner-up Sugarland with 314,000 […]

Christina Aguilera was seen out and about heading to the CNN studios for her interview with Larry King. Check out the interview here. Christina is a goddess but she should try to add another color to her wardrobe. Black, gray and red has to get old.

Ciara was snapped in Los Angeles before the BET Awards. […]

A Milli is right. Lil Wayne has millions in the bank and he can also push a million copies of his album in one week. Weezy’s “Tha Carter III” debuts at the top of the Billboard 200 selling a whopping 1 million copies in its debut week.
It easily crushes the best sales week so far this year […]

Only a week after being crowned the new Americal Idol, David Cook is already taking over the Billboard charts. Tomorrow, David will have 11 songs debut on the Hot 100 singles chart and 14 on the Hot Downloads chart (led by his first single “Time of My Life” at #1 on the Hot Downloads chart […]

Leona Lewis is on fire! The British songbird’s debut album, “Spirit,” just landed on top of the Billboard 200 this week selling 205,000 copies. More sweet deets courtesy of Billboard.com:

British import Leona Lewis’ “Spirit” bows atop The Billboard 200 this week, making her the first U.K. solo artist to start at No. 1 with their […]