From today, Friday 10 July, Fridays will become the official new release day for new music albums and singles in more than 45 countries….

Scooter Braun, who manages Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Cody Simpson and Carly Rae Jepsen, among other music acts, has added the Black Eyed Peas to his roster at SB Projects….

Ed Sheeran received an exciting package in the mail today: The “Don’t” singer was given his Guinness World Records certificate for “the longest climb to No. 1 on the U.K. singles chart.” He posted a picture of the award on Instagram but kept his pride low-key with a caption of: “That ain’t too shit is it.”…

Get ready to mark every Friday on your calendar from here on out — that’s when new music albums and singles will be released worldwide….

With two pretty spectacular new tracks under his belt — the MJ-leaning “Can’t Feel My Face,” currently burning up Top 40 radio to the shock of approximately no one, and the far sultrier “The Hills” — the Weeknd surely had to be prepping for the release of a larger body of work, and today he’s…

Pop star Demi Lovato heats up the Billboard + Twitter Top Tracks chart (dated July 18) as “Cool for the Summer” bows at No. 3. The seasonal anthem was released through Hollywood Records and Safehouse Records, the latter of which the singer launched in part with Nick Jonas….

Taylor Swift’s mega-selling 1989 album continues to be unstoppable. The set has now surpassed 5 million in U.S. sales, according to Nielsen Music, making it the fastest seller to reach that plateau in more than 10 years….

As many predicted, the age of streaming music has hurt digital downloads, whose decline continues to accelerate. (In the UK, for example, digital album sales are now officially falling faster than the CD.)…

The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM), which represents around 80,000 professional musicians, has filed a lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment for ‘repeatedly violating its collective bargaining agreement’….

Imagine Dragons‘ “Radioactive” is the longest-running song in the history of the Billboard charts, and it continues to reach new heights: It has hit diamond status….