In this week’s The Contenders, we check out the most tightly contested race for the Hot 100’s top spot in several weeks.

For the second week in a row, the Top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 are packed with holiday perennials ... and Kendrick Lamar. With Christmas songs filling the entire Top 5 — and Mariah Carey ...

From No. 3 on down, though, the top 10 has been unusually volatile. Three albums debut in the top 10 and six drop out, which tells you that some albums aren't "surging" so much as "filling a vacuum ...

First they slayed seductive, singing demons. Then they smashed Netflix streaming records. Now Huntr/x (pronounced Huntrix), the fictional K-pop trio from the animated film “KPop Demon Hunters,” has ...

For the third month in a row, KPop Demon Hunters controls Billboard ’s Top Movie Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), with music from the Netflix juggernaut ruling the top seven of ...

If there’s a song — let alone an artist — that’s been topping the charts domestically in South Korea, and perhaps dominating TikTok and Instagram Reels at the moment, it’s NewJeans and their latest ...

As the 80s unfolded, both pop music and songs by women rose up the ranks of the Hot 100. These are three pop tracks that hit No. 1 in 1987.