Why was this album able to become the band’s first Billboard 200 No. 1 in a decade? And how has Coldplay managed to stay relevant on the chart for over 20 years now? Billboard staffers answer these ...

COLDPLAY: (Singing) And so we pray, for someone to come and show me the way. And so we pray, for some shelter and some records to play. And so we pray. We'll be singing "Baraye." SCHMITZ: That's the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

When singer, pianist and guitarist Chris Martin formed a band with a few other students at University College London in 1997, the quartet chose the ill-fitting name Big Fat Noises. Soon, bassist Guy ...

Another relatively uneventful week on the Billboard Hot 100 sees Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” in the top spot for a 14th nonconsecutive week, while The Weeknd’s “Timeless” may not be so timeless ...

For anyone trying to understand the tenor of mainstream comedy in the mid-2000s, you could do a lot worse than The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd are the relative alpha males who are, ...