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BTS dominates Billboard charts for a second week with their ARIRANG album, remaining No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and Top Album Sales; their track SWIM stays No. 1 on Digital Song Sales; the group becomes the first Asian act to have 10 songs on the Hot 100 simultaneously for multiple weeks, as ARIRANG tracks also rank highly on the Global 200 and Global Excl. US.
BTS’s Swim debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking the group’s seventh chart-topper and their first since 2021; the track, from the ARIRANG album—their first new material since 2020—also helps ARIRANG debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, driven by strong streaming, airplay and sales.
DJ Dan (Daniel Wherrett), a legendary West Coast house producer and influential figure in electronic music, has died. A representative confirmed the death but the cause and his exact age have not been released; reports place him in his mid-50s. Billaboard notes his long career—co-founding Funky Tekno Tribe, delivering BBC Essential Mixes, earning a DJ Mag Top 5 ranking in 2006, and achieving a No. 1 on Billboard's Dance Club Songs with "That Phone Track"—leaving a lasting impact on the dance-music world.
Billboard's Friday Music Guide spotlights Miley Cyrus's emotional 'Younger You' from the Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special, Raye's new album This Music May Contain Hope, and Charlie Puth's Whatever’s Clever!, alongside notable releases from Conan Gray and Melanie Martinez, signaling a week of emotionally rich pop and genre-blending projects.
Billboard chronicles 15 shocking K-pop member exits—from TVXQ!’s 2009 contract dispute to ENHYPEN’s Heeseung in 2026—highlighting lawsuits, personal reasons, and mental-health pressures that abruptly thinned iconic groups and spurred industry-standard shifts on contracts and artist treatment.
After his Super Bowl LX performance, Bad Bunny achieved a historic sweep by occupying all 25 spots on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart with 29 concurrent titles, led by DtMF at No. 1. He also topples the Hot 100, while his 14-minute Super Bowl halftime medley debuts at No. 31 as part of the surge.
A pro-ICE digital billboard funded by the conservative nonprofit American Sovereignty lights up San Francisco ahead of Super Bowl LX, praising Immigration and Customs Enforcement with football-themed messages; NFL says no ICE enforcement will occur at the game, while local activists protest ICE presence in the Bay Area and the group plans a multi-million-dollar national ad push for ICE and border security.
Bruce Springsteen's anti-ICE song Streets of Minneapolis debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Digital Song Sales chart for the week ending Jan. 29, selling 16,000 downloads in just two days after its Jan. 28 release; the track also drew 678,000 streams and 175,000 airplay impressions, marking Springsteen's first Digital Song Sales No. 1, with full-week totals to be reflected on next week's charts.
The faded Fantasmic! billboard at Disney's Hollywood Studios has been refreshed with brighter artwork showing Sorcerer Mickey facing Maleficent in dragon form near Sunset Boulevard; it appears to be a sign refresh rather than a new installation, with a side-by-side August 2025 comparison and an invitation to watch a 4K Fantasmic! video.
A Chicago ad agency, Schafer Condon Carter, working with Old National Bank, posted a temporary Kennedy Expressway billboard aimed at the Los Angeles Rams, playfully daring them to lick the goal post as a frosty welcome ahead of the Bears’ divisional playoff showdown; the message is up for the day amid single-digit wind chills and may be replaced later.
An AI-generated country song titled 'Walk My Walk' by a fictional group called Breaking Rust has topped Billboard's 'Country Digital Song Sales' chart, highlighting the growing prevalence of algorithmically generated music and its impact on the industry, with major labels and platforms embracing AI artists despite concerns about authenticity and artist livelihood.
The article discusses the rise of AI-generated music, highlighting concerns over transparency, the impact on human artists, and the need for regulations requiring AI music to be clearly disclosed to consumers and chart organizations, to protect human creators and maintain authenticity in the music industry.
Kendrick Lamar's hit 'Luther' has left the Billboard Hot 100 after 46 weeks due to chart rule changes, marking the first time in 35 years that no rap songs are in the Top 40, with Taylor Swift's album dominating the chart instead.
For the first time since 1990, no rap songs are in the Billboard Top 40, due to new chart eligibility rules and a recent dip in rap's market share, marking a significant shift in the genre's commercial dominance.
Star Wars fans are campaigning to save the scrapped film 'The Hunt for Ben Solo' with a billboard in New York City, after learning the project was canceled despite positive reception from Lucasfilm. The film, which would have followed Ben Solo's quest for redemption, was ultimately shelved by Disney, leading fans to rally for its reconsideration.