The Tortured Poets Department and "Beautiful Things" were the U.S.' most popular album and most-streamed song in the first half of 2024.
Led by Swift, Republic was also boosted by hit singles on Mercury, Big Loud and Island Records, while Warner Records and Interscope maintained their momentum from Q1.
The new agreement provides HCL with an exclusive license to sell and distribute Luminate’s global streaming and engagement data.
The data firm will now collect indie physical music sales data from StreetPulse as Billboard's Tastemakers Albums chart is rebranded Indie Store Album Sales.
From Drake to Jelly Roll, Luminate and Billboard determine touring's impact on local streaming activity for 50 of last year's top-grossing acts.
Luminate changed the way it tracks physical sales, and some stores stopped reporting them. Here's the story behind the numbers.
The arrangement is another step in Luminate’s efforts to unify data for the entertainment industry.
Thanks to increased consumption of artists like Peso Pluma, Spanish-language music is slowly eating away at English's market share among the most popular songs.
Helped by a dominating year from Taylor Swift, U.S. album consumption grew 12.6% to 1.1 billion units.
Amid big gains for country and Latin, R&B/hip-hop's dominance appears to be waning, according to Billboard’s year-end music genre rankings.
