Charts
Measurement as spectacle. The Billboard Hot 100 and the UK singles chart, chart week and midweeks, gold and platinum certification, the Grammys and the Brits, streaming-era chart rule changes, and the games labels play to win the week.
Part of Pop
32 moments in this segment.
- - Domenico Modugno sings Volare on The Ed Sullivan Show. The Sanremo-winning Nel blu, dipinto di blu performed for American television at the height of its US chart run.
- - The Supremes perform Come See About Me on The Ed Sullivan Show. A colourised print of the Supremes' Sullivan appearance as Come See About Me topped the American chart.
- - Wham! perform Freedom on Top of the Pops. The duo play their third UK number one on the BBC chart show.
- - Top of the Pops, 4 October 1984. A full BBC chart show with Bronski Beat, The Cars, Culture Club and Giorgio Moroder with Philip Oakey.
- - Falco performs Rock Me Amadeus on Top of the Pops. Falco plays the BBC chart show as Rock Me Amadeus topped the UK chart.
- - Pet Shop Boys perform Suburbia on Peters Pop-Show. The duo play a Please-era hit on ZDF's cult German chart show.
- - How the Triplet Flow Took Over Rap. Vox Earworm deconstructs the Migos triplet flow, tracing the rhythmic device backwards and forwards through chart hip hop.
- - Measuring pop's falsetto obsession. Vox charts the rise of male singers reaching for high register from the Bee Gees to Justin Timberlake, using pitch data.
- - Flat Pack Pop: Sweden's Music Miracle. Journalist James Ballardie traces how Denniz PoP's Cheiron Studios turned Sweden into the world's dominant exporter of chart songwriting.
- - What Billboard Hit Songs Have in Common. PBS Sound Field breaks down every song in the Billboard top five across two years to identify shared tempo, key, structure and production traits.
- - Burna Boy on faith, life, death and legacy - ARTE TRACKS. ARTE's arts strand interviewing Burna Boy about what he wants the music to mean beyond the charts.
- - The Disappearance of Key Changes in Modern Music. Rick Beato charts the decline of modulation in charting records and argues it flattens the tonal variation of pop.
- - Annie Lennox Gershwin Prize 2023. Annie Lennox poses on the red carpet during an award reception at the Library of Congress for 2023 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song honoree Joni Mitchell, February 28, 2023. Phot… Photograph dated 2023.
- - RAYE: Tiny Desk Concert. The British singer's Tiny Desk set, recorded after she left her label and became the first fully independent artist to sweep the BRIT Awards.
- - The Economist Tests Max Martin's Songwriting Formula. The Economist applies chart data to the Swedish producer's 25 Billboard number ones to test which of his stated rules actually correlate with success.
- - Gershwin Prize for Popular Song honoree Elton John looks over a special collection…. … Photograph dated 2024.
- - The 3% of Pop That Isn't in 4/4. David Bennett listens through the 40 best-selling Billboard songs of every year this century and catalogues the rare metres that appear.
- - Ellie Goulding.TPWFAward.Photo Lelle Sparringsjö. Ellie Goulding at the 2024 The Perfect World Foundation Award ceremony. Photograph dated 2024.
- - Are Key Changes Making a Comeback?. David Bennett tracks the near-extinction of the truck-driver modulation in chart pop and its small recent revival in records like Sabrina Carpenter's 'Please Please Please'.
- - Peak positions of The Weeknd's Hurry Up Tomorrow in charts. Peak positions for The Weeknd 's album Hurry Up Tomorrow in national official charts. Countries in which the album peaked at number 1 on the official chart. Countries in which t… Photograph dated 2025.
- - Karol G: Tomorrow Was Beautiful - Netflix trailer. Trailer for the Netflix documentary following Karol G's stadium tour, from the first woman to top the Billboard 200 with an all-Spanish album.
- - KPop Demon Hunters breaks Netflix and Billboard records. Korean broadcaster MBN on the animated film's soundtrack dominating the charts in 2025, the year a fictional K-pop group outsold most real ones.
- - Ricky Martin's Latin Icon medley at the 2025 VMAs. Ricky Martin performing a career medley on receiving MTV's 2025 Latin Icon award, from MTV's own channel.
- - KATSEYE perform Gabriela at the 2025 VMAs. The multinational HYBE-Geffen group's VMA performance in September 2025, an example of the K-pop training system applied to a globally cast lineup.
- - Billboard's new Hot 100 recurrent rules, and what they miss. Chart analysis of Billboard's 2026 rule change sending songs recurrent sooner, ending marathon runs like Teddy Swims' 112 weeks.
- - How the Billboard charts evolved, with Keith Caulfield. Billboard's own charts director explains the origins of the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 and how the formula now blends radio, sales and streams.
- - Fela Kuti is the first African given a Lifetime Grammy. Africanews on the Recording Academy awarding the Afrobeat pioneer a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 ceremony, thirty years after his death.
- - Bad Bunny wins Best Musica Urbana Album at the 2026 Grammys. Bad Bunny's acceptance speech for DEBI TIRAR MAS FOTOS at the 2026 ceremony, from the Recording Academy's own channel.
- - Who won at the 2026 Grammys. BBC Newsround's plain summary of the 68th Grammy Awards results in February 2026.
- - The KPop Demon Hunters singers perform Golden at the BRITs. EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, the singing voices behind the Netflix film's soundtrack, performing Golden at the 2026 BRIT Awards in Manchester.
- - Rosalia performs Berghain with Bjork at the BRITs. Rosalia's LUX-era performance with Bjork at the 2026 BRIT Awards, an art-pop staging on a mainstream British awards show.
- - BTS Will Not Enter the 2027 Grammy Awards. CBC News report on the group's withdrawal a month after the Recording Academy announced the new Asian pop category.
