THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR COUNTRY ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

Here is your 2024 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week's newest titles! With so many new metal and hard rock albums being released each week, it can be difficult to keep up.

Funkateers, country stars and punks contributed to the best concept albums in music, proving that prog rockers didn’t entirely own the concept of concepts. Concept albums are most often ...

From deliberate provocation to accidental insult, the most controversial album covers of all time is an eye-popping gallery covering some startling imagery. Ever since Elvis Presley first shook ...

The Heatseekers Albums chart ranks the most-popular albums of the week by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared on the top 100 of the Billboard 200 or the top 10 of the ...

In popular music, there are albums, and then there are “concept albums.” Definitions vary, but essentially, concept albums are carefully sequenced collections of songs that fit together to ...

Despite these career highs, in retrospect, there was an air of cynicism and practicality-induced worry underlying the album’s rollout. Blair explained that their wistful, psychedelic single ...

peak positions on this chart also relate to midweek chart positions. Official Albums Chart Update data available on officialcharts.com goes back to October 2014.

Compiled by the Official Charts Company, the UK's biggest soundtrack albums of the week, based on sales of digital bundles, CDs, vinyl and other formats, across a seven day period.

LOS ANGELES -- Kendrick Lamar gave music listeners an early holiday present Friday with the surprise drop of a new album. The Grammy winner's 12-track "GNX" is the rapper's first release since ...

Find the best new albums of the week below, from priority picks to honorable mentions.