Billboard is changing the rules to its Billboard 200, Hot 100 and other album and song charts, in an effort to rectify how sales are counted with respect to album bundles with merchandise and ...

Stock charts come in two main forms%3A Linear and logarithmic; Linear charts treat all dollar price changes equally; Professional investors look at both types of charts to understand stock moves ...

Billboard has set start dates for new rule changes to its charts doing away with the controversial practice of "bundling" albums with concert tickets and merchandise to drive market share ...

After months of dominance by country, R&B and kids’ music, rock ruled the charts this spring. In successive May weeks, albums by Godsmack, Tool and the Red Hot Chili Peppers debuted at Number ...

This post offers reasons for using logarithmic scales, also called log scales, on charts and graphs. It explains when logarithmic graphs with base 2 are preferred to logarithmic graphs with base 10.

William Oughtred and others developed the slide rule in the 17th century based on the emerging work on logarithms by John Napier. Advertisement Slide rules were key to engineers in the 1950s and 1960s ...

October 18 -- Top 10: For the sixth week in a row, the charts have a new No. 1. Last week it was Radiohead, the week before it was Mystikal, and the week before that, Madonna. This time around, Ja ...

After topping this week’s U.K. album charts, Iron Maiden scored their best-ever chart performance as The Final Frontier came in at Number Four, improving on the band’s only other Top 10 U.S ...

Papa Roach extends its career-best streak of No. 1s on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, lifting a place to No. 1 on the March 22-dated survey with "Even If It Kills Me." The track is the ...

This time around, Ja Rule rules the charts, preaching the gospel to the 276,000 who picked up Rule 3:36 in its first week on the shelves. Coming in second is Nelly, who sells another 150,000 ...