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129-550: In the fall of 2009, some of Billboard 's earliest online K-pop coverage included articles of the first K-pop artists to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 , the Wonder Girls , who debuted at No. 76 with " Nobody ", including a feature of their stay in the U.S. and their tour opening for Jonas Brothers . In 2009, according to statistics from Google Trends , online searches for K-pop began their steady increase, after

258-452: A personality cult of figures such as Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton —celebrities who are known more as targets for paparazzi than for the work they do. In defense for TMZ's coverage, Levin said that certain celebrities are main subjects on the website because of their "relevancy" and because their relevancy helps draw viewership to the website. Liz Kelly of Washington Post attacked both Levin and TMZ in an article, stating: "I know this

387-405: A Hollywood and entertainment-focused news site in collaboration with Telepictures Productions. During this pre-launch period, AOL expressed interest in establishing a website with a primary emphasis on celebrities. Upon the site's official launch, AOL confirmed that it would predominantly showcase Hollywood gossip, encompassing interviews, photos, and video content featuring celebrities. Additionally,

516-476: A Hot 100 Top 40 hit in each of the four decades from the 1980s through the 2010s: Michael Jackson , Madonna , "Weird Al" Yankovic , U2 , and Kenny G . Mariah Carey is the first artist to have a number-one single in four different decades. SiriusXM Pop2K uses the Hot 100 charts for the 2000s for the "Pop2Kountdown", where radio personal Rich Davis plays the top 30 songs on the Hot 100 from that specific week in

645-635: A No. 45 on the Artist 100 chart in April 2016 and in October 2016, BTS receiving a No. 1 on the Social 50 chart (joining Psy's record) and a top K-pop artist scoring of No. 16 on the Artist 100 chart. Additionally in 2016, BTS's Wings charted at No. 26 on Billboard 200 and No. 19 on Canadian Albums chart, setting records for K-pop on the charts; new girl group Blackpink became the fastest act to hit No. 1 on

774-804: A September 2007 article entitled "I Want My TMZ", describing TMZ as being "a fusion of celebrity news blog and embarrassing video archive" and stating that he felt that the website had become "the poster child for the celebrity pseudo-news industry" and that the website has "distinct advantages" over " gossip magazines " because it can "show all the borderline pornographic clips that Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood can't." Jennifer Metz and David Muir of ABC News acknowledged that TMZ has long been criticized for their "aggressive tactics, antagonizing stars with video cameras" and noted that those "encounters, capturing at times violent celebrity confrontations with photographers, receive hundreds of hits online, and critics ask if entertainment reporters are crossing

903-490: A TMZ videographer that was originally rejected from being posted on TMZ.com by Levin or broadcast on TMZ on TV by post-production supervisor Chad Weiser following its initial pitch. "Tim's Rejects" and "Hate Mail" were previously aired as the last segment of their respective editions until April 2015, when they were shifted to the block preceding that occupied by the "Viewer's Choice" segment (at which point, all three segments as well as "The Loser's Circle" began to be followed by

1032-583: A branded section on the main TMZ website in June 2013. Premiere Networks launched a daily TMZ Sports radio show in October 2013. A television show began testmarketing on select regional Fox stations in January 2014. It then aired during the 2014/2015 seasons on Reelz under name TMZ Hollywood Sports . On November 9, 2015, the series reverted to being known as TMZ Sports and moved to Fox Sports 1 . TMZ Sports

1161-580: A first nomination and win for the Top Social Artist award. Some news just documented the disbandments of groups, like 2016's report: January – Kara, June – 4Minute, October – Rainbow , November – 2NE1. And, some articles provided K-pop analysis showing the interconnectedness with American music. The K-pop industry news includes financial reports and growth. A June 2014 article discussed a study conducted by kickstarter website, MyMusicTaste.com , which looked at K-pop concert numbers and showed that

1290-628: A former employee from testifying in the Depp-Heard case. The motion was denied. On October 16, 2024, after the death of British singer and former One Direction member Liam Payne , TMZ garnered controversy after posting pictures of his identifying tattoos of his dead body as well as the scene of the hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina . This sparked outrage on social media, including from Canadian singer Alessia Cara and British media personality Rylan Clark . The photos were later taken down after

1419-435: A genre, which involves them in a "whole different world". In July, with almost 190 foreign reporters registered to cover KCON LA , he told Korea Times reporter Si-soo Park, "K-pop is getting closer to the mainstream", and mentioned its coverage by major news outlets like The New York Times and others. In November, he contributed K-pop analysis for a Time report on artists CL , Eric Nam , and Dean 's attempts to enter

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1548-649: A graduate of Macaulay Honors College in East Asian studies, has contributed articles, as of 2016, and is the primary K-pop correspondent. In April 2013, The Korea Herald said, "the more Billboard talks about K-pop, the faster the speed of K-pop advancement in the U.S. will be." As the primary K-pop correspondent, Herman represented Billboard through appearances such as Netflix & Vox 's "Explained" K-pop episode. Herman also contributed to Forbes.com , NBC News , TeenVogue , Entertainment Weekly , South China Morning Post and Vulture , and authored

1677-448: A humorous manner whereas a mix of humorous and serious news stories appear on the website and companion web/television series. TMZ offers viewers the option of being able to view the two most recent episodes of the program on TMZ.com after the episode's original airdate (being available for viewing for two days after the broadcast on weekdays and three days after the original broadcast on weekends). Chris Persell, of TVWeek.com, stated that

1806-456: A major U.S. music festival, Miami's Ultra , CL performed Dirty Vibe , a 2014 release with Skrillex and Diplo (which she and G-Dragon featured on), then her own rap in Korean lyrics, during a performance with Sean Combs , which Benjamin called "a breakthrough moment for Korean music"; with echoes from Korean media. The column includes articles about the attention K-pop artists receive from

1935-527: A massive tsunami . Instead, it seems more like a steady flow, rising slowly but steadily seeping in." He quoted K-Town columnist Jeff Benjamin, "K-Pop lives and breathes online," and "That's why it's been able to cross into mainstream consciousness." At year's end, Janice Min , co-president and chief creative officer of the Guggenheim Media Entertainment Group overseeing The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard said, "The world

2064-602: A month in the United States, just after Rolling Stone , and followed by Pitchfork and Spin . A year and a half later, in 2014, the site had 13 million unique viewers for the month of August, and combined with totals for its sister publication, The Hollywood Reporter , the Guggenheim Media Entertainment Group placed as the fourth most popular entertainment website, behind TMZ , E! Online and People.com . In addition to

2193-554: A movie called Zombieland, in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character ... With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie." On December 24, 2010, the gossip blog " Oh No They Didn't " reported that TMZ began blocking traffic from the UK , displaying the message: "Due to laws within your region, you are unable to view this website." Asked for further comment, TMZ responded that

2322-477: A new MyMusicTaste.com study in 2016, which found America was becoming a priority for touring Korean acts. The study was conducted while the site gauged local fan interest for future concerts and examined the number of K-pop concerts held between 2013 and approximately May 2016, which found that East Asia still had the most concerts, but their numbers were tapering, while North America, South America and Europe were showing consistent growth. The top three countries with

2451-464: A new single, featuring the former B-side as the A-side, along with a "new" B-side. The inclusion of album cuts on the Hot 100 put the double-sided hit issues to rest permanently. As many Hot 100 chart policies have been modified over the years, one rule always remained constant: songs were not eligible to enter the Hot 100 unless they were available to purchase as a single. However, on December 5, 1998,

2580-592: A point system that typically gave sales (purchases) more weight than radio airplay. The first No. 1 in that chart was " Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing " by The Four Aces . The Best Sellers in Stores , Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. On June 17, 1957, Billboard discontinued the Most Played in Jukeboxes chart, as

2709-434: A single until airplay was at its absolute peak, thus prompting a top ten or, in some cases, a number-one debut. In many cases, a label would delete a single from its catalog after only one week, thus allowing the song to enter the Hot 100, make a high debut and then slowly decline in position as the one-time production of the retail single sold out. It was during this period that several popular mainstream hits never charted on

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2838-599: A specific year from the 2000s. '90s on 9 also does a similar countdown show called the "Back in the Day Replay Countdown" hosted by Downtown Julie Brown ; however, this focuses on the Hot 100 charts from the 1990s. A new chart, the Pop 100 , was created by Billboard in February 2005 to answer criticism that the Hot 100 at the time was too dominated by hip hop and R&B. It was discontinued in June 2009 due to

2967-551: A story segment). In March 2012, Fox Television Stations tested a syndicated broadcast of TMZ Live (which is an hour-long edited version of the live webcast that is broadcast on a one-day delay from its original tape date, with segments aired in a different order, mainly due to live interviews that require the segment to be shown out of order on the webcast for varied reasons) on its television stations in Los Angeles and Phoenix . In June 2012, SiriusXM Radio announced that

3096-435: A trend they had started in the 1960s by putting the same song on both sides of the singles provided to radio. More complex issues began to arise as the typical A-and-B-side format of singles gave way to 12 inch singles and maxi-singles, many of which contained more than one B-side. Further problems arose when, in several cases, a B-side would eventually overtake the A-side in popularity, thus prompting record labels to release

3225-561: A triple-digit stay at the top since the chart began in December 2010". In addition, they had more chart records for themselves on the social artist charts, and for their songs and albums, before, during, and after 2017. There was an all-time high of ten albums on the Billboard 200 chart in 2018, BTS had three, including the two No. 1 chartings, and others were Blackpink, Exo , J-Hope , Jonghyun , NCT 127 , RM and Lay (Exo member who

3354-543: A very long time to gain mainstream success. These rare cases are handled on a case-by-case basis and ultimately determined by Billboard ' s chart managers and staff. Older songs are allowed to re-enter to the Hot 100 provided they chart higher than number 50. Christmas songs have been a regular presence on the Hot 100 each December since the relaxation of recurrent rules, culminating in Mariah Carey 's 1994 recording " All I Want for Christmas Is You " reaching No. 1 on

3483-562: A very straightforward cumulative total of yearlong sales, streaming, and airplay points. This gives a more accurate picture of any given year's most popular tracks, as the points accrued by one song during its week at number one in March might be less than those accrued by another song reaching number three in January. Songs at the peak of their popularity at the time of the November/December chart-year cutoff many times end up ranked on

3612-403: A week spent at position 100, two points for a week spent at position 99 and so forth, up to 100 points for each week spent at number one). Other factors including the total weeks a song spent on the chart and at its peak position were calculated into its year-end total. After Billboard began obtaining sales and airplay information from Nielsen SoundScan, the year-end charts are now calculated by

3741-465: Is Harvey Levin , a lawyer-turned-journalist who was previously a legal expert for the Los Angeles television station KCBS-TV . While the TMZ website claims that it does not pay writers for stories or interviews, Levin has acknowledged that TMZ does "sometimes pay sources for leads on stories". Three months before TMZ's official launch, America Online (AOL) had indicated its intention to create

3870-407: Is Jennifer Lopez 's " I'm Real ". Originally entering the Hot 100 in its album version, a "remix" was issued in the midst of its chart run that featured rapper Ja Rule . This new version proved to be more popular than the album version and the track was propelled to number one. To address this issue, Billboard now separates airplay points from a song's original version and its remix, if the remix

3999-426: Is a live chat program on Ustream hosted by TMZ clip clearance producer Dax Holt . In the broadcasts, Holt talks to "Chizzlers" about celebrity gossip and articles that have been posted on the TMZ website. As early as 2009, Levin was rumored to be interested in creating a TMZ branded sports site. The site was initially expected to launch in March 2010 but those plans did not see fruition. It eventually launched as

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4128-423: Is a music/journalism alumni of New York University , where he interned with Billboard and has contributed to other media featuring K-pop, including The New York Times , Rolling Stone , BuzzFeed , Nylon , CBS Radio , Fuse TV , Mnet America, Mnet TV America and Radio.com . For his K-pop journalism and his work at Billboard since 2013, he received the 2020 Korea Image Stepping Stone Bridge Award from

4257-510: Is also a Chinese pop star). The Billboard Year-End charts showed BTS "breaking across genres" with multiple top and first-time K-pop chartings, and more K-pop charting for all artists, in general. K-Town documents K-pop history and events with features or announcements, or "timelines" of multiple events, such as Tamar Herman's 2017, "Timeline of K-Pop on U.S. TV, in Honor of BTS Attending Billboard Music Awards ", and her 2018, "How BTS Took Over

4386-523: Is also tracked on the same Friday–Thursday cycle, effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021. Previously, radio was tracked Monday–Sunday and, before July 2015, Wednesday–Tuesday. The first number-one song of the Billboard Hot 100 was " Poor Little Fool " by Ricky Nelson , on August 4, 1958. As of the issue for the week ending on November 30, 2024, the Billboard Hot 100 has had 1,175 different number-one entries. The current number-one song on

4515-464: Is co-hosted by TMZ Sports Executive Producer Michael Babcock, WNBA player Renee Montgomery , and former WWE Superstar and NFL player, Mojo Muhtadi . TMZ France was created on December 18, 2012. Since the launch of TMZ, the website has faced criticism, varying from attempted boycotts to criticism of its journalistic tactics and of its focus. It has been criticized for its usage of photographs and videos obtained from paparazzi . Some have questioned

4644-416: Is covering on the website, and at times, features live interviews (most of which are conducted through webcam conferencing) as well as viewer opinions via Twitter , telephone and video chat (including Skype ). In addition, the program features regular segments towards the end of each edition: "Viewer's Choice" (aired as the penultimate segment) featuring viewer questions or comments about stories featured in

4773-452: Is determined to be a "new song". Since administering this new chart rule, several songs have charted twice, normally credited as "Part 1" and "Part 2". The remix rule is still in place. Billboard , in an effort to allow the chart to remain as current as possible and to give representation to new and developing artists and tracks, has (since 1991) removed titles that have reached certain criteria regarding its current rank and number of weeks on

4902-607: Is getting more and more interested in Hallyu content", and "We cover a lot of Korean content at Billboard , I would say almost obsessively." K-Town's 2014 coverage included "Gangnam Style" breaking YouTube's video view counter in December, with more than 2.15 billion views, forcing them to upgrade, and the first K-pop artist on Rolling Stone's year-end list, 2NE1 's Crush at No. 6 on the "20 Best Pop Albums of 2014". The " Billboard Korea" website at Billboard.co.kr , refreshened its image and relaunched on December 20, 2017, and included

5031-473: Is like spitting in the wind, but I have to say it: Harvey Levin, please stop it." On January 16, 2013, Andre Lowe was killed outside of a nightclub in Hollywood. A nearby reporter from TMZ ended up filming the attack and it was posted to the website without permission of the family. On January 22, 2013, TMZ ended up taking down the video after over two dozen advertisers revoked ads for the website because of

5160-477: Is obsessed with K-pop, saying it is "beyond excellent, it's the best thing you've ever seen", and her favorites were 2NE1 and Girls' Generation. In November 2015, Exo and Disney released "Light Saber", a song and music video for Star Wars: The Force Awakens . And the 2017, BTS inspired timeline, article included a K-pop group's first appearance, BTS at the Billboard Music Award show, along with

5289-433: Is post-dated with the "week-ending" issue date four days after the charts are refreshed online (i.e., the following Saturday). For example: The methods and policies by which this data is obtained and compiled have changed many times throughout the chart's history. Although the advent of a singles music chart spawned chart historians and chart-watchers and greatly affected pop culture and produced countless bits of trivia,

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5418-476: The Billboard Hot 100 tracks paid digital downloads from such internet services as iTunes , Musicmatch , and Rhapsody . Billboard initially started tracking downloads in 2003 with the Hot Digital Tracks chart. However, these downloads did not count towards the Hot 100 and that chart (as opposed to Hot Digital Songs ) counted each version of a song separately. This was the first major overhaul of

5547-459: The Billboard chart cannot be ignored in the international success of Psy's "Gangnam Style"," and " Billboard 's recent interest in K-pop is not a fleeting phenomenon." By July 2013, a year after "Gangnam Style", Billboard reported a continued surge and Psy's scoring again with a new hit, " Gentleman ". According to Google, 91% of viewership on top K-pop channels was then coming from outside

5676-652: The East Coast , including interviews with performers Red Velvet , Got7 , Zion.T and Crush, Roy Kim , Monsta X , and AOA . In 2016, interviews and concert coverage included Jay Park touring with AOMG , DEAN , Got7 , Crush and a concert review of CL, all in NYC ; and an interview with Tablo before Epik High's appearances at Coachella . K-Town again covered KCON in New York and L.A., including interviews with Ailee , Crush, Day6 , Shinee, Amber , and Twice . And, for

5805-591: The National Tax Service of South Korea said the average annual income for singers rose more than 72 percent since 2010; and overseas revenues growth, attributed to interest in Korea's pop culture, led by music and television dramas, nearly doubled in five years. Experts credited the jumps to more international album sales and tours, with 2014 the biggest year for K-pop concerts in America. K-Town examined

5934-471: The PDF of the entire book has "diminished or destroyed" its value. While actor Woody Harrelson was at New York City's LaGuardia Airport , he had an altercation with a photographer for TMZ. Harrelson defended himself stating that he had at the time just finished filming his scenes from the horror film, that consists mainly of zombies, Zombieland , and that he was "startled" by the TMZ photographer. "I wrapped

6063-664: The World Digital Song Sales chart with " Boombayah ", and CL's English language song " Lifted " charted at No. 94 on Billboard 's Hot 100. In 2017, one group, BTS, began "dominating charts in the way no Korean act has ever done before", having first charted on the Billboard 200 chart in November 2015, with The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2 at No. 171, and rising to a No. 7 debut for their October 2017 Love Yourself: Her . They, subsequently, topped

6192-490: The film industry , Hollywood and American celebrities, like prior Billboard articles on Rain , his 2008 debut in the Hollywood film Speed Racer , and appearance as a guest on The Colbert Report . K-Town shared multiple 2015 such articles: a TV station Nickelodeon aired a K-pop inspired show Make It Pop , BigBang's " Fantastic Baby " was played in the trailer of Pitch Perfect 2 , Randy Jackson visited Epik High backstage, and Emma Stone told Conan 's viewers she

6321-399: The 10 top selling records of three leading record companies, as reported by the companies themselves. In October 1938, a review list, "The Week's Best Records", was retitled "The Billboard Record Buying Guide" by incorporating airplay and sheet music sales, which would eventually become the first trade survey of record popularity. This led to the full-page "Billboard Music Popularity Chart" for

6450-473: The 1990s many record companies stopped releasing singles altogether (see Album Cuts , below). Eventually, a song's airplay points were weighted more so than its sales. Billboard has adjusted the sales/airplay ratio many times to more accurately reflect the true popularity of songs. Billboard has also changed its Hot 100 policy regarding "two-sided singles" several times. The pre-Hot 100 chart "Best Sellers in Stores" listed popular A- and-B-sides together, with

6579-473: The Asia-Pacific region, as compared to less than half in 2011. Billboard provided a "Top 10 K-Pop Hits Post-Gangnam Style" (Psy's "Gentleman", Girls' Generation's "I Got a Boy", Hyuna 's " Ice Cream ", G-Dragon 's "Crayon", G-Dragon's "One of a Kind", G-Dragon's "That XX", Girls' Generation's " Oh! ", Beast's "Beautiful Night", Girls Generation's " Flower Power ", and Kara 's " Pandora "); and credited

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6708-520: The Chinese-based baidu.com and sina.com.cn , and South Korean-based naver.com . As a media focal point for K-pop information, in 2016 alone, K-Town columnist Benjamin participated in K-pop conferences and media inquiries about K-pop's status in America. In February, he spoke on a Boston University College of Arts and Sciences' panel, "Music & Media: Korean Pop Industry", which included issues about K-pop's fit with Western culture and

6837-563: The Corea Image Communication Institute (CICI), who said, "Benjamin did a great job of promoting K-pop overseas, being a bridge between Korea and the world." Billboard Korea Editor-in-Chief Jessica Oak has also written K-pop articles for Billboard since 2012, then for K-Town when it was launched, along with other Billboard Korea staff from offices in Gangnam . Billboard pop correspondent Tamar Herman,

6966-471: The Hot 100 (then called Top 40 Radio Monitor ). The ongoing splintering of Top 40 radio in the early 1990s led stations to lean into specific formats, meaning that practically no station would play the wide array of genres that typically composed each weekly Hot 100 chart. An artist or band's ability to have hits in the Hot 100 across multiple decades is recognized as a sign of longevity and being able to adapt to changing musical styles. Only five artists had

7095-416: The Hot 100 changed from being a "singles" chart to a "songs" chart. During the 1990s, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without ever releasing them as singles. It was claimed by major record labels that singles were cannibalizing album sales, so they were slowly phased out. During this period, accusations began to fly of chart manipulation as labels would hold off on releasing

7224-401: The Hot 100's chart formula since December 1998. The change in methodology has shaken up the chart considerably, with some songs debuting on the chart strictly with robust online sales and others making drastic leaps. In recent years, several songs have been able to achieve 80-to-90 position jumps in a single week as their digital components were made available at online music stores. Since 2006,

7353-420: The Hot 100's early history, singles were the leading way by which people bought music. At times, when singles sales were robust, more weight was given to a song's retail points than to its radio airplay. As the decades passed, the recording industry concentrated more on album sales than singles sales. Musicians eventually expressed their creative output in the form of full-length albums rather than singles, and by

7482-482: The Hot 100, or charted well after their airplay had declined. During the period that they were not released as singles, the songs were not eligible to chart. Many of these songs dominated the Hot 100 Airplay chart for extended periods of time: As debate and conflicts occurred more and more often, Billboard finally answered the requests of music industry artists and insiders to include airplay-only songs (or "album cuts") in

7611-481: The Hot 100, while the retail component was reduced from 40% to 25%. Extended play (EP) releases were listed by Billboard on the Hot 100 and in pre-Hot 100 charts (Top 100) until the mid-to-late 1960s. With the growing popularity of albums, it was decided to move EPs (which typically contain four to six tracks) from the Hot 100 to the Billboard 200 , where they are included to this day. Since February 12, 2005,

7740-474: The K-Pop Hot 100 chart's weekly updates. A January 2019 website analysis by Alexa Internet found that almost half of the visitors to Billboard.com were from the U.S. The top keyword searches sending traffic to the site were the Billboard Hot 100 chart (1.5 percent), the K-pop group BTS (.41 percent), and Billboard "top 100" and "country songs", respectively (.38 percent). The top sites linking in were

7869-461: The Korean entertainment industry's close scrutiny of media interviews. In June, at KCON NY , he told NBC News Stephany Bai that K-pop was gaining global fans while retaining its "distinctive characteristics". He credited its continued success with things like accessibility on social media, song titles in English on YouTube, and an ability to involve fans in what he called K-pop's "scene" rather than

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7998-511: The Los Angeles County Coroner's report following a request from a lawyer representing Bennington's widow, Talinda. Talinda responded with criticism of the Los Angeles County Coroner's office for disclosing the information to TMZ as well as TMZ itself, concluding a Twitter tirade with the hashtag "#FuckyouTMZ". In May 2018, TMZ reported intimate details of the suicide of Swedish DJ Avicii , who had died that April, with

8127-419: The October 2012 change in the way the magazine tallied their charts, which included digital sales, online streams and radio airplay, gave stars with a pop-oriented sound and broad crossover appeal an advantage over other artists. Later in the year, CNN noted that Billboard 's 2012 "annual series of top 21 musicians under the age of 21" listed K-pop star IU at 15th on a list which included heavyweights in

8256-551: The U.S. and around the world. Some early examples were: Billboard Twitter Real-Time "Trending 140", Psy's " Hangover " featuring Snoop Dogg reached No. 1 in late June 2014, and a No. 1 and K-pop's first time for Infinite with "Last Romeo" in September 2014, on the Billboard Twitter Real-Time "Emerging Artists" chart. Some other chart firsts included Got7 receiving a No. 2 on the Social 50 chart and

8385-632: The U.S. and occasionally in Seoul; and publish concert, tour, and musical release announcements and reviews. Some interviews are videotaped at Billboard ' s studio in New York City and include English language subtitles and performances by the artists. In 2015, some concert reviews were – January: F.T. Island , April: Amoeba Culture 's Dynamic Duo , Primary , Zion.T and Crush , June: Epik High and July: BTS , including their Billboard studio performance. Epik High added tour dates and became

8514-493: The U.S. based website, Billboard has business operations in South Korea , home of K-pop. The relaunch included a new column, "K-Town", in a move to bring K-pop news, songs and music videos to its readers each week. Girls' Generation welcomed the column with a video greeting, and the first column article was a feature on "rising K-pop superstars" Infinite . In April 2013, The Korea Herald said, "the effect of YouTube and

8643-519: The U.S., South Korea, and around the world. Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital ), online streaming , and radio airplay in the U.S. A new chart is compiled and released online to the public by Billboard' s website on Tuesdays but post-dated to

8772-459: The United States, the show airs in various timeslots on stations of varying network affiliation (primarily on Fox stations), mainly either in early primetime or after late local newscasts, with an hour-long 'best-of' program compiling select stories from the weekday broadcasts airing on weekends. The show covers stories similar to those found on the website and TMZ Live , with the main difference being that TMZ on TV largely delivers its stories in

8901-615: The Wonder Girls 2010 U.S. tour accounted for 15 of the 18 concerts in North America for that year. After that, numbers ebbed to six in 2011, 13 in 2012, and 17 in 2013; with Super Junior, the largest touring act, first touring around Asia, then increasing tours to four continents in 2013. Their 2015 article said that K-pop was doing well: an IFPI report showed South Korea still in the top 10 global music market rankings, having moved ahead of Brazil, at $ 266 million in trade value;

9030-812: The World: A Timeline of The Group's Biggest Career Moments". Earlier coverage, in 2015, included analysis of the future of K-pop in America and which groups might succeed. A watch was kept for collaborations of K-pop artists with mainstream American pop artists – March: "P.D.D", Rap Monster of BTS and Warren G ; April: "The Heartbroken (Kpop Remix)", Wonder Girls' Yubin and Justin Thorne, previously of NLT ; May: "Doctor Pepper", 2NE1's CL and Riff Raff and OG Maco , produced by Diplo ; July: "Cash Money" Brave Brothers and YG featuring Krayzie Bone ; and December: Psy released his album Chiljip Psy-da with tracks featuring will.i.am and Ed Sheeran . Also, in March 2015, at

9159-410: The acronym for thirty-mile zone that was historically used in the film and television industry to refer to the so-called "studio zone"—an area with a 30-mile (48 km) radius centered on the intersection of Beverly Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles , California. It was called the studio zone because of the number of film and television studios within it. TMZ's managing editor

9288-731: The album on the Billboard Readers' Poll "Your Fave Album Of 2010". Billboard reported that the South Korean music industry grossed nearly $ 3.4 billion during the first half of 2011, and Time recognized K-pop as "South Korea's Greatest Export". On August 25, 2011, Billboard and Billboard Korea launched the Billboard Korea K-Pop Hot 100 chart, ranking digital sales of the country's top songs and mobile downloads, and modeled on its Billboard Hot 100 and other Asian charts. Sistar 's song " So Cool "

9417-535: The all-time record for the biggest single-week upward movement was broken nine times. In the issue dated August 11, 2007, Billboard began incorporating weekly data from streaming media and on-demand services into the Hot 100. The first two major companies to provide their statistics to Nielsen BDS on a weekly basis were AOL Music and Yahoo! Music . On March 24, 2012, Billboard premiered its On-Demand Songs chart, which ranks web radio streams from services such as Spotify , as well as on-demand audio titles. Its data

9546-452: The backlash. In what The Smoking Gun called "a colossal screw-up", in 2009 TMZ published an "exclusive" picture on their website of a man purported to be John F. Kennedy on a ship with several naked women that could have "changed history" had it come out during his presidential campaign. Despite having a Photoshop expert proclaiming the picture as "authentic", the picture was later discovered to have not been of Kennedy at all. The photo

9675-592: The biggest North American K-pop tour in years, and BTS sold-out VIP tickets were re-sold at more than $ 10,000. In October, K-Town reviewed the Newark concert of BigBang's six-city North American tour, after their Los Angeles concert scored in the top ten on "Billboard Hot Tours" with a sold-out boxscore earning; and did a November pre-concert interview with Block B . More coverage included the concerts and conference days for KCON 2015 in California again, and first time on

9804-712: The blocking was due to "legal restrictions" related to English defamation law . The UK website " Popbitch Board" noted on December 31, 2010, that it is possible to get around the block by accessing the website through the Google Translate website. As of January 7, 2011, TMZ is accessible in the UK. TMZ Live is a live-chat program from TMZ that features Levin and fellow TMZ executive producer Charles Latibeaudiere, and occasionally senior producer Michael Babcock filling in for one or both hosts. Other TMZ staffers (mainly those who regularly appear on TMZ on TV ) also appear on

9933-828: The book "BTS: Blood, Sweat, & Tears", published in English in summer 2020, with contemporary translations in Japanese, Russian, and German. As a K-Town columnist, Benjamin has been called upon for his opinions on K-pop from The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Entertainment Weekly , New York's Korea Society, Mnet America's Headliner series, Television in South Korea , NBC News, and Time , among others; and has appeared in panels for KCON, and Global Hallyu Forum 2013 Washington, D.C. South Korean media, including South Korea's own music chart's, Gaon Music Chart , has posted interviews and articles about Benjamin. K-Town articles have been re-phrased and quoted in media in

10062-406: The broadcast as contributors to provide additional outline of the story as well as to provide opinion. The live webcast takes place at the TMZ offices in Los Angeles, and is broadcast on TMZ.com Monday through Fridays from approximately 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (the length varies depending on the featured segments). The TMZ Live television and Internet programs review stories that TMZ

10191-572: The broadcast, with additional commentary or analysis by the hosts. "Hate Mail," featured on the Wednesday edition of the webcast (the Thursday edition on the television broadcast), in which negative emails and letters sent by viewers (some of which feature potshots at Levin or Latibeaudiere) are read by the hosts. "Tim's Rejects," featured on the Thursday edition of the webcast (the Friday edition on

10320-497: The campaign. At 11:24 a.m. Pacific Time on January 26, 2020, TMZ reported on the death of basketball player Kobe Bryant , being the first news outlet to do so. TMZ received strong criticism, notably from Sheriff Alex Villanueva of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department , for reporting on the story before the next of kin had been notified as well as leaking photos of the crash site. During

10449-416: The chart in December 2019. Billboard altered its tracking-week for sales, streaming and radio airplay in order to conform to a new Global Release Date, which now falls on Fridays in all major-market territories (United States product was formerly released on Tuesdays before June 2015). This modified tracking schedule took effect in the issue dated July 25, 2015. Billboard ' s "chart year" runs from

10578-537: The chart in June 2018, at No. 1 with Love Yourself: Tear , with the album's " Fake Love " debuting as the first for a K-pop group at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, and again in September 2018, with a No. 1 for Love Yourself: Answer . Their October 29, 2016, No. 1 on the Social 50 chart reached its 100th week on the chart dated November 17, 2018, and they became the "second artist overall, after Justin Bieber, to log

10707-623: The chart is " A Bar Song (Tipsy) " by Shaboozey . The first chart published by Billboard was "Last Week's Ten Best Sellers Among the Popular Songs", a list of best-selling sheet music, in July 1913. Other charts listed popular song performances in theatres and recitals. In 1928, "Popular Numbers Featured by Famous Singers and Leaders" appeared, which added radio performances to in-person performances. On January 4, 1936, Billboard magazine published "Ten Best Records for Week Ending", which listed

10836-417: The chart. Recurrent criteria have been modified several times and currently (as of 2015 ), a song is permanently moved to "recurrent status" if it has spent 20 weeks on the Hot 100 and fallen below position number 50. Additionally, descending songs are removed from the chart if ranking below number 25 after 52 weeks. Exceptions are made to re-releases and sudden resurgence in popularity of tracks that have taken

10965-507: The charts becoming increasingly similar. The Canadian Hot 100 was launched June 16, 2007. Like the Hot 100 chart, it uses sales and airplay tracking compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and BDS . The Billboard Japan Hot 100 was launched in the issue dated May 31, 2008, using the same methodologies as the Hot 100 charts for the U.S. and Canada, using sales and airplay data from SoundScan Japan and radio tracking service Plantech. The Vietnamese edition of Hot 100, Billboard Vietnam Hot 100 ,

11094-564: The defamation trial against actress Amber Heard , TMZ was a point of discussion and raised much criticism. Lawyer Camille Vasquez confronted Ms. Heard, claiming Heard gave a video of Depp being agitated and slamming cupboards to TMZ a day before the temporary restraining order (TRO) was filed. Vasquez also pointed out that TMZ had been alerted of the alleged abuse and the upcoming divorce in 2016, where Ms. Heard in her deposition mentioned that TMZ had been alerted. On May 24, 2022, TMZ, through EHM Productions Inc, filed an Emergency Motion to prevent

11223-442: The effect that aggressive and obtrusive photographers have on the subjects they cover. Many of the videos on the site show, in the footage, that their paparazzi chase people (mainly celebrities)—a practice that has been called dangerous and "creepy". Over the years, some have called for a boycott of TMZ and of the accompanying show. TMZ has also faced internal criticism due to Harvey Levin 's emerging support for Donald Trump in

11352-544: The fastest-growing musical trends around the world." Psy's July 2012 hit, "Gangnam Style", took "the genre to the top of western charts," and made K-pop history. His success reached beyond the Korean-American community, and doubled online viewership, according to Google data. But, not everyone was happy with the song's success on the Billboard charts , especially with its No. 1 spot on the new Hot Rap Songs chart; it reached No. 2 on Billboard Hot 100. Critics said

11481-672: The first time, they covered a Canadian event, the Toronto Kpop Con. In September 2018, Benjamin interviewed Got7 in Seoul, while attending the MU:CON music industry convention and watching newer acts like Hoya , N.Flying , Kim Dong-han , Dreamcatcher and A.C.E . In one of the voting contests sponsored by Billboard , the first K-pop win was BigBang's fans, the VIPs, who won the August 2014, Billboard Fan Army Face-Off, with 91% of

11610-464: The first time. Telepictures (which TMZ is operated by) stated: "Subject to certain performance adjustments and the reimbursement of expenses, revenues are split evenly between the parties [...] Telepictures received payments of US$ 6.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2009, and US$ 12.7 million, US$ 9.6 million and US$ 3.0 million in 2008, 2007 and 2006, respectively." Based on released figures, TMZ's revenues for 2008

11739-411: The first week of December to the final week in November. This altered calendar allows for Billboard to calculate year-end charts and release them in time for its final print issue in the last week of December. Before Nielsen SoundScan, year-end singles charts were calculated by an inverse-point system based solely on a song's performance on the Hot 100 (for example, a song would be given one point for

11868-422: The following Saturday, when the printed magazine first reaches newsstands. The weekly tracking period for sales is currently Friday–Thursday, after being changed in July 2015. It was initially Monday–Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991. This tracking period also applies to compiling online streaming data. Radio airplay is readily available on a real-time basis, unlike sales figures and streaming, but

11997-413: The following year's chart as well, as their cumulative points are split between the two chart-years, but often are ranked lower than they would have been had the peak occurred in a single year. The Hot 100 served for many years as the data source for the weekly radio countdown show American Top 40 . This relationship ended on November 30, 1991, as American Top 40 started using the airplay-only side of

12126-465: The headline "Avicii's suicide caused by self-inflicted cuts from glass". Jennifer Michael Hecht , writing for Vox , criticized TMZ's reporting as being sensationalist and going against the CDC's recommended guidelines for reporting suicides, which include not mentioning the method of suicide. Talinda Bennington also reacted unfavorably, urging people to "[not] click on the TMZ article or any other about

12255-700: The industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13, 1958. The Hot 100 was created by journalists Tom Noonan, Paul Ackerman , and Seymour Stein ; Stein did not recall who chose the name. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a song's popularity is measured in the United States. The Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan (both at retail and digitally) and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to

12384-464: The line." Metz and Muir questioned whether TMZ's tactics "go too far". Ken Sunshine , publicist for Ben Affleck and Leonardo DiCaprio , stated that his clients disliked the website because it has a tendency to be negative towards celebrities when reporting on them. "I hate that they have anything to do with trying to put celebrities into the worst light possible and that they play the ' gotcha ' game". A student newspaper criticized TMZ for having

12513-413: The main purpose of the Hot 100 is to aid those within the music industry: to reflect the popularity of the "product" (the singles, the albums, etc.) and to track the trends of the buying public. Billboard has (many times) changed its methodology and policies to give the most precise and accurate reflection of what is popular. A very basic example of this would be the ratio given to sales and airplay. During

12642-503: The mainstream music market in America. The Korea K-Pop Hot 100 chart was discontinued in the U.S. in May 2014, and reestablished on Billboard.com as of the chart dated December 30, 2017. K-Town continued to follow K-pop artists' top and first-time K-pop ratings on all Billboard charts, with chart reports and features watched closely and rehashed by South Korean media and others internationally. The column, also, reports on YouTube's views in

12771-484: The most concerts abroad were Japan, China and the U.S. The number one touring act in the study was the all-male group BigBang. which was reported, by Forbes , to have made $ 44 million in pretax earnings in 2015, compared to $ 33.5 million made by the current highest-paid American all-male arena pop group, Maroon 5 and were No. 54 on the Forbes Celebrity 100 . K-Town interviews K-pop artists when they visit

12900-433: The overall calculation of the Hot 100. The most significant ones are: The tracking week for sales, streaming and airplay begins on Friday and ends on Thursday (airplay used to have a tracking week from Monday to Sunday, but effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021, the week was adjusted to align with the other two metrics ). A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesday. Each chart

13029-430: The platform would provide information related to industry news, covering movies, television shows, and more. The site was described as "an effort to further feed the current American obsession with celebrities". Mike Shields of MediaWeek.com wrote, "the site also boasts of an expansive collection of archived star photos and videos", allowing fans to "trace changing hairlines and waistlines of their favorites performers over

13158-485: The popularity of jukeboxes waned and radio stations incorporated more and more rock-oriented music into their playlists. The week of July 28, 1958, had the final Most Played by Jockeys and Top 100 charts, both of which had Perez Prado 's instrumental version of " Patricia " ascending to the top. On August 4, 1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart: the Hot 100 , with " Poor Little Fool " by Ricky Nelson its first No. 1. The Hot 100 quickly became

13287-653: The private details of Avicii’s passing", adding "This is how [we] can stop [filthy TMZ]." TMZ faced strong criticism for purchasing stolen items pertaining to the fourth Indiana Jones film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . On October 2, 2007, IESB reported that a number of production photos and sensitive documents pertaining to the production budget had been stolen from Steven Spielberg 's production office. Movie City News , which strongly criticized TMZ for purchasing stolen items, remarked that

13416-447: The release of two smash hit singles, Super Junior 's " Sorry, Sorry " and Girls' Generation 's " Gee ". In 2010, the Wonder Girls were featured as the first K-pop artists on Billboard 's annual showcase "21 under 21". Later that year, Billboard invited the first K-pop artists to their New York studio, where JYJ performed "Ayyy Girl" and "Empty" from their album The Beginning , and in December, Billboard 's readers put

13545-521: The run-up to the 2016 United States presidential election . By 2020, dozens of former TMZ employees had spoken to the media about a racist and misogynistic workplace culture which TMZ's internal leadership was unwilling to change. After Linkin Park lead vocalist Chester Bennington died by suicide in July 2017, TMZ reported in December 2017 that Bennington had attempted to drown himself nine months before his death; this information had been redacted from

13674-464: The show is a "complement [to] the website, with news updates added to later airings of the show". Levin and Jim Paratore served as executive producers to the show, and the on-air cast originally included Teresa Strasser, John Fugelsang , Ben Mankiewicz and Michael Hundgen. David Bianculli of The New York Daily News strongly criticized the television show, its topics, and what he sees as its reporters' tactics and lack of professionalism. Dax Chat

13803-650: The show would be aired daily on its Sirius XM Stars channel. In October of that year, the television show was expanded to seven markets, adding Boston , Chicago , Dallas , Detroit and Minneapolis . On September 9, 2013, TMZ Live began airing on all 18 Fox owned-and-operated stations . The program began to be syndicated to stations outside of the Fox Television Stations group in the spring of 2014. On September 10, 2007, TMZ launched an accompanying television series, TMZ on TV . The syndicated television program airs Monday through Fridays. In

13932-517: The side that was played most often (based on its other charts) listed first. One of the most notable of these, but far from the only one, was Elvis Presley 's "Don't Be Cruel" / "Hound Dog". During the Presley single's chart run, top billing was switched back and forth between the two sides several times. But on the concurrent "Most Played in Juke Boxes", "Most Played by Jockeys" and the "Top 100",

14061-403: The stories are true, he questioned how the sources obtained their information. Levin has acknowledged that TMZ pays sources, but in the form of a "tip fee". Levin stated that TMZ pays for photos and for 'tips' or leads on stories, and defended TMZ's position by stating that the sources and tips are verified before being used or reported. In November 2009, TMZ's revenue was publicly disclosed for

14190-459: The television broadcast), in which staffer Tim Nowak presents three offbeat news stories (that are not entertainment or sports-related) which are critiqued by the hosts. "The Loser's Circle," featured on the Friday edition of the webcast (the Monday edition on the television broadcast) since February 2015, in which Levin, Latibeaudiere and TMZ on TV executive producer Evan Rosenblum judge a clip from

14319-541: The then-new website "wasn't getting off to a good start". According to IESB, TMZ had obtained some of the stolen property and was planning on running a story about the topic on their TV show, until the lawyers of the film's production company, Paramount Pictures , intervened. Shortly after IESB broke the story, TMZ broadcast details about the Indiana Jones production budget on their show on October 3, 2007. Tony Manfred of The Cornell Daily Sun criticized TMZ in

14448-477: The two groups, Girls' Generation and Big Bang , as major acts that had cultivated large international followings. At the end of the year, David Bevan of The Washington Post described the "distinctly fervent (and always online) K-pop fan network." At the start of 2014, in a special to The Globe and Mail , music critic J. D. Considine wrote, "Perhaps it's a mistake, then, to think of the Korean Wave as

14577-428: The two songs were listed separately, as was true of all songs. With the initiation of the Hot 100 in 1958, A- and-B-sides charted separately, as they had on the former Top 100. Starting with the Hot 100 chart for the week ending November 29, 1969, this rule was altered; if both sides received significant airplay, they were listed together. This started to become a moot point by 1972, as most major record labels solidified

14706-521: The vote in the final round and second place going to Thirty Seconds to Mars fans, (with wins over Rihanna 's fans in Round 1, Selena Gomez 's fans in Round 2, Girls' Generation's fans in Round 3 and Skillet 's fans in Round 4; with over 20 million votes cast.) Jeff Benjamin is K-Town's columnist and manager. Prior to K-Town's launch, Billboard included K-pop news and articles, written by Billboard and Billboard Korea staff, which included Benjamin. He

14835-410: The website's companion syndicated television series ). On June 20, 2007, a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee filed an emergency motion requesting that the TMZ website be held in contempt for its publication of the entire manuscript of If I Did It , O. J. Simpson 's purportedly fictionalized account of the murder of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson . The filing claimed TMZ's posting of

14964-410: The week ending July 20, 1940, and published in the July 27 issue, with lists covering jukebox play, retail sales, sheet music sales, and radio play. Listed were 10 songs of the national "Best Selling Retail Records", which was the fore-runner of today's pop chart, with " I'll Never Smile Again " by Tommy Dorsey its first number one. Starting on March 24, 1945, Billboard ' s lead popularity chart

15093-476: The western music business such as Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber ." In January 2013, Billboard relaunched its websites with new features, including "enhanced content for fans" on its consumer site Billboard.com , with the intent to provide more on-site reporting of festivals, award shows, and other major music events. Billboard 's website is one of the most popular music publications online, and in 2013 comScore reported an average of 3.3 million visitors

15222-541: The years". Since 2005, TMZ has signed New Line Cinema , Hilton Hotels , Chrysler and Revlon as charter advertisers to their website. The New York Times cited TMZ as "one of the most successful online ventures of the last few years." In October 2008, the New York Times reported that TMZ, at the time, was receiving more than 10 million viewers every month. Levin has acknowledged that TMZ has passed on multiple notable coverages because he felt that, while

15351-620: Was US$ 25.4 million and is projected to have less revenue in the 2009 year with the revenue of $ 12.4 million in first three quarters of the year—unlike the previous year, which was within the US$ 15 million range. On May 29, 2012, co-founder Jim Paratore died of a heart attack during a cycling trip in France . Paratore was known for his work in television production, producing several daytime and syndicated programs, particularly while serving as an executive at Telepictures (which co-produced

15480-405: Was a tactic generally used by certain artists to boost their chart positions. Instead, such physical releases are now only counted when they are shipped to the consumer, rendering the tactic "ineffectual". A growing trend early in the first decade of the 21st century was to issue a song as a "remix" that was so drastically different in structure and lyrical content from its original version that it

15609-468: Was announced two days later. On August 22, 2024, TMZ incorrectly reported that Beyoncé would make a surprise appearance on the final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention . The report was widely shared. Later that night, a representative for Beyoncé said the singer was never scheduled to be at the DNC and that the report was false. After the convention, TMZ acknowledged "we got this one wrong" and

15738-483: Was discovered to have been part of a Playboy photoshoot from November 1967, which was later confirmed by Playboy representatives. On March 15, 2013, members of TMZ's staff claimed that they had learned rapper Lil Wayne was in an "unstable" condition after he was hospitalized following a seizure and that the then 30-year-old rapper had been placed in an induced coma and was breathing through tubes. Soon afterwards, Birdman stated on his Twitter account that Wayne

15867-447: Was essentially a whole new song. Under normal circumstances, airplay points from a song's album version, "radio" mix and/or dance music remix, etc. were all combined and factored into the song's performance on the Hot 100, as the structure, lyrics and melody remained intact. Criticisms began when songs were being completely re-recorded to the point that they no longer resembled the original recording. The first such example of this scenario

15996-485: Was healthy enough to be released from the hospital. Approximately one hour after these messages were made, Wayne himself stated on his Twitter account that he was fine. On October 26, 2022, TMZ incorrectly reported that rock n' roll pioneer and country music legend Jerry Lee Lewis had died; they issued a correction a few hours later. A CBS affiliate in Sacramento also reported the false news . Lewis' death

16125-400: Was launched on January 14, 2022. TMZ TMZ is a tabloid news organization owned by Fox Corporation . It made its debut on November 8, 2005, as a collaboration between AOL and Telepictures , a division of Warner Bros. , until Time Warner divested AOL in 2009. On September 13, 2021, Fox Corporation acquired TMZ from WarnerMedia for $ 50 million. The name TMZ is derived from

16254-462: Was the Best Sellers in Stores chart, and the magazine refers to that when discussing a song's performance before the creation of the Hot 100. In its issue of November 12, 1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time (for the survey weeks ending October 26 and November 2). The Top 100 combined all aspects of a single's performance (sales, airplay and jukebox activity), based on

16383-512: Was the Honor Roll of Hits . This chart ranked the most popular songs regardless of performer (it combined different versions of the same song by different artists) based on record and sheet sales, disk jockey, and jukebox performances as determined by Billboard ' s weekly nationwide survey. At the start of the rock era in 1955, there were three charts that measured songs by individual metrics: Billboard ' s primary chart among these

16512-542: Was the first to top the chart. On November 25–26, 2011, Billboard Korea hosted the "2011 Billboard K-Pop Masters, presented by MGM Grand " inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas . The line-up included TVXQ , 4Minute , G.NA , MBLAQ , Sistar, Beast , Shinee , and Brown Eyed Girls . The MGM Grand said the event would serve as "an opportunity to showcase the appeal of K-pop music as one of

16641-602: Was then incorporated into the equation that compiles the Hot 100, and this was expanded to a broader Streaming Songs chart in January 2013. In February 2013, U.S. views for a song on YouTube were added to the Hot 100 formula. " Harlem Shake " was the first song to reach number one after the changes were made. In July 2020, Billboard announced that they would no longer allow sales of physical/digital bundles to be reported as digital sales. This refers to songs being bought along with merchandise , either from an artists website or through another vendor. The magazine stated that this

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