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The first of the important year-end music industry data reports have come out for 2025, from Luminate Data and Chartmetric. Luminate’s report confirms that growth in music streaming in the U.S. is ...

The demand for power consumed by data centers is expected to more than double from 292 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2026 to 606 TWh by 2030, according to McKinsey & Company. In percentage terms of total ...

The Census Bureau’s first snapshot of population data for 2025 confirms some big trends, like a major shift in immigration as the U.S. cracks down on border crossings and steps up deportations. The ...

Kerry, a global leader in taste and nutrition, has today unveiled its 2026 Global Taste Charts, the industry’s most comprehensive guide to the flavours set to inspire innovation in food and beverage.

It’s a brand new year, and yet the top of the Samba TV Weekly Wrap report streaming chart looks awfully familiar, thanks to returning favorites, renewed interest in old titles, movie sequels and, of ...

President Donald Trump said Saturday the U.S. would tap into Venezuela’s oil reserves following President Nicolás Maduro’s capture. Trump wants U.S. oil companies to invest in Venezuela’s oil industry ...

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YouTube will stop submitting its data to the U.S. Billboard charts next month due to a dispute over how streams are counted, according to an announcement Wednesday from the streamer’s global head of ...

YouTube is pulling its data from Billboard for use in the publisher’s industry-leading U.S. music charts. The decision is in response to a recent change Billboard made to its ranking formula, which ...

YouTube, one of the biggest music streaming platforms in the world, will no longer submit data to Billboard for its U.S. music charts starting early next year. As Cohen explained, YouTube’s main gripe ...

The Trump administration’s plans to advance data centers and the energy to support them are sparking a legal backlash. Critics of data centers that power artificial intelligence are writing a playbook ...