This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite a late start — he didn’t reach Billboard’s charts until 2009 — Drake sprinted to the lead through a prolific schedule of ...

The original reached No. 3 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in 1990. By Trevor Anderson Sentury joins the list of Billboard radio chart-topping artists as the group’s single “Only Human” hits No. 1 ...

With a 10th No. 1, Usher ties Charlie Wilson for the most among male artists on the radio list. By Trevor Anderson SZA isn’t the only artist topping charts with an “SOS” release. Victoria Monét’s “SOS ...

The full list of Billboard's 2025 year-end charts are almost here, and we're counting down the days to their unveiling on Tuesday, Dec. 9, with a special look at select rankings in the lead-up to the ...

You won’t believe how easy it is to create animated bar charts in the R programming language to show rankings over time. Racing bar charts can be a useful way to visualize comparative data over time.

Learn how to make everything from basic line graphs to racing bar charts — all interactive and easily animated — with the echarts4r R package. While I’m mostly settled on ggplot2 for static plots, I’m ...