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 ...

The track surges after the impact of its reimagined version, "(un)Folded." By Trevor Anderson Kehlani achieves her first top 10 hit on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart as “Folded” rallies 14-9 ...

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 ...