Eventually, someone had to bump Taylor Swift from the top of the Billboard album chart. This week, that distinction belongs to One Direction. “Four” (Syco/Columbia), the group’s fourth album, sold 387,000 copies in the United States in its first week out, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That is the

The film adaptation of Shiela Weller's book "Girls Like Us," which focuses on the impact of singers Mitchell, Carly Simon and Carole King was first announced in 2012. After two years, Mitchell comes forward to admit that she nixed the project. "I squelched that!" Mitchell told The Sunday Times in

One of the few certainties in the music business these days is that if Taylor Swift puts out a new album, it will sell by the truckload. Her last two records, “Red” and “Speak Now,” each sold more than one million copies in its first week out, an increasingly rare feat as music sales weaken, and

It must be hard out there for those few stalwarts who haven’t joined the cult of Taylor Swift. The woman is everywhere. Dominating the charts, coveringmagazines, and even cropping up in random family photos. While it’s probably O.K. if you don’t love Taylor Swift, it’s not O.K. for you to hate

Taylor Swift’s decision to remove her music this week from Spotify is a “big fist in the air” that other prominent artists are sure to follow, says her longtime record label president. In the week she sold 1.3 million copies of her new album 1989, Swift abruptly pulled her single “Shake It Off” and