Record companies have a few tricks to give old albums a boost on the charts. Stephen Thompson of NPR Music spotted a few, all in this week's Billboard magazine. STEPHEN THOMPSON, BYLINE: One is ...

Music News Encore: Coldplay tops album chart, thanks to old-fashioned sales and modern tricks October 19, 20245:38 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered Stephen Thompson ...

That chart performance was fueled almost entirely by an old-fashioned metric, album sales, which accounted for nearly 90% of the band's 120,000 equivalent album units. That's Billboard speak for the ...