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Weekend Edition guest host Don Gonyea speaks with Silvio Pietroluongo of Billboard Magazine about the recent changes to the formula for the "Hot 100" chart. Billboard now incorporates the number of views on YouTube to determine the top songs in the country.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Cecilia Rouse, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, about Biden's State of the Union address and the impact of the war in Ukraine on the U.S. economy.

In 1989, two members of the rock band Superchunk launched a tiny record label. Twenty years later, amid the struggles of the music industry at large, Merge has become one of the most respected and successful companies in the business.

Republicans from New York wasted no time going after Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the first day of the Republican National Convention in North Carolina on Monday,…

Students returned to the campus for classes for the first time since 17 people were killed in a shooting rampage at the Florida school.

State law lets any member of the bar be appointed as a public defender. Gov. Jay Nixon was assigned a client, but Nixon's spokesman says you can't appoint an attorney without the attorney's consent.

Before his death in 1994, Kurt Cobain wrote up a list of his top 50 favorite albums of all time. KEXP's podcast The Cobain 50 dives into a different album from the list for each episode.

David Gura speaks to Cecilia Rouse, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, about the health of the U.S. economy amid inflation, supply chain interruptions and labor shortages.

Eight skilled classical guitarists from around the world will be competing in Buffalo over the next four days. They have been selected to compete in the…

The State Assembly's top Republican is giving good grades to Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget for the coming year.Assembly Minority Leader Brian…