Coverage tracker
The most covered news stories, 19 October to 25 October 2026
FTMQ Music reads 1,374 headlines from 414 outlets a week. These are the stories the most of them covered, and the outlet that had each one first. This week is still running; the numbers are updated every hour.
- 1Burna Boy Metro Boomin and Skepta to headline Rolling Loud India
11 outlets · first: Time Out Worldwide, Mon 05:58 UTC · Live Music
- 2Harry Styles and John Wilson team up for MSG concert documentary
6 outlets · first: Rolling Stone, Sun 13:13 UTC · Top Stories
- 3Joanne Shaw Taylor announces spring 2027 UK tour for new album
6 outlets · first: Rock News UK, Mon 10:07 UTC · Top Stories
- 4Mötley Crüe announces eight date Las Vegas residency for 2027
5 outlets · first: Ultimate Classic Rock, Mon 14:18 UTC · Live Music
- 5Muna tour bus catches fire in Burbank California with no injuries
4 outlets · first: Consequence, Mon 21:12 UTC · Top Stories
- 6Charli XCX brings out guest Chappell Roan at Los Angeles concert
3 outlets · first: InMusic Blog, Sun 13:36 UTC · Top Stories
- 7Red Hot Chili Peppers and Foo Fighters play Silverlake benefit concert
3 outlets · first: Consequence, Sun 15:05 UTC · Top Stories
- 8Taylor Swift Debuts The Fate of Ophelia at Academy Museum Gala
3 outlets · first: Billboard, Sun 15:52 UTC · Top Stories
- 9Doves guitarist Jez Williams announces debut solo album Life Of Me And You
3 outlets · first: NME, Tue 15:00 UTC · New Releases
- 10Bicep announce new album Slug for January release on Ninja Tune
3 outlets · first: Still Listening Magazine, Tue 17:40 UTC · Top Stories
First to the story
Outlets that had the most of the week’s widely covered stories before anyone else.
- Consequence2
- Time Out Worldwide1
- Rolling Stone1
- Rock News UK1
- Ultimate Classic Rock1
- InMusic Blog1
- Billboard1
- NME1
- Still Listening Magazine1
Busiest outlets
Headlines published in the feeds we read.
- Consequence57
- Billboard55
- TicketNews45
- Clash Magazine42
- Whiskey Riff38
- Voxtrendy31
- Music Business Worldwide28
- Pollstar26
- That Eric Alper25
- Taste of Country24
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Free to quote and chart, with a link to this page. The data is a download: CSV.
Source: FTMQ Music coverage tracker, 19 October to 25 October 2026, https://music.ftmq.com/coverage/2026-10-19
How it is counted: every report FTMQ Music wrote that week is matched with the headlines from the outlets we follow that are about the same event (they share its names and its less common words), published within a day and a half of it. Aggregators that repeat other outlets’ headlines are not counted. Each outlet counts once per story; the first is the earliest such headline. Only outlets with feeds we read are counted, so this measures breadth of coverage, not every report there was.