Coverage tracker
The most covered news stories, 26 October to 1 November 2026
FTMQ Music reads 4,208 headlines from 875 outlets a week. These are the stories the most of them covered, and the outlet that had each one first.
- 1The Flaming Lips announce new album The Teardrop Throbs on Third Man
11 outlets · first: Spin, Mon 16:51 UTC · New Releases
- 2Forrest Frank Announces New Album The Jesus Generation For December Release
9 outlets · first: Holler, Tue 13:05 UTC · Top Stories
- 3Nickelback releases eleventh studio album Everything Under The Sun
8 outlets · first: Metal Planet Music, Thu 17:24 UTC · New Releases
- 4DIIV release new single Dare Me and announce 2027 world tour
7 outlets · first: MNPR Magazine, Wed 18:30 UTC · New Releases
- 5Elvis Presley catalog owners sue Anthropic for copyright infringement
6 outlets · first: NME, Sun 11:44 UTC · Top Stories
- 6Deep Purple Postpone Shows Following Ian Gillan Hospitalization
5 outlets · first: Ultimate Classic Rock, Sat 15:28 UTC · Top Stories
- 7Ella Langley Sets Country Airplay Chart Record with Sixth Number One
4 outlets · first: Fox News, Mon 14:47 UTC · Top Stories
- 8Neil Young sues Trump committee for 10 million dollars over song
4 outlets · first: Consequence, Mon 23:38 UTC · Top Stories
- 9Cheap Trick announce touring hiatus in 2027 after 50 years
4 outlets · first: Pollstar, Wed 17:28 UTC · Top Stories
- 10Post Malone teases new song Bad Mood from upcoming album
4 outlets · first: Billboard, Wed 22:23 UTC · Top Stories
- 11Tame Impala Cover Seal Hit Kiss from a Rose on Radio
4 outlets · first: Consequence, Thu 23:56 UTC · Top Stories
- 12Bradford Cox releases Octoberland as first Atlas Sound music in 15 years
4 outlets · first: Pitchfork, Fri 21:03 UTC · Top Stories
- 13Turnstile draw 60,000 to free Washington Monument charity concert
3 outlets · first: Consequence, Sun 17:02 UTC · Top Stories
- 14Federal judge dismisses proposed Spotify class action lawsuit over fake Drake streams
3 outlets · first: Digital Music News, Mon 20:40 UTC · Top Stories
- 15Mei Semones releases new single 2 Hands ahead of upcoming album
3 outlets · first: BroadwayWorld, Thu 13:20 UTC · New Releases
- 16Triumph cancels remaining 2026 tour dates due to unexpected medical circumstances
3 outlets · first: Ultimate Classic Rock, Fri 20:45 UTC · Top Stories
First to the story
Outlets that had the most of the week’s widely covered stories before anyone else.
- Consequence3
- Ultimate Classic Rock2
- Spin1
- Holler1
- Metal Planet Music1
- MNPR Magazine1
- NME1
- Fox News1
- Pollstar1
- Billboard1
Busiest outlets
Headlines published in the feeds we read.
- Billboard152
- TrendyHipHop150
- Consequence142
- TicketNews106
- Whiskey Riff102
- Clash Magazine90
- Pollstar88
- Rolling Stone82
- Ones To Watch80
- Digital Music News65
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Source: FTMQ Music coverage tracker, 26 October to 1 November 2026, https://music.ftmq.com/coverage/2026-10-26
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.