Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

After suffering a  drop in album sales and a messy public divorce, Usher returns with new management and a new attitude.

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

Nearly 10 years after the group’s last studio effort, Sade is back with “Soldier of Love,” blasting in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 502,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

Expect the smooth sounds of Sade to overtake the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 album chart next week, as the group’s new effort “Soldier of Love” could sell between 375,000 to 400,000.

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

Next week’s Billboard 200 album chart will shine brightly with big gains courtesy of last Grammy Awards, which aired on Jan. 31.

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon.

Lady A crashes into the Billboard 200 with the biggest debut sales week for any album since Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” bowed atop the chart in November.