Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, has earned a seventh straight week atop the Billboard 200. The surprise double album earned 148,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the May 31-June 6 tracking week, according to Luminate. Among Swift’s albums, TTPD surpasses Folklore for spending the most weeks atop the list from…… MORE
Carrie Underwood and Missy Elliot will be among the presenters and performers at the upcoming 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Dinner. They will be joined by Trey Anastasio, Kevin Bacon and Michael Bacon, Cary Barlowe, Andra Day, El Debarge, Jason Isbell, Nile Rodgers, Keith Urban, Deniece Williams and Paul Williams at the…… MORE
Glass Animals recently released a new single, called “A Tear In Space (Airlock).” The track is the latest preview of the British band’s fourth studio album, I Love You So F***ing Much, which is due July 19 via Polydor. The song is accompanied by a video directed by Taylor Fauntleroy and Drew Kirsch. In the…… MORE
Howard University has rescinded Sean “Diddy” Combs’ honorary degree, saying he is “no longer worthy to hold the institution’s highest honor.” The decision to revoke the recognition conferred to the rapper a decade ago was made unanimously at a meeting of the University’s board of trustees last Friday. The board said in a statement that…… MORE
Billie Eilish recently released a video for “Chihiro,” featuring Nat Wolff. The video, directed by Eilish herself, sees her running through an abandoned building and seeing a stranger, who who is played by the “Paper Towns” actor, emerging from one of the rooms. When she manages to catch him after a chase, he vanishes. Eilish…… MORE
DMX has earned a posthumous chart-topper on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart thanks to Five Finger Death Punch’s “This Is the Way.” FFDP extended its record streak on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart and now has 11 straight No. 1s on the tally. As for DMX, “This Is the Way” is the late rapper’s first…… MORE
Ariana Grande recently shared a video for “The Boy Is Mine,” featuring surprise cameos from Brandy and Monica. The video begins with Grande watching a press conference introduced by TV news anchors played by Brandy and Monica, who sang the original 1998 hit “The Boy Is Mine” together. The iconic song spent 13 weeks at…… MORE
Atlanta-based rapper Latto recently dropped a remix of her single “Sunday Service,” featuring Megan Thee Stallion and Flo Milli via RCA Records. The remix arrives along with a music video, which was seemingly shot backstage on tour. “This remix so mf hard,” Latto wrote on Instagram. “Like I really did that.” Latto released the original…… MORE
Pharrell Williams recently released a trailer for his Lego animated biopic Piece By Piece. “You know what what would be cool is if we told my story with Lego pieces,” Lego Pharrell says in the trailer to the similarly-bricked director Morgan Neville, who chuckles politely and asks, “Seriously?” Pharrell replies, “Just be open.” The trailer…… MORE
Pop superstar Lady Gaga has shutdown recent pregnancy rumors using Taylor Swift’s lyrics. “Not pregnant-just down bad cryin at the gym,” reads a message across her latest TikTok, referencing Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department track “Down Bad.” In the video Gaga, in a dramatic black-eyeliner look, lip syncs to a TikTok voice-over that says, “I…… MORE
