"Easy on Me" continues on top, while "One Right Now" debuts at No. 6 and "Smokin Out the Window" blows in at No. 8. Adele's "Easy on Me" adds a fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. Plus, Ed Sheeran boasts two simultaneous top five Hot 100 hits for the first time, as "Bad Habits" and "Shivers" ranks at Nos. 4 and 5, respectively. Meanwhile, two tracks debut in […]
Summer Walker earns her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as the singer’s second studio LP, Still Over It, arrives atop the list. The 20-track set was released on Nov. 5 and launches with 166,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 11, according to MRC Data. Over 90% of the album’s first-week units were driven by streaming activity. Still Over It marks both the first R&B album […]
Pop legends ABBA earn their highest charting album ever on the Billboard 200, and first top 10, as Voyage debuts at No. 2 on the chart dated Nov. 20. The set was released on Nov. 5 and is the quartet’s first new studio album since 1982’s The Visitors. Until this week, ABBA’s highest-charting album on the Billboard 200 was 1978’s The Album, which peaked at No. 14 on the July 22, 1978-dated chart. The Album contains the hit single […]
A date has been set for a Verzuz battle between Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Three 6 Mafia. The official Verzuz Instagram account revealed the news late Friday night (Nov. 12). The battle will go down live in Los Angeles in just a few weeks. "IT’S THAT TIME," read the battle announcement, featuring a poster with text overlaying a red brick wall. "Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (@btnhlive) vs Three 6 Mafia (@three6mafia) LIVE from Los Angeles!! Thursday, DECEMBER 2ND. […]
Lil Nas X won best video for "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)." He accepted via a cheeky video in which he played a worker in a fast-food restaurant. BTS and Ed Sheeran each won multiple awards at the 2021 MTV EMAs, which were broadcast live from the Papp László Budapest Sportaréna in Budapest, Hungary on Sunday (Nov. 14). BTS won best pop, best K-Pop, best group and biggest fans. Sheeran took […]
Jeff Wald, who served as a longtime manager, producer and boxing promoter, died on Friday (Nov. 12). He was 77. Wald’s daughter, Traci Wald, confirmed his passing to The Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was available. “To the very end, he was laughing and fighting for the life he lived with epic proportions in every way,” Wald said in a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter. “He was surrounded by the […]
Jay-Z and a lawyer for the fragrance company Parlux continued to spar in court on Monday over whether or not the rapper fulfilled his obligations around Jay-Z Gold perfume. There was hardly a single issue on which lawyer Anthony Viola and Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, could find agreement. Carter, brow furrowed and masked up, accused Parlux’s attorney of “playing lawyer tricks” and “word games” multiple times. At one […]
Kraftwerk will return with their immersive “3-D concerts” for a North American tour next summer. The 2022 trek will kick off May 27 at the Pageant in St. Louis, Missouri, and wrap July 10 at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, Nov. 5, at 10 a.m. local time. A pre-sale for American Express cardholders in select markets will run from Nov. 2 at 10 a.m. local […]
First Country is a compilation of the best new country songs, videos & albums that dropped this week. This week's First Country column sees Miranda Lambert's latest solo release, Walker Hayes issuing the followup to his smash hit "Fancy Like," and Darius Rucker teaming with blues vocalist/guitarist Keb' Mo'. Miranda Lambert, “If I Was a Cowboy” “You thought the West was wild/ but you ain’t saddled up with me,” Lambert sings in this new release, which […]
