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As the usual end-of-year hoopla continues, fellow students of pop culture are dually met this time around with meditations on the closing out of a particularly stacked decade. Adding to the conversation this week is the release of Spotify’s annual ranking of the year’s most-streamed artists, accompanied this go-around by similar stats for the decade. […]
Summer Walker garnered herself a huge first week for her debut record, Over It. As Billboard reports, the project debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart with 134,000 equivalent album units. That’s the biggest streaming week of all time for an R&B album by a woman, beating Beyoncé’s Lemonade. Over It was bolstered by strong-performing tracks such as “Girls […]
Beyoncé and Adele have a new collab in the bag. The track, the title of which has yet to be announced, will be among those featured on a new album from OneRepublic in 2020. That’s the word from the band’s Ryan Tedder, who announced during a Global Citizen festival press appearance that the song also boasts […]
Beyoncé is pulling no punches in an effort to trademark her daughter’s name. Beyoncé has been entangled in a legal battle with Wendy Morales over trademarking her daughter’s name, “Blue Ivy Carter.” Morales believes that Beyoncé shouldn’t be allowed to trademark “Blue Ivy” because she has an event planning business of the same name. According to court documents […]
Thursday bought the reveal of a new wax figure of Beyoncé. Madame Tussauds London captured a particularly celebrated era of Beyoncé—Beychella—with their latest wax tribute to the singer. In a statement to Entertainment Weekly, Madame Tussauds London boss Steve Davies broke down their decision to also give the wax figure the special privilege of one […]
ABC will air the documentary, Making the Gift, a behind-the-scenes special on the making of Beyoncé’s soundtrack, The Lion King: The Gift. The network announced on Sunday that Beyoncé Presents: Making the Gift will air Monday night at 10 p.m. E.T., following Dancing With the Stars. ABC—or its new name on Twitter, ABeyC—also released a […]
More than two years post-presidency, Barack Obama has remained a major cultural influencer. Case in point? The impact of his newly released 2019 summer playlist. Last month, the 44th president took to social media to unveil the 44 songs he and Michelle Obama have had in rotation throughout the season. The list was a mix of […]
Despite her ongoing tug-of-war with Scooter Braun, Taylor Swift has had an impressive year. According to Forbes, Swift is the world’s highest-paid woman in music. The list tracks the earnings generated between June of 2018 and June of 2019. Through her touring and the instant success of her latest album, Lover, Swift was able to rake in $185 million […]
Though he’s not president anymore Barack Obama is still doing that thing where he shares his summer playlist because, well, it’s not exactly something you need to be president to do. “With summer winding down, here’s a sampling of what Michelle and I have been listening to—some new, some old, some fast, some slow,” Obama […]
It’s been 10 years since Kanye West hopped onstage to interrupt Taylor Swift‘s acceptance speech at the MTV VMAs and we’re still talking about the reverberations. Both in spite of and because of that distance, new details have emerged about that famous interaction in an oral history of the show published by Billboard. Perhaps the […]
