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Drake’s sixth studio album Certified Lover Boy, which dropped on September 3, has topped Billboard’s all-genre 200 chart. Drake scored his 10th No. 1 with the long-awaited album, as it earned 613,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending September 9, according to MRC Data. This marks the biggest week for an…

Ed Sheeran recently shared a music video for his latest single, “Shivers,” from his upcoming studio album, = (Equals). The video, directed by Dave Meyers, features actress Anna Sophia Robb. “I wrote this as soon as the Divide tour ended in a rented farm in Suffolk where we had set up a studio for a…

Lil Nas X won the Video of the Year award at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. The “power bottom rapper” took home the top honor at the 2021 VMAs on Sunday for his fiery, unapologetically queer “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” visual. “First, I want to say thank you to the gay agenda,”…

Lana Del Rey recently dropped a new single, “Arcadia,” from her upcoming album Blue Banisters. The alt-pop star also announced a new release date for the record, which will now drop on October 22. “My body is a map of L.A./I stand straight like an angel, with a halo/Hanging out the Hilton Hotel windows/Screaming, ‘Hey…

DaBaby dropped a new single, titled “Lonely,” featuring Lil Wayne on Thursday, September 9. In the track, DaBaby refers to his older brother Glenn Johnson, who died almost a year ago due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He also reflects on his feelings about being an outsider in the music industry. “As if I got…

Rapper Doja Cat covers “You’re the One That I Want,” the classic track from the 1978 movie Grease, for Pepsi’s latest commercial. The beverage giant’s latest commercial takes viewers back to Rydell High School and Frosty Palace, as Doja dances her way into a soda shop. The 90-second ad, which launches Pepsi’s Cream Soda and…

Drake recently released a music video for “Way 2 Sexy,” featuring Future and Young Thug. The song is part of Drake’s new 21-track sixth studio album, Certified Boy. The video, directed by Dave Meyers, samples Right Said Fred’s 1991 smash hit “I’m Too Sexy” and opens with an OVO “warning” message that proclaims, “Repeat viewing…

Black Entertainment Television has announced the nominees for the 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards. Cardi B and Meg Thee Stallion are leading the nominees this year with nine nominations each. Without a mixtape or a studio album, Cardi is nominated twice for “Best Hip Hop Video” (“WAP” and “Up”), “Best Collaboration” (“WAP”), “Song of The…

Lorde on Thursday, September 9, dropped a surprise companion EP to her recently released third studio album Solar Power. The EP, titled Te Ao Marama, features renditions of five tracks from Solar Power by veteran New Zealand singers Bic Runga and Marlon Williams in the indigenous language of Aotearoa New Zealand, Maori. All proceeds from…

Halsey’s new studio album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Albums chart dated September 11. The album is Halsey’s second No. 1 on the tally. The first time a Halsey album topped Billboard’s Alternative Albums chart was in 2015, through Badlands. If I Can’t Have Love,…