Beyoncé Holds Top Spot on Albums Chart as J. Cole’s ‘Might Delete Later’ Enters at No. 2

The "wettest" cities in Scotland have been revealed in new research, with two claiming the top spots for the whole of Great Britain.

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Gangs of London’ star Joe Cole and ‘True Spirit’ and ‘Titans’ actor Teagan Croft have both just wrapped contemporary neo-noir thriller Override, the fourth feature from directing duo Natasha Merkulova and Alexey Chupov. It marks the English-language debut for the Russian helmers, whose Captain Volkonogov Escaped played in Venice’s Competition strand in 2021.

EXCLUSIVE: Gangs of London and Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole is set to lead action-thriller He Bled Neon, marking the feature debut of music video filmmaker Drew Kirsch who co-directed videos “You Need to Calm Down” and “Lover” with Taylor Swift, and also helmed videos for Shakira, Charlie Puth, John Legend, Imagine Dragons and Machine Gun Kelly.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles inked a deal to lead IAC’s The Daily Beast, under which the media veterans have been granted a minority stake in the news and opinion site. Effective immediately, Sherwood — one-time president of the Disney ABC Television Group — will serve as The Daily Beast’s publisher and CEO. Coles, previously Hearst Magazines’ chief content officer, is the site’s chief creative and content officer.

The Libertines have topped the UK Albums Charts for the first time in over two decades.It comes after the indie giants shared their latest LP, ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’, at the start of the month. It marked the fourth studio LP from Pete Doherty, Carl Barât, John Hassall and Gary Powell, and first since 2015’s ‘Anthems For Doomed Youth’.Now, it has been confirmed by the Official Charts that the band have locked in the Number One spot with the new release – making it the first time they have topped the album charts in two decades.The band’s first and only time reaching peak position until now was back in 2004, when they shared their now-iconic eponymous album ‘The Libertines’.“We are all of us in the gutter, but today we’re looking at the stars! Thanks for the love.

Paramount+ series 1923, a spin-off prequel to Yellowstone, was last seen on March 31. After he failed to attend an audition, concerns over his whereabouts were raised, and he was reported missing on April 2.His body was found in a woodland area about 43 miles southwest of Kansas City on April 5, and his death was confirmed in a statement written by his father Joe Brings Plenty, which Cole’s uncle, Mo Brings Plenty, shared on his behalf.The statement, posted by Cole’s uncle, who was also an actor known for acting in Yellowstone, read: “I am deeply saddened to confirm that my son, Cole, has been found and is no longer with us.

Ariana Grande kicked off the season atop the Billboard 200 with “Eternal Sunshine” — scoring what was then the biggest opening week of any album in 2024 — while simultaneously notching a No. 1 debut on the Hot 100 with her current single “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love),” it’s been one boss lady after another running the music game.Indeed, before we even got to April Fool’s Day, we were also flipping our lace-front wigs over new albums by Kacey Musgraves (“Deeper Well”) and, of course, Beyoncé (“Cowboy Carter”).

The K’s are currently Number Two in the UK charts with their debut album ‘I Wonder If The World Knows?’. Vocalist Jamie Boyle has spoken to NME about doing battle with The Libertines, getting picked up by living legend Alan McGee and why guitar music will never die.‘I Wonder If The World Knows?’ was released last Friday (April 5) and according to the midweek chart update, is outselling records from the likes of Conan Gray, Beyoncé, The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend and Olivia Rodrigo.“It’s mental. It’s one of those situations that just doesn’t seem real,” said Boyle.

Beyoncé's 6-year-old daughter Rumi Carter has broken the world record for the youngest female singer to hit the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The daughter of music legends Beyoncé and Jay Z managed to land in the Hot 100 after featuring on her mum’s track Protector, from the singer’s newly-released country album Cowboy Carter. Protector charted at number 42 on the Hot 100, bringing in 11.3 million streams in the U.S.

3 Body Problem spent another week atop Netflix‘s TV charts.

Beyoncé is making history, landing at the top of the music charts after launching Cowboy Carter, her first country music album.

“Texas Hold ’Em” singer made a last-minute pitch to country upstart Willie Jones to appear on her new “Cowboy Carter” opus — with the album deadline fast approaching to make her March 29 release date — it was either go big or stay home.“It was literally in the fourth quarter,” Jones, 29, told The Post of recording his “Just for Fun” duet with Beyoncé in the final stages of “Cowboy Carter.” “It was literally … end of February, February 20-something.”Jones got the call that would change his life from Alex Vickery, who produced his vocals on “Just for Fun” — which, despite its title, is a decidedly moody meditation.“She’s like, ‘Are you sitting down?’ I was like, ‘Yeah.’ And she’s like, ‘You know Beyoncé is working on a country album … [and] she loves your voice.’ I was like, ‘Are you serious?’ She was like, ‘Can you come out here tomorrow?’ I was like, ‘Send the car.’ ”And now the Shreveport, Louisiana native is galloping into history as one of the Black country artists spotlighted by Beyoncé Knowles Carter on “Cowboy Carter” — the undisputed event record of 2024 — which just scored the biggest sales week of the year in its chart-topping debut on the Billboard 200. Released to rave reviews (including mine), the LP also made Queen B the first Black woman to reign over the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, while simultaneously holding the top three spots on the Hot Country Songs chart led by her No.

borrowed too much from a 1983 magazine article that inspired the original “Top Gun” film.In a decision on Friday, US District Judge Percy Anderson in Los Angeles said the sequel was not “substantially similar” to Ehud Yonay’s “Top Guns,” about the US Navy’s Top Gun fighter pilot training school in San Diego.Yonay’s widow Shosh Yonay and son Yuval Yonay, the heirs to his copyright, said they deserved some of the sequel’s profits, after Paramount built a billion-dollar franchise off an article that “breathed life into the technical humdrum of a navy base.”Lawyers for the Yonays did not immediately respond on Monday to requests for comment.

Beyoncé and Paul McCartney.The “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer covers the 1968 Beatles beauty “Blackbird” — written by Macca, although credited to both McCartney and John Lennon — on her countrified new album “Cowboy Carter” that was released last Friday to rave reviews (including mine) and record-shattering streams.Bey’s honey- and harmony-coated rendition of “The White Album” classic — featuring African-American female country singers Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy and Reyna Roberts making like Destiny’s Southern Child — is a revelation that repurposes the song from a black female perspective.And Sir Paul has given Beyonce’s “Blackbird” — which is styled as “Blackbiird” on “Cowboy Carter” — the most royal of blessings.“I am so happy with @beyonce’s version of my song ‘Blackbird,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “I think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the civil rights message that inspired me to write the song in the first place.

J. Cole has appeared to fire back at Kendrick Lamar‘s recent diss on a newly released surprise album, ‘Might Delete Later’.Last month, Kendrick Lamar took aim at Drake and J.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer When Future and Metro Boomin dropped their recent collaborative album “We Don’t Trust You” last month, fans were quick to latch onto Kendrick Lamar’s guest verse on “Like That,” where he took shots at Drake and J.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and EventsApril kicked off with Beyoncé being presented with the Innovator Award at the iHeartRadio Awards in Los Angeles.

The Queen of pop Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has delighted fans with her new album Cowboy Carter featuring the huge hit TEXAS HOLD 'EM, which no doubt, you've heard everywhere. The album launched last month, with Beyoncé promoting the album with a photo of her completely nude except for a sash which read: "act ii Beyincé." Many were confused by the misspelling of the icon's name but Queen Bey's mum, Tina Knowles-Lawson, has revealed how her eldest daughter secured her name and revealed why the spelling was different.

Rapper Jay-Z and singer Beyoncé are one of the biggest celebrity power couples in the world, and on Thursday, 4 April, they will celebrate their 16th wedding anniversary. The couple met in the year 2000, when Beyoncé, now 42, was just 18 years old.Their meeting came when they sat next to each other on a plane while both attending the 2000 MTV Spring Break festival. It seems that Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, who is 12 years Beyoncé's senior, always knew she was 'the one' as he rapped about it in his 2018 song Everything Is Love.

As the Walford residents came to grips with the discovery of Keanu Taylor’s body in the latest visit to EastEnders, one of Albert Square’s most hated characters, Dean Wicks may have sealed his fate after he was unexpectedly implicated in the mechanic’s death. Things all kicked off during Wednesday (3 April) night’s visit to Walford, which picked up where things left off the previous night, with Jack Branning walking in on Stacey Slater and Denise Fox trying to hide Keanu’s body after the floor collapsed over where he was buried.