Alex Newell of Shucked and J. Harrison Ghee of Some Like It Hot broke ground Sunday night as the first openly nonbinary Tony Award winners.
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Drake is celebrating a musical milestone.
As HotNewHipHop reports, Drake is officially Spotify’s most streamed artist ever, surpassing 80 billion streams on the music service.
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According to the outlet, Chart Data confirms that the recently released “Search&Rescue” added a 100 million streams to Drake’s tally, putting him above the 80 billion mark — a feat that no other artist has achieved.
Earlier this year, Drake similarly made music history when he hit 75 billion streams.
At the time, he used the occasion to urge Spotify to grant artists financial “bonuses” for their streaming achievements.
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“We should get bonuses like athletes to motivate the future artists to be consistent and competitive,” he wrote on Instagram Story. “So feel free to send me a LeBron-sized [cheque]. I have enough dinner plates @spotify.”
Alex Newell of Shucked and J. Harrison Ghee of Some Like It Hot broke ground Sunday night as the first openly nonbinary Tony Award winners.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Actor Alex Newell made history at this year’s Tony Awards, becoming the first openly nonbinary performer to win an acting prize for their performance as Lulu in Jack O’Brien’s “Shucked.” “Thank you for seeing me Broadway,” Newell said. “I should not be up here as a queer, non-binary, fat, Black, little baby from Massachusetts. And to anyone that thinks that they can’t do it, I’m going to look you dead in your face that you can do anything you put your mind to.” Newell isn’t the only nonbinary actor nominated at the Tonys, with J. Harrison Ghee among the shortlisted performers for lead actor (musical) for their performance as Jerry/Daphne in Casey Nicholaw’s “Some Like It Hot.” Ghee and Newell already walked into the ceremony making history as the first nonbinary-identifying actors recognized.
Jack Keating enjoyed some quality time with his three-month-old daughter Maya this week, sharing a sweet monochrome snap to Instagram while out for an al fresco meal. The former Love Island contestant, who announced the surprise baby news upon Maya's arrival in March, was ever the doting dad as he bundled up the little one on his knee while beaming to the camera. Dubbing her the 'best dinner date' to his 59K followers in the caption, Maya's mother, Keely Iqbal, joked "Before ya know it she’ll be sharing your calamari" in the comment section.
George Fensom has become the first contestant to be dumped from the villa on the latest series of Love Island.
J Hus has shared a new song titled "Who Told You." The track features a guest appearance by Drake, marking the first time the pair have collaborated together. Scroll down to listen to "Who Told You" now.
2023 BET Awards are ready to celebrate Black excellence across music, television, film and sports, and the nominations are stacked.This year's list of nominees — announced by the network on Thursday — is led by Drake, who scored the prize of most nominated with seven nods, including Best Male Hip Hop Artist, Best Male R&B/Pop Artist, Best Group with 21 Savage and Best Collaboration with Future and Tems. GloRilla reigns as the most nominated woman of the night with six nominations, including Best Female Hip Hop Artist, Best New Artist, Album of the Year for and Video of the Year for «Tomorrow 2» with Cardi B.21 Savage and Lizzo earned the third-highest number of nods, with five nominations each, followed by Beyoncé, Burna Boy, Chris Brown, Ice Spice and SZA with four nominations each. Cardi B, Coco Jones, FLO, Future, Jack Harlow, Kendrick Lamar, Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin and Tems round out the rest of the list of multiple nominations, tied with three nods each.While «culture's biggest night» hasn't named a host yet, last year's show was hosted by Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actress Taraji P.
The Los Angeles Times announced newsroom layoffs today for the first time since biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong bought the paper in 2018. The cuts include 74 positions, representing about 13% of the total newsroom headcount.
Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International Prince Harry has arrived at London’s High Court, where he will become the first senior royal to take the witness box in 130 years. The Duke of Sussex joins three other claimants in accusing the publisher of British tabloid The Daily Mirror of using unlawful methods, such as phone hacking, to secure stories. Mirror Group Newspapers has previously admitted to phone hacking but denies that the technique was used in the instances outlined in the claim. The case is one of five ongoing cases the royal has launched against U.K. media outlets. Harry appeared relaxed as he arrived at court on Tuesday morning, flashing a smirk at the crowd before patting a member of his team on the back and striding into the building. A swarm of photographers surrounded the entrance alongside curious onlookers, including an artist wielding an off-kilter painting of Harry and wife Meghan Markle on a donkey.
Drake has gone viral after the credit card he was using was declined.The Canadian rapper appeared on a special Kick livestream over the weekend, in an effort to promote Stake – an online crypto-casino.It was here that he showed up to the stream with another rap star, Lil Yachty — who the ‘Hotline Bling’ star asked Kick to join forces with for a business deal. “Yo, listen, I don’t know who owns Kick, but I know the chat wants to see Yachty go live,” he said during the video.
Drake is maintaining a foot-forward approach to his latest online betting giveaway.
Brad Pitt and Drake popped up together in an unexpected place this week: the small screen. The A-listers made surprise cameos in Wednesday's season three finale of on FXX, joining a long list of celebrity guests to appear on Dave Burd's — aka Lil Dicky — comedy series. Rachel McAdams was also featured in the finale, continuing an ongoing story arc that has seen her guest as herself in three episodes this season. Playing a fictionalized version of himself, Pitt's role marks his first return to a scripted TV series since a singular episode of in 2001.
Currently, Queen’s catalogue is owned by Disney Music Group which purchased the rights for a reported $10 million in 1991.
The season 3 finale of Lil Dicky’s “Dave” delivered an all-star extravaganza featuring guest appearances by Rachel McAdams, Brad Pitt and Drake, who hailed the show as “one of the most important of our generation.”
EXCLUSIVE: ITVX has recommissioned its first reality show since launching late last year: hybrid format Loaded in Paradise.
Jermane Prime, the mastermind behind Toronto rap group Prime Boys, is taking fans on a visual journey through the hip-hop universe with his newly released photo book, Link in Bio.
Drake is making music history!
Nearly six months after their drawn-out divorce was finalized, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are still trading public barbs. On Thursday’s season three premiere of Hulu’s The Kardashians, Kim accused Kanye of starting a rumor that she was having an affair with Drake during their marriage.
Netflix has set July 20 for the Season 3 premiere of Sweet Magnolias, and has released some first-look photos of the upcoming 10-episode season (see above and below).
A councillor has become the first ethnic minority and Muslim to be appointed as Tameside’s civic mayor.
“American Idol” has crowned its newest winner in Hawaii native Iam Tongi, whose victory as the first AAPI winner of the ABC competition still has not fully hit him.“It’s unreal,” Tongi told TheWrap just two days after Ryan Seacrest announced his name on the big stage. “It’s weird to be here [as] the winner, because … it was going so slow during the competition, but out of nowhere it was finished and I was like ‘that went by so fast.'”While several AAPI contestants have climbed their way to the top three finalists, including fan-favorite Jasmine Trias of the show’s third installment, Tongi noted that this milestone achievement happening during national AAPI month in May gives the win an even bigger significance, saying “it feels really good to be representing why Polynesian people during this month.”Originally from Kahuku, a town in O’ahu, Hawaii, Tongi noted the challenge of saying goodbye to his friends back home to come compete on the show, where his talents were recognized early on by judges with some early successes, including being chosen to sing out the group after the judges narrowed the contestants down to the top 24 with an emotional rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”Tongi also experienced a personal accomplishment when he worked with guest mentor and country legend Keith Urban, whose music marked a distinct memory in Tongi’s upbringing as his father, who has since passed away, adored Urban’s music.