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Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is still No. 1 on the Billboard 200!

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Widely respected TV publicity vet Rebecca Marks was honored on Wednesday with the Ben Halpern Lifetime Achievement Award, recognized for her ongoing career as one of the most trusted communications execs in the biz. Marks, who’s now the exec VP of publicity, communications and social media at Warner Bros.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Metro Boomin has announced his initiative to donate $100,000 to five women-focused nonprofits in his native St. Louis, MO in honor of his late mother’s legacy.

Thania Garcia Post Malone is on a winning streak. The American rapper and singer earns his second No. 1 single of the year with his and Morgan Wallen‘s duet “I Had Some Help” debuting atop the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Busted! A cop has been fired after being seen in an adult content creator’s NSFW video… In full uniform!

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer After a security guard was shot at Drake’s Toronto residence earlier this week and an intruder was arrested the next day, police returned to the rapper’s home on Thursday afternoon (May 9) after a trespasser got into an “altercation” with security guards. This marks the third incident involving police at Drake’s home this week.

EXCLUSIVE: Production has wrapped in Wales on boxing crime-drama Salvable, starring Toby Kebbell (For All Mankind), Shia LaBeouf (Fury) and James Cosmo (Game Of Thrones). Above is a first-look image.

Tributes have poured in following the death of a "kind-hearted and gentle" radio presenter. Brian Moore, who worked at Rock FM in Lancashire before moving to the North East of England in the noughties, died aged 52 on Saturday (May 4), ChronicleLive reports.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Taylor Swift‘s “The Tortured Poets Department” registered 439,000 album-equivalent units to return as the No. 1 album in the U.S. in its second week out, according to data from Luminate first reported in Billboard.

Taylor Swift made history on the Billboard charts this week and she’s the first person to occupy the top 14 slots of the Hot 100 singles chart.

The creation of a major new high speed rail station in Liverpool, strengthening the city's links with Manchester, has taken a significant step closer.

Drake has officially released his song “Push Ups” on streaming!

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music On the heels of the two albums they’ve released in the past three weeks — “We Don’t Trust You” and “We Still Don’t Trust You” — Future and Metro Boomin have announced dates for a six-week North American tour called, naturally enough, the “We Trust You” tour, presented by Cash App and Visa and produced by Live Nation. The arena run kicks off on Tuesday, July 30 in Kansas City, Mo.

Thania Garcia Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” is the No. 1 album in the United States for a second consecutive week, preventing new releases from J. Cole and Tomorrow X Together from hitting the peak.

After Kendrick Lamar aimed at Drake and J. Cole on Metro Boomin and Future’s “Like That,” Drake has apparently fired back — although there’s been no official confirmation — with a diss track that surfaced on social media on Saturday (April 13). Early in the day, a four-minute “leaked” song attributed to Drake hit social media, with some doubting its authenticity and speculating that it was an A.I.-created record.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer J. Cole has removed his Kendrick Lamar diss “7 Minute Drill” from streaming services, less than a week after he told the crowd at his Dreamville Festival that he regretted releasing it and that he may take it off DSPs.

Ellise Shafer Morgan Wallen was arrested Sunday night on reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct charges after he allegedly threw a chair from the rooftop of a Nashville bar. Wallen’s attorney, Worrick Robinson, confirmed the arrest to Billboard in a statement. “At 10:53p Sunday evening Morgan Wallen was arrested in downtown Nashville for reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer As expected, Beyoncé has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with “Cowboy Carter,” marking the biggest sales for an album so far in 2024.

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.

Thania Garcia Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar’s “Like That,” in which Lamar directly responds to Drake and J. Cole’s “First Person Shooter,” has landed at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Things weren’t always this tense between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.

A.D. Amorosi Mixing the business of trap and the pleasure of friendship is what unites mumble-rapper Future with cinematic producer Metro Boomin.

Police say the body of Riley Strain has been found in the Cumberland River in Nashville.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Kendrick Lamar made an uncredited appearance on Future and Metro Boomin’s new album “We Don’t Trust You,” and with it delivered a series of apparently sharp, pointed words for Drake and J.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer After teasing a full-length collaboration late last year, Metro Boomin and Future have announced not one, but two new albums releasing in the coming weeks. The pair have announced “We Don’t Trust You” will drop on March 22, with a second album slated for April 12.

Jessica Kiang The shortest distance between two points is popularly believed to be a straight line. But if one of those points is the chin, cheekbone or torso of some sneering and/or psychotic Korean gangster, the shortest route is actually the arc described by either one of Korean megastar Don Lee‘s fists, here playing the fists of Detective Ma, protagonist of the ludicrously watchable “Roundup” series.

A fugitive aristocrat was given almost £50,000 from her trust fund in the months before she disappeared with her partner and newborn baby, a trial has heard. Constance Marten was given £47,886 by C. Hoare & Co between September 1 2022 and January 17 2023.

Fans of a certain type of Walkers crisps have been left devastated after finding out the company has made the decision to discontinue it.

Rick Harrison is mourning the death of his son.

TMZ reported Friday that a rep for the History Channel star claimed that the Harrison family learned on Friday that Adam had died of an overdose. It is currently unclear when and where he died, and from what substance. “Our family is extremely saddened by the death of Adam.