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Coldplay and Korean boy band BTS’ collab “My Universe” has topped Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. This is the first time BTS has topped the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, while Coldplay scored its second No. 1 on the list. “My Universe” debuted atop the tally dated October 9 with 11.5 million…

Pharrell Williams is pulling his Something In the Water Festival from Virginia Beach, Virginia, citing the city’s “toxic” energy.” The singer/producer revealed his decision to pull the festival in an open letter to city manager Patrick Duhaney, in which he said that he can no longer organize the festival there due to the city’s “toxic…

Tame Impala, Megan Thee Stallion and Denzel Curry are set to headline the 2022 Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival in Okeechobee, Florida. The four-day festival is scheduled to take place from March 3 to March 6, 2022 at the Sunshine Grove venue. The fifth iteration of the festival will feature over 125 artists. In addition…

EGOT-winner John Legend has joined the production team of the Broadway musical based on the life of legendary R&B group The Temptations. Early this week, Legend and his partners Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorious in Get Lifted Film Co. were officially announced as producers of the Tony Award-winning show “Ain’t Too Proud – The Life…

R&B superstar The Weeknd has revealed that his upcoming album, tentatively titled Dawn, is done. “Some Dawn updates: Album is complete. Only thing that’s missing is a couple of characters who are key to the narrative — some people that are near and dear to me, some people that inspired my life as a child…

Coldplay and BTS have topped the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart with their collaborative new single “My Universe.” Coldplay earned their second Hot 100 No. 1 and first since 2008’s “Viva La Vida.” Meanwhile, BTS scored their sixth chart-topper and fourth of 2021. The K-pop band’s previous No. 1’s include “Dynamite,” “Savage Love (Laxed -…

Summer Walker has announced that her second album, Still Over It, will drop on November 5. She also released a trailer teasing the new album. The trailer shows Walker on a phone call with an incarcerated JT of City Girls. Walker released her debut album Over It two years ago on October 4, 2019. The…

Billie Eilish will sing “Sally’s Song” during two live-to-film concerts in the Los Angeles area Halloween weekend. The teenage sensation will lend her voice to Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas character Sally for the upcoming concerts at Banc of California Stadium on October 29 and 31. John Mauceri’s full orchestra will support Eilish. She will…

Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has announced a veritable “fright fest” of a livestream show this Halloween. Titled “House of Horrors Halloween,” the virtual event is slated to be broadcast live on October 28 exclusively on the platform NoCap, and has been described by Barker as the “concert we all WISH we could go to.” The…

YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s latest album Sincerely, Kentrell debuted atop Billboard’s all-genre 200 albums chart, earning the hip-hop singer his fourth No. 1 album. Sincerely, Kentrell debuted atop the list dated October 9 after earning 137,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending September 30, according to MRC Data. Of Sincerely, Kentrell’s…