"25" joins NSYNC's 2000 release, "No Strings Attached", as just the second album to sell 2 million copies in the States in a single week, and Adele's latest is expected to pass that project's 2,416,000 sales as the new all-time record holder by the end of November 23.
Music industry forecasters suggest "25" could finish the week with 2.9 million copies sold. Adele launched her third album with the lead single "Hello", an instant worldwide smash which broke streaming and download records in its opening weeks. Read more here.
"Anti" will be released this Friday, November 27 as an exclusive download via streaming service Tidal (of which Rihanna is one of the high profile music artist investors) and available everywhere on December 4.
Rihanna's eighth studio album has been previewed with the release of three singles this year, including "FourFiveSeconds" with Kanye West and Paul McCartney, "Bitch Better Have My Money" and "American Oxygen."
The singer's last album, 2012's "Unapologetic", debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 with opening week sales of 238,000. The project marked Rihanna's first chart-topper in America and the best-selling debut week of her career.
Rihanna will launch a 7-month Anti world tour on February 26 in San Diego, CA, with North American shows running to early May, followed by a European trek with dates from June to August.
The North American concerts will feature special guest Travi$ Scott while The Weeknd and Big Sean will join the singer in Europe. See the tour dates here.
"We're excited to announce the Latin American and European legs of next year's A Head Full Of Dreams Tour," says the band, "with 20 stadium shows confirmed across 14 countries in Europe and Latin America."
Dates begin in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 31 - the first of 7 concerts in the region - while a European run is set to start in Nice, France on May 24.
Tickets for the UK/European shows go on general sale on Friday, November 27 at 9.30am GMT (UK shows) and 10am CET (all others) via Ticketmaster. Read more including the tour dates here.
"The song was written expressly for the commercial," says Perry. "Gonna have to wait a little longer for the next single." The ad presents Perry as a fairy alongside a cast of seasonal characters including dancing elves, nutcrackers and gingerbread men, among others - including shirtless model Sean O'Pry, who appeared in Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" video.
Perry's latest album is 2013's "Prism", which debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 with 286,000 copies sold - the singer's best opening week to date. The project has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide, including 1.65 million in the States alone. Watch the H&M ad here.
When the two were wrapping up their duet, "Marvin Gaye," they leaned in for a kiss that turned into a steamy make-out scene in front of the crowd and the cameras.
As chatter heightened about a possible secret romance gone public, Puth hit Titter to silence the talk. "before it begins�we are just friends," he wrote, "so happy to preform with meghan tonight!! thank you for all the love everybody! :)"
Megan also had fun on social media teasing the kiss as a stunt. Read more here.
The fan, Tae Stackhouse, took to Facebook to share his appreciation for the visit with a heart felt post along with a picture sitting on a bed alongside Cole.
"I really appreciate this just wanna give a big s/o to my mom and my aunt for bringing my favorite rapper to see me. I'm proud to say that I'm blessed even tho I have cancer he told me to keep positive so that's what Ima do. Thanks j.cole "�#"�RoleModel"�." See the photo here.
'I just released a record this year called The Blade, and I'm gonna do that song, and I'm gonna have the special guest vocalist that sang on that song on the record with me sing it, for the first time live, really, ever. So ' here's little miss Miranda Lambert!" Monroe introduced Lambert to the crowd at the City Winery.
"I took her little butt to Dollywood," Ashley told the crowd, referring to Lambert. "And we wrote songs. We were sitting out on this cabin porch and she grabbed a steak knife because I thought I heard a bear."
"You gotta be prepared," Lambert added. "She sleeps with her gun, don't anybody sneak up on her. Take it from me," Monroe continued. "She always calls and says, 'I'm coming over, don't shoot.'" Lambert interjected.
"We wrote this song in the mountains of East Tennessee," Monroe returned to the topic at hand, introducing their song "Heart Like Mine." "Then she recorded it and made it a No. 1, which I'm so grateful for." Watch it here.
In the new 2-minute spot for the #onemillthrill campaign, we find Snoop tied to a chair inside his home, after what looks to have been a struggle. After a failed attempt to find Snoop's loot in the not-so-hidden safe, Dreyfus puts tries to put the squeeze on Snoop but not before she's interrupted by her bumbling, donut-munching, selfie-taking counterpart played by Nanjiani.
As Dreyfus gets no closer to finding the million dollars Snoop has been touting on his Instagram account, Nanjiani asks why they didn't just try to win the million dollars from Old Navy. The duo leave Snoop, but not before taking a selfie with their victim.
Nanjiani delivered so many funny lines that they company posted outtakes. Watch it here.
Who is Fancy is 23-year-old Nashville-based singer/songwriter Jake Hagood, who was signed to a deal by Scooter Braun, manager to both Justin Bieber and Carly Rae Jepsen.
"I'm feeling so blessed about having these two amazing artist on my new song," Hagood captioned an Instagram post. "But secondly and most importantly I'm feeling so blessed to have these two amazing humans as friends. The love and support they give me is unreal!" Watch it here.
In discussing his upcoming album Black Market, Ross touched upon one track in particular called "Ghostwriter." He said, "I finally wrote a record telling the way it feels for me to be a ghostwriter, and not only a ghostwriter, but one of the biggest in the rap game. Because of my own personal success I've always been able to keep that in the shadows. On this record, I just felt it was so current. It was needed."
Although he doesn't share who he ghostwrote for, Ross did go to say that the practice isn't a problem depending on the type of MC a rapper aims to be. "It depends on really the point you're looking at," he said. "If you're a battle rapper on the block, the emcee battle challenger, not writing your rhymes could really hurt you. When you're an artist where maybe the focus is really the talent and the different things you bring to the game, I believe it's more understandable." Read more here.
Detailing the downfall of a talented young man who became addicted to oxycontin and died, "Kevin" gets real about the problem of overprescription in America. "He was gonna quit tomorrow/ We're all gonna quit tomorrow," Macklemore raps on the track, which features a tight funky beat and a choir backing his rhymes.
"This one is personal� I started writing it when my friend Kevin passed from an overdose on prescription medication," writes Macklemore in an Instagram post. "It was my attempt to process his death. To grieve. And also to examine the over abundance of prescription drugs in America. How quick we're taught at an early age to put a pharmaceutical bandaid over our pain/anxiety." Read more here.
Telling AJ how she deals with seeing her divorce in the headlines, "I am by no means the only person to ever go through this and I'm very cognitive of that, and I have a wonderful support network of really good friends and really good family so I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself about it." She went on, "It's not pleasant to see your private life out there, but you know I consider myself pretty lucky." The actress laughing, "I thought I would have to learn to cook, cause I'm not really a very good cook and I thought I'm gonna have to pick up a few tricks, but as it turns out,I go out a lot, so looks like I don't have to�My toast is amazing�my cereal is incredible."
March keeping busy with her new wild Adult Swim series, "Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter," premiering December 7th, "There are werewolves, there may or may not be the murder of the actor Paul Rudd, there may or may not be various scenes of people fleeing extraterrestrial creatures." Playing the mayor of fictional Garrity, Vermont, not confirming she transforms into a werewolf or creature, only saying, "It was one of the most fun wardrobe projects I ever had."
The former "Law and Order: SVU" star still close with her co-stars, "Mariska' s (Hargitay) one of my good friends actually, she's a dear friend, she's just been lovely�I love everybody, I got along well with, I like to think most of the people there, when you work with people all day long for that many years you form a family and when you don't see them, you miss them."
She even partnered with one of her former makeup artists from the hit series on a business venture in NYC, Salon Rogue, a makeup salon, "It's the idea if you can go somewhere and get your hair blown dry, or go somewhere to get your nails done, why can't you go somewhere and get a nice face of makeup, normal make up, just for every day...doesn't have to be your wedding day, you can just treat yourself."
As for where the 41-year-old sees herself in 5 years, "Just continued on this path, it's where I should be and that would be just great." Check out video here.
"Some people call it a 'breakup song,'" Young tells Radio.com. "I don't necessarily know if it's a 'breakup song.' The song never really says that they break up. There's this rough patch, this on-again/off-again thing, is it gonna work? Is it not? There's a bunch of stuff that needs to be said and needs to be discussed, and you need closure."
That closure, though, isn't reached during the song. "The line says, 'To hell with the closure, save it for another time.' Right then, all those two people want to do is to be together. To hell with the consequences, we'll deal with it later."
Whether or not that couple stay together is a bit of a mystery. But it seems like Young's audience is as dedicated to him as ever, and his fan base appears to be growing. Read more here.
"As parents, it's so fun to be able to be involved in a project with both of our children," Davis told The Tennessean newspaper. "It's a dream we didn't even know to dream about that's fallen into place."
Inspiration for the album came from the family's performance at Grand Ole Opry Jim Ed Brown's funeral over the summer. 'He was about family harmonies and his family wanted us to be a part of that," Davis said of Brown. 'Ever since Hillary was a little girl, (family harmony) is all she's known as well as Rylee Jean, our youngest daughter." Read more here.
The album is Nash's first solo record of new music in fourteen years. "What a pleasure it was recording this album," said Nash in a prepared statement. "The music has a different feel to my earlier albums although I hear echoes of each one. This journey of mine was one of self-discovery, of intense creation, of absolute passion."
"When you strip a song down to its very essence, you either have a song worth singing' or you don't," says Nash. View the full track listing for This Path Tonight and Nash's full tour dates here.
On his blog, This Life I Live, Rory Feek shared the announcement along with a moving story about a snowfall he recently shared with Joey in Indiana.Hymns That Are Important To Us will be released on Valentine's Day 2016.
All proceeds will benefit Loeys-Dietz Syndrome Foundation, which Rory explained as 'a connective-tissue disorder that affects [the] heart and a thousand other things." Their daughter's best friend Scout has the disease.
Describing the project as "Joey's album," Rory shared how it's "The one she's always wanted to make - filled with the hymns she grew up with."
'We recorded it in a studio in Nashville early in the summer -- just after recovering from her first big surgery in Chicago," he added. "And then she did her vocals where she could ' in hotel rooms, our house, wherever and whenever she felt up to singing". Read more here.
Bieber scored his largest sales week ever with 522,000 in actual album sales, beating his previous high of 374,000 copies sold the first week for 2012 release "Believe."
The Canadian superstar came out on top in a showdown with One Direction's latest, "Made In The A.M.", which debuts at No. 2 with 459,000 units including 402,000 in pure album sales. Read more here.
"Hello" was also featured in a Thanksgiving skit early in the broadcast. Variety reports Adele's visit on SNL with host Matthew McConaughey earned the late night program its second highest overnight rating of the past 10 months - behind only the November 7 telecast featuring Donald Trump - and stood as the evening's top-rated program.
According to Nielsen, Saturday Night Live averaged a 4.6 household rating/12 share in the 56 metered markets, up 15% from the prior week's 4.0/10 for an episode hosted by Elizabeth Banks. Watch Adele's performances and the "Hello" skit here.
The group were on hand to promote the November 20 release of their fifth album, "Made In The A.M." The band joined the host for an interview to discuss the new project and plans for their upcoming hiatus.
The late night show shut down Hollywood Boulevard for a One Direction performance that included three tunes from the new album - "Perfect", "History" and "Love You Goodbye" - as well as "No Control" from last year's "Four" and "Story Of My Life" from 2013's "Midnight Memories."
Not all of the songs were featured in the hour-long program. "Made In The A.M." marks the band's first album without former member Zayn Malik, who left the group in March. Check out the videos here.
"Happy Birthday" celebrates Tyga in the way he knows best: bragging about himself and all he's accomplished. You still have roommates? Psh, he's got an 8-bedroom house, half of which he hasn't seen yet because it's so big.
"Happy birthday, today my day/ I make a wish, I blow the cake/ Oooh, think I'm worried about a scandal?/ Ehh you put me on every channel," he raps on the second half of the chorus. It's a fun, slick track that showcases all Tyga's done.
The 15-track album will be released on December 18. Check out the full tracklist and listen to "Happy Birthday" here.
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