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‘Baby’ One More Time: YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s ’38 Baby 2′ Bounces DaBaby From No. 1 on Billboard 200
Read more: ‘Baby’ One More Time: YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s ’38 Baby 2′ Bounces DaBaby From No. 1 on Billboard 200YoungBoy Never Broke Again scores his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his latest release, 38 Baby 2, bounds in atop the tally. The set arrives with 67,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 30, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. 38 Baby 2 is the rapper’s second No.…
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Three family members charged in shooting death of security guard who told a customer to put on a face mask
Read more: Three family members charged in shooting death of security guard who told a customer to put on a face maskThree family members have been charged in the killing of a security guard who told a customer at a Michigan Family Dollar store to wear a state-mandated face mask, officials said on Monday. Calvin Munerlyn, 43, died at a Flint hospital after he was shot in the head Friday, said Michigan State Police Lt. David…
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Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Mariah Carey & More to Perform on ‘Rise Up New York!’ Benefit
Read more: Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Mariah Carey & More to Perform on ‘Rise Up New York!’ BenefitThe Tina Fey-hosted show will take place on May 11. A galaxy of stars will be on hand on May 11 for Rise Up New York!, a citywide virtual telethon to raise awareness and funds to help New Yorkers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The event, organized by iHeartMedia and New York’s largest poverty-fighting organization, Robin Hood,…
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How Cher Is Combatting Coronavirus: Exclusive
Read more: How Cher Is Combatting Coronavirus: ExclusiveCher had a bad feeling about this. Out on the road for the U.S. dates of her Here We Go Again Tour in early March, the 73-year-old icon grew increasingly rattled by reports of the then-encroaching pandemic called COVID-19. “I knew this was coming,” she recalled to Billboard during a May 2 phone call from…
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May the Fourth be with you, always, even during the pandemic
Read more: May the Fourth be with you, always, even during the pandemic(CNN) Hope, friendship, banding together to fight a deadly threat, an invisible force connecting everyone together. The themes of Star Wars are the same as our lives right now. Just as the “the devil can cite Scripture for his purpose,” as William Shakespeare wrote in “The Merchant of Venice,” the Star Wars cannon is so wide,…
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Trump Administration model projects daily coronavirus death toll will increase to 3,000 by June
Read more: Trump Administration model projects daily coronavirus death toll will increase to 3,000 by JuneA Trump administration model projects a rise in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the weeks ahead, up to about 3,000 daily deaths in the U.S. by June 1, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times. The projections represent a significant increase in deaths. Over the past week, about 2,000…
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Critics said the flu kills more than coronavirus. Why that’s not a fair comparison — and now, it’s not even true
Read more: Critics said the flu kills more than coronavirus. Why that’s not a fair comparison — and now, it’s not even trueIt’s a popular argument heard at protests denouncing state shutdowns, fueled by those who say news outlets are overreacting to coronavirus:The flu kills more people than coronavirus. Why shut down the economy for this?But the US death toll from coronavirus this year has exceeded 62,000, surpassing the high-end estimate for flu deaths since October. And coronavirus has killed at…
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ERYKAH BADU AND JILL SCOTT SET FOR MAY 9 VERZUZ BATTLE
Read more: ERYKAH BADU AND JILL SCOTT SET FOR MAY 9 VERZUZ BATTLEIn collaboration with Femme It Forward, iconic ladies of Neo-Soul are going to hit Instagram Live to battle hits. Erykah Badu and Jill Scott have been announced for the May 9 edition. Taking place at 7 pm EST, the two will bring all the brown liquor and wine energy to your phones. During quarantine Ms.…
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First Stream: New Music From Drake, Doja Cat & Nicki Minaj, Megan Thee Stallion & Beyonce
Read more: First Stream: New Music From Drake, Doja Cat & Nicki Minaj, Megan Thee Stallion & BeyonceDrake attends the “Top Boy” UK Premiere at Hackney Picturehouse on Sept. 4, 2019 in London. Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. This week, Drake sets…
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Betsy DeVos sued for seizing wages from student loan borrowers during pandemic
Read more: Betsy DeVos sued for seizing wages from student loan borrowers during pandemicEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos and her department were sued Thursday for allegedly continuing to collect on defaulted borrowers’ student loans — more than a month after she said it would stop doing so to provide relief for those struggling during the coronoavirus outbreak. Plaintiff Elizabeth Barber, a home health aid in New York, has seen…
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Travis Scott & Kid Cudi’s ‘The Scotts’ Set to Challenge for No. 1 on Hot 100 Next Week
Read more: Travis Scott & Kid Cudi’s ‘The Scotts’ Set to Challenge for No. 1 on Hot 100 Next WeekThe former could dethrone The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights.” Travis Scott and Kid Cudi‘s new single “The Scotts” appears set to challenge for a No. 1 debut on next week’s Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated May 9). The song — billed to The Scotts, Travis Scott & Kid Cudi (both artists have Scott in their names, as Kid Cudi’s real…
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Trump to order meat processing plants to stay open
Read more: Trump to order meat processing plants to stay openPresident Donald Trump is expected to sign a five-page executive order under the Defense Production Act to compel meat processing plants to remain open amid the coronavirus pandemic. Trump had highlighted the order during an Oval Office meeting with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that was opened up to reporters. “We’re going to sign an executive order today,…
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