• Kendrick Lamar's New Album Might Drop Next Week

    From Radiohead to Beyoncé to D'Angelo to Björk, we are truly in the era of the surprise album release, and yesterday (Jan. 21), it was revealed that Kendrick Lamar might be joining this very prestigious list. According to a leaked photograph posted by Section Eighty, Kendrick Lamar's long-awaited follow-up to his 2012 breakthrough good kid, M.A.A.D city is set to drop this Tuesday, Jan. 27. The photo shows a list of albums scheduled to be released by Wal-Mart this month, which at the very bottom reads "Kendrick Lamar Jan. 27."

  • Wale Asked Kanye West to Help Redesign Washington Wizards Uniforms

    DMV rapper and proud Washington, D.C., representative Wale is looking to spice things up with his hometown basketball team the Washington Wizards. In a recent piece set to be published in "ESPN Magazine's" upcoming music issue Feb. 2, Olubowale Victor Akintimehin — known professionally as Wale — spoke on what he thinks the issue is with the Wizards right now and what he plans on doing to fix the problems of attendance and a general stale atmosphere surrounding the team. Recognizing this, the Wizards have brought on Wale to be a "creative consultant" to bring back fun to the Verizon Center. One of his first moves has been to call up fashion guru Kanye West to try and redesign the current team uniforms.

  • Meghan Trainor Just Short of 200,000 Albums with 'Title,' Mark Ronson and Jazmine Sullivan Both Debut High for RCA Records

    It's that time again, where Music Times break down the difference between the Billboard 200 and who actually moved the albums. This week's crown belongs to Meghan Trainor of course, who came up just short of the 200,000 album mark with Title. As we mentioned yesterday with the 200 roundup, it's the biggest sales debut from a solo performer since Susan Boyle released her first album during 2009.

  • Rihanna and Richard Pryor: Both Stars Involved in Lawsuits over Unlicensed Images on T-Shirts...Check Out Respective Cases

    You can't just stick anyone's face on a T-shirt. Particularly if you want to sell that apparel later. Celebrity faces on tees are a trend this week thanks to two lawsuits, one involving the mug of vocalist Rihanna and the other featuring the face of deceased comedian Richard Pryor. The former came to a decision this week and the latter is just getting fired up. Check out the details.

  • Oscars 2015: "Glory," "Everything Is Awesome" and Other Best Original Song Nominees All Get Huge Sales Boost over Last Week

    To the victor goes the spoils. Or, in the case of the nominees for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards, to the nominees go the spoils. Every one of the five tracks nominated for the Oscar—"Glory" by John Legend and Common, "Everything Is Awesome" by The Lonely Island and Tegan & Sara, "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" by Glen Campbell, "Grateful" performed by Rita Ora and "Lost Stars" performed by Adam Levine—all saw boosts in downloads following their nods last week, rising a total of 102 percent between them according to Billboard.

  • Armin van Buuren Releases Two-Disc 'Armin Only: Intense' ‘The Music’ Album

    Armin van Buuren underwent his most ambitious live shows ever in 2014 in support of his fifth artist album Intense. He created an arena-sized live show, titled Armin Only: Intense that featured dancers, all of the singers from the album, which were a lot, a band, trampolinists and breath taking production combining lights and visual effects cued up for each individual song as van Buuren worked them into the 6-hour set.

  • Kid Cudi Is Recording MOTM 3 With A-Trak, Emile Haynie, Plain Pat, Dot Da Genius

    Kid Cudi fans hold on to your seat because the man on the moon has some great news for you. He has sent out the bat signal to assemble his all-star team of producers to record Man On The Man 3. Fans have been waiting for quite some time for an update on the third edition of his celebrated album series. He sent out a series of tweets to the core of his producers and collaborators on the two previous editions, Emile Haynie, Plain Pat, A-Trak and Dot Da Genius to create MOTM 3.
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