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Kendrick Lamar and To Pimp A Butterfly pulled off something that few performers outside of Taylor Swift have managed to wrangle in the last few months: holding the no. 1 position on the Billboard 200 for more than one week. The album spent a second week at the top spot on the chart-the only performer aside from Swift (who spent a total of 11 weeks at no. 1 with 1989) to have done so since November, having sold 123,000 equivalent units during its second full week of sales. The accomplishment is even more relevant for the R&B/Hip-Hop genres, where Butterfly becomes the first album since 2013's Beyoncé to spend multiple weeks at no. 1. -
Coachella 2015 Live Stream: YouTube To Host Interactive Fan Experience for Festival Headlined by Drake, AC/DC, Jack White
For the five year running, Coachella will live stream its festival online. The 2015 Coachella live stream will be presented by T-Mobile on YouTube with three different channels, which will show three different acts at the same time. In addition to showing music, the live stream will take a next step and become an interactive experience for fans that wish to partake in the fun. -
Lou Williams Stars in Commercial for Drake and OVO's Toronto Raptors-Mitchell & Ness Collaboration [WATCH]
Drake and OVO have teamed up with Mitchell & Ness for a Toronto Raptors clothing collaboration and the team's own Lou Williams stars in a commercial for the gear. -
Drake's 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late' Goes Platinum Ahead of Physical Release
Earlier this week, Drake announced the physical release of his latest drop If You're Reading This It's Too Late. Now, word on web is the surprise album has already gone platinum. -
Kendrick Vs. Everybody: How Did 'To Pimp A Butterfly' Sell Compared to Recents from Kanye West, J. Cole, Nicki Minaj and More?
Kendrick Lamar was certainly king of the Billboard 200 this week, as To Pimp A Butterfly sold three times as many copies as any other record on the market during the last week. Part of the hip-hop game, more so than any other genre, is arguing about who's no. 1. Generally that means a ranking of who can drop the best bars, but money—regardless of what Jay Z and Jermaine Dupri tell you—is most certainly a thang. So how does the most hyped performer in recent years stack up against industry giants in terms of sales? -
Drake Announces Physical Release of 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late' With Two Additional Songs
Drake took everyone by surprise when he released his If You're Reading This It's Too Late mixtape last month and now word on web is the Toronto rapper plans to release the tape in physical copies with two additional songs. -
Drake To Soundtrack Sotheby's Black American Artists Sale
Hip-hop and the art world have found an unlikely paring. Drake has been tabbed by major New York Auction house, Sotheby's, to curate the soundtrack to their upcoming Black Americans sale. The sale will include roughly 20 works from artists that include Rashid Johnson, Nick Cave, Glenn Ligon, Kara Walker, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Wangechi Mutu. -
Timbaland Says Aaliyah Spoke to Him in A Dream at SXSW, Declared Tink to Be 'The One'
The "next Aaliyah" has been in discussion for more than 13 years following the R&B star during 2001. Timbaland believes that 19 year-old Chicago performer Tink is the final answer, and he's got other backers telling him the same thing: Aaliyah herself. The producer/performer told a crowd at the South by Southwest Festival this week that his former collaborator had visited him in a dream to deliver the prophecy. -
Lil Wayne Claims Drake Slept with His Girlfriend in Alleged Tell-All Book Proposal
In the midst of his legal battle against Cash Money, it is being reported that Lil Wayne is shopping an exclusive tell-all book to publishing companies. Wayne makes some bold allegations in the book's proposal, including a claim that Drake slept with his girlfriend. -
Drake Faces Lawsuit Over Discouraging Fans from Seeing 'Drake: Homecoming: The Lost Footage' Documentary
Sometimes, you have to think before you tweet to your legions of followers... and that's a lesson that Drake is learning the hard way. After discouraging his fans from seeing the upcoming documentary Drake: Homecoming: The Lost Footage earlier this week and severing ties with the film, the production company behind the movie have made through on their threat and slapped the "Energy" rapper with a big lawsuit. -
Madonna and 'Rebel Heart' Trump 'Empire' Soundtrack on Albums Chart, Luke Bryan Debuts New 'Spring Break' Chapter
Yesterday we reported that the Empire Season One Soundtrack had topped Madonna's Rebel Heart on the Billboard 200, thanks to the number of additional downloads and streams that it got, allowing it to take advantage of Billboard's new metrics and top the iconic chart. However pure album sales tell a different story. While Empire edged Rebel Heart by around 9,000 copies on the 200, the opposite was true on the Albums Chart, where Rebel Heart placed no. 1 with 116,500 copies sold and Empire took no. 2 with 107,000 copies moved. -
The Beastie Boys' 'Licensed to Ill' Reaches Diamond Status, Having Sold 10 Million Copies over 30 Years
One of the early smashes of hip-hop history, The Beastie Boys' 'Licensed to Ill,' has reached another epic sales plateau, receiving diamond status from the RIAA after it passed 10 million in sales as of March 4.
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