• Imagine Dragons Dominates Neutral Billboard 200 with 'Smoke + Mirrors'; Drake and Fifty Shades Soundtrack Stay Strong

    Imagine Dragons started out strong on the Billboard 200 with its second album Smoke + Mirrors, debuting at no. 1 with the band's highest sales week ever. Although its last album Night Visions has sold more than 2.5 million copies, those sales came from its staying-power, whereas its highest selling week was "just" 83,000 copies. Dragons' new set debuted with 195,000 equivalent album sales after its first week.

  • Meek Mill to Join Nicki Minaj in the United States This Summer for 'The Pinkprint' Tour

    Nicki Minaj will hit the road in March in support of her recent release, "The Pinkprint, "with Trey Songz slated as the opening act. Following the European leg, Minaj shared on Instagram that she'll be bringing the tour back to the United States for the summer. Her rumored boyfriend, Meek Mill, will reportedly join the female rapper on the road.

  • Nicki Minaj Addresses Meek Mill Dating Rumors

    Following her highly publicized breakup from Safaree Samuels last year ahead of her latest album The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj has been rumored to be dating rapper and collaborator Meek Mill. There are photos of the two getting cozy all over Instagram and they were spotted together throughout NBA All-Star Weekend in New York City, sitting courtside, sharing stages and hosting parties. There's even a nickname for the rumored couple: Omeeka. In a new interview with Vogue, she vaguely addresses her relationship with Mill and talks about the "single life."

  • Ariana Grande Brings 'Problem,' 'Love Me Harder' and Nicki Minaj to NBA All-Star Game Halftime Show [WATCH]

    The NBA All-Star Game fell into an unfortunate time slot last night, somewhat competing with the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary, so perhaps fewer folks than usual tuned in for the latter half of the game as well as Ariana Grande's stellar alftime show. It was a (relatively) low-key event, at least compared to the huge gathering of talent that was the 2014 show in New Orleans, but the pop start gave the crowd what it wanted (hits) and brought a little bit of guest flair in the form of Nicki Minaj.

  • 5 Musical Misremberings: Vanilla Ice, Nicki Minaj and More Astonishing Misleading Music Stories a la Brian Williams

    Brian Williams has been having a bad last few weeks but you can't say he didn't have it coming: The NBC Nightly News host has taken a six month unpaid suspension with regard to a "misremembering" he reported, claiming to have been aboard a helicopter shot down by an RPG during his coverage of the Iraq war more than a decade previously. To what extent his story is false remains to be seen—was the helicopter right in front of him the one to actually be brought down, or was he more than half an hour behind?—but let it be known that we wasn't the first, nor probably the last celebrity, to tell a fat one. Here are but five musical performers who wove tall tales, some of which weren't figured out for quite a while.

  • Taylor Swift Tops Billboard 200 Again, Fifth Harmony Shows Up, Bob Dylan and Diana Krall Cover, Nicki Minaj Sets Interesting Mark

    Taylor Swift and 1989 is at no. 1 in the Billboard 200 for the 11th time, tying Fearless for the performer's most weeks at the top of the charts with one album. The record shifted 108,000 equivalent units, a slight uptick from last week. 1989 is one of four albums that have spent at least ten weeks at no. 1 since 2010, the others being Fearless, the Frozen soundtrack as well as Adele's 21. Swift's album is followed this week by Now 53, the newest edition of the hits collection, at no. 2 with 99,000 units moved.
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