A list of nominees in the top categories at the 60th annual Grammy Awards, announced Tuesday by The Recording Academy. – Album of the year: “Awaken, My Love!,” Childish Gambino; “4:44,” Jay-Z; “DAMN.,” Kendrick Lamar; “Melodrama,” Lorde; “24K Magic,” Bruno Mars. – Record of the year: “Redbone,” Childish Gambino; “Despacito,” Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee […]
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Another actress added her name Monday to the dozens accusing movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of a litany of depraved sexual misconduct as he was forced to quit Hollywood’s directing union. More than 100 women have come forward since October to accuse the veteran producer of various degrees of bullying, degrading behavior over the past 40 […]
Read More iTunes Official Music Charts in Nigeria for the week ending November 25, 2017: Top Songs 1. Like Dat – Davido 2. FIA – Davido 3. Yeba – Kiss Daniel 4. Energy – Runtown 5. Mama (Feat. Wizkid) – Tekno 6. Particula (Feat. Ice Prince, Nasty C) – Major Lazer 7. Manya – Mut4y & Wizkid […]
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Taylor Swift’s “Reputation” album sold 1.216 million copies in its first week and debuted at the top of the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart, Nielsen Music said on Monday, the biggest album debut of the year. The first week sales for “Reputation” outpaced the year’s previous biggest debut, rapper Kendrick Lamar’s “Damn.,” which opened with […]
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AC/DC guitarist Malcolm Young has died aged 64 after suffering for several years with dementia, the band announced Saturday. Young founded the Australian rock group with his brother Angus, who said he will leave “an enormous legacy”. “Today it is with deep heartfelt sadness that AC/DC has to announce the passing of Malcolm Young,” a […]
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Pop superstar Katy Perry on Friday was awarded nearly $1.5 million as she prevailed anew in her drawn-out bid to move into a former convent in Los Angeles. The singer of “Roar” and “I Kissed a Girl” has more Twitter followers than anyone else in the world at 106 million but had struggled to win […]
Read More iTunes Official Music Charts for the week ending November 9, 2017: Top Songs 1. Perfect, Ed Sheeran 2. Havana (feat. Young Thug), Camila Cabello 3. Thunder, Imagine Dragons 4. Call It What You Want, Taylor Swift 5. Too Good at Goodbyes, Sam Smith 6. rockstar (feat. 21 Savage), Post Malone 7. What Lovers Do (feat. […]
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Taylor Swift’s revenge-tinged new album “Reputation” soared to the top of the iTunes charts on its first day of release on Friday, earning mixed reviews from music critics while fans devoured the lyrics for clues about her latest targets. “Reputation,” Swift’s first studio album in three years, marks another transformation in image for the country-turned-pop […]
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By Laura Zuckerman (Reuters) – Nearly two-thirds of Americans, mostly in Western states and on the Eastern seaboard, have endured more days of extreme summer heat over the past 10 years than in previous decades, a leading environmental group said in a study unveiled on Tuesday. The analysis compared daily summertime high temperatures recorded at […]
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Strapped for cash in a Tokyo hotel, Albert Einstein wrote his take on life on a note and handed it to the bellboy instead of a tip. The physicist’s formula for happy living fetched $1.3 million on Tuesday, a Jerusalem auction house said. In 1922, Einstein was en route to Japan when […]
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By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The end of the world is nigh, and Marvel’s brawny superhero Thor finds himself hammerless and held hostage on a kitsch futuristic planet light years away from his home, in a sequel that revamps the slightly dim-witted Norse god with irreverent humor. “Thor: Ragnarok,” the third installment of […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – AT&T Inc’s quarterly results missed Wall Street estimates as the U.S. No. 2 wireless carrier lost video subscribers to traditional and online TV competitors and fewer of its existing customers upgraded their devices ahead of Apple Inc’s launch of the iPhone X. The battle for the growing market in providing video […]
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