Ariana Grande retained the Number One spot on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart for the second week in a row. The pop star’s total stream numbers saw a significant drop from last week, 167.9 million to 99 million for the week of November 6th through 12th, but that was …
Read More »See Ariana Grande Perform 'Them Changes' With Thundercat at Adult Swim Festival
Ariana Grande was a surprise guest on the first day of the Adult Swim Festival, with the Positions singer showing up unannounced to perform “Them Changes” alongside Thundercat. Grande has long been an admirer of the bassist’s 2015 track, which she previously covered solo during a BBC Radio 1 Live …
Read More »CNCO Pay Homage to New Kids on the Block in 'Tan Enamorados' Video
CNCO pay tribute to boy bands of yore in the video for their new single, “Tan Enamorados” (“So In Love”). The song is the first release from their just-announced third studio album, Déjà Vu. “Tan Enamorados” is a cover of Argentine-Venezuelan singer Ricardo Montaner’s hit single from 1988. In the …
Read More »RS Charts: Ariana Grande Coasts to Number One With 'Positions'
Ariana Grande‘s Positions had an easy path to Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. With more 27,000 sales and 157 million streams, Grande earned almost three times as many album-equivalent units as the Number Two album, Trippie Redd‘s Pegasus. Pegasus, a sprawling set encompassing 32 …
Read More »Trevor Noah Dismisses Donald Trump's Futile Voter Fraud Claims on 'Daily Show'
Trevor Noah hammered home the ridiculousness of Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the 2020 presidential election, as well as his baseless claims of voter fraud, on The Daily Show Monday, November 9th. Over the past few days, Trump surrogates have been spouting an array of evidence-free claims that Republican votes …
Read More »12 Trends Leaders Predict Will Upend the Culture Space in 2021
Few could have predicted the many challenges businesses have faced since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. After a public health crisis and months of social and political unrest, many business leaders have been looking to the new year for a much-needed sigh of relief. However, January 1st is unlikely …
Read More »Watch Dave Chappelle's Incisive Post-Election 'SNL' Monologue
As he did four years earlier, Dave Chappelle returned to Saturday Night Live for the series’ first post-presidential election episode, with the comedian once again delivering a timely, powerful monologue. “This morning after the results came in, I got a text from a friend of mine in London, she said …
Read More »See John Legend Sing 'Georgia on My Mind' After State Flips Blue
After Georgia flipped from Trump to Joe Biden early Friday morning, John Legend celebrated the moment on social media by singing “Georgia on My Mind.” Georgia — which has given its electoral college votes to the Republican presidential candidate in every election since 1992 — gave Biden a slight edge …
Read More »How ASMRtists Are Alleviating Our Collective Election Anxiety
During Election Night, as MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki manically bopped around in front of a heat map, tens of millions of Americans clenched their fists and collectively tried not to stroke out from anxiety. The antidote to that: a 22-minute YouTube video of a woman pretending to brush your hair. “I …
Read More »America Last: How Trump Torpedoed the U.S. International Standing
The United Nations General Assembly’s annual session is practically Coachella for international diplomacy. Every September, heads of state, ambassadors, deputies, and other foreign relations staff representing the organization’s nearly 200 member nations congregate in New York City to lay out the global agenda for the following year. Speeches are given. …
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