The Weeknd is officially the most listened-to artist on Spotify. He broke the record previously set by Justin Bieber on Saturday, amassing 85.66 million monthly listeners on the streaming service, weeks after releasing his “Dawn FM” album. Bieber’s record was just under 84 million monthly listeners.
Foo Fighters have released ‘Fraggle Rock Rock’, which is, of course, the theme song for “Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock”, a reboot of the 1980s Jim Henson series. The 13-episode Apple TV+ series premiered on Sunday.
Kid Rock just announced his first big tour in three years, dropping the news on social media. “Bad Reputation Tour with special guests you don’t want to miss!” he wrote on Twitter. The Kid will join forces with Foreigner and Grand Funk Railroad for a tour this spring-summer.
February will be a busy month for Mary J. Blige. She will participate in the Super Bowl Halftime Show, and MJB is also dropping a new album titled “Good Morning Gorgeous”. The 13-song album will have contributions from Usher, Anderson .Paak and Fivio Foriegn.
The soundtrack to the Walt Disney animated musical film “Encanto” has returned to No.1 on the Billboard 200 earning 104,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Jan. 20. “Encanto” is the first soundtrack with more than one week at No. 1 since Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” spent four non-consecutive weeks in the lead in 2018-19.
MARTHA STEWART says it’s now okay to put ice in your wine. Quote, “Nobody minds it anymore, even fine winemakers.” She also just made a California Chardonnay called Martha’s Chard. It goes on sale next week.
STEVE-O has a “delusional vision” of how he plans to break free from his “Jackass” persona. He wants to go on a final tour where he gets breast implants, a penis tattooed over his eyebrow, and have a bullet shot through his open jaw.
In NBC’s Super Bowl 56 logo, the Roman numerals LVI have red palm trees in them . . . but people think it looks like blood dripping down the letters. One person called it “CSI: Super Bowl”, and another said it looks like a promo for “Dexter”.
DAMON ALBARN from BLUR and GORILLAZ said that TAYLOR SWIFT doesn’t write her own songs, and she went at him on Twitter, saying she does. She added, quote, “You don’t have to like my songs but it’s really [effed] up to try and discredit my writing. WOW.” He apologized.
Chris Evans and Dwayne Johnson will both star in Amazon Studios’ “Red One”, “an action-adventure comedy that imagines a new universe within the holiday genre.”
On Monday’s episode of “Jeopardy!”, Amy Schneider achieved the second-most consecutive wins of all time with her 39th win. Amy has a way to go to beat out Ken Jennings, who holds the number one spot at 74 consecutive wins.
JOSH DUHAMEL is replacing EMILIO ESTEVEZ on Season 2 of “Mighty Ducks: Gamechangers”.
ADELE’s “Easy On Me” tops the Hot 100 for a 10th week, matching the mark she set with “Hello” back in 2015 and 2016.
BOB DYLAN sold his catalog to Sony Music. They reportedly paid him between $150 million and $200 million.
Olivia Rodrigo may be starting the year off single. Olivia has unfollowed her rumored boyfriend Adam Faze’s personal and professional accounts on Instagram. The unfollow comes after Page Six reported that Adam packed up and moved from Los Angeles to New York last week.
In a statement released to People, “Bachelor in Paradise” alums Maurissa Gunn and Riley Christian announced that they ended their engagement a couple of weeks ago.
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