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SZA is back at No. 1 on this week's Billboard 200 with SOS, following the release of the album's deluxe version Lana.The updated edition earns a total of 178,000 equivalent album units in the week ending December 26, with 167,000 in streaming equivalent album units (220.22 million on-demand streams of the songs), 10,000 in album sales and 1,000 in track equivalent album units. This marks the album's 11th nonconsecutive week atop the Billboard 200. SOS also holds the record for the most weeks at No. 1 for an R&B/hip-hop album by a woman since Mariah Carey in 1991, and has the longest gap between weeks at No. 1 with 22 months.Several holiday albums join the week's top 10 in line with the festivities, including Michael Bublé’s Christmas at No. 2, Bing Crosby's Ultimate Christmas at No. 3,...

Charli xcx's BRAT roll-out has been anything but ordinary. The critically acclaimed 2024 LP by the British pop star has received two special editions and millions of memes centered around lighthearted TikTok dances to controversial political tweets. Now Charli has revealed that her chaos was cultivated long before "BRAT Summer" took place.On her private Instagram account 360_brat, the artist shared images of a manifesto for the BRAT album written in the Summer of 2023. "The artwork for Brat will be obnoxious, arrogant, and bold. Some people will hate it." "It will be heavily text-based, either font on a plain background or painted on a wall or disregarded object," she said.Charli xcx shares her ‘BRAT’ manifesto from summer of 2023:“The artwork for BRAT will be obnoxious, arrogant and bold....

Yasiin Bey and The Alchemist's recently announced super duo – entitled Forensics – has shared some more information about its debut project as a unit.Bey took to Instagram to announce the first-ever live Forensics event, going down in Paris on January 25, 2025. The "no phones" event is set to give way to the duo's first project as Forensics."FORENSICS is His project with legendary producer The Alchemist. They will be Premiering new materials from their debut recording to be released in 2025," reads one of Bey's Instagram captions. The Alchemist shared the same painting – by visual artist Anuar Khalifi –to his Instagram feed as well. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Agence MC*5 (@a_tribe_called_mc5)While official details still remain under wraps at the time of writing,...