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Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers’ Projected To Debut at No. 1 With 350,000 Units Sold in First Week The figures arrive weeks before the album is even scheduled to release. Apr 25, 2022 10,352 Hypes    Lil Durk Earns First Solo No. 1 With ‘7220’ He previously hit No. 1 with Lil Baby for ‘The Voice of the Heroes.’ Mar 21, 2022 4,631 Hypes    Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers’ Looking to Earn Biggest Opening Week of 2022 The album already broke Apple Music’s worldwide record. May 16, 2022 7,683 Hypes    Lil Durk Projected To Earn First No. 1 With ‘7220’ Also possibly becoming the second hip-hop record of 2022 to earn over 100,000 units in its first week. Mar 14, 2022 ...

Harry Styles has officially set a new vinyl sales record with his latest album, Harry’s House. The 28-year-old’s newest full-length effort now holds the record for the largest sales week for a vinyl album in the United States, selling over 146,000 copies during its first three days. Styles has effectively dethroned Taylor Swift for the record, overtaking the 114,000 vinyl copies Red (Taylor’s Version) sold in November 2021. In addition to setting this new record, Harry’s House is projected to debut at No. 1 on next week’s Billboard 200 with the largest debut week of 2022 so far. The album is looking to earn between 450,000 to 500,000 units in its first week — likely overtaking this year’s record of 295,000 units that was just set by Kendrick Lamar‘s Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers&n...

Fat Joe opened up about his previous beef with JAY-Z and Roc-A-Fella Records, admitting his regrets and taking responsibility for the issue. In a recent interview with Math Hoffa, Fat Joe explained that he shouldn’t have fired shots at Hov and the label on “Lean Back,” which sparked the beef. “One of the greatest friendships, admiration and love, I played myself. With everything that happened with us and Roc-A-Fella and all that was Fat Joe’s doing, and I played myself, and I was wrong,” he said. “I wasted 10, 15 years we could have got money with each other. I ain’t going lie, ever since I started f*cking with JAY-Z, I’ve been getting paid.” The issue between the two artists started in 2004 during a basketball tournament that involved both professional players and rappers. That year’s Har...

Summer 2022 is gearing up to be a busy season for Chance The Rapper. The Chicago-native recently released two new singles including “Child of God” and the Smoko Ono and Vic Mensa-assisted “Wraith.” In a new video posted to Twitter, the artist teased a new snippet of a new track titled “A Bar About A Bar.” The video appears to include footage of Hyde Park visual artist Nikko Washington as a feature. Washington is seen painting on a canvas and the artwork is expected to be available for view by the public at the Art Institute of Chicago until the end of the week. The teaser has led fans to believe that Chance will be releasing his first major project since his 2019 release of The Big Day. He has since called his most recent single releases “writing exercises”. One of his earlier releases fro...

Bob Dylan‘s first re-recording of “Blowin’ in the Wind” in 60 years is estimated to sell for £600,000 GBP to £1 million GBP (approximately $1.25 million USD) at auction. Christie’s will be responsible for the sale and will be offered in The Exceptional Sale on July 7. Dylan’s re-recording of the track, which he wrote and recorded in 1962 and released the year after, was done with GRAMMY-winning producer T Bone Burnett and is the first recording done on NeoFidelity, Inc.’s Ionic Original disc, which “advances the art of recorded sound and marks the first breakthrough in analog sound reproduction in more than 70 years, achieving dramatic improvements in listening experience and durability.” Peter Klarnet, Christie’s Senior Specialist, Americana, Books and Manuscripts said, “Christie’s is exc...

Making good on her promise, R&B figure Brandy recently released a freestyle over Jack Harlow‘s “First Class” single. Throughout the take on the popular track released on Hot 97, Brandy boasts about her accomplishments and delivers shots at Harlow. The not-so-subtle jabs serve as a response to Harlow admitting that he did not know that Brandy and Ray J were siblings. Lines include, “That don’t mean jack in the streets/Jack of all trades, now I’m here jacking for beats/Queen’s canceled but you can never cancel a queen.” Along with, “Over 20 years and I am still a topic/A picture’s worth a million now I’m feeling philanthropic,” and “43 and feeling like a kid with millions watching/popular but now I’m poppin’ shit for those out of pocket.” During a recent appearance on Hot 97, hosts Ebro ...