The Weeknd Dominates Shazam’s Mid-Year Charts

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorA tearful Megan Thee Stallion took to Instagram Live on Monday afternoon to thank her fans, assail her haters and speak briefly about the July 12 incident during which she says she was shot in her feet. On that night, she and another woman were in a car with rapper Tory Lanez when he was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorSuranne Jones, the star of BBC/HBO drama Gentleman Jack and Doctor Foster, is to feature in the second season of Channel 4’s female-led anthology drama series I Am.Jones will star in I Am Victoria alongside Top Boy actor Ashley Walters, as Channel 4 confirmed that it has commissioned another three episodes of the show created by Dominic Savage, the writer of Gemma Arterton-fronted feature The Escape.Produced by Me+You Productions in association with Sky

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTikTok and the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), today announced the signing of a multi-year agreement, which accounts for TikTok’s past use of musical works and “sets up a forward-looking partnership,” according to the announcement.The popular mobile video site — which features music in many of its posts — and NMPA, the trade association representing American music publishers and songwriters, had previously sparred over terms, and according to sources,

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe series of videos from The Weeknd’s blockbuster album “After Hours” continues with “Snowchild,” a semi-autobiographical song from the album that gets a semi-autobiographical animated treatment from the D’ART Shtajio studio, the first black-owned Japanese animation studio in Japan.The clip — which is loaded with easter eggs for fans — begins with his busted-nose “After Hours” character in the desert, then quickly segues to The Weeknd’s hometown of Toronto and

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLily Cornell Silver, daughter of Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell and the group’s former manager Susan Silver, launches her IGTV series “Mind Wide Open” today (July 20) in honor of her late father’s 56th birthday.

Challenger, Gray & Christmas.The firm surveyed 150 HR executives across the industry in June and found that there have been at least 11,027 reported job cuts through June.

How I Met Your Mother, has poked fun at the series running for almost a decade when its central premise was the equivalent of 15 minutes.Radnor, who portrayed Ted Mosby in the Emmy Award-winning show, shared a photo of a DVD in a since-deleted Instagram post that has the words “How I Stretched A 15 Minute Story Into Nine [Fucking] Years” daubed across an image of the show’s characters.Metro screen-shotted the picture (see here), which Radnor captioned with, “Well….yeah”, suggesting that he too

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Prince Estate, in partnership with Warner Records, has dropped “I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 Version),” a previously unreleased early version of the song from the forthcoming expanded reissue of Prince’s classic 1987 album “Sign O’ the Times,” which is out September 25.“I Could Never Take the Place Of Your Man (1979 Version)” was recorded at Hollywood Sound Recorders, Studio A on May 23, 1979, and engineered by Bob Mockler.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMegan Thee Stallion has issued a statement clarifying the incident in which she was wounded over the weekend.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorCardi B, DaBaby, Meek Mill and Universal Music Publishing are among the big winners at ASCAP’s annual Rhythm & Soul Awards, which began virtually at 10 a.m. ET on Wednesday and will continue through Friday.

TORONTO — For the first half of 2020, R&B superstar The Weeknd dominated multiple Nielsen Music Canada charts, including physical albums, total consumption album sales, Canadian albums, Canadian radio, and, overall, the most consumed of all Canadian artists, according to the just-released midyear report from Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The Toronto native's latest

Pete Hammond, Dominic Patten With voting for this year’s Emmy nominations coming into the final stretch, today’s episode of our Deadline weekly podcast, TV Talk , once again dives into a handicap of some key races, in this case for Best Limited Series  and Best Movie Made For Television.  Among top contenders in the uber-crowded Limited Series race are so many top quality productions that TV Critic Dominic Patten has his own list , and Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond

Dominic Fike has shared the details of his forthcoming debut album and with it a new single called ‘Politics & Violence’.The Florida singer and rapper will release ‘What Could Possibly Go Wrong’ on July 31 via Columbia Records.

Carol, Blue Jasmine and The Lord Of The Rings, has now co-created a new six-part Netflix drama based on her experiences in the field. It’s called Stateless, and represents a rare foray into television.Stateless details Australia’s on-shore detention programme at the turn of the millennium.

Dominic Fike has teased the forthcoming release of his new song ‘Politics & Violence’ with a new video posted on social media.

Chris Martin is getting some air.

We’re sending our thoughts to Rickey Smiley and his family.