By Jem Aswad
08.04.2020 - 16:41 / variety.com
By Jem Aswad
Senior Music Editor
The experience of listening to person’s music while they’re sitting in the same room has the potential to be equally awesome or awkward for both parties. What if the music is terrible (or, worse, mediocre) and the listener feels compelled to pretend to like it? What if the listener says something idiotic and the artist then has to endure that person’s presence for the duration of the session? Such scenarios are challenging enough when it’s your friend playing
By Jem Aswad
The Weeknd’s After Hours could capture a fourth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart next week. If the set holds atop the list, it will mark the first album to spend its first four weeks at No. 1 since Drake’s Scorpion in 2018, and just the fifth set since 2018 to log at least four total weeks at No. 1. Industry forecasters suggest that After Hours could earn 62,000 to 75,000 equivalen
The Weeknd is staying on top of the charts.
The Weeknd’s After Hours scores a third straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the first album to lead for three consecutive weeks since Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding also spent its first three weeks atop the tally last year (Sept.
When The Weeknd set his release date for After Hours, he couldn’t have imagined the viral pandemic the world would soon be facing. Despite the looming uncertainty, however, he never thought about pushing back the project’s release—even though his team and label wanted him to.
By Jem Aswad
By Jem Aswad
By Jem Aswad
By Jem Aswad
Sending the Gorga and Giudice family love. Margaret Josephs, Jackie Goldschneider and more Real Housewives are thinking of Teresa Giudice and Joe Gorga after their father Giacinto Gorga’s death.
The Giudice and Gorga families are mourning the loss of family patriarch, Giacinto Gorga, who passed away on April 3. He was 76. Joe Giudice shared his condolences in a post on Instagram soon after new of his father-in-law’s death. Joe, who’s living in Italy, is currently in the middle of a divorce with Giacinto’s daughter, Teresa Giudice. She and her brother, Joe Gorga both shared emotional posts on Instagram, as did her daughter Milania Giudice.
While the rest of the world's headlines get drearier by the day, The Weeknd just keeps winning. The artist born Abel Tesfaye scores his fourth consecutive No.
Ten days after its release, The Weeknd seems determined to make sure his new album “After Hours” is a gift that keeps giving: At the stroke of midnight ET, he added three previously unreleased songs to the album’s deluxe edition: “Nothing Compares,” “Missed You” and “Final Lullaby.” The three songs are all collaborations with his longtime sonic associate DaHeala; “Nothing Compares” also features contributions from producer Ricky Reed, who helmed much of Lizzo’s smash “Cuz I Love You.”