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The Billboard 200 chart for the week of November 5 is out, and unsurprisingly, Taylor Swift’s new album Midnights again sits atop the list as the No. 1 album for its second week in a row. In its first week, it sold an eye-popping 1.140 million equivalent album units, making it the best-selling album of 2022 so far. Meanwhile, she also became the first artist ever to sweep the Billboard Hot 100’s top ten, with “Anti-Hero” landing at No. 1.

This week, according to Billboard, Midnights has the largest second-week total for any album since Adele’s 2015 album 25. MIdnights brought in 342,000 equivalent units (25 had 1.162 million), which is a greater total than the next six albums’ totals combined.

Lil Baby’s It’s Only Me came in at No. 2 with 81,000 units, while Bad Baby collected 62,000 units for the third spot with Un Verano Sin Ti. The Beatles’ Revolver reissue takes No. 4 with 54,000 units, while Dangerous: The Double Album by controversial country star Morgan Wallen brought in 41,000 to round out the top five. The remaining top ten albums are The Weeknd’s The Highlights, Baby Keem’s The Melodic Blue, Kodak Black’s Kutthroat Bill: Vol. 1, Harry Styles’ Harry’s House, and Beyoncé’s Renaissance.

Midnights could face some stiff competition for that No. 1 spot on next week’s chart thanks to the release of Drake and 21 Savage’s joint effort Her Loss.

Recently, Renagade PerRana, Snoop Dogg’s personal blunt roller, estimated the she has rolled nearly half a million joints since working for the rapper. That’s about “75 to 150 joints” per day, totaling around half a pound. That story was believable, given that Snoop is the type of guy to have his own personal blunt roller. While it’s true that Snoop smokes a lot of weed, he now says PerRana was exaggerating.

Yesterday (November 6), he shared a quick video in which he says, “B*tch said I smoke 450,000… b*tch, this is all in a day’s work. Stop lyin’. [How the] f*ck am I gonna smoke all that weed in one day? What am I, a f*ckin’ machine? B*tch, this is the roaches. See? Roaches.” The whole time, in the frame is a pile of nine roaches.

PerRana also recently spoke about how she got the job, saying, “They told me to come back the next night and I had a roll-off with a sound engineer that works with Snoop that, I guess, Snoop recommended and a Venezuelan cigar roller who rolls big boy stogies at parties. And I smoked them, to say the least, in that competition. So from that day forward, I was the premier blunt roller of the planet.”

If you found an item that was left behind at your workplace, and you knew a BTS member owned the owner of that item, what would you do? Would you keep it? Return it? Sell it?

If you chose the latter and decide to sell it, well, know that there will be a huge chance you’ll get caught, just like the former employee of the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs who tried selling a Kangol bucket hat worn by BTS‘ Jungkook.

Earlier today, the former employee admitted to all charges after Seoul’s Seocho Police Station completed the investigation behind an online post by the former staff selling the bucket hat. According to the report from Soompi, the post featured a black Kangol fleece-like bucket hat worn by Jungkook with a listing for 10 million Korean won (approximately $7,100). The person also posted a picture of a civil service employee ID for further verification and authenticity. They claimed ownership of the hat after no one called or visited to claim the item after six months when it was reported as lost property. The BTS member apparently left the hat when the group visited the former employee’s workplace for passport purposes.

However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that no record of the hat was reported to be a lost item according to its office or the National Police Agency. In addition, HYBE has confirmed Jungkook’s bucket hat to be missing: “It is true that [Jungkook] lost his hat at that place (Ministry of Foreign Affairs).”

Toward the end of Selena Gomez’s Rolling Stone cover story, she said, “This is probably the most you’ll hear about me for a while. I want this to come out, but I also just want this behind me. Every now and then it’s important to just disappear.” The December cover was the capstone of a whirlwind press run promoting her Apple TV+ documentary My Mind & Me, streaming now. In the documentary and magazine story alike, Gomez let fans in on her most vulnerable insecurities and daunting challenges — from the detriments of fame to her battles with bipolar and lupus — but some people are choosing to fixate on a throwaway comment about Taylor Swift. And that’s probably exactly why she’s about to disappear for a while.

At one point in the Rolling Stone profile, writer Alex Morris details the peculiar conflict Gomez experiences as a famous person who can’t always vent about the pressures of celebrity with her non-famous friends. “I never fit in with a cool group of girls that were celebrities. My only friend in the industry really is Taylor [Swift], so I remember feeling like I didn’t belong,” Gomez said in part. “I felt the presence of everyone around me living full lives. I had this position, and I was really happy, but … was I?”

Francia Raisa seemingly took exception to Swift being singled out as Gomez’s only friend in the entertainment industry. Raisa, an actress known for roles in Grown-ish and How I Met Your Father, have been close friends since their ABC Family and Disney days in the 2000s. Raisa famously offered up her kidney for Gomez’s lupus-induced kidney transplant in 2017. Raisa saw Gomez’s quote about Swift being aggregated by E! News on Instagram and simply commented, “Interesting.” The comment was deleted, but it also appears that Raisa has unfollowed Gomez.

As is now customary with these sorts of things, a TikTok user, Stephanie Tleiji, laid out this timeline over the weekend and added her own commentary. “I think that Selena Gomez misspoke in this interview,” Tleiji says in the TikTok. “Where she says Taylor is her only friend in the industry, I think she was referring to, like, the singing industry because not only does she have Francia, who’s an actress who we thought was a very close friend but also Cara Delevingne seems like she’s one of Selena’s closest friends, and she also is in the acting industry.”

Gomez left a comment: “Sorry I didn’t mention every person I know.”

For what it’s worth, Rolling Stone dedicated a passage to Gomez’s 30th birthday party from this summer and listed Raisa, Delevingne, Miley Cyrus, Camila Cabello, Billie Eilish, and Olivia Rodrigo as some of the friends who were in attendance.

Watch the My Mind & Me trailer above, and read the full Rolling Stone cover story here.

Anitta stole the show at the Los40 Music Awards in Spain on Friday night (November 4). While performing her hit “Envolver,” the Brazilian superstar twerked on Spanish politician Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

Each year, the Los40 Music Awards honors the biggest Spanish and Latin acts in Spain. The ceremony is produced by the Los40 radio station. Anitta won big when she took home the Best Artist Award in the Global Latin category. She also caused a stir with her performance at the show.

Earlier this year, Anitta’s song “Envolver” went viral on TikTok when a video of her performing the sexy choreography circulated online. During her performance at the the Los40 Music Awards, she recreated the dance move where she twerks to the ground while onstage.

Walking through the audience, Anitta also twerked on a few people in the front row. Among those people was Ayuso, the president of the Community of Madrid. The conservative politician previously said she would repeal parts of Madrid’s LGBT law if she could. Anitta, who is openly bisexual, seemingly made a queer statement in her twerking moment with Ayuso.

Another big winner of the night was Rosalía. The Spanish pop star took home Best Album for Motomami and Best Tour for the Motomami World Tour in the Spain categories. She was also honored with a Golden Music Music award. Rosalía hit the stage to perform her song “La Fama” that originally featured The Weeknd. She sang the heartbreaking bachata track by herself in a captivating performance.

Another standout performance came from María Becerra. The Argentine pop star revved-up the stage with her reggaeton banger “Automático.” She won the award for Best Tour in the Global Latin category. Her next album La Nena De Argentina is due out soon.

Some artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Forget about the sneakers and the boys for a second, ITZY‘s got something else up their sleeves.

Known to be a group who tends to trend for their dynamic performances and vast amounts of content, ITZY’s most recent social posts today (November 7) was a surprise announcement for some new music. Titled CHESHIRE, the new EP from the JYP Entertainment pop quintet is set to release at the end of the month, November 30, according to the promotion schedule poster.

Following the announcement, all social profiles from the group have immediately switched over to the new color scheme of the new concept. The EP will be available for pre-order starting today at 7 p.m. PT. However, no further details on the forthcoming release were given.

Considering the group will be attending one of K-pop’s biggest nights at the 2022 MNet Asian Music Awards on release day, one can assume that the group will be making their first live performance from the new project on the award show’s stage.

ITZY is currently on the US leg of their ITZY First World Tour: ‘Checkmate’ and will conclude their eight-city tour on Sunday, November 13 in New York at the Hulu Theater.

CHESHIRE follows the group’s first official English pre-release single “Boys Like You.”

Aside from his new daddy duties, it seems ASAP Rocky has also been busy creating music: The Harlem rapper is rumored to have been working on a new track titled “Taylor Swift.”

The song was leaked in a snippet released earlier this year before being wiped off the internet due to copyright issues. The track is presumably expected to be a part of his upcoming album. Despite no full-length audio available for the song, a few of the bars from the snippet were uploaded to Genius.

“Shoot my shot, got her wet / Bet that’s all neck, girl, that’s wetty,” he raps. “Wetty, gave me all neck, I’ll be headin’, ready / Might just sign my ex-girl, no Malcolm and Eddie.”

As of right now, Rocky has not confirmed or denied that this is the track’s name, and it may be subject to change.

While performing at Rolling Loud this past September, the “LSD” rapper announced that he wouldn’t perform again until his album drops, fueling rumors that the project is expected to drop soon. It was initially rumored that the upcoming album would be titled, All Smiles, but the rapper quickly dispelled that during an interview with Dazed Magazine in May.

“You know, I never publicly said that my album was called All Smiles!” he said. “That one is more of a concept project, it’s music and more. I’m wrapping up the new album now.”

Fans have continued to speculate, sharing memes and tweets now alleging that ASAP Rocky’s project will be called GRIM. It looks like we’ll just have to wait and see.

The Sick New World festival is getting off on the right foot. The likes of Deftones, Korn, Incubus, and System Of A Down teased this was coming last night by posting a trippy animated video of Las Vegas and the simple tag of “Sick New World” in the caption on their respective Instagrams. This morning (November 7), the lineup of the inaugural Sick New World festival was officially announced.

Unsurprisingly, the headliners will be System Of A Down, Korn, Deftones and Incubus. Sick New World will take over the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on May 13, 2023. Other notable acts to check out will be Evanescence, Turnstile, 100 Gecs, Chevelle, Mr. Bungle, Papa Roach, Death Grips, Flyleaf, Placebo, Spiritbox, and The Sisters Of Mercy. Ultimately, it’s like When We Were Young but for nu metal.

Sharing a stage won’t be a stretch for some of the acts. Turnstile performed at Deftones’ third annual Dia De Los Deftones Festival over the weekend, while Korn and System Of A Down played a run of shows together earlier this year.

According to press release, Sick New World tickets will go on sale to the public this Friday (November 11) beginning at 2 p.m. PT. There is a layaway payment option starting at $19.99. Full ticket information can be found here.

Check out the festival poster below.

The reason Donald Trump isn’t leaving the money pit that is Truth Social for the Elon Musk-owned Twitter? He can’t let something with his name attached to it fail, which has obviously never happened before. The Washington Post reports that the former president “has told his allies that he can’t leave Truth Social, because he’s propping it up, and he doesn’t want a site so closely associated with his brand to collapse.”

Trump has four million followers on Truth Social, compared to the 88 million that he had on Twitter (many of which were bots). He’s repeatedly claimed that the app is bigger than “TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and the rest,” but “in September, Truth Social had fewer than 1.7 million monthly unique visitors in the United States,” the Post reports. That’s lower than “the websites for the crypto news source CoinDesk, the drugstore chain CVS Health, and the internal job-listing page for Walmart.” And unlike Truth Social, CVS.com is useful (it can tell you the nearest location to buy half-priced candy after Halloween).

After a delayed start on his own platform, Trump has begun using it actively, posting memes and sharing messages from accounts promoting QAnon, the jumbled set of conspiracy theories that herald him as the ultimate warrior against a “deep state” cabal of satanic elite. Truth Social, however, has failed to gain the kind of mainstream base of users or advertisers on which most major social networks rely.

Maybe Trump is correct in avoiding Twitter. He doesn’t have to deal with this:

Remember when Trump was tweeting about Diet Coke? Those were the days.

(Via the Washington Post)

On an August afternoon in San Francisco, Larry June is backstage at Outside Lands Festival, biding his time before putting on a show for a hometown crowd. He’s in the midst of a year filled with sold-out tour dates and his latest album, Spaceships On The Blade, is set to drop ten days after the performance — he even has a natural wine on deck that’ll debut at his album release show later that month in San Francisco. If there was a lot on his mind, you wouldn’t know it. June, cloaked in a navy blue sweater from his Midnight Organic clothing line, is the embodiment of the Bay Area chill. He leans back in his trailer and reflects for a moment on the year.

“I traveled to the UK for the first time this year. Sold out all the shows,” he says while pressing his hands together. “I did a lot of recording. A lot of bike riding and going to the grocery store.”

Spaceships On The Blade marks June’s second release of the year (along with the 2 P’z In A Pod collaboration album with Compton rapper Jay Worthy.) And in a way, Spaceships is a documentation of a hard-earned trip around the sun for June. One that culminated with a Lamborghini ride through London for the “Private Valet” video and rapping in front of the Eiffel Tower in the clip for “In My Pockets.” Guest appearances on the album from Syd, 2Chainz, and the Alchemist are a testament to his rise. But none of it has gone to his head.

“I just take the beat and talk about what I did the last couple of months of my life,” he says without a hint of pomp.

June was born in the rough and tumble Hunter’s Point neighborhood of San Francisco. He moved to Atlanta for a decade when he was five until he was fifteen years old before moving back home to SF for good. He says he claims both, but his calm demeanor is undeniably from San Francisco. As is his entrepreneurial drive.

In a city dominated by the tech industry and start-up types with lofty goals of building companies while increasing their influence, June has his own entrepreneurial journey too, but with an undeniable independent lean. And just like how the new breed of San Franciscans unapologetically enjoy the finer things in life, June is no different. Last year, he opened Honeybear Boba, a boba tea shop in the Dogpatch district just down 3rd St from where he grew up. His natural wine, Uncle Larry’s Natural Orange, is a collaboration with Bay Area winemaker Purity Wine, and then there’s his Midnight Organic clothing line, which gets snatched up so quickly that he can’t seem to keep it in stock. The moment he stepped on stage at the festival and the crowd roars, he thanked them for buying his merch online.

“I show a different side of the city,” he says. “I’m from Hunter’s Point. I didn’t see too much of the Pier, or the nice avenues. I’ve never been to Alcatraz. I was just biking and sh*t. Now I’m just showing that a person of my color can do different sh*t. And I definitely belong.”

There’s a theme in June’s music that offers a flip on the lifestyle that is familiar in Bay Area hip-hop. His street rap come-up is everywhere in his flow, but he’s also ventured outside of his bubble to live the high life in an almost mockery of the techies in San Francisco who chase Instagram clout with their every move. For June, it’s just who he is. He transcends any and all norms and there’s nobody like him.

On “6am In Sausalito,” fron his 2021 album Orange Print, he raps about taking his lady to the bougie Marin County marina town of Sausalito to eat calamari; a scene typically devoid of anyone from Hunter’s Point. There’s an effortless cool about his deep-toned delivery on the hook — “Livin’ life fast, that’s the game we play” — and it just screams with his sentiment that he “definitely” belongs.

Later on “Organic Respect,” he touts a city-dweller healthy lifestyle and early-riser status, spitting, ”Yeah, I rap now, but don’t try it. You from the internet. I’m from that life.” Because it’s not just the startup crowd that shops at Whole Foods and wakes up early to grind. June flips the dichotomy on his head because after all, this was his city first. He grew up watching both of his parents hustle in the music industry and took notes from their drive and that of other artists in his orbit.

“I watched them do it independently and I just kinda took that and ran with it,” he says. “It inspires me a lot because I came up in the community when people were pushing music out the trunk. I saw the grind and it gave me the idea of how I wanted to do it.”

June dropped his first mixtape when he was fifteen and just kept putting out projects since. The mixtapes and EPs gave way to albums and collaborations and since 2018, he’s been non-stop, dropping close to fifteen new releases. Each album has seen June level up, with the fruits of his labor on full display across his sold-out tour in the US and the UK, as he’s become the most recognizable rapper from San Francisco.

But he rejects the notion that he’s an anomaly, and that San Francisco rap isn’t what it used to be. “There’s a lot of independent artists out here making a lot of money,” he asserts, before explaining that his rise is because “I just do numbers and sh*t. I just do me.”

If there’s anything that defines Bay Area culture, it’s how natives of San Francisco, Oakland, etc… have never been afraid to be themselves. It’s what has yielded a culture and style that while not as celebrated as other pockets, is just as influential. For June, who frequently ventures into LA and Detroit hip-hop circles with that Bay Area chill vibe and unquestioned aura that he belongs there too, it has defined his identity and his ascent.

His rise was none more evident than on that Saturday afternoon at Outside Lands. And shades of his San Francisco bred come-up was everywhere around him. He closed his set with “Smoothies In 1991” to an enormous crowd on the rolling green fields of Golden Gate Park. Weed smoke happily filled the air and it felt like everybody there was celebrating the life, drive, and success that Larry June embodies. They sang along with him, “Bitch I feel like I’m dreaminnnn…!” until the music cut off. But everyone just kept going, holding the hook again and again towards June on stage, until they were all finally out of breath.