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Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in December. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, December 4

• Alex Maas — Luca (Innovative Leisure)
• Amy Winehouse — The Collection (Island Records)
• Arctic Monkeys — Live At The Royal Albert Hall (Domino)
• Beck — Hyperspace (Capitol Records)
• Brady Cohan — Studies, Vol. 1 EP (Phantom Limb)
• Calexico — Seasonal Shift (ANTI‐)
• Can’t Swim — Someone Who Isn’t Me EP (Pure Noise Records)
• Canyon City — Circling The Sun EP (Nettwerk)
• Carly Johnson — Carly Johnson (Lhpromotion)
• Clifton Anderson — Been Down This Road Before (Ropeadope)
• Cryptodira — The Angel Of History (Good Fight Music)
• Daniel Docherty — Only Time Can Help Us EP ([PIAS])
• Dark Mark — Dark Mark Does Christmas 2020 (Rough Trade Records)
• Dave Vettraino — Exercise (Fire Talk)
• Deafheaven — 10 Years Gone (Sargent House)
• The Decemberists — Live Home Library Vol. I At Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak, MI August 11, 2009 (YABB Records)
• Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger — Force Majeure (International Anthem)
• DJ Scheme — Family (Scheme Records)
• Duncan Sheik — Live At The Cafe Carlyle (Sneaky Records)
• Gama Bomb — Sea Savage (Prosthetic Records)
• Garrett Kato — Hemispheres (Nettwerk)
• Geographer — Down And Out In The Garden Of Earthly Delights (Roll Call Records)
• Goldfinger — Never Look Back (Big Noise)
• Grey Skies — YEAR (FWF Records)
• Harrison Storm — Be Slow EP (Nettwerk Records)
• Harry Jay-Steele — Boundaries (Naim Records)
• Hiiro Issiki — 1000 Plateaux (Bedouin Records)
• Joan Of Arc — Tim Melina Theo Bobby (Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Jordana — …To You EP (Grand Jury Music)
• Jordana — Something To Say To You (Grand Jury Music)
• Kass Richards — The Language Shadow (Good Cry Records)
• Khruangbin — Late Night Tales (LateNightTales)
• Kutiman — Wachaga In Dub (Siyal)
• Landon Cube — Sapphire (Republic Records)
• The Late Ones — Lately EP (Easy Star Records)
• Laura Carbone — Laura Carbone — Live At Rockpalast (Aporia/Future Shock)
• Laura Groves — A Private Road EP (Bella Union)
• Lavender Diamond — Now Is The Time (Petaluma)
• Lee Paradise — The Fink (Telephone Explosion)
• Lespecial — Ancient Homies (Ropeadope)
• Lost Horizons — In Quiet Moments Part 1 (Bella Union)
• Luke Dick — Music From The Documentary Red Dog (Ingrooves)
• Magic Dance — Remnants (Frontiers)
• The Mary Veils — Slacker Paint (PNKSLM Recordings)
• Meilir — In Tune (Gwdihŵ Records)
• Monty Alexander — Love You Madly: Live At Bubba’s (Resonance Records)
• The Moore Family Band — Yelling Out Of Tune (Asian Man Records)
• Neil Young And Crazy Horse — Way Down In The Rust Bucket (Neil Young Archives)
• Nicholas Lens & Nick Cave — L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Opal Onyx — Vessel (Tin Angel Records)
• Oscar Lang — Antidote To Being Bored EP (Dirty Hit)
• Red City Radio — Paradise (Pure Noise Records)
• Rico Nasty — Nightmare Vacation (Sugar Trap)
• Russell Dickerson — Southern Symphony (Triple Tigers)
• Sigur Rós — Odin’s Raven Magic (Krunk/Warner Classics)
• Son Lux — Tomorrow II (City Slang)
• Steve Kilbey — Eleven Women (Foghorn)
• Steve Perry — Traces (Alternate Versions And Sketches) (Fantasy Records)
• Stupid Young — From Here On Out (Empire)
• SUSS — Promise (Northern Spy Records)
• Symba — Don’t Run From R.A.P. (Atlantic Records)
• Tankus The Henge — Luna Park! (Music For Nations)
• These New Puritans — Hidden [MMXX] (Domino)
• This Daze — This Daze EP (Sub Pop)
• Tommy Emmanuel — Live! Christmas Time (CGP Sounds)
• Tom Sanders — Only Magic (Moshi Moshi)
• Tori Amos — Christmastide EP (Decca)
• Valerie Orth — Rabbit Hole (Lost Sox Productions)
• Various Artists — LA Originals (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Universal Music)
• Various Artists — Promising Young Woman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ( Capitol)
• The White Stripes — The White Stripes Greatest Hits (Third Man Records)
• Winston C.W. — Good Guess (Whatever’s Clever Records)
• Yella Beezy — Blank Checc (HITCO)
• YFN Lucci — Wish Me Well 3 (Think It’s A Game Records/Warner Records)
• Your Old Droog– Dump Yod: Krutoy Edition (Mongoloid Banks)
• Yumi And The Weather — Some Days EP (Small Pond Records)

Friday, December 11

• Alaska Reid — Big Bunny EP (Terrible Records)
• Alia Lene — Christmas Miracle EP (Contra)
• Andy Cooper — L.I.S.T.E.N. (Unique Records)
• The Apocalypse Blues Revival — The Apocalypse Blues Revival (Provogue Records)
• The Avalanches — We Will Always Love You (Universal Music Australia)
• Bayside — Acoustic Volume 3 EP (Hopeless Records)
• Belle And Sebastian — What To Look For In Summer (Matador Records)
• Black Paisley — Rambler (Frontiers)
• BOYO — Alone Together In Los Angeles (Park the Van)
• Call Me Spinster — Call Me Spinster EP (Strolling Bones Records)
• Chris Lake And Armand Van Helden — The Answer EP (Astralwerks)
• Contradash — All-Star (Interscope)
• Delaney Jane — Somewhere Else EP (Dirty Pretty Things)
• Double Tiger — The Journey (Easy Star Records)
• Doug Carn, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad — Doug Carn JID005 (Jazz Is Dead)
• The Fallen Prophets — No End In Sight EP (MMD Records)
• Fana Hues — Hues (Westminster Recordings)
• Foster The People — In The Darkest Of Nights, Let The Birds Sing EP (Startime International)
• Foxy Shazam — Burn (Sire)
• French Cassettes — Rolodex (Tender Loving Empire)
• Guided By Voices — Styles We Paid For (Rockathon Records)
• Hodge — Remixes In Blue (Houndstooth)
• Holiday87 — Holiday87 (Black Clay)
• James Blake — Covers EP (Republic)
• Jason Lancaster — Say I’m What You Want EP (We Are Triumphant/The Orchard)
• John J Presley — The Albany Sessions (Music For Heroes)
• Kacy & Clayton And Marlon Williams — Plastic Bouquet (New West Records)
• KAS:ST — A Magic World (Afterlife)
• Kid Dakota — Age Of Roaches (Graveface)
• The Kills — Little Bastards (Domino)
• Late Night Final — A Wonderful Hope (PIAS)
• Less Than Jake — Silver Linings (Pure Noise Records)
• Locean — Top Ten Zen Meditations (Artificial Head Records)
• Lodet — Many Days EP (Allen Road Music)
• The Magik Way — II Rinato (My Kingdom Music()
• M. Ward — Think Of Spring (ANTI‐)
• New Age Doom — Himalayan Dream Techno (We Are Busy Bodies)
• Nilüfer Yanya — Feeling Lucky? EP (ATO Records)
• OSees — Panther Rotate (Castle Face Records)
• Other Lives — Siciliy Sessions (PIAS)
• Paul McCartney — McCartney III (Capitol)
• Peter Bjorn And John — Endless Play EP (Ingrid)
• Pete Rock — PeteStrumentals 3 (Tru Soul Records)
• Reuben — Racecar Is Very Fast (Xtra Mile Recordings)
• Rosie Carney — The Bends (Ultra Music)
• Shanghai Restoration Project — Brave New World Symphony (Undercover Culture Music)
• Six Foot Six — End Of All (Scarlet Records)
• Spacette — Spacette EP (Big Takeover)
• Various Artists — Cyberpunk 2077 Radio Vol. 1 (Lakeshore)
• Yashira — Fail To Be (Deathwish Inc)
• Yo-Yo Ma & Kathryn Stott — Songs Of Comfort And Hope (Sony Classical)

Friday, December 18

• APRE — Always In My Mind (Polydor Records)
• Boulevards — Brother! EP (Normaltown Records)
• Glenn Morrow’s Cry For Help — 2 (Rhyme & Reason)
• Hayley Williams — Petals For Armor: Self-Serenades EP (Atlantic Records)
• I Am Oak — Odd Seeds (Snowstar Records)
• Kult Of The Wizard — Gold (self-released)
• Mac Miller — Swimming In Circles (Warner Records)
• Maggie Rogers — Notes From The Archive: Recordings 2011 — 2016 (Debay Sounds via Caroline)
• Matt Dorrein — My Christmas Plea EP (Mama Bird Recording Co.)
• Royal Hunt — Dystopia (NorthPoint Productions)
• Stuck Out — Lie Through Your Teeth EP (SharpTone Records)
• Tycho — Weather Remixes (Mom + Pop)
• Various Artists — Cyberpunk 2077 Radio Vol. 2 (Lakeshore)

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

When it comes to politics and Christopher Nolan’s Batman masterpiece The Dark Knight, the obvious reference is the George W. Bush administration thanks to the film’s themes of abusing civil liberties to ultimately catch Heath Ledger’s Joker, who’s in essence a terrorist. However, in new interview, Aaron Eckhart praises the Nolan sequel for continuing to draw real world parallels over 12 years after its release.

While promoting his new movie Wander, the Harvey Dent/Two-Face actor reminisced about his time on The Dark Knight, and how its script still blows away him. Not only does he describe it as a “novel” that he had to quickly read while a guy waited outside in his driveway, but Eckhart couldn’t believe how many characters it balanced. He expected to have a very small part in the film because “You can’t have room for that many main players, right?” More importantly, Eckhart is surprised at how much of The Dark Knight is relevant to life under Trump. Via The Hollywood Reporter:

“It was like reading literature. And there’s something about Gotham City too. You have a city that’s oppressed and being run by a criminal gang. People can’t go out during the day, everybody’s scared for their safety, and the people that are paid to protect them are corrupted. They’re part of the gang and nobody can trust anybody. Sound like anything that’s familiar? And then people are looking to a superhero for their liberty and their freedom. Not only is it a great story and a great movie, but this is what cinema and art are all about. It’s a reflection of our times.”

Of course, Eckhart is sure to mention “the performance of Heath,” which took The Dark Knight to whole other level, and it’s been an experience he hasn’t soon forgotten. “I was happy to be a part of it.”

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

Now that we’re through with Thanksgiving, it’s time to start looking forward to the December holidays. That makes now a good time for a cautionary tale, via Lil Uzi Vert; When opening presents this holiday season, be careful with sharp objects. Uzi learned that lesson the hard way last night, when he revealed that he accidentally stabbed himself in the face with a knife while trying to cut a zip tie.

Uzi shared a video showing off the aftermath of the incident, a not-insignificant gash above his upper lip. He says in the video, “That ain’t no… just no slit, this sh*t is open.” Somebody off-camera chimed in, “That’s a gash, bro,” and Uzi continued, “A real gash.”

After sharing the video, Uzi wrote, “Don’t open stuff up with a knife it’s not safe.” Somebody asked how the accident happened and Uzi explained, “I was pulling the knife back on a zip tie and stab my face … I just missed my lip.” Grimes saw the video and expressed concern for Uzi, writing, “U need stitches !” Uzi seemingly took her thoughts under consideration, responding, “You think it’s that deep ?”

Thankfully, it seems like Uzi is doing just fine, which is fortunate given how bad an accident like this could have been.

On Sunday, Donald Trump took part in his first televised interview since losing the election to President-elect Joe Biden. He told Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo that he’s had leaders from other countries tell him that’s “the most messed-up election we have ever seen,” that the “biggest people” wished him “congratulations, sir” on Election Night at 10 p.m. EST, and of course, the “massive dumps.” The whole interview was a massive dump, actually, as Bartiromo refused to question any of Trump’s false claims. Jimmy Kimmel jokingly offered an explanation for their chumminess.

Bartiromo used to be a respected journalist (“She won a number of awards for her work on these [CNBC] programs, including a pair of Emmy Awards. In 2013, she joined the two Fox channels” is a telling portion of her Wikipedia), but, as the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host pointed out, “I don’t know what happened to her, but she appears to be auditioning for the position of Donald Trump’s next wife because that was some interview.”

Kimmel also mocked the president’s tiny desk press conference. “This is how the lame duck chose to spend his final Thanksgiving at the White House: He threw a world class Trumper-tantrum from behind a tiny little desk,” he said. “Sitting at a little baby desk, screaming ‘You can’t talk to the president that way,’ this is how I want to remember him.”

You can watch the clip above.

Fox News personality Sean Hannity claims to always call it like he sees it, and his latest call, well, doesn’t look so good for him! It must be noted that I did describe him as a “personality” because Hannity’s always been a grey-area type of talking head. He famously argued in 2016 that he’s “not a journalist, I’m a talk show host.” Then in 2017, he changed his tune and decided that, yes, he is a journalist, which more than suggests that he should be held to the barest of journalistic principles, including the verification of information before reporting it. This all makes things very confusing as 2020 rolls to a close, and Hannity has committed his greatest self-own yet.

On Monday night, Hannity clearly had an axe to grind after news that all states had now certified their POTUS election results (further confirming Joe Biden as victorious). He continued to push election-fraud conspiracies, and in the process, he made this amazing admission: “I don’t vet the information on this program.”

For a little more context, here’s how that played out. He appeared to be arguing that the media is “a mob,” but he is an independent thinker, not one of the “sheeple,” but yeah, this probably came out looking much worse than intended:

“This show, we in this hour, I am not told what to say. I don’t vet the information on this program that I give out. We have always been independent, follow our own path on this show. That’s not gonna change for me, ever.”

He did, however, tell his audience that he did vet “the Biden family’s international pay for play schemes,” but “the media mob ignored it all. And by the way, we’ll continue to investigate.” In other words, he’s still not gonna leave Hunter Biden alone, even after his colleague, Tucker Carlson, declared that it’s time to leave Hunter Biden alone.

So here’s what we’re left with in the end: Hannity doesn’t vet information; therefore he is a propagandist? It seems like his admission on not doing so should stand, and people agree.

If asked to quickly name the top music video of 2020, music fans might blurt out “WAP” by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, since it has been more discussed than perhaps any other video this year. Indeed, that visual is on YouTube’s new list of the year’s ten top-trending music videos, but it’s not at No. 1. Instead, that honor belongs to Future and Drake’s “Life Is Good” video.

“WAP” comes in at No. 5 on the list, which contains only hip-hop and also features videos from Tekashi 69, NLE Choppa, DaBaby, Lil Durk, and Youngboy Never Broke Again. The only artists to make multiple appearances on the list are Drake, Lil Baby, and Roddy Ricch.

This isn’t a straight-up list of the most-viewed videos, though, as Variety notes that YouTube compiled these rankings using “a proprietary algorithm that factors in total views, likes, comments, and searches.” Of the videos on the list, “Life Is Good” is the most viewed with 1.3 billion watches, which is aided by the fact that it was released in early January. It is followed by “Gooba” (which came out in May) and “WAP” (which premiered in August).

Check out the full list below, as well as YouTube’s other top-trending lists.

Top Music Videos
1. Future – Life Is Good Feat. Drake
2. Tekashi 69 – Gooba
3. Lil Baby x 42 Dugg – We Paid
4. NLE Choppa – Walk Em Down Feat. Roddy Ricch
5. Cardi B – WAP feat. Megan Thee Stallion
6. DaBaby – Rockstar Feat. Roddy Ricch
7. Roddy Ricch – The Box
8. Drake – Laugh Now Cry Later Feat. Lil Durk
9. YoungBoy Never Broke Again – Lil Top
10. Lil Baby – The Bigger Picture

Top Trending Videos
1. 8:46 – Dave Chappelle – Netflix Is a Joke
2. Building the Perfect Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder – Mark Rober
3. First Debate Cold Open – Saturday Night Live
4. We Broke Up – jeffrreestar
5. I Bought the World’s Largest Firework ($600,000) – MrBeast
6. I’m Coming Out – NikkieTutorials
7. Minecraft Speedrunner VS 3 Hunters Grand Finale – Dream
8. Ricky Gervais’ Monologue – 2020 Golden Globes – NBC
9. Quarantine Stereotypes – Dude Perfect
10. Some Good News with John Krasinski Ep. 1 – SomeGoodNews

Top Creators
1. MrBeast
2. Dream
3. ZHC
4. SSSniperwolf
5. Tiko
6. Chloe Ting
7. JoshDub
8. The Royalty Family
9. LazarBeam
10. James Charles

Top Breakout Creators
1. Dream
2. Tiko
3. Chloe Ting
4. EddieVR
5. Charli D’Amelio
6. GeorgeNotFound
7. Dixie D’Amelio
8. Corpse Husband
9. Some Good News
10. Hyram

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

The Godfather Part III has a very strange place in popular culture. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, yet its historical legacy is, basically, “a disappointment.” And this seems to stem from two distinct events: the first is that The Godfather Part III isn’t the masterpieces that the first two movies are. And the second reason is also nominated for Best Picture that year was Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, which just relentlessly zips along and ushered in a modern way to make mobster movies, while The Godfather Part III felt a little “old fashioned.”

What makes it more of a perceived afterthought it when AMC plays those Godfather marathons that are impossible not to get sucked into, they rarely play the third chapter. So just by osmosis most people have seen the first two chapters numerous times, while the third chapter remains somewhat of a mystery. (I actually know people who have just never seen the third movie because they have heard “it’s bad.”)

Back in March I rewatched The Godfather Part III and found myself really enjoying it. It’s certainly not a bad movie. So much so, that back in June when I spoke to Talia Shire about Rad she kind of prematurely spilled the beans that Francis Ford Coppola was working on a new cut of the movie, which wound up using the original title Coppola always wanted, The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. The Goodfellas style of story certainly hasn’t waned, but, today, The Godfather Part III style doesn’t feel “old fashioned” anymore. It’s “aged well,” as they say. Anyway, the thought of a new cut of the film that can make it even better sounded very appealing.

So here’s what I did: When the new Blu-ray of The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone arrived, I watched it in its entirety. And it looks beautiful. (I later figured out a big reason why, I’ll get to this in a bit.) The thing is, I’m not so familiar with The Godfather Part III that I could immediately spot all the changes, but I felt more immersed than I ever had before, but couldn’t quite put a finger on why. It’s noticeable that the movie has a new opening scene and the closing scene has been edited, but beyond that, I wasn’t quite sure other than, “I enjoyed my experience watching the new cut.” It’s admittedly dense plot seemed more accessible.

So, after watching it through the first time, I took a copy of the new cut and put it on a screen next to a copy of the original cut, and then I hit “play” and took note of all the changes. Ahead is was I noticed, but be warned there are spoilers for both versions of this movie ahead:

Well right off the bat it’s noticeable that the new version of the film has a new, more modern-looking sheen to it. Gone is that “’50s style” golden look that didn’t make a lot of sense for a movie set in the 1970s. And I think the new look works to Coppola’s desire to separate this film from the other two installments. The new cut opens with Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone meeting with Archbishop Gilday at Gilday’s New York City office discussing Michael’s desire to give the Vatican $600 million for shares of Internazionale Immobiliare. So, right off the bat we get to the heart of the plot of the movie – Michael’s desire for a legitimate enterprise – as opposed to the original version when this scene happens a full 40 minutes into the film. Gone is pretty much everything in the original cut’s opening, which includes a flashback to Fredo’s murder, followed by Michael’s ceremony at the church. In the new cut, we go straight from Michael’s meeting with Archbishop Gilday to the ceremony’s afterparty. This does two things which greatly helps the film: It established the plot right away, as opposed to 40 minutes in wondering, “wait, what is this thing now Michael is doing with stock?” It also introduces Andy Garcia’s Vincent earlier in the film, which makes him seem more important right off the bat.

What’s surprising is just these changes alter the film dramatically. Because what follows is not that much is different. Obviously, with the meeting where we learn Michael’s intentions opening the film, the new cut goes straight from Michael having a business breakfast straight into the press conference.

The next major change is, after the massacre in Atlantic City (the sound mix on this is incredible), the scene in which Neri and Talia Shire’s Connie tell Vincent to take out Joe Mantegna’s Joey Zasa has been cut all together. (After the hit in Little Italy, we learn of this meeting simply by Michael (in the hospital after his stroke) being mad about it and telling the three to never do that again.) Also, when Kay (Diane Keaton) visits Michael in the hospital, the scene ends after his son Anthony says goodbye. The original cut then has another scene in which Don Altobello shows up and tries to convince Michael to drop this whole Internazionale Immobiliare stock thing. Rewatching that scene, it’s all a little too obvious what Altobello is up to here and it’s really not needed.

From here on out there are only a few minor changes, not counting the ending. When Michael has his confession, the scene where Don Tommasino is carried out of the car and put into a wheelchair is now gone, as it leads straight into Michael’s conversation with future pope Cardinal Lamberto. The next change happens right before Michael and Mary (Sofia Coppola) are shot outside the opera by the hitman, Mosca. It feels like some beats are cleaned up with there being one less scene of Mosca’s son (the guy who makes the donkey noises) before the shot is fired.

Then there are some fairly big changes to the ending. After Mary is killed, the original cut flashes back to Michael and Mary dancing at the party. Then there are further flashbacks to the prior films. In the new cut, the flashbacks to Mary remain, but all the scenes from the prior films are taken out. Instead, we are taken to “old Michael” a little earlier as we see him from a distance for a longer period of time. Both cuts of the film now show us a closeup of Michael’s face as he puts on his sunglasses. The new version fades away here, and goes to the newly inserted quote, “When the Sicilians wish you ‘Cent’anni’… it means ‘for long life.’ … and a Sicilian never forgets.” The original version, as you probably remember, after Michael puts on his sunglasses, we get a wide shot of him slumping, then falling out of his chair, dead. It’s, to put it bluntly, pretty clumsy looking. So that, thankfully, is gone.

It’s pretty remarkable what just a few changes can make. Honestly, I found myself pretty stunned by the lack of changes. Watching the new cut, it had the feel of a completely different movie. The new opening scene changes the whole tone from, “we are reflecting on the prior movie,” to, “Hey, Michael has a deal to make and here’s what he wants to accomplish.” It makes the whole movie feel like it has a better sense of urgency. It feels less like the whole business enterprise is just something Michael is up to while he mourns killing Fredo and losing Kay. It feels like, now, that’s the plot of the movie and every subsequent scene makes more sense establishing this early.

The truth is, The Godfather Part III has always been a good movie. Circumstance had more to play with its legacy than the movie itself. But with what are some really minor tweaks, Coppola has given his now “Coda” new life. I hope people who were always hesitant to watch it a chance. No, it’s not on the level of the first two films, but those movies are miracles. The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone isn’t a miracle, but it’s a pretty great film that’s just been made quite a bit better.

‘The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone’ will be releaed on December 8th. You can contact Mike Ryan directly on Twitter.

If you’ve been paying attention in 2020, then Spotify’s top five most streamed artists in the world won’t really come as a surprise — but the order might. Where R&B and rap artists like The Weekend and Drake have been repping for Canada in the streaming world for years, this time those two Canadian titans took a backseat. In 2020, it was Bad Bunny’s year. Based on his prolific output alone — not one, not two, but three new albums — the man born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio might’ve had a leg up. Then again, if there wasn’t millions of people streaming his music, he wouldn’t be beating a gargantuan artist like Drake.

In the same week that a song predominantly sung in Korean became a No. 1 hit, Bad Bunny surpassed two English-speaking superstars to win out in streams, proving once and for all that mainstream audiences are more than ready to embrace music without English lyrics. Of course, they’re still listening to mostly men. The top five included Bad Bunny at number one, followed by Drake, J Balvin, Juice WRLD and then The Weeknd. No female artists were in the top five, although Billie Eilish led the field when just looking at female artists, followed right after by Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande, then Dua Lipa and Halsey. Remember, this is just on Spotify, so it could be that Taylor and Ari fans love Apple Music? Or maybe they’re buying physical copies.

Check out all the global trends for Spotify Wrapped 2020 right here.

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

Much of Monday night’s clash between the Seattle Seahawks and the Philadelphia Eagles was unassuming and rather bland. The Seahawks were clearly the better team, leading wire-to-wire, but Seattle wasn’t thoroughly dominant on the offensive side of the ball. The Eagles struggled mightily, headlined by Carson Wentz continuing his prolonged slump, and with the Seahawks leading 23-9 late in the fourth quarter, the win-loss result was all but academic. However, the point spread was still in doubt, at least to some degree, and shenanigans took place in the final seconds.

Seattle closed as a consensus 6.5-point favorite on this night, even while acknowledging that the Seahawks were -5.5 or -6 earlier in the week. Still, with a 14-point lead, things looked safe… until they weren’t. Wentz connected on a 33-yard Hail Mary pass, with a crazy one-handed catch by Richard Rodgers to bring the Eagles within eight points.

Under “normal” circumstances, the team trailing by eight points might simply kick the extra point to climb within seven. With that said, the Eagles have been at the forefront of the analytical movement to go for two when trailing by 14 and, in predictable fashion, they did so here, with Miles Sanders scampering into the end zone without much resistance from Seattle.

When Sanders crossed the goal line, people without vested interests in the point spread may have simply shrugged, but many took great notice. None more so than a well-publicized bettor that placed a half-million dollars on the Seahawks… at -6.5.

ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt led his postgame coverage with a wink and a nod toward what transpired and, without any doubt, this was a sickening backdoor from a team that didn’t deserve to cover. Everyone that dabbles in the handicapping space has a story (or two) about a bad beat like this, but the Eagles pulled off a miracle that swung quite a bit of money in the desert on Monday night.

In early November, Drake took to Instagram to inform fans that he had once again injured his knee and needed to undergo surgery. The post was made following a pick-up game in his Toronto home which included Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry. The news caused fans to begin speculating that Drake’s injury happened why trying to guard Curry — a difficult feat for professional NBA players, let alone rappers.

Drake has not confirmed whether or not his knee injury was a direct result of Curry, but the basketball player has now spoken. In a recent interview with Complex Sports, Curry playfully responded to rumors that Drake tore his ACL during their game and said he hopes the rapper will address the incident on his upcoming album: “Maybe it might show up in the new album coming out. We’ll see if he drops a lyric or a line or something on what actually happened.”

In other news about Drake’s upcoming music, the rapper predicts his forthcoming record Certified Lover Boy will get some hate. Replying to a fan on his father’s Instagram Live, Drake wrote: “they hated on views just like they will CLB but it’s music to evolve to.”

Check out a clip of Drake and Curry shooting hoops above.