Christina Aguilera ended a six year hiatus from the charts with the release of ‘Liberation.’

Her first body of work since 2012’s ill-fated ‘Lotus,’ the set was led by focus single ‘Fall In Line’ with Demi Lovato alongside taster cuts ‘Accelerate,’ ‘Twice,’ and ‘Like I Do.’ 

With the set being showered with critical acclaim, how is it performing commercially?

The first week estimates are in. So, the answer awaits after the jump…

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Beyonce and Jay-Z broke the internet with their surprise album ‘Everything Is Love’ over the weekend and made waves with the wide release of the 9-song set on Apple Music, Spotify (Premium), and iTunes a day later.

It naturally has all eyes peeled to see how it fares commercially? Well, the first forecast is out and brings with it answer.

What are you waiting for? Head below for the tea spill…

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Prince‘s heirs have slammed the streaming service TIDAL and asked it to slice the agreement they came to to share the late star’s music with the masses in half!

A surprising development below…

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Pharrell Williams is to take the story of ‘Juneteenth‘ to the stage.

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Almost a decade after his death, Michael Jackson remains big business. Billion dollar business.

And the latest facet of the King Of Pop’s omnipresence comes in the form of a new Broadway production.

Details below…

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Sources close to Nas claim he does not feel his new album campaign was sabotaged or overshadowed by the release of Beyonce and Jay Z‘s ‘Everything is Love.’

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Beyonce and Jay-Z shocked the masses when they dropped their surprise-but-much-rumored joint album ‘Everything Is Love’ over the weekend.

The 9-track set was turbo-powered by the video for ‘APES**T,’ which featured the couple flexing inside and outside the Louvre in Paris.

And it seems folk are reacting exactly how the song’s title asks.

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Jidenna has been criticised and labelled a fool by critics after comparing XXXTentacion, the slain rapper who assaulted several women and a gay man, to the human rights activist Malcolm X.

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With megahits ‘Side to Side’ and ‘Bang Bang’ to their joint credits, gal pals Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande are going for not just one, but two redo.

Having already released the Minaj-led ‘Bed’ (click here to read about its forthcoming music video), the long teased, Grande-led ‘The Light Is Coming’ is up first with the premiere of its accompanying clip set for a June 20th release.

Keeping in line with Grammy nominee’s promise for “something special’ to be revealed on the 20th of every month ahead of the release of her fourth album, ‘Sweetener,’ Grande’s given premiere dibs on the visual to her fashion brand Reebok (whom she has a longstanding endorsement deal with).

Curious to get a taste of what Minaj and Grande cooked up with ‘Light’?  See it inside:

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After soaring to the top of R&B charts with his ‘Skywalker’-led fourth album, ‘War & Leisure,’ soulful crooner Miguel tackled the top of 2018 with the ‘War & Leisure’ North American tour in its support.

With demands from his faithful fanbase pouring in from cities neglected from that outing, the Grammy-winner took to social media today to announce yet another road trip in support of ‘War.’  The trek – titled ‘The Ascension Tour’ – will see Miggy bring his bevy of hits to the likes of Atlanta, Chicago, Toronto, Dallas, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and more before wrapping up in Seattle, Wash. on September 28th.

Curious to see if he’ll make his way to your town this time around?  Look below to see:

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As fans of The Carters (Beyonce & Jay Z) jointly and individually continue to go apesh*t over the duo’s newly released joint effort, ‘Everything is Love’ (June 16) more and more details around the creation of the secret project are being unveiled.

The latest peek into the album’s baking process comes courtesy of veteran producers Cool & Dre, who are credited on three of the project’s nine tracks.  Taking to ‘Rolling Stone’ to dish on how Jay and Bey were secretly recording their first duet album while simultaneously preparing for their ‘On the Run II’ world tour, look inside to see the hitmakers detail the creation of some of set’s fan favorites:

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Ariana Grande‘s keeping her word that “something special” surrounding her fourth studio effort, ‘Sweetener,’ will be revealed on the 20th of every month leading up to its release.

Now, as her latest Nicki Minaj duet, ‘Bed,’ is doing everything but being slept on by the divas’ respective fan bases (click here to listen), Grande’s announced their other joint cut – ‘The Light Is Coming (TLIC)’ – is due in full this Wednesday (June 20th) via an exclusive reveal by fashion brand Reebok.

As if that’s not enough, the song’s parent album will be available for pre-order on the same day.  Ahead of all that action, the pint-sized powerhouse has unveiled a look at the set’s official cover artwork and its tracklist.  See them both inside:

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