Fans of The Carters found themselves swimming in a sea of confusion hours ago when it was reported that their collaborative album ‘Everything is Love‘ was to sell under 200,000 units in its opening week.

Troubling, considering the figures the pair have pulled in via pure sales with their respective solo efforts.

Arriving with the new morning? News that their startling sales projection has been retracted.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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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