As reported here, Trey Songz is taking a very unique approach to promoting his new album, ‘Tremaine,’ by teaming up with VH1 for a “reality” dating show.  Titled ‘Tremaine the Playboy,’ the web series will see the R&B heartthrob look to give his heart to one of 20 female contestants (including the likes of Kayla Nicole, Holly Joso, Neeandra Brooks and more).

While there are conflicting reports on the parodic nature of the series, what we can say for sure is that you can catch Episodes 2 & 3 of the Steelo Brim & Draya Michele -hosted fair inside:

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Future stunned fans when he announced the surprise release of his fifth album, the self-titled effort ‘Future.’

A feature-less affair, the album not only led a pack of hip hop releases releases for the week, but also outpaced top-sellers from other genres to lay claim on the Billboard 200’s top spot.

Billboard reports:

Future scores his fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as his new self-titled effort starts atop the list, earning 140,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Feb. 23, according to Nielsen Music.

…more than half of its units were powered by streaming activity: 73,000 units (equaling 109 million streams of the album’s songs during the tracking frame). The rest of its units were comprised of traditional album sales (60,000) and track equivalent album units (7,000).

From the way things are shaping up, the hitmaking rapper is set to unseat himself on next week’s Billboard 200 with his follow-up release, ‘HNDRXX.’  Until we find out for sure, tuck in below to see who joins him in this week’s refreshed “Chart Check:  Billboard 200.”

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2017’s spring and summer Urban touring circuit is looking to be quite the hot ticket.

After announcements from the likes of crooners The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, and John Legend, we learned of tours from leading rap acts Future and Chance the Rapper.  Now, Lil’ Wayne is getting in on the action.

Announcing the dates for his ‘Kloser 2 U’ tour, the announcement of its stops was immediately followed with a tease that the hitmaker will tour the states with his Young Money cohorts Drake & Nicki Minaj.

“I just got off the phone with Nicki and she told me to tell y’all, ‘Hello,’” he said. “We might have to do something special. We might have to do some Young Money reunion s–t out here this summer. I might have to bring all my friends from America, all my friends from Canada, the whole OVO.”

Until we officially find out what that “reunion” could entail, find out where you can see Wayne by his lonesome inside:

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All roads lead to March 24th for R&B heartthrob Trey Songz.

Leading his seventh album, ‘Tremaine,’ to shelves that day, Songz has been hitting the promotional trail hard in support of the project.  In addition to lending an unconventional ‘reality dating show’ via the VH1 web series – ‘Tremaine the Playboy’ – the singer has been releasing numerous visual cuts from the project.

The latest?  ‘Playboy’ and ‘Song Goes Off.’  Get into them both inside:

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Amidst Remy Ma‘s drama with Nicki Minaj, one could be forgiven for forgetting that the rapstress has a new album out with Terror Squad comrade Fat Joe.

‘Plata O Plomo’ launched to soft sales last week, but that isn’t denting the duo’s determination to make a mark.

Following their sit-down chat with Wendy Williams today, the pair took to the stage to (along with guest Sevyn Streeter) perform a medley of ‘Money Showers,’ ‘Lean Back,’ and their Platinum certified, Grammy nominated hit ‘All The Way Up.’ 

Watch below…

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Readers of That Grape Juice know what avid music lovers we are – especially of hits past.

So, just as our retrospective features ‘From the Vault’ and ‘TGJ Replay’ allow us the chance to re-spin the gems and jams of yesterday of one artist, our newest feature “Chart Rewind” – a variation of our current Retro Rewind assay – accedes salutes to an entire era of music history.

This week we’ll fast backward to 1991 to find music’s “vocal trinity” – Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion – dominating the chart’s top 5.  Carey, whose third single ‘Someday’ dethroned Houston’s ‘All the Man That I Need’ (one of two #1 singles found aboard the songstress’s ‘I’m Your Baby Tonight’ album), was joined by then-rising powerhouse vocalist Dion and her third single, ‘Where Does My Heart Beat Now.’

Together the trio led a slew of memorable hits, including entries by fellow chart-topping divas Gloria Estefan and Madonna.  See who else joined the quintet in the top 25 this week 26 years ago:

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From 2004’s ‘Let Me Love You’ to 2017’s ‘Let Me Help You,’ R&B singer Mario is showing he still has “it” and “it” in abundance if his latest video is anything to judge by.

With its glossy, Malibu-based visual, ‘Help’ – an island-inspired number – comes as the first single from his forthcoming album, ‘Paradise Cove’  (due spring 2017 courtesy of his new label New Citizen).

Does it pack enough “umph” to help boost the crooner back to the top of charts?  Hear it below:

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Say what folk will about Rihanna, there’s no denying that Ms. Fenty sure knows how to take a picture.

Case in point her stunning new shoot for Paper Magazine‘s March 2017 issue.

The 29-year-old embraces her inner rebel in the captivating feature spread, which was lensed by Sebastian Faena.

If history is anything to go by, the debut of a bold new look often precedes a new era. We’re hearing things (a lot of things) re new RiRi; but after ‘ANTI’ gate, sometimes it’s better to just wait until it arrives on TIDAL.

Peep more pics below…

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Remy Ma is the name on everyone’s lips after her savage slam of Nicki Minaj on ‘Shether’ – also known as the diss track heard around the world.

In the days since its debut, Minaj has maintained a notable silence on the matter – pressing on with video shoots and appearances at Paris Fashion Week.

Remy, however, has basked in the verbal beatdown and even delivered a follow-up.

Wendy Williams snagged the first interview with the ‘All The Way Up’ femcee, who attended her show with Fat Joe.

Speaking on the drama, Remy revealed the true reason for the lashing – and it’s not what most folk may think…

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Will and Jaden Smith have teamed up to build a new movie.

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With two surprise albums released a week apart, you’d think Future be beating the promo trail non-stop in support of the respective projects.

But, with his dedicated “Future Hive” hoisting the first release, ‘Future,’ to the top of the Billboard 200 (and its follow-up, ‘HNDRXX’ looking to do the same), it’s safe to say promotion doesn’t exactly have to be at the top of his ‘to do list.’

With hopes of keeping them buoyed in Billboard’s upper rankings, however, the rapper/producer took to ‘Ellen’ recently to show off the album track ‘Incredible’ with a live band.

Curious to see how he fared?  See it below if you missed any of the action:

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“I’ll get by with a little from my friends”

That seems to be Mariah Carey‘s mindset of late. Because the diva is lining up a collaboration as her next musical offering.

Details below…

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