Raven-Symone’s run on the informative show ‘The View‘ has been polarising to say the least.

Praised for offering a fresh perspective to its conversations while criticised by those who have noticed how little she knows/offers about/to political debates, Symone has now learned that her time on the show may be coming to an end.

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Drake‘s new album ‘VIEWS’ is racking up sales to the tune of 1 million — in its opening week.

Not one to rest on his laurels though, the Rap star has announced that he’ll be bringing his promotional campaign to primetime. Drizzy is heading to SNL!

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Is Jay Z gearing up to respond to Beyonce’s tell-all visual album ‘Lemonade’?

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The MET Gala 2016 continues to serve as the gift that keeps giving.

A who’s who of Hollywood showed up and out at the fashion spectacle – including Lady Gaga and Beyonce.

Fans of the ‘Telephone’ titans have been salivating for the pair’s promised continuation of the much-loved clip – which was released 6 years ago. And in the absence of an update have settled for rare glimpses of the duo together.

The MET proved to be one of such instances.

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Early last month Janet Jackson announced the postponement of her ‘Unbreakable World Tour,’ revealing to fans that she and husband Wissam Al Mana were starting a family.

At the time, many received the news warmly – particularly given how private the star usually is.

However, the ambiguity of her carefully chosen wording left some scratching their heads; was Jackson pregnant or planning to be?

The answer, if new reports are to be believed, suggest the iconic singer is indeed with child.

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The incomparable Celine Dion is set to make a triumphant comeback to the world stage.

Four months after the passing of her beloved husband-manager Rene Angelil, the vocal powerhouse has been unveiled at the recipient of the Icon Award at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards.

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Alicia Keys is back!

The soul-filled songbird has uncaged new single ‘In Common’ – the lead effort from her sixth studio album.

Sans a few spot releases, ‘Common’ serves as the first taste of new Alicia since 2012’s polarizing ‘Girl On Fire.’

Has the 15-time Grammy brought the right degree of heat to ignite the charts again?

Listen to Illangelo produced track below and let us know…

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While a number of female artists struggle to go toe to toe with Beyonce it seems she had found a healthy rival in her ‘Mine’ collaborator Drake.

How and why?

Sales of his new LP ‘Views.’

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For years, African-American contributions to the field of science have been smudged out by historians.

This year, Oprah Winfrey has teamed up with HBO to tell the story of Mrs. Henrietta Lacks, the black woman whose cells were stolen by doctors and used for medical research.

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This week’s Billboard charts are soaked from ‘Lemonade’ and ‘Purple Rain.’

As we reported here, Grammy winning diva Beyonce entered history books again this week when she saw every song from her latest #1 album, ‘Lemonade,’ debut on the Hot 100.  Landing 5 of the 12 tracks in the top 30, the only act with a more impressive showing would be pop icon Prince.

For, as reported , the ‘Purple Rain’ singer sold nearly 4 million singles and album in the days succeeding his untimely passing.  As the actual date of his death was the end of a Billboard tracking week, some of those sales spilled over into this charting week.  Placing 6 of his legendary tunes in the top 30, his feat is all the more impressive when one considers the extremely limited streaming availability of his catalog.

Tuck in below to see where Bey and P landed on this week’s TGJ Chart Check:

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Despite being the biggest seller in music today, Adele has never hidden her love for fellow chart titan Beyonce.

And while the world has been revelling in Queen Bey’s lush ‘Lemonade’ for almost two weeks, her Columbia Records label-mate has had a slightly delayed response – but with good reason.

Read her words on the album-movie everyone is talking about after the jump…

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Kelly Rowland graces the pages of Galore Magazine for a scorching new shoot.

The R&B star is currently pounding the promotional pavement in support of new BET show ‘Chasing Destiny’ – in which she (along with creative director Frank Gatson) pieces together music’s next big girl group.

Speaking to the publication about her motivation for the series, she said:

“I just wanted to make sure that I tapped into the feeling of the way I felt when I saw TLC. Or the way I felt when I saw En Vogue. Or even the way I felt when I saw Janet Jackson. She’s this huge pop star and her skin color looked like mine.”

Peep sassy snaps from the feature below…

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