Selena Gomez kicked off her comeback era with the chart-topping hit ‘Lose You to Love Me,’ the first release from her long-awaited tertiary LP, ‘Rare.’

Despite the impressive lead-in, the set’s follow-up singles – ‘Look at Her Now’ and ‘Rare’ (album title track) – have shared ‘Lose’s critically acclaim but not exactly kept the momentum of their predecessors on the commercial front.

With the January 10th-released effort’s first week sales prediction already revealed (click here to read), it appears Gomez and team are turning attention back to its main hit to boost those figures.  The bid comes courtesy of an alternate version of the song’s Sophie Muller-directed music video.

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Selena Gomez looks set to soar to the top of the Billboard 200 with her third studio album ‘Rare.’

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French Montana is facing accusations of the digital persuasion.

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It’s here! Justin Bieber has unwrapped the video for ‘Yummy.’

The Pop pin-up has taken residence atop of iTunes with the mid-tempo jam, which is the first offering from his upcoming fifth album.

Now, it looks poised to explode with its streaming – thanks to the arrival of its visual.

A quirky affair, the clip sees JB spin the song’s title on its axis.

The vid has hatched ahead his new 10-part YouTube documentary ‘Seasons’ (which premieres January 27th).

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Camila Cabello has been faced with a wild wave of negative criticism since launching the campaign she’d hoped would push her new album ‘Romance’ to glory.

At the heart of the negative chatter? Rumours that she used the N-word and other racist remarks below…

Today, she confesses.

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Evelyn Lozada wants to start over.

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Whether good, bad, ugly, or somewhere in between, 2019 brought with it some of modern Pop culture’s most memorable moments.

Now, as the year draws to a close, TGJ is reflecting on 31 moments that rocked – and to some degree maybe even reshaped – the Urban and Pop landscape as we know it.

Next, we’ll look back on how 2019 was the year ‘Moment 4 Life’ rapper Nicki Minaj prioritized her personal life after a decade of dominating the female Rap game.

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All Mariah Carey fans (affectionately called #Lambs) want for Christmas is to see the diva atop next week’s Billboard Hot 100, a feat that may very well be on its to being accomplished.

After this week kicked off with news her enduring holiday classic, ‘All I Want For Christmas,’ had re-peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 25 years after its debut (click here to read more), #Lambs leaped into action with “streaming parties” to help her unseat the current chart champion, The Weeknd.

According to the Music Bible, their efforts may be just the push needed to get her to the top spot for the 19th time in her career. Details inside:

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Whether good, bad, ugly, or somewhere in between, 2019 brought with it some of modern Pop culture’s most memorable moments.

Now, as the year draws to a close, TGJ is reflecting on 31 moments that rocked – and to some degree maybe even reshaped – the Urban and Pop musical landscape as we know it.

Next, we’ll look back on how the monstrous success of Mother Monster’s ‘Shallow’ not only penciled her name in history books, but reaffirmed her position as one of Pop culture’s leading forces.

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As we reported here, The Weeknd‘s recently released duo of singles – ‘Heartless’ and ‘Blinding Lights’ – were out of the box successes.

Zooming to the top of real-time iTunes sales and Spotify streaming charts, the songs respectively dominated competition on the tallies ahead of the release of their accompanying visuals.  The former saw that dominance cemented courtesy of a boost from its Anton Tammi-directed music video and mind-bending live performance last week on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ (click here to read).

Now, thanks to the aforementioned (alongside a warm reception from radio), the Metro Boomin-produced track has become the singer’s fourth Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper.  Details inside:

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The Weeknd may already be dominating sales and streaming charts with his two new songs, ‘Blinding Lights’ and ‘Heartless’ (as we reported here), but that certainly won’t stop the Grammy-winner from burning up the promo trail in their support just for good measure.

Taking to ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ on Thursday (December 5), the 29-year-old gave the latter tune its first televised performance.

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November 21 brought with it news Tinashe had stormed digital charts with the release of her first independent project, ‘Songs For You.’

A 16-track set all written by the 26-year-old and featuring the likes of 6LACK, G-Eazy, Ms. Banks, and more, ‘Songs’ – despite serving as the singer’s inaugural offering post-departing RCA Records – served no shortage of polish longtime fans have come to expect from the diva.

Now under the management of Roc Nation, the ‘Die a Little Bit’-led effort was alive and well at retail with reports suggesting she was outpacing the numbers of some of the day’s top sellers including Kanye West and more.  And, while Tinashe’s already made it well known she’s not concerned with charts (click here to read), look inside to see how ‘Songs’ stacked up against the competition on the refreshed Billboard 200:

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