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Drake has never scored a No. 1 single on the Hot 100 chart as a lead artist — the rapper has amassed a record-setting 17 No. 1 singles on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay tally and a whopping 100 overall Hot 100 hits, but only Rihanna's "What's My Name?" (featuring Drake) has ever slid into the No. 1 spot. That might change next week, however, as “Hotline Bling” inches…

The Weeknd's 'The Hills' leads for a third week, while Mendes sews up his first top 10 with 'Stitches.'

The Weeknd's "The Hills" keeps rolling, leading the Billboard Hot 100 for a third week. Meanwhile, Shawn Mendes scores his first Hot 100 top 10 with "Stitches."

And, as The Weeknd and Mendes join fellow Canadians Justin Bieber and Drake in the top tier, half…

Drake and Future’s recently released joint album, What a Time To Be Alive, has shot up to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The LP has given Drake his second No. 1 album in 2015. In the week ending Sept. 24, it sold 375,000 copies according to Nielsen Music. Of that amount, 334,000 were pure album sales.

The album was released on Sunday (Sept. 20) as a collaborative…

Dr. Dre is back in the studio.

The famed rapper and music producer is hitting the boards to create the "Straight Outta Compton" soundtrack, a source told Rolling Stone.

Ice Cube indicated the same on Wednesday during an interview with Power 99FM's Rise & Grind Morning Show, saying, "It's mega. It's Dr. Dre, it's what everybody's been waiting for. It's…

The track rules for an eighth week, again fending off Taylor Swift's former No. 1 'Bad Blood.' Plus, Andy Grammer reaches the top 10 with 'Honey, I'm Good.'

Wiz Khalifa's Furious 7 soundtrack hit "See You Again," featuring Charlie Puth, spends an eighth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It holds the top spot over Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" (featuring Kendrick…

Wale always wanted to feature Jerry Seinfeld in his music, but didn’t know how to reach the superstar actor-comedian, who initially knew nothing about the rapper.

But then the Grammy-nominated performer met Seinfeld’s wife, a Wale fan and hip-hop enthusiast.

“She’s a big hip-hop fan and of my music,” Wale said of Jessica Seinfeld, a cookbook author and…

Ex-Knicks forward Chris Copeland was stabbed in the gut and two other women slashed by a knife-wielding man in a closing time melee Wednesday outside a Chelsea club, sources said.

The suspected stabber was arrested outside the popular 1OAK club on W. 17th St. after the 3:58 a.m. attack — as were a pair of NBA players busted for impeding NYPD investigators, the…

Rapper Big Sean scores his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as Dark Sky Paradise bounds in atop the tally.

The artist's third album was released through G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam Records on Feb. 24 and moved 173,000 units in the week ending March 1, according to Nielsen Music.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on…

Big Sean rises to the top of Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs with "I Don't F--- With You" featuring E-40, securing his third No. 1 on the chart. It follows "Marvin & Chardonnay" (2011, featuring Kanye West & Roscoe Dash) and "Mercy" (2012, credited to West, Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz).

Track sales for "I Don't F--- With You" climbed 4 percent (to 67,000 digital…

One wealthy Wu-Tang Clan fan will have the chance to own a very rare item from the legendary New York super group. According to Forbes, the crew recorded a “secret” double-album titled The Wu: Once Upon A Time In Shaolin that will be sold to a single buyer for an asking price starting at $1 million. The covert LP, which has been recorded over the last four years,…

Chris Brown likes to paint and sing about graffiti and soon he could be scrubbing it from sites across Los Angeles.



The “Run It” singer agreed Friday to complete 1,000 new hours of community labor to resolve a battle with prosecutors over his probation for beating Rihanna in 2009.…

Kevin Hart will NOT sport an orange jumpsuit anytime soon -- the comedian cut a deal following his high speed DUI arrest.

Kevin was charged with two counts of DUI stemming from his April bust, after cops say he flew down an LA highway at 90 MPH, almost crashed into a gas tanker and then bombed a field sobriety test. We're told his BAC was almost TWICE the legal limit…

Canadian pop star Justin Bieber became the youngest artist to land five chart-topping albums in the United States on Wednesday when his latest record, "Believe Acoustic," debuted atop the Billboard 200 album chart.

"Believe Acoustic," which features stripped down versions of Bieber's songs from his fourth No. 1 album, "Believe," released last June, as well as three…