Taylor Swift’s “Tortured Poets Department” and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” topped the RIAA’s albums and singles lists for 2024, based on sales and streaming, the organization announced Monday. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) recognizes certifies the top selling and streaming recordings, with 65 artists earning their first Gold (500,000 units) and Platinum
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There a a few things in the fashion world that I’ll never turn down, and a really, really good leather jacket is pretty close to the top of my list. Yes, there are some beautiful leather bombers and moto jackets to choose from, but for the moments when you want something that feels undeniably polished
British comedian Russell Howard will premiere his new stand-up special “Russell Howard Live at the London Palladium” as a global streaming event on Jan. 15 via the Driift platform. The 60-minute special was recorded during Howard’s fourth international tour. The stream will include “Off The Cuff,” a bonus program featuring exclusive content. Howard will also
“Silo” has been renewed for both Seasons 3 and 4 at Apple TV+, with the fourth season set to be the show’s last. The renewal news comes as the post-apocalyptic drama is currently airing its second season. The sixth episode of Season 2 is due out on Dec. 20. The season finale is scheduled to
Fathom Events, which puts movies, TV series, concerts and other events into movie theaters for limited runs, saw a record-breaking year for limited releases in 2024, with revenues increasing 45% to more than $145 million. CEO Ray Nutt also announced that the company will rebrand as Fathom Entertainment starting in January. Fathom’s strong year comes
’Tis the season for being warm and cozy. Whether you’re curling up by the fire with a good book or dressing up for various holiday gatherings, the time has come to scour the market for winter accessories that allow you to keep warm and look stylish while doing so. And what better way to get
The NFL already has women fans. According to the league, this year’s Super Bowl LVIII game had a record-breaking increase in female viewership, with women representing almost half of the total audience. But the NFL is continually looking to find new ways to grow its fanbase, particularly among younger consumers. To that end, the NFL
Local hit “The Firefighters” led the South Korean box office, which returned to its sluggish ways after a brief spell that showed signs of recovery. In its second weekend, “The Firefighters” climbed from second place to first with a $4.3 million gross, 657,124 admissions and a 41.9% market share, according to data from Kobis, the
All seven seasons of the beloved WB family dramedy “Gilmore Girls” became available for streaming on Hulu Monday. In connection with the surprise drop of the series, Hulu has also added a “Holiday Episode” collection tray on the show’s main page, which compiles all the Christmassy episodes in one place including Season 1, Episode 9:
Maxtime Pictures’ “Her Story,” a comedy-drama film told from a largely female perspective, topped the mainland China box office for the fourth consecutive weekend. The box office remained sluggish despite a few new releases, with Hollywood holdover “Moana 2” dropping out of the top five and Sony’s “Kraven the Hunter” making a modest debut. Data
Zakir Hussain, virtuoso of the tabla instrument and a towering figure in Indian classical music, died on Dec. 15 of chronic lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, at a hospital in San Francisco. He was 73. “His prolific work as a teacher, mentor and educator has left an indelible mark on countless musicians. He hoped to
Disney+ Hotstar India series “Thukra Ke Mera Pyaar” has emerged as the platform’s most-watched show of 2024, setting new benchmarks in its first 16 days of streaming. The Hindi-language drama also has the highest subscriber count for any show on the platform in the past four years. Set in India’s heartland, the series features newcomers
All they want for Christmas is to ride shotgun. Superstar pop divas Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa and Chappell Roan go a-SUV-caroling in “A Very Carpool Karaoke Christmas,” a holiday special that was unwrapped as a surprise release Sunday night on Apple TV+ and Apple Music. The hour-long installment of the Emmy-winning “Carpool Karaoke: The Series”
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the Season 5, Episode 14 episode of “Yellowstone,” “Life Is a Promise” which premiered Sunday, Dec. 15 on Paramount Network. Even if Paramount Network isn’t calling it the series finale, Sunday’s “Yellowstone” episode certainly felt like the end of the show fans have known for five seasons. Coming in
Jill Jacobson, a film and television actress known for her work on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and the primetime soap opera “Falcon Crest,” died Dec. 8 in Los Angeles. She was 70 years old. Jacobson’s death was confirmed to Variety by publicist Daniel Harary, a friend of Jacobson’s, who noted the actress died after
Billy Crystal is thinking back on his formative years in Martin Scorsese’s classroom. On the Dec. 15 episode of the “Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist” podcast, Crystal talked about his time being taught by Scorsese at New York University. “He was a graduate student at the time, just doing his first movie, called ‘Who’s That
Netflix has greenlit a second season of its groundbreaking Japanese same-sex dating reality series “The Boyfriend,” following the show’s impressive performance both domestically and internationally. The timing of Netflix’s renewal announcement couldn’t have been more appropriate. The Associated Press reported on Friday that a high court in Fukuoka, Japan ruled the country’s ban on same-sex
With the clock winding down to the final episode of Paramount Network’s “Yellowstone,” series star Kelly Reilly took to Instagram Sunday to confirm that the Dec. 15 episode is in fact the finale to the mainline series. “Hi, I’m so deep into another role at the moment about another land worth fighting for in the
Thirteen years after “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” released in theaters and brought an end to Harry’s journey on the big screen, the Harry Potter universe is gearing up for a return in the form of episodic television. Led by showrunner Francesca Gardiner and director Mark Mylod of “Succession,” HBO’s take on
SPOILER ALERT: The following story and Q&A contains descriptions of several scenes and plotlines in “Carry-On.” In Netflix’s new action thriller “Carry-On,” Oscar nominee Taron Egerton plays Ethan, a hapless TSA agent who gets blackmailed by a mysterious traveler (Jason Bateman) into taking down a plane headed from LAX to JFK by allowing a bag
Nicole Kidman almost left Hollywood for good in 2008. After moving to Nashville and giving birth to her first daughter with country superstar Keith Urban, the Academy Award winner thought she was “pretty much done” with acting and wanted to turn her full attention to her new family. That is until her mother stepped in
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Children’s Diabetes Foundation founder Barbara Davis and her daughter Dana share the remarkable impact David Foster has made over the past 28 years to bring awareness and financial support to families whose children have type 1 diabetes. Here’s their story: Since 1996, when David Foster joined the Carousel of Hope family as music director, his
Zoe Saldaña and Kate Winslet connect easily, as colleagues who haven’t seen each other in a while often do: They worked together on James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water,” which was released in 2022, and will also appear in next year’s third film, “Fire and Ash.” Saldaña had created the role of Neytiri in
Kraven may be the world’s greatest hunter, but the comic book villain couldn’t manage the climb to the top of the box office charts. Sony’s “Kraven the Hunter,” a superhero spinoff starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Spider-Man’s notorious foe, launched behind already low expectations, at No. 3 with $11 million from 3,211 theaters. It landed the
Adam Sandler was met with a roar of applause from the “Saturday Night Live” audience when he dropped into a bloody hospital sketch during the Dec. 14 episode. In the sketch, Emil Wakim, Ego Nwodim, Bowen Yang and host Chris Rock play surgeons all scrubbed in and celebrating a successful surgery. But a less-than-responsible surgeon,
“Weekend Update” took rapid-fire aim at President-elect Donald Trump and those in his orbit, from RFK Jr. to Elon Musk to Matt Gaetz. But of course, “Saturday Night Live‘s” faux newscast opened with a bit about the healthcare CEO killer story that has rivited the nation since United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was brazenly shot
Chris Rock hosted “Saturday Night Live” and filled his opening monologue with jokes about multiple topics in the news. The targets of his stand-up set included Jake Paul and his boxing match with Mike Tyson, of which he joked, “This 27-year-old punching a 60-year-old in the face. Is this what the white man has reduced
“Saturday Night Live‘s” cold open took direct aim at the internet obsession about Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of the United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson with a sketch that featured Sarah Sherman as true crime maven Nancy Grace. “Y’all psychos find him a sex symbol,” Sherman as Grace told the audience in diving into the