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The “Succession” series finale drew just shy of 3 million viewers on Sunday night (across HBO linear telecasts and Max), marking both a 68-percent improvement over the Season 3 finale and a series high.
The Rolling Stones have teamed with Keurig for a limited-edition coffee kit. The ‘Start Me Up’ kit contains a custom, K-Iced brewer, an iced coffee tumbler, a ‘Start Me Up’ coffee blend and access to a curated playlist to enjoy the Stones with your cup of joe. The kit drops on June 6th.
Fidelity says Twitter is now worth only a third of the amount that Elon Musk and investors paid $44 billion to purchase. The social platform is now worth only $15 billion or 33% of the October purchase price. Fidelity served as an outside investor to help with Musk’s takeover and have marked the platform down twice since the purchase.
Ryan Gosling is firing back at criticism suggesting he’s too old to play ‘Ken’ in the upcoming “Barbie” movie. He spoke to GQ about the eagerly anticipated flick. An amused Ryan said: “Like you ever thought about Ken before this? Gosling went on: “But suddenly, it’s like, ‘No, we’ve cared about Ken this whole time.’ No, you didn’t…If you ever really cared about Ken, you would know that nobody cared about Ken. So your hypocrisy is exposed. This is why his story must be told.”
Royal Blood went viral when, during an appearance at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend festival, singer Mike Kerr mocked the tepid response of the audience (and its lack of love for rock music), then flipped off the crowd as he walked offstage. In fairness, they were slotted in between pop stars Lewis Capaldi and Niall Horan on the bill.
Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” LP has now spent longer at #1 than any country album in the past 30 years. It is atop the Billboard 200 albums chart for a 12th week in a row. Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Some Gave All” notched 17 weeks at #1 in 1992.
Jason Sudeikis says the “Ted Lasso” story is done after three seasons, even though it hasn’t been officially announced by Apple TV+. He did say there are opportunities for spin-offs, a book, or a podcast.
Megan Thee Stallion is taking a mental health break. She says, quote, “Fans can expect new music when I’m in a better place. Right now, I’m focused on healing.”
Bruce Springsteen wiped out during a show in Amsterdam on Saturday. He was walking up a small flight of stairs during “Ghosts”, when he fell face-first, then rolled onto his back. It didn’t look like he hit too hard, but members of the E Street Band rushed over and picked him up. Once he got to his feet, he jokingly said, “Goodnight, everybody!”, before strapping on a guitar and going on with the show.
Carrie Underwood is a superstar who opens for nobody. Wait, check that. She’s opening select dates on Guns N’ Roses North American Tour. She shared the dates on Instagram, and wrote, “So ready for this.” Carrie’s love of Guns N’ Roses runs deep. She and Axl Rose have performed several times together and she clearly loves every minute of it.
Dolly Parton earned THREE new Guinness World Records. She has the most albums released by a female country singer . . . the most Top 10 entries on the Top Country Albums chart for a female artist . . . and the female artist with the longest span of number one hits on the Top Country Albums chart.
Even though they’re still technically on hiatus, BTS will release a 10th anniversary single called “Take Two” next Friday.
Ed Sheeran’s music was featured in the season finale episode of “Ted Lasso”. He posted the news just hours before the show aired. The premiere of “A Beautiful Game,” also doubled at the release of Ed’s new single. In an Instagram video he said, he’s “super, super, super proud of it” and wrote it especially for this show, “about a year and a bit ago.”
Sam Smith and Madonna announced their upcoming together is titled “Vulgar.” Several images were posted across their social media, showing a pair of tightly cinched corsets underneath the duo’s initials — which were cheekily shortened to “S&M.” The new Sam Smith/Madonna collaboration will be out Friday June 9, exactly one week after Madonna and The Weeknd release a new single together.
Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox were photographed attending an event in London. A source told People that they’re “working on making their relationship better.”
Ezra Miller is Andy Muschietti’s “The Flash” – no matter what. Despite Ezra’s legal troubles, the director of “The Flash” told The Discourse, “If a sequel happens, yes Miller would be Flash.” I don’t think there’s anyone that can play that character as well as they did.”
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