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    Bebe Rexha Rips Billboard Hot 100 for Lack of Female Representation

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    Bemoaning the male-to-female ratio on the chart, the ‘Meant To Be’ hitmaker stresses in a series of tweets that female artists ‘need to get fair playlist on streaming and radio.’
    Feb 6, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Bebe Rexha took to social media to bemoan the disproportionate amount of men on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2020.
    The “Meant To Be” star highlighted the male-to-female ratio in a string of tweets on Tuesday, February 04, writing, “Man man man man man woman man man man man man,” alongside a list shared by the charts company of the acts with the most Hot 100 entries of the year so far. Eminem topped the tally with 12, followed by DaBaby and the late Mac Miller with 10 apiece.

    Bebe Rexha pointed out the disproportionate amount of men on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
    “Thank god for Camilla (sic). I’m like yes a female,” she added, when one fan pointed out former Fifth Harmony star Camila Cabello was on the list, with four entries.

    She showed support for Camila Cabello.
    Dismissing suggestions that female artists hadn’t been delivering enough of a musical output, she insisted: “Don’t come to me saying women should make better music. They need to get fair playlist on streaming and radio.”

    Bebe insisted that her points were valid.
    “You have Ariana, Halsey, Dua, Demi so many more incredible females,” she continued, adding, “Rosalia, Taylor, Camilla, cardi….. on and on and on.”

    Bebe named ‘incredible’ female singers.

    She praised some ‘dope female artists’ in 2020.
    As other users threw names like Selena Gomez and Normani Kordei into the mix, Bebe added: “So many dope female artists right now I’m excited for 2020.”

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    Bad Bunny and Ozuna Dominate Nominations for 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards

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    Fresh off his guest performance at the Super Bowl halftime show, Bad Bunny along with Ozuna leads the pack at the Billboard Latin Music Award nominations with 14 nods.
    Feb 6, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Bad Bunny and Ozuna have scored 14 mentions apiece ahead of the 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards.
    The pair will compete for Artist of the Year, alongside J Balvin, who has picked up 12 nominations, and Romeo Santos.
    Daddy Yankee has also scored 12 nods, while Anuel AA has 11 and Farruko 10.
    Bad Bunny and Ozuna will also fight it out for Hot Latin Song of the Year, Vocal Event, Digital Song of the Year, and Hot Latin Songs Artist of the Year, Male honours, while Bad Bunny is up for Tour of the Year, alongside Chayanne, Jennifer Lopez, and Marc Anthony.
    The Billboard Latin Music Awards will take place in Las Vegas in April 2020.

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    Jessica Simpson Spills the Reason Why She Botched Dolly Parton Tribute

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    The pop star was invited to perform a cover of ‘9 to 5’ at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington D.C. back in 2006, but she flubbed the lyrics and cut short her performance.
    Feb 5, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Jessica Simpson has hidden away a photo of herself posing with “country goddesses” Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, and Shania Twain because she is so ashamed of botching a 2006 tribute to the “Jolene” legend.
    The pop star was invited to perform a cover of “9 to 5” at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C. to celebrate Parton’s career in front of guests including then-U.S. President George W. Bush, but Simpson flubbed the lyrics and cut short the song, before running offstage.
    Now, in her new memoir, “Open Book”, Simpson reveals she was a mess that night because she had just been dumped again by her on/off boyfriend, rocker John Mayer, and had tried to drown her sorrows in alcohol right before hitting the stage.
    “It was the Kennedy Center Honors, and he broke up with me – our third break-up or something,” she recalls on U.S. breakfast show “Today”.
    “It was right before I was gonna do this huge thing. Dolly Parton is my idol; I love Dolly, and I drank before I went on stage. That is not John’s fault; I’m the one that drank. I just tried to numb myself.”
    “I was just out there and I tried to sing and I froze. I honestly didn’t think about the drinking, I felt like what kept me from singing was heartbreak.
    “I said I was sorry, and that Dolly deserved better,” Simpson remembered of the performance fail.
    The event was commemorated with a backstage photo of the singer surrounded by Parton, McEntire, Twain, and actress Reese Witherspoon, who had all been in attendance at the high-profile gig – but Simpson cannot bear to look at the image.
    “This (is a) picture that most people would hang in their house; it’s like, mentors of mine who are country goddesses,” she shares. “And the story behind it, I can’t even look at the picture, I can’t even look at my face because I know the pain that I was having and I didn’t feel worthy of being in that photo.”
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    In the same chat, Simpson, who is now sober, reveals she and Mayer split “close to nine times” during their “very complex” on/off five-year romance. The relationship finally came to an end in 2010.

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    Nicki Minaj Meant No Disrespect to Rosa Parks Amid Backlash Over New Song 'Yikes'

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    The ‘Anaconda’ rapper is accused of disrespecting the late African-American civil rights icon as snippet of her new track is revealed on what would have been the activist’s birthday.
    Feb 5, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Nicki Minaj has been left red-faced by a backlash against a new track referencing civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
    Nicki teased a snippet of her new song “Yikes” including the line, “All you b**ches Rosa Parks / Uh oh, get your a** up,” on Monday, February 3, 2020 – the day before what would have been Park’s birthday.
    The lyrics prompted a backlash on Twitter, however, with many accusing the “Anaconda” hitmaker of disrespecting the African-American icon.
    Sources connected to the rapper tell TMZ.com Nicki’s aware of the backlash but that she meant no disrespect to the civil rights activist, who passed away in 2005, and that the timing of its debut was an unlucky coincidence as she was merely trying to give fans a taste of her new music.
    Twitter users had expressed anger, however, with one writing, “Nicki Minaj need to leave Rosa Parks (alone),” and others pointing out that the civil rights figure famously did not get up, but in fact stayed seated, when asked to relinquish her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama in 1954 – sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott protests.
    “Rosa Parks would have been 107 years old if she was still living to see her birthday today,” journalist Ernest Owens pointed out. “Y’all go remind Nicki Minaj that. Quick history lesson: She never got up, she stayed seated. The lyric makes no sense.”
    However, others were amused or impressed by the lyrics, with one fan writing, “Thinking about Nicki Minaj coming back from a hiatus and being talked about for ONE BAR she wrote about Rosa Parks. This is IMPACT. This is POWER. She’s a GENIUS.”

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    Noel Gallagher Assures He Did Not Turn Down $130 Million Offer for Oasis Reunion Tour

    Responding to Liam Gallagher’s accusation of him being a ‘greedy soul,’ the former lead guitarist of the rock band insists he was not aware of any offer to reform the group.
    Feb 5, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Noel Gallagher has denied his estranged brother’s claims he turned down $130 million (£100 million) to reform Oasis.
    Frontman Liam Gallagher alleged “greedy soul” Noel had snubbed a reunion tour earlier this week (begins February 03), but the Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds star has assured fans that’s not true.
    “I am not aware of any offer from anybody for any amount of money to reform the legendary Mancunian Rock’n’Roll group Oasis,” a statement from Noel reads. “I am fully aware though that someone has a single to promote so that’s maybe where the confusion lies.”
    The Gallagher brothers have been feuding in the press and on social media since Noel quit the band during a European tour in 2009, following a fight backstage at France’s Rock En Seine festival.

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    Shakira's 'Whenever, Wherever' Rules iTunes' Top 100 Nearly Two Decades After Release

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    Days after she headlined Super Bowl Halftime Show with Jennifer Lopez, the Colombian superstar also sees her songs, ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, ‘Waka Waka’ and ‘She Wolf’ climbing up the download countdown.
    Feb 5, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Shakira’s hit “Whenever, Wherever” has conquered the iTunes Top 100 chart 19 years after its release.
    The Colombian superstar performed a snippet from the song during her Super Bowl half-time performance on Sunday, February 02, and it appears that was enough to drive the song up the download countdown.
    Shakira’s songs “Hips Don’t Lie”, “Waka Waka”, and “She Wolf” have also surged into the top 10, thanks to her performance, alongside Jennifer Lopez, in Miami, Florida.
    The pop superstar, J.Lo and their special guests Bad Bunny and J Balvin have also experienced a sales surge on Spotify.
    Shakira’s “Empire” and “She Wolf” spiked by over 900 percent in the hours following the Super Bowl, while interest in Lopez’s “Get Right” and “Waiting For Tonight” pumped up by more than 680 percent.

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    Billie Eilish Lands in Hot Water for Accusing Rappers of Lying in Their Songs

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    In her recent interview with Vogue magazine, the Grammy-winning songstress claimed that the current hip-hop music has ‘tons of songs where people are just lying.’
    Feb 5, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Billie Eilish might need to think twice before making a comment now. The Grammy winner has landed in hot water over a comment she made in her recent interview with Vogue that rubbed a lot of people, especially hip-hop fans and musicians, the wrong way.
    Talking about the music industry during the interview, Billie claimed that many rappers are not keeping it real and are fabricating stories in their songs. “Just because the story isn’t real doesn’t mean it can’t be important,” she noted. “There’s a difference between lying in a song and writing a story. There are tons of songs where people are just lying.”
    The “Bad Guy” hirmaker went on to point out, “There’s a lot of that in rap right now, from people that I know who rap. It’s like, ‘I got my AK-47, and I’m f***in’…,’ and I’m like, what? You don’t have a gun. ‘And all my b***hes…,’ I’m like which b***hes? That’s posturing, and that’s not what I’m doing.”
    Her comments soon sparked backlash, with one accusing her of appropriating black culture, “Billie Eilish appropriates black culture then drags black music just like Miley Cyrus did but y’all don’t keep the same energy. If you cancel one, gotta cancel both.” Meanwhile, another urged “anyone that agrees with Billie Eilish on what she said about rap/hip hop” to stay away from him/her, adding, “You are the feds.”
    Someone pointed, “The most overrated generic artist in the world rn shouldn’t have an opinion about hip-hop,” while one other said, “Turning to 17 year old white girls to determine what’s authentic in this culture? That’s what we doing now?” A different person accused her hypocrisy, “Ain’t she admit that she doesn’t live any of the problems she sings about tho?”
    One individual told Billie to “mind your business,” while another weighed in, “This chick literally sounds like she is whispering on every track she makes… any hip hop take is automatically null bro please go.” There was also one who sarcastically said, “So she emulates hip hop culture, gets a few grammys and then attempts to s**t on hip hop? Oh ok, got it.”
    Billie has yet to respond to the backlash.

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    Brian McKnight to Add Kobe Bryant Tribute Song in Final Album

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    Speaking about his poignant nod titled ‘Can’t Say Goodbye’, the ‘Back at One’ hitmaker admits he would love to perform it at the late NBA legend’s memorial service.
    Feb 4, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Brian McKnight is to release his Kobe Bryant tribute on what could be his final album.
    The soul man wrote “Can’t Say Goodbye” as a poignant nod to the basketball ace, who lost his life in a helicopter crash last month (January 2020), and Brian tells TMZ the track will make the list for his new album, which looks set to be his last.
    McKnight told the outlet he can’t remember writing the song, revealing the lyrics just poured out of him, and he’d love to perform the song at Kobe’s memorial service, if he is asked.
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    The new album drops in May (2020).

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