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    Lewis Capaldi Says Being No. 2 Is Disgusting as He Tops Chart With 'Before you Go'

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    The ‘Someone You Loved’ crooner dodges early retirement as his latest single from the extended edition of ‘Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent’ dominates the U.K. singles chart.
    Feb 1, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Lewis Capaldi won’t have to follow through on a pledge to quit music as his track “Before You Go” is at the top of the U.K. singles chart.
    The Scottish singer-songwriter released several remixes of the tune, from his album “Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent”, in a bid to secure top spot, and jokingly told his Instagram followers he’d give up and get a new job if he failed.
    However, he won’t have to make good on the promise, as the song tops Friday’s January 31, 2020 Official Charts Company rundown ahead of The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights”.
    A delighted Lewis tells OfficialCharts.com, “It’s so nice to get another one in the bag, second number one for my song Before You Go and it means the world so thank you so much if you went and bought it.”
    “Obviously becoming number one is absolutely everything to me and I would be disgusted if I had the number two spot, it would be gross, so yeah I’m so glad I’m not that guy, and if I did I don’t know what I would do, I would probably go home, cry into my hands and just have an awful, awful time, so thank you so much.”
    Roddy Ricch’s “The Box” is at three, with last week’s number one, Eminem’s track featuring late rapper Juice WRLD, Godzilla at four. Stormzy, Ed Sheeran, and Burna Boy’s “Own It” complete the top five.
    U.K. grime star J Hus tops the albums chart with “Big Conspiracy”, pushing Eminem’s “Music to Be Murdered by” down to two. Pet Shop Boys’ “Hotspot” enters at three, with “Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent” at four, and masked rapper M Huncho’s “Huncholini the 1st” completing the top five.

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    Madonna Undergoes 6-Hour Rehab Every Day During Tour, Cancels More Shows

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    The ‘Vogue’ hitmaker confirms cancellation of two more dates after one of her dancers, Marvin Gofin, hints at shortened Madame X Tour amid the singer’s health woes.
    Feb 1, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Madonna has pulled two more concerts on her beleaguered Madame X Tour to allow the injured singer “time to recover” in between her live shows.
    The 61 year old’s ongoing health woes have forced her to cancel gigs in cities including Miami, Florida, and Lisbon, Portugal in recent weeks, while she also axed the first night of her planned 15-date residency at the London Palladium in England on Monday, January 27, 2020.
    The “Vogue” hitmaker returned to the stage in the British capital on Wednesday and Thursday, but fans were left wondering if Madonna was going to scrap more stops after one of her dancers, Marvin Gofin, hinted at a shortened tour on his Instagram Stories timeline, when he wrote, “Madame X 7 More.”
    Gofin didn’t offer up any further details, but on Friday, Madonna revealed she was cancelling two upcoming concerts during her stay in London on doctors’ orders – in an effort to make it to the end of her trek, which wraps in March following a 14-night stint at Le Grand Rex in Paris, France.
    Breaking the news to ticketholders on Instagram, she wrote, “As you all know i have multiple injuries and have had to cancel shows to give myself time to recover.”
    “So as not to surprise you i want to let you know ahead of time that I will be cancelling 2 shows- on Feb 4 and Feb 11th at the Palladium in London. because doing 3 shows in a row is too much on my body and in fact my doctors insist i take a day off after every show but i believe can manage if i do 2 shows then I rest (sic)!”
    “Its a miracle i have gotten this far but a-lot has to do with the fact that i do 6 hours of re-hab every day (sic). 3 hours before show and 3 after with multiple therapies,” she explained.

    Madonna went on to share that she had “switched to flat shoes” and “modified” trickier aspects of the performance to make it easier on her body.
    “This has helped enormously but i still need to be careful and of course rest is the best medicine,” she added.
    “i never want to cancel any show and Im determined that i will make it to the end if i pace myself (sic). God Willing…”
    Concluding her post, she wrote, “I appreciate your understanding and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you!! Madame X.”
    The singer is due to continue her London run on Saturday, February 1, 2020.
    She had also pulled out of shows in New York, Los Angeles, and Boston, Massachusetts earlier on in the tour, which kicked off in September 2019.

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    Taylor Swift Shoots Down Claims She Skipped Grammys Over Sketchy Reason

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    The ‘Lover’ singer’s team reportedly contacted the prizegiving organizers days before the live event to get a guarantee that she will win the Song of the Year prize.
    Feb 1, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Taylor Swift reportedly chose to skip the Grammy Awards last Sunday, January 26 because she wasn’t guaranteed to win a prize.
    According to the New York Post’s gossip column Page Six, the singer’s team talked to show organisers a few days before the live event and said that Swift would only attend and perform if she was guaranteed to win the Song of the Year prize.
    However, they were reportedly informed the winners are not known to those planning the show, and they would not bend the rules for her.
    “(Her team) called and wanted to be assured that she would win the Grammy. And while it wasn’t an explicit demand, they certainly were fishing to find out if Taylor was a winner. It was understood in the conversation that if she’s not winning, she’s not coming to the Grammys,” one insider said.
    Another shared: “It’s widely known in the industry that (Swift’s team) called to find out if she was getting a Grammy, they wouldn’t tell her, so she didn’t go. It’s not uncommon (for an artist) to want to know. And everyone knows Taylor loves to win, win, win.”
    However, a spokesperson for the star called the allegations “100 per cent false and laughable”, adding, “She just didn’t go to the Grammys. You guys need to calm down.”
    Swift was also nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance. She lost Song of the Year to Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy”, while Eilish also won Best Pop Vocal Album with “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”, and Lizzo scooped Best Pop Solo Performance for “Truth Hurts”.

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    Diddy Accused of 'Starving' His Artists and 'Robbing' Mase After Grammy Speech

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    Taking to Instagram, Mase recalls the time when his 19-year-old self tried to buy back his masters from the music mogul by offering $2 million in cash to no avail.
    Feb 1, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Sean “P. Diddy” Combs has been applauded by a lot of people due to his powerful speech against the Recording Academy, but people who have worked with the 50-year-old music mogul felt otherwise. After Sauce Money, it was Mase’s turn to take to social media to call out Diddy and accuse him of hypocrisy.
    In the Friday, January 31 post, Mase took issue with the way Diddy exploits his artist and claimed that he once tried to buy back his masters from Diddy to no avail. “Your past business practices knowingly has continued purposely starved your artist and been extremely unfair to the very same artist that helped u obtain that Icon Award on the iconic Badboy label,” he said, using his past experience as an example.
    “For example, u still got my publishing from 24 years ago in which u gave me $20k. Which makes me never want to work w/ u as any artist wouldn’t after u know someone is robbing you & tarnishing your name when u don’t want to comply w/ his horrendous business model,” he continued, saying that he had offered $2 million for his masters before. However, Diddy refused the offer unless he could surpass the “European guy’s offer.”
    He went on to recall the experience he had at 19 years old, “Or else I can wait until I’m 50 years old and it will revert back to me from when I was 19 years old. You bought it for about 20K & I offered you 2m in cash.” Mase concluded his lengthy post by demanding Diddy do better in the future. “No More Hiding Behind ‘Love’. U CHANGED? GIVE THE ARTIST BACK THEIR $$$. So they can take care of their families.”

    Sauce Money said similar things after Diddy called out the Recording Academy for not respecting hip-hop and black music. He said on Instagram at the time, “I can honestly say I respect the message, just not coming from him. He practices the same backdoor politics against his own people. Him and his friend Jay-Z.”
    Meanwhile, Diddy hasn’t responded to the accusations.

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    Lizzo Celebrates Kobe Bryant's Life and Legacy at Pre-Super Bowl Concert

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    Headlining the SiriusXM and Pandora Opening Drive Super Concert Series, the ‘Truth Hurts’ hitmaker heats up the stage for two hours and treats fans to ‘Juice’ duet with Harry Styles.
    Feb 1, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Lizzo celebrated the life and legacy of late basketball star Kobe Bryant during her pre-Super Bowl concert on Thursday, January 30, night.
    The “Truth Hurts” hitmaker took the stage at the SiriusXM & Pandora Opening Drive Super Concert Series at The Fillmore Miami Beach in Florida, where she told the crowd, “I can’t be at the largest sporting event of the year without mentioning the tragic loss of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna.”
    “We can’t be at this event and not think of them in our hearts and hold them up and honor them as sports fans, as music fans, as human beings.”
    The Los Angeles Lakers player died alongside his teenage daughter Gianna and seven other victims in a helicopter crash on Sunday, January 26 – hours before Lizzo took the stage and scooped three prizes at the 2020 Grammy Awards.
    “We have an effect on each other,” the “Good As Hell” singer added. “We have to be good to each other. We don’t know what tomorrow holds. We don’t know if tomorrow’s promised. So, I want you all to just really dig down deep inside and be good to yourself, be good to your family.”
    Lizzo performed for two hours, and brought out surprise guest Harry Styles to duet on closing track “Juice”. Styles has performed the tune a number of times in his recent live shows.
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    She also recalled attending the big game as a teenager, and watching Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake join forces onstage, noting: “(Now) I got a song with Justin Timberlake. And Janet Jackson likes my music. A lot can happen in a lifetime.”
    The San Francisco 49ers take on the Kansas City Chiefs at the Super Bowl on Sunday. Jennifer Lopez and Shakira will provide entertainment during the Halftime Show.

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    Lil Wayne Confirms La'Tecia Thomas Romance Rumors, Calls Her 'Wifey' on New Album 'Funeral'

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    Despite not explicitly mentioning the Australian plus-size model’s name, the rapper makes it obvious he’s rapping about her on two tracks off his newly-released album.
    Feb 1, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Lil Wayne is no longer keeping his relationship with La’Tecia Thomas a secret. On Friday, January 31, the 37-year-old rapper unveiled his highly-anticipated album “Funeral”, on which he confirms his romance rumors with the plus-size model.
    Despite not explicitly mentioning her name, Weezy makes it obvious that he’s rapping about her on the album’s sixth track “Stop Playin with Me”. He spits his bars, “Ooh, I got a plus sized model/ But she my lil’ mama/ I make her bust open for me like a pinata/ And as the world turned, she was my spin doctor.”
    He later makes it even more obvious on its ninth track “Not Me” that finds him rapping, “You know wifey from Australia, she said, ‘Cheers, mate,’/ Then we toast and see how you n***s tears taste/ Mix the soda and Codeine, that’s a mixtape.”

    It’s unclear when Weezy and La’Tecia started dating. Some speculated that the two might have met through social media after he slid into her DMs while overseas, as the rapper previously said in an interview, “I saw someone on TV and I was like, ‘I don’t know how to get in touch with this person.’ I met a very, very special person.”
    Back in July last year, Weezy and La’Tecia ignited engagement rumors after the latter was caught flaunting a diamond ring that was reportedly given to her by her rapper boyfriend. Neither of them has responded to this rumor.
    His love life aside, “Funeral” features other 22 songs beside “Stop Playin’ with Me” and “Not Me”. The album, which has been teased since 2016, also sees him collaborating with the likes of Big Sean, Adam Levine, Takeoff of Migos and the late XXXTentacion.
    The Young Money founder previously said of the album, “I thought y’all knew my mixtapes, my albums, they all have their little categories. You got the ‘Da Droughts’, you got ‘The Prefix’, ‘The Suffix’, you got ‘Sorry for the Wait’ 1, 2, 3, 4, you got ‘Tha Carter’ I, II, III, IV, V. So you have ‘Rebirth’, and now you have ‘Funeral’. Just plain and simple, nothing else. There’s no backstory. It’s just ‘Rebirth’, ‘Funeral’ and maybe the next one would be ‘Reincarnation’. I don’t know.”

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    Ellie Goulding Shoots Down Matt Healy's Suggestion People Don't Buy Her Album

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    Reacting to The 1975 frontman’s comments about pop artists, the ‘Love Me like You Do’ hitmaker points out why she believes ‘people have been fairly invested’ in her music.
    Feb 1, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Ellie Goulding has responded after The 1975’s Matt Healy suggested in a recent interview that people don’t buy her albums.
    The 30-year-old rocker was asked for his opinion about how streaming affects record sales in an interview with Beat Magazine.
    “The artists whose single streams are in the billions, people don’t buy their albums, necessarily…Ellie Goulding, people will listen to her music at the gym and they will listen to it on playlists,” he mused. “They’ll put the Pop playlist on and it will get out there. When it comes to her putting out a record, which is someone saying, ‘Will you invest in my lifestyle?’ or ‘Do you want to invest in me, as an idea?’…I have a lot of ‘Yes, I want to invest in you as an idea, and less, ‘I’ll pop this on when I’m doing whatever.'”
    But Ellie was less than impressed by Matty’s quote, hitting back on her Instagram Story, “I’ve had 3 multi platinum albums so I feel like people have been fairly invested but ok I’ll let you have it.”
    Elsewhere in his interview, Matty took aim at Drake, insisting he’s more interested in achieving longterm success than having popularity in the moment.
    “I’ve said this before, but the Drakes of the world, they’re professionals at keeping people’s attention for three minutes,” he explained. “They can do that again and again. I’m not that good at that. A single will happen accidentally throughout the myriad of writing songs.”
    “The way that we express ourselves is like longform. I can do it and I do it occasionally, I’d love it if we can make it work where I get a big idea down in three minutes. We’ve always been an albums band.”

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