Preparing for his performance at the Billboard Music Awards on May 20, Usher puts up the dukes on the print’s latest cover. Lookin 4 Myself drops June 12.

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It’s Mac, bitch! By tomorrow, Mr. Miller’s debut Blue Slide Park, will premiere at the top of the Billboard charts. According to Hits Daily Double, the album sold an estimated 148, 915 copies. And now, for some stats: Mac becomes the first artist in 16 years (and of the 21st century) to debut independently at number one. Congrats to him and the entire Rostrum team. Final tally manana. UPDATE: Final number via SoundScan: 144,487 Digital: 109,300 |CD: 35,187

Now that Drake’s sophomore album is out, he told Billboard that he wants to have a release concert in Jamaica and battle Weezy song for song. Lawdamercy! “I don’t want to just do an album release concert. So, me, I go to Jamaica a lot — I love Jamaican culture — so what I’m gonna do, I’m challenging Lil Wayne to a sound clash, that’s what I want to do. I don’t want to just perform by myself,” he told […]

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No major label? No problem. Mac Miller makes his cover debut on this week’s edition of Billboard. Rumble young man, rumble! Blue Slide Park drops November 8th. Cover feature available to read here. No album out, yet emerging “Donald Trump” rapper Mac Miller’s already racked up quite the teenage cult. Will sold-out live crowds and a million+ Twitter followers (and an overall social push) translate into sales for his indie-label debut LP? Our writer went full-on “Almost Famous” on the […]

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[vodpod id=Video.15340795&w=540&h=350&fv=videoId%3D1133253469001%26amp%3BplayerId%3D1126070790%26amp%3BviewerSecureGatewayURL%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fconsole.brightcove.com%2Fservices%2Famfgateway%26amp%3BservicesURL%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fservices.brightcove.com%2Fservices%26amp%3BcdnURL%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fadmin.brightcove.com%26amp%3Bdomain%3Dembed%26amp%3BautoStart%3Dfalse%26amp%3B] Although Wiz is busy working on his next album, he still has time for others. On the VMA red carpet, his gal pal Amber Rose, tells Billboard that they are working on some music. Yep, the fat lady has sung. “We’re working on some music for me, yeah. It’s going to be mysterious. It’s going to be very mysterious. You may not even know it’s me. We might just throw it out there, might give it out and […]

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[vodpod id=Video.14546655&w=540&h=350&fv=videoId%3D1091520921001%26amp%3BplayerId%3D1126070790%26amp%3BviewerSecureGatewayURL%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fconsole.brightcove.com%2Fservices%2Famfgateway%26amp%3BservicesURL%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fservices.brightcove.com%2Fservices%26amp%3BcdnURL%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fadmin.brightcove.com%26amp%3Bdomain%3Dembed%26amp%3BautoStart%3Dfalse%26amp%3B] Nearly everyone from Chris Brown to Jo Jo, have given their take on Aubrey’s tune. Continuing his conversation at OVO Fest with Billboard, Drake gives his reaction to the numerous renditions. “The writing is doing something to people for them to want to take it and remix it. It’s very flattering. Thank you to anybody that made a remix. I hope other songs on the album get reactions like that too. I really, really, really worked very hard on the writing for this album. […]