The Met Gala Loses Streep, Zendaya and Mamdani and Keeps the Bezos Sponsorship
Meryl Streep declined the co-chair invitation, Zendaya is skipping, Mayor Mamdani is publicly out, and Jeff and Lauren Sánchez Bezos remain the gala's lead sponsors.
Entertainment
Olivia Rodrigo Debuts Drop Dead at Number One and Makes the Cure Catalog Money
Six versions counted as one entry, three lead-single number-one debuts on three album cycles — the chart-rule mechanism is the artist.
Devil Wears Prada Two Runs Ten Million in Thursday Previews Into Met Gala Week
Disney's sequel printed $10.2 million in Thursday previews and now tracks $85-100 million domestic on Met Gala weekend — the calendar collision was the campaign.
Foo Fighters Keep Running the 30-Dollar Pop-Ups With a Saturday Starland Show
Saturday at 8 p.m. in Sayreville is the third $30 cash-door show in seventy-two hours, and the test of whether Live Nation's own venue can run a non-Ticketmaster line.
Drake Sets the Iceman Ice-Block Format for May 15
A million pounds of ice in downtown Toronto, a streamer cracking a hidden folder, and a $1.2 million stunt becomes the marketing format for the May 15 album release.
Avex Still Has Not Named the Second Catalog Acquisition
Three days after Infamous landed as the inaugural buy under the $100M City National line, the second name has not surfaced — and the second name is what turns one purchase into strategy.
Cannes Opens May 12 With Park Chan-wook in the Chair and the Full Jury Still Pending
Park Chan-wook is the first South Korean to chair the main competition jury; Pierre Salvadori opens; the rest of the jury composition is still ten days from announcement.
Eurovision Grand Final May 16 Runs Into the Second Boycott Week
Two weeks out from Vienna's grand final, the five-country withdrawal holds, the 1,100-artist letter holds, and the EBU's only answer remains its refusal to vote on Israel's KAN.