Drake's Iceman Cleared Jay-Z's Fifteen Number-Ones on Day Four
140.2 million Spotify streams on day one, a 480-520K first-week projection on day four, and a fifteenth number-one that moves Drake past Jay-Z — without a press cycle.
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Eurovision Twenty-Seven Has Bulgarian National Television and Four Cities Bidding
Thursday's paper called five days of EBU silence the audit; Friday's reality is a host broadcaster, four city bids and a government working group — the paper runs the correction openly.
Mandalorian and Grogu Opened to Twelve Million Thursday Against Sixty Percent Rotten Tomatoes
Disney brought Star Wars back to theaters after six and a half years, and the previews came in under the movie everyone now calls a flop.
Cannes Adjourns Saturday With the Palme d'Or Vote and Sony Pictures Classics Still Silent
Un Certain Regard pays Friday, the Queer Palm tonight, Palme d'Or Saturday, and the distributor that bought Almodóvar hasn't said a word since Wednesday.
Sony Pictures Classics Has Not Said Anything About Bitter Christmas
Two days after Almodóvar called Trump, Netanyahu and Putin monsters at Cannes, the film's U.S. distributor has still not put a position on the record.
A24's Club Kid and Amazon's Pumping Black Are the Year's Two Checks
Two days after the Marché closed, no third mid-cap acquisition has surfaced — the year's receipt is the two checks the paper has been counting since Tuesday.