A surge in Black Friday gun sales has the FBI very busy processing a record number of requests for background checks. More than 203,000 background checks were requested for gun purchases on Friday. It’s the biggest single day record, which beat last year’s record by 15,000. Actual gun sales were likely higher because buyers may […]
WWD has reported that Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty makeup line has earned a recorded $72 million in one month. According to the publication, “Fenty Beauty’s earned media value primarily came from Instagram, where the brand recorded $45.2 million, and YouTube, where the brand recorded $10.6 million.” Work work work work work! I was in Walmart the other day and […]
Beyonce has responded to a legal dispute over her record, “Drunk In Love,” where she was sued for wearing Jay Z’s Roc-A-Fella chain in the video. According to The Jasmine Brand, Bey’s team appeared in court to file a motion to have the lawsuit dismissed, calling the claims made by Dwayne Walker — who created […]
Beyonce has responded to Messy Mya’s estate’s $20 million lawsuit over her record, “Formation.” According to The Jasmine Brand, Bey’s legal team appeared in court last week demanding that the lawsuit be dismissed. Bey has said that the estate “grossly overstated” the use of the late Messy Mya’s YouTube video. Bey went on to say […]
Mariah Carey has teamed up with Epic Records to launch Butterfly MC Records. According to Rap-Up, Epic’s Chairman and CEO — LA Reid, said in a statement, “To continue working with Mariah Carey at Epic has been another rewarding chapter of my career. Mariah’s incomparable talents as a singer, with her vocal range that is nothing […]
Brandy’s former record label Chameleon filed a countersuit, accusing her of breaching their deal by releasing music without their approval. They are demanding she be ordered to pay damages for her actions. As previously reported, back in July, the singer sues the label, demanding the court void her music deal with company because they didn’t […]
It’s been a month since we lost Prince, and his royal badness continues his purple reign. This week Prince set a new Billboard 200 record as he had 19 albums on the chart. That’s approximately 20 percent of the chart. The Very Best of Prince was the Number two album in the country while The […]
Smart technology is innovative and exciting, but a new announcement from Samsung about its “Smart TVs” is just plain creepy. According to UPI, Samsung says the voice activation feature on its smart TVs follows voice commands or questions, but can also listen in on any conversation you have near the set, include sensitive data. The […]
January marked the ninth straight month of record heat for the Earth, with NASA saying that it also set another record, with its temperature above normal by the highest margin of any month on record. NASA said January was 2.03 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, with an average global temperature of 55.5 degrees, easily beating the […]
East Coast residents will be digging out and trying to return to normal in some places today after a blizzard on Friday and Saturday that dumped near-record amounts of snow from Washington, D.C., to New York City. According to CNN, at least 30 deaths were caused by the storm, due to car crashes, breathing carbon […]
It seems as though online shopping is becoming more and more popular. According to the New York Times, After disappointing sales over the Thanksgiving-Black Friday weekend, Americans were going online and buying on Cyber Monday yesterday (December 2nd) to take advantage of special deals for the day. IBM Corp. said in a statement that as […]
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Tuesday (September 9th) season finale for OWN’s The Haves and The Have Nots aired to an audience of 2.6 million viewers. The second season will return in January 2014 and we cant wait! Congrats to Oprah and Tyler Perry!
