Mýa’s Back & Forth from Essence Fest’s New Orleans tribute to Aaliyah is now on YouTube
The 2:37 clip from the July 5 closing night, curated by Missy Elliott, went up on October 19; Mýa and Aaliyah were born less than nine months apart in 1979.
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A$AP Rocky releases Shroom Clouds with Jeremih, opening Disc 2 of his No. 1 album Don’t Be Dumb
The single, previewed about five years ago, landed October 16, five days after Rocky's 49-show world tour ended in Athens; Sundress and Babushka Boi are also headed to Disc 2.
Gloria Jones turns 81: the Ohio-born Queen of Northern Soul who sang Tainted Love first
The Cincinnati-born singer cut the first Tainted Love in 1964, 17 years before Soft Cell's cover hit No. 1 in the UK, and co-wrote Motown songs for the Supremes.
OhGeesy brings in Big Sean for ‘Left Right’, a West Coast party single with an official video
The Shoreline Mafia co-founder's Oh Ross-produced single arrived on October 16 and passed about 147,000 YouTube views in four days.
Tinashe announces 18-date North American tour for spring 2027 after Popstar’s top-10 debut
The Show Must Go On opens in Dallas on April 14 and ends in Los Angeles on May 15, with general ticket sales starting Wednesday, October 21.
CBS’s Cupertino scores 100% with critics, but its 3.19 million premiere trails the rest of Thursday
The Kings' Silicon Valley legal drama kept about 85% of its Elsbeth lead-in, and a Sunday encore drew 3.42 million, more than the original airing.
Jay-Z’s Tidal went from a $56 million buy in 2015 to a $297 million Square deal in 2021
Square's 2021 payment bought 86.8 percent of the service, not all of it, and a 2017 Sprint stake had implied a far higher value along the way.
Resident Evil loses 979 US theaters in five weeks as Zach Cregger’s reboot nears $150 million
The reboot took $5.5 million from 2,705 venues on October 16 to 18, but its $361 million worldwide total is already the best in the 24-year-old film series.
Lil Wayne’s 20 Years of Carter Classics tour ends this week in Lexington and Knoxville
The run that began at Madison Square Garden in June 2025 closes at Rupp Arena on October 22 and Knoxville's Food City Center on October 23.
Tinie Tempah’s I Lied lyric video lands as the London rapper’s first album in nine years arrives
The Night's Not Dead, built from three EPs named 9PM, 12AM and 3AM, runs 17 tracks on his own Imhotep label, with a European and UK tour starting November 16.
Soul Train Awards return to Chicago with first fan-voted trophies after a three-year pause
Fan voting closed October 16; Anthony Anderson hosts the November 5 taping at Chicago's Harris Theater, which airs on BET and CBS on November 27.
Charlize Theron takes Icon Award as Los Angeles film museum gala raises over $14 million
Sigourney Weaver handed Theron the prize, John Carpenter and Colman Domingo were also honored, and Taylor Swift closed the night with four songs.
Snoop Dogg turns 55 on October 20 with a 22nd album out and his biopic set for 2027
Snoop Dogg's 10 Til' Midnight opens with 'Step' featuring Swizz Beatz, whose official video has passed 824,000 YouTube views since June.
Full House cast fills a Hartford stage at 90s Con, 31 years after the sitcom’s final episode
Seven actors, including first-time guests John Stamos and Lori Loughlin, spent Sunday's panel on stories about Bob Saget. We trace every major cast reunion since 1997.
Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane releases Against All Odds, a 17-track album with Summer Walker
The 1017/Atlantic release has three guests, producers including Zaytoven and J White, and closes on a track named for the October date Gucci Mane keeps returning to.
Viral ‘Dai Dai Iko’ Shakira and Cristiano Ronaldo clip on YouTube is a DJ’s fan remix, not Shakira’s
The clip went up on October 18 on a producer's channel. Shakira and Burna Boy's real 'Dai Dai' peaked at No. 17 in the US and has passed 1 billion views.
Riley Green turns 38 as the former Jacksonville State quarterback duets with Peyton Manning
The Alabama singer went 55 of 100 for 612 yards in two college starts; his new rivalry duet with the Tennessee great arrived five days before the October 17 game.
Lucky Daye and Pusha T release Mouf Say video as the New Orleans singer’s album Aloud arrives
Directed by Mollie Mills, the 2-minute-57 clip arrived on the eve of the 15-track album with Leon Thomas, Muni Long and Pusha T reached streaming services on October 16.
Clint Eastwood’s viral ‘not like Europe’ quote at 96 is a retranslated remark at least 31 years old
The English original, from an AFI compilation of interviews from 1968 to 1995, names the western, jazz and blues as America's original art forms and never contrasts the US with Europe.
Eminem lands on Kid Rock’s Christian album Halfway 2 Jesus after a last-minute track swap
The Detroit rapper moved from "7 Sins" to "Heal My Faith" at his own request, and Lil Wayne took his old slot on the 17-track album released on October 17.
FAMU’s Marching 100 halftime at Jackson State homecoming trends after 27-17 loss in Mississippi
The band played before 44,173 fans in Jackson on October 17. Its record runs from a 1946 rebuild with 16 players to Prince's Super Bowl and a Sudler Trophy.
Missy Elliott’s HBCU band battle fills Norfolk State stadium with four Virginia and North Carolina bands
Norfolk State, Virginia State, Hampton and Elizabeth City State played on October 18, and Elliott left with a plaque naming 'Get Ur Freak On' a song of the century.
Christopher Lee’s 1968 Dracula Has Risen from the Grave trends again on YouTube ahead of Halloween
The 92-minute Hammer sequel, made for £175,000, was Lee's third of seven turns as the Count between 1958 and 1973, about 10 and a half hours of screen time in all.
John Legend’s Pharrell-produced album Muse arrives Friday, October 23, with 16 tracks and a Clipse feature
Pharrell produced and co-wrote every track and sings on six; the project grew out of Legend's vocal on Clipse's "The Birds Don't Sing" and began in Paris in January 2025.
LeBron James calls his New York-to-Philadelphia helicopter commute ‘just another way of transportation’
The Fanatics-branded AW139 he rides logged 18 trips between Manhattan and Philadelphia in the first six days of October. At charter prices, that would cost about $108,000.