PEOPLE
NEW YORK — Drake is the king of streaming: the rapper has been named Spotify's most-streamed artist of the decade.
Spotify announced this week that Drake has been streamed 28 billion times in the last 10 years. Ed Sheeran came in second, while Post Malone, Ariana Grande and Eminem round out the Top 5. Sheeran's “Shape of You” was the most-streamed song of the decade.
For 2019, Post Malone is the top-streamed artist globally. Billie Eilish, Grande, Sheeran and Bad Bunny round out the Top 5. Eilish's debut album — “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” — is the year's most-streamed album, while Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello's “Senorita” tops the list of the most-streamed songs.
NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors have dropped their case against Remy Ma.The Grammy-nominated rapper was arrested in May on charges of punching her “Love & Hip Hop New York” castmate Brittney Taylor in the face at a New York City concert venue on April 16.The rapper's lawyer denied the allegations and said her client was home with her daughter at the time of the alleged attack.The case was dismissed Monday after prosecutors said conflicting evidence and witness accounts made the case too difficult to prove.Assistant District Attorney Juan Maldonado says the sole witness who corroborated Taylor's account is no longer cooperating with investigators.
NEW YORK — The movers have done their job as the “CBS Evening News” sets up shop in Washington starting this week.The move of Norah O'Donnell's newscast to Washington makes it the first of the network evening newscasts to be solely based inside the Beltway. Some broadcasts have split time there in the past, with NBC's famed Huntley-Brinkley report in the 1960s the most memorable.The ABC, CBS and NBC nightly newscasts have been New York-based for more than 30 years.CBS hopes to take advantage of O'Donnell's long experience as a Washington-based reporter.
NEW YORK — The publisher of Barack and Michelle Obama has pledged to donate 300,000 children's books to a leading educational organization, adding to the 1 million copies already given.Penguin Random House announced Tuesday that it had joined with the former president and former first lady in contributing to First Book (www.firstbook.org) in the Obama family's name. For every $3 donated to First Book between now and the end of the year, Random House will give two new books to First Book, up to 300,000 books.First Book distributes books and other resources to schools and programs serving children from low-income communities.
