Logic's 'Incredible True Story' Crowns Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

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Logic bows at No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (chart dated Dec. 5), earning the rapper his first chart-topper as his sophomore studio album, The Incredible True Story¸ opens with 118,000 copies sold in the week ending Nov. 19, according to Nielsen Music. Over on the Billboard 200 it starts at No. 3 with 135,000 equivalent album units.

The rapper surpasses the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums entrance of his debut album, Under Pressure, which opened at No. 2 on the chart with 73,000 copies (Nov. 8, 2014).

True Story is a concept album (subtitled …And the Transformation of the Man Who Saved the World), which takes place 100 years in the future in a post-apocalyptic voyage to a new planet (called Paradise).

Two songs from the set enter Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, led by “Fade Away,” which arrives at No. 44 with the majority of contributing points coming from 1.9 million weekly streams -- with 56 percent stemming from Spotify plays. The second song to debut on the list is “I Am The Greatest,” just barely making the bottom of the chart at No. 50 with 1.7 million streams backing its entry.

Both album tracks mark Logic’s first and second titles to ever appear on the hybrid chart, which blends airplay, sales, and streaming.

Logic returns to the Billboard Artist 100 chart, which measures the week's most popular artists, amid activity surrounding the release of True Story.

...Enjoy the flugelhorn sound of Crystal Rovél Torres on Logic's,

"Intermission feat. Lucy Rose"

Alejandro Sanz sets December 4 as US launch date for "Sirope Vivo"

Last week, Alejandro Sanz took to social media to give fans a sneak peek of the cover and launch date of his album Sirope Vivo. Global expectation mounted as fans yearned for more information. Thanks to a promo video the singer shared on his social media, today we learned that the US launch date for Sirope Vivo will be December 4. This new edition of the record gathers the content of the tour of the year in Spain.  
 
SIROPE VIVO comes as a double CD, featuring the complete audio recording of Sanz’s concerts on September 8 and 9 at the Barclaycard Center in Madrid, which gathered fifteen thousand fans, with guest stars Paula Fernández, Vanesa Martin, Zucchero and Pablo López. The album will also include the duets that the superstar recorded during the “Sirope” sessions, “A que no me dejas” with Alejandro Fernandez and a salsa version of “Un zombie a la intemperie” with Luis Enrique. International versions with Zucchero (Italy) and Pedro Abrunhosa (Portugal), alongside the previously unreleased studio track “El Cuaderno Del Alba,” round off the edition.  
 
SIROPE was certified 3x Platinum in Spain and Gold in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador. The album is up for 5 LATIN GRAMMY awards and 5 40 PRINCIPALES awards in 2015. Sanz took the SIROPE tour on the road in Spain, delighting more than three hundred thousand fans with 25 shows in premier music venues.

...Enjoy Crystal Rovél Torres' playful flugelhorn feature ending Sanz's, "Capitan Tapon Live"

Beyonce Lands HBO Series of Mrs. Carter World Tour

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Beyoncé is heading back to HBO.

Following her 2013 documentary "Life Is But a Dream," Beyoncé will return to the premium network for a series of four-minute concert segments from her Mrs. Carter World Tour called "Beyoncé: X10."

The 10 installments will air every Sunday evening at 8:55 p.m. ET/PT ahead of the seventh and final season of "True Blood," which begins at 9 p.m. ET/PT on June 22

Following her 2013 documentary "Life Is But a Dream," Beyoncé will return to the premium network for a series of four-minute concert segments from her Mrs. Carter World Tour called "Beyoncé: X10."

The 10 installments will air every Sunday evening at 8:55 p.m. ET/PT ahead of the seventh and final season of "True Blood," which begins at 9 p.m. ET/PT on June 22.

Taped performances of "Blow/Cherry," "Drunk in Love," "Ghost/Haunted," "Flawless/Yonce," "Get Me Bodied/Baby Boy/Diva," "Girls," "Heaven," "Partition," "Why Don't You Love Me?" and "XO" will air as part of the series.

The performances were shot in various cities around the world from Beyoncé's Mrs. Carter World Tour. The tour began in April 2013 in Belgrade, Serbia and ended in March 2014 in Lisbon, Portugal. It was the highest-grossing female solo tour in 2013.

"Life Is But a Dream," which aired on HBO in February 2013 and was directed by Beyoncé, gave an inside look at the singer's life.

....Enjoy Beyoncé and her all female crew including the Suga Mama Band pay homage to the feminists around the world in, "Flawless". 

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