Entertainment Roundup: Drake’s ‘Scorpion’ breaks every Apple Music record; Harvey Weinstein indicted on additional sex crime charges | More stories

Here’s everything you missed in entertainment yesterday and others that unravelled while you slept – and are still buzzing today.

Adekunle Gold sells out London’s O2 Indigo Arena

Adekunle Gold (Instagram/adekunlegold)

Adekunle Gold has hit another goal, as he sells out Indigo at the O2 Arena, in London.

The #About30 concert held on Friday, June 29, is described as Adekunle Gold’s biggest concert outside Nigeria yet, after he sold out the 800 capacity O2 Academy Islington Arena last year.

He could not hold his excitement after…


Harvey Weinstein indicted on additional sex crime charges

 Harvey Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein was indicted Monday on three additional felony sex charges, two of which carry the potential of life in prison.

Weinstein was already facing three sex crime charges, concerning allegations involving two women, and carrying a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. The Manhattan D.A.’s office announced Monday that Weinstein now faces charges involving a third woman, arising from an incident in 2006.

According to the indictment, Weinstein is accused of forcibly performing oral sex on the woman on July 10, 2006.

Weinstein was indicted on one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree, and two counts of predatory sexual assault, according to Variety.


Drake’s ‘Scorpion’ breaks every Apple Music record

Drake (Instagram/champagnepapi)

Drake‘s latest album, “Scorpion”, has cruised through the charts and shattered every Apple Music record, including becoming the number one album on the Apple Music charts in 92 different countries almost instantaneously and becoming the fastest-growing album ever on the service.

Just 24 hours after release, the album had more than 170 million streams worldwide on Apple Music, with nine of the 10 most-streamed songs coming from the album, breaking not only Drake’s own record but also crushing the record for day-one album streams on any streaming service, ever.

Spotify also tweeted that “Scorpion” was being streamed over 10 million times per hour, and Amazon Music Unlimited also reported the album had broken its own first-day streaming record.


Cardi B celebrates making history as first woman rapper to land two Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s

Cardi B (Instagram/iamcardib)

Cardi B becomes the first female rapper with two Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s with I Like It and Bodak Yellow.

The 25-year-old who is due to give birth any minute now doesn’t look like she is slowing down for anybody.


XXXTentacion murder suspect not raped in jail

XXXtentacion (Instagram/xxxtentacion)

According to Broward County Sheriff’s Office, XXXTentacion‘s murder suspect who is sitting in jail was reported to have been sexually assaulted in a Florida jail but TMZ reports that it’s all a lie.

The Broward County Sheriff’s Office’s Public Information Officer, Veda Coleman-Wright, says that story is “unfounded” and that the entire alleged incident did not happen.

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