Lamar scores biggest debut

Pop turns 70, sings on jazz album

LOS ANGELES, April 25, (Agencies): Rapper Kendrick Lamar scored the biggest debut album of the year on Monday as his latest album “Damn.” sold more than 600,000 copies, eclipsing Drake’s “More Life.”

“Damn.”, the third album from Grammy-winning Lamar to top the Billboard 200 chart, sold a total of 603,000 album units that comprised 340 million streams, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.

The Billboard 200 album chart tallies units from album sales, song sales (10 songs equal one album) and streaming activity (1,500 streams equal one album).

Lamar’s “Damn.” outpaced Canadian rapper Drake’s “More Life,” which debuted on the Billboard 200 chart in March with 505,000 album units sold in its first week.

At No. 2 this week is singer-songwriter John Mayer’s latest album “Search For Everything,” which sold 132,000 album units, while Drake’s “More Life” dropped one spot to No. 3 with 87,000 units sold.

The soundtrack to Universal Pictures’ blockbuster action film “Fate of the Furious” was the only other new entry in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart this week, entering at No. 10 with 37,000 copies sold.

On the Digital Songs chart, which measures online single sales, electropop DJ Zedd and singer Alessia Cara’s dance track “Stay” jumped from No. 10

filming “Aquaman.”

Both Musk and Heard posted pictures to their Instagram accounts Monday showing Musk with lipstick on his cheek left behind

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to No. 1, selling 91,000 copies.

Lamar announced dates for a summer headlining tour Monday morning. Support acts will be Travi$ Scott and D.R.A.M.

The 17-date trek launches July 12 in Phoenix and concludes Aug. 6 at the Staples Center in the MC’s hometown of Los Angeles. While Lamar has played many concerts, the jaunt marks his first fully-fledged headlining tour.

Punk legend Iggy Pop has turned 70 with news he is singing on an experimental jazz album, saying the genre’s bare exposure of his voice appealed to him artistically.

The “Lust for Life” singer, who turned 70 on April 21, contributes in three songs on New York pianist and composer Jamie Saft’s upcoming “Loneliness Road.”

Pop said that his voice on the songs has imperfections but that he decided they were appropriate.

“I was a little surprised at how feeble I sounded on certain parts of it, but I thought that was OK,” he told Rolling Stone magazine.

Pop said he was drawn to jazz as “there’s no big, bashing thing or echo trick to hide behind.”

Saft, who has worked with artists as diverse as leading contemporary composer John Adams and hardcore punks Bad Brains, said he improvised around Pop rather than just having the star singer offer his voice.

from a kiss. Musk wrote on his post that he and Heard were dining with “Aquaman” director James Wan and producer Rob Cowan on Australia’s Gold Coast. (AP)

PHOENIX:

A former reality television star has been arrested in Phoenix for alleged vehicle theft and drug possession.

Phoenix police say 31-year-old Jacob Harris was released on his own recognizance Monday after his initial court appearance. He faces a May 5 status conference.

Harris was on Discovery channel’s “Deadliest Catch” series.

According to court documents, Harris traveled from Washington state to Arizona with a female companion and was staying at a Phoenix hotel. (AP)