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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticBeyoncé’s “Renaissance” album rode in on a steed of its own to register the second-best first-week numbers so far this year. It trails only Harry Styles’ latest, as 2022 album premieres go.The debut figure for “Renaissance” was 332,000 equivalent album units, per Luminate Data, as reported Sunday in Billboard — a tally that represents the best first week for a female artist this year.“Renaissance” came in short of supplanting Styles’ “Harry’s House” as the top-debuting album of the year; Styles’ collection bowed with 521,000 units in June.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChinese sci-fi comedy “Moon Man” held station at the top of the mainland China box office, albeit at a lower orbit. After ten days in cinemas its cumulative total is a fraction of a degree short of $300 million, and it operated at a higher elevation than new launch sci-fi actioner “Warriors of Future.”The strong figures came despite some cinemas remaining closed in key cities and capacity limitations remaining in place in others. Hainan Island went into lockdown over the weekend as a cluster of COVID cases emerged.

Asda has caught heat over its redesign of its new budget range with shoppers claiming that its "embarrassing poorer families".Its current Smart Price range has been replaced with the Just Essentials range, which Asda says will be its "largest ever budget-friendly range" in order to help customers through the cost of living crisis.The Smart Price range colour scheme was previously under a white colour scheme but has now been switched to yellow for the Just Essentials range.READ MORE:Asda driver finds customer, 90, sitting in the dark and goes viral for his responseTo help shoppers combat rising costs, fresh meat, fish and poultry, bakery, frozen and cupboard staples will be included in the new range.Food items are joined by a few household items in the new range such as washing up liquid, toilet roll, shampoo and conditioner.Despite Asda's efforts, the retail giant have received criticism from some shoppers who believe considerable attention could be placed on poorer families due to the bright yellow design of the new range.According to one angry shopper, the new design suggests “people on lower incomes should have a basket full of poverty markers”.Another customer commented the new bright design just says "We are poor!".To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.Despite these complaints Asda claimed feedback from customers showed that they were "loving" the range, with a spokesman saying: “We don’t understand why anyone would feel embarrassed for saving money".Asda, one of the big four supermarkets alongside Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons, said its new cut-price line was "set to become the largest budget-friendly essentials range in the market" with 293 products,

Manchester United's pursuit of Frenkie De Jong is reportedly at risk of being hijacked by Chelsea, and fans are begging new owner Todd Boehly to sign the Barcelona star.The Dutchman is in high demand, and it's not surprising due to the fact that he's enjoying an exceptional pre-season. De Jong has proved his versatility by playing at centre-back this summer, and now fans are going wild after he produced a stunning solo run from his own penalty box.Xavi has confirmed that "anything can happen between now and August 31" as his future remains up in the air.

CHICAGO — “You’ve got no style or sense of fashion,” viciously observes the fictional magazine editor Miranda Priestly in “The Devil Wears Prada.”She’s dressing down her dowdy prospective new assistant, Andy, but that same harsh criticism should be lobbed at the bargain-bin new musical adaptation of the film and Lauren Weisberger’s novel that opened Sunday night in Chicago.2 hours and 30 minutes with one intermission. At the James L.

Hollywood stars reacted with outrage on Thursday as it was revealed Brittney Griner has been sentenced to nine years in Russian prison for bringing a marijuana pen into the country in February.Justin Bieber, Mia Farrow, and Andy Cohenwere among the celebrities expressing their displeasure in various social media posts made shortly after news of the sentencing broke.'THIS HURTS,' Bieber, 28, posted an his Instagram Stories. 'If anyone knows of anyway I can help please let me know.'Farrow, 77, called the verdict 'heartbreaking' as she tweeted:'The Russian judge ignored everything Britney Griner had stated.

Daddy Yankee announced back in March 2022 that he’s going to retire and he just set out on his farewell tour!

John Lennon to former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney is up for auction, and bidding is in the five-figure range.The three-page letter — which is typewritten and also includes hand-written notes scrawled in the margins — was drafted in 1971 by an incensed Lennon in response to an interview McCartney did with the magazine .The current bid for the auction lot, which has seven bidders as of Sunday, is currently at $33,000, with 11 days left before it concludes.In the interview with, McCartney shared his thoughts on Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the iconic band's world-shaking split.Lennon's sprawling and self-annotated missive is addressed to McCartney, and to as well, asking that they give him equal space in their publication. The letter came just a few days after the interview was published, and appears that the minutiae regarding the details of the band's dissolution had not truly been resolved or addressed.The letter goes into specifics regarding the payout of royalties, while also airing personal grievances that Lennon had with McCartney — including McCartney's dismissive interpretation of Lennon's hit song «Imagine,» which McCartney apparently said wasn't intended to be political.«It’s ‘Working Class [Hero]’ with sugar on it for conservatives like yourself,” Lennon wrote.

Russia has fired several military commanders due to the “poor performance” during the invasion of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence claims.

These are your Manchester United morning headlines for Monday, August 8.

Crew members on the doomed Batgirl movie predicted it would flop amid concerns over its script.

Love Island viewers were quick to brand Dami Hope as 'moody' as they tuned into Sunday night's Reunion episode on ITV2.

Pressure is mounting on the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry to examine fresh allegations about horrific and long-running abuse at Edinburgh Academy.

sinkhole in Chile doubled in size — and is now large enough to consume the monument.Emerging on July 30, the mega sinkhole was initially 82 feet (25m) wide and (200m) deep, but has doubled in size just days on to 160ft (50m) across and 656ft (200m) deep.The sinkhole is so big that it could fit London's BT Tower inside, as well as make room for six Christ the Redeemer statues stacked head-to-head with its outstretched arms.READ MORE: Bloke swallowed up by sinkhole in swimming pool tragedy that sucked him 15m undergroundDue to the seriousness of the sinkhole and the rapid rate it has been increasing at, all work has been ordered to stop and an investigation continues to take place by the he National Service of Geology and Mining.Situated near the Alcaparrosa mine close to Tierra Amarilla town in Copiapo, which is owned by the Canadian company Lundin Mining LUN.TO, about 413 miles north of Santiago, the company said in a statement that neither workers or community members were affected by the gaping hole and it was working to discover the cause of the sinkhole.The geology and mining service said that it was starting a "sanctioning process" but refused to reveal what that would entail.The hole is located 413 miles north of Santiago and while no material has been found within it, according to Lundin, it's filled with “a lot of water”.The company followed up with: "“The closest home is more than 600m (1,969ft) away from the sinkhole while any populated area or public service are almost a kilometre away from the affected zone.”To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.David Montenegro, the director of the geology and mining service , said that work was being undertaken to

James Bond will be aged under 40 – meaning the current favourites for the role will be too old. And the next 007 has to be over 5ft 10 – ruling out other potential candidates for the job.

Doja Cat is responding to fans who have been expressing their concerns since she shaved her head.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is praising Jessica Chastain after the actress visited to Kyiv.

Amy Grant is making progress in her recovery journey. The singer is getting better by the day while recuperating from her severe bicycle accident in July that left her unconscious.

The stars of “The Tinder Swindler” and “Bad Vegan” are hitting out at Netflix for the way that the shows portrayed abuse and manipulation. 

Travis Scott returned to the stage this weekend for his first solo show since the Astroworld tragedy and you can check out the setlist right here.

Renee Zellweger is opening up about what she thinks of certain beauty products that are marketed towards aging women.