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THE DIGIT
9.6 million
That’s how many times Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” was streamed during its first day on Spotify, setting a new global record, billboard.com reports. Who was knocked off the top spot? Michael Buble’s “Christmas.”
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Spoil me twice…
Fans of the kookiest thing Kristin Wiig has done since Gilly are in luck: She’s coming back for the “Spoils of Babylon” sequel. The A.V. Club reports that original stars Wiig, Haley Joel Osment, Val Kilmer, Michael Sheen, Steve Tom, and Marc Evan Jackson will all take on new roles in “The Spoils Before Dying” on IFC. Joining them are newbies Michael Kenneth Williams, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Tim Meadows, Chris Parnell, Emily Ratajkowski, Berenice Marlohe and Andy Daly. We’re showing some serious range here, folks.
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No-show
Instead of attending San Diego Comic-Con this year, George R.R. Martin will be doing his job—that is, writing “Winds of Winter,” the sixth book in the “Game of Thrones” series, he posted on his blog this week. The fifth season of the HBO show begins April 12, so someone must be feeling the pressure to just hurry up and write the damn thing already before things get out of hand.
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THE DIGIT
28 million
That’s how many times nude photos of Kim Kardashian, tweeted out by hubby Kanye West, were viewed Monday according to Twitter. Hopefully he’s not getting a dollar per click or something.
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Make it a meal
Looks like Gucci Mane was inspired by that ice cream tattoo on his face. The rapper dropped THREE albums on iTunes this week, “Breakfast,” “Lunch” and “Dinner,” vulture.com reports. That’s on top of his latest mixtape, “Mr. Clean, the Middle Man,” which was released last week. Bonus: It’s obvious what order you should listen to them in!
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THE QUOTE
“The rundown of that character said, ‘Ghetto fabulous.’ [Laughs.] It said ‘ghetto fabulous in her 20s, real spicy, spontaneous’ … it explained her whole personality. And I’m like, ‘Dang, this is me!’”
—“Empire” star and Chicago native Ta’Rhonda Jones, to Vulture, on her audition for Porsha. The Fox drama is Jones’ first time acting, though she’s been rapping since she was a kid.