BBC News - UK — We go behind the scenes of Now 100 to find out why Dua Lipa made the tracklistng but Drake didn't... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Rapper Cardi B, the Carters, Childish Gambino and Drake lead the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards nominations, tipping the scales in favor of hip-hop and R&B artists this year. Cardi earned 10 nominations, power couple Beyonce and Jay Z earned eight, whil... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Rapper Cardi B, the Carters, Childish Gambino and Drake lead the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards nominations, tipping the scales in favor of hip-hop and R&B artists this year. Cardi earned 10 nominations, power couple Beyonce and Jay Z earned eight, whil... more info

New York Times — The rapper’s double album easily repeated at No. 1 on the album chart, followed by LPs from Post Malone, Future, XXXTentacion and Cardi B. more info

Chorus.fm — Drake still has the number one album in the country: The set earned 335,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 12 according to Nielsen Music (down 54 percent from its big start of 732,000 units a week earlier). Of its second week sum, 29,... more info

Stereogum — Drake replaces himself atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated July 21), as the viral challenge-fueled "In My Feelings" blasts from #6 to #1, supplanting his own "Nice For What." Both songs, which also surge to the top of the Streaming Songs and Digi... more info

MTV.co.uk News — Plus there’s big nods for Childish Gambino, Drake, Ariana Grande and more… more info

MTV.co.uk News — Is he taking shots at Kanye and Kendrick? more info

Guardian Music — The musician, who’s been drawing praise from Solange Knowles and Flying Lotus, talks about refusing to be hemmed in by definitions“Crack kills, if it don’t get ya Whack will!” Tierra Whack was leading an outdoor crowd in a c... more info

Guardian Music — In music, the joy of sex has been supplanted by nihilism and melancholy. Has the digital age made pop lose its loving feeling?Towards the end of his double album Scorpion, Drake confirms the sting in his tale; something that has defined him as the po... more info