Perez Hilton — He will be sorely missed! After Kobe Bryant officially announced his retirement from the NBA on Sunday, plenty of fans took to Twitter to express their grief. In an open letter titled Dear Basketball, the 37-year-old revealed that his current season ... more info

Stereogum — Zayn Malik is looking more and more like our next Justin Timberlake. Maybe not yet, but the 22-year-old Englishman of Pakistani lineage has seized the pole position from his former One Direction bandmates, their chart nemesis Justin Bieber, and fello... more info

Stereogum — Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton’s duet at the Country Music Awards a few weeks ago ended up being good for both of them — Stapleton’s debut album shot to #1 on the charts, and Timberlake’s old country-tinged 20/20 Experience single “D... more info

Perez Hilton — Congratulations, gurl! Ellen DeGeneres hit a HUGE milestone today as she's celebrating 2,000 episodes of her hit talk show! As the talk show host noted in her opening monologue, she's had 859,200 people in her audience, 8,302 guests, and 1,145 bands ... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Don’t ever try telling Chris Stapleton that awards shows don’t matter. The country singer and songwriter’s 6-month-old debut solo album “Traveller” has leaped to the top of Billboard’s 200 Albums chart on the heels of his widely buzzed-ab... more info

Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country singer Chris Stapleton soared straight to the top of the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Monday after sweeping the Country Music Awards last week with three wins and a lively performance with Justin Timberlake... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Chris Stapleton & Justin Timberlake (photo via Justin's Instagram) We recently wrote about Chris Stapleton's debut album, Traveller, one of the records in popular country that's been catching our ears this year. So we're happy to learn that he won... more info

Stereogum — The greatest and most consequential piece of music-related video this week wasn’t a music video. It was the image of Justin Timberlake and longtime insider-outsider Nashville journeyman songwriter Chris Stapleton tearing it the fuck up at the CMA A... more info

Perez Hilton — It's a night Justin Timberlake will never forget! The Mirrors singer took the CMA Awards stage with his good friend Chris Stapleton on Wednesday, and he hasn't gotten over it yet. Related: Justin Brings Sexy Back To The CMA Awards! JT took to Instagr... more info

E! Online — Can we chat about Justin Timberlake's performance at the 2015 CMA Awards? And by "chat about," we mean obsessively talk about it for the rest of time?!  Holy crap.... more info