LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - BTS, Doja Cat and J Balvin will perform at MTV's 2020 Video Music Awards, airing live on Aug. 30 at 8 p.m. The show will feature BTS' first VMA performance and the TV debut of the group's new English single, "Dynamite," set for release on Aug. 21.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Taylor Swift's "Folklore" may well go down in the lore of 2020 as the album with the biggest debut of the year. Although there are still five months to go, "Folklore" scorched any competition that has appeared so far this year, with album units of 852,700 pushing it to No. 1 on the Rolling Stone album chart. That is easily the biggest number for any new release since Swift's own "Lover," which debuted with 991,800 album units 11 months ago.

BERLIN, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Berghain, Berlin's most famous night club, is once again throbbing with the sound of stomach-churning deep bass as the cathedral-sized temple of techno defies months of coronavirus lockdown to host "Eleven Songs," a one-off sound installation.

PARIS (Reuters) - Workers started dismantling Notre-Dame's grand organ on Monday to let experts restore it in time for the fifth anniversary of the fire that damaged the Paris cathedral.

PARIS, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Workers started dismantling Notre-Dame's grand organ on Monday to let experts restore it in time for the fifth anniversary of the fire that damaged the Paris cathedral.

LONDON, Aug 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 700 figures from Britain's music world, including popstar Rita Ora, One Direction singer Niall Horan and producer Nile Rodgers, united to "wipe out racism" declaring "silence is not an option" in response to discrimination and abuse.

LONDON (Reuters) - British filmmaker Alan Parker, director of movies ranging from "Bugsy Malone", a gangster comedy featuring children armed with machineguns that fired cream, to the tense prison drama "Midnight Express", died on Friday aged 76.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Taylor Swift's latest album, "Folklore," has sold over 2 million copies worldwide in one week, already solidifying its place as one of 2020's top-selling albums.

LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - British filmmaker Alan Parker, director of movies ranging from "Bugsy Malone," a gangster comedy featuring children armed with machineguns that fired cream, to the tense prison drama "Midnight Express," died on Friday aged 76.