Adele will share custody of her 8-year-old son and won’t be paying child support to her now-ex-husband Simon Konecki, according to divorce documents obtained Wednesday (March 10) by The Associated Press.

The couple separated in August of 2019, and Adele filed for divorce the following month. A Los Angeles judge finalized the divorce last week.

According to the documents, the 32-year-old Adele and the 46-year-old Konecki used mediation to amicably reach the terms of the split. Both waived the right to seek spousal support, and both agreed to joint legal and physical custody of son Angelo, who was born in 2012. The papers say they will seek to resolve any issues without litigation.

Adele kept her original legal name, Adele Adkins, during her marriage.

The British singing superstar married Konecki, co-founder of Life Water, an eco-friendly brand of bottled water, in May of 2018, according to court documents. But she referred to him as “my husband” during a Grammy acceptance speech in 2017, and the two had been a couple for several years when they wed.

Alice Cooper crowns Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated March 13) as the rock legend’s latest studio album Detroit Stories debuts at No. 1. It’s the first chart-topper for Cooper in the 29-year history of the Top Album Sales chart.

Detroit Stories leads a very busy Top Album Sales chart, where seven albums debut in the top 10.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now MRC Data. Pure album sales were the measurement solely utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Detroit Stories sold 13,000 copies across all available formats (CD, vinyl LP, digital download) in the week ending March 4, according to MRC Data. Of that starting sum, 9,500 were sold via CD and 2,000 came via vinyl LP. The remaining 1,500 were digital albums.

The album also starts at No. 1 on the Tastemaker Albums chart, which ranks the top-selling albums at independent and small chain music stores. Thirty-eight percent of the album’s first-week total sales (5,000) came via indie and small chains.

On the all-genre Billboard 200, Detroit Stories bows at No. 47, marking the act’s 27th chart entry, stretching back to 1969’s Pretties for You. (From 1969 through 1973, Alice Cooper charted six albums as a band. Then, from 1975 onwards, Cooper charted as a soloist.)

Detroit Stories also debuts at No. 2 on Hard Rock Albums, No. 5 on Top Rock Albums, No. 7 on Independent Albums and No. 18 on Vinyl Albums.

The new top 10 of the Top Album Sales chart is crowded with debuts from veteran acts and chart legends Willie Nelson (No. 2, That’s Life; 12,000 sold), Bob Dylan with George Harrison (No. 4, 1970; 11,000), Neil Young With Crazy Horse (No. 5, Way Down In the Rust Bucket; 9,000) and NOFX (No. 7, Single Album; 7,000). Nelson’s Billboard chart history dates to 1962, while Dylan made his chart debut in 1963. Harrison first dented the charts as one-quarter of The Beatles in 1964. He notched his first solo hit in 1969. Young initially reached Billboard’s charts as part of the band Buffalo Springfield in 1967 and later as a soloist in 1969. NOFX has a comparatively shorter chart history, as the rock band first hit the Billboard charts in 1994.

Nelson’s That’s Life is his second jazz covers set of songs made famous by Frank Sinatra, following 2018’s My Way. That’s Life also debuts at No. 1 on Traditional Jazz Albums and the overall Jazz Albums chart, Nelson’s fourth and third No. 1s on the tallies, respectively. On the Billboard 200, That’s Life bows at No. 58, marking Nelson’s 81st chart entry.

At No. 3 on Top Album Sales, singer-songwriter Julien Baker bows with her third studio album, Little Oblivions. The set launches with nearly 12,000 sold and marks her first top 10 and biggest sales week yet. It also enters at No. 39 on the Billboard 200 — her first top 40-charting effort on that list. Little Oblivions also debuts at No. 1 on the Americana/Folk Albums chart, and at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart (8,500 sold — 73% of the album’s overall first-week sales).

Little Oblivions also makes a splash on a number of other charts, including debuts at No. 2 on Tastemaker Albums, No. 4 on Top Rock Albums, No. 5 on Alternative Albums and No. 5 on Independent Albums.

Dylan’s 1970 compilation is part of his ongoing archival release series of previously unreleased recordings, and starts with 11,000 sold. Harrison is billed as a special guest on the project, as it boasts nine tracks recorded with Harrison in 1970. The album also starts at No. 3 on Tastemaker Albums, No. 4 on Americana/Folk Albums, No. 10 on Top Rock Albums and No. 76 on the Billboard 200.

Young With Crazy Horse’s live album Way Down in the Rust Bucket starts at No. 5 with 9,000 sold. The set captures the act’s Nov 13, 1990, concert at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, Calif. Way Down also debuts at No. 4 on Tastemaker Albums, No. 5 on Americana/Folk Albums, No. 15 on Top Rock Albums and No. 109 on the Billboard 200.

BTS’ Be falls from No. 1 to No. 6 with just over 7,000 sold (down 74%), following the album’s surge back to the top of the list a week ago. It jumped back to No. 1 after the 2020 album was issued on Feb. 19 in a new deluxe CD package.

Rock band NOFX captures its first top 10 on the Top Album Sales chart with the No. 7 arrival of Single Album (7,000 sold). The set is the group’s 14th full-length studio album, and first since 2016’s First Ditch Effort. The new effort also debuts at No. 2 on Vinyl Albums, No. 13 on Alternative Albums, No. 29 on Top Rock Albums and No. 26 on Independent Albums.

The Black Crowes’ smash debut album Shake Your Money Maker re-enters Top Album Sales at No. 9 following its 30th-anniversary reissue on Feb. 26. The 1990 album was re-released and remastered in multiple formats bolstered with unreleased songs, B-sides and live tracks. All versions of the album are tracked together on the chart. In total, the album sold just under 7,000 copies in the week ending March 4 — up 4,107%.

Shake Your Money Maker debuted on the Billboard 200 chart dated March 24, 1990, and peaked at No. 4 (on April 6, 1991) and was last on the chart dated May 15, 1993. It spent 165 weeks on the list in that span of time.

Shake Your Money Maker has sold 5 million copies in the U.S., according to the Recording Industry Association of America. The set launched five hit singles on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart between 1990 and 1991: “Jealous Again” (No. 5), “Twice as Hard” (No. 11), “Hard to Handle” (No. 1 for two weeks), “She Talks to Angels” (No. 1 for one week) and “Seeing Things” (No. 2).

Shake Your Money Maker re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 110, and debuts at No. 5 on Tastemaker Albums, No. 6 on Hard Rock Albums, No. 16 on Top Rock Albums and No. 12 on Vinyl Albums. (It debuts on those latter four charts as all of them were launched many years after Shake completed in its initial run on the charts back in the early 1990s.)

British rock band Architects debuts at No. 9 on the Top Album Sales chart, as the group’s new studio set For Those That Wish to Exist bows with a little under 7,000 copies sold. It’s the ninth studio effort for the band and first top 10. The set also bows at No. 4 on Hard Rock Albums, No. 11 on Top Rock Albums, No. 11 on Independent Albums, No. 17 on Tastemaker Albums and No. 80 on the Billboard 200.

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album rounds out the new top 10 on the Top Album Sales chart, as it falls 3-10 with 6,500 copies sold (down 4%).

C. Tangana secures his first top 10 and first entry on any Billboard albums chart as El Madrileño debuts at No. 8 on Latin Pop Albums (dated March 13).

“I come from rap and have always liked avant-garde music mixed with street music, people who complicate their lives a bit doing urban music,” C. Tangana tells Billboard. “I had a feeling that what I was doing was not enough. I always have a feeling that when things go well I’m not pushing my artistic side enough.” 

El Madrileño starts with 1,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending March 4, according to MRC Data. The bulk of the set’s opening sum derives from streaming activity: 1.6 million on-demand streams generated by the songs on the album.

“I composed ‘Un Veneno’ with Niño de Elche, and from there began a quest to claim my most artistic side,” Tangana, who goes by the nickname “Pucho,” adds. “I didn’t really know when I was going to release this album at first. I thought it was going to take around two more years.”

El Madrileño was released Feb. 26 via Sony Music Latin. Tangana’s third studio album was written by him and co-produced with Alizzz. “I wanted to represent my artistry, a unique perspective that I could offer, so I dived into Spanish music,” Tangana continues. “I allowed my childhood influences to enter the studio. That, mixed with my trips throughout Latin America, is how I came across the songs for El Madrileño.”

The 14-track set journeys across different genres and includes collaborations with Latin titans Eliades Ochoa, Jose Feliciano, Andres Calamaro, Gipsy Kings, Jorge Drexler and Brazilian Toquinho. It also includes the flamenco coloring of the late Pepe Blanco, Niño de Elche, La Húngara, Kiko Veneno, up-and-coming artists Ed Maverick and Omar Apollo and the regional Mexican flavors of Carin León and Adriel Favela.

“There was a very special moment in Cuba when we met Eliades Ochoa; we played and composed with him,” Tangana remembers. “That space became a turning point in which I thought that perhaps everything I was exploring, more rooted music, could include these types of artists in an album that vindicates popular music to become a more collaborative effort.”

Tangana scored his first entry on a Billboard Latin chart a year ago as “Nada,” with Tainy and Lauren Jauregui, bowed at No. 23 on the Latin Digital Song Sales tally (dated March 7, 2020). His first entry on an albums chart arrives with El  Madrileño, which yielded one entry on the Global 200 chart and on the Global Excl. U.S. chart: “Tú Me Dejaste De Querer,” the album’s second single featuring Niño de Elche and La Húngara, debuted and peaked at No. 83 on the former and at No. 38 on the latter.

“The biggest challenge was the general vision, the final track list, because there are many collaborations that remained halfway done, many demos left,” Tangana continues. “What I really wanted to represent with El Madrileño was a kind of cover letter. It’s not that I’m a new artist, but it could practically be called that with what the rest of my repertoire looks like.”

About El Madrileño’s recording process, Tangana adds: “It’s been interesting because it was a different experience with each artist. With Jorge, for example, we got together to write. With Eliades, we got together to compose everything from scratch. I provided things from Spain, but he wanted to play with his people and the musicians from Buena Vista Social Club. We sent Toquinho bare vocals and asked him also to collaborate on guitar. There is also a kind of cover that is the remix version of ‘Un Veneno,’ with Feliciano.”

As El Madrileño launches at No. 8 on Latin Pop Albums, Tangana becomes the first Spaniard to debut in the list’s top 10 with an original album since Rosalía’s El Mal Querer (No. 1, November 2018). “I come from rapping, no more,” Tangana adds. “It’s a compliment and a recognition to reach that point in one’s career. I’m crazy happy, really. I am going to celebrate by opening a bottle of wine, baking fish and toasting to this entry.”

Alicia Keys and Amanda Gorman discussed the pressure to be perfect from a young age during Time’s “Voices of the Future” Women’s Summit on Monday (March 8) for International Women’s Day.

Between these two, their work has been honored at Music’s Biggest Night and at the Big Game. At just 20 years old, Keys released her debut studio album Songs in A Minor, which earned the singer her first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Fallin’” and five Grammy Awards, including best new artist and song of the year. Gorman, who just turned 23 on Sunday, has already been honored as the National Youth Poet Laureate and recited her original poems during the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and Super Bowl LV earlier this year.

“First thing looking back, I did feel like I automatically had to be perfect. I felt like somehow I had to be this image or this perfection that people expected of me,” Keys told Gorman about experiencing success fairly early in her life. “And I carried that through a lot of my life, so if there’s one thing that I would definitely share, it’s your humanity and your individuality and the fact that you are imperfect. In fact, I’ve actually decided to remove the word ‘perfect’ from my vocabulary ’cause I think it’s detrimental…. And so being perfectly imperfect is the magic, and now I know that.”

The R&B veteran noted that as a poet who is “gifted with words,” Gorman should be able to “honor” how she truly feels in her work. And the former National Youth Poet Laureate felt like “perfection” also didn’t have a place in her vocabulary because of its corrosive impact on her creativity.

“It’s definitely something in terms of the perfectionism that I’ve been feeling, especially when you’re so young and as you mentioned female. There’s this double standard that you hold yourself to of being a pristine, kind of untouchable image when in fact, we’re all human,” Gorman responded. “And I think I’m still learning that perfectionism doesn’t serve me and it doesn’t serve my craft. In fact, it destroys my creativity and destroys my own personal mission. So learning to lean away from the expectation of perfection, which, like you said, shouldn’t even be in our vocabulary, but just leaning into authenticity.”

For her second piece of advice, Keys said her fear of asking questions while coming up in the music industry hindered her ability to build key relationships, which she hopes Gorman doesn’t miss out on.

“I would’ve wanted to be more comfortable asking for guidance. I felt like I had to suddenly know everything and be good at it. And I didn’t feel comfortable asking people like, ‘Whoa, what was your experience?’ or like, ‘Man, I’m feeling this. How do I deal with that?’ And so therefore, I think I missed out on some relationships that really could’ve helped me feel not so lonely when I feel so in outer space all by myself.”

Watch Keys and Gorman’s entire conversation below.