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Harry Potter fans, rise! Audible just released Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions, an audiobook trilogy of all seven books, for preorder on Amazon now.

You’ve got all seven books — including Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — all brought to life with the help of some seriously talented actors.

Each audiobook is narrated by Cush Jumbo and features appearances from actors such as Hugh Laurie as Dumbledore, Matthew Macfadyen as Voldemort, Riz Ahmed as Snape and Michelle Gomez as McGonagall. Once pre-ordered, you’ll have access to the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, starting Nov. 4, with each new audiobook dropping every month. If you want to purchase a singular audiobook from the series, it will cost $29.99.

‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ (Full-Cast Edition)

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Audiobook of Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone.

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‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ (Full-Cast Edition)

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An audiobook of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

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To gain access to these magical Audible masterpieces, you’ll have to buy an Audible Plus subscription for $7.95 per month. You can also try out the Audible Premium Plus plan for $14.95 per month. If you’re not sure you want to add another subscription to your list, Amazon Prime members can try out Audible for free for 30 days.

With an Audible membership, users have access to Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions and so much more. You’ll gain access to thousands of included titles including Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir narrated by Ray Porter, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis narrated by Kenneth Branagh, and Dune by Frank Herbert and narrated by Scott Brick. Members will also gain access to Audible Originals and podcasts from the Plus Catalog.

‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ Paperback

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The first book in the Harry Potter series.

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If you can’t wait for November, all of the books in the Harry Potter series can be purchased on Amazon. The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling is about a young wizard named Harry Potter and his adventures as a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

The first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, was first published in 1997 and can be purchased as a hardcover for $16.35 and a paperback for $6.68. Due to the book series’ success, Harry Potter was turned into a film series. The first film, based on the aforementioned first book, was released in 2001. The franchise has since become a major success all over the world, earning fans both young and old with its magic and whimsy.

Mariah Carey might be a star, but she has no interest in going to space — even if Katy Perry recently did, not that Mimi had heard anything about it.

In a memorable moment from her interview with BBC Radio 2 posted Thursday (Aug. 7), Carey learns for the very first time that Perry was part of Blue Origin’s first-ever all-female trip past the Earth’s atmosphere, despite the event being all over the news in April. “Did she go to space? Where’d she go?” the Songbird Supreme asks after the interviewer brings it up.

“Into orbit and back?” Carey continues in her characteristically reserved manner. “She’s like, floating in the … And this is true? Wow. All right, Katy. I’m not mad at her, that’s pretty amazing.”

When asked whether she’d ever take a trip to the stars, Carey had a hilariously snarky response. “I think I’ve done enough,” she said simply.

Though Mimi missed it, Perry’s journey to space was widely publicized this past spring. She was one of several women who flew approximately 62 miles above Earth on a rocket trip organized by Jeff Bezos’ space tech company, riding the line between the atmosphere and outer space before coming back down after about 10 minutes.

The expedition was also widely criticized at the time, with some people calling it a waste of resources. Perry, however, described it as an empowering step forward for women, telling press shortly after she touched down, “It’s about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging … this is all for the benefit of Earth.”

Keeping her feet planted firmly on the ground, Carey is more focused on blasting off on a new album era as opposed to in a rocket ship. The star will release Here for It All in September, following singles “Type Dangerous” and “Sugar Sweet” featuring Kehlani and Shenseea.

Watch Carey learn about Perry’s space adventure below.

MC Hammer is facing a lawsuit claiming he’s failed to make car payments on a Land Rover and has refused to allow the car to be repossessed.

In a case filed last week in California court, JPMorgan Chase Bank claimed the “2 Legit 2 Quit” rapper (Stanley Burrell) and his U Can’t Touch This LLC still owe $76,732.79 on a $114,376.90 loan he took out to purchase the vehicle in 2023, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by Billboard.

As a result of Hammer’s “default” on the agreement, the bank says it has “demanded possession” of the car, but that the star has “not surrendered the vehicle.”

A rep for Hammer could not immediately be reached for comment on Thursday.

Despite a legendary career as a rapper and dancer — featuring smash hits like “U Can’t Touch This” and “2 Legit 2 Quit” and cultural ubiquity via his distinctive “Hammer pants” — the MC has long been dogged by financial problems.

Six years after releasing the chart-topping Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em, Hammer filed for federal bankruptcy protection in 1996, claiming only $1 million in assets to pay more than $10 million in debts, including hundreds of thousands in unpaid taxes and even a $500,000 loan from NFL star Deion Sanders.

At the time, Hammer told the newswire UPI, ‘It’s time to stop the bleeding and get on with my life. It’s time for me to close out old business and stop being the lottery for people who see Hammer as this big celebrity with a bottomless pit of dreams for people.”

The case dragged on for years, including a judge’s 2002 ruling refusing to discharge Hammer’s debts because of his alleged failure to comply with the bankruptcy settlement. In 2005, a court-appointed administrator put his publishing catalog up for sale, eventually selling it for $2.7 million the next year.

The IRS sued Hammer in 2013, claiming he still owed nearly $800,000 in unpaid taxes from 1996 and 1997 that hadn’t been covered by his bankruptcy case. The feds later won a ruling in 2015 ordering Hammer to pay $798,033 for those years.

Rupert Grint gets a little more Ed Sheeran than he bargained for in the musician’s new music video for “A Little More,” which dropped alongside the new song Thursday (Aug. 7).

In the trippy visual, the Harry Potter actor reprises his role as the British pop star’s stalker from 2011’s “Lego House” music video. After serving time in prison for sneaking into Sheeran’s concert and impersonating him on stage, Grint’s character gets a fresh start in “A Little More” — but he can’t seem to escape the singer he once obsessed over.

“I used to love you/ Now every day I hate you just a little more,” Sheeran sings on the mid-tempo track over shots of Grint grimacing as the musician seems to pop up everywhere — on billboards, posters, TV and more.

Things really take a turn, however, when Grint meets a woman and asks her to marry him. At the wedding, all of the couple’s guests morph into Sheeran, who leers at the horrified actor. With a crowd of Eds watching from the chapel pews, Grint pulls back his bride’s veil to reveal that she has also transformed into Sheeran.

“I hadn’t worked with @rupertgrint in 14 years since Lego house, so didn’t know if he’d say yes to this idea,” Sheeran wrote on Instagram after the video dropped. “But I’m so glad he did. It’s such a fun, bonkers video … Rupert, my brother from another mother, thank you for throwing yourself into this, it wouldn’t exist had you said no.”

“A Little More” marks the latest single Sheeran has shared ahead of his September-slated album, Play. So far, fans have also heard “Azizam,” “Old Phone” and “Sapphire.”

The LP will mark the first installment in the Grammy winner’s next album series, following the close of his Mathematics sequence: 2012’s Plus, 2014’s Multiply, 2017’s Divide, 2021’s Equals and 2023’s Minus. All five projects reached the top five of the Billboard 200.

Watch the “A Little More” music video above.

Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift both dated Jonas Brothers at the same time, but the real love story was the two women’s friendship that emerged from those romances.

While guesting on an episode of Jake Shane’s Therapuss posted Wednesday (Aug. 6), the Rare Beauty founder reflected on how she first connected with the Eras Tour headliner nearly two decades ago. “Taylor and I dated the Jonas Brothers,” Gomez said with a laugh. “I dated Nick, and she dated Joe … We all know and love each other now, and it’s so cute. We didn’t know what we were doing.”

“She and I like to say the best thing we got out of those relationships was each other,” Gomez continued. “I was about 15, she was about 18, and that’s when it was the crazy, curly [hair] Taylor, and she had all these bracelets that went all the way up [her arm] … We became best friends, bonded over the breakup, as girls do. Then we just stuck around for all the ups and downs that came after, and here we are now 16 years later.”

Indeed, Gomez and Swift are closer than ever. Following their romances with the JoBros, the two women have continued to support each other in their respective endeavors. In March, the 14-time Grammy winner praised the Wizards of Waverly Place alum’s joint album with fiancé Benny Blanco, I Said I Love You First, and in May, Gomez congratulated Swift on reclaiming her masters.

And, just a few weeks prior to the podcast, the former country star sent her bestie home-baked sourdough celebrating Gomez’s “loaf story” with Blanco, a play on the title of 2009 smash “Love Story.”

Speaking of the Fearless hit, Gomez revealed on Therapuss that it was the first song Swift ever played for her before it was even released. “I was in a hotel room, and I remember it vividly,” she told Shane, who was in a state of disbelief. “It was just one of those songs that I instantly heard and thought, ‘This is one of the most beautiful songs ever.’”

“It was so sweet,” Gomez recalled. “She was like, ‘OK, I just want to play you this song, but just, like, I don’t know. It’s going to be the first single, I think.’ Just hearing her say those little thoughts … She is a chameleon. She’s incredible.”

Watch Gomez’s full interview with Shane below.