J. Cole had no problem hanging out in the second position, waiting for his time to rise. And next week, the Born Sinner rapper will finally get his chance when his latest climbs into the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 album chart thanks to sales of nearly 58,000, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan.

That was more than enough to push him past the three-week total for former #1 holder Kanye West, whose Yeezus shed another 40 percent of its business to hang at #3 (39,000). To date, Cole has moved 439,000 units, while West is just shy of 431,000. Last week's #1, Wale's The Gifted, slipped a spot to #2 as sales moved down 68 percent to 50,000.

The most impressive footnote to Cole's rise is that, according to Billboard, since the advent of SoundScan in 1991, only 13 percent (76) of the 583 albums that have reached #1 on the chart have done so after not debuting at #1. The bigger news is that next week, when Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail? is expected to take #1 on projected sales of 350,000-400,000?, the top four spots could be filled by Roc nation signed, managed or affiliated artists. That would be a coup not only for Jigga, but could also represent the first time in recent memory that the top four slots on the chart have been filled by hip-hop albums.

The other big story of the week was the four-spot rise of Imagine Dragons' nearly year-old Night Visions (36,000), which slid up to ...

If you were one of the many disappointed fans who couldn't download Magna Carta Holy Grail at midnight on July 4, Jay-Z feels your pain.

On Wednesday (July 10), Hov appeared on New York's Power 105 The Breakfast Club radio show and expressed his disappointment in the functionality of the Samsung phone app that was supposed to deliver his new album to one million fans as soon as the clock struck midnight on Independence Day.

"I can't even imagine waiting for Rakim's album at 12 o'clock and I couldn't get it and I downloaded — I did everything right," Jay-Z said, using the 1980s rap icon to put himself in his fans' shoes. "On the 24th I downloaded my app, I set it, I watched the clock count down and at 12 'clock I couldn't get it. For me that's not cool."

Hov announced Magna Carta and then pushed it out in a little more than two weeks, all the while shouting his "new rules" battle cry. The plan was for fans to download the MCHG app, get access to some pretty nifty pre-album content and then on July 4 all be able to experience a communal moment by downloading the album at the same time, but it didn't work out that way.

"Anytime you do something different — and you should always try to push forward in whatever you're doing — it's going to be a problem," Jay explained. "The thing that happened with Samsung is a real thing; it was 20 million hits to the app. I'm not ...

Lindsay Lohan once recreated a memorable Marilyn Monroe photo shoot back in 2008. And according to her director Paul Schrader, the resemblance goes beyond looks.

In a column for Film Comment, he compares the 27-year-old starlet to the legendary actress. "'Similarities? Tardiness, unpredictability, tantrums, absences, neediness, psychodrama — yes, all that, but something more, that thing that keeps you watching someone on screen, that thing you can't take your eyes off of, that magic, that mystery," he writes.

Lohan and James Deen play lovers in the L.A.-set thriller, written by Bret Easton Ellis. It revolves around the lives of young people trying to make it in Hollywood, by any means possible.

The project has been the subject of many headlines in the past year. In January, the New York Times published a lengthy article about the making of the film, tracking just how difficult it was to work with the Lohan during the shoot. She was cast in the flick in June 2012, the same summer she stirred up controversy and headlines while shooting her Lifetime biopic, where she reportedly suffered from exhaustion.

"Monroe and Lohan exist in the space between actors and celebrities, people whose professional and personal performances are more or less indistinguishable," Schrader continues in his column. "We call them 'troubled,' 'tormented,' 'train wrecks' — but we can't turn away. We can't stop watching. They get under our skin in a way that controlled performers can't."

Prior to landing a home at IFC Films, producer Braxton Pope defended the film after it ...

From the second he strode onto the stage to perform "Black Skinhead," Kanye West served noticed that his Yeezus album was going to be a departure.

And though he worked with a team of producers to shape his new sound, apparently none had the influence that Daft Punk did ... at least that's what the robots are telling Vibe magazine.

In a new interview, Daft's Thomas Bangalter says that West consulted with the dynamic duo just as he was beginning work on Yeezus, and that the ideas they came up with laid the foundation for his arty, aggressive album.

"We were the first people that Kanye came to," Bangalter revealed. "He really responded positively to those ideas we were throwing out to him. And then he ran with it and built the record, working with a lot of other producers and based on maybe some of the initial directions that we had laid out together."

It makes sense, then, that the first three songs on Yeezus — "On Sight," "I Am a God" and "Skinhead" — were all produced by Daft Punk. And, though Kanye has been adamant about pushing hip-hop into the future, it turns out that one of his album's most memorable tracks was actually rescued from the robots' Random Access Memories scrap heap.

"The first track we did was 'Black Skinhead,'" Bangalter explained. "The drums we had recorded earlier during the recording of our album, so we had those. It was a great twist of pushing the envelope."

Speaking of envelope pushing, by now you've ...

Fans of the Veronica Roth-penned dystopian drama will have to wait until Comic-Con to get their first glimpse at official footage from the upcoming film adaptation, but in the meantime, "Entertainment Tonight" has a behind-the-scenes look at the Chicago set with star Shailene Woodley.

"Her decisions are constantly being torn between whether to be brave or whether to be selfless," Woodley explained of her character, Beatrice "Tris" Prior.

These conflicting allegiances are a key component of Tris' journey of self-discovery. "Divergent" takes place in the near future, in a society that is divided into five factions, each reflecting a different core value: Abnegation (selflessness), Erudite (intelligence), Dauntless (bravery), Amity (peacefulness) and Candor (honesty). As a teen, each citizen takes an aptitude test that helps determine which faction they will choose to align with. When Tris, raised in an Abnegation household, earns an inconclusive score, she decides to break from her family and join up with the daring Dauntless (hence the rifle we see Woodley wielding in the "ET" footage).

"Divergent" is one of several YA novels making the leap to the big-screen this year, and according to co-star Zoe Kravitz, who plays fellow Dauntless initiate Christina, this adaptation is one to watch.

"I think we're going to kill it," she enthused.

Of course, a nice promotional push from studio Summit Entertainment, including the aforementioned appearance at Comic-Con, won't hurt. The cast, including Woodley, Theo James, Miles Teller, Maggie Q, Ansel Elgort, Mekhi Phifer, Ben Lamb, Ben Lloyd-Hughes and Christian Madsen, in addition to director Neil Burger and author Roth, ...

Kaiju, jaegers, and interdimensional rifts, oh my! "Pacific Rim" arrives in theaters this week, full of oddball sci-fi jargon, and more action than audiences can shake a battleship at. Director Guillermo del Toro ("Hellboy," "Pan's Labyrinth") tackles his biggest movie to date with this epic story about a horde of monsters ("kaiju) that attack humankind from beneath the sea, and the gigantic robots ("jaegers") that humans build to fight back. Amazingly, it's not really a lot more complicated than that. But will you feel any interest in investigating its world any further?

MTV News assembled a roundup of reviews from various internet critics, who reacted in a variety of ways to del Toro's new movie. Some loved its epic sweep. Others thought its enormity became too complex. And still others admired its ambition, even if they wondered whether its director deserved to be working on more personal projects.

'Pacific Rim': We Already Know How Kanye Feels About It!

How Does Guillermo del Toro Do With This Epic Material?
" 'Pacific Rim' is just the kind of big-ticket sci-fi adventure you'd want del Toro to make — provided you'd want him to make one at all. The fact that a visionary director like del Toro is crafting movies like 'Pacific Rim' means there's hope for blockbusters; it's also depressing as hell. Is this what the multiheaded love-kaiju of Lovecraft, James Whale, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alfred Hitchcock should be making?" — Stephanie Zacharek, The Village Voice

But How Epic Is The Action Once the Monsters And Robots Square Off?
"Buildings topple and bridges ...