Monday marked the 42nd birthday of living legend Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter - aptly titled Beyday. Join us as we choose one song from each of her seven albums we love as a special tribute to one of our favourite stars.

Both of us are still recovering from our very eventful respective weekends, but the news cycle never sleeps. Join us as we bring you another Hot Topics episode. For once there’s not too much drama in this one.

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Last Friday, Mrs Ciara Princess Wison blessed fans with the arrival of her first EP ‘CiCi’, so in true Rated fashion, we bring you a track-by-track review. How you feeling the EP?

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Ciara’s EP ‘CiCi’ drops this Friday, so as a buildup to our review next week we thought we would use her as inspiration and delve into the slew of singles artists, like herself, release before a project that end up not making the cut. Are they beneficial or detrimental? Oh and we throw a ranking in there. Classic us.

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Very early this morning, we bring you another Hot Topics. Please disregard the croaky voices and enjoy some events at breakfast.

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Today is Carl’s birthday so what better way to celebrate than dedicating an episode to his ultimate bday playlist. Will you be shaking a leg at his party? Make sure to wish our fave host a happy birthday!

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Inspired by #thereceiptspodcast, we held a last minute poll on Instagram asking you, the people, what songs give you the ick and make you wanna unplug the sound system at a party. Here are the results. There are some wild ones.

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It’s been a while, so it’s only right we bring you another round of Hot Topics. From musical teaser’s to divorce and Keke Palmer, as usual we got you covered.

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It marks the 10th anniversary of Ciara’s self titled 2013 album ‘Ciara’. So what better way to commemorate than to rank all of her 7 albums? Join us for an upgraded ranking (yes we listened to you) as we go through each album and then give our rankings at the end.

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Summertime is in full swing (minus the temperamental weather) so it’s our duty to bring you the bops to get you through the summer. Tune in, as we give you 10 songs each that our staples to our summer. Summertime, it’s a vibe.

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