trying to get "é" character to print out correctly - php

I am trying to take the rss/xml feed from itunes and I have noticed that artist and songs that have special charters like é like in beyoncé is showing as Beyoncé
I have tried the following to get it to show correctly but unsucessfully I have Googled searched and searched on here for the correct answer but sadly not working.
here is what I have tried - I maybe way off.
echo html_entity_decode($entry->imartist, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
here is the full code
function itunes(){
$itunes_feed = "https://itunes.apple.com/au/rss/topsongs/limit=100/explicit=true/xml";
$itunes_feed = file_get_contents($itunes_feed);
$itunes_feed = preg_replace("/(<\/?)(\w+):([^>]*>)/", "$1$2$3", $itunes_feed);
$itunes_xml = new SimpleXMLElement($itunes_feed);
$itunes_entry = $itunes_xml->entry;
foreach($itunes_entry as $entry){
echo html_entity_decode($entry->title."<br>", ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
echo html_entity_decode($entry->imartist, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
echo "<br><br>";
// Get the value of the entry ID, by using the 'im' namespace within the <id> attribute
$entry_id['im'] = $entry->id->attributes('im', TRUE);
echo (string)$entry_id['im']['artist'];
//echo $entry_id['artist']."<br>";
}
}


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