Thursday night marked the sixth and final episode of Fox’s The Four: Battle for Stardom, the new singing competition format on Fox. Host Fergie and panelists Sean “Diddy” Combs, DJ Khaled and Meghan Trainor were back, but in the wake of sexual harassment allegations, Charlie Walk did not return. For the past six weeks, artists
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Thirty-eight executives signed the letter, which asked the Recording Academy to take “aggressive steps” to diversify its voting members. One week after female music executives called on Recording Academy president Neil Portnow to resign over his comments that female musicians should “step up” to improve gender representation at the Grammys, some of their male peers
Shania Twain, the late Gord Downie and Shawn Mendes are among other multiple nominees for Canada’s version of the Grammys. Indie rockers Arcade Fire and newcomer Jessie Reyez on Tuesday snagged a field-leading four nominations each for the Juno music awards, Canada’s version of the Grammys. Rising singer-songwriter Reyez pulled in nods in the Juno
The music icon made history as the first person to receive Oscar nominations for both acting and original song in the same year for her work on the Netflix drama. Things are looking up for Mary J. Blige. It’s no secret that the queen of hip-hop soul has seen her share of tough times, including
Corden’s dad also serenades U2’s Bono and The Edge with a terrible saxophone solo. James Corden’s stint as host of the 2018 Grammy Awards was aided by the hilarious antics of his adorable parents. Malcolm and Margaret Corden took over backstage and interacted with just about everyone, from DJ Khaled to U2 in a skit that aired during Thursday night’s (Feb. 1) Late
Fox’s The Four: Battle for Stardom returned for its penultimate episode on Thursday night, with just two more episodes left before its finale. The sitting four artists heading into the night were Nick Harrison, Kendyle Paige, Jason Warrior and Tim Johnson Jr. Fergie was back to host, and Sean “Diddy” Combs, DJ Khaled, Meghan Trainor
Songs performed during the ceremony pulled in 18.87 million streams on Jan. 29, up from 13.32 million on Jan. 27. Big streaming winners from the 2018 Grammy Awards include Kesha, SZA, Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar, according to Nielsen Music, as nearly all the songs performed on the show scored gains in streams the day after the broadcast. The songs
Maroon 5, Charlie Puth and Backstreet Boys will also perform, with DJ Khaled & Hailey Baldwin hosting. Ed Sheeran, Cardi B and Camila Cabello are among the performers slated to take the stage at the iHeartRadio Music Awards next month. Other performers include Maroon 5, Charlie Puth and Backstreet Boys. The star-studded event doesn’t stop
The singer-songwriter debates going to the Academy Awards for his ‘Call Me By Your Name’ original song nomination and reveals the backstory behind his long-gestating ballad about Tonya Harding. Sufjan Stevens doesn’t really do awards shows. The 42-year-old singer-songwriter behind celebrated concept albums like Illinois and Carrie & Lowell has thrived on the periphery of
She still gets starstruck by Queen Bey. Chrissy Teigen is everyone. The model and cookbook writer guested on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Tuesday night, and revealed that her Beyonce encounter at the Grammy Awards Sunday involved getting on her knees and calling the “Formation” singer “my queen” — naturally. The soon-to-be mother of
The Korean pop star committed suicide in late 2017. During the In Memoriam segment of the 60th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night, K-pop fans noticed that the late SHINee star Jonghyun was excluded from the montage that pays tribute to numerous artists and industry personnel who passed away over the past year. Immediately following
Bruno Mars and Cardi B., Lady Gaga and Elton John with Miley Cyrus were some of the acts who took the stage on Sunday night. The 60th annual Grammy Awards featured an impressive lineup of performances that delivered both emotion and energy to the Madison Square Garden stage on Sunday night. Kendrick Lamar opened the
Despite the song being a massive hit on the charts, it failed to secure a win at this year’s ceremony. It started auspiciously enough. Sting introduced the song of the year award, noting it would be given to a song that “Captured the collective imagination of people around the world. This is the transcendent power of song
Meanwhile, Brothers Osborne, Eric Church and Maren Morris dedicated a cover of Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven” to the victims of a mass-shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas last October. In a Grammys night heavy with tributes, country performers Brothers Osborne, Eric Church and Maren Morris dedicated a cover of Eric Clapton’s
The late musician was awarded posthumously. Leonard Cohen has joined David Bowie and Ray Charles as artists who have received Grammy awards posthumously. He was awarded best rock performance at the 2018 Grammy Awards on Sunday for the song “You Want it Darker” off of his most recent album of the same name. Cohen’s You
New York-based artist Michael Portnoy joined the singer, who later that night would win album of the year, with an unscheduled performance of his own. If there was one star created by the Grammys in 1998, it was “the Soy Bomb guy.” Michael Portnoy was the New York-based, performance artist who jumped on stage with
The Four: Battle For Stardom returned for week four tonight, with just two more episodes left before its finale. The sitting four artists heading into the night were Zhavia, Jason Warrior, Rell Jerv and Tim Johnson Jr. Fergie was back to host, and Sean “Diddy” Combs, DJ Khaled, Meghan Trainor and Charlie Walk were back
The awards-show host said Sunday’s ceremony will carve out some time for the Time’s Up movement as well. Grammy Awards host James Corden says Sunday’s show will carve out some time to allow artists to express solidarity with the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements. Corden, returning for his second stint as host, will do his
According to Recording Academy president Neil Portnow, it is costing $6 million to $8 million more to produce the Grammys in New York than in Los Angeles. The return of the Grammys to New York City for the first time in 15 years has hit a sour note, with the Recording Academy complaining that the
The 60th annual Grammy Awards will air on Sunday, Jan. 28 The Grammy Awards are just days away, airing live on Sunday (Jan. 28). Aside from the many nominations that are totally up for grabs, this year’s 60th edition will be filled with plenty of dazzling, star-studded performances from Alessia Cara, Bruno Mars and Cardi
The stream will run from 3-6 p.m ET on Sunday, Jan. 28. The Grammys announced Thursday that the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony will be available to live-stream on Sunday, Jan. 28, from 3-6 p.m. ET. Paul Shaffer will host the preceremony, which will feature some of the night’s nominees. Body Count, India Arie, Jazzmeia Horn,
The show will air May 20 on its new network home of NBC. New year, new Billboard Music Awards. NBC and Dick Clark Productions said Tuesday that the 2018 Billboard Music Awards will take place Sunday, May 20. The awards show will air live coast to coast at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, marking the
‘Get Out’ Courtesy of Universal Pictures The 49th NAACP Image Awards are being handed out over two nights, Sunday and Monday, in Pasadena. Black-ish star Anthony Anderson returns as host of Monday’s ceremony, which airs live on TV One (a one-hour preshow airs before the live ceremony). Special honors will go to the surviving 1968
Taylor Swift was also nominated for International Female Solo Artist and for British Artist Video of the Year alongside ZAYN for “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever.” The nominees for the 2018 Brit Awards were announced Saturday, with Dua Lipa and Ed Sheeran receiving several nominations each. Lipa is up for for five awards — British
The singer-actress and her entourage cut through the crowd at the Chateau Marmont with help from a security team shining flashlights in partygoers’ faces. W magazine’s pre-Golden Globes party Jan. 4 at the Chateau Marmont penthouse was, as always, packed. But singer-actress Mary J. Blige, 46, and her entourage didn’t have trouble cutting through the
Courtesy of Focus Features Darkest Hour and Wonder lead the feature nominations for the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards, which will be presented Feb. 24 at the NOVO by Microsoft in L.A. Live. They earned three apiece. Darkest Hour — which stars Gary Oldman as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill — is nominated in
J.K. Simmons joins Gal Gadot, Amy Poehler, Seth Rogen and others as stars set to hand out awards at the 75th annual ceremony. The first round of presenters for the 75th Golden Globe Awards have been announced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. J.K. Simmons (2015 Golden Globe winner for Whiplash), Hugh Grant (1995 Golden
“I take home, every week, new songs that reach the charts to make sure I don’t go over the hill,” deadpans Clive Davis, one of the most powerful and influential people in the history of the music industry, as we sit down in his suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel to record an episode of
Team Blake’s Chloe Kohanski won the singing competition, while Team Adam’s Addison Agen earned second place. After a night packed with performances, Chloe Kohanski on Tuesday was named the winner of The Voice season 13 on NBC. Before the announcement, the top eight artists of the season returned to sing with established performers as celebrity
The crooner joins Alice Cooper in the cast of the event, which will air on Easter Sunday, April 1. John Legend has been cast in the title role in NBC’s next live musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, it was announced Tuesday morning on NBC’s Today show. Legend is an Oscar, Tony and 10-time Grammy winner, who