Awards
Taylor Swift Gives Her Mom the Sweetest Shoutout After Winning 2021 CMT Music Award For Best Family Feature
The CMT’s announced the best family feature category just days ahead of the show. It celebrates the year’s most emotional videos that focus on country star’s loved ones. This year’s other finalists in the category were Brook Eden’s “Sunroof,” Kane Brown’s “Worship You,” Luke Combs’ “Forever After All,” Miranda Lambert’s “Settling Down,” and Russel Dickerson’s “Home Sweet.” As with the rest of the categories for the CMT Music Awards, fans voted to determine the victor. This year’s ceremony was hosted by Kane Brown and Kelsea Ballerini, and was streamed live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. See Swift’s sweet message to her mom, and watch the music video below:...
Shemekia Copeland & Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram Lead 2021 Blues Music Awards Winners
Copeland won the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year award, the show’s top honor. She also won the contemporary blues female artist and the contemporary blues album awards. Ingram, who won five times last year, took home the contemporary blues male artist and guitar instrumentalist awards. The collaboration between Bishop and Musselwhite led to awards for album of the year and traditional blues album of the year. Mike Zito won in the categories of blues rock artist and blues rock album for Mike Zito and Friends-Rock ‘n’ Roll: A Tribute to Chuck Berry. Blues Hall of Fame members Bettye LaVette and Bobby Rush also won awards. Performers in the show included Rush, Ingram, John Németh & the Blue Dreamers, Shaun Murphy, Don Bryant, Watermelon Slim and Southern Avenue. Find the full list of wi...
2021 MTV Video Music Awards Will Return to New York City: Here’s the Date
This year’s show date, Sept. 12, is the day after the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a fact that is not lost on MTV. On Tuesday (June 8), MTV announced that the 2021 Video Music Awards will return to New York City. The show will air live from Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Sunday, Sept. 12. Last year’s show, held on Aug. 30, 2020, was a virtual production. This year’s show date is the day after the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a fact that is not lost on MTV. MTV is collaborating with 9/11 Day, the nonprofit that began and leads the federally recognized Sept. 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance, for a series of activities during the week leading up to the VMAs. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined w...
10 Best Music Moments From the 2021 Kennedy Center Honors
The changes provided more than just a change of scenery. They reinvigorated the show, now in its 43rd year. The Kennedy Center Honors are among the most prestigious awards in arts and entertainment, but the annual TV show long ago became formulaic and staid. The show desperately needed a makeover. This year, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the producers to make some changes. Because of COVID regulations and best practices, parts of the show were shot outdoors, parts were shot in a semi-covered pavilion, parts were shot indoors. The result, which aired Sunday on CBS, was the most enjoyable installment in years, much fresher and less static. The changes provided more than just a change of scenery. They reinvigorated the show, now in its 43rd year. (At least something good came out of this long ...
Justin Bieber Kicks Off 2021 Juno Awards With ‘Somebody’
Justin Bieber returned to the Junos stage for the first time in 11 years with a live performance of “Somebody.” Bieber opened the festivities with the upbeat Justice track, backed by a band, with lights and song lyrics streaming across his set Sunday night (June 6). Bieber was nominated for five awards, including album and single of the year, at the 2021 Juno Awards, where the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences commemorated 50 years of Canadian music. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of I...
The Weeknd Sweeps 2021 Juno Awards
The Weeknd is the first artist to sweep the awards for artist, album, single and songwriter of the year twice. The Weeknd is the also first three-time winner for artist of the year, an award that originated in 2003. He previously won it in 2015 and 2016. The Weeknd was famously shut out in the nominations for the 63rd annual Grammy Awards. He fared much better at the awards in his home country. The Weeknd was this year’s only multiple Juno winner out of 43 categories presented over the two nights. These five wins bring his career total of Juno Awards to 15, which puts him in sixth place on the all-time winners list behind Anne Murray (25), Bryan Adams (21), Céline Dion (20), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (18), and The Tragically Hip (17). Mendes took the fan-voted fan choice award for ...
How to Watch the 2021 Juno Awards
The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will commemorate 50 years of Canadian music during the 2021 Juno Awards on Sunday (June 6). The Weeknd is this year’s leading nominee with six nods, including artist, album, single and songwriter of the year. Jessie Reyez, JP Saxe and Justin Bieber are runners-up with five Juno nominations each. Artists with three nominations include Ali Gatie, Céline Dion, Curtis Waters and Lennon Stella, which brings Dion’s career total to a record 73. Bieber is set to take the Junos stage and perform for the first time in 11 years, following the recent success of his sixth studio album Justice. Other performers include Ali Gatie with Tate McRae, Reyez, William Prince with Sere...
The Weeknd Wins Three 2021 Juno Awards on First Night of Ceremony
Kaytranada won dance recording of the year for Bubba. He is the first Black male solo winner in the dance category, which originated in 1992. Bubba won in the equivalent category, best dance/electronic album, at the Grammys on March 14. WondaGurl (Ebony Naomi Oshunrinde) became the first Black woman to win the Jack Richardson producer of the year award. Moreover, WondaGurl is the first female of any race or ethnicity to win in this category who isn’t primarily known as an artist. WondaGurl, a Canadian producer, songwriter and record executive, has worked with such artists as Pop Smoke, JackBoys, Mariah Carey, Travis Scott, Jay-Z, Drake and Kanye West. Harry Styles’ Fine Line won international album of the year. The album has been a global award magnet. Its biggest hit, “Watermelon Sugar,” ...
NAF chief: Armed forces committed to end insecurity
The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, yesterday declared that the Armed Forces remained committed to ending the crisis of insecurity ravaging the nation. He said the expected delivery of six A-29 Super Tucano fighter jets by the United States in July and two drones from China, would be a “game changer” in the war against insurgency. The position of the air force chief is coming on a day the Minister of Transportation, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, sought the assistance of the Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Farouk Yahaya, to provide security for train stations and railway construction sites across the country. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of 1,031 recruits of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Basic Military Training Course 41/2020, Amao affirmed that “the NAF in consonance w...
Ruben Blades Named 2021 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year
Blades, also a two-time Emmy-nominated actor having starred in more than 50 films and television series, including Fear the Walking Dead, joins a roster of past Person of the Year honorees that includes Juanes, Vicente Fernandez, Juan Gabriel, Alejandro Sanz, Gloria Estefan and Maná, among others. “Rubén Blades is a truly iconic artist who has inspired generations with his powerful and intelligent lyrics, and whose genius has stood for justice at all levels of society,” said Gabriel Abaroa Jr., president/CEO of the Latin Recording Academy. “With activism and social justice movements at the forefront of our collective conversation this past year, we can’t think of a more deserving and timely honoree of the Latin Academy Person of the Year distinction.”...
40 Music Stars Who Are Overdue for Kennedy Center Honors
Because the Kennedy Center Honors were slow to embrace popular music forms, and because they also honor non-music performers, they are terribly backlogged in their music honors. The 43rd annual Kennedy Center Honors broadcast is set to air on Sunday, nearly six months later than usual — the delay due, of course, to the COVID-19 pandemic. Garth Brooks, Joan Baez, violinist Midori, Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Allen are this year’s honorees. Gloria Estefan, who received the honor in 2017, is hosting for the second time. The Kennedy Center Honors are highly competitive because they cover all aspects of arts and entertainment – not just music. When the awards program originated in 1978, the focus in its music selections was on classical, opera, jazz and traditional pop. The Honors slowly cam...
Forever No. 1: B.J. Thomas’ ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head’
“When the film was released, I was highly critical — how did the song fit with the film? There was no rain,” Redford told USA Today in 2019, a half-century later. “At the time, it seemed like a dumb idea. How wrong I was.” “Raindrops…” was hardly the most sophisticated song that Burt Bacharach and Hal David — the duo who’d penned many of the most pristine and affecting pop songs of the late ’50s and ’60s, including most of Dionne Warwick’s signature smashes — ever wrote. But it may have been their most universal, a song that everybody who has ever had a bad day or a rough patch could relate to. David’s lyric has a dash of whimsical humor (“So, I just did me some talkin’ to the sun/ And I said I didn’t like the way he got things done...
