Awards
Taylor Swift & Haim Toast Their Brit Awards Wins in Cozy New Pic
Fans of Evermore already know that Taylor Swift and Haim meet up every Tuesday night — but this Tuesday was a little different. In a new photo, Swift and the sister trio each have a drink in their hands, while Taylor holds the Global Icon Award that she picked up Tuesday night (May 11) at the 2021 Brit Awards. “We meet up every Tuesday night for dinner and a glass of wine,” Swift captioned the picture alongside a wine emoji, directly quoting the lyrics of “No Body, No Crime,” her Evermore collaboration with Haim. 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 p...
BTS to Perform New Single ‘Butter’ at 2021 Billboard Music Awards
The Weeknd and P!nk, who will receive the Icon Award honoring record-breaking artists and their impact on music, will also take the stage as this year’s performers. The Billboard Music Awards celebrate music’s greatest achievements, with finalists determined by performance on the Billboard charts. Finalists and winners are based on key fan interactions with music — album and digital song sales, streaming, radio airplay and social engagement — tracked by Billboard and its data partners, including MRC Data. This year’s awards are based on the chart period of March 21, 2020, through April 3, 2021. The 2021 BBMAs are produced by dick clark productions, which is owned by MRC; MRC and Penske Media are co-parent companies of Billboard. Barry Adelman and Robe...
Lorde Is Crowned on The 1,000,000,000 List For ‘Royals’
Since her breakthrough with “Royals,” Lorde (real name Ella Yellich-O’Connor) has won just about every award going. “Royals” ruled the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks, won two Grammy Awards (for song of the year and best pop solo performance) and, in 2018, was certified diamond by the RIAA. Lorde was presented with her latest award at the APRA AMCOS NZ offices in her hometown by CEO Dean Ormston and Anthony Healey, head of APRA AMCOS NZ operations, and her publisher, Kobalt Music Publishing, received an award for the song’s milestone. She’s one of four New Zealand songwriters officially added to The 1,000,000,000 List in recent days. Joel Little bagged his fourth 1,000,000,000 List award, this time for Taylor Swift’s hit “ME!,” from her hit Lover album. Little, the in-demand songwri...
Halsey Is Songwriter of the Year at 2021 BMI Pop Awards
BMI also honored the songwriters, publishers and administrators of the 50 most-performed pop songs of the previous year. This year’s class of recipients included a record 59 first-time Pop Award winners such as BENEE, Edgar Barrera, Doja Cat, Trevor Daniel, Metro Boomin, Noah Cyrus, Roddy Ricch, SAINt JHN, JP Saxe and more. “It is an honor and a privilege to represent some of the best pop music creators in the world,” said Barbara Cane, vice president, worldwide creative. “Their songs are groundbreaking, dynamic and inspiring, and we celebrate their dedication to craft, discipline and success.” The winners of the 69th annual BMI Pop Awards were announced Monday (May 10) in an online celebration and on BMI’s social channels. Fans can view the complete list of winners, listen to their music,...
Taylor Swift Set to Receive Global Icon Award at 2021 Brit Awards
That 2015 win for international female solo artist is Swift’s only Brit Award to date, from six nominations. Swift has set many records on the U.K. charts, as she has in the U.S. and around the world. She is the only female artist in the 21st century to amass seven No. 1 studio albums on the Official U.K. Albums chart. The Official Charts Company also reports that Swift is the U.K.’s top-selling artist of 2021 to date, which is remarkable for an artist 15 years into her career. Swift has amassed 17 top 10 hits on the Official U.K. Singles chart, but, surprisingly, she has landed just one No. 1 single on that chart — “Look What You Made Me Do,” which spent two weeks on top in 2017. Swift is not expected to perform on The Brit Awards with Mastercard 2021 — as the show is official...
All Time Low, AJR & Surf Mesa Toast Billboard Music Awards Nods on Twitter Spaces Chat
“It’s absolutely mind-blowing,” Gaskarth said. “We’re humbled to be nominated with a bunch of amazing songs, a bunch of amazing artists. It’s very, very cool. After such a trying and strange year, to be recognized for something like this is really special. Working with Bear was very cool. We’ve sort of floated in the same universe, I guess, for a while, but we never really got the chance to work on anything together. … Bear heard the song and wanted to do a verse, and the product that we got back was that much better than a song that we already felt great about. And the experiment kind of paid off. I think we’ve been celebrating it ever since.” Surf Mesa (real name Powell Aguirre) later entered the Twitter Spaces chat to talk...
Taylor Swift, BTS & More Up for Best Music Documentary at MTV Movie & TV Awards: Exclusive
As previously announced, comedian Leslie Jones will host the first show; comedian Nikki Glaser will host the second. Here are the nominees in the two social categories: Best Music Documentary Ariana Grande: Excuse Me, I Love You: This concert film follows Grande onstage and behind-the-scenes on the Sweetener World Tour in 2019. Netflix released the film on Dec. 21, 2020, to mark the first anniversary of the tour’s conclusion. The film was directed by Paul Dugdale, whose previous credits include Coldplay’s Ghost Stories and The Rolling Stones’ road movie doc Olé Olé Olé! Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell: This doc is built around archival footage of the late rap legend The Notorious B.I.G. It features rare footage filmed by Damion “D-Roc” Butler and interviews with Biggie’s family an...
P!nk to Receive Icon Award at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards
P!nk has been selected to receive the Icon Award at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, which will broadcast live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 23. Nick Jonas is hosting the show for the first time. P!nk, 41, is the 10th artist to receive the Icon Award and the youngest recipient to date. The previous recipients are Neil Diamond, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion, Cher, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey and Garth Brooks. In a statement, P!nk made note of that impressive roster of icons. “As a little girl, I always dreamed about being a singer and sharing my love of music with the world,” she said. “Years later, to receive the Billboard Music Awards Icon Award is hard to fathom! I feel so honored to join the ranks of music idols like Cher...
Who Do You Think Should Be Nominated for Album of the Year at the 2022 Grammys? Vote!
The March 14 Grammys are barely in our rear-view, but with the eligibility period for the 2022 Grammy Awards starting back in September, we already have a lot of new albums to choose from for next year’s ceremony. So who do you think should be nominated for album of the year at the 2022 awards show? If you’re a Taylor Swift fan, there are a couple of options from your fave that could be up for the night’s top prize: December’s Evermore and April’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) — a newly re-recorded edition of Swift’s 2009 album of the year winner. Miley Cyrus could land her first nod in the category with Plastic Hearts, or Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber could score their second nods with Positions and Justice, respectively. You Deserve to Make...
Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker Honored For Streaming Milestone
“During the recording session,” Parker told APRA AMCOS staff, “I was working myself up to tell him I was going to take it back.” There were no bad feelings from Ronson. The Brit Award-winning producer bestowed the songwriter of the year award to Parker during the annual APRA Awards, via video link. “You think of ‘The Less I Know the Better,’” Ronson explained during his speech, “it’s one of the most iconic basslines of the past 20 years.” Parker wrote, recorded, produced and mixed the song, which appeared on the Grammy-nominated album Currents and went to No. 1 on the triple j station’s Hottest 100 listener’s poll for decade. Currents went to No. 1 in Australia, and Top 5 on both side of the Atlantic. Today, the song is four-times platinum certified in Australia, double-platinum in t...
Coldplay Set to Open 2021 Brit Awards
Coldplay has won British group at the Brits four times, more often than any other group. They have won British album of the year three times, which puts them in a tie with Arctic Monkeys for the lead. Coldplay has won two other Brit Awards, for a total of nine. Their 28 Brit nominations is the record for a group. The Brit Awards 2021 with Mastercard – as the show is officially billed – has previously announced performances by Olivia Rodrigo, Arlo Parks, Dua Lipa, Griff (this year’s Rising Star winner), Headie One, and Rag’n’Bone Man & P!nk with the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Choir. This year’s Brit Awards, hosted by comedian and actor Jack Whitehall, will be exclusively broadcast on ITV and ITV Hub. The Brit Awards last month announced that it will be the first major indoor music...
The Weeknd Doubles Down on Grammy Boycott After Recording Academy Axes Nomination Review Committees
As Billboard reported in March, rank-and-file Grammy voters determine the final nominees in just 12 of 84 categories. In 59 categories, however, nominations review committees had the final say in determining the nominees. (The final nominations in the remaining 13 categories are determined by so-called “craft committees.”) The decision to end the committees paves the way for rank-and-file Grammy voters to have final say. In a statement to Variety, The Weeknd expanded on his break with the academy, describing the decision as a move forward, but not a solution. “The trust has been broken for so long between the Grammy organization and artists that it would be unwise to raise a victory flag,” he told the magazine, again saying he would not offer his music up for the awards...
