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Barack Obama, Lin-Manuel Miranda Among 2022 Audie Awards Winners
Barack Obama, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Leslie Jordan are among the winners for the 2022 Audie Awards, which recognize work in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment. The Audio Publishers Association (APA) announced the winners on Friday (March 4) in a virtual ceremony hosted by Kal Penn. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The night’s top honor went to Project Hail Mary written by Andy Weir, narrated by Ray Porter, and published by Audible Studios, winning audiobook of the year. The audiobook of the year category was judged by New York Times bestselling author Kristen Arnett, author and journalist Gayle Forman and Seija Rankin (Senior Books Editor at Entertainment Weekly). “The audio of Project Hail Mary did exactly what I want an audiobook to do, which is to use the medium to expan...
Interscope Records Releases ‘Euphoria’ Season 2 Original Series Soundtrack
Interscope Records and HBO have released the original series soundtrack for Euphoria Season 2, a series that recently became HBO’s second most-watched TV show behind Game of Thrones, with each episode averaging 16.3 million viewers. The album consists of 15 tracks both new and previously released including “Elliot’s Song” featuring Dominic Fike and Zendaya, “Watercolor Eyes” by Lana Del Rey, “I’m Tired” by Labrinth and Zendaya, “U could tell” by Yeat, and “sad4whattt” by ericdoa. Classics from Bobby Womack, Lenny Kravitz, and Bobby Darin are also included in the mix. Shortly before the Euphoria season 2 finale premiered on February 27, the Emmy-winning drama announced a return for season three. The full soundtrack is now available on all major streaming platforms, and the tracklist can be ...
Leonard Cohen Estate Sells Publishing Catalog
Leonard Cohen’s estate has sold the entirety of his songwriting catalog—some 278 songs—to Hipgnosis Songs Fund for an undisclosed sum, Rolling Stone reports and Pitchfork can confirm. The sale includes the “songwriter’s share” of 127 songs in Cohen’s “Stranger Music” catalog, which includes everything published from the start of his career through 2000—such as “Hallelujah” and “First We Take Manhattan”—as well as an additional 84 derivative works. The firm also acquired everything in his “Old Ideas” catalog, which includes the copyrights, “publisher’s share,” and “songwriter’s share” of every Cohen song written from 2001 until his death in 2016. Hipgnosis was founded by former artist manager Merck Mercuriadis and Chic’s Nile Rodgers. The firm has acquired several major publishing cat...
Watch Charli XCX Perform “Beg For You” on SNL
Charli XCX was the musical guest on this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, performing “Beg For You” and “Baby” from her upcoming album Crash. She was also featured in a sketch as a singing meatball growing out of Sarah Sherman’s armpit. The episode was hosted by Oscar Isaac. Watch her performance of “Beg For You” below. Since announcing her next album Crash last fall, Charli has shared “Good Ones,” “New Shapes,” “Beg for You,” and “Baby” from the record. Last month, she released another remix of “Beg for You” with Vernon from the K-pop group Seventeen and A. G. Cook, after Perfume Genius updated “Good Ones” in December. Crash arrives on March 18. Back in December, Charli XCX was scheduled to perform on SNL—with guest appearances from Caroline Polachek and Christine and the Queens—but ...
‘Do The Right Thing Here’: Primary Wave Supports Morris Day in Prince Estate Feud
Days after the Prince estate sparked outrage by moving to block longtime collaborator Morris Day from using his band name “The Time,” the people who will soon take over control of the estate say they fully support Day’s right to keep using his name. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The controversial move, which prompted Day to complain on social media that the estate was “taking my name away from me,” was instigated by Comerica — a bank that has been serving as the court-appointed administrator of Prince’s assets during a years-long legal battle. But those proceedings are nearly complete and set to wrap up later this year, and the groups of heirs that will soon take control of the estate are now speaking out in Day’s favor. Primary Wave, a promi...
Camila Cabello Performs ‘Bam Bam’ for the First Time on ‘The Late Late Show’
Camila Cabello brought “Bam Bam” live to television for the first time on The Late Late Show with James Corden. “Bam Bam” live had Cabello singing and dancing atop a bar, to the cheers of the crowd, and strumming along to the verse of the single that Ed Sheeran sings (he wasn’t present for the show). The feel-good performance arrived alongside the March 4 release of Cabello’s new song. In a new interview with Zane Lowe, in which she discussed the song’s lyrics and her personal life, the singer said that what she was “trying to get across in the verse is just that things change and things take really unexpected terms.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news “Bam Bam” is on her upcoming album Familia, due out April 8. Watch Cabello’s live debut of “Bam Bam” below. [embedded content]...
Hipgnosis Buys Leonard Cohen Song Catalog
Hipgnosis Song Management has acquired rights to the entire song catalog of Songwriter Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Leonard Cohen. The deal gives the company 100% ownership of Cohen’s songwriter’s share of all 278 songs and derivatives written over the course of his life. A renowned songwriter, poet, novelist and performer, Cohen is best known for penning one of the most frequently covered songs of all time: “Hallelujah,” which is included in the Hipgnosis deal. Among its over 300 estimated renditions, some of the most famous cuts of the track include those by the likes of Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright and Pentatonix. Cohen’s catalog is often characterized in two distinct groupings: Stranger Music (known as all Cohen releases up to the year 2000) and Old Ideas (rel...
‘King Richard,’ ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ Top American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards
Pamela Martin’s editing of King Richard, and Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum for Tick, Tick … Boom!, topped American Cinema Editors’ 72nd ACE Eddie Awards, winning the categories for dramatic feature and comedy feature, respectively, Saturday (March 5) at the Theater at the ACE Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. Organizers planned for a reduced capacity in-person event while following COVID-19 safety protocols, and an after-party followed at Clifton’s. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Martin topped a field of nominees, including Úna Ní Dhonghaíle for Belfast, Joe Walker for Dune, Tom Cross and Elliot Graham for No Time to Die and Peter Sciberras for The Power of the Dog. In the best edited comedic feature category, Kerstein and Wei...
Joe Hadley Exits CAA, Joins Spotify as Global Head of Artist and Audience Partnerships
Joe Hadley is leaving his position as one of the most powerful booking agents in hip-hop to join Spotify, the streaming company confirmed to Billboard. In his new role, Hadley will serve as Spotify’s global head of artist and audience partnerships. Based in Los Angeles, Hadley joined CAA in 2016 after five years at Windish Agency and was promoted to serve as global co-head of hip-hop and R&B at the agency along with Mark Cheatem in February 2021. The 34-year-old’s clients at CAA include Beyonce, A$AP Rocky, Zayn, Anuel AA, Koffee and Jorja Smith. Hadley is also reported to have led CAA’s diversity and inclusion efforts. A graduate of California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Hadley got his start in music by promoting concerts in Germany before relocating to Chicago, wher...
Rihanna Shows Off Baby Bump in Blue Cutout Jumpsuit at Paris Fashion Week
Rihanna continues to proudly show off her growing baby bump. The 34-year-old pop superstar, who is expecting her first child with boyfriend A$AP Rocky, took to Instagram on Friday (March 4) to share some photos of herself wearing a bright skintight outfit at Paris Fashion Week. “Thicc,” the fashion and beauty mogul captioned the post. Explore Explore Rihanna See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In the series of snapshots, RiRi sports a blue jumpsuit with a cutout across part of her swollen belly. The “We Found Love” singer also wore matching blue sunglasses and heels, along with a long green jacket and a brown hoodie. Rihanna has already been making headlines at Paris Fashion Week. She stole the show in recent days by stunning in a lingerie look at Dior’s r...
Johnny Brown, Comedian, Singer & ‘Good Times’ Actor, Dies at 84
Johnny Brown, the easygoing actor, comedian and singer best known for portraying the housing project superintendent Nathan Bookman on Good Times, has died. He was 84. Brown died Wednesday (March 2), his daughter, actress Sharon Catherine Brown, announced on Instagram. “Our family is devastated. Devastated. Devastated. Beyond heartbroken. Barely able to breathe,” she wrote. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Further details of his death were not immediately available. Brown also recorded songs and performed in a band with saxophonist Sam “The Man” Taylor, appeared twice on Broadway in the 1960s and was a regular performer for three seasons on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. Brown, who did a mean impression of Louis Armstrong and others, was a leading contender to play Lamont opposite...
Charli XCX Comments on the Unfortunate but ‘Iconic’ Nickname Cardi B Gave Her
Ahead of her SNL appearance this weekend, Charli XCX stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to reminisce about the time Cardi B made an unforgettable mistake with her name. “We did a song together with Rita Ora and Bebe Rexha,” the “Baby” singer said of their 2018 track “Girls.” “It was one of those scenarios where we never actually met when we made the song. We shot the music video separately, and we were sending verses and whatever.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news As she recalled to Fallon: “And then she tweets the song, and I’m like, “Oh my god, Cardi B tweeted my name! This is huge!’ And then I like check the tag, and instead of ‘Charli XCX’ it’s ‘Charli STD.’” “There is an account called Charli STD,” Charli explained. “I think Cardi tagged it not once, but...
