A Grammys savage: Beyoncé leads with 9 nominations

NEW YORK -- Blue Ivy Carter is an official Grammy nominee.When the Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 2021 Grammys last month, Beyoncé scored a nomination for best music video for “Brown Skin Girl," which Ivy Carter is credited as a featured artist. The 8-year-old's name did not appear on the nominees list, but the Grammys recently updated its website to now include her.The update also includes Nigerian singer Wizkid, who appears on the song and video.

New York Attorney General Leticia James led 48 states Wednesday in filing a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Facebook as the Feds, regulators and lawmakers seriously turn up the heat on social media and internet giants.

Dave McNary Film ReporterThe Traveling Picture Show Company and GiGi Films have cast Tom Pelphrey as con man Jason Derek Brown in “American Murderer,” alongside Ryan Phillippe playing the FBI agent tasked to hunt him down.Idina Menzel and Academy Award nominee Jacki Weaver have also been cast. AFI alumnus Matthew Gentile wrote the script and will direct, with principal photography commencing in Salt Lake City.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the accusations of corruption levelled at the Grammy Awards by The Weeknd and Halsey (among others) and whether the big US music industry awards show can ever escape criticism, plus the $3 million lawsuit launched by Chance The Rapper’s former manager that calls his last album a “freestyle-driven product of sub-par quality”.SECTION TIMES01: Grammy Awards (00:05:35)02: Chance The Rapper

Charlie Amter One of 2020’s biggest songs is also among its most surprising success stories. Credit 20-year-old Kazakhstani producer Imanbek who, in 2019, was virtually unknown to most of the world.

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Phoebe Bridgers has revealed that she was “in bed with a migraine” when she received the news of her Grammy nominations this week.The Los Angeles singer-songwriter is nominated in four categories at next year’s ceremony: Best New Artist, Best Rock Performance (‘Kyoto’), Best Rock Song (‘Kyoto’) and Best Alternative Music Album (‘Punisher’).Following the announcement, Bridgers was asked by The New York Times how she found out about the prestigious nods.

Bruce Springsteen has led a new campaign to get New Jersey residents to wear a mask across the holiday season, ask the US continues to see rising coronavirus cases.Also involved in the #MaskUpNJ campaign are Jon Bon Jovi and comedian Jon Stewart.Sharing a photo of a billboard with the trio photographed wearing masks, Springsteen tweeted: “Teamed up with some fellow New Jerseyans to encourage everyone this holiday season to wear a friggin’ mask.

Elton John has thrown his support behind The Weeknd after the singer claimed he had been snubbed by the Grammy Awards. The US musician, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, has the year's best-selling record in the US with his album After Hours.

The Weeknd has branded the Grammys “corrupt” after he was completely snubbed from this year’s nominees, despite a hugely successful year.In the last year, the Canadian singer’s hit Blinding Lights sat at the top of the UK singles chart for a total of eight weeks, while in the US, the track became the longest-running top 10 hit in history.Meanwhile, his latest album After Hours was met with positive reviews and reached number one in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.However, despite all of this,

TMZ Tuesday, as Grammy organizers demanded he pass on taking the stage at Super Bowl LV, before relenting and deciding he could do both.Insiders said that the Can’t Feel My Face artist's camp suspected the lack of nominations were in response to the unpleasant back and forth over whether he would perform in the Super Bowl.The artist, whose full name is Abel Tesfaye, released the record After Hours in March to strong sales and reviews, and it won Favorite Album - Soul/R&B honors at the American

The 63rd annual Grammy Awards may be celebrating the best in music come Jan. 31, but some artists were missing from the list of nominees unveiled Tuesday.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorOnly twice in the history of the Grammy Awards has a London cast recording ever scored a nomination in the Best Musical Theater album category — first in 1984, when “Cats” won, and again in 1999 when the London cast recording of “Chicago” was nominated.This year, “Amélie” was among the albums to land a nomination alongside, “American Utopia on Broadway” (Original Cast), “Jagged Little Pill” (Original Broadway Cast), “Little Shop of Horrors” (The New Off-Broadway

The theater industry’s pandemic-shortened season seems to have opened up the Grammy playing field for cast albums, as only two of the six just-announced nominees for the 2021 awards represent the usually-dominant Broadway.

Jordan Moreau Ronan Farrow’s “Catch and Kill” audiobook, in which details how he broke the Harvey Weinstein story, earned a Grammy nomination for best spoken word album on Tuesday.Farrow won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for public service for his reporting in The New Yorker.

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Jennifer Lopez‘s 2020 American Music Awards performance has been raising some eyebrows. The 51-year-old entertainer gave a super sultry performance with Maluma during the awards show on November 22.