Ellie Goulding calls for “transparency” in music awards with new op-ed

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Kate Moss dropped her very first merch line and she tapped her daughter, Lila, to help model the clothes.“Since everyone was living in hoodies in lockdown the team at the agency and I decided it would be fun to create some merchandise of our own,” the 46-year-old British supermodel and style icon told WWD in an interview from December 3.So back in November, she dropped a super cool loungewear line through her creative agency KMA Studio.

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Ellie Goulding has shared her thoughts on music awards in the wake of various artists complaining that they were not nominated for this year’s Grammys. Although she doesn’t go so far as to name the American music industry’s big awards bash itself, instead asking general questions about awards as a whole.In a blog post, Goulding questions what criteria are used when selecting artists for award nominations, saying that there is a general lack of transparency on this.

Nearly two weeks after being announced, the 2021 Grammy nominations continue to make headlines — not for who’s nominated, but for who wasn’t, with many finding it particularly galling that The Weeknd didn’t receive a single nod for his critically acclaimed After Hours.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLast December, when Ellie Goulding accepted the Variety’s Decade award at our annual Hitmakers event, she noted — more out of curiosity than bitterness — that for all the commercial and critical success in her decade-plus-long career, particularly in her native U.K., she has had little recognition from the industry’s biggest awards.“I haven’t really won many awards,” she said.

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PMC administratorOver the summer, British indie pop star Ellie Goulding invited Vogue magazine over for a peek and a poke around the lovely London cottage where she and husband Caspar Jopling holed up during the COVID quarantines. Turns out, that cottage, a former hay loft in a historic mews in London’s Paddington area, is now for sale with a £3.25 million price tag that the currency conversion contraption tallies up to about US$4.35 million.

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The MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA) will return in early 2021 for the first time in years amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, the unit of ViacomCBS unveiled on Wednesday. The music celebration, which last took place in 2016, will be put on as avirtual event on Feb.

Variety reports. The AMAs experienced a 50 percent rating decline, as well as a 43 percent viewership decline.

Will Thorne Staff WriterThe 2020 American Music Awards delivered a big decline in rating and total viewership from last year, falling to record lows in both measurements.Last night’s awards show, which was hosted by “Empire” star Taraji P. Henson and saw Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and Dan + Shay emerge as the big winners, averaged a 0.9 rating among adults 18-49 and around 3.8 million total viewers.

Taylor Swift won three awards at the 2020 American Music Awards, but she had a good reason for not being there in person! The 30-year-old entertainer gave a virtual acceptance speech for Artist of the Year during the event on Sunday (November 22) and she revealed she was speaking from the recording studio. “The reason I’m not there tonight is because I’m re-recording all of my old music,” Taylor told fans.

Taylor Swift won three American Music Awards last night, but chose to miss the ceremony as she continues to re-record her back catalogue.Accepting the Artist of the Year honour, Swift explained that she was busy in the studio and thanked the AMAs for the gong, which followed her triumphs for favourite pop/rock female and favourite music video (‘Cardigan’) earlier in the evening.“The reason I’m not there tonight is I’m actually recording all of my old music in the studio where we originally

Chris Willman Music WriterTaylor Swift won three American Music Awards Sunday night, including the top “favorite artist” honor — explaining her absence as due to being busy in the studio re-recording her entire Big Machine catalog.The climactic favorite artist award came as something as a surprise, since Swift’s name had not come up as a winner any time earlier in the three hours, leading to an underlying assumption that she might have been shut out in some or all of the four categories she’d