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Doja Cat has released a new single titled ‘Vegas’, lifted from the soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann’s forthcoming Elvis biopic.Released today (May 6), Doja’s new single takes the well-known song – originally sung by blues artist Big Mama Thornton in 1952, and famously covered by Elvis Presley four years later – and makes it her own. The rapper weaves samples of Thornton’s vocals into her rendition, adding her own fiery bars and a cutting trap beat.Check it out below.Doja first previewed the song at Coachella last month, before revealing it as her contribution to the Elvis soundtrack, which is set for release via RCA this summer.

Coldplay have launched the ‘Music Of The Spheres’ World Tour app, promised last year as part of their efforts to make the live dates as environmentally sustainable as possible.The app will allow the band to measure and offset the carbon emissions of fans as they travel to the venue, and offer merch discounts to those who choose to travel to any one show via low-carbon means. It also provides information for fans on how to travel in ways that are better for the planet.“We’re really proud of the ‘Music Of The Spheres’ World Tour app”, say Coldplay.

Television’s favourite Geordie duo Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly reunited with fellow SMTV Live presenter Cat Deeley 24 years after the programme aired. The trio, who presented the Saturday morning children’s television show from 1998 to 2001, snapped a selfie during the “incredible evening” over the weekend.

The Weeknd has taken to Twitter to praise Ariana Grande’s production skills following a viral tweet about female producers.On Sunday night (May 1) producer Kenny Beats took to social media to praise Doja Cat, King Princess, Rosalía and Grande, saying “we need to talk more about women producers everyday”“Ariana Grande is insane at comping vocals with 100 stacks. Rosalía engineers herself at the highest level.

EXCLUSIVE: Even Netflix’s in-house members of the Royal Family are not immune to a wave of cutbacks going on as the streamer recalibrates after a precipitous stock drop incurred after a drop in subscribers. Netflix has quietly dropped Pearl, the working title of an animated series that was created by Meghan Markle through Archewell Productions, the shingle the Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry set up at Netflix in fall of 2020 to create scripted series, docuseries, documentaries, features and children’s programming. Pearl was to be Archewell’s first animated series.

Cat Deeley sparked quite the reaction this week as she took to Instagram in honour of ‘Old Headshot Day’.The 45-year-old decided to take part in the fun event, sharing two throwback photos with her fans – who all said the same thing! Cat’s first photo shows her looking fresh-faced as she cups her head in her hands and smiles for the camera. In the second image, she is sporting blonde highlights and a white bandeau top and wearing minimal makeup.In the caption, the mum-of-two explained: A little birdie told me it was #OldHeadshotDay today, so here’s a fresh-faced & wide-eyed young Cat to grace your feed!A post shared by Cat Deeley (@catdeeley) “The first one was shot by my mom in our living room when I was 14! This was back when thin eyebrows, ironing your ‘Rachel’ hair, and @MacCosmetics spice lip liner were ‘De Rigueuer’.”Her post caught the attention of famous friends, including Helena Christensen and Ferne Cotton, who posted love heart emojis.But fans couldn’t get over Cat’s timeless beauty and her comments section with quickly flooded with compliments.

Post Malone is getting us prepped for his new album twelve carat toothache. On Saturday, April 23, the rapper hopped on Instagram Live to share snippets of a few new tracks with some big-name collaborators.

Kevin Hart’s two entertainment businesses, HartBeat Productions and Laugh Out Loud, are merging into a single comedy-centered entity called Hartbeat.

Doja Cat has announced the release of ‘Vegas’, her contribution to the soundtrack for the upcoming Elvis biopic.The Baz Luhrmann-directed film will be released in cinemas on June 24, with Austin Butler portraying the King of Rock’n’Roll.After previewing ‘Vegas’ in her set at Coachella 2022 earlier this month, Doja has now confirmed the release of the track. The song will arrive next month, although an exact date is yet to be announced.A snippet of the song has also been shared online, revealing that the track samples vocals from Big Mama Thornton’s ‘Hound Dog’, which was once covered by Elvis himself.

Post Malone shared snippets of some new collaborations with Doja Cat, Roddy Ricch, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold and The Kid Laroi during an Instagram Live last night (April 23).The rapper – whose real name is Austin Post – is expected to return soon with his fourth album, ‘Twelve Carat Toothache’, and gave fans previews of some of its collabs and other tracks.Post started a livestream around 3am PT (11am BST) last night and played a handful of songs throughout it. “I would love to play this entire record and I just want to say hey to everybody that’s hanging out,” he told fans who tuned in.

EXCLUSIVE: Retired professional hockey player Miles Koules has launched the production company Koulest Productions, partnering with his father Oren Koules—who co-founded Evolution Entertainment and its division Twisted Pictures—to option the YA survival thriller, Ski Weekend, for development.

Prince Harry has made sure to tell his two-year-old son Archie all about his grandmother, the late Princess Diana.

The number of UK households that subscribe to at least one streaming service shrank in the first quarter of 2022, says research firm Kantar in a new study. A total 1.51 million subscriptions to SVOD services were cancelled in the period — up from 1.04 million in the previous quarter and from 1.2 million a year ago. More than half a million cancellations were attributed to money saving.

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Doja Cat brought two of her collaborators onstage during her Coachella performance last night (April 17) and treated fans to a new, unreleased song.The singer and rapper was joined by Rico Nasty for ‘Tia Tamera’, a single taken from the deluxe version of Doja’s debut album ‘Amala’. Tyga also made an appearance for the remix version of ‘Juicy’, which features on Doja’s 2019 second album ‘Hot Pink‘.The unreleased song is a rap-rock crossover that hears Doja rap “come get me fucked up” over gritty guitars and beats.

Francis C. La Maina, the former COO of Dick Clark Productions who helped create Dick Clark Corporate Productions in 1991, has died at 82. La Maina, who represented Clark for over 25 years as his business advisor and president and board member of Clark’s affiliated companies, died Friday in Burbank, California.“We announce with great sadness that Francis C.

Wilson Chapman editorFrancis “Fran” La Maina, who served as president and chief operating officer of Dick Clark Productions, died Saturday in Burbank, Calif., his representative Cheryl J. Kagan confirmed to Variety. He was 82.“Fran was my soulmate,” his domestic partner Carla Patterson said in a statement.

Chris Willman Music WriterThe Weeknd may have kept his music out of contention for the recent Grammys, but there’s no shortage of him being name-checked on the just-released list of candidates for the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, where he leads with 17 nominations — three more than the nearest runner-up, Doja Cat, who has 14.There’s a three-way tie for third place among contenders, with Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Bieber and Kanye West all having 13 as a possibly lucky number.Another top artist who recused himself from Grammy consideration, Drake, has 11 nominations going into the ceremony, followed by Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa with nine, the Kid Laroi with eight, and BTS, Taylor Swift and Giveon with seven each. If 13 for any reason should seem like a high number for West, there’s a peculiar reason for that.