Kelsea Ballerini Set As 2024 CMT Music Awards Host

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic CMA Fest has announced its lineup for the festival’s 2024 edition, taking place in Nashville June 6-9, and as usual, the roster for the nightly stadium shows is a who’s who of recent country charttoppers and awards contenders, with Jelly Roll and Lainey Wilson foremost among the newer crop of headliners. The names gracing the Nissan Stadium main stage lineup aren’t entirely that fresh.

Dua Lipa and SZA, along with Coldplay, have been announced as the headliners for the iconic 2024 Glastonbury Music Festival.

As lighter nights and sunnier days are around the corner, so is Glastonbury 2024.The music festival is set to return for its 54th year from Wednesday June 26 to Sunday June 30, and is welcoming a string of music icons to the Worthy Farm grounds in Somerset.This year, Glastonbury is also making history as it marks the first time ever that female musicians have taken two out of the three headline slots.The three headliners for this year are Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA, with it being a Pyramid stage debut for both Dua, who performed at The Brits last month, and SZA. While the coveted 'legends slot', which takes place on the Sunday, has also been snapped up by a female too, and none other than the Queen Of Country Pop, Shania Twain.

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and WIF have announced the participants of the 2024 Episodic Lab, which focuses on preparing women writers and writers of underrepresented genders for a career in television writing.

Jelly Roll was last year’s most-awarded artist at the CMT Music Awards and it looks like he has a chance to repeat.

The ratings for the 2024 Oscars are in!

Cillian Murphy is officially an Oscar winner!

Holly Jones Simmering inner turmoil, regret and a relationship on the mend feature as themes in “Little Loves” (“Los Pequeños Amores”), Spanish filmmaker Celia Rico‘s anticipated second feature, which premiered in competition this week at the Málaga Film Festival. Rico’s 2018 feature debut, “Journey to a Mother’s Room,” won the Youth Jury Award at San Sebastian Film Festival, and received a Special Mention in the New Directors competition.

NewJeans attended the 2024 Billboard Women in Music Awards to receive the ‘Group of the Year’ award, saying it was “something we really don’t take for granted”.This year’s Billboard Women in Music awards ceremony took place on the evening of March 6 at Los Angeles’ YouTube Theater, with NewJeans named Group of the Year at the ceremony, making them the first-ever K-pop group to have done so in the awards’ history.After receiving their trophy from country musician Lainey Wilson, Australian-Vietnamese member Hanni expressed in her acceptance speech how starstruck she was to be in the same room with artists the group look up to.“To be here today celebrating Women’s History Month and to participate in an awards show that’s overflowing with such amazing artists is so surreal and it’s hard to believe we’re in the same room as you all,” Hanni said. “I’d like to thank all the artists that are here because without your music, I don’t think we would have been able to grow up so inspired.

Thania Garcia Before Charli XCX took the stage at Billboard’s Women in Music Awards on March 6, the Grammy-nominated singer prefaced that her heart was beating “really, really fast.” Performing an unreleased song called “So I,” presumably a track for her new album “Brat,” Charli said: “This song is about someone really, really special to me who is no longer with us,” and launched into singing a song that references her late collaborator Sophie’s 2017 track “It’s Okay To Cry,” with the lyrics revealing Charli’s grief: “You would say ‘C’mon stay for dinner’ / I’d say ‘No, I’m fine (Now I really wish I stayed).'” Sophie died at the age of 34 in 2021 after she accidentally slipped and fell. Charli and Sophie worked together on various songs, including Charli’s “Vroom Vroom.” Sophie was best known for her solo work, specifically her 2018 album, “Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides.” After completing her performance, Charli accepted the award for Powerhouse of the Year, and told the audience — which ranged from industry champions, including Executive of the Year Michelle Jubelirer, to stars including Katy Perry, Ice Spice and more — that she was incredibly nervous to perform since she proudly and openly uses autotune.

Billboard Women in Music Awards took place in Los Angeles, California, and some of the biggest names in music were in attendance. The annual event recognizes music’s rising stars and A-List artists, creators, producers, and executives for their contributions to the industry and community.

Four people - three men and a boy aged 17 - have been charged after a police investigation into a suspected drugs line between Manchester and Somerset.

As the Oscars draw closer, more and more category winners seem to be locking into place. One of those categories that took another step to being pretty much over is Adapted Screenplay.

So did Taylor Swift and Kelsea Ballerini really have some secret spat? If so, it may even have been a secret from Kelsea herself! LOLz!

Glastonbury Festival bosses have announced they are holding a charity draw, giving fans who missed out on tickets to the 2024 event the chance to win one of 20 pairs.

Muse, Stormzy, Lewis Capaldi, Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa.“The MTV EMAs is one of the biggest global music celebrations, bringing together local and international artists to create iconic performances for fans around the world,” said Bruce Gillmer, President of Music, Music Talent, Programming & Events, Paramount, and Chief Content Officer, Music, Paramount+. “With music at the very heart of Manchester’s rich creative heritage, this vibrant city – with the state-of-the-art Co-op Live – will guarantee a supercharged 2024 show.”Councillor Bev Craig, Leader of Manchester City Council, added: “As a city that is known the world over for our legendary music scene, MTV could not have picked a better place for this year’s EMAs.“With the expertise, experience and reputation we also have for delivering successful, world-class events, we’re confident Manchester will provide a superb platform for the best MTV EMAs yet, and look forward to welcoming MTV and the global music community to our city for what is set to be an epic celebration of music and artists.

and air vacuums ready, Phans.Legendary jam band Phish announced they’ll be hitting the road this summer for a nationwide tour from July through September.That includes three back-to-back-to-back gigs at Bethel, NY’s Bethel Woods Center For The Arts on Aug. 9-11.Multi-day stints at venues aren’t an anomaly for this tour; based on our findings, Trey Anastasio and co.

Broadway in Hollywood at the Pantages Theatre has announced its 2024-25 season, with offerings including the Los Angeles premieres of Tony-winning musical Kimberly Akimbo, the stage adaptation of Back to the Future, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical, Some Like It Hot and Shucked.

P1Harmony have announced their upcoming 2024 ‘P1ustage H : UTOP1A’ tour, with concerts in the US, Asia and more.Today (February 23), P1Harmony teased the cities for the concerts on their upcoming 2024 ‘P1ustage H : UTOP1A’ tour. Among the cities listed are 10 shows in the US, as well as one-off stops in South Korea and Canada.For the US leg of P1Harmony’s ‘P1ustage H : UTOP1A’ tour, the boyband will hold concerts in eight different states and districts.

Hold on a second — were these two pop stars feuding and we never realized?!?!