Olivia Rodrigo Becomes Second-Youngest Artist to Score Grammy Nods in ‘Big Four’ Categories

Olivia Wilde has unveiled two meaningful tattoos in honor of her two children! The actress and director revealed the beautiful new ink on her forearms, with the name of her 5-year-old daughter Daisy and her 7-year-old son Otis.The minimalist design was made by none other than celebrity tattoo artist Doctor Woo, known for his incredible designs and list of clients, including Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, LilI Reinhart, Becky G, Lea Michele, and many more.Olivia took to

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhen the 2022 Grammy nominations were announced late last month, many people were surprised to see ABBA’s first song in nearly 40 years, “I Still Have Faith in You,” as a nominee for Record of the Year.They shouldn’t have been: ABBA are one of the most popular, influential and successful groups in the history of the world.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAhead of the reveal of the 2021 Time magazine prestigious Person of the Year honor, happening Monday, December 13, the publication on Thursday has revealed that Olivia Rodrigo is its 2021 Entertainer of the Year and Simone Biles the 2021 Athlete of the Year.Rodrigo was featured on the cover of Variety’s Young Hollywood issue over the summer and was named Songwriter of the Year at our Hitmakers event on Saturday, where she gave a moving acceptance speech and was

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorDrake has withdrawn his two Grammy nominations, a rep for the Recording Academy has confirmed to Variety.Sources tell Variety that the decision was made by Drake and his management, although his motivation was unclear at the time of this article’s publication.He was nominated for Best Rap Album for his “Certified Lover Boy” album and Best Rap Performance for his song “Way 2 Sexy” (featuring Future and Young Thug).

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorGrammy-nominated singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo — who was honored at Variety’s Hitmakers awards on Saturday — has announced dates for the her 2022 “Sour Tour” in support of her RIAA double-platinum certified debut album, “Sour.”Kicking off April 2 in San Francisco, the tour will visit more than 40 major cities across North America and Europe, including two-night runs at Radio City Music Hall in New York and L.A.’s Greek Theatre before wrapping with two nights at

Spotify has shared details of its most-streamed acts in the period January 1 to November 27, 2021, with Bad Bunny topping the list for the second year running.The Puerto Rican artist’s songs were streamed a total of 9.1billion times compared with 8.3billion in 2020.

After knocking it out of the park last year, Trevor Noah is coming back to host the 64th Grammy Awards on Jan. 31, 2022.

Nominees for the 64th Grammy Awards came out last week. Jon Batiste led the pack with 11 nominations in all, while Justin Bieber, Doja Cat and H.E.R.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSpotify has unveiled its annual 2021 Wrapped campaign — where users can see the music they listened to the most all year — and with that comes the top artists, albums, songs, playlists and podcasts on the world’s largest streaming service, with more than 381 million total users.The full charts are below, but first, some stats:Globally speaking, with more than 9.1 billion streams this year, Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny is Spotify’s most-streamed artist of 2021,

Billie Eilish is back in the hot seat for the fifth annual Time Capsule interview with Vanity Fair. 

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorInterscope Geffen A&M has announced the promotion of Matt Morris to the position of senior vice president of A&R at the label. He will continue to sign and develop artists for the label as well as oversee the company’s A&R Research department.According to the announcement, Morris is credited with signing 2021’s breakout star Olivia Rodrigo to Geffen Records, along with his A&R colleagues Sam Riback and Emerson Redd.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe day before the 2022 Grammy Awards nominees were announced, representatives from the Recording Academy, which oversees the awards, began informing members of the media that the four top awards — the “Big Four” of Best Album, Song, Record and New Artist — would be expanded to ten from the previous eight. While the timing of the move was unusual, it was positioned by CEO Harvey Mason jr.

Less than three years and precisely one full-length album into his disruptive career, Lil Nas X has now officially picked up his second Album of the Year nomination from the Recording Academy. This puts him level with Drake and Justin Bieber, and one above Ariana Grande –– three industry titans more than a decade into their careers.

It wouldn’t be Grammy nomination day without some controversy, would it?

Machine Gun Kelly and Miley Cyrus have reacted to being snubbed by the Grammys 2022.The nominations for the 64th Grammy Awards were announced yesterday (November 23), with Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Justin Bieber, Olivia Rodrigo, J.

was shockingly shut out of the Grammy nominations last year — leading the artist to vow that he would boycott the awards in the future — his presence was strongly felt when the 2022 contenders for music’s top prize were announced Tuesday.

Miley Cyrus is not taking her Grammy Award snub too seriously, but Machine Gun Kelly appears to be perturbed.

The nominations for the 2022 Grammys are in and so are the reactions across social media.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLast year at this time, the Grammy nominations were mired in controversy when the Weeknd, who’d released one of the most critically and commercially successful albums and singles of the year with “After Hours” and “Blinding Lights,” shockingly received zero nominations.