Paul Williams to Receive Inaugural Songwriters of North America Warrior Award

Waka & Tammy: What the Flocka season 2 featured Tammy Rivera’s daughter, Charlie Williams, in a major way. The latest season gave us a glimpse into the life of Charlie as she grows up in front of her famous parents’ eyes. She’s had some emotional moments this season, but who didn’t when they were a teenager?

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTwo-time Grammy Producer of the Year Greg Kurstin, who has worked with everyone from Adele and Paul MCartney to Foo Fighters and Beck, will open the 2021 ASCAP Experience conference on Wednesday, May 12 at 3 p.m. ET/ 12 p.m.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs more and more concerts go on the books for the fall, Genesis becomes one of the first to announce a major arena tour, announcing rescheduled North American tour dates for their “The Last Domino?” tour, the first time in 14 years the group has played the continent. The tour will see core members Tony Banks, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford joined by Nic Collins on drums and the band’s long-time lead guitar and bass player Daryl Stuermer.

Wendy Williams and Joseline Hernandez are having it out.

EXCLUSIVE: 3D Family animation Two By Two: Overboard (aka Ooops! The Adventure Continues) has sold to Momentum Pictures for the U.S. and Canada.

EXCLUSIVE: 3D Family animation Two By Two: Overboard (aka Ooops! The Adventure Continues) has sold to Magnolia for the U.S. and Canada.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWe’ve been reluctant to jinx it, but after a disastrous non-launch earlier this month, the website for the Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Relief Grant (SVOG) was up and running at noon E.T.

statement, is an effort to boost music discovery via the social media app, whether it’s recommendations from friends or verified users and pages.Free users will have access to the function but on shuffle mode and ads from Spotify added.Countries currently with access to this function are Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua,

Bon Jovi isn’t going on tour due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that isn’t stopping him from bringing a show right to people’s local drive-in theaters.  The band announced Monday that it is partnering with Encore Drive-In Nights for a special, one-night-only event that will deliver a pre-taped concert directly to numerous drive-in theaters throughout North America on May 22.  Every venue will experience the same show, as the company has done in the past for artists like Blake Shelton,

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn connection with an authoritative new report from Midia Research showing how songwriters are being dramatically short-changed by the streaming economy, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus says that “songwriters are last in line for streaming royalties.”In an op-ed that recently appeared in the U.K.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEver since the music industry began its streaming-fueled recovery around five years ago, the songwriting and publishing communities have been protesting not only the uneven payment structure of streaming — which sees recorded-music rights holders being paid three times what publishing is paid — but also the imbalanced power and payment structures of the music industry.

Two-time Oscar-winning actor-directorRoberto Benigni will receive this year's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 78th Venice International Film Festival, which runs Sept. 1- 11, organizers announced Thursday.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFilm Movement has acquired North American rights to “They Say Nothing Stays The Same,” the feature film debut of Joe Odagiri, a popular Japanese actor and musician.The lushly lensed Japanese drama premiered at Venice and went on to play at Busan. Among its many accolades, the pic won best feature film at Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in Turkey and was nominated for the Golden Star at El Gouana.

Jon Burlingame Sometimes the backstories of Oscar-nominated songs are as compelling as the songs themselves.Last week, the Songwriters Hall of Fame corralled nine of this year’s 12 nominated songwriters for a round-table discussion of how their songs came to be written, and how they feel about contributing to the art of cinema.Paul Williams, Oscar winner (“Evergreen”) and president and chairman of the board of ASCAP, and Nile Rodgers, Grammy-winning producer-writer and Songwriters Hall of Fame

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOver the past pandemic-stricken year, multiple charities and assistance programs have stepped forward for segments of the music industry, from MusiCares to Save Our Stages and Crew Nation.With the backing of Songwriters of North America (SONA), the Songwriter Fund offering emergency grants to songwriters in need has distributed over $400,000 in grants to songwriters who have been hardest hit by the pandemic — and is accepting donations for another round of relief

Will Thorne Staff WriterLast year proved transformational for television, and one of the most surprising outcomes is that North America is no longer the largest region globally for daily TV consumption.According to a Glance (Global Audience & Content Evolution) presentation at MipTV, both Europe and South America have now overtaken North America in this regard.“Globally you see that TV consumption remains very stable since 1982.

Carey Mulligan made her “Saturday Night Live” debut this weekend and charmed the audience with her fun opening monologue. The “Promising Young Woman” star kicked things off by poking fun at her famous similarity to another Oscar-nominated actress.