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by Shaun Tandon Agence France Presse NEW YORK , United States (AFP) — Jay-Z led the Grammy race Tuesday with eight nominations, followed closely by fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar with seven, in a striking embrace of hip-hop for the music industry’s top prizes. Jay-Z, who has won an impressive 21 Grammys over his career but has never before been nominated in a major category as a solo artist, is up for Album of the Year […]
Reuters — Taylor Swift on Tuesday is proving she’s the rare artist who can defy the digital age. Her latest album, “Reputation,” is smashing sales records in part by selling physical ones. The album is bucking the streaming trend in its first week of release with over half a million copies sold on CD. That’s the biggest week for a physical album since Adele’s “25” in 2015. “Reputation” blasted to Number One on the Billboard […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Bruno Mars took the top prize at the American Music Awards on Sunday at a show that paid glowing tribute to legendary divas Diana Ross and the late Whitney Houston. Mars, the retro star who found fresh success with the funky beats and R&B harmonies of his latest album “24K Magic,” accepted Artist of the Year with a brief but enthusiastic speech recorded in a moving minivan, as Mars […]
https://youtu.be/4ElPv2TKx2E LOS ANGLES, California (Reuters) — Pink, Lady Gaga and Christina Aguilera led the female artists of pop music who dominated the American Music Awards stage on Sunday (November 19) with their powerful performances, despite being edged out by male artists in most award categories this year. Bruno Mars won Artist of the Year, former One Direction member Niall Horan won New Artist of the Year and Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi, Justin Bieber and […]
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — The American Music Awards (AMAs) kicked off at the Microsoft Theater L.A. Live in Los Angeles on Sunday (November 19) with the various nominees, guests, presenters and performers hitting the red carpet ahead of the show. Among those attending were Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban, Pink, Selena Gomez, Demi Levato, Niall Horan, Kelly Clarkson, Jamie Foxx, K-Pop band BTS, and actors from the hit television shows Stranger Things […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Pop superstar Katy Perry on Friday was awarded nearly $1.5 million as she prevailed anew in her drawn-out bid to move into a former convent in Los Angeles. The singer of “Roar” and “I Kissed a Girl” has more Twitter followers than anyone else in the world at 106 million but had struggled to win the hearts of two elderly nuns who used to live in the convent. The […]
(Reuters) — Sam Smith’s “The Thrill of it All” scored the British singer’s first No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 album chart, edging out new releases by Maroon 5 and Blake Shelton, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan on Monday (November 13). The album sold more than 237,000 units in its first week to debut as No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Billboard said it was Smith’s best sales week ever in the United […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA), held in London on Sunday evening, honoured the 19-year-old Canadian singer Shawn Mendes with both the Best Artist and Best Song prizes. In a first for the EMAs — created in 1994 — categories were stripped of gender in a bid to “break barriers.” Here is the list of the winners of the 24th edition of MTV EMA: Best artist: Shawn Mendes Best song: […]
by Marc Jourdier Agence France-Presse KINHASA, DR Congo (AFP) — In 2010, a group of Kinshasa street musicians, several of them left paraplegic by childhood polio, caused a sensation in Europe. Calling themselves Staff Benda Bilili, the penurious band wowed audiences with Congolese rumba, combining pounding rhythms with scintillating melodies and solos. As unique as the group’s tale of their rise from the streets was their gritty guitar sound — all the work of a […]
by Alice TIDEY Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — At only 25, British soul singer Sam Smith has already brought the music world to his feet. But despite the success and fame, his second album “The Thrill of it All” coming out on Friday paints another picture altogether — one of pain and heartbreak. “I went on a bit of a spiral since I released ‘In the Lonely Hour’,” Smith told AFP at […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Rap superstar Kanye West is back nearly a year after suffering a breakdown — making a brief musical appearance in which he appears to keep his feud with Taylor Swift alive. West, a once omnipresent celebrity with a prolific media presence and high-profile marriage to Kim Kardashian, abruptly ended a tour and was hospitalized in November 2016 after unusual rants on stage. Making his most visible appearance this year, […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — George Michael’s chart-topping 1990 album “Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1” returned straight to number one in the British charts on Friday, 10 months after the British pop star’s death at the age of 53. The remastered record sold over 56,000 copies to come first in the charts in the largest first-week sales for a re-released album in charts history. The album was reissued to coincide with a new documentary about […]
