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Legacy Recordings Another Michael Jackson video has reached 1 billion views on YouTube. The latest to reach the milestone is the 1988 Bad track “Smooth Criminal,” set in a 1930s gangster club. It’s most known for Jackson and his dancers performing a 45-degree lean, which seems physically impossible. This is the fifth Jackson video to surpass 1 […]
Recording Academy For the past 50 years, The Grammys have aired on CBS. But starting in 2027, they’ll have a new home. The award show, known as Music’s Biggest Night, is moving to ABC, Hulu and Disney+, where it will remain through 2036. The Recording Academy will produce multiple Grammy-branded music specials as part of […]
ABC News R&B singer Shanice is sharing new details of her breast cancer journey, revealing she was diagnosed with the disease after avoiding mammograms for nearly a decade. “I just want to tell women how important it is to get your mammograms,” Shanice said on Good Morning America Wednesday. “If I would have gone sooner, I could have caught [it] when […]
Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images Ari Lennox wants to be released from her contract with Dreamville and Interscope. Taking to social media Tuesday, she vented about her frustrations with the labels, which she says have dropped the ball on numerous occasions, including marketing and keeping her protected. “Interscope and Dreamville have been playing with me […]
Live Nation If you’re looking for Tinashe, she’s on the road coming to a city near you. Her Match My Freak tour kicked off in mid-October and so far, she says, “It’s been great.” “I feel like everyone has been so high energy at the shows, singing along, loving all the … new songs,” she tells ABC […]
L-R: Shawn, Marlon, Keenen and Damon Wayans in 2000 — David Keeler/Online USA A month after Marlon Wayans decried how Harvey Weinstein “stole” the Scary Movie franchise from Keenen Ivory Wayans and his family, ABC Audio has confirmed the fam will be back with a new installment in the horror spoof films. Weinstein’s former company Miramax has […]
Mobile Fidelity/Columbia Records As we all know, we can’t start playing Christmas music until Mariah Carey says it’s OK. But now she’s offered a clue as to when that announcement might happen. On her Instagram Story, Mariah posted footage of Drew Barrymore wandering the halls of her talk show in a Halloween outfit. She hears […]
Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images The Grammy Museum in LA is placing a spotlight on Luther Vandross in a new exhibit called Luther Vandross: Artistry and Elegance. It will feature glimpses of his career, including hand-beaded suits and jumpsuits worn during his 1991 Power of Love tour; handwritten lyrics, studio notes and an exclusive recording of Luther […]
One World Tina Knowles may be the Matriarch of the Knowles family that gave us Beyoncé and Solange, but her new memoir delves into more than her motherhood experience. In Matriarch, Tina will share her life story, one that started as a girl in 1950s Galveston, whose dream, instincts and special gifts took her beyond Texas — but not […]
Michael Yarish/CBS Mondays are for Poppa’s House, a new sitcom starring Damon Wayans Sr., Damon Wayans Jr. and Essence Atkins. The show about a radio host who is challenged at work and at home premiered Oct. 21 and is an answered prayer for Essence, who wanted to get back on prime-time television. “It’s what I prayed for,” Essence told […]
