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    Beyonce Knowles' Daughter Gets Her First Ever Grammy Nomination for 'Brown Skin Girl'

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    Weeks after announcing the prestigious awards’ 2021 nominees, Recording Academy adds Blue Ivy Carter in the coveted list alongside Nigerian singer Wizkid who is also featured on the song.

    Dec 12, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Beyonce Knowles’s eight-year-old daughter has officially been credited as a Grammy Award nominee for her contributions to the R&B superstar’s “Brown Skin Girl” video.
    The promo will compete for the Best Music Video prize at the 31 January (21) ceremony, but when the nominations were originally announced last month, Blue Ivy Carter’s name was not mentioned on the shortlist, despite featuring on the tune and in the accompanying visuals.
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    However, that has since been corrected by Recording Academy bosses, who have updated the shortlist on their website to recognise the youngster’s work.

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    Nigerian singer Wizkid, who, like Blue, appears on both the track and in the video, is also a new addition to the Grammy credits for “Brown Skin Girl”, although fellow artist SAINt JHN, whose vocals are featured on “Brown Skin Girl”, is not included as a nominee in the update, reports The Associated Press.
    All three, along with Beyonce and her rap mogul husband Jay-Z, are credited among the co-writers on “Brown Skin Girl”.
    The Grammy Award for Best Music Video is traditionally presented to the main artist and any featured guests on the winning song, in addition to the promo director and producer.
    Blue is Beyonce and Jay-Z’s eldest child, and the kid already boasts BET and NAACP Image awards for lending her vocals to “Brown Skin Girl”. The video for the track was released in July as part of Beyonce’s “Black Is King” visual album.
    The hip-hop supercouple also shares three-year-old twins Sir and Rumi.

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    Listen: Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys Make Duet 'Matches'

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    Britney has recruited Nick Carter and his bandmates for a brand new song called ‘Matches’ as she announces a re-release of her 2016 studio album ‘Glory’.

    Dec 12, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Britney Spears has teamed up with the Backstreet Boys for new song “Matches”.
    The “Toxic” hitmaker shared news of the collaboration on her Twitter page as she promoted the tune and the reissue of her 2016 album “Glory”.
    “Matches featuring my friends @backstreetboys is out now !!!! I’m so excited to hear what you think about our song together !!!!” she wrote. “You can also listen to Glory Deluxe everywhere now !!!!”
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    The new tune comes just two weeks after Britney dropped previously unreleased song “Swimming in the Stars” on her 39th birthday. Fans are hoping that the new music means things are turning around for the troubled singer, who has been fighting to have dad Jamie removed as her legal conservator.
    Last month (Nov20), she was denied a request to have her father immediately removed despite her lawyers alleging the pop superstar is “afraid” of him.
    According to reports, the “Piece of Me” hitmaker is refusing to return to the stage until Jamie steps down from overseeing her affairs.
    Meanwhile, Jamie questioned the logic in having him removed from the conservatorship completely, claiming he was the one who saved Britney’s estate from drowning in debt and actually turned fortunes around to build up a value of $60 million.
    Jamie has been his daughter’s conservator since her very public meltdown in 2008. He stepped down from his role in September 2019, citing poor health following allegations that he abused Britney’s son. Jamie handed temporary conservatorship over to Britney’s care manager Jodi Montgomery. However, he resumed his duties in January.

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    Jennifer Lopez Pays Tribute to Family as She's Feted at 2020 Billboard Women in Music Event

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    The ‘On the Floor’ hitmaker is grateful to have her family as she receives the Icon Award from Maluma at this year’s Women In Music Event hosted by Billboard magazine.

    Dec 12, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Jennifer Lopez paid a gushing tribute to her fiance Alex Rodriguez and their “four beautiful kids” as she accepted the Icon Award at the 2020 Billboard Women In Music event on Thursday night (10Dec20).
    The actress-and-singer followed in the footsteps of Alanis Morissette, Cyndi Lauper, and Mary J. Blige in being honoured with the prestigious accolade, and in her acceptance speech she thanked everyone who has made her who she is today, including her mum, her family, and even her ex-husband Marc Anthony.
    The “Waiting for Tonight” hitmaker was introduced at the virtual event by her “Marry Me” co-star Maluma, who hailed Jennifer as his “iconic friend.”
    In her acceptance speech, the “Second Act” star – who has 12-year-old twins Max and Emme with Marc and is also a step mom to Alex’s kids Natasha, 16, and Ella, 12 – recalled how she would “booty shake” to music in the Billboard charts with her mother Guadalupe in her speech.
    “Music has always, always been my passion,” she began. “My mom used to put me on the kitchen table and would show me how to do the booty shake, or we’d sing the oldies, whatever was at the top of the Billboard charts at the time. Those are my first performances. It’s what inspired me to do what I’ve had the privilege to do for all of you all these years.”
    “Of course, I want to thank my beautiful family for going on the road with me, for touring with me, for supporting me, for allowing me to be the artist that I am. Alex and our four beautiful kids, thank you so much. I love you. Everything I do is for you guys.”

    Elsewhere, Cardi B was crowned Woman of the Year and gave an empowering speech telling all of the “regular girls” out there to go and grab their dreams.
    “I want to say thank you, everybody, and I want to say to all the girls out there that are just like me, or just regular girls, when I came into the music industry, I didn’t know if these people were going to accept me,” she said. “Throughout the years, if you listen to my mixtapes and you listen to my music now, I have progressed because I wanted to progress. I want to be the best I can at anything I do and, you know, you got to put your mind to it.”

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    Breonna Taylor’s mother Tamika Palmer honoured the WAP hitmaker with her prize and hailed her activism efforts in the fight for justice for her daughter, who was shot in her Louisville home by U.S. police in March.

    The star-studded event also saw Beyonce send a message to Rising Star Award recipients, Chloe x Halle.
    The “Crazy In Love” hitmaker said in the video, “Ladies, I am so, so proud of you. You’ve done this with authenticity, with grace, with raw talent. And you managed to shine in every room you enter. And I’ll always love you.”

    Meanwhile, Dua Lipa was handed the Powerhouse Award and performed her hit “Boys Will Be Boys”.

    And Dolly Parton – who performed “9 to 5” – was honoured with the Hitmaker Award, with her goddaughter Miley Cyrus presenting the accolade to her.

    Teyana Taylor hosted the 15th Billboard Women in Music event.
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    Jimmy Buffett Admits to Relearning Old Songs to Make 'Songs You Don't Know By Heart'

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    Speaking about his follow-up to ‘Life on the Flip Side’, the ‘Margaritaville’ singer claims that it was actually meant to be an online video performance series during the coronavirus shutdown.

    Dec 11, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Easy-listening star Jimmy Buffett had to do his homework before recording his new album of old songs, because he’d forgotten the lyrics to so many of his lesser known tunes.
    The singer’s latest release, “Songs You Don’t Know By Heart”, was initially the idea for a video performance series online during the coronavirus shutdown, and it’s all thanks to his daughter Delaney, and her pal.
    “It started out as one of those silver lining things that actually do happen, fortunately, to some people during this pandemic…,” Buffett told U.S. breakfast show “Today”.
    “Delaney and a friend of hers from high school, who had been working for us for a little while, came up with the idea to go to fans and ask them, ‘Hey, he’s not doing shows, what songs would you like to hear that he hasn’t played in 20 years?’ so that became ‘Songs You Don’t Know By Heart’.”

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    However, Buffett admits he didn’t expect fans to dig so deep – and he had to brush up on his old lyrics once they narrowed down the tracklisting.
    “There were a lot of them that I had to go back and learn…!” the 73-year-old laughed. “I’m old, and I’ve been doing this for 40 years!”
    “They (Delaney and her friend) got like 10,000 setlists (suggested by fans) in a short period of time, and so we collected 50 of the most voted on songs, and went to 15 which we could do, and that was the video (series),” he explained.
    “And then we started getting mail back from people saying, ‘Why doesn’t your dad go in the studio and do an acoustic album?’ So as a person who hadn’t made an album in seven years, I made two in three months!”
    “Songs You Don’t Know By Heart” is the follow-up to “Life on the Flip Side”, which he dropped in May. Prior to that project, he hadn’t released a new album since 2013’s “Songs from St. Somewhere”.

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    Cardi B Calls 'WAP' Amazing Song While Accepting Billboard's Woman of the Year

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    In her award acceptance speech, the Bronx raptress addresses her and Megan Thee Stallion’s chart-topping single ‘WAP’, which, despite its success, earns her criticism over the explicit lyrics.

    Dec 11, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Cardi B felt honored after receiving the award for Woman of the Year at Billboard’s Women in Music virtual event on Thursday, December 10. Presenting the coveted prize to the Grammy-winning raptress was Tamika Palmer, who is the late Breonna Taylor’s mother.
    “One of Breonna’s most outspoken advocates for justice over the last nine months has been Cardi B,” Palmer said. “From the start, Cardi has used her platform to spread the truth about what happened to Breonna and to re-affirm that black women’s lives matter. Cardi B’s impact reaches far beyond music. That’s why I am so proud and honored to present Billboard’s Woman of the Year award to Miss Cardi B.”
    In her award acceptance speech, the “Bodak Yellow” rapper thanked people for “always loving my music. Thank you for loving and I love you guys.” Reflecting on this year, Cardi added, “This year, when it came to music, I had so many things planned. I had so many projects that I wanted to come out. Unfortunately, due to COVID, I couldn’t put out the visuals the way that I wanted. It messed up my creative space.”

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    She also addressed her and Megan Thee Stallion’s chart-topping single “WAP”, which, despite its success, earned her criticism over the explicit lyrics. “I’m just grateful and thankful that the song I actually did put out this year,” so Cardi revealed. “Not only was it an amazing song that broke so many records, but it was a conversation that I never thought it was going to be so big. It pissed off a whole bunch of Republicans for no reason. You know what I’m saying, it was just weird.”
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    Cardi previously clapped back at haters who thought that she didn’t deserve the award. “For you cry babies like, ‘What? She only got one song.’ Yeah, I got THAT song, b***h,” she shared in an Instagram video. “You know the one that sold the most, the one that streamed the most… The one that had your grandma popping her p***y on TikTok.”
    Also among the honoreers at the 2020 Billboard’s Women in Music virtual event were Jennifer Lopez, Dua Lipa, Dolly Parton and Chloe x Halle.

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    Taylor Swift Pursues the One in 'Willow' Music Video

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    In a continuation to her ‘Cardigan’ music video, the ‘Lover’ singer crawls back into her piano and emerges in a forest before being transported into different settings to follow her man.

    Dec 11, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Taylor Swift has released her surprise new album “Evermore” along with a music video for its track “Willow”. Picking up where she left off from her “Cardigan” video, the newly-premiered clip opens with the pop superstar being drenched wet while still wearing her cardigan and sitting in what looks like an old cabin with a piano that serves as a time portal behind her.
    It doesn’t take long before the 30-year-old singer/songwriter crawls back into the piano and emerges in a forest where she sees a reflection of her “man” in the river. She then sets on a journey to follow her love interest that takes her on several different settings, before she ends up in the same rustic cabin where the man waits for her.

    “The more that you say, the less I know/ Wherever you stray, I follow/ I’m begging for you to take my hand, wreck my plans/ That’s my man,” she sings in the chorus. “You know that my train could take you home/ Anywhere else is hollow/ I’m begging for you to take my hand/ Wreck my plans, that’s my man.”

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    “Willow” is the lead single off “Evermore”, the ninth studio album by Swift which is dubbed a sister album to her hit album”Folklore”, which arrived in July. The “Shake It Off” hitmaker worked with the same team she created “Folklore” with, including Aaron Dessner of The National, Jack Antonoff, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and her boyfriend Joe Alwyn, who is credited as a co-writer under the name William Bowery.
    She posted on Instagram on midnight Friday, December 11 to celebrate the album release, “I have no idea what will come next. I have no idea about a lot of things these days and so I’ve clung to the one thing that keeps me connected to you all. That thing always has and always will be music. And may it continue, evermore.” She added, “My new album evermore is out now.”

    “Evermore” also features a collaboration with HAIM on “No Crime”, “Coney Island” featuring The National and “Evermore” featuring Bon Iver. The deluxe physical edition includes two bonus tracks “Right Where You Left Me” and “It’s Time to Go”.

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    Dua Lipa Calls for Gender Equality Upon Receiving 2020 Women in Music Honor From Bernie Sanders

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    Feted with the Powerhouse Award at the Billboard virtual event, the ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ singer is hailed by the politician as someone who ‘has said loudly and clearly with her actions.’

    Dec 11, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Dua Lipa opened the 2020 virtual edition of the Billboard Women in Music gala with a stripped-down performance of “Boys Will Be Boys” before accepting a big honour from one of her heroes, U.S. politician Bernie Sanders.
    Lipa accepted the Women in Music Powerhouse Award, which is given annually to an act whose music dominates streaming, sales and radio, and she used her speech to coo about Bernie after he virtually handed her the trophy on Thursday night (December 10).
    “What this year has made clear, more than anything else, is that none of us can go back to business as usual,” Sanders said in his introduction. “The winner of tonight’s Powerhouse Award understands that… She has said loudly and clearly with her actions that now is the time to fight for a better future for all.”
    “She is fighting for young people, women, refugees, the LGBT community and she is using her platform to bring people into the democratic process. She is raising her voice to demand real change.”

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    Sanders also revealed he and Lipa spoke over Zoom a few weeks ago.
    The singer called Sanders a “personal hero” before accepting the accolade, and called out music industry executives for not putting more women in charge – pointing out that only 2.6 percent of all producers of Billboard Hot 100 songs are women.
    “We’ve still got so far to go for real equality,” she said. “Let’s keep celebrating the women, and keep encouraging all the young girls out there to be the powerhouses of the future.”

    Dua was recognised alongside Dolly Parton, Jennifer Lopez and Woman of the Year Cardi B at the Billboard prizegiving.

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    Janet Jackson Gushes Over Teyana Taylor as the Latter Reveals New Career After Music Retirement

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    This arrives after Teyana, who celebrated her 30th birthday on December 10, reveals a new career path after announcing earlier this month that she decided to hang up her mic for good.

    Dec 11, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Teyana Taylor has received overwhelming support after hinting at retirement from music as she feels being underrated. Among those who raved about how amazing she is as an artist was Janet Jackson, who penned a lengthy message for the “Gonna Love Me” singer on Instagram on Thursday, December 10 in honor of Teyana’s 30th birthday.
    Alongside a picture of her with the wife of Iman Shumpert, the “Escapade” songtress wrote in the caption, “Teyana, you have an undeniable gift from God. Don’t ever let that go.” She went on saying, “You bring something so special to the industry and you continue to have such an impact on this world.”
    Trying to convince Teyana not to quit music, Janet continued, “Imagine if I gave up after my first or second album didn’t hit #1, or win any awards? We do this for the love, the passion and the fans. Never forget, a talent like yours is unstoppable.” Concluding her message, the sister of Michael Jackson added, “I luv you and know that I’m here for you always. I hope you enjoy your special day. #BlackGirlMagic.”

    Teyana caught wind of the sweet shout-out and quickly replied in the comment section. “ima go and cry…. BRB!” so the “How You Want It?” wrote. Also leaving comments under the post were Ciara and Taraji P. Henson. While Ciara left three red heart emojis, the “Hidden Figures” actress wrote, “We are our sister’s keeper!!! BEAUTIFUL! #queensliftqueens.”

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    This arrives after Teyana announced a new career path after deciding to hang up her mic for good. “Dirty 30 and its time make some more BIG moves. Remember when I said ‘when one door closes another one opens..either that or I’m picking the locks’? Well I damn sure did,” she wrote in an Instagram post.
    “I am proud to announce that I have officially been named CREATIVE DIRECTOR of @prettylittlething. We’re going to be collaborating on some amazing projects together and i cannot wait to get started! What a way to bring some positive vibes & more #blackgirlmagic into 2021! Happy birthday to me!” she announced.

    Teyana shocked fans earlier this month when she announced about her plan on quiting music. “I ain’t gone front in times of feeling super under appreciated as a artist, receiving little to no real push from the ‘machine’, constantly getting the shorter end of the stick,” she wrote. “Being overlooked, I mean the list on and on lol.. I’m retiring this chapter of my story with the comfort that i can depart with peace of mind seeing that all the hard work & passion put in was indeed loved & supported somewhere in the world!”
    She later clarified her statement about the retirement, explaining that the issue was with her label rather than with the Grammys. “I asked Def Jam to drop me on almost 10 different occasions. Straight to the face. Up in the building,” she revealed. “At this point, I can’t let this kill me. Granted, to my fans, I think that, you know — and I can see how my message can come across but at the same time, I feel like it’s a tiny bit selfish to say, ‘What about your fans? Do it for your fans.’ Baby, I gotta do it for my mental health. I have to do it for my emotional health. I have to do it for my kids so I can stay alive for my kids.”

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