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    Grammys 2024: How to Watch, Time and Streaming

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    A guide to everything you need to know for the 66th annual awards on Sunday night.The 66th annual Grammy Awards, taking place on Sunday at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, is poised to be a big night for young women.SZA is the top nominee, with nine nods for her album “SOS,” which topped the Billboard 200 for 10 straight weeks. Taylor Swift, who rocked the entertainment world with her record-breaking Eras Tour, and Olivia Rodrigo, the 20-year-old singer-songwriter with a proclivity for rock, are both competing with SZA for the three major all-genre categories: best album, record and song. Joining them are a host of other female artists, including boygenius, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish and Victoria Monét. The sole male performer contending for the top three competitions? Jon Batiste.But the biggest winner of the night could be the musicians behind “Barbie,” Greta Gerwig’s meditation on what it means to be a woman today. The film’s soundtrack garnered 11 nominations across seven categories, with a mix of artists that includes Eilish, Dua Lipa, Nicki Minaj and Sam Smith.This emphasis on female representation is notable because the Recording Academy, the organization behind the Grammys, has been criticized in the past for failing to adequately recognize women. In recent years, the Grammys have worked to bring in a younger, more diverse membership, with the goal of making the voting process more transparent and fair.The awards show on Sunday will honor recordings released from Oct. 1, 2022 through Sept. 15, 2023. Here’s how to watch and what to expect.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Taylor Swift Holds at No. 1 as Christmas Music Returns to the Charts

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      “Midnights” and “Anti-Hero” top the Billboard 200 and Hot 100, but nostalgic favorites are starting to arrive in force.Taylor Swift holds the top spots on the Billboard album and singles charts this week, as a wave of holiday music arrives with help from streaming playlists.Swift’s “Midnights” reigns atop the Billboard 200 album chart for a fifth time, with the equivalent of 151,000 sales in the United States, according to the tracking service Luminate. Her single “Anti-Hero” notches its sixth No. 1 on the Hot 100, with 21 million streams and 69 million “airplay audience impressions,” a measurement of the song’s popularity on radio.Otherwise, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — particularly on the singles chart, where six nostalgic favorites reach the Top 10. Mariah Carey’s 28-year-old “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is No. 2, and Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (1958) is No. 3, sending Sam Smith and Kim Petras’s recent dark pop hit “Unholy” to fourth place. Bobby Helms’s “Jingle Bell Rock” (1957), at No. 5, and Burl Ives’s “A Holly Jolly Christmas” (1964), at No. 6, beat out the latest from Drake and 21 Savage, whose “Rich Flex” lands at No. 7.Also in the Top 10: Andy Williams’s “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” (1963) is No. 9, and Wham!’s “Last Christmas” (1984) is No. 10.On the album chart, Drake and 21 Savage’s “Her Loss” holds at No. 2 and Bad Bunny’s “Un Verano Sin Ti” is No. 3. (Along with “Midnights,” those positions have held firm for three weeks.) From there, the Christmas brigade begins. Michael Bublé’s “Christmas” (2011) is No. 4, bumping Lil Baby’s “It’s Only Me” to fifth place.Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song” (a version of an LP that dates to 1960) is No. 8 and the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (1965) is No. 10. More

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      Taylor Swift’s Second-Week Sales Are Still Among the Year’s Biggest

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      The singer’s blockbuster new album, “Midnights,” holds strong atop the Billboard 200 chart, and her single “Anti-Hero” is No. 1 on the Hot 100.Following the expectation-shattering blockbuster debut of her new album, “Midnights,” Taylor Swift has coasted to a second week atop the charts, earning the equivalent of another 342,000 album sales, according to the tracking service Luminate.Although “Midnights” experienced a 78 percent drop in its second week of release — down from 1,578,000 in sales the week prior — Swift’s follow-up performance was still good enough for the third-largest total of the year so far, topping even the debut of Beyoncé’s “Renaissance.” (Other than “Midnights” last week, only Harry Styles’s “Harry’s House” sold more.)Swift managed to move more than one million copies of “Midnights” in its first week largely on the strength of physical merchandise, including vinyl, CDs and even cassettes. But the album lingers at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week thanks to its consistency on streaming services, where it totaled 294 million plays (down from 549 million).Combining digital plays, downloads and purchases of the complete album, the second-week sales of “Midnight” were the largest for any album in its second week since Adele’s “25” in 2015, Billboard said.Swift also maintains a healthy standing on the singles chart, the Hot 100, where she had previously occupied all of the Top 10 — a first in the chart’s history. This week, the single “Anti-Hero” holds at No. 1, with Swift songs also landing at No. 6, 7 and 9.Rihanna’s new single, “Lift Me Up,” a ballad from the “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” soundtrack, debuts at No. 2.Rounding out the Top 5 on the album chart are Lil Baby’s “It’s Only Me” at No. 2, Bad Bunny’s “Un Verano Sin Ti” at No. 3, the special edition reissue of the Beatles’ “Revolver” at No. 4 and Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” at No. 5.In its 95 weeks on the chart, Wallen’s album has only fallen from the Top 10 once. More