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ACADEMY TELESCOPES GRAMMY WEEK EVENTS
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ACADEMY TELESCOPES GRAMMY WEEK EVENTS
The show must go on, with modifications. (1/15a)
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NOW WHAT?
We have no fucking idea.
COUNTRY'S NEWEST DISRUPTOR
Three chords and some truth you may not be ready for.
AI IS ALREADY EATING YOUR LUNCH
The kids can tell the difference... for now.
WHO'S BUYING THE DRINKS?
That's what we'd like to know.
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Over the course of his storied 50-plus-year career, Irving Azoff has been involved in many fundraising concerts. “Only about 100,” he tells HITS. Could FireAid be the granddaddy of them all?
Fans wondering which of the two venues their favorite artists would be visiting during the 1/30 FireAid benefit in Los Angeles can now rest easy, as the breakdown has been revealed for Intuit Dome and the Forum.
2024 will go down as the year two of the Big 3 major-label franchises underwent sweeping reorganizations. As a result, UMG is looking more dynastic than ever, while WMG has set itself up to better compete with its two bigger rivals.
Emilia Perez, Netflix’s Spanish-language musical about a drug kingpin who undergoes gender-affirming surgery, leads the pack with 13 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. The music-heavy Wicked and A Complete Unknown also scored big.
HITS is extremely proud to announce the appointment of Craig Marks to the post of executive editor. This is an incredibly fortuitous development for HITS, because Craig is an actual journalist and we are not. Hence, it is disastrous news for Craig.
Spotify has created a 66-song FireAid playlist spotlighting the artists playing the massive benefit concerts taking over the Forum and Intuit Dome on 1/30.
Rimas' Bad Bunny will hold the #1 spot with DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS in a remarkable third week.
The 12th annual event will celebrate the most-played artists and songs on iHeartRadio stations and the app throughout 2024, including Lady Gaga, who will receive the Innovator Award and Mariah Carey, this year's recipient of the Icon Award.
Tyler, Kacey and Lana find their way to Iowa, The Lumineers and Vampire Weekend get fest-y in Virginia and Inkcarceration returns to the once-unfriendly confines of the Ohio State Reformatory.
Addison Rae just took an early lead in the 2025 Breakout Artist of the Year stakes by notching her first Rolling Stone cover in advance of her upcoming Columbia debut, Mood Boards.
London-based artist Lola Young has already conquered her home territory with the single "Messy," and she made her proper U.S. TV debut 1/21 on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to help bring it to the stateside masses.
Blues-rock mainstay Barry Goldberg has died in hospice care after a 10-year struggle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The noted keyboard player, band leader, session man and songwriter was 83.
Grateful Dead-loving musicians of all stripes, including John Mayer, Noah Kahan and Norah Jones, will assemble to perform at the upcoming MusiCares Persons of the Year gala honoring the pioneering jam band on 1/31.
Lady Gaga is riling up her fans with a cryptic countdown posted to her website. Could new album details be far behind?
Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of pioneering roots-rockers The Band, died 1/21 at a nursing home in his longtime base of Woodstock, New York. He was 87.
For the fifth year in a row, Trevor Noah will return as master of ceremonies for the Grammy Awards. Noah will also serve as a producer of the 67th ceremony, which will be broadcast live 2/2 on CBS.
In light of the Los Angeles wildfires, the Oscars will pivot away from staging live performances of this year’s Best Original Song nominees in order to focus on the songwriters themselves, and focus attention on those affected by the fires.
Word has it that longtime Chainsmokers manager Adam Alpert will no longer be representing the group.
Kenny Chesney has added three shows on 6/18, 20-21 to his heavily anticipated run at Sphere, which kicks off 5/22.
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