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Who will win Song of the Year at the 2025 Grammy Awards? This prize specifically rewards the songwriters behind the year’s best composition. That differentiates it from Record of the Year, which is presented to the artists, producers, and engineers. Scroll down for our official odds, which have been calculated from the combined predictions of Gold Derby users. The odds will keep changing as the season progresses, so we’ll be updating this list regularly.

SEE2023 Grammy predictions: Album of the Year

For most of Grammy history there were five nominees in this category. From 2019 to 2021, it expanded to eight nominees, just like Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best New Artist. And in 2022 the top four categories were expanded once again to 10 slots. In 2024, however, the number went back down to eight in each of the big four categories.

Record of the Year usually goes to popular hits,...

Director Morgan Neville tells Pharrell Williams’ story with Lego in an unusual but fun biopic. Here’s our Piece By Piece review.

A Pharrell Williams biopic-documentary hybrid, told with Lego blocks. If that sentence makes you raise your eyebrows, then that’s understandable: the concept of Morgan Neville’s latest project is an unusual thing on paper, but, rather surprisingly, it works on screen.

Pharrell Williams is the superstar music producer behind some of the biggest names in music, not to mention his own solo tunes such as ‘Get Lucky’ and ‘Happy’ from Despicable Me. Piece By Piece charts the musician’s childhood and rise to fame, with the use of Lego to tell the story intended to reflect his creativity. As the Lego Movies have taught us, you can create almost anything with Lego, and Williams’ musical abilities work in a similar way; he’s able to see combinations that no one else can,...

“It’s happening,” goes a lyric sung over the opening titles of Piece By Piece. “Yes... It’s real.” Just to be sure, here is confirmation, early doors: yep, this is a real film. We’ve had Lego Movies about Batman, Ninjas, Scooby-Doo. But a music documentary Lego Movie? Made with the full participation of self-described “hybrid thinker” Pharrell Williams, Piece By Piece is a surprisingly sincere and serious film about a sincere and serious artist, some distance from the irony-led Lord & Miller Lego entries. It’s quite a handbrake turn for Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom), but it largely follows the standard talking-heads doc template very faithfully. Just in Lego.

The first act serves almost as a potted history of the vibrant ’90s hip-hop and R&b scene in Virginia: obsessed with music, Williams surrounded himself with other Virginian up-and-comers like Timbaland and Missy Elliott. Hilariously,...

“Because I’m happy clap along if you feel like a room without a roof / Because I’m happy clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth,” is the popular lyrics to a song that lives rent-free in the minds of countless fans some days – bright ones, especially – but it doesn’t necessarily evoke happy memories in the mind of its writer.

When Pharrell Williams penned ‘Happy,’ he was feeling the opposite and meant the song to be sarcastic.

How Pharrell Williams Came To Write the Grammy-winning Song ‘Happy’

One of Pharrell Williams’ biggest hits is ‘Happy’ – the song he didn’t necessarily anticipate to catapult him to massive fame in the 2010s.

Williams wrote ‘Happy’ as a soundtrack to 2013’s ‘Despicable Me 2,’ which went on to attract a massive, rounding out the year as the third highest grossing movie. Four months after the movie premiered, Williams...

When musical legend Pharrell Williams first met with Morgan Neville about using Lego to make “Piece by Piece,” a documentary about his life, the Oscar-winning director of “20 Feet from Stardom” was intrigued but perplexed.

“His pitch to me was: I really like your documentaries, and I had the idea that you would make a documentary about me, and then when you were done, you would throw out the visuals and make it again in Lego,” Neville told IndieWire. “And when he said that, I got really interested. But it just sounded like a crazy idea, and I had to think about what that would mean.”

Ultimately, it meant opening up the possibilities of what a doc and animated feature could do as a new form of cinematic expression. The refreshing result and positive buzz out of Telluride and TIFF has Oscar talk of “Piece by Piece” competing in both categories.

The father-son duo behind a Lego recreation of Daft Punk’s “Alive 2007” tour could soon have their project made into an official set.

Last week, Daft Punk and Lego fan Patrick Harboun (aka RobotRock) posted the painstaking recreation of the “Alive 2007” pyramid made with his 8-year-old son at the Lego Ideas community site. Totaling 2,000 pieces, the project began in 2020 as “a creative escape” during lockdown. After his son made a prototype with their bricks at home, Harboun expanded upon the design digitally.

A motor-powered box of transparent bricks inside the pyramid and sets of dangling lights are among the set’s highlights, with the helmets modeled after those worn by the group in Piece by Piece, a Lego-based film about Pharrell Williams’ life.

“Both huge Daft Punk fans, this build is a fusion of 2 passions,” Harboun wrote in the description. “I spent my teenage years listening to Homework on my Walkman,...

Breaking into the music business, crafting insanely addictive earworm hits, recognizing genre boundaries, starting a streetwear fashion line, wearing properly sized ranger hats — Pharrell Williams has never done anything by the book. The kid from Virginia Beach, Virginia, had always felt like someone who saw (and heard) the world differently than his peers. As a youngster growing up in the 1970s and ’80s, that “he’s so… unusual” tag marked him as a bit of a misfit. By the time Pharrell started creating oft-kilter beats as half of the molten-hot...

American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special Performers (Photo Credit: CBS)

CBS announced additional performers confirmed for the American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special. Nelly, Nile Rodgers & Chic, and Sheila E. will help celebrate the AMAs created by Dick Clark back in 1974, joining a star-studded list that includes Mariah Carey and Jennifer Hudson.

Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, Green Day, Brad Paisley, Kane Brown, Raye, and Stray Kids were previously announced to perform on the two-hour special airing on Sunday, October 6, 2024 at 5pm Pt/8pm Et. Two-time Ama winner Aj McLean, Cedric The Entertainer, Golden Globe winner Kate Hudson, three-time Ama winner Lance Bass, 15-time Ama winner Reba McEntire, Oscar nominee Samuel L. Jackson, and four-time Ama nominee Smokey Robinson will put in special appearances.

CBS and Dick Clark Productions announced the following scheduled performances:

Three-time Ama winner Nelly will honor hip-hop’s evolution and greatest moments on the AMAs with a performance of his greatest hits.

“American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special” airs coast to coast this Sunday, October 6, at 8:00pm Eastern/5:00pm Pacific, and they have just announced more artists who will take the stage as performers: Nelly, Nile Rodgers and Chic, and Sheila E.

Rapper Nelly has won three AMAs, and he will perform a tribute to hip-hop’s evolution and greatest moments over the years along with special guests Chingy, J-Kwon, and members of the St. Lunatics. Meanwhile, Nile Rodgers and Chic will perform their classic single “Le Freak” as well as Rodgers’s Grammy-winning collaboration with Daft Punk and Pharrell, “Get Lucky.” Among his career achievements, Rodgers has been inducted into the Rock and Roll and Songwriters Halls of Fame. And Sheila E. will be joining previously announced performer Chaka Khan‘s tribute to women at the AMAs.

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Pharrell Williams managed to overcome a hatred of his own voice for ‘Piece by Piece’.The 51-year-old singer is used to performing in front of packed stadiums but the ‘Happy’ chart-topper has admitted he didn't enjoy listening to his tones during the making of the Lego biopic.Pharrell told The Hollywood Reporter: "I hate it. Doing it in Lego allowed me to objectively appreciate my voice and my point of view and what I want to do. "When I hear myself without any kind of other platform or anything connected to it, I’m like, ‘Shut the f*** up. Literally, why are you saying that? Like, who cares? Who do you think you are — some philosopher? Shut the f*** up.’"Like, they asked me to do something the other day and I’m like, ‘No. Who wants to hear me? Like, no.’ But this film has allowed me to...

Pharrell Williams was always happy. He wasn’t always humble.

Since earning his first music credit on Wreckx-n-Effect’s 1992 ass-shaking anthem “Rump Shaker,” the producer/songwriter/rapper/singer/composer/fashion designer/movie producer/father has spent the past three decades on top of the world. You could easily write a thesis on how his inventive, colorful beats and creative lyricism — some as one-half of The Neptunes — have contributed to the pop culture landscape. He helped Britney Spears transition from teeny bopper to racy pop star; gave swag to Nsync and later Justin Timberlake, aiding in his successful solo sprint; had everyone getting undressed at the club with Nelly’s “Hot in Herre,” and the boys — and girls and everyone else — running to the yard with Kelis’ still tasty “Milkshake.” Along the way, he gave Snoop Dogg his first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in “Drop It Like It’s Hot,...

Justin Timberlake‘s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” managed to be both retro and trendy at the same time. However, the “Cry Me a River” star seemed lukewarm on “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” Regardless, the public couldn’t get enough of the track.

Why Justin Timberlake recorded ‘Can’t Stop the Feeling!’ when he didn’t want to do so

On one level, “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” is a quintessential Timberlake song. He wrote it with Max Martin, the producer behind some of the hits from Timberlake’s boy band days. It’s also a disco song. When Timberlake isn’t making R&b, he’s making dance songs. He even previously experimented with the genre with “Take Back the Night.” However, Timberlake seems distant from “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”

During a 2020 interview posted on his YouTube channel, Timberlake discussed “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”

“This song trips me out,...

Pharrell Williams has always done things differently in his music and his fashion, so why would his movie be different?

The singer-producer-designer is doing a biopic about his life. Focus Features just released the trailer for it. But it’s not your average musician biopic of the kind “Walk Hard” parodied. No, Williams is telling his life story through Legos. The movie is called “Piece by Piece,” but a more descriptive title would be “The Lego Pharrell Movie.”

The film follows Williams’ artistic journey, from growing up in Virginia Beach to the peak of the music industry, but tells it in an unconventional way, with impressionistic animation that combines psychedelia and Legos. The film is directed by Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy-winning documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville in his feature debut.

Williams and Neville hope the film resonates not just with fans of Williams’ music, but anyone seeking inspiration. “We wanted it...

Michael Jackson was the King of Pop and every king has a court. It’s no surprise he worked with several other megastars across genres over the course of his life. Some of those collaborations are classic and others are tragic.

1. Justin Timberlake

“Love Never Felt So Good” is a posthumous disco duet with Justin Timberlake. It’s not as good as Jackson’s classic disco tracks but it has an infectious, cherry energy. It feels more like a prequel to Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” than anything else.

The song has some great timing. It came out in 2014. 2013 saw a huge revival of disco music with hits like Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” Bruno Mars’ “Treasure.” while it was a song from the vaults, “Love Never Felt So Good” felt practically modern! The tune appeared on the posthumous album Xscape. Xscape is not Thriller,...

Daft Punk is a duo that hardly needs an introduction. From Grammy-winning hit songs like "Get Lucky" to their work on soundtracks to blockbuster movies like "Tron: Legacy," the electronic musicians have conquered the world. But long before Hollywood came calling, the French beat-makers got a boost from the folks at Cartoon Network. Specifically, when the band's anime-inspired music videos aired on Toonami.

Complex did a deep-dive into the history of the anime-focused gamble that was Toonami back in 2017. While the programming block certainly helped give anime a profile boost in the U.S., it also helped out several popular musical acts, Daft Punk among them. As Toonami co-creator Jason DeMarco explained at the time, the duo reached out to them when they were in the midst of premiering an ambitious music video project titled "Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem" tied to their second studio album,...

ABC announces the Hollywood lineup for ‘New Year’s Rockin Eve 2024’

Bebe Rexha, Green Day, Janelle Monáe, and Ellie Goulding will perform on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024. The Hollywood lineup also includes Aqua, Doechii, Loud Luxury, Two Friends, Ludacris, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Paul Russell, Reneé Rapp, Coco Jones, and Thirty Seconds to Mars.

Emmy winner Jeannie Mai has been tapped to host the Hollywood portion of the broadcast, with Ryan Seacrest returning to host from New York for his 19th year. Rita Ora will join Seacrest live from Times Square. The broadcast kicks off on Sunday, December 31st at 8pm Et.

Last year, 13.8 million viewers tuned in to celebrate the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023.

ABC released this description of the just-announced 2024 performers:

Danish dance-pop group Aqua is set to perform hits “Barbie Girl” and “Doctor Jones,” both from the three-time certified platinum 1997 album Aquarium.

Daft Punk have released Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition) via Columbia Records. The re-release, which has removed all drums and percussive elements from their final studio album, arrives at the 10-year anniversary of the 2013 Grammy-winning Album of the Year. Stream the album below.

According to the album’s press release, the drumless edition of hit album Random Access Memories aims to give listeners “the ability to dive deeper into the layers of each track.”

The record arrives shortly after the release of Random Access Memories (10th Anniversary Edition), which included nine unreleased tracks for a total of 35 minutes of all-new music. The release saw Random Access Memories return to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart.

Daft Punk have also commemorated this anniversary with an ongoing content series called Memory Tapes, which pulls back the curtain on the French house duo’s creation of Random Access Memories.

The legendary Nile Rodgers brought a whole lot of funk to the NPR office for the latest iteration of their Tiny Desk Concert series.

Rodgers’ six-song setlist serves as a useful reminder of just how ubiquitous his music is. He and his Chic bandmates kicked things off with their 1978 disco classic “Le Freak,” the whoops and hollers of the vocalists meshing with those from the equally-energized audience.

“Obviously, every song we’re gonna play today is a song I wrote,” Rodgers said between songs with a smile, laughing off the braggadocio of the statement. But bragging is absolutely called for when you’ve written tunes like Diana Ross’ “I’m Coming Out,” Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family,” and Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” all of which Rodgers also performed at the Tiny Desk.

Rogers and company then played the Chic song “Good Times,” further proving his massive influence by...

Nile Rodgers and Chic brought the “maximum funkocity” to Nrp’s Tiny Desk, delivering a half-hour set of classics from both the Chic catalogue and songs co-written by Rodgers himself.

The set opened with Chic’s “Le Freak,” and from there went on to feature Diana Ross’ “I’m Coming Out, Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family,” Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” (all co-written by Rodgers), Chic’s own “Good Times” interpolated with the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” and concluded with the David Bowie/Rodgers collabo “Let’s Dance.

Daft Punk will not be playing at your house, and they most certainly will not be reuniting next summer for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, Rolling Stone has confirmed.

“This is a rumor and not true,” a rep for the robots tells Rolling Stone. The twosome disbanded in 2021.

On Wednesday, Le Parisien reported (en français) that Thomas Jolly, the opening ceremony’s artistic director, had said, “It would be very fortunate if they were in the ceremony,” on the radio network France Inter. “We can’t...

Pharrell Williams reacts to hearing a completed “Get Lucky” for the first time in the 10th anniversary Random Access Memories video documenting Daft Punk’s classic 2013 LP.

“When monumental things happen, sometimes it’s lost on you, because I’m just so in it and being so present in the moment, and you’d think that would give you all the detail in the world, but it does the exact opposite for me. I get lost in it,” Williams says in the video.

“Working with them is just very magical...

The entertainment world is spiraling as Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, and Nsync continue to dominate news cycles with sold-out concerts, ticketing woes, and a long-awaited reunion! After dominating the stage at the VMAs, Nsync has dropped their first single, Better Place,” and it’s a bop! The new song hails from the third film in the Trolls franchise, Trolls Band Together, starring Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick.

In Trolls Band Together, Queen Poppy discovers her partner, Branch, was once a part of her favorite boy band, BroZone. Branch was a featured player in the band alongside Floyd (Sivan), John Dory (André), Spruce (Diggs), and Clay (Cudi). BroZone disbanded when Branch was still a baby; the family hasn’t spoken since. When Floyd is kidnapped for his musical talents by a pair of pop-star villains – Velvet (Schumer) and Veneer (Rannells) – Branch and Poppy, embark on an emotional journey to reunite Branch...

Daft Punk will continue their 10th anniversary celebration of Random Access Memories this November with a “drumless edition” of their Grammy-winning 2013 album.

Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition), due out November 17, features all 13 songs from the original LP, but as the title suggests, the drums and percussion have been stripped from the defunct dance duo’s tracks.

Ahead of the reworked LP’s release, Daft Punk has shared the “drumless” version of the ballad “Within”; although already one of Random Access Memories’ less percussive tracks, the “drumless edition” take spotlights Chilly Gonzales’s piano work.

Daft Punk are still keeping the good times rolling as they celebrate the 10th anniversary of their final studio album. After sharing an extended deluxe version of it earlier this year, the French house duo have announced Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition), a track-by-track reimagining of the record without a single drum beat.

While it’s hard to imagine most Daft Punk songs drumless, Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition) should pique interest in fans wanting to delve deeper into the layers of the band’s compositions. Pre-orders are ongoing now before the album is out in full November 17th.

See the artwork and tracklist for Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition) below.

Earlier this year, Daft Punk released a deluxe edition of Random Access Memories, featuring 35 minutes of previously unreleased music. In an interview corresponding with its release, Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter said he was “relieved” that the duo disbanded,...

The Twilight Singers have announced a definitive box set titled Black Out the Windows/Ladies and Gentlemen, The Twilight Singers, out in October via One Little Independent Records. In addition to newly remastered versions of the Greg Dulli-led band’s studio releases, it contains an LP of rare and previously unreleased material.

The 13-piece (six 2xLP and one EP) box set was pressed onto 180g crystal clear vinyl housed in reimagined white embossed album sleeves. It contains remasterings of the studio albums Twilight as Played by The Twilight Singers, Blackberry Belle, She Loves You, Powder Burns, and Dynamite Steps as well as the 2006 EP A Stitch in Time. The bonus album, Etcetera, features 11 tracks of rare and previously unreleased material.

Accompanying the vinyl is a 56-page book containing essays by Mark Lanegan, Duff McKagan, The Church’s Steve Kilbey, and more. It also includes career-spanning rare and previously unseen photos by Danny Clinch,...

Daft Punk have unveiled the 10th anniversary reissue of their final album, Random Access Memories. Featuring nine previously-unreleased tracks — totaling 35 minutes of new music — the release offers a unique glimpse into the French duo’s creative process, and pays homage to the celebrated, 2x album that marked the end of their run.

The duo also unveiled a video for the new track “Infinity Repeating (2013 Demo),” featuring Julian Casablancas + The Voidz, which they note will be their final music video. Watch it below.

“Infinity Repeating (2013 Demo)” was recorded during the initial sessions for Random Access Memories at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles and Electric Lady Studios in New York. Built around a literal loop, the song (and its animated video) allude to the confluence of humanity and technology, a theme present throughout the album. “It’s lovely and bizarre, like a human,” Casablancas said in a statement. “And, like a human,...

“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” star Simu Liu is known for his star-studded acting career, his extensive stock photo modeling, his amazing humour, but a lesser-known talent of the star is his musical prowess.

As we celebrate, Asian Heritage Month, we take a look at the 34-year-old’s roots in music that stretch all the way back to his childhood.

How It Started

Liu’s musical origins stretch all the way back to his teen years, when he joined the short-lived high school group LX4.

“I was a part of a boy band when I was 12. I mean, nothing ever happened. It was called LX4 because all of our names started with L,” he later recalled to “Q'”s Tom Power in 2023.

Read More: 12 Reasons We Love Simu Liu

It wasn’t until 2013 that the actor would see his first role in the music industry when he...

Daft Punk have offered the first taste of the 35 minutes of unreleased music on their 10th anniversary edition of Random Access Memories with a behind-the-scenes take on the album standout “Fragments of Time” featuring Todd Edwards.

“The Writing of Fragments of Time” is what it says it is: an eight-minute, fly-on-the-wall recording of Edwards and Daft Punk’s Thomas Bang­alter collaborating on “Fragments of Time,” discussing melody and lyrics and the meaning of the song over multiple stitched-together takes.

However, as edited by Daft Punk sound engineer Florian Lagatta,...

Just when we thought we’d heard the last of Daft Punk, the French funk duo are gifting us with nine unreleased tracks.

The new songs will feature on a new edition of 2013’s Random Access Memories to celebrate its 10th anniversary.

The Grammy winning album was originally released in 2013 and included tracks including “Get Lucky”, “Lose Yourself to Dance” and “Instant Crush”.

The album also features collaborations with the likes of Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers and Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas.

The duo, made up of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo – who always appear under the guise of helmets – announced the end of the band in 2021.

At the time, the pair revealed the news in an eight-minute video titled “Epilogue” on their YouTube channel. The clip is an excerpt from their 2006 science-fiction film Electroma.

Random Access Memories was their last full album release before their split after nearly 30 years of making music together.

Daft Punk, the defunct, dome-headed dance duo, are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their final album, Random Access Memories, by reissuing the album with 35 minutes of previously unreleased music across nine tracks. The expanded edition of the album will be available on double-cd and triple-lp, and it will be available to stream and download on May 12. The album will also be available for the first time in an Atmos mix.

Some of the bonus material includes an “early take” of “Get Lucky,” the track they wrote with Nile Rodgers that also featured Pharrell Williams,...

Daft Punk will mark the 10th anniversary of their fourth and final album, Random Access Memories, by releasing an expanded edition featuring 35 minutes of unheard music. The deluxe reissue will be available in a variety of formats, including digitally and as 3xLP and 2xCD sets, beginning May 12th (pre-order here).

The expanded tracklist includes nine previously unreleased tracks, demos, sketches, and other rarities. Among the notable tracks are “Horizon” (previously only available in Japan), a demo of “Infinity Repeating,” and “Touch (2021 Epilogue).”

The announcement of this expanded release comes two years to the day of Daft Punk’s breakup on February 22nd, 2021. Last year, Consequence slotted Random Access Memories at No. 19 on our list of the 75 Best Albums of the Last 15 Years.

On April 7th, Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter will release his first solo work since the group’s breakup, an orchestral album called Mythologies.

Random Access Memories (10th...

Pharrell Williams is making fashion his job.

On Tuesday, Louis Vuitton announced that the “Get Lucky” singer is the company’s new Men’s Creative Director, stepping into the role previously held by the late Virgil Abloh.

Read More: Louis Vuitton Stages Virgil Abloh Swansong In Paris

“Louis Vuitton is delighted to welcome Pharrell Williams as its new Men’s Creative Director,” the fashion label said in an Instagram post, revealing, “His first collection for Louis Vuitton will be revealed next June during Men’s Fashion Week in Paris.”

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“I am glad to welcome Pharrell back home, after our collaborations in 2004 and 2008 for Louis Vuitton, as our new Men’s Creative Director. His creative vision beyond fashion will undoubtedly lead Louis Vuitton towards a new and very exciting chapter,” said Pietro Beccari, Louis Vuitton’s Chairman and CEO.

The Masked Singer is back on our screens, turning the nation into at-home detectives as they try to figure out who this year’s celebrity contestants are.

The singing competition series, in which celebrities compete anonymously behind giant anthropomorphic costumes, returned on New Year’s Day, with the first group of contestants all performing.

Among the group was Phoenix, who was shown in their Vt standing within a grand castle and explaining in a posh accent that “I am rather hot, aren’t I?”

“Fire” by Kasabian then played as Phoenix said that they had risen from the ashes and been “born anew” and “reincarnated”.

They also said that they were good with “mysteries” and “following a trail”, while Phoenix was shown inspecting foot prints with a magnifying glass.

Phoenix’s first performance was a jazz version of “Get Lucky” by Daft Punk. While performing, they sang with an American accent.

Who’ll win Song of the Year at the 2023 Grammys? This award goes strictly to the songwriters of the year’s best composition. That makes it different from Record of the Year, which goes to the artists, producers, and engineers. Scroll down for our official odds, which have been calculated based on the combined predictions of Gold Derby users. The odds will keep changing, so we’ll be updating this list as the year progresses.

SEE2023 Grammy predictions: Album of the Year

For most of Grammy history there were five nomination slots in this category. From 2019 to 2021, it was expanded to eight nominees, as were Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best New Artist. And in 2022 the top four categories were expanded again to 10 slots. But that wasn’t the only recent shakeup. After prolonged controversy over the voting system, the Grammys eliminated nomination review committees in almost all categories.

The premiere of “Dancing with the Stars” had all the heart and drama fans have come to expect.

On Monday night, the long-running reality competition kicked off its 31st season, with a dramatic first elimination and much more, all hosted by Tyra Banks and new co-host Alfonso Ribeiro.

Read More: Selma Blair Has Everyone In Tears After Emotional ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Performance

In one of the most emotional moments of the show, Selma Blair, who has been living with multiple sclerosis, performed a Viennese waltz with partner Sasha Farber to the song “The Time of My Life” by David Cook, earning 28 points.

Top-scorers included Wayne Brady and Witney Carson, who got 29 points from the judges with their cool cha-cha to Carl Carlton’s “She’s a Bad Mama Jama”.

Also in the running for top spot were Gabby Windey and Val Chmerkovskiy with a jive to Harry Styles’ summer...

“Dancing with the Stars” may have a new home on Disney+, but one thing hasn’t change: disproportionately distributed dance syles.

Disney+ has unveiled the 16 routines and songs for Monday’s Season 31 premiere, with the dance styles being jive, tango, quickstep, cha-cha, foxtrot, salsa and Viennese waltz. Seven couples will perform a cha-cha, while two each will do a jive, tango and salsa. The Viennese waltz, foxtrot and quickstep will each be represented by one couple. Totally even here.

See the full list below.

Joseph Baena and Daniella Karagach: jive (“Pump It” by the Black Eyed Peas)

Selma Blair and Sasha Farber: Viennese waltz (“The Time of My Life” by David Cook)

Wayne Brady and Witney Carson: cha-cha

Sam Champion and Cheryl Burke: foxtrot (“Hold Me Closer” by Elton John and Britney Spears)

Charli D’Amelio and Mark Ballas: cha-cha (“Savage [Major Lazer Remix]” by Megan Thee Stallion...

Move Mountains Productions have released the official trailer for new film The Sun Also Rises, due for release in Summer. The Sun Also Rises is the directorial debut of a full-length film by Roland Manookian and is produced by Shane McCormick, Tom Gordon (Good Shout film collective founder), Josh Witcher and Franky Lankester (Ron Hopper’s Misfortune).

The film focuses on Raye (Gina Jones), a woman trapped in an abusive relationship. The film charts her struggle to survive, her journey to escape, and how the cycle of violence affects everyone who comes into contact with it.

The Sun Also Rises is a beautiful film with an ultimately positive message of redemption; it pays homage to the strength of the human spirit. The film draws inspiration from the Ernest Hemmingway book Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises, portraying Raye’s journey through the lens of a metaphorical bull run. Producer Shane McCormick...

Monte-Carlo TV Festival Unveils Competition Lineup

The Monte-Carlo Television Festival has signaled its intention to host an in-person event on June 18-22 by announcing its competition lineup. Some 27 programs from 14 countries have been officially selected to compete, with winners announced at the Golden Nymph Awards Ceremony on June 22 at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco. The nominees include Keshet series Line In The Sand and HBO Max/Channel 4’s AIDS crisis drama It’s A Sin. The full lineup can be found here. Laurent Puons, CEO of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, said: “We have wide-ranging and exceptional global content nominated for Golden Nymph Awards. The number of programs participating in the competition, shows the ever-growing interest of productions and talent to claim this trophy, a timeless symbol of internationally recognized quality. This enthusiasm confirms that our event remains the pre-eminent Festival in Europe.”

‘Outlander’s Lauren Lyle Joins ITV’s ‘Karen Pirie...

Noomi Rapace and Nicholas Pinnock are joining Matthias Schoenaerts in the star cast of “Django,” an English-language reimagining of Sergio Corbucci’s classic 1966 Western. Set in the Wild West of the 1860s and ’70s, the project marks one of the biggest high-end European series of 2021.

Star of “Prometheus,” “Sherlock Holmes” and “What Happened to Monday,” Sweden’s Rapace will play Elizabeth, who is described as a powerful and merciless enemy of John Ellis. Along with his fiancee Sarah, John Ellis is the founder of New Babylon, a city of outcasts which welcomes everyone from any background, race or creed.

British actor Pinnock — whose credits include movies such as “The Last Tree” and “Dark Encounter” as well as popular TV dramas “Counterpart,”“Fortitude,” “Marcella and “For Life” — takes the key role of John Ellis. Schoenaerts (“Bullhead”) plays the titular role of Django.

German on-the-rise star Lisa Vicari, Martha Nielsen in “Dark,...

The Grammys don’t have a very good track record when it comes to honoring rap music in general field categories. Though the genre has come to dominate the charts, there wasn’t a single hip-hop winner for Record of the Year until “This is America” by Childish Gambino in 2019. Could “Savage (Remix)” by Megan Thee Stallion and Beyonce be the second just two years later?

According to the combined predictions of Gold Derby users, “Don’t Start Now” by Dua Lipa is the front-runner with leading odds of 9/2. It’s a more traditional Grammy contender than “Savage” — a pop breakup anthem like Adele‘s “Rolling in the Deep” and Gotye‘s “Somebody That I Used to Know” in a throwback style like Daft Punk‘s “Get Lucky.” Lipa is also helped by the fact that the song is additionally nominated for Song of the Year, and that her “Future...

Fans of Daft Punk streamed the French electronic duo’s music by the millions on Monday after the group, who have pushed the boundaries of electronic music and repeatedly cast a gleeful, grooving spell on the world, announced that they were calling it quits after nearly 30 helmeted years together.

Streams for Daft Punk’s catalog soared nearly 500% on Monday compared to Sunday, while song sales were up 1,335% and digital album sales were up 2,650%, according to Alpha Data, the data analytics provider that powers the Rolling Stone Charts. From the brilliant...

Daft Punk, the masked and highly influential Edm duo, has signaled its retirement in an announcement as enigmatic as the rest of the pair’s three-decade career.

In a stark, new eight-minute video called “Epilogue,” posted today (watch it above), Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, maintaining their robot/racing personas, walk toward one another through a purple-sky desert. After standing helmet-to-helmet for a bit, one pushes a button on the other’s power pack, setting off a countdown alarm. They separate and prepare for self-destruction. The dates “1993-2021” then appear.

Publicist Kathryn Frazier has confirmed the split but provided no details.

The video ends with the song “Touch” from Daft Punk’s Grammy-winning 2013 album Random Access Memories.

Daft Punk’s hits include 2013’s “Get Lucky,” as well as “Da Funk” and “Robot Rock.” The duo recorded the the Tron: Legacy soundtrack album in 2010.

Daft Punk, the widely celebrated and influential electronic duo, have broken up.

The group announced the decision via an eight-minute sequence, dubbed “Epilogue,” taken from their 2006 film, Electroma, in which two robots — meant to represent band members Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter — venture into a desert where one gets blown up. An image of two robot hands forming a triangle then flashes on-screen with the time-stamp: 1993-2021.

Kathryn Frazier, Daft Punk’s longtime representative, confirmed the breakup to Rolling Stone but declined to provide any details on the split.

The Grammy Award for Record of the Year is the top award to honor an artist’s performance, along with the production and mixing behind a song, as well as to cement that song into music history. This year we have an eclectic mix of record-breaking hits, acclaimed gems, and politically relevant songs that are all vying for their place in Grammy history. Let’s dive in.

A double nominee here for the first time in her career (and the first time ever for any female artist), Beyoncé has the chance to win for her powerful “Black Parade” (also nominated in Song of the Year), as well as her smash hit “Savage” along with Best New Artist front-runner Megan Thee Stallion. Out of the two, “Savage” could have the advantage; it’s a much bigger hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100, which always helps (most Record winners are commercial hits), and...

Who will be nominated for Record of the Year when the Grammy nominations are announced on November 24? Thousands of Gold Derby users have been placing their bets for months here in our prediction center. Those predictions were combined to generate our official racetrack odds. So let’s take a look at the top eight contenders likely to secure those nominations.

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1. “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd — 4/1 odds

It spent four weeks at number-one, but more impressive than that is its longevity. It spent longer in the top five of Billboard’s Hot 100 than any other song in history, and also spent more time in the top 10 than any other song. The Weeknd also earned a previous nomination in this category for “Can’t Feel My Face” (2016), so this song is as close to...

Exclusive: Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas is going back to his local band member roots with Get Lucky, a drama project, which has landed at NBC with a put pilot commitment.

Written by Thomas, in Get Lucky, for the popular wedding band Get Lucky, every week there’s a new to gig play, a new love story, and a new chance to experience a sweaty, giddy, nearly forgotten feeling of togetherness. For six single musicians who are themselves looking for love, what does it mean to get lucky in a post-pandemic world?

Thomas executive produces via his Spondoolie Productions alongside frequent collaborator Dan Etheridge. Rebecca Franko (iZombie) serves as a producer. The project hails from Spondoolie Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television where the company has been based for years.

Thomas and Etheridge previously co-created another series about a sextet of mostly single people working events, including weddings, the cult Starz comedy Party Down,...

Artist collaborations have become so common in music that most of the songs that have topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 2020 have been team-ups. But despite musicians trading verses every which way, it’s rare for one artist to have multiple nominations for Record of the Year in the same year. But there are so many combos in the current race that we could potentially see a few repeats.

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The only artist to show up twice in the same year to date was Pharrell Williams, who won as a featured artist on Daft Punk‘s “Get Lucky” in 2014 and was also nominated that year as a featured artist on Robin Thicke‘s “Blurred Lines.” This contest has many more double-dippers than that, starting with Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber. They could be nominated...

As we get closer to the 2021 Grammy Awards nominations (date yet to be announced), we should take a closer look at the race for Record of the Year, which is stacked with possibilities. This category honors individual songs, with the prize going to the artists, producers and engineers. Let’s see which hits are primed for some glory.

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As with Album of the Year, the Record of the Year conversation seems to be set on The Weeknd for his smash hit “Blinding Lights.” The song would not only be The Weeknd’s first general field win, it would also give superstar producer Max Martin his first general win too after working on some of the biggest hits of the last 25 years. The song dominated the Billboard Hot 100 and was acclaimed upon release. However, it...

While the pandemic may have thrust fiscal insecurity onto entire global industries, the music business has seen barely a week go by without seven or eight figures being splashed on a prized catalog. Most often, the player has been Merck Mercuriadis’s UK-based Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which recently acquired pieces of RZA, Blondie, No I.D, and Barry Manilow’s catalogs.

But there’s another modern music company eyeing huge buys — and it’s already nailed down two monster deals of over $100 million in 2020.

That would be Nashville-based records and publishing company Concord.

Sunday marks Bono’s 60th birthday, and to celebrate the U2 singer has unveiled his “60 Songs That Saved My Life” playlist.

“These are some of the songs that saved my life,’ Bono wrote of the playlist. “The ones I couldn’t have lived without… the ones that got me from there to here, zero to 60… through all the scrapes, all manner of nuisance, from the serious to the silly… and the joy, mostly joy.'”

Bono also penned a “fan letter” of gratitude to each of the artists included on his playlist,...