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Beth Garrabrant Luminate, the company that provides the sales and streaming data that powers the Billboard charts, is out with its 2024 Year-End Music Report — and Taylor Swift has a new entry for her résumé. According to the company's data, not only was Taylor the top streamed songwriter of the year and the artist with the top-selling album of the year, she was also the most influential artist of 2024.Luminate determined […]

Céline Dion and René Angélil in 2013; Gabe Ginsberg/WireImage Tuesday, Jan. 14, marked the ninth anniversary of the death of René Angélil, Céline Dion's husband and manager, and she took to Instagram to pay tribute to him.Posting a photo of herself and the couple's sons — René-Charles and twins Eddy and Nelson — Céline wrote, "René, we can’t believe you’ve been gone nine years already. Not a day goes by that we don’t feel […]

Disney/Chris Willard Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez are continuing their hot streak when it comes to award nominations.Both stars have received nods for Best Supporting Actress at the BAFTAs, the U.K. equivalent of the Oscars. Ari is nominated for Wicked, while Selena's nod is for Emilia Pérez. Both women were also nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes.Overall, Emilia Pérez received 11 nominations; Wicked got seven, but it was snubbed […]

Emma McIntyre/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift is having a marvelous time expanding everything.Taylor is adding on to Holiday House, her home in Rhode Island that inspired her folklore song "the last great american dynasty." The Providence Journal reports that according to a building permit issued in December, the home, which is already 11,000 square feet, will be gaining a new bedroom and bathrooms, and the kitchen will undergo renovations.The […]

Disney/Randy Holmes It was reported last year that Lady Gaga was planning to perform a free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2025 — similar to the one that Madonna did in 2024. Now a Brazilian paper is reporting that the date for the event has been set.The paper O Globo reported that the show, called Lady Gaga: Everyone In Rio, will take place May 3 from 9 p.m. to […]

Jennifer McCord Many of Myles Smith's songs are romantic, but the "Stargazing" singer has now shared one that he says is so "painful" that just posting a little bit of it has sent his "anxiety through the roof."On Instagram, he wrote of the song, called "My First Heartbreak," "This one’s super close to my heart and my anxiety is through the roof. ... Still don’t know if I’m ready to give it to the […]

Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management The Eras Tour is over for good, right? Well, maybe not.According to Bloomberg, the Chinese digital media outlet The Paper reported on Jan. 13 that the city of Shanghai thinks it might be possible for Taylor Swift to perform there in 2025.A Shanghai tourism official told the publication that authorities held "preliminary talks" with Taylor's team and was quoted as saying, "We are […]

The Village People in 2017; Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images The Village People hit "Y.M.C.A." has pretty much become synonymous with President-elect Donald Trump, so perhaps it's no surprise that the '70s disco group has decided to participate in his inauguration on Jan. 20. However, they've posted a message on Facebook defending their decision.The group wrote on Jan. 13, "We are announcing today that VILLAGE PEOPLE have accepted an invitation from President […]

Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson in 2023; Ella Hovsepian/Getty Images Jessica Simpson has issued a new statement sharing that she and her husband of 10 years, former NFL player Eric Johnson, are "living separately."The singer, actress and fashion mogul said in the statement, "Eric and I have been living separately navigating a painful situation in our marriage. Our children come first, and we are focusing on what is best for […]