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Disney/Ben Hider Gracie Abrams is being honored as Songwriter of the Year at Billboard's upcoming Women In Music event, and she's also getting a prestigious award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June. But she says she feels like she still has a long way to go when it comes to being the best at her craft.Asked if she feels close to "mastering" songwriting, Gracie tells Billboard, "No. Oh, my […]

Kelly Clarkson, Tyler Perry on her 1,000th episode; Weiss Eubanks/NBC Universal The Kelly Clarkson Show aired its 1,000th episode on Thursday, and the people in charge of the show find it amusing that people freaked out about Kelly's recent absences.Kelly was absent from the show from March 3 to March 13, with guest hosts taking her place. Deadline reports that Kelly was out due to a "private matter." The mag noted […]

First We Feast/Hot Ones Selena Gomez nearly had a breakdown while consuming spicy wings on the latest episode of Hot Ones — while her fiancé, Benny Blanco, continued to crack jokes.Sean Evans first reminded Selena of how, back in 2019, he blindsided her on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with a sauce called Da Bomb Beyond Insanity. "All I remember is being in a lot of pain," she recalled. "That's why I […]

Beth Garrabrant To the surprise of no one, Billboard has crowned Taylor Swift its #1 Woman Artist of the 21st Century as part of its countdown of the biggest artists and songs of the first 25 years of our current century.The ranking is based on performance on the Billboard 200 album chart and the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and Taylor has dominated on both. Her most recent album, The Tortured Poets […]

Legacy/Columbia Mariah Carey may not have her Christmas tree up anymore, but she's just gotten a nice present: A federal judge has ruled in her favor in an ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit involving her holiday smash "All I Want for Christmas Is You."The lawsuit, which has been ongoing since 2022, accuses Mariah of copying her song from one of the same name released in 1989 by Vince Vance & the Valiants. But […]

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco attend 'Spring Breakers' screening; TheStewartofNY/GC Images Remember when Selena Gomez starred in the controversial 2013 Harmony Korine film Spring Breakers? She sure does -- in fact, she showed up at an anniversary screening of the film on Wednesday to debut one of her new songs.Posting a photo of the moment, Selena wrote that she and fiancé Benny Blanco debuted "Bluest Flame," a song from their joint album, I […]

ABC/Paula Lobo Ed Sheeran told a fan on a private Instagram account that one of his favorite songs on his upcoming album is called "Old Phone" -- and now he's creating a unique experience based on it.On the website TheOldPhonePub.com, you'll see a video message from Ed explaining that he wants fans to sign up for his text list, and then send him something meaningful from their old phone -- or […]

Madonna in 1993; Steve Eichner/WireImage; Barbra Streisand in 1993; Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images Imagine Madonna duetting with Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler. Well, that diva-palooza almost happened in 1993 -- until it didn't.In a new interview, Jay Landers, Streisand's A&R guy, reveals the idea of the triple collab was brought up when Barbra was working on her 1993 Back to Broadway album. The concept was that all three singers would cover "Anything […]

Disney/Randy Holmes Sia became a mom in 2019 when she adopted two 18-year-old boys who were about to age out of the foster system. But People reports that she also welcomed a third child 11 months ago, with her now-estranged husband.According to documents obtained by People, on March 18 Sia filed to divorce Dan Bernad, whom she married in a small ceremony in Italy in May 2023. Within those documents is […]