20 Fun Facts About Billboard's 'Greatest Pop Star by Year' Selections

Ariana DeBose, at first, didn’t have any words to say about her Oscar nomination because she was so shocked.

Amanda Holden looked effortlessly glam as she waltzed into the Heart FM headquarters sporting one of her most dressed down looks yet. The Britain's Got Talent judge, 50, proved that she didn't need to wear jaw dropping attire to still win over the crowd.Instead, the mum-of-two opted to keep her look stylish and on-trend, sporting an orange high-neck jumper and a killer pair of fitted flared denim wash jeans.The I Can See Your Voice star sizzled for the camera as she posed while perched on a desk at the radio station's HQ.Her blonde locks were swooped up into a sleek high bun, to show off her immaculate makeup.Sharing her outfit with her 1.8 million Instagram fans, Amanda decided to jig for the camera.In another snap - also shared to her story - the TV judge can be seen on the move wearing a matching brightly coloured overcoat to complete her spring-time look.Meanwhile last month, Amanda returned to Britain's Got Talent for filming after the programme had been halted for two years due to the on-going Covid pandemic.The ITV star couldn't help stop her emotion from running wild as she returned for the fifteenth series at the London Palladium alongside her fellow panellists - Simon Cowell, 62, Alesha Dixon, 43, and David Walliams, 50.

Setting the record straight. Armie Hammer and his estranged wife, Elizabeth Chambers, have not reconciled their romance despite rumors to the contrary.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorVisionary visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull, who died Monday, contributed his groundbreaking inventions and techniques to classics including “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and “Blade Runner.”Among his many honors were three visual effects Oscar nominations (“Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and “Blade Runner”); the Academy’s Scientific and Engineering Award for creating the Showscan Camera System; and the Visual Effects Society’s Georges Méliès Award, honoring those who have made significant, pioneering contributions to the effects business, in 2012.A generation of visual effects artists and filmmakers were influenced by his work, including Weta FX senior VFX supervisor Joe Letteri, who said, “Doug stands out as an iconic figure in visual effects, one of the early pioneers who blended a deep knowledge of cinematography and mechanics to develop techniques that we still use today. An early evangelist of high frame rate processes, Doug’s vision for where we can take cinema is just now coming to fruition.” Here’s a look at a five iconic moments Trumbull helped create.Trumbull was Oscar nominated for visual effects for Spielberg’s “Close Encounters,” and one of his significant contributions was the motion control photography used in the scenes featuring the alien’s massive mother ship.

Mark Sutherland If last year’s Brit Awards went out with something of a COVID-restricted whimper, this year’s ceremony came in with a bang.Several bangs in fact, as an unexpected mash-up between emo-metal hybrid Bring Me The Horizon and Ed Sheeran on the latter’s “Bad Habits” launched the show to, no doubt, the bewilderment of mums and dads tuning in at home and expecting the nice, ginger-next-door they usually see at events like this. The arena, however, was ablaze — quite literally, as the unlikely collaborators became the first of several performers to torch the stage.Held at The O2 Arena in south London, this year’s Brits — unlike last year’s event — took place in a country that is largely free of COVID restrictions.

Everyone needs a good cry every now and then. For Will Arnett, it happened on the side of the road. To be fair, the BoJack Horseman actor had recently split with Amy Poehler after nine years of marriage. This made his experience filming the Arrested Development revival “almost excruciating,” as he told The Guardian. “Just brutal, brutal, brutal,” he continued. “I was driving to the set one day and I pulled over to the side of the road and cried for an hour.”

MAYA Jama awkwardly shut down Mo Gilligan's questions about her love life during the Brit Awards 2022. As the presenters chatted in between awards Mo, 33, drew attention to the sparkler on 27-year-old Maya's ring finger.

Janet Jackson is getting creative amid quarantine.

The spring of 1990 was a big moment for powerful women. Julia Roberts was melting hearts on the big screen as the titular lead in Pretty Woman, on television Roseanne was showcasing the quotidian reality of blue-collar America, Denise Huxtable was having her post-Cosby Show college experience on A Different World and the Golden Girls were making us laugh every freakin' weekend.But for those who were spending more time in nightclubs than in front of the screen, the real heroine of the moment was Janet Jackson, who was dominating clubs, radio and charts with her era-defining LP Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814.

It includes songs by David Bowie, Janet Jackson, and The Pharcyde

It might be the year 2020, but if you glanced at the U.S. iTunes Store’s Top Albums tally this past week, it’d be hard to tell what decade you were in.Thanks to sale pricing and fan promotion, a trio of older albums by Mariah Carey, Madonna and Janet Jackson all jumped into the iTunes Stores’ always-updating Top Albums tally.

More than 25 years after its initial release, one of Madonna's most under-appreciated albums is getting some love.Bedtime Stories, the Material Girl'ssixth studio album released in 1994, shot to the top position of the U.S. iTunes chart on Thursday, thanks to a fan-led hashtag campaign '#JusticeForBedtimeStories'.The campaign follows in the footsteps of #JusticeForEMC2, a similar move made by the Mariah Carey fandom in support of her 2008 album, as well as an effort on behalf of Janet Jackson's 1986 record Control.

She will perform a special version of the track on 'The Graham Norton Show' tomorrow night

A lot of big pop stars have dominated the culture over the last four decades.

As Netflix's Tiger King continues to rise in popularity, PETA is calling on a number of musicians who have used wild animals for entertainment to pledge to never perform with them again. "Anyone who's watched Tiger King has seen how wild animals suffer when they're taken from their mothers as babies and exploited as props," PETA Foundation Direc

Janet Jackson is reacting to an incredibly emotional viral video, while also disclosing some new information about her early career plans.

Following our Billboard staff-picked list of the 100 greatest songs of 2000, we're writing this week about some of the stories and trends that defined the year for us. Here, another look at *NSYNC's epochal No Strings Attached, and how the album's production and writing represented a sonic shift for all of pop music at the turn of the millennium.

Aside from hosting live-stream concerts and releasing new music, artists are making the most of their self-quarantines by creating or hopping on viral social media challenges.

Janet Jackson wants those who are helping during the coronavirus outbreak to know they are appreciated. The 53-year-old pop star, who is currently living in London, England, took to her Instagram on Monday to share a message of support for those workers who are unable to self isolate or even practice social distancing during these difficult times. 

Iconic actress Ja’Net DuBois’ cause of death was finally released.

A whole new world! Lance Bass shared the moment that he realized ‘NSYNC had become famous —and it involved being the opening act for one of the biggest pop stars in the world.