Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak's Silk Sonic Opens Grammys 2022 with '777' Performance!

Kiss frontman, 72, has some choice words for A-listers such as Bruno Mars and Beyoncé, among others.The rocker doesn’t believe that certain musicians would survive performing in his band’s notoriously outrageous costumes — and still deliver highly energetic yet wild stage performances.“You got to understand. We love [Mick] Jagger and Bruno Mars and Bono and anybody else. They’re all great.

Sasha Urban editorDuring a commercial break of “The Daily Show,” host Trevor Noah revealed what it was like to meet K-pop superstars BTS at the Grammy Awards last month.An audience member asked Noah, “We’re dying to know, what was it like to talk to BTS?” Noah responded, “You know, they say sometimes when you experience too much joy in a moment, you sort of black it out.”The conversation happened during Noah’s Emmy-nominated digital series “Between the Scenes,” which is shot in between takes of “The Daily Show.” The audience members were Noah’s first in more than two years.The Grammys host continued, “You know, one thing I love about BTS is, they are, first of all, the nicest group of people you’ll ever meet. And not, like, nice — because sometimes people say ‘nice,’ but they lose the context.

2022 Billboard Music Award? We're one step closer to finding out!On Friday, the finalists for the 2022 Billboard Music Awards were announced, just over a month before the annual award show returns to Las Vegas after two years on Sunday, May 15. So who is a contender for a coveted trophy this year? After taking home 10 statues last year, The Weeknd leads the pack in 2022 as a finalist in 17 categories, including Top Artist and Top Male Artist.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs predicted, Swedish House Mafia and the Weeknd will replace Kanye West at Coachella on Sunday night.They will perform in the festival-closing Sunday night slot, joining Harry Styles (Friday) and Billie Eilish (Saturday) as Coachella’s 2022 headliners.Although many media outlets reported that the Weeknd would take the slot himself, that was never a realistic proposition: For the past several months he’s been immersed in the HBO series “The Idol” — which he is co-writing, co-directing and stars in — and his own stadium tour doesn’t start until July.Other names thrown into the week’s frenzied prediction mix include Justin Bieber, Travis Scott, Silk Sonic (featuring Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak) and Tyler, the Creator. When the 2022 Coachella lineup was announced back in early January, Swedish House Mafia had rare, almost unprecedented placement in the hierarchy of the festival’s all-important official poster: in a headliner-sized font, but at the bottom of the lineup, and with no specific date listed.A few days later, Variety unspooled several hundred words speculating about what that might mean, one possibility of which was that the festival was hedging its bets in case headliner Kanye West — who’d pulled out of a previous Coachella lineup literally days before it was announced — pulled out again, which is exactly what happened on Monday.It is important to note that not just anyone can pull off a headlining set at North America’s biggest and most popular music festival.

The ratings are in for the 2022 Grammy Awards!

The 2022 Grammy Awards viewership numbers were slightly up after last year's record low.The gala hosted by Trevor Noah - which took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas - on Sunday drew 8.93million viewers which was just a 1.4% increase from the previous year according to Variety on Monday.By comparison, last year's Grammy Awards - which were a hybrid of outdoor ceremony and indoor performances at the Los Angeles Convention Center - had a record low of just 8.8million. Uh oh: The 2022 Grammy Awards viewership numbers edged out last year's which were unfortunately a record low with just 8.93million viewers (host Trevor Noah is pictured)Variety notes that the total did adjust to 9.4million viewers in Nielsen’s Live + Same Day, which includes out-of-home viewing, but it was still a record low and ultimately ended up being down a whopping 50% from the previous year telecast from January 2020.

Amber Dowling The return to in-person award shows continues to dominate Twitter. The Trevor Noah-hosted Grammy Awards on CBS easily topped Variety’s Trending TV chart for the week of March 28 to April 3, pulling in more than 56.9 million engagements.That number toppled last week’s history-making Oscars broadcast on ABC, which until now was the highest that Variety’s Trending chart has seen since its inception.

The 64th annual Grammy Awards brought together the buzziest talent in the music biz, including BTS, Doja Cat and Questlove, on Sunday for a star-studded live and in-person ceremony in Las Vegas. However, unlike other awards ceremonies that have seen ratings rebound this year, the Grammys matched 2021’s all-time lows.

Kanye West has pulled out of his headline performance at this year’s Coachella festival, according to reports.The rapper and producer was scheduled to headline the closing night of the two-weekend event, which takes place April 15-17 and April 22-24, but according to TMZ and Variety this will no longer be the case.It’s not been made clear as to why West has cancelled his appearance at the California festival, but it’s also been reported that Travis Scott was set to perform alongside West, and he too will now no longer appear.NME has reached out to Coachella and representatives for West for comment.The news follows a petition that was launched by fans last month to remove West from the festival’s line-up, which currently has almost 50,000 signatures.The Change.org petition was launched on March 17 by a user with the alias Kim Pete, following West’s suspension on Instagram for his post about Trevor Noah which contained racial slurs.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSunday’s in-person Grammy Awards on CBS saw just a 1.4% increase in audience size from last year’s partly virtual ceremony, which was a record-low for music’s biggest night.Hosted by Trevor Noah from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, the two-month-delayed 64th Annual Grammy Awards drew 8.93 million total viewers across multiple platforms, according to time-zone adjusted fast national data from Nielsen. The in-person show, which kicked off with Noah making a reference to Will Smith’s infamous slap of Chris Rock at last weekend’s Oscars, aired live coast to coast on CBS from 8-11:30 p.m.

Stepping away. Kanye West will not perform at Coachella after all, multiple reports confirm.

Kanye West will NOT be performing at Coachella later this month!

Kanye West has pulled out of the music festival Coachella, months after he was banned from the Grammys for his concerning online behavior and attacks against ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her boyfriend Pete Davidson.The 44-year-old rapper is said to have made the decision himself to bow out from the two weekend event, that kicks off next Friday inat the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.Travis Scott was said to be appearing with Kanye - who has changed his name to Ye - and will also no longer perform at the festival, TMZreports. Kanye West PULLS OUT of Coachella: Rapper will no longer perform at festival where Travis Scott was also set to join himScott had been tapped as the headline act for the festival 2020 before it was canceled due to COVID.He was then booked again for 2022 but organizers scrapped those place after his Astroworld concert tragedy that left 10 people dead.It remain unclear exactly why Ye has pulled out of the show so last minute, but it comes after months of concerning online behavior from the performer.

Time to address the elephant in the room!

Grammys on Sunday. The 29-year-old rapper, nominated for best rap performance for Up, accused fans of ‘dragging’ her children and said she needed to ‘protect’ herself in a series of tweets before deactivating her profile. ‘I’m deleting my Twitter On God I hate this f***in dumbass fan base,’ the WAP singer tweeted. ‘You got the slow dumbasses dragging my kids all cause y’all [thought] I was going to the Grammys and I didn’t the f***?’She continued: ‘When the f*** I hinted I was going? Just f***ing stupid.

supports HTML5 videoA rather flustered Doja Cat took the fastest ‘p***’ ever, as she nearly missed out on her big moment at the Grammys, due to an ill-timed loo break.Happens to the best of us!During Sunday night’s star-studded bash, the 26-year-old singer – real name Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini – and collaborator SZA triumphed in the best pop duo/group category for their single Kiss Me More.Once their names were read out by Avril Lavigne, SZA – who was on crutches – made it to the stage with a little help from Lady Gaga – but the Say So hitmaker was nowhere to be seen.As soon as SZA – real name Solána Imani Rowe – locked eyes with Doja, she quipped: ‘You’ve been in the bathroom for five minutes, are you serious?’ Fighting to get her breath back, she replied: ‘Listen… I have never taken such a fast p*** in my whole life.’Putting the near-miss behind her, the star couldn’t hold back the tears any longer and described herself as someone who likes to ‘downplay s***’ but hailed her crowning moment a ‘big deal.’Doja’s relatable moment didn’t go unnoticed on Twitter, as one person wrote: ‘Miss Doja Cat running back from the toilet to accept her Grammy is nothing short of iconic. So deserved.’‘DojaCat and SZA’s #GRAMMYs speech is performance art.

Dancing the night away! Lady Gaga, Megan Thee Stallion and more of music’s biggest stars had the time of their lives at the 2022 Grammys — but not every moment made it on TV.

The 2022 Grammy Awards show took place last night, postponed from its usual January/February slot in the calendar by pesky COVID. Following last week’s headline-grabbing Oscars ceremony, the Grammys show wasn’t so eventful.

50-year-old drummer died from a suspected overdose in his hotel room in Colombia where he had been due to appear with the band at a festival. Following the tragedy, the Foo Fighters cancelled their tour and pulled out of their scheduled performance at the 64th annual Grammy Awards where they were up for three prizes.

Gallery: OMG you have won a GRAMMY?! These are the youngest EVER Grammy winners. . . (BANG Showbiz)According to Billboard, she said: “I was having so much fun.

Grammys host Trevor Noah made a joke about Will Smith's controversial Oscars slap as he opened the ceremony on Sunday. At the Academy Awards on 27 March, the King Richard actor slapped presenter Chris Rock on stage after he made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, and once he returned to his seat, he yelled at Chris to keep his wife's name out of his mouth. A week later, talk show host Trevor took to the stage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas to host the Grammys and made sure to reference the moment that had been dominating the headlines.