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Lil Baby and Sam Smith will be “Saturday Night Live’s first 2 musical guests of 2023. Sam will appear alongside host Aubrey Plaza on January 21. And January 28, Lil Baby will hit the stage while Michael B. Jordan hosts.
A British couple hate Wham!’s 1984 hit ‘Last Christmas’ so much, they’ve raised over $62,000 to buy the licensing rights so they can scrub it from existence. The problem? It’ll cost a lot more to purchase the song from Warner. If successful, Hannah and Tomas Mazetti plan to send the master tapes to a nuclear waste site in Finland “where it’ll rest for at least 2 million years”.
Blake Shelton is leaving “The Voice” after its upcoming Season 23, but he hasn’t ruled out a return in the future. Under what condition? To mentor Team Gwen Stefani. “I’d be honored to be Gwen’s mentor. Whatever she tells me to do, I’m gonna do.”
“Wednesday” has taken over the Netflix crown, beating out the platform’s long-time flagship original series, “Stranger Things”, to be the most in-demand show available on the platform at the start of December, according to new data, which takes into account consumer research, streaming, downloads and social media, among other engagement.
In case you’ve gone a few hours without anyone mentioning “Avatar: The Way of Water” to you, you’ll be happy to know that there are now 2 Lego sets inspired by the box-office champion. One is a 528-piece set depicting a Metkayina reef dwelling, while the other is a simpler, 259-piece set which creates a posable skimwing figure, complete with Tonowari and Jake Sully minifigures, and a Pandoran coral reef setting.
Metallica’s 1991 hit ‘Enter Sandman’ has passed 1 billion plays on Spotify. Metallica was also the most-streamed metal band of 2022, notching 1.6 billion plays. surpassing 2021’s total of 1.3 billion. Metallica’s new album “72 Seasons” drops April 14.
Nirvana is among the acts who will be presented with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Also being honored at the Special Merit Awards Ceremony on Feb. 4 are The Supremes, Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson, Nile Rogers, Bobby McFerrin, Ma Rainey and Slick Rick.
If you didn’t catch Shania Twain’s career-spanning documentary “Not Just a Girl” when it premiered in July on Netflix, you’ll have another chance this week. It will air Wednesday on AXS TV. It includes appearances by Kelsea Ballerini and Lionel Richie, plus others.
It’s over, again for Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott. “Kylie and Travis are off again, they were supposed to spend the holidays together, but she went to Aspen to be with her family and friends up there,” a source shared with Us Weekly. “This has happened so many times before, they’re known to be on again off again, but always remain friends and great coparents.”
Estimates say that “M3GAN” made a killing in its box office debut weekend, but not enough to scare “Avatar: The Way of Water” from the top spot. The new horror film took a $27 million stab, making it the first movie to open above $20 million in the first weekend of January — typically a slow, post-holiday time — since 2018’s “Insidious: The Last Key.”
Jessie J says her mind “hasn’t fully processed” her pregnancy news. The 34-year-old announced she’s expecting her first child, 13 months after she suffered a miscarriage, and on her Instagram Story, she thanked fans, writing: “As I lay here can’t sleep…Your overwhelming instant outpour of love is felt, received and appreciated beyond measure.”
Peter Gabriel released the song ‘Panopticom (Bright Side Mix)’, a new song from his upcoming album “i/o”, which will come out sometime this year. It’ll be his first collection of completely new material in 20 years.
The “Stranger Things” cast got a substantial raise for the fifth and final season. Winona Ryder and David Harbour will make $9.5 million, and the original kid actors will get over $7 million. Millie Bobby Brown probably makes the most due to a special deal with Netflix that includes other projects.
“Avatar: The Way of Water” has been successful enough to warrant James Cameron making the 4th and 5th installments. Part 3 has already been shot. He says, quote, “I know what I’m going to be doing the next six or seven years.”
Steven Spielberg revealed that he’s never been high. He was asked which of Seth Rogen’s “stoner” movies he likes, and he said, quote, “Well, having never been stoned, I don’t see them as stoner movies.”
Last year, Corey Feldman auctioned off the prosthetic ear he wore in the 1986 classic “Stand by Me”. And the winning bidder was Jordan Peele. He says, quote, “In saying it out loud, I realize how creepy it was. That’s not the thing you should share.”
Rihanna’s musical director Adam Blackstone has opened up about the singer’s upcoming halftime show. He told Rolling Stone, “It’s been cool. . . . The thing about Rihanna is that she’s so creative. She is boundary-pushing at all times, so it’s going to be unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, and we always try to push the envelope with her.”
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