Billboard Music Awards 2022 - Complete Winners List Revealed

In recent years, the UK's Eurovision Song Contest entrants have faced a barrage of negativity, nay-sayers and 'nul points' jibes. A country convinced it was a laughing stock, its accusations of 'political voting' cast a grey cloud over any hope of success.

N-Dubz is back with a UK tour and a brand new single. The hip-hop trio, from London, announced their comeback earlier this week - eleven years after they decided to take a two-year break.

If there is one thing the now-concluded upfronts have shown us this year, it’s that the diminished giants of the broadcast networks are stepping lightly but blowing a lot of bluster. Unless you’re the Murdoch-owned Fox, that is. Then you’re just giving an Art of War middle finger to the convention of a fall schedule and forcing the town to guess your next move.

Having Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins on hand to each present their new series at the CW upfront, the network could resist getting the Supernatural trio back together on stage.

EXCLUSIVE: A new, exclusive partnership between the prominent theatrical P.R. agency DKC/O&M and the newly formed production services outfit Built Productions was announced today, formalizing a collaboration that’s been responsible for some of Broadway’s splashiest opening night events this season.

Writer-director James Gray has been to the Cannes Film Festival in competition on four previous occasions with We Own the Night, The Yards, The Immigrant, and Two Lovers but has yet to walk away with a prize. Maybe the fifth time will be the charm? It certainly would be deserving as Gray comes back to his beloved New York City roots with the highly autobiographical and intriguingly titled Armageddon Time. 

JD Linville Bernardo Quesney’s “History and Geography” and Tomás González Matos’ “Breaking and Entering” are two of the titles screening May 20 at Cannes’ Marché du Film showcase, Sanfic Industria Goes to Cannes. Two other films round out the selection; Andrew Sala’s “The Barbaric” from Argentina, and Esteban García’s Mexico-Columbia co-production “Back to the Sea of my Deseaced.”All four titles screened at Sanfic Industria’s Works in Progress. The 2022 Cannes slate showcases powerful themes of violence, identity and corruption.The Goes to Cannes sessions will run May 20-23 May.

Ray J. Ever since they co-starred in videos like Brandy’s “I Wanna Be Down” and her hit 90’s sitcom Moesha, they’ve shown each other brother-sister love and been open about their family connection.

BBC Radio 6 Music has posted record listening figures in the first quarter of its 20th year of operation, the BBC has announced.The radio station was launched in 2002 with a focus on alternative music. At the time, it was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years.According to the BBC, more than 2.8million listeners tuned in to BBC Radio 6 Music in the first quarter of the year.

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Lakmé is best known these days for its fluttery “Flower Duet” (“Sous le dôme épais”), sung by a soprano and mezzo-soprano, which has become a staple in film and advertising, and for the famous coloratura soprano aria “Bell Song” (“Où va la jeune Hindoue?”).Set in India in the late-19th century during the rule of the British Raj, Lakmé focuses on the forbidden love that sparks between the titular daughter of Hindu high priest Nilakantha and the trespassing British officer Gérald.Erin Morley is Lakmé in the WCO production, overseen by the company’s Artistic Director Antony Walker, opposite Frédéric Antoun as Gérald.Also making their debuts with the Washington Concert Opera are soloists Alfred Walker as Nilakantha, Theo Hoffman as Gérald’s fellow British officer Frédéric, and Taylor Raven as Lakmé’s servant Mallika.Peter Russell, general director of Vocal Arts DC and co-founder of Washington Concert Opera, shares insights about Lakmé in a recording posted to the company’s website that will be adapted into an in-person pre-performance talk.There will also be a post-performance Lakmé Cast Party hosted by the Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I St. NW.Additionally on the company’s website is a 73-minute-long video recording of highlights from the production that kicked off the 35th season as well as the post-pandemic return to in-person performances last fall, Gioachino Rossini’s Maometto II, streaming until mid-September.Sunday, May 22, at 6 p.m.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAt the first UJA-New York ceremony in three years, LL Cool J, Gayle King and Andy Cohen paid tribute and Maneskin played an acoustic set for Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM’s influential president and chief content officer, before an audience packed with music-industry brass on Wednesday.Greenstein’s impact and influence was amply demonstrated not only by Maneskin — who flew in specifically for the event from Europe, where they performed on the Eurovision Song Contest over the weekend — but by a tribute video that featured personal messages from Bruce Springsteen, Drake, Jimmy Buffett, Howard Stern, Megyn Kelly, Kevin Hart, Sway, Little Steven and others.Most importantly, the event raised a record $2 million-plus for the United Jewish Appeal, which provides assistance to people in need everywhere from Ukraine and the Middle East to New York and more than 70 countries around the world. Every year, UJA allocates approximately $150 million in grants — and to date has allocated more than $13 million in emergency funds for Ukraine.

Brian Austin Green and his pregnant girlfriend Sharna Burgess sat down for an interview with “Good Morning America”, which aired Thursday.

MailOnline showed the Rooney family getting ready for their holiday. Mrs Rooney was seen carrying a £1,000 Louis Vuitton travel bag which had her initials ‘CR’. Video: Coleen Rooney arrives High Court for the start of the ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel dispute (Daily Record)George W.

Navigating a new path. After a long struggle with alcoholism and three previous rehab stays, Keith Urban was able to embrace sobriety thanks to his family’s tireless support.

Following a two-year hiatus, the in-person celebration of DC Black Pride over Memorial Day Weekend will return to the nation’s capital, from May 26-30.Organized by the Center for Black Equity, this year’s DC Black Pride has over 25 events around the city, highlighting the Black LGBTQ community in Washington. The focus for this year is making it accessible, making it happen, and making it fun. “For a lot of our community from around the country, DC Black Pride, and Black Pride, in particular, is like a family reunion,” says Kenya Hutton, deputy director of The Center for Black Equity.

“El agua,” (Elena López Riera)A Directors’ Fortnight title, the feature debut of Locarno winning López Riera (“Los Que Desean”), a fantasy-laced village-set critique of gender violence. S.A. Elle Driver“Alcarràs,” (Carla Simón)The 2022 Berlin Golden Bear winner, Simón’s follow-up to “Summer 1993” and the flagship title for Catalonia and Spain’s newest filmmaking generation.

Sam Fender, Dave and Little Simz were among the winners at The Ivors 2022, which took place at London’s Grovesnor House tonight (May 19).The annual award ceremony celebrates songwriting and composing in both popular music and in film, TV and video game scores.Fender took him the trophy for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for ‘Seventeen Going Under’, the title track from his second album, which was released last year. The win marks his first Ivors victory.Dave was named Songwriter of the Year for his work on the Top 10 single ‘Titanium’ and his chart-topping second album ‘We’re All Alone In This Together’, as well as collaborations with Fredo.

CW chief Mark Pedowitz tried to put some context around an upcoming ownership shift of the network. It’s not a typical corporate deal, he said, because the CW is an important brand, and a well entrenched one.

Maxo Kream is back with "JIGGA DAME," his first new song since releasing Weight of the World last year. It's a high-octane banger with sky-high flexes and shit-talk slick enough to make the Roc-A-Fella duo proud.

Vangelis, whose instantly recognizable musical theme for 1981’s Chariots of Fire won an Oscar and became a sort of aural shorthand for tales of endurance and triumph, has died, according to published reports. He was 79.

Has the public interest in the Johnny Depp / Amber Heard case intensified, or is this just the only thing being fed to us? Elon Musk might be punking the world. Jason Momoa has issued a public apology, but maybe he shouldn’t have. A Kardashian got married and it’s barely news. And MORE! Watch!

Emiliano De Pablos Paco León, one of Spain’s most prominent talents, is attached to star in thriller “Líbranos del mal” (“There Is Evil”), directed and produced by brothers José and César Esteban Alenda at their Madrid-based outfit Solita Films.Currently in development, “There Is Evil” is planned to shoot for six weeks in Madrid from January 2024.Solita Films is one of the five Spanish companies selected by Spain’s trade promotion board ICEX and its ICAA film institute to pitch their production slates at Cannes’ Producers Network, on Friday 20.In “There Is Evil,” after another girl is found dead, a former police officer decides to hunt down a child serial killer with the help of his six-year-old daughter.  “We want to make an impulsive, hypnotic thriller, but with the emotional texture of a family drama where the anguish and fear are born from perfectly real, recognizable and close circumstances,” José and César Esteban Alenda said.The Alenda brothers’ 2018 feature debut “Sin Fin” earned a Goya Award nomination for best new director, and won a Silver Biznaga at the Málaga Film Festival.A celebrated film and TV multi-hyphenate, Spain’s Paco León is well-known in Latin America, starring in Mexico’s “House of Flowers” and Colombia’s “Capital Noise.” He co-created, wrote and directed Rose d’Or winner “Arde Madrid,” one of Movistar Plus’ best reviewed series.“Rainbow,” León’s feature adaptation of “The Wizard of Oz,” a Netflix and Telecinco Cinema production, will be released this year on the streamer. 

It’s hard not to sound like a cynical, world-weary film critic when complaining about seemingly small things such as the way many independent French dramas these days open with a sequence showing people fighting and shouting at each other. But the technique of stunning the audience and capturing their attention with a loud, conflictual scene is becoming a tired trope that, if filmmakers aren’t careful, can seem more like a superficial shortcut to gritty realism than anything truly rooted in the characters’ reality.

Glastonbury has confirmed the 2022 line-up for The Park. View the full list of artists below.The Worthy Farm festival, which this year will be held from June 22-26, has confirmed a host of on-site line-ups recently, including the bills for Croissant Neuf, the Acoustic Stage, the Glade, Common, Left Field and Shangri-La areas.Courtney Barnett, Jessie Ware, Four Tet, JARV IS, Mitski and more will perform at the “wonderland of genre-defying, synapse-sparking dionysian pleasurement” according to today’s (May 19) festival announcement.Wet Leg, Big Thief, The Avalanches, Arlo Parks, and Sampa The Great also feature on the stacked line-up.We're excited to announce The Park's spectacular line-up for this year’s Festival! pic.twitter.com/jszDlN08sF— Glastonbury Festival (@glastonbury) May 19, 2022“Perched high above the site, above Arcadia’s fiercesom, fire-breathing spider and looking out towards the Tor, The Park is a kaleidoscopic wonderland of genre-defying, synapse-sparking dionysian pleasurement,” a statement on Glastonbury’s site read.The statement continued: “Sparkling at its centre, is the The Park Stage: a vibrant home of eclectic fabulousness.

Georgia Kousoulou has admitted that she has “lost work” as she is “real” and “never edits her pictures”. Speaking during herself and fiancée Tommy Mallet’s ITVBe reality show Georgia & Tommy: Baby Steps, Georgia confessed that she has lost out on jobs because she rarely wears make-up and is “real and honest”. The TOWIE star, who recently opened up about suffering from postnatal depression, said: “Sometimes it’s not always gone on my side being real and being honest and just being me.

Halsey is setting the record straight about their health.

Like the burst of a roaring drag race, Lola Quivoron’s first feature “Rodeo” will shake you out of your seat with its angry, kinetic force as it follows a young woman who forces her way into a street gang that rides motorbikes (hard), steals and lives on the edge. Playing in the “Un Certain Regard” section of the Cannes Film Festival, the film premiered to a lengthy standing ovation on Thursday, with the jury joined by a sprawling cast made up mostly of the men of the “B-More” crew who fix, steal and ride bikes as a full-time obsession. The French director moves her camera right up close into the face of her protagonist, newcomer Julie Ledru (“Julia”), a wild child with a face of world-worn injury and unruly hair to match. In the opening scene.

Earlier this month, The Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville opened with The First Waltz – a spectacular three-day inaugural celebration live music.

Jon Burlingame Vangelis, the Greek electronic musician who won the Oscar for his memorable “Chariots of Fire” score and whose other credits included “Blade Runner” and “Blade Runner 2049,” has died, according to reports in Reuters and the Guardian. He was 79.He was Grammy-nominated three times in the new age album category and for record of the year for “Chariots of Fire.”Born Evangelos Odessey Papathanassiou in Greece, he was enrolled by his parents into the Athens Music School at the age of 6 where he was soon performing concerts.

Amazon Prime Video just dropped the action-packed trailer for Chris Pratt’s new series “The Terminal List”.