Music Industry Moves: Sony Publishing Inks J. White Did It, Academy Fight Songs Launches, CAA Ups Three

Perfect Valentine’s Day plans! Scott Disick celebrated the holiday with his and Kourtney Kardashian’s 9-year-old daughter.

Not playing his part? Two months after giving birth to her and Tristan Thompson’s baby boy, Maralee Nichols is alleging that the athlete hasn’t been in the infant’s life.

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original ending of “Fight Club” has been restored on Chinese streamer Tencent Video, director David Fincher is still baffled as to why it was ever changed in the first place.“A company licensed the film from New Regency to show it in China, with a boilerplate [contract]: ‘You have to understand cuts may be made for censorship purposes,'” the director explained in a recent interview with Empire. “No one said, ‘If we don’t like the ending, can we change it?’ So there’s now a discussion being had as to what ‘trims’ means.”Fincher added that it wasn’t so much the trims themselves that bothered him, but why they were made.

UNIVERSITY Challenge fans were left fuming by a contestant's "dreadfully ignorant" habit. BBC viewers were gobsmacked at a player's rude behaviour towards his fellow teammates.

Kate Hudson's oldest son, Ryder, is growing up fast but his mom is taking it all in her stride. The 18-year-old took a big step when he updated his Instagram feed with a sweet photo in which he was giving his girlfriend a kiss. MORE: Kate Hudson dazzles fans with new hair and never-ending legs in new behind-the-scenes videoHis female companion was beaming with delight and Ryder simply captioned the photo with a heart emoji.WATCH: Kate Hudson enjoys Super Bowl date with son Ryder Ryder's snapshot was met with many more comments from fans which included: "So cute," and, "this makes me so happy," and Kate chimed in too. The Almost Famous actress wrote: "Sweets," and added a double heart emoji. MORE: Kate Hudson resembles a goddess in figure-hugging outfitMORE: Kate Hudson wows with unexpected performance with Jimmy Fallon - and she's so talented!The photo appeared to have been taken in a sports bar and was posted on Valentine's Day, but Ryder didn't divulge the identity of his special someone. A post shared by Ryder Robinson (@mr.ryderrobinson)Ryder shared the sweet photo with his female companion Just a day earlier, Ryder accompanied his mom to the Super Bowl, where they appeared to have had the best mother-son date. "Well that was an absolute blast," she wrote alongside a picture that showed Ryder with his arms around her and celebrity stylist Jamie Mizrahi.MORE: Goldie Hawn's son Oliver Hudson pays heartfelt tribute to famous momRELATED: Oliver Hudson moves back into family home with mom Goldie HawnOn her Stories, Kate also shared pictures of them on their way to the Stadium as well as videos of them at their private box, which they shared with Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWith the Grammy Awards coming up on Sunday, it’s remarkable that interim Recording Academy president/CEO Harvey Mason, jr. has time to talk with the press — although that could have been said at virtually any point in the past 14 months.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTaylor Swift gave a small spoken preview of her Grammy performance on Sunday in a post on CBS’s Twitter account, revealing that she’s reuniting with two of the collaborators who helped her make her nominated album “Folklore.”She revealed that in preparation for the performance, the three have quarantined together in a house for the entire week.“The one thing I can tell you about my Grammy performance that isn’t highly confidential is that my Grammy performance includes my collaborators, Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff,” Swift said, “which is really exciting because this has been an adventure that the three of us have gone on since the very beginning of quarantine and lockdown.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhen the 2021 Grammy Award nominations were announced in November, thousands of people were stunned to see that the Weeknd — one of the most commercially and critically successful artists of the past year, whose single “Blinding Lights” just became the first song ever to spend a full year in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 — was not nominated for any awards.The inexplicable and/or suspicious snub, the biggest in Grammy history, could only be explained as the work of the “secret committees” of industry veterans, executives and artists who determine the nominees in certain, but not all, categories.

Megan Thee Stallion when you’re rooting for her to beat you at the Grammys.That’s how rising country star Ingrid Andress feels about her “Savage” competition for the prestigious Best New Artist award on Sunday night.“I may or may not have voted for her,” Andress, 29, told The Post, with a laugh. “She’s just, like, undeniably herself, and I respect that a lot. She just does her thing and [doesn’t] care what anybody says.

Megan Thee Stallion and Adam Levine are taking a wild joyride!

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLong-running Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer have parted company with their U.S. label, Interscope, as well as Modest Management, a rep for the label confirmed to Variety.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Grammy Awards considered some 800 people for the “In Memoriam” segment of the 2021 show, first-time executive producer Ben Winston tells Variety.While it was not unexpected that a large number of musicians and executives would be under consideration amid a global pandemic that has killed more than 2.5 million people worldwide, as Winston says, “That is a brutally sad number of people who would be in contention to be featured in the show.” The ones who are not featured “will be featured in some way within other Grammy outlets, their website and elsewhere,” he added.The “In Memoriam” segment was first aired in 2004 and has grown to include around 50 names in recent years; former executive producer Ken Ehrlich

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor“I would have driven her anywhere, because I thought she was really good and needed to get some performing experience,” says Phoebe Bridgers’ mother, Jamie, who is a real-estate agent and standup comic, but as we see below, also the best kind of stage mom. Phoebe, who is up for four Grammy Awards at Sunday’s big show, spent much of her teen years performing — and being driven to performances all over Los Angeles by her mom.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBTS’ “Map of the Soul: 7” album has been announced as the first-ever winner of IFPI’s newly-launched Global Album All Format Chart, following a countdown of the top ten biggest albums globally, IFPI is the organization that represents the recorded music industry worldwide.The chart, an addition to IFPI’s existing global awards, celebrates the best-selling albums of the year across all consumption formats, spanning physical sales, digital downloads, and streaming platforms.After its February 2020 release, the fourth studio album from the K-pop superstars topped the charts in the group’s home country of Korea, where the album broke the all-time sales record, as well as the world’s five largest music markets (USA,

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorVerzuz, the popular livestream music platform created by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, has been acquired by Triller Network, the parent company of the app. The agreement marks the end of Verzuz’s relationship with Apple Music.According to the terms of the agreement, the pair will join the Triller management team and become large shareholders in Triller Network.

Sony Music Publishing has signed producer J White Did It to a worldwide deal. Yeah, you read that right, a worldwide deal! How exciting.“I’m very excited to work with the Sony Music Publishing team”, says White, confirming the excitement.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” has been smashing records practically since it was first released late in November of 2019 — and on Monday it broke what might be the most momentous one of all: It became the first song to spend a full year in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.That dwarfs the previous record, for Post Malone’s “Circles,” which hung in for 39 weeks (it’s a bit of an inter-family record, since Post happens to be the Weeknd’s labelmate on Republic Records).

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorNeedless to say, the 2021 Grammy Week will not be like ones we’ve known in the past. While it’s ordinarily a week of socializing, celebrating, parties, concerts and (most of all) networking, this year we’re going to have to do all of it from home, like we’ve had to do virtually everything else for the past year.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhen it comes to Zoom backgrounds, Grammy Awards executive producer Ben Winston has one that’s tough to beat. Along with the requisite photos and tchotchkes, there’s a piece of a bridge from David Letterman’s old set, an autographed album cover with a (sadly illegible) inscription by his former roommate, Harry Styles, and … is that actually a puppet of himself? Six of Winston’s top team members, who are also on the call, immediately chime in with laughter and jovial mocking in a cacophony of American and British accents.“Yes, I have a muppet of myself,” Winston confesses.

Taylor Swift, Megan Thee Stallion, Harry Styles and Cardi B are among the performers set to take the stage at the 2021 Grammys, which will also honor independent music venues that have been greatly impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic during the telecast. Swift's performance will mark her first appearance at the Grammys since 2016, where she won her second album of the year honor for 1989.

Megan Thee Stallion, Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift are among the music icons who will take the stage at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards next Sunday.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBad Bunny, Black Pumas, Cardi B, BTS, Brandi Carlile, DaBaby, Doja Cat, Billie Eilish, Mickey Guyton, Haim, Brittany Howard, Miranda Lambert, Lil Baby, Dua Lipa, Chris Martin, John Mayer, Megan Thee Stallion, Maren Morris, Post Malone, Roddy Ricch, Harry Styles, and Taylor Swift will perform at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, March 14, the Recording Academy has announced.Nearly all of the artists are nominees, and several — including Styles, Megan Thee Stallion, Bad Bunny, DaBaby, Doja Cat and Guyton — will be making their debut as Grammy performers.The ceremony takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center, under strict COVID protocol.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSteve Greenberg, founder of S-Curve Records, is leaving the company, which he founded two decades ago and sold to BMG in 2015, he confirmed to Variety.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, who announced last week that they’ve come together as a project called Silk Sonic, have released the first song from their forthcoming album, and it’s a glorious blast of vintage R&B called “Leave the Door Open” that could be a Best R&B Song Grammy winner from 1974.Even though the classic R&B sound the pair evokes is a decade older than they are, both the song and the arrangement are pitch-perfect, with swooning strings, honeyed backing vocals and even a glockenspiel — think Delfonics, the Chi-Lites and basically everything on the Philadelphia International label.The duo announced the Silk Sonic project last week. “We made an album!!” enthused .Paak on Instagram.

Megan Thee Stallion is giving back.

Megan Thee Stallion has launched an initiative called Hotties Helping Houston to raise funds for the rebuilding of her hometown following the recent Texas freeze.The rapper will be working alongside US Representative Sheila Jackson Lee and the National Association of Christian Churches (NACC) Disaster Services, to repair homes at no cost for senior citizens and single mothers.Megan has enlisted a coalition of donors to help with the fundraising efforts over the next two years, including fashion brands Mielle, Revlon, Fashion Nova, Dolce and Gabbana, a not-for-profit called The Coach Foundation, and her label 300 Entertainment.