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20 Feb 2024

Nicki Minaj Invites Katt Williams to Join Her Pink Friday 2 World Tour

Nicki Minaj wants to add some comedy to her Pink Friday 2 World Tour, and she’s looking to bring the “funniest man in show business” on the road with her this spring.

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During an Instagram Live on Monday, Nicki asked the Barbz to help get Katt Williams’ attention to see if he’d be willing to join her tour for a certain price.

“I know that this is the busiest man in show business,” she began. “I know that he’s rich. I know that he’s the funniest man in show business. Can y’all hit up Katt Williams and ask him what would be his price… to be a part of the Pink Friday 2 Gag City Tour?”

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Williams has yet to respond to Minaj’s inquiry, but it appears it will be a nearly impossible feat as the comedic legend is currently on his own The Dark Matter Tour through mid-May.

At that point, Nicki will be wrapping up her North American dates before heading overseas for the European leg of her world tour, which will take the Queen rapper into the summer.

Williams has continued to carry momentum generated from his viral Club Shay Shay interview with NFL Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe, which has racked up about 60 million views on YouTube since its January release.

While openers on Nicki’s tour have yet to be announced in full, Monica will be part of the North American leg, which she revealed during an appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show earlier this month.

“I get a chance to hit all these cities that mean so much to me,” she said. “Atlanta, of course, New Orleans [and] Nashville. We’re coming to every city that we possibly can. I’m really grateful for Nicki because she’s one of those people that always said, ‘Monica meant everything to my childhood.’”

Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday 2 sequel arrived in December and debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 228,000 total album units in the first week. Her arena tour is just around the corner and is slated to kick off in Oakland, California, on March 1.

Watch Nicki’s plea to Katt Williams below.

20 Feb 2024

Billie Eilish vs. TikTokers, Madonna’s Fall, Peso Pluma’s Tour, J-Hope’s New Album | Billboard News

TikTok Star Bryce Hall responds to Billie Eilish’s comments on TikTokers being invited to the People’s Choice Awards. Madonna takes quite the fall while onstage in Seattle. Peso Pluma is going back on tour with over 35 shows. BTS fans rejoice: J-Hope announces a new album and a six-part documentary coming soon. And more!

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Billie Eilish gets caught talking about TikTokers and they respond. Madonna takes a tumble. J-Hope takes on Beyoncé. And Peso Pluma take his show on the road. We’ve been down with Ayra Starr and we find out who’s on the top of the Hot 100. I’m Tetris Kelly, welcome back to Billboard News after a long weekend. It’s Tuesday, February 20th, and we’ve got to start today’s show off with some Billie Eilish thoughts. Billie Eilish is confused as to why so many TikTokers were at the People’s Choice Awards in a viral video, and one of the app’s biggest creators is firing back.

Bryce Hall
I’m just gonna address this clip of Billie Eilish being disgusted that TikTokers were at the People’s Choice Awards. I was one of them.

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In the video circulating the Net, Billie Eilish is seen apparently saying, “There’s some, like, TikTokers here,” and looking confused — and listen, sometimes I too am at events and wondering how did I get in the presence of Billie Eilish? Should people from the ‘Tok be invited to the same carpets as A-listers? Well, Bryce Hall had words for his 24 million followers.

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First off, Billie Eilish, I am so sorry that I didn’t acknowledge your greatness and bow down to you being another human being, here there it is and, second People’s Choice invited us.

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20 Feb 2024

All 16 Songs on Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign’s ‘Vultures 1’ Debut on Hot 100

Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign have a monumental week on Billboard’s charts (dated Feb. 24), thanks to the pair’s new collaborative album, Vultures 1.

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The set by the pair, billed collaboratively as ¥$: Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 148,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in its opening week (Feb. 9-15, following its Feb. 10 release), according to Luminate. Ye earns his 11th No. 1 album — as he passes Eminem for the third-most among rappers, after Jay-Z (14) and Drake (13) — and Ty Dolla $ign scores his first.

Meanwhile, all 16 songs on the album — Ye’s first following his string of hate speech and antisemitic remarks, which resulted in companies including Adidas and Def Jam Recordings distancing themselves from him — debut on the Billboard Hot 100, led by “Carnival” at No. 3. Ye notches his 21st top 10 hit, and Ty Dolla $ign his third, and first in a lead role.

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Here’s a look at every song, all debuts, by Ye and Ty Dolla $ign on the latest Hot 100.

Rank, Title:
No. 3, “Carnival”
No. 23, “Fuk Sumn”
No. 26, “Back to Me”
No. 30, “Talking,” feat. North West
No. 33, “Burn”
No. 34, “Vultures,” feat. Lil Durk & Bump J
No. 39, “Stars”
No. 52, “Do It”
No. 53, “Paid”
No. 55, “Keys to My Life”
No. 64, “Paperwork”
No. 65, “Beg Forgiveness”
No. 67, “Hoodrat”
No. 79, “Problematic”
No. 93, “Good (Don’t Die)”
No. 94, “King”

With 16 debuts on the latest Hot 100, Ye ups his total to 157 career entries. He boasts the sixth-most in the chart’s 65-year history, after Drake (328), Taylor Swift (232), the Glee Cast (207), Lil Wayne (186) and Future (168). Ty Dolla $ign pushes his sum to 46 entries.

Thanks to their featured appearances, North West and Bump J both earn their first career Hot 100 hits. At just 10 years old, North West, the eldest child of Ye and Kim Kardashian (who divorced in 2022), is now one of the youngest acts ever to reach the chart. Among other precocious charted talents, Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, hit the Hot 100 at just 7 years old in 2019, thanks to her featured turn on Beyoncé, Saint Jhn and Wizkid’s “Brown Skin Girl.” She made her overall chart debut just after making her debut in the world, as her coos are heard on Jay-Z’s “Glory,” featuring B.I.C.. The song hit Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in 2012, making her the youngest billed artist ever on any Billboard chart.

Stevie Wonder is the youngest credited artist to hit No. 1 on the Hot 100, as he was 13 when “Fingertips (Part II)” led in 1963. Overall, Jordy is the youngest billed artist to have appeared on the chart, at just over 5 years old with “Dur Dur D’être Bébé (It’s Tough To Be a Baby)” in 1993.

Also notable is the debut of “Good (Don’t Die).” The song was removed from Spotify after less than four days on the streaming service, as it includes an uncleared interpolation of Donna Summer’s 1977 top 10 Hot 100 hit “I Feel Love.” The song has since been removed from all other streaming services and for purchase. Hours after the release of Vultures 1, Summer’s estate claimed “copyright infringement” and disapproved of the use of the alleged sample. “Kanye West … asked permission to use Donna Summer’s song I Feel Love, he was denied … he changed the words, had someone re sing it or used AI but it’s I Feel Love … copyright infringement!!!,” the estate posted in an Instagram Story on the official Donna Summer account Feb. 10.

That isn’t the only sampling issue regarding the album. Ozzy Osbourne called out Ye and labeled him an antisemite after an earlier version of “Carnival” included a live performance of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man.” Plus, R&B artist Dijon posted to Instagram Stories Feb. 9, a day before the album’s release, suggesting that he was unaware that his song “Good Luck” was being sampled on the track “Stars.”

20 Feb 2024

Tina Knowles Claps Back at Beyoncé’s Country Critics: ‘We Have Always Celebrated Cowboy Culture’

Tina Knowles always has time to collect a hater — especially when it comes to her daughters. The fashion designer, businesswoman and mother to Beyoncé and Solange took to her Instagram page to defend her eldest daughter from haters questioning her claim to country music.

“We have always celebrated cowboy culture growing up in Texas. We also always understood that it was not just about it belonging to white culture only. In Texas there is a huge Black cowboy culture. Why do you think that my kids have integrated it into their fashion and art since the beginning?” Ms. Tina Knowles wrote in the caption of a video compilation of country-themed Beyoncé photo shoots. “When people ask why is Beyoncé wearing cowboy hats? It’s really funny, I actually laugh because it’s been there since she was a kid. We went to rodeos every year and my whole family dressed in western fashion… It definitely was a part of our culture growing up.”

During the 2024 Super Bowl, Beyoncé put down the disco balls and picked up a cowboy hat to kick-start her new musical era. In an eye-popping Verizon commercial — soundtracked by Renaissance era closer “My House” — the superstar declared, “They ready, drop the new music.”

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Shortly thereafter, two country singles — “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages” — appeared on streaming services, while a Paris, Texas-inspired teaser popped up on both Queen Bey’s Instagram profile and website. The two new songs are expected to appear on Act II, the second installment of the three-act project Beyoncé kicked off with her Billboard 200-topping Renaissance back in 2022. Since their surprise release, both songs debuted in the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 with a partial week of tracking (chart dated Feb. 24). “Texas Hold ‘Em” notched the week’s highest new entry at No. 2, while “16 Carriages” bowed at No. 38.

In her caption, Ms. Tina also noted that her other famous daughter, the Grammy-winning Solange, has also showcased cowboy culture in her work. “Solange did a whole brilliant album and project based on Black cowboy culture,” she wrote, alluding to When I Get Home (2019), the R&B star’s stunning album and film. That record peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, marking Solange’s third consecutive top 10 album.

While the Knowles matriarch continues to keep naysayers and doubters in check as Beyoncé embarks on her new era, the “Daddy Lessons” singer is already making history with her foray into country music. On Tuesday (Feb. 20), “Texas Hold ‘Em” became the first song by a Black woman to debut atop the Hot Country Songs chart.

Read Ms. Tina’s address to Beyoncé’s naysayers here:

20 Feb 2024

Nintendo Switch 2 Allegedly Arriving In 2025

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Nintendo fans will reportedly have to wait a bit longer to get their hands on a Nintendo Switch 2.

The video game streets were talking after word got out that Nintendo showed a bunch of lucky game developers at Gamescom last year the Nintendo Switch 2, fueling the fire that the follow-up to the Nintendo Switch is coming in 2024.

Welp, unfortunately, according to sources close to the matter speaking with VGC, the Nintendo Switch 2 will be dropping in Q1 2025.

A Brazilian journalist also said the same in a video, plus “similar whispers” from sources speaking with Eurogamer also claim the Nintendo Switch 2 is coming in 2025.

If the reports are accurate, the next Switch console could launch around the same time as its predecessor did in March 2017.

Two sources confirmed to VGC that they were developing two titles for the Nintendo Switch 2: Switch Pro or whatever name it will go by when Nintendo finally unveils it.

The Verge reports the later date could allow developers to get launch titles like Metroid Prime 4 ready. That game was first announced in 2017, and its development was restarted in 2019.

It’s been five years since we heard anything about Metroid Prime 4, but according to Polygon, Nintendo could have decided to hold the game for the console’s launch.

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This latest news comes after reports indicated that the new Switch will not have an OLED screen, which is honestly a bummer, but understandable to keep the price down, and it will still use physical cartridges.

In other Nintendo news, a Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase is going down on Wednesday, Feb 21, focusing on games coming to the Nintendo Switch from the company’s publishing and development partners.

We will report on any big news that comes from it.

20 Feb 2024

Amy Grant Says She Got an Accidental Facelift While Recovering From Bike Accident

Amy Grant is back on the road after a terrifying bike accident in July 2022 that left her with a brain injury, and the Christian pop star opened up to E! News about the recovery process and the surprising cosmetic benefit.

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“I don’t know if I’ll get back on a bike,” the singer admitted. “There are so many great sports to enjoy and — I mean, who knows?”

She continued. “I had this bike wreck and unbeknownst to me, I actually had a cyst growing in my throat. Because of the trauma of that bike wreck, it went into hypergrowth. I had this five-hour surgery and they took it out. I actually had to learn to sing again.”

Grant added that before going into her throat to remove the cyst, they asked her if she’d like a facelift while they were in there. “I said, ‘Dear God, no, I actually have to be on stage in X number of weeks,’” she recalled. “It was a five-hour surgery […] and I didn’t ask for it, but I came out of surgery and my neck was a little tighter. I felt like an old, beat-up car that went in and got a paint job and had the dents knocked out. That’s a gift!”

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Watch the full interview below.

20 Feb 2024

Corinne Bailey Rae Electrifies Blue Note Residency With ‘Black Rainbows’

Corinne Bailey Rae recently wrapped an eight-show residency at Manhattan’s beloved Blue Note Jazz Club, performing 2023’s Black Rainbows – which explores soul, garage rock, jazz, downtempo electronic and even a bit of house – in its entirely. That album was one of the year’s finest, but seeing it presented live — with Rae sharing the painful and inspiring stories of Black American history that galvanized her to make these songs – made it clear that the concepts and ideas behind the album are as rich and stunning as its musical tapestry.

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Black Rainbows began taking shape when the English singer-songwriter visited The Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago’s South Side. The hybrid space, which Theaster Gates opened in 2015, is a gallery, media library and museum that encompasses everything from African American periodicals dating back to the 1940s to the personal vinyl collection of house godfather Frankie Knuckles to a collection of historical artifacts portraying Black people in blatantly racist ways. In short, it’s a complicated space dedicated to African American history, one that gives people the opportunity to confront the beautiful and the ugly in equal measure.

Rae’s visit morphed into an ongoing perusal of the collection, and soon, new songs began to take shape in her mind. A vintage photo of a teenage girl who won the “Miss New York Transit” title 70-some years ago inspired the riot grrrl energy of her song “New York Transit Queen” (Rae even tracked down and interviewed the woman, Audrey Smaltz); the story of writer/abolitionist Harriet Jacobs, who escaped slavery but spent seven years in a cramped hiding space, watching her children play through a peephole, informed the hopeful yet elegiac “Peach Velvet Sky”; advertisements from Valmor Products, a Chicago beauty brand geared toward African American women, led to the jazzy, ambient “He Will Follow You With His Eyes”; and a sweaty dance party to Knuckles’ records at the Stony Island Arts Bank resulted in the thumping “Put It Down.”

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In the midst of performing “Put It Down” at the Blue Note on Friday (Feb. 16), a woman in the seated audience stood up and began dancing – greeting the sight with a smile, Rae stepped down from the stage to join her as the band kept the house-inflected groove going. And from the sax player to the drummer, that band was a knockout. Perhaps having Rae explain the stories that inspired the songs before playing them pushed her players to bring each one to vivid, vibrant life in that intimate space.

When it came time for the encore, Rae gamely trotted out her 2006 soul-pop gem “Put Your Records On” and the sweetly soulful “Trouble Sleeping” from the same album. It probably goes without saying that she’ll be forever associated with the former, and there’s nothing wrong with that – it’s a timeless classic, one that’s recently found a Gen Z audience via a viral cover. But Black Rainbows stands as Rae’s finest artistic statement to date, an exquisite tapestry that electrifies both intellectually and emotionally – and seeing her present this layered work live is a gift.

20 Feb 2024

Cynthia Strother, One-Half of the Singing Bell Sisters, Dies at 88

Cynthia Strother, the singer and songwriter who teamed with her younger sister Kay as The Bell Sisters, a popular teenage act that found overnight success in the 1950s with their very first song, “Bermuda,” has died. She was 88.

Strother died Friday of heart failure at a hospice facility in Las Vegas, her nephew Rex Strother told The Hollywood Reporter.

The Bell Sisters, who recorded for RCA from 1951-55, performed often on radio shows hosted by the likes of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope and on such television programs as The Johnny Carson Show, The Colgate Comedy Hour and The Mickey Mouse Club.

The pair also appeared in the 1953 big-screen musicals Cruisin’ Down the River, starring Dick Haymes, and Those Redheads From Seattle, starring Rhonda Fleming.

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The eldest of seven kids — their dad, Gene, was an electrician for an aviation company — Cynthia Sue Strother was born on Oct. 4, 1935, in Harlan County, Kentucky, and raised with her family in Seal Beach, California.

She wrote “Bermuda” in 1951 at the piano when she was 16 and still attending Huntington High School and Kay was 11.

“I like Spanish music best and was beating out Spanish tempo on the piano,” she told Newsweek in 1952. “I just got the idea and went through with it, until it was finished. Then we all got together to write the words. We got Indian ideas and a Spanish bullfighter idea. Then somebody said, ‘Bermuda,’ and we liked that.”

Adopting their mother Edith’s maiden name of Bell for their act, the girls performed in October 1951 on a local KNXT-TV show called “Peter Potter’s Search for a Song.” One of the judges of the evening’s amateur compositions was a music publisher, who immediately recognized the tune’s potential.

The girls were rushed into a Hollywood studio to demo the song for orchestra leader Henri Rene, the West Coast A&R man for RCA-Victor, and “Bermuda” was quickly released in March 1952, eventually rising to No. 7 on the Billboard singles chart. It would sell more than 1 million copies.

“I tried not to influence their natural style in any way,” Rene told Downbeat magazine. “I told them to sing just the way they sing for fun around the house. If they go over as big as we think they will, it will be due to the freshness and simplicity of their manner.”

Watch the sisters perform “Bermuda” on The Dinah Shore Show here.

The sisters also had hits with “Wheel of Fortune,” which made it to No. 10, and “Hambone,” which was recorded with actor-singer Phil Harris and charted as high as No. 19.

They would open for Nat King Cole in Los Angeles, perform all over the country and even tour Korea with other Hollywood performers and the USO — all when school wasn’t in session, of course.

In Paramount’s Those Redheads From Seattle, the girls sang “Take Back Your Gold,” and Cynthia portrayed the love interest of Guy Mitchell’s character.

“I was playing a nurse, and he was supposed to come in where I was rolling bandages and we had some dialogue and then we were supposed to kiss. Well, even though I was 17, I don’t think I’d ever kissed a boy before, and what’s more, there was talk his wife was going to be on the set,” she recalled in a post on The Bell Sisters’ website.

“I mean, it was bad enough we never had any acting lessons — Kay and I were just winging it, basically. I was so flustered because I had to kiss Guy and I had no experience, and his wife was going to be watching. Well, it must have really showed in the footage, because after all the worry and embarrassment of getting through it, they didn’t even use the scene in the movie.”

The sisters were excellent acapella singers and welcomed at military hospitals and bases, where they frequently had to perform without a band.

“Bermuda” continued to generate royalties for Cynthia over the decades, with her song heard in Allison Anders’ Grace of My Heart (1996).

After she left show business, she taught swimming to handicapped children and adults.

In addition to Kay, survivors include her other sisters, Sharon, Judy, Paula and Alice; her sons, Seth, Kristoffer and Keven; and numerous grandchildren. Her husband, Seth, whom she married in 1957, died in 2006; her brother, Rex, died in 2019; and her daughter, Anastasia, died in 2022.

This story was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.

20 Feb 2024

Ariana Grande & Kacey Musgraves Announced as Next ‘Saturday Night Live’ Music Guests

Ariana Grande and Kacey Musgraves will both promote their upcoming March album releases by performing on Saturday Night Live next month, the NBC late-night comedy show announced Tuesday (Feb. 20).

Musgraves will join Anyone But You actress Sydney Sweeney when she hosts the March 2 episode, while Grande will join host Josh Brolin on the March 9 episode.

Both artists are releasing new albums next month. Grande is set to drop her seventh album, Eternal Sunshine, on March 8, led by the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single “Yes, And?” Musgraves will release her sixth album, Deeper Well, on March 15, led by the title track.

Grande has appeared on SNL twice before: once as the musical guest in September 2014 and once pulling double-duty as both host and performer in March 2016. This will also mark Musgraves’ third time on the show, after she was the musical guest in May 2018 and October 2021.

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As for the hosts, Sweeney will make her Saturday Night Live debut next month, while Brolin has hosted twice before: in October 2008 and April 2012.

This weekend’s previously announced lineup includes host Shane Gillis — a stand-up comic who was announced as a new SNL castmember in 2019 before having his job revoked after podcast clips featuring ethnic slurs surfaced — and musical guest 21 Savage, who released his No. 1 Billboard 200 album American Dream last month. It will mark the SNL debut for both.

Saturday Night Live airs Saturdays on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT and streams on Peacock.

20 Feb 2024

‘Dolly Parton’s Pet Gala’: How to Watch the Variety Special Online for Free

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Dolly Parton is putting together a variety show that may just earn two paws up for its lineup of star-studded appearances. Coming Wednesday (Feb. 21) to CBS and the next day on Paramount+, Dolly Parton’s Pet Gala will debut a celebration of four-legged friends.

You can expect dogs strutting the runway and pink carpet glammed in the “Jolene” singer’s own pet apparel line, with the Grammy winner acting as co-host alongside comedian and actress Jane Lynch.

“I have hosted or co-hosted many shows throughout my career, but I have never been more excited about co-hosting a show than I am about being part of this pet gala!” Parton said in an official press release. “I love animals. I’ve got all kinds, and of course, I’ve always had little dogs around, and big ones! We’re going to have some of all kinds and colors on the show, and there is nothing more fun to me than when little animals do what they do best, and I’m looking forward to it! There is so much fun stuff, and I know all the animal lovers out there are going to love this show.”

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The two hour variety show won’t just feature dogs decked out in their most paw-some Doggy Parton looks, but will include exclusive performances of Parton’s greatest hits including “9 to 5,” “I Will Always Love You,” “Puppy Love” and “Jolene,” sung by none other than Lainey Wilson, Carly Pearce, Chris Janson and KC of KC and the Sunshine Band.

Kelly Osbourne and Rachel Smith will act as runway correspondents, but the special guests don’t end there. Celebrity pet owners including Drew Barrymore, Kristen Bell, Kristin Chenoweth, Margaret Cho, Neil Patrick Harris, Carson Kressley, Jim Nantz, Jessica Simpson, more will be making an appearance with their furry friends.

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How to Watch Dolly Parton’s Pet Gala Live Without Cable

You can watch Dolly Parton’s Pet Gala live through the CBS channel on Wednesday (Feb. 21) at 9 p.m. ET/PT. If you have cable, you can tune into whatever channel offers CBS, which you can find through your cable provider’s channel guide. If you don’t have cable, you might be able to get CBS through an HD antenna like one of these from Amazon.

Live TV streaming platforms including DirecTV Stream, Fubo and Hulu + Live TV offer free trials ranging from five days to up to 30 days free, which means you can watch the pet variety show and more for free. Once the free trials are up, you’ll be charged the regular subscription price based on what plan you go with. Monthly prices start at $77 and provide up to hundreds of live TV channel options, DVR capabilities and more.

If you’re watching from outside the U.S., you can watch the pet gala using a VPN like NordVPN and ExpressVPN.

How to Watch Dolly Parton’s Pet Gala on Paramount+

Another way you can stream the variety show for free is through CBS’ official streaming platform Paramount+. You’ll be able to watch the pet gala the day after it airs live on Thursday (Feb. 22). If you already have a subscription to the streaming platform, you can watch Dolly Parton’s Pet Gala for free when you log into your account.

Don’t have a subscription? Paramount+ offers a seven day free trial, which will give you access to special and more. After the free trial is done, you’ll be charged the regular membership fee based on the plan you choose. Click here or the button below to start your free trial.

If you’re a student you can take advantage of the student membership, which is 25% off the Paramount+ Essential monthly subscription

The streaming platform comes with two different plans to choose from: Paramount+ Essential and Paramount + with Showtime. The Essential plan is ad-supported and the cheapest one at $5.99/month with access to thousands of episodes and movies, NFL on CBS, UEFA Champions League and 24/7 live news on CBS News.

Paramount + with Showtime is not only ad-free, but for $11.99 you’ll get everything in the Paramount+ Essential plan as well as access to Showtime programs and content, college football, live TV on CBS and the ability to download content offline onto your smart devices.

Along with Dolly Parton’s Pet Gala, subscribers will also be able to watch and stream original shows and movies as well as CBS content such as Halo, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, Willie Nelson & Family, Big Brother, Milli Vanilli, Special Ops: Lioness, Survivor, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning and more. And, with Showtime, you can expect to watch programs like Yellowjackets, The Curse, X, Past Lives, Lamb, The Chi and more.

Check below to watch a preview of the variety show.