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Kirk Franklin, Travis Greene and Tamela Mann tied for BMI’s Gospel Songwriter of the Year at the 2024 BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards, which were held at Flourish in Atlanta on Thursday March 28. Each songwriter wrote two of the most performed gospel songs of the year. Franklin was honored for “Bless Me” and “Kingdom,” Greene for “Finished” and “Tent Revival,” and Mann for “Finished” and “He Did It for Me.”
Franklin won a second award for “Kingdom,” which was named the BMI Gospel Song of the Year. Franklin cowrote the song with Jonathan Jay, Chandler Moore and Jacob Poole. The song, which was recorded by Maverick City Music X Kirk Franklin, won a Grammy for best gospel performance/song at the 65th annual Grammy Awards in February 2023.
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BMI’s Gospel Publisher of the Year went to Essential Music Publishing for the second year in a row.
Throughout the luncheon event, BMI saluted the Top 25 most-performed gospel songs of the previous year. The private ceremony was hosted by Mike O’Neill, BMI’s president & CEO, and Catherine Brewton, vice president, creative, Atlanta.
As previously announced, gospel legend and evangelist Dorinda Clark-Cole, of the acclaimed Clark Sisters, was honored as a Trailblazer of Gospel Music. Upon receiving the honor, Clark-Cole offered this advice for songwriters: “When you are at your lowest, that’s when God can get your greatest… keep writing, keep getting inspired by God because somebody is being blessed.”
Crystal Aikin, Tasha Page-Lockhart, Yolanda Adams, Lisa Knowles-Smith and Clark-Cole’s niece Kierra Sheard performed songs to fete Clark-Cole.
Jonathan McReynolds received the BMI Champion Award, the first time this accolade was presented at this ceremony. DOE, Tyree Miller, Darrel Walls and Jason Nelson sang tributes to McReynolds.
Tim Bowman, Jr., Kim Burrell and Faith City Music and Zacardi Cortez also performed at the event.
AEG Presents chairman and CEO Jay Marciano will be honored with the City of Hope’s 2024 Spirit of Life Award, the cancer research and treatment organization has announced.
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“It’s deeply meaningful to be honored for this recognition,” says Marciano, a regular entry in Billboard’s Power 100 list. “Our industry’s work contributes to bringing the brightest minds in the world to make breakthrough medical discoveries — discoveries that give back the gift of time to people.”
The award is the charitable organization’s most prestigious honor and is presented those industry leaders who have made notable contributions to their community and profession.
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Previous recipients from the music industry include Lyor Cohen, Shelli and Irving Azoff, Edgar Bronfman Jr., Coran Capshaw, Eddy Cue, Clive Davis, Sir Lucian Grainge, Sylvia Rhone and more.
“I am honored to join this admirable group of Spirit of Life recipients,” Marciano adds, “and look forward to continuing the tradition of leaning on music, film and the arts to raise awareness of and funding for City of Hope’s important work against cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases.”
City of Hope’s Music, Film and Entertainment Industry fundraising group will present Marciano with the award during a gala dinner this fall in Los Angeles.
A leader in the live entertainment business, Marciano began presenting shows in his 20s, before taking on senior leadership roles at Universal Concerts, AEG Europe and Madison Square Garden Entertainment, then returning to the AEG fold in 2011.
With Marciano at the helm, AEG Presents has promoted tours from many of the music industry’s biggest artists, including stadium juggernauts Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran, and overseen a festival portfolio upwards of 30 brands from Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to Stagecoach, Electric Forest, British Summertime Hyde Park and more.
Marciano has also overseen the company’s global growth with the opening of several international offices and an expansion into Australia, Singapore, Japan and France.
In its 50-plus-year history, City of Hope’s MFEI group has raised over $150 million for good causes, specifically cancer research. Marciano has a reputation “as an industry leader who is eager to accelerate City of Hope’s mission and focus on making breakthrough discoveries that move us closer to putting an end to cancer,” said Kristin Bertell, chief philanthropy officer at City of Hope. “We look forward to partnering with him and the larger music community to develop new cures, save patient lives and ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to secure their highest level of health.”
The announcement launches City of Hope’s year-long fundraising initiatives that include the Taste of Hope in NYC in April, Future Hope Poker Tournament and Songs of Hope.
To contribute or learn more visit jaymarcianospiritoflife.com and cityofhope.org.
Little Big Town and Sugarland are the latest performers who are set to collaborate on a world-premiere performance during the upcoming CMT Music Awards, when the awards show airs from Moody Center in Austin, Texas, on April 7 on CBS. Little Big Town and Sugarland last shared the CMT Music Awards stage 15 years ago, when they were joined by Jake Owen for a rendition of “Life in a Northern Town.”
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The performance coincides with Little Big Town’s 25th anniversary as one of country music’s most successful groups. The group made their Grand Ole Opry debut in May 1999, and were inducted in October 2014. They released their debut, self-titled album in 2002; that same year, they issued their debut song “Don’t Waste My Time,” which reached No. 33 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart (now Hot Country Songs). They earned their first No. 1 on that chart in 2012 with “Pontoon,” and have earned two more No. 1s on that chart: “Better Man” and “Girl Crush.”
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The performance will mark four-time CMT Music Awards winners Little Big Town’s 13th CMT Music Awards performance. Their previous performances have included “Macon” with Jamey Johnson in 2010 and premiering what would become a signature summertime anthem, the two-week Billboard Hot Country Songs No. 1 “Pontoon,” in 2012. The group teamed with Keith Urban in 2013 to cover Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain,” offered up “Day Drinking” in 2014 and teamed with Pharrell Williams in 2016 for “One Dance,” among other performances.
Additionally, the performance also marks Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush reuniting for their first CMT performance together since 2011. Since the release of Sugarland’s debut album (the outfit initially launched as a trio) in 2004 with Twice the Speed of Life, they have earned five Billboard Hot Country Songs chart No. 1s: “Want To,” “Settlin’,” “Already Gone,” “All I Want to Do: and “It Happens.”
Four-time CMT Music Awards winners Sugarland earned their first CMT Music Awards accolade in 2005, for breakthrough video of the year for “Baby Girl.” In 2011, they offered up a rendition of “Stand Up” to draw attention to American Red Cross Tornado Relief efforts, and honored victims of devastating tornadoes that struck earlier that year. Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, as a duo, offered up a rendition of their hit single “Babe” in 2018. Nettles has also been honored for her advocacy work and championing of women in the music industry, LGBTQ+ community and other unrepresented groups, and thus received the inaugural CMT Equal Play Award at the 2020 CMT Music Awards.
Little Big Town and Sugarland join previously-announced CMT Music Awards performers including Bailey Zimmerman, Cody Johnson, Jelly Roll, Keith Urban, performer and host Kelsea Ballerini, Lainey Wilson, Megan Moroney, Jordan Davis (who teams with group NEEDTOBREATHE), as well as Old Dominion, Sam Hunt and Trisha Yearwood.
As well as airing on CBS, the CMT Music Awards will also be available to stream live and on demand via Paramount+. As previously announced, CMT Storytellers: Little Big Town will premiere on Friday, April 5 at 8 p.m. ET as part of “CMT Awards Weekend.”
Before the band he fronted for nearly 25 years was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s class of 2024, Lou Gramm says he “had given up” on the idea of Foreigner ever getting in. Even now he’s trying hard to temper his expectations as public and professional voting for this year’s inductees goes on through April 26.
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“I was not feeling good that our peers were in years ago and we were completely neglected,” Gramm tells Billboard from home in his native Rochester, N.Y. “I personally had given up that we would ever be considered. I didn’t even think about it anymore, to be honest with you. So (the nomination) was a big surprise to me, and I didn’t want to be too excited about it when I heard. I didn’t want to be amped up or get my hopes up because of the way things have gone down in the past. I was, ‘OK, that’s good. Let’s see what happens. I hope we get in.’ I’m patiently waiting to see what happens.”
Gramm does feel that “things look pretty good,” and he’s been particularly appreciative of the campaign efforts by Mark Ronson, son-in-law of Foreigner founder Mick Jones, who’s enlisted artists such as Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Slash, Jack Black, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith and others to publicly express disbelief that the veteran act isn’t in the Rock Hall already.
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“I think he’s a pretty creative guy, and there hasn’t been anything too boisterous or outlandish,” Gramm says of Ronson’s efforts. “It’s telling the story the way he sees it, from his vantage point with his stepdad. It makes sense.” McCartney’s participation, Gramm adds, “was awesome. That one I certainly didn’t expect, and if you just see it once you know it was completely off the cuff for him. He said what needed to be said [‘Foreigner? Not in the Hall of Fame? What the f–k?!’] and that was it. I was very impressed and very thankful.”
Gramm was Foreigner’s original frontman and was with the band from 1976-1989 and 1992-1993, serving as Jones’ principal songwriting partner; the two were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013, the same year Gramm published his memoir Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock ‘n’ Roll. Gramm was part of Foreigner reunion shows during 2017 and 2018 and currently performs with his Lou Gramm All Stars. He’ll be part of Poison frontman Bret Michael’s Parti-Gras 2.0 tour this summer as well.
Gramm says he hasn’t been in contact with any of his bandmates, but he’s been told that if inducted, Foreigner — which has remained in the top 5 of the fan vote since it opened in February — will perform two songs at the ceremony in Cleveland. “One I’m sure is gonna be ‘I Want to Know What Love Is,’” Gramm notes. “I don’t know what the other one is gonna be.” He’s up for most of them, however. “I think they were very well-written songs, you know? At that time of our careers Mick and I had a blossoming chemistry and were having a lot of fun writing the songs, and we knew what it would mean if these songs were recorded and produced correctly and became very popular.”
Gramm does feel like there’s some unfinished business for Foreigner, however. He says that “there’s a whole albums worth of songs” from the early 2000s that he and Jones wrote and only recorded in rough form. Several years ago he was contacted by Foreigner management saying Jones could not find his recordings of the material; Gramm sent what he thought was a spare copy only to find it was, in fact, his only copy. He says that despite requests the band has not returned his CD or copied the songs for him.
“They’re great songs…some of our very best songs,” Gramm says. “There were about eight or nine of them. We didn’t have a record company then, so we were waiting to see what happened. Then Mick and I had a huge falling out, and I left the band…So now Mick’s got the copy and I don’t have one and I don’t know if he’s ever gonna do anything with them. I kind of doubt it, but I would like to at least listen to those roughs that we did. Those were great ideas.”
Bassist Jeff Pilson, who along with singer Kelly Hansen leads the current incarnation of Foreigner, has said that Jones has been working on some new songs with Marti Frederiksen and even predicted they would come out at some point, though no concrete plans have been announced. Last month Jones disclosed he has Parkinson’s disease, which has kept him from performing with Foreigner since 2022.
The current Foreigner lineup is in the midst of a farewell tour that will likely go into 2025. Gramm, meanwhile, is also planning to retire after his 2024 run. “I’ve been doing it for years now, and I’ve thought about (retiring) a few years ago, and a few years before that. I still enjoy playing but I can’t stand the travel anymore. I’m sure I’m gonna miss it initially, but I have a lot of memories, fantastic shows performed all over the world. I’m not becoming a reclusive person, but I value my time on my own, and when I’m out there, I don’t have that, and I don’t like that anymore.”
The 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards are just around the corner, and the star-studded event is set to take over Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre on April 1. Ludacris will be hosting the event and performing at the show. He joins previously announced performers Justin Timberlake, Green Day, TLC, Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, Tate McRae and more plus a […]
“You all look so gorgeous which is why you excel in a medium where no one can see you,” Trixie Mattel quipped at the start of Tuesday night’s Ambie Awards inside of the JW Marriott LA Live in Los Angeles. The winner of season three of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars served as the host of The Podcast Academy’s fourth annual Awards for Excellence in Audio sponsored by Wondery, The Hollywood Reporter, Audible, Dolby, Campside Media,The Podcast Show, Tenderfoot TV, Outfront, Castbox, Raedio, Gumball, Headgum, Good Tape, and IMDb.
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The top honor of the evening went to Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas, which was awarded Podcast of the Year. The show, now in its eighth season, is hosted by Slate staff writer Joel Anderson and tells the story of Clarence Thomas’s rise to power.
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Weight For It, hosted by Ronald Young Jr., was the most awarded show during the ceremony which recognized a total of 192 nominees across 27 categories. The narrative storytelling show about individual’s intrusive thoughts about their size won Best Indie Podcast, Best Indie Podcast Host/Hosts, and Best Society and Culture Podcast.
“I’m really happy about winning this award because anybody who independently produces understands that you spend so much of your time by yourself,” Young Jr. said through tears as he accepted the award for Best Indie Podcast. “You’re writing, and you’re editing, and you’re cutting tape, and you’re doing all that, and then you have to wonder, ‘is this good?’ ‘Are people even gonna like it?’ But I guess I don’t have to wonder anymore.”
Addition highlights of the night included Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ series of conversations with supremely accomplished older women, Wiser Than Me, win Best Interview Podcast; Pop culture podcaster Ira Madison III, host of Keep It!, receiving the Impact Award, which recognizes an individual or podcast that has made a significant positive effect on its listeners; And author Malcolm Gladwell, host and creator of Revisionist History, receiving the Governors Award, which recognizes a podcast or individual for the influence they’ve had on the industry.
“I started this thinking I was just going to do a one-off or a couple of shows and that was it, and here I am nine years later,” Gladwell said in a videotaped acceptance speech. “We’ve done so many things that I’m enormously proud of, from our series on the firebombing of Tokyo that turned into a book, The Bomber Mafia, to our big series on gun violence last year, to our big rewrite of The Little Mermaid, which was intended to get Disney to wake up to what was wrong with one of its classics, to everything from why I hate McDonald’s french fries, to why student councils should be elected by Lottery, and a million things in between. It’s been an incredible ride, not to mention way too many shows on the Ivy league, but that’s the great thing about podcasts. You get to indulge your personal idiosyncrasies, and I’ve done that.”
See below for the full list of the 2024 winners and nominees:
Podcast of The Year
50 Years of Hip-Hop
Can You Dig It?: A Hip-Hop Origin Story with Chuck D
Embedded: Taking Cover
Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University
Ghost Story
Next Year In Moscow
Questlove Supreme
Post Reports: The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop
Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas (WINNER)
The Very Worst Thing that Could Possibly Happen
Best Business Podcast
Access & Opportunity
Behind the Money
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Design Nerds Anonymous
Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried (WINNER)
The Closer
Trustonomy
Best Comedy Podcast
Bad Dates
Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend
How Did This Get Made? (WINNER)
Let’s Make A Rom-Com
Lovett or Leave It
The Big Flop
Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!
Best DIY Podcast
Beans Without Boundaries
Beyond 6 Seconds
Black Is America
Culture Kids Podcast
Gooned
Latinx Can Podcast
STITCH PLEASE (WINNER)
Best Documentary Podcast
Borrowed and Banned
Embedded: Taking Cover
Fever: The Hunt for Covid’s Origin
Free From Desire: Asexual in the City of Love
Ghost Story (WINNER)
King Slime: The Prosecution of Young Thug and YSL
Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas
Best Entertainment Podcast (Sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter)
50 Years of Hip-Hop (WINNER)
Creative Control
Films to Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein
HBO’s The Last of Us Podcast
Movies vs. Capitalism
MUBI Podcast
Women of Marvel
Best Fiction Podcast
Midnight Burger
People Who Knew Me
Possession
PREVIA: A Tech Heist (WINNER)
Supreme: The Battle for Roe
The Foxes of Hydesville
The Very Worst Thing that Could Possibly Happen
Best History Podcast
Hindsight
History’s Secret Heroes
Spy Valley: An Engineer’s Nuclear Betrayal
The Africas vs. America
This is History: A Dynasty to Die For
Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children (WINNER)
Untextbooked
Best Indie Podcast (Sponsored by Tenderfoot TV)
Abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast
BEEF with Bridget Todd
Dragoncast
Expectant
Surfing Corporate
The Nocturnists
Weight For It (WINNER)
Best Indie Podcast Host or Hosts
Ali Block, MD – The Nocturnists
Ami Thakkar – Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar
Emma Lehman – Gooned
Jill Jonassen – The Cost of Extremism
Molly Miller – Night Raid
Ronald Young Jr. – Weight For It (WINNER)
Sequoia Holmes – Black People Love Paramore
Best Interview Podcast
Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast
Apple News In Conversation
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Questlove Supreme
The Skinny Confidential
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus (WINNER)
Your Mama’s Kitchen
Best Knowledge, Science or Tech Podcast
Big Deep – An Ocean Podcast
Darknet Diaries (WINNER)
Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech
To the Best of Our Knowledge: Luminous
Unexplainable
Voices from DARPA
Without
Best News Podcast
Odd Lots: Pot Lots
Queer News
Start Here
The Decibel
Today, Explained (WINNER)
Tug of War: Israel-Hamas War
Up First
Best Original Score and Music Supervision
Calm it Down – Chad Lawson
Can You Dig It?: A Hip-Hop Origin Story with Chuck D – Bryan Master
Louder Than A Riot – Suzi Analogue, Kassa Overall, and Ramtin Arablouei
Next Year In Moscow
Othello – Lindsay Jones (WINNER)
The Cat In The Hat Cast – Jack Mitchell
The Very Worst Thing that Could Possibly Happen – Alex Kemp
Best Performance in Audio Fiction
Hidden Signal: Evergreen – Lana Condor
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol – Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies, Lucy Punch, Ben Barnes, Juliet Mills, Ryan O’Quinn, Bethany Joy Lenz, Clive Standen, Maxwell Caulfield
Supreme: The Battle for Roe – Maya Hawke, William H. Macy, Abigail Breslin, et al.
The Foxes of Hydesville – Carey Mulligan
The Salvation – Rose Leslie, Toby Jones, Robert Bathurst, et al.
The Very Worst Thing that Could Possibly Happen – Antonia Desplat, Isaac Gonzalez Rossi Yvette Lu, et al.
Yes We Cannabis – Sam Richardson, Method Man, Langston Kerman, Punkie Johnson, Richard Kind, Laci Mosley, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Heidi Gardner, Tichina Arnold, Tim Meadows, Rachel Dratch, Chris Parnell (WINNER)
Best Personal Growth / Spirituality Podcast
Dear Alana, (WINNER)
How to Be a Better Human
Meditative Story
Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech
Ritually
Second Sunday
SOL Affirmations with Felicia & Karega
Best Podcast for Kids
African Folktales with Miss Jo Jo
Disney Frozen: Forces of Nature
Greeking Out
Mina & Lucy’s Guide to Slaying Dracula
Sesame Street – Foley & Friends Season 3
The Arthur Podcast
The Cat In The Hat Cast (WINNER)
Best Podcast Host or Hosts
Anderson Cooper – All There Is with Anderson Cooper
David Rind – Tug of War: Israel-Hamas War
Isaac-Davy Aronson & Rachel Maddow – Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News
Kerry Godliman – Stolen Hearts
Martine Powers – Post Reports: The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop (WINNER)
Malcolm Gladwell – Revisionist History
Rose Reid & Nando Vila – Shoot the Messenger: Espionage, Murder & Pegasus Spyware
Best Politics or Opinion Podcast
Bad Watchdog
National Emergency
Next Year In Moscow
Post Reports
The NPR Politics Podcast (WINNER)
Those Who Can’t Teach Anymore
We Don’t Talk About Leonard
Best Production and Sound Design (Dolby)
Chameleon: Dr. Dante – Garrett Tiedemann
Hidden Signal: Evergreen – Geoffrey Cannock, Jose Varon, The Audio Hive, Neely Oeftering, Sarah Ma, David Tatasciore, Ben Milchev
Long Shadow
People Who Knew Me – Martin Schulz
The Very Worst Thing that Could Possibly Happen – Alex Kemp and Beau Milkis
Throughline (WINNER)
Undertow: The Sisters
Best Reporting
Dear Alana, – Simon Kent Fung
Imperfect Paradise: People vs. Karen
Murder In Boston: The Untold Story of the Charles and Carol Stuart Shooting – Adrian Walker
Operation: Tradebom
Shoot the Messenger: Espionage, Murder & Pegasus Spyware
The 13th Step – Lauren Chooljian (WINNER)
The Blog Era
Best Scriptwriting, Fiction
Ad Lucem – Troian Bellisario, Josh Close (WINNER)
Expectant – Pippa Johnstone
Hidden Signal: Evergreen – Chloe Stearns, John Wynn
Pariah – Davy Gardner
The Foxes of Hydesville – Shawn Christensen
Trust Fall – Claire Friedman
Zoey’s Mythical Menagerie – Leigh Joel Scott
Best Scriptwriting, Nonfiction
Classy with Jonathan Menjivar – Jonathan Menjivar
Code Switch – B.A Parker (WINNER)
Dear Alana, – Simon Kent Fung, Laurie Polisky, Donald Albright
Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University – Laura Beil
Foundering: The John McAfee Story
The Banksy Story – James Peak
Who Killed JFK? – David Hoffman
Best Society and Culture Podcast
Can You Dig It?: A Hip-Hop Origin Story with Chuck D
Dear Alana,
Dynamite Doug
Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University
ROS Presents: Roughhousing
The Story Exchange
Weight For It (WINNER)
Best Sports Podcast
All the Smoke
Four Years of Heat
Heart of the Game
New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce (WINNER)
Reclaimed: The Forgotten League
The Lead
The Playcallers
Best True Crime Podcast
Disappeared: The Bradley Sisters
Heinous – An Asian True Crime Podcast
Smoke Screen: Just Say You’re Sorry
The Girl in the Blue Mustang
The Girlfriends (WINNER)
The Vanishing Point
Who Killed JFK?
Best Wellness or Relationships Podcast
Big Lash Energy
Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Embodied (WINNER)
It Can’t Just Be Me
Jillian on Love
Life Kit
Love Letters
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Ariana DeBose just can’t stop doing the thing! The Academy Award-winning actress, dancer and singer is set to return to host the upcoming 77th Annual Tony Awards on June 16. “I couldn’t pass up the chance to host the Tonys one more time at Lincoln Center,” DeBose said in a statement. “I’m excited to collaborate […]
Tones And I, Dom Dolla, Peach PRC and the Teskey Brothers were among the winners Tuesday night (March 26) at the 2024 Shure Rolling Stone Australia Awards, while Crowded House snagged the second-ever “icon” honor.
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Formed out of the embers of New Zealand alternative-rock favorites Split Enz, Crowded House are members of the ARIA Hall of Fame, inducted back in 2016 in recognition of a career which has yielded more than 15 million album sales, 13 ARIA Awards, a BRIT Award, and an MTV VMA.Frontman Neil Finn was on hand to collect the RS award and perform an acoustic mini set. “Thank you Rolling Stone for making us into an icon,” he told the 800 guests gathered at The Ivy in central Sydney. “I’m not sure what that truly means, but I think it means you need to go to Mecca and buy some makeup, so I’ve done that. I’d like to thank all the band members of Crowded House, so I’m representing for them, they send their love. For everybody, thank you so much for honoring us in this fashion.”The Kiwi bandleader gave the industry audience a taste of things to come when he slung the guitar for a preview of Gravity Stairs, the eighth and latest Crowded House album, due out May 31 through BMG.Tones And I can’t stop winning. The one-time busker recently notched three billion streams on Spotify for “Dance Monkey,” becoming the first solo female artist to hit that milestone, and she opened for Pink on the record-smashing 20-stadium Summer Carnival tour of Australia, a jaunt that shifted more than 900,000 tickets, according to Live Nation. On Tuesday, Tones beat out the likes of Tame Impala, Kylie Minogue and Troye Sivan to score the global award, a category voted on by Rolling Stone’s international editorial teams.“Wow,” enthused Tones (real name Toni Watson), “this is an incredible award to win, up against such an icon in Kylie Minogue who helped pave the way for women in pop music on a global scale.”Adelaide singer-songwriter Peach PRC won best single with “Perfect For You,” Rolling Stone Australia cover stars the Teskey Brothers took home best record with their ARIA Chart No. 1 The Winding Way, and EDM star Dom Dolla snagged best new artist. Performers on the night included Angus & Julia Stone, who are readying the release of their sixth studio album Cape Forestier on May 10, through BMG. Rolling Stone AU/NZ is published by The Brag Media, part of The Vinyl Group. “We are continually inspired by Australian artists, their stories, and their music, and we are so proud to support them with such a special night dedicated to celebrating their art,” comments editor-in-chief Poppy Reid.
The fourth annual awards welcomed multiple new and returning sponsors this year, with headline partner Shure back for 2024, alongside American Apparel, JMC Academy and Largo Brewing.2024 Shure Rolling Stone Australia Awards Winners:Rolling Stone Icon AwardCrowded House (WINNER)Best SinglePeach PRC – “Perfect For You” (WINNER)Dom Dolla ft. MK – “Rhyme Dust”Budjerah – “Therapy”Amy Shark – “Can I Shower At Yours”Fisher ft Kita Alexander – “Atmosphere”Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers – “I Used to be Fun”Lime Cordiale – “Colin”Tkay Maidza ft. Flume – “Silent Assassin”Best New ArtistDom Dolla – (WINNER)Royel Otis Oliver CroninThe RionsTeen Jesus and the Jean TeasersGrentperezBlusherOld MervsBest RecordThe Teskey Brothers – The Winding Way (WINNER)Teenage Dads – Midnight DrivingG Flip – DRUMMERThe Amity Affliction – Not Without My GhostsTroye Sivan – Something to Give Each OtherBrad Cox – AcresDope Lemon – KimosabèPeach PRC – Manic Dream PixieRolling Stone Global AwardTones And I – (WINNER)Kylie MinogueTroye SivanThe Teskey BrothersDom DollaDMA’SFisherVacationsTame Impala
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Bruce Springsteen‘s lyrics have shaped generations, defined movements and put words to the American experience. And now, his legacy will carve out yet another piece of history as he becomes the first international songwriter to be named an Ivors Academy Fellow. Following in the footsteps of Sir Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Joan Armatrading and Sting, […]
The upcoming CMT Music Awards are continuing to heat up. Cody Johnson, Megan Moroney, Old Dominion and Parker McCollum + Brittney Spencer have joined the star-studded performance lineup for the fan-voted awards show, which will take over the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, on April 7. The event relocated to Texas last year, moving from its longtime […]