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Amy Adams has always liked and appreciated Taylor Swift‘s music. But then the Nightbitch star went to see the Eras Tour, she proudly became “a Swiftie at 50,” the star told Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday’s (Dec. 3) Tonight Show. “I’m a Swiftie at 50, so I’m like a shifty 50 Swiftie… and I’m like ‘isn’t that nifty?’ And now my daughter’s going, ‘Ooh, I hate this for you.’”
Adams said the Eras experience was so profound that she went from “normal” to “‘I’ll take all the friendship bracelets!’”
When Fallon asked if Adams had ever met the singer, the Golden Globe winner said they did cross paths years ago at an awards show afterparty, where they sang karaoke together. In fact, they did a duet on 4 Non Blondes’ signature 1993 hit “What’s Up,” during Adams committed the ultimate karaoke faux pas.
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“And I may have… uh… sang it a little loud,” Adams admitted. “And I’m sure everybody was like, ‘Amy, shut up! Like, we want to hear Taylor sing.’ I was just in it.”
“The one that goes ‘hey, yeah, yeah, yeah’? You went for it? That one?” Fallon asked.
“I did,” Adams said. “When someone does that at karaoke I let them go,” Fallon said.
“But I should have sat down and just let Taylor sing,” Adams realized. “I had a blast. Now, in reflection, if I were to do it now I’d be so different I would like to think… I did the right thing. I sang really loud over Taylor Swift… and probably not great, either.”
Fallon also mentioned that there’s a long-running internet campaign suggesting that the six-time Oscar nominee would be the perfect choice to play Swift’s publicist, Tree Paine, in a biopic. “Uh, that would be amazing,” said Adams, whose red hair is a shade darker than Paine’s signature flame mane. Fallon then help up a tweet that said “Amy Adams will win an Oscar for Tree Paine’s biopic.”
“That would be so fun,” said Adams, mother to a 14-year-old daughter who (see above) she noted is now not embarrassed by her mom, but more embarrassed for her mom. “If it got me closer to Taylor then that would be fun,” Adams said.
Adams’ Nightbitch opens in theaters on Friday (Dec. 6).
Watch Amy Adams describe shouting over Taylor Swift during karaoke below.
This year’s Spotify Wrapped rolled out Wednesday morning (Dec. 4), revealing that Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter and more dominated the streaming service in 2024.
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The “Fortnight” singer closes out a banner year as 2024’s most-streamed artist, generating more than 26.6 billion streams globally. In second place among artists was The Weeknd, followed in order by Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish.
To celebrate Swift’s achievement — which makes her Spotify’s most-streamed artist for two years in a row — the platform has implemented a special Wrapped badge on her profile as well as introduced custom animations corresponding with her music, including sparkles to match Fearless (Taylor’s Version), seagulls for 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and more.
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The 14-time Grammy winner also had Spotify’s top-streamed album of the year with 15-week Billboard 200-topper The Tortured Poets Department, which was also Apple Music’s biggest album of 2024. On Spotify, the second-place album was Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft, followed respectively by the “Please Please Please” singer’s Short n’ Sweet, Karol G’s MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO and Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine. All five of the app’s top albums spent time at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — and all five of them, it’s worth celebrating, were turned in by female artists.
As for most-streamed songs, Carpenter’s “Espresso” garnered the most listens globally in 2024, racking up more than 1.6 billion streams. Behind it came Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things,” Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” FloyyMenor and Cris Mj’s “Gata Only” and Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control.”
Plus, Spotify shared its most-streamed podcast this year — The Joe Rogan Experience — and most-listened audio book, which was Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses.
Like in years past, Spotify Wrapped is also now allowing individual users to view their own top-listened artists and songs via shareable data cards. In 2024, they can access “Musical Evolution” features as well, showing how their distinct moods and tastes changed over that past 11 months with Spotify-generated descriptors and a personalized playlist.
Also new is a “Longest Listening Streak” feature that accompanies users’ favorite artists of the year. A returning favorite is the “Top Listeners” feature, revealing which percentage of listeners fans were in for their favorite artists — and the most loyal ones will receive special videos from stars such as Peso Pluma, ROSÉ, Billie Eilish, Usher, Sabrina Carpenter, Karol G and more.
Zayn Malik canceled a solo gig in Newcastle, England just minutes before showtime on Tuesday night (Dec. 3). In the past few weeks the former One Direction member has embarked on a solo tour throughout the U.K., his first headline run of shows since leaving the pop group in 2015. Metro reported that an announcement […]
Billie Eilish has taken part in Amazon Music‘s docu-performance series, Songline, this week, delivering a live version of her Hit Me Hard and Soft standout ballad, “Skinny.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “People say I look happy/ Just because I got skinny/ But the old me is […]
It’s been a very musical couple of weekends at the box office, with the release of Wicked followed by Moana 2. And on Dec. 20, Mufasa: The Lion King also arrives in theaters. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Why are all these major musical movies converging at once? On the new Billboard […]
Demi Lovato is getting gamified for a good cause. Starting on Tuesday (Dec. 3), the pop star will appear as an animated version of herself in the mobile video game Subway Surfers. Available as an in-app purchase, Lovato’s character will be available in the game through Jan. 5, 2025. All of the profits from Lovato’s […]
Billboard officially named Beyoncé its Greatest Pop Star of the 21st Century, and no one is more proud of her than — of course — her dad. Mathew Knowles took to X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday (Dec. 3) to share the graphic of the accomplishment, alongside a sweet note reflecting on his daughter’s success. “Beyoncé […]
Apple Music released its year-end charts on Tuesday (Dec. 3), and Taylor Swift rounded out a groundbreaking 2024 with yet another accomplishment. The superstar was named the top streamed artist of 2024, while her The Tortured Poets Department earned the top streamed album of the year. Swift took to her Instagram Stories to celebrate, writing, “Ahhhhhh […]
Barry Manilow has been a longtime staple on the Las Vegas scnee. But on Tuesday (Dec. 3) the “Copacabana” made it permanent with the announcement of a lifetime residency at his longtime home: the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino.
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“It’s been an incredible journey performing at the International Theater,” said Manilow in a statement about signing on the dotted line to continue his long run at the resort’s International Theater. “David Siegel and the Westgate team have been like family to me, and I am deeply grateful to have the opportunity to call Westgate home for the rest of my career.”
Earlier this year, Manilow set a new Sin City record when he passed Elvis Presley’s run of 636 performances at the venue.
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“Barry Manilow is a generational artist and a dear friend,” Westgate Founder & Executive Chairman David Siegel added. “Over the years, we have built a personal and professional relationship that is truly special, and I am honored to offer Barry the opportunity to perform at Westgate for a lifetime.”
Manilow launched his “The Hits Come Home” residency at the Westgate Hotel in 2021, marking the third Vegas hotel at which the “Mandy” singer has had a residency. He set up shop at the Las Vegas Hilton from February 2005 to December 2009, during which he had two shows, “Manilow: Music and Passion” (which was filmed for a Primetime Emmy-winning PBS special) and “Ultimate Manilow: The Hits.”
He followed with his “Manilow Paris Las Vegas” at the Paris Hotel & Casino at Las Vegas in March 2010, which ran through Dec. 11, 2012.
Manilow will be back on stage at the International this week when he kicks off his annual run of “A Very Barry Christmas” holiday shows on Thursday (Dec. 5), followed by gigs on Dec. 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14. Tickets are on sale now here for the 2025 shows, which will take place on Thursdays and Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Friday at 8 p.m.
Manilow performed across the U.S. this summer as part of his Last Concerts tour, winding down with a series of five shows at New York’s Radio City Music Hall in October.
Check out the 2025 International Theater dates below.
Feb. 13 – 15, 20 – 22
March 27 – 29
April 3 – 5
May 8 – 10, 15 – 17
June 12 – 14, 19 – 21
Sept. 11 – 13, 18 – 20
Oct. 9 – 11, 16 – 18
Nov. 6 – 8, 13 – 15
Dec. 4 – 6, 11 – 13
After a fraught decade-long relationship with Capitol Records, Sky Ferreira now has the freedom to release music as she pleases since being dropped from the label in 2023. But according to her, reclaiming the recordings she made while still signed to its roster won’t be as easy — despite how someone such as Taylor Swift might make it seem.
In an all-encompassing interview with Vogue published Monday (Dec. 2), the 32-year-old alt-pop darling opened up about the struggles of winning ownership of her past work back from Capitol — including her long-overdue sophomore LP Masochism, which Ferreira claims the label blocked from release for years. The most high-profile case of another artist battling with their former label over rights to their masters is, unequivocally, a certain “Anti-Hero” singer, who’s spent the past three years re-releasing “Taylor’s Version” replicas of her first six albums with Big Machine under her new label, Republic Records.
But as Ferreira points out, that process requires resources not all artists can afford. “People keep telling me I should just re-record the songs and it’s like, yeah, Taylor Swift can do that because she’s a billionaire,” she told the publication. “But I basically put all the money I’ve ever made as an artist back into making music. I think most musicians I know generally pay to work.”
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“I’m working to try and get some of those songs back, but I’m not getting every single one,” Ferreira added. “It’s such a complicated process, and I have to figure out how to do all this s–t by myself now.”
The interview comes three days ahead of the release of “Leash,” a track Ferreira wrote and recorded for A24’s upcoming film Babygirl. It’ll mark the star’s very first release since her 2013 cult-favorite debut album Night Time, My Time, which preceded years of alleged internal sparring; as the California native describes it, “Capitol didn’t think my sound was commercial enough.”
Ferreira said that the label officially dropped her on the 10-year anniversary of her first LP, claiming Capitol sent her “an automated message that got forwarded” to her. “To let me know I’ve been dropped from the label in such an impersonal way was clearly so personal,” she told Vogue. “It feels liberating, but I’m honestly still angry about the situation. I was catatonic for a few weeks after that email. Not because I was dropped, but just the way it happened.”
“It felt like their way of trying to break my spirit one last time,” she added. “It’s kinda like when someone gets out of prison and they don’t know what to do with themselves. And it’s similar in that way where you still don’t have rights to everything that you did before.”
Billboard has reached out to Capitol for comment.
Looking into the future, Ferreira confirmed that she has plans to independently release a new song right after “Leash.” She also shed some light on her experience auditioning to play Madonna in the superstar’s delayed biopic — which had initially tapped Julia Garner for the titular role before the film was scrapped — a process which apparently involved hanging out with Madge at the legend’s own house.
“I spent two months working on it, between the auditions and dance rehearsals,” Ferreira said. “I don’t usually get starstruck, but it was just so surreal to be with Madonna at her house. I sat in one of her guest rooms to read the script, then she took me downstairs into her bedroom and did my makeup and put her clothes on me.”
“I was just sitting there watching her put blush on me, like, ‘Is this really f–king happening right now?’” she added. “I kept getting called back to see her, so she seemed to like me for a bit. Even though I didn’t end up booking the part, it really was just an incredible experience getting to spend that time with her.”