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Two months before the debut of the Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the late singer’s estate is honoring her memory with a new fragrance.

The Whitney Houston Signature Fragrance is “inspired by Whitney’s most beloved scents,” Pat Houston, head of the Whitney Houston estate, tells Essence. “It’s a wonderful combination of fruity sparkling florals with the warm and woody dry down in this tall, elegant bottle,” she says.

The fragrance is now available online through the Home Shopping Network and will arrive on Scent Beauty’s website in November. An exclusive holiday gift set will also be launched at Walmart early November.

“I would tell anyone to wear Whitney Houston is to feel inspired and confident like Whitney,” Houston continues. “And she always loved to encourage women to embrace love within themselves, always. I’m hopeful that when people, women, and when men buy it for their mothers or wives or sisters or whatever, actually they know they’re actually favoring one of Whitney’s favorite things: just loving yourself. Her favorite song was ‘The Greatest Love Of All.’ And I always will attribute that line to this Scent Beauty product, her fragrance, Whitney, with her famous signature on the bottle.”

As previously reported, the iconic singer’s movie debut, The Bodyguard, will return to theaters on Sunday, November 6 and Wednesday, November 9 to celebrate its 30th anniversary. The special screenings will also include Whitney’s videos for two songs from the soundtrack — “Queen of the Night” and “I Will Always Love You” — immediately following the film. Tickets are available via TheBodyguard30.com.

To go along with the 30th anniversary, a vinyl version of The Bodyguard soundtrack will arrive November 18, available exclusively at Target.

The I Wanna Dance With Somebody biopic hits theaters December 21.

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Alan Jackson is getting a special honor at the 2022 CMA Awards complete with a cast of A-List artists who are set to deliver a tribute.

The living legend will receive the 2022 CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s ceremony, in recognition of his national and international prominence over his decades-long career.

He’ll accept the award in person at the show, and he’ll be there to watch a number of stars perform in tribute to his musical legacy. Dierks Bentley, Carrie Underwood, Jon Pardi and Lainey Wilson will be on hand to do the honors.

Alan is a 16-time CMA Award winner. He’s earned three Entertainer of the Year trophies over the years, winning the night’s biggest honor most recently in 2003.

As the organization’s newest Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, he’s in good company. Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride and Dolly Parton are just three of the legendary acts who have won the award in past years, and its namesake — Willie Nelson — has won it, too.

The 2022 CMA Awards will air live from Nashville on November 9 on ABC.

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Keith Urban is making CMA Awards day a little bit extra-special this year.

The country superstar revealed on Thursday that he’s planning a performance on Good Morning America that morning, which is November 9. He’ll perform outside Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena — which is where the CMAs are set to be held — with a set that will air on GMA.

The best part? It’s a completely free show. If you want to watch Keith play, you need to request your tickets ahead of time, and show up for the performance at 5:00 a.m. local time.

Keith has a long history with the CMAs: He’s a 13-time award recipient at the awards show, and he won his first trophy back in 2001. He even won the night’s highest honor, Entertainer of the Year, twice: Once in 2005, and once in 2018.

The CMA Awards will air live from Bridgestone Arena on ABC on November 9. Luke Bryan is co-hosting the show with NFL legend Peyton Manning.

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Lady Gaga is $112 million dollars richer thanks to her Chromatica Ball Tour.

Billboard crunched the numbers from Gaga’s successful trek and found fans snatched up 834,000 tickets to see her perform live. The outlet notes ticket sales officially launched 30 months ago, but the pandemic forced Gaga to push her tour back twice.

The postponements didn’t appear to dent her numbers. The Chromatica Ball actually set a few local records, including setting the highest-grossing show at San Francisco’s Oracle Park — a $7.4 million haul. She also set an attendance record at Boston’s Fenway Park after 18,267 fans showed up. She set both the attendance and overall gross record at Wrigley Field in Chicago after 43,019 fans arrived and ticket sales totaled $6.9 million.

The Chromatica Ball was Gaga’s first all-stadium tour and interestingly is one of her shorter tours, with just 20 stops. Despite the shorter trek, it outperformed both The Born This Way Ball (98 shows) and The Joanne Ball (49 stops) in attendance and revenue, respectively.

For the record, Born This Way averaged a total of 18,400 ticket sales per stop, while Joanne averaged $1.9 million — compared to Chromatica’s 41,700 ticket sales per night and $5.6 million average in nightly revenue.

Overall, this marks Gaga’s highest-grossing tour in about 10 years and her third overall to make over $100 million, joining The Monster Ball and The Born This Way Ball.

Crunching the numbers of all her tour revenue and fan attendance combined, Gaga’s tours have earned $689.5 million and have been seen by 6.3 million fans.

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Drake and 21 Savage’s joint album has been postponed.

The album, Her Loss, which the two announced in the middle of their “Jimmy Cooks” music video over the weekend, was due to drop on Friday, October 28. But Drake took to his Instagram Story Wednesday to tell fans it’s been pushed back a week.

“Our brother [producer Noah “40” Shebib] got Covid while mixing and mastering the crack so he’s resting up,” Drake wrote. “NOVEMBER 4th is HER LOSS day we’ll see you soon.”

21 Savage posted the same message on his own Instagram Story.

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When your mom plays two sold-out shows at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, you’ve gotta dress up — even if you’re a shih tzu.

Most Carly Pearce fans know she’s the proud owner of pups Johnny and June — named after Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, naturally. The dogs even have their own Instagram account, which features adorable snapshots of them enjoying life together.

Wednesday marked day one of Carly’s Ryman shows — she’s playing a second sold-out set at the venue on Thursday — and she shared her excitement by posting a photo of Johnny and June all dolled up in their best doggie duds.

June’s wearing a black outfit with matching bows, while Johnny is rocking similar colors, donning a black cowboy hat that the Man in Black himself would be proud to wear.

“We dressed up because our mom is playing the Ryman tonight & tomorrow!!!!” the post’s caption reads.

A look back through Johnny and June’s social media feed reveals it’s not the first time the pups have dressed up together. Back in March, their Instagram account posted a snap of the two dogs rocking matching cowboy hats, plus a bonus cameo from their superstar mom.

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Taylor Swift‘s album folklore came out during the pandemic, so opportunities to perform its songs live have been few.  But she finally gave one of the album’s tracks its onstage premiere Wednesday night in London.

Billboard reports that during Bon Iver‘s show at the OVO Arena Wembley, folklore contributor Justin Vernon brought Taylor out onstage for a performance of their folklore duet, “exile.”  Taylor’s other folklore contributor, The National‘s Aaron Dessner, was also part of the performance.

In fan-recorded video of the moment, which has been uploaded to Twitter, Vernon calls Taylor “the most talented person in the world,” and she replies by calling both Vernon and Dessner “the most talented person in the world.”

“All right, good night everybody,” Vernon jokes after the performance. “We don’t know what to do now.”

Dessner and Vernon also contributed to Taylor’s folklore follow-up, evermore. In addition, Dessner co-wrote and co-produced four songs on the 3 a.m. edition of Taylor’s new album, Midnights, which features seven additional tracks.

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Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur shares her photo diary from the band’s tour in 1994 and 1995 in the latest issue of the revived CREEM magazine.

In an exclusive preview of the issue provided to ABC Audio, Auf der Mar reveals photos she took during the trek, which included performances at Lollaplooza and on the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards.

Alongside a photo from rehearsals at the VMAs, Auf der Maur recalls how Courtney Love “threw her shoes and lipstick at Madonna while she was talking to MTV’s Kurt Loder on the red carpet, interrupting and crashing their interview.”

“But this is a moment where we’re all at our most presentable,” Auf der Mar says of the rehearsal shot. “This dysfunctional family playing the part alongside the other famous people who are waiting their turn to do run-throughs.”

The new issue of CREEM, its second since the magazine relaunched in September after being out of print for 33 years, will be out December 15. It also includes pieces on Creedence Clearwater Revival, Henry Rollins and The Kills‘ Alison Mosshart. Visit CREEM.com for more info.

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