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‘Billboard’ Music Awards: Rolling Stones, Elton John among early winners

May 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The Rolling Stones were among the early winners of Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards, held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

The Stones’ No Filter tour won both the Top Tour and Top Rock Tour awards, beating out fellow double nominees Genesis for their The Last Domino? farewell trek, and Green Day for the Hella Mega tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer. The Eagles‘ Hotel California tour also received a Top Tour nod.

The Stones celebrated their two early wins on Twitter and via their Instagram Story, where they shared the good news alongside three confetti cannon emojis.

Meanwhile, Elton John won the Top Dance/Electronic Song prize for his duet with Dua Lipa, “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix).” Elton celebrated his win in a video posted on his social media pages.

In the clip, the 75-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, who is shown holding his trophy, declares, “Life is full of surprises. I have never won an award for a dance record before, so I’m thrilled that I’ve got this Billboard award for best dance record of the year. I have to thank [Australian dance-music duo] Pnau for putting the track together, and…the gorgeous Dua Lipa, without whom this would have not been possible.”

He added, “Thank you so much everybody who streamed the record, who bought the record, who downloaded the record — it’s been one of the biggest highlights of my career.”

‘Billboard’ Music Awards 2022: Taylor Swift, Eric Church among early country winners

May 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Taylor Swift and Eric Church were among the early winners of Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards, held at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Thanks to her re-recorded Fearless and Red albums, Taylor was nominated for six categories this year: Top Female Country Artist, Top Country Artist, Top Country Album, Top Female Artist, Top Billboard 200 Artist and Top Artist. She won four of the six, losing Top Artist to R&B star Drake.

Red (Taylor’s Version) was named this year’s Top Country Album — it should be of note Fearless (Taylor’s Version) was also nominated — and she bested her “I Bet You Think About Me” collaborator Chris Stapleton, as well as Morgan Wallen, Walker Hayes and Luke Combs for Top Country Artist. She also beat Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood for Best Female Country Artist, and country star Morgan Wallen for top Billboard 200 Artist.

As for Eric Church, he won Top Country Tour, which pitted him against Luke Bryan‘s Proud to Be Right Here Tour and Stapleton’s All-American Road Show Tour.

Wynonna reveals during Naomi Judd’s public memorial that she’ll do The Judds: The Last Tour

May 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Wynonna Judd announced she’ll honor her mother by doing The Judds: The Last Tour as planned.

Wynonna shared the news Sunday during Naomi Judd: A River of Time Celebration, which aired live on CMT. The country legend died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 30, after a long battle with mental illness and just one day before she was to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Actress Ashley Judd kicked off the remembrance for her mother at Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium, on a stage laden with 2,500 roses, revealing Naomi herself had chosen the Mother Church of Country Music as the location for the tribute.

Wynonna offered the evening’s namesake tune, which was written by her mother, as the first musical performance. Martina McBride read Maya Angelou‘s “When Great Trees Fall,” in a service hosted by ABC’s Robin Roberts.

From there, country music’s finest offered the greatest hits from the Judds’ catalog: Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman traded verses during Little Big Town‘s take on “Grandpa (Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Ole Days),” while Ashley McBryde struggled to keep her emotions in check during “Love Is Alive.”

Brad Paisley remembered opening for the Judds at 13, before doing “Young Love.”

“I have this mental image that I feel like Naomi’s flipping her skirt in Heaven tonight,” Carly Pearce said with a smile, before launching into “Why Not Me.”

U2‘s Bono quoted “Guardian Angels” in the first of several pre-recorded messages by the likes of Reba McEntire, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Morgan Freeman, and Salma Hayek. Bette Midler reminisced about singing “The Rose” with Wy, before Brandi Carlile joined her to recreate the duet with Judd.

Wynonna closed with “Love Can Build a Bridge,” with the audience finishing the song Naomi co-wrote a cappella, while waving funeral fans featuring her childhood photo.

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‘Billboard’ Music Awards: Rolling Stones, Twenty One Pilots among early winners

May 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The Rolling Stones were among the early winners of Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards, held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

The Stones’ No Filter tour was nominated for both Top Tour and Top Rock Tour, winning both and beating out fellow double nominees Genesis for their The Last Domino? farewell trek, and Green Day for the Hella Mega tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer. The Eagles‘ Hotel California tour also received a Top Tour nod.

The Stones celebrated their two early wins on Twitter and via their Instagram Story, where they shared the good news alongside three confetti cannon emojis.

Twenty One Pilots also made waves among the early winners, collecting the trophy for Top Rock Album for their effort Scaled and Icy. They were pitted against AJR‘s OK Orchestra, Coldplay‘s Music of the Spheres, Imagine Dragons‘ Mercury – Act 1 and John Mayer‘s Sob Rock.

Britney Spears announces miscarriage: “We have lost our miracle baby”

May 14, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Britney Spears has revealed that she’s suffered a miscarriage a month after announcing she was pregnant with her “miracle child.”

Britney, 40, and her fiancé, Sam Asghari, shared the news in an Instagram post on Saturday.

“It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that we have lost our miracle baby early in the pregnancy,” they said in a joint statement.

Calling it “a devastating time for any parent,” the couple questioned whether they should have waited until further into the pregnancy to announce it, but explained that “we were overly excited to share the good news.”

Britney on April 11 in an Instagram post in which she says she “got a pregnancy test … and uhhhhh well … I am having a baby.”

In his own Instagram post that same day, Sam, 28, said that fatherhood was “something i have always looked forward to and i don’t take lightly. It is the most important job i will ever do.”

This would have been Britney’s first child with Sam, whom she has referred to as her husband on Instagram. The couple, who met in 2016, previously announced their engagement in September 2021. Sam said recently that they’d chosen a wedding date but were keeping it secret.

Britney and Sam said Saturday that they will “continue trying to expand our beautiful family.”

Britney shares two teenage sons, 16-year-old Sean Preston and 15-year-old Jayden James, with her ex-husband, Kevin Federline.

While fighting for the end of her 13-year conservatorship, Britney told the court in June 2021 that she wanted to “get married and have a baby” but was unable to do so under the conservatorship, which was terminated in November of 2021.

Listen to new Alice Merton song, “Loveback”

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Alice Merton has premiered a new song called “Loveback,” a track off her upcoming sophomore album, S.I.D.E.S.

“‘Loveback’ talks about waking up one day and realizing someone has stolen a part of you that you want back.It was the realization that I didn’t ‘need’ anyone to exist,” Merton shares.

“I was never dependent on anyone or anything, even if it at times felt like it,” she adds. “I felt like I was handing out something I was rarely getting back. At some point, I felt like I had forgotten why I’m doing what I’m doing, and felt like I had lost sight of what’s really important to me.”

You can listen to “Loveback” now via digital outlets.

S.I.D.E.S. will be released June 17. It follows Merton’s 2019 debut Mint, which features her breakout single, “No Roots.”

You can catch Merton live opening for Bastille‘s U.S. tour kicking off this weekend.

Jelly Roll hits number one on ’Billboard’ rock chart; announces Nashville arena show

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Jelly Roll‘s “Dead Man Walking” is very much alive on the Billboard charts.

The artist’s breakout single, which combines elements of rock, country and hip hop, has hit number one on the Mainstream Rock Airplay ranking. It’s the first Jelly Roll song to reach the top of any Billboard airplay chart.

Jelly Roll has also achieved the rare chart feat of simultaneously having a number-one hit on Mainstream Rock Airplay and a top-30 entry on the Country Airplay tally, the latter of which he has with his song “Son of a Sinner.” Previous artists who’ve done that include Brantley Gilbert and Zac Brown Band, who reached number one on Mainstream Rock Airplay with their collaborations with Five Finger Death Punch and Chris Cornell, respectively.

In related news, Jelly Roll has announced a headlining show in his hometown of Nashville, taking place December 9 at Bridgestone Arena. Tickets go on sale next Friday, May 20.

You can also catch Jelly Roll open for Shinedown’s tour beginning in September.

Judas Priest’s Ian Hill reveals that ex-guitarist KK Downing “will definitely” be at the 2022 Rock Hall ceremony

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

After last week’s announcement that Judas Priest will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hal of Fame in conjunction with receiving the Musical Excellence Award this year, fans immediately began wondering whether former guitarist KK Downing will take part in the ceremony.

Now, in a new interview with Metal Hammer magazine, founding Priest bassist Ian Hill has confirmed that Downing will be in attendance at the event, which is scheduled for November 5 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

“He’s spoken to management and said he will definitely be there,” Hill said. “It should be good.”

Ian also noted that he was disappointed that guitarist Richie Faulkner, who replaced Downing in the legendary metal group, isn’t being inducted into the Rock Hall with the band.

“The rule as I understand it, is whoever has been with the band for 20 years,” Ian noted. “Richie is sadly not being inducted, but really deserves to be as he’s been the driving force in the band for nearly 12 years now.”

It’s not clear whether Downing, who played with Priest from 1970 to 2011, will perform with his old band mates at the ceremony. Meanwhile, Metal Hammer asked Hill if he thought Judas Priest might end up rocking out with fellow 2022 inductee and country icon Dolly Parton during the traditional event-closing jam.

“That’d be a trip wouldn’t it?” Ian mused. “The lady who didn’t want to be inducted and the band who’ve been overlooked for 20 years!”

Hill also gave a little update on the status of Judas Priest’s next studio album.

“It’s sounding great!” he declared. “We’ve got a lot of the parts recorded now, the plan was to get it finished in the seven weeks we’ve got off [before the next tour leg,] but time vanishes so fast.”

Listen to the title track of America singer Gerry Beckley’s forthcoming solo album, ‘Aurora’

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

America‘s Gerry Beckley has released the title track of his upcoming album Aurora as the latest advance single from the record, which is due out on July 1.

“Aurora,” which kicks off the album, is a love song that, according to Beckley, uses the phenomenon of the colorful lights seen in the sky at daybreak as a metaphor for the significant life event of meeting his wife and relocating to Australia.

The track is available now via digital formats, and you also can check out an official lyric video for the song at the Blue Élan Records label’s YouTube channel.

Aurora is an 11-song collection that Gerry recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic at his two home studios — in Sydney, Australia, and Venice, California.

The album’s tracks include tunes that began as unfinished demos and scratch recordings that date back as far as the early 1970s, as well as brand-new songs written during the past two years.

Prior to “Aurora,” Beckley released two other advance tracks from the album — “Friends Are Hard to Find” and “Tickets to the Past.” Gerry co-wrote the latter tune with his co-founding America band mate Dewey Bunnell, who also sings on the track. “Tickets from the Past” is the first song that Beckley and Bunnell wrote together that isn’t making its debut appearance on an America album.

America is about to launch a new series of U.S. tour dates that run from a June 3 concert in Albany, New York, through an August 27 show in St. Charles, Illinois. Check out the band’s full schedule at VenturaHighway.com.

You can pre-order Aurora now. Here’s the album’s full track list:

“Aurora”
“I Fall Down”
“Never Know Why”
“Tickets to the Past”
“Way to Go”
“Friends Are Hard to Find”
“Peace of Mind”
“Indy’s Gatho”
“Aerial”
“Superscope”
“Tears”

Music notes: Cardi B, AJR, Justin Bieber and more

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Cardi B tried her hand at tennis in her latest Cardi Tries Messenger series. She teamed with her “Wild Side” collaborator, Normani, to see if they have what it takes to be the next Venus and Serena Williams. Cardi, who’s left handed, crashes a children’s tennis lesson and discovers she is not athletically blessed.

AJR was on Jeopardy! Thursday night — kinda. The final Double Jeopardy clue, for $2,000, was, “At the 2021 show, this letter-perfect indie trio gave a smokin’ performance of ‘Bang!'” The answer was “Who is AJR?,” but, as the band revealed on their Instagram story, “No one got it!” They later shared footage of their performance.

Justin Bieber is not built for the outdoors. He posted an Instagram video of him trying to chop wood like a shirtless lumberjack, and failing. “I’m out of my element,” he captioned the video.

Olivia Rodrigo has been performing Gwen Stefani‘s No Doubt hit, “Just a Girl,” while on tour, and Gwen finally noticed. “U killed it,” Gwen shared while posting a clip of Olivia’s recent performance to her Instagram story. Olivia responded with a sobbing emoji. Fans are now hoping Gwen will crash one of Olivia’s shows.

Camila Cabello released the music video for “Hasta Los Dientes,” which features Maria Becerra. Camila wears a frost-blue number, complete with a minty wig and frilled dress, for her colorful music video.

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