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for KING & COUNTRY is on tour now and they’ll be on the road right up to Christmas — but they’ve already mapped out their next tour.

The award-winning Australian duo have announced that they’ll be releasing a new album called What Are We Waiting For? on March 11. It’s their first collection of new non-holiday music in three years, and is the follow up to 2020’s A Drummer Boy Christmas.

To go with the album, Joel and Luke will kick off What Are We Waiting For? — The Tour on March 31, 2022; it’s currently scheduled through May 22 in Franklin, TN.  Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday at 10 a.m. via the duo’s website.

“So many of you have encouraged us and spurred us on in this journey since we began the writing process at the top of the year,” the “Amen” duo say in a statement. “We’ve made records before in buses and in dressing rooms, but what’s been particularly beautiful about this one is that we were able to be home with our families.”

Ahead of the tour, an event called the for KING & COUNTRY New Album Weekend Experience will take place March 4-6 in the duo’s home base of Nashville, TN.  Fans will get to spend the weekend with the duo, enjoy a concert, hear the entire album, attend a meet & greet and more. You can get tickets now through Eventbrite.

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50 Cent is having a major laugh thanks to good pal and Black Mafia Family star Snoop Dogg.

In an Instagram post to promote the latest episode of his new crime-drama BMF, 50 shared an image of Snoop in character as Pastor Swift.

“Let us all pray God, grant me the SERENITY to accept the things I can not change, the COURAGE to change the things I can, and the WISDOM to know the difference,” 50 wrote in a message accompanying the pic. “BECAUSE @snoopdogg is not gonna stop smoking weed.”

50’s hilarious revelation comes after the rapper told Jimmy Kimmel last month that he couldn’t get Snoop to stop smoking marijuana on-set.

“He did his thing,” Fif said of Snoop’s portrayal as the pastor. “[But,] you can’t get him to stop smoking weed. I went to the trailer. I was like, ‘Can you chill? Can you chill?’ He was like, ‘Get outta here, man! No, it’s legal 50! It’s legal!”  

Fif continued, “He was really conflicted with me asking him not to smoke weed. He was like, ‘Why you wanna mess up my day?'”

Fans can check out Snoop in BMF, which airs Sunday nights at 8 p.m. ET on Starz.

 

 

 

 

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Coldplay, Shawn Mendes and Ed Sheeran are among the performers at the first-ever Earthshot Prize Awards ceremony, which is being held in London on October 17.

The Earthshot Prize was created by Great Britain’s Prince William and The Royal Foundation to encourage scientists to develop the “most inspiring and innovative solutions” to the world’s biggest environmental challenges. There will be five winners announced, and each will get one million pounds — about $1.36 million U.S. — to scale and support their innovations.

Prince William will attend the ceremony with other participants including Sir David Attenborough, actors Emma Thompson, Emma Watson and David Oyelowo  and Prince Williams’ wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge.

You can learn about all 15 finalists for the prize in the documentary The EarthShot Prize: Repairing Our Planet, which is now available on Discovery+ and will arrive on October 16 on the Discovery Channel.  The awards ceremony will stream globally on Discovery’s Facebook page on October 17.

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If you live in London, you might’ve caught a sneak peek of Coldplay‘s upcoming album, Music of the Spheres.

As flagged by the fan account @ColdplayXtra, a digital billboard recently popped up in the English capital, featuring lyrics from the unreleased Spheres song, “Biutyful.”

The song begins, “All I know is I love you/I hope that you get everything you want in this biutyful live.” We assume that “Biutyful” is pronounced like “beautiful,” but we’ll find out for sure when Music of the Spheres arrives this Friday, October 15.

Music of the Spheres includes the previously released lead single “Higher Power” and the hit BTS collaboration “My Universe.” The album also includes a song with pop star Selena Gomez, titled “Let Somebody Go.”

Lyrics to Coldplay’s track Biutyful, from new album Music of the Spheres, have appeared on a digital billboard in London at the @alienradiofm coordinates

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— ColdplayXtra (@coldplayxtra) October 11, 2021

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Lewis Capaldi‘s smash hit “Before You Go” was named Song of the Year at the 2021 BMI London Awards, given out annually the music rights management and licensing company BMI.

“Before You Go,” which was the most-performed song in the U.S. in 2020 by a U.K. or European songwriter, spent 52 weeks on the Billboard chart and eventually became Lewis’ second U.S. top 10, after “Someone You Loved.”  One of Lewis’ co-writers, Tom Barnes, said, “The song really resonated with people during the pandemic because many had to say goodbye to people without really saying goodbye.”

Also at the event, iconic songs that have been broadcast on TV and radio more than a million times were recognized.  Elton John‘s “Bennie and the Jets” and “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” were honored for seven million performances each, while “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues” was honored for six million performances.

Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” were also honored for six million performances, and a song he co-wrote — Justin Bieber‘s “Love Yourself” — was honored for four million performances.  “Every Breath You Take” by The Police earned its composer Sting an honor for a whopping 16 million performances.  Of all the songs that BMI administers the rights to, that’s the most-played song.

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Drake is giving some major Instagram love to his son Adonis, in celebration of his fourth birthday.

Over the weekend, Drake, who shares Adonis with ex Sophie Brussaux, took to Instagram to share photos from his son’s race-car-themed birthday party.

“TEACHA,” Drake captioned one photo that showed him smiling as he crouched down and posed next to his son. “MORE LIFE KID.”

In another post, which appeared to be taken at a photo booth, Drake holds his son, who stretches out into a Superman pose. Drake simply captions the image with a runner emoji. 

The “One Dance” performer also posted footage on his Instagram Story of Adonis sharing some popcorn with someone in a Bugs Bunny costume from the film Space Jam: A New Legacy.

This isn’t the first time Drake showed his baby boy on Instagram. Last year, Drake shared a rare photo of Adonis, writing in part that he “love[s] and miss[es] [his] beautiful family and friends..”

 

 

 

 

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Machine Gun Kelly has joined the pantheon of celebrities who were impersonated on Saturday Night Live.

This past weekend’s episode featured a sketch in which host Kim Kardashian West played her sister Kourtney as the judge in a court show called The People’s Kourt. In the middle of the skit, Kourtney introduces her “bailiff and best friends,” MGK and Megan Fox, played by SNL cast members Pete Davidson and Chloe Fineman.

“Wait, why are we best friends?” Fineman’s Fox asks. “Because our boyfriends have tattoos for necks,” Kim’s Kourtney replies.

Kourtney’s boyfriend, of course, is Blink-182‘s Travis Barker, who collaborated with Kelly on his 2020 album Tickets to My Downfall. Barker also shows up in the sketch, as played by Mikey Day.

In a tweet in reaction to the sketch, Kelly wrote, “I think it’s time for me to come on the show as Pete.”

While he waits for the call from SNL, Kelly has been working on his Tickets follow-up album, Born with Horns. In an interview with NBC’s Sunday Today, Kelly teased that Born with Horns, which will also be produced by Barker, is set to be “more guitar-heavy” than its predecessor.

“Every album is a juxtaposition of the last album,” Kelly explained. “So I went and studied Tickets, and I heard the bright sound that I had, and for this album I just turned the lights off.”

Kelly dropped the lead Born with Horns single, “Papercuts,” back in August. As for the rest of the record, Kelly hinted at a release date in the interview.

“I almost feel like the second you open your eyes and it’s 2022…you’ll have something to listen to,” he said.

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Dierks Bentley and Jason Aldean will try their hands at coaching on The Voice. 

The country superstars are both serving as advisors during the Battle Rounds, Dierks coaching Blake Shelton‘s team while Jason lends his talents to Kelly Clarkson‘s contestants. 

In a preview of the upcoming episodes, Blake and Dierks can’t get over each other’s hair upon reuniting. 

“What happened to your hair?” Blake exclaims. “It’s the longest I’ve ever seen it.”

“What happened to yours?” Dierks jokes, referring to the mullet Blake used to have at the start of his career. “Yours is as gray as I’ve ever seen it.” 

Between jabs, the “What Was I Thinkin'” singer meets the four contestants of Team Blake, in addition to coming up with a new team name, like that of celebrity couples. 

“Team D-lake. The two of us,” Dierks calls them.

“D-lake, I like it,” Blake approves with a smile.  

Meanwhile, Kelly and Jason reminisce on their hit duet, “Don’t You Wanna Stay” that earned them a Grammy nomination and led them to previously appearing on The Voice together.  

“It was a huge song that introduced me to a whole different fan base,” Jason remarks, citing it as “the biggest duet of my career,” while Kelly calls it “one of my favorite songs ever. …I feel very fortunate to have the career I’ve had and to be able to come and share that.” 

“I’m so excited to get a chance to go in there and offer any advice that I can that’s going to help them not only here at The Voice but down the road with whatever they do with their career,” Dierks reflects. 

The Voice Battle Rounds begin airing tonight at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.

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Following their performance on SNL over the weekend, Halsey took to social media to address comments about their post-baby body.

The singer shared photos of what their body really looked like post-pregnancy — stretch marks and all — and acknowledged it’s still changing.

“I did SNL two nights ago and a lot of people were quick to say how good I looked,” they write. “That was a weird feeling. My body has felt like a stranger’s for a long time.”

Halsey, who welcomed baby Ender in July, admitted, “I have no interest in working out right now. I’m too tired and too busy playing with my darling son.”

“With that being said, the body behind all those compliments the other night was wearing a custom tailored outfit and lighted perfectly after much testing, so I could feel good and do my job,” they wrote. “I do not want to feed the Illusion that you’re meant to feel and look ‘great’ immediately postpartum. That is not my narrative currently.”

Halsey concluded by explaining that they’ll never have their “pre baby body back” and that’s OK, but they acknowledged that the journey is still “really hard” and they are “not a superhuman.”

“Doing my best to serve my art and my family whilst keeping it all so very real. Love,” they ended their message.

 

 

 

 

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