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Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran and KPop Demon Hunters have scored nominations for the 31st annual Critics Choice Awards.
Ariana was nominated in the best supporting actress category for Wicked: For Good. The new song Stephen Schwartz wrote for Glinda specifically for the film, “The Girl in the Bubble,” was nominated for best song.
Also nominated in the best song category was Ed’s song “Drive” for F1: The Movie and “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters, co-written by one of the song’s performers, EJAE. KPop Demon Hunters was nominated in the best animated feature category, as well.
The Critics Choice Awards, hosted by Chelsea Handler, will broadcast live on E! and USA Network Sunday, Jan. 4, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Coco Jones at the 10th annual Wonderful World of Disney: Holiday Spectacular (Disney/Omark Reyes)
Coco Jones received a 2026 Grammy nomination in November for her debut album, Why Not More? It’s her eighth Recording Academy nod to date, all of which she worked for but never quite expected.
“I don’t expect these things — but I do, but I don’t,” she told will.i.am during a conversation for Uproxx. “Because you’re working towards a goal. I’m not working like, ‘Hope nobody hears this! Period!’ I’m working towards goals. But I also know I can’t control anything but me. So it’s like, yes, and no.”
“I’m not going to sit here like, ‘I knew that, I knew that, I knew that,'” she continued. “If I could tell the future, I’d be a bajillionaire!”
Coco shares that she puts in the “work like I want to receive those awards” and is relieved when she gets recognized.
“If things get nominated, if they get recognized, if they get love — even from my fans — I’m like ‘whew!’ Because that was hard as hell,” she says. “In general, I hold everything to a really high standard, and I hope that people agree that it’s high quality stuff.”
Why Not More? wasreleased in April with appearances from YG Marley, London on da Track and Future. She tells will.i.am that Jazmine Sullivan and PartyNextDoor are among her desired collaborations.
“I love Jazmine Sullivan, and I feel like we would do something soulful and sickening together. I also love PartyNextDoor,” she said. “I love modern R&B, that’s super chill and super laid-back and cool as hell. Because I feel like I’m not ‘cool as hell,’ I’m just ‘real as hell.’ I think that’s my vibe, but I want to do something ‘cool as hell.’ Mysterious.”
Coco’s Uproxx Visionary performance of “Thang 4 U” is now on YouTube.
The Beatles are back on the Billboard charts thanks to Anthology 4, the new addition to the band’s Anthology series, which was recently reissued.
Anthology 4 features 36 tracks, including 13 previously unreleased demos, session recordings and more. It debuted in the top 10 on five Billboard charts, including both the Top Albums Sales and Top Current Album Sales charts, where it landed at #9.
The album is also at #7 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart, #6 on the Top Rock Albums chart and #3 on the Indie Store Album Sales chart.
Anthology 4 was released as a standalone and was also part of the larger The Anthology Collection box set, with both debuting at #48 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart. The Collection includes the first three Anthology releases, which originally came out in the ’90s, and hit #1 on the Billboard 200 and the Top Album Sales chart.
The release of The Anthology Collection coincided with the Disney+ debut of the newly restored and remastered version of the Anthology documentary series, which aired on ABC in 1995. The new version was expanded from eight to nine episodes. A 25th anniversary edition of The Beatles Anthology book was also released in October.
Barry Keoghan and Cillian Murphy on set of “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.’ (Robert Viglasky/Netflix)
The upcoming Peaky Blinders film now has an official title and a release date.
This next installment in the franchise is called Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. It will arrive in select cinemas for a theatrical release on March 6, 2026, before streaming on Netflix on March 20.
Cillian Murphy reprises his role as Tommy Shelby in the upcoming film, which also stars Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth, Sophie Rundle, Barry Keoghan, Stephen Graham and Jay Lycurgo.
“It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn’t finished with me,” Murphy said to Netflix’s Tudum. “It is very gratifying to be re-collaborating with Steven Knight and Tom Harper on the film version of Peaky Blinders. This is one for the fans.”
Other Peaky Blinders alum coming along for the new movie are Ned Dennehy, Packy Lee and Ian Peck.
The upcoming film takes place in Birmingham in 1940.
“Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby is driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet. With the future of the family and the country at stake, Tommy must face his own demons, and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground. By order of the Peaky Blinders,” according to its official logline.
Harper directs the film from a script by Knight. Knight created and wrote the original series.
The singer said she has a fear of paper, specifically when dry hands are touching it, which makes Christmas an unhappy holiday for her.
“Christmas, I’m known as a little bit of a Grinch because I have a qualm with Christmas. I hate paper,” she said. “The real problem for me with paper is when people have dry hands and they touch paper and then it’s Christmas and it’s cold and everyone’s hands are dry and they’re all touching paper.”
Miley admitted the phobia is getting worse and she’s looking into treatment for it because it’s affecting her everyday life — but her new fiancé, Maxx Morando, has been helping.
“Someone gets an Amazon box, I’m sick, because the cardboard is the worst of it all,” she said. “It’s extra dry and there’s packaging within it. That’s the best part, that’s really why I got engaged, because I just make my fiancé open all the packages outside.”
When Kimmel joked that the first wedding anniversary is paper, Miley responded, “Uh-uh, not here!”
Miley confirmed her engagement in an interview with ABC’s Chris Connelly that aired on Good Morning America Wednesday. She was previously married to Liam Hemsworth.
Cover of Tom Petty ‘The Live Anthology’/(Shoreline Gold/Reprise Records)
The Tom Petty estate has released a new ultra-limited edition vinyl of The Live Anthology – From The Vaults Vol. 1.
The new “Cool Blue” pressing of the album is limited to 2,000 individually numbered copies and is available now at TomPetty.com.
This colored variant follows the recent Record Store Day Black Friday release of a special turquoise version, which was limited to 11,000 copies.
The Live Anthology – From The Vaults Vol. 1. is made up of live tracks personally curated by Petty himself. The collection was originally issued as a bonus CD in the 2009 five-CD box set, The Live Anthology, and until now had never been available as a standalone vinyl release.
The album includes live performances of songs like “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” “The Last DJ” and “I Need To Know,” along with deep cuts like “Like A Diamond,” “Think About Me” and “Ballad of Easy Rider.”
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. Megan Varner/Bloomberg via Getty Images
(ATLANTA) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee voted 8-3 on Friday to remove the universal recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to make vaccine recommendations based on the mother’s testing status.
The recommendations state that if a mother tests negative for hepatitis B, parents should decide, with the guidance of their health care provider, whether the shot is right for their newborn — referred to as “individual-based decision-making,” according to a document with the ACIP voting language.
The vote includes that newborns who do not receive the hepatitis B birth dose get an initial dose no earlier than 2 months old.
The voting language document emphasized there is no change to the recommendation that infants born to women who test positive or have unknown status to be vaccinated.
The language document also included a footnote that parents and health care providers should consider whether the newborn faces risks, such as a hepatitis B-positive household member or frequent contact with people who have emigrated from areas where hepatitis B is common.
In a second vote, the ACIP voted 6-4, with one abstention, that parents of older children should talk to their doctor about hepatitis B antibody testing before considering subsequent hepatitis B vaccination.
The testing would determine whether an antibody threshold was achieved and should be covered by insurance.
The CDC acting director, Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill, is expected to sign off on the change.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Thomas Rhett Live From Fenway (The Valory Music Company)
Thomas Rhett sold out a concert at Boston’s Fenway Park earlier this year, which had long been a dream of his. If you weren’t able to make it, you can hear some of it now on his new release, Thomas Rhett Live From Fenway Park.
The EP features six live songs, as well as audio of TR reading a letter to the Boston audience about how much the city means to him. “Pretty sure I’ve played most every venue that this town has to offer,” he recalled, before running down a list. He also noted that his favorite show in Boston was one he played two years ago at TD Garden.
“I’ve drank most of your bars out of beer. I’ve eaten my weight in lobster rolls. … Thrown my guts up on a whale-watching tour. And attended my fair share of Red Sox games,” TR continued. “Needless to say, this place has always been and always will be one of my favorite places to play on the planet. I have a lot of history in this city and I love y’all so much.”
The EP includes live performances of “Make Me Wanna,” “Beautiful As You,” “T-Shirt,” “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Woman” with special guest Teddy Swims, “Die a Happy Man” and “She Had Me at Heads Carolina,” the Cole Swindell hit that he co-wrote. There are also videos of all those performances on YouTube.
Katy Perry performs at Unipol Arena, Nov. 2, 2025, in Bologna, Italy. (Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images)
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are globe-trotting together and meeting important figures along the way.
Perry and Trudeau posed with former Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his wife in a photo posted to social media on Thursday by the former Japanese leader.
The prime minister referred to Perry as Trudeau’s “partner” in a social media post about the meeting.
“Former Canadian Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau visited Japan with his partner and joined my wife and me for lunch,” wrote Kishida, in a caption translated from Japanese to English.
“During his time as prime minister, we met multiple times as fellow leaders, and when I visited Canada, we worked together to strengthen bilateral relations, including formulating the ‘Japan-Canada Action Plan,’ sweating it out side by side,” he continued.
Trudeau responded to the photo on social media, adding, “Katy and I were so glad to have the chance to sit down with you and Yuko. Thank you, Fumio, for your friendship and your continued commitment to both the international rules-based order and to a better future for everyone.”
Kishida served as the 100th and 101st prime minister of Japan, serving from October 2021 until October 2024. Trudeau resigned as Canada’s prime minister earlier this year after serving a decade in the role.
Trudeau and Perry have not publicly commented on their relationship.
Perry recently split from Orlando Bloom, with whom she had been in a relationship since 2016 and to whom she became engaged on Valentine’s Day in 2019.
In June, People reported that Perry and Bloom have “gone their separate ways” after a nearly decade-long relationship.
The pair welcomed their first child together, Daisy Dove Bloom, in August 2020.
Trudeau announced his separation from his then-wife Sophie Trudeau in August 2023. They had been married since 2005 and share three children together — Xavier, Ella-Grace and Hadrien Trudeau.
Yungblud, Steven Tyler, and Joe Perry perform during a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on September 07, 2025 in Elmont, New York. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for MTV)
Aerosmith and Yungblud have released a new version of the One More Time track “Wild Woman” featuring country star Lainey Wilson.
Steven Tyler and Yungblud decided to ask Lainey to add her vocals to the track after she joined Tyler to perform the Aerosmith classic “Dream On” at his sixth annual Jam for Janie benefit in February. Joe Perry later went in and added new guitar parts to the track.
“I’m really hyped to have Lainey Wilson jump on this record with us. I have been a fan of her for a while. Her story is inspirational” says Yungblud. “With this record, we really needed a female vocalist who could carry it with the level of authenticity that Lainey embodies. We needed a wild woman and we for sure got one!”
One More Time, released in November, is the first collaborative EP between Aerosmith and Yungblud. The record debuted at #9 on the Billboard 200 and at #1 on the U.K. Official Chart.
