Bon Iver's Best New Artist Among Top Grammy Wins For Indies
14 February, 2012
Independent artists and labels celebrated another huge year at the 54th GRAMMY® Awards, taking home 34 awards in a wide variety of categories, including Best New Artist, Best Country Song, and Best Album awards in ten categories.
Bon Iver's Best New Artist win marks the second consecutive indie ...
| Tony Bennett: 50 Years Of Grammys
14 February, 2012
Tony Bennett earned his 16th and 17th Grammys last night with wins in both categories he was nominated for : Best Traditional Pop Album for DUETS II and Best Vocal Collaboration with Duo or Group for "Body and Soul," his duet with the late Amy Winehouse. Amy Winehouse's parents, Mitch and Janis, joined ...
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Facebook Love Playlist And Breakup Songs!
13 February, 2012
Facebook, the social network has just released Spotify listening figures for songs that help people ease into and crash out of relationships, based on streams around the point where relationship status' change.
Hip hop artist Drake seems to be pretty good at easing the pain, with two of the top 10 ...
| Five Grammy Awards For Artists, Engineers And Producers From Naxos Of America Family Of Distributed Labels
13 February, 2012
Artists and producers from Naxos and its distributed labels were honored with five Grammy Awards at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards.
Composer Robert Aldridge and librettist Herschel Garfein's opera Elmer Gantry won Best Contemporary Classical Composition. This Naxos recording with the Florentine ...
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MOBO Announces The Regional Finalists Of The MOBO Unsung Competition 2012
13 February, 2012
MOBO would like to thank the hundreds of young artists who submitted entries to the MOBO UnSung competition this year. The very high quality of these entries made choosing three finalists from each region a difficult one but these decisions have now been made and the finalists are ready to be announced.
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| Adele Takes Home 6 Grammy Awards, Including Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year And Song Of The Year
13 February, 2012
Tonight's Grammy Awards confirmed that 2011 truly was the year of Adele. The 23 year-old singer was honored with 6 Grammy Awards, including "Record of the Year," "Album of the Year" and "Song of the Year," tying the record held by Beyoncé for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in a single year. ...
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54th Grammy Awards: List Of 2012 Winners
13 February, 2012
The 54th annual Grammy Awards were dominated by two soulful pop divas: Adele (wins 6 awards) and Whitney Houston, whose death the day before the show became a recurring motif throughout the three-plus hour broadcast.
Adele wins big by adding two more kudos, Record of the Year and Album of the Year, ...
| Adele's "Someone Like You" Wins Tenth Annual Musicnotes "Song Of The Year" Award
10 February, 2012
Μusicnotes.com, the Madison, WI-based online sheet music retailer and publisher, announced today that Adele's hit song "Someone Like You," from her album, 21, has won the tenth annual Musicnotes.com Song of the Year Award.
"Someone Like You" surpassed all previous Song of the Year records - selling ...
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Cracker Barrel Congratulates Dailey & Vincent On Six SPBGMA Awards
10 February, 2012
Rounder Records recording group Dailey & Vincent were honored with multiple awards during the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) awards show on February 5, 2012 in Nashville, Tenn. Together they won Gospel Group of the Year (Contemporary), Vocal Group of the Year, and ...
| Brantley Gilbert, Hunter Hayes & Scotty McCreery Chosen By Country Fans At GACTV As Nominees For ACM New Artist Of The Year Award
10 February, 2012
The Academy of Country Music and Great American Country (GAC) announced today that Brantley Gilbert, Hunter Hayesand Scotty McCreeryhave been named nominees for this year's ACM New Artist of the Year Award,which will be given out during the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards broadcast LIVE ...
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Hedley, Avril Lavigne, Feist, Justin Bieber And Sam Roberts Band Receive Multiple Nominations For The 2012 Juno Awards
09 February, 2012
Hedley leads the pack with four Juno Award nominations including Single of the Year ("Invincible"), Group of the Year, Pop Album of the Year (Storms), and the coveted Juno Fan Choice Award. Rondor's Avril Lavigne received nominations in three categories, including the Juno Fan Choice Award, Album of ...
| The Beach Boys Reunite And Perform With Foster The People And Maroon 5 And Add'l Performers Added To 54th Annual Grammy Awards
09 February, 2012
The Beach Boys - Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks, who have not performed together live in more than two decades - will reunite on the GRAMMY® stage and join with current GRAMMY nominees Foster The People and Maroon 5 for a special performance; and current nominees ...
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Presenters And Performers Announced For 54th Annual Grammy Awards Pre Telecast
08 February, 2012
The 54th Annual GRAMMY® Awards Pre-Telecast Ceremony will take place on Sunday, Feb. 12 from 1 - 3:30 p.m. PT at the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be streamed live internationally at www.grammy.com/live and www.cbs.com beginning at 1 p.m. PT.Attended by nominees and industry VIPs, the star-studded ...
| Kenny Chesney Earns Platinum Cert. For "You And Tequila" On Heels Of 9 ACM Nominations
08 February, 2012
Kenny Chesney's single "You and Tequila," the duet with Grace Potter that's up for two GRAMMY Awards and five Academy of Country Music Awards, has just been certified platinum. It's the second million-selling song from Chesney's platinum, #1 album 'Hemingway's Whiskey' (BNA), following "Somewhere With ...
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Chris Brown, Deadmau5, Foo Fighters, David Guetta, And Lil Wayne To Perform Together At 54th Annual Grammy Awards
08 February, 2012
Current GRAMMY nominees Chris Brown, deadmau5, Foo Fighters, David Guetta, and Lil Wayne will join for a special performance highlighting dance/electronica music for the first time ever on the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards (www.grammy.com). Music's Biggest Night - hosted by two-time GRAMMY winner LL COOL ...
| Additional Performers And Presenters Added To The 54th Annual Grammy Awards
08 February, 2012
Current GRAMMY nominee Chris Brown; nominees Tony Bennett and Carrie Underwood, who will perform together; and 14-time GRAMMY winner Alicia Keys and nine-time GRAMMY winner Bonnie Raitt, who will remember Etta James, have been added to the stellar lineup for the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards® (www.grammy.com). ...
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Institute Launches 2012 Shure Songwriting Award With Anna Calvi And BMI
07 February, 2012
The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance and Shure are delighted to announce the launch of the 2012 Shure Songwriting Award (www.ShureSongwritingAward.com). Also for the first time this year the competition will be supported by Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI). Previously judged by Amy McDonald, K.T. ...
| All Else Fails Nominated For "Metal Album Of Year" At 2012 Edmonton Music Awards
06 February, 2012
Canadian melodic metallers All Else Fails are proud to announce their nomination at this year's 2012 Edmonton Music Awards for "Metal Album of The Year" for their latest full length "The Oracle: What Was, Is And Could Have Been" released on August 19, 2011 on Suicidal Bride Records.
"We are honoured ...
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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Set To Perform On The 54th Annual Grammy Awards
03 February, 2012
Twenty-time GRAMMY winner Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band have been added to the stellar lineup for the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards (www.grammy.com). Actor/recording artist Jack Black, six-time GRAMMY winner and current three-time nominee Fergie, three-time GRAMMY winner and current nominee Amir ...
| DJ/Producer Hardwell Nominated For International Dance Music Awards
03 February, 2012
DJ/Producer Hardwell received a nomination for the 27th International DanceMusic Awards in the category 'Best Breakthrough DJ'. IDMA are the annual awards during Miami's Music Week where the entire Dance music industry is gathered. The nomination reflects Hardwell popularity in todayshouse-scene which ...
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