Norah Jones Talks Full-Circle Grammy History, From 2003 Sweep to 2022 Nod: ‘The Grammys Changed My Life’

At the 45th annual Grammy Awards back in 2003, Norah Jones was nominated for her first five Grammy Awards and won all five, thanks to her ubiquitous and beloved debut album Come Away With Me and its breakout single “Don’t Know Why.” So what does the singer remember from that life-changing night, 19 years later?

“I was starving,” she laughs in the latest Billboard Pop Shop Podcast for our special 2022 Grammy preview episode (listen to the full show below). “We got there early for the pre-telecast because I had one award in that. It was definitely pre- or right after lunch. I just remember I didn’t really eat dinner and then we went to the afterparty and I had a giant martini. And I was like, ‘Can someone feed me?!’”

At the 64th annual Grammys — airing live from Las Vegas this Sunday — Jones is nominated once again, with her ‘Til We Meet Again (Live) up for best traditional pop vocal album. In a time when fans and musicians alike were deprived of live music, Jones and producer/engineer Jamie Landry listened back to recordings of her concerts around the world, and the musician found herself drawn to the audience she desperately missed playing for.

“The sound of the audience made me so giddy,” she recalls. “We did end up picking the version where the audience was the most loving, I’ll say. Because what I missed that I was getting from hearing these recordings from Brazil – which is probably the most loving audience in the whole world, no offense everyone else, but they just are – but we really sort of leaned toward the ones where you could feel the room and we could hear the audience and know what they looked like and see the smiles on their faces.”

She’s now a nine-time winner and 18-time nominee, but there’s one photo fans are most likely to associate with Jones and her almost two-decade history with the Recording Academy: the singer juggling five golden gramophones at her first awards ceremony. “There was another photo of me dropping one because I couldn’t keep them all in my arms,” she laughs. “They’re heavy! You don’t want that on your toe.”

Norah Jones

Norah Jones holds her five Grammy Awards at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 23, 2003 in New York City.

In a full-circle moment, Jones is now revisiting Come Away With Me for a 20th-anniversary deluxe edition, out April 29 via Blue Note/UMe. The 44-track reissue includes 22 previously unreleased tracks and pages of new liner notes written by Jones herself.

“When the label was like, ‘It’s gonna be 20 years! You need to do something special!’ I was like, ‘Well, only if we have something special to do. I’m not gonna do it just to do it,’” she says. “And then once we started really getting into it, I couldn’t believe how much special stuff there was. I was so excited about it.”

Jones says the deluxe edition (which will be available as a four-LP vinyl set or a three-CD set) “shows the evolution of where I was, where I was going, where I ended up, where I went back to, and where it all ended – I mean, it didn’t end there, but it ended for the record there.” She likens the experience to “time traveling. It was very healing, in a way.”

So it’s fitting that she’s back in the mix at the Grammys, the show that really kicked things into overdrive for her career and for Come Away With Me, which spent four nonconsecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, including its final week at No. 1 following the 2003 Grammys. “Just when I thought it couldn’t go [any higher], the Grammys happened, and it just went into the stratosphere,” she says. “So yeah, the Grammys changed my life.”

Also on the show, Katie & Keith discuss the tragic death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins and how the industry is remembering the beloved rocker. Plus, we checked in with Billboard awards editor Paul Grein for his predictions on the Big Four Grammy categories ahead of this Sunday’s show. Find his full predictions here.

The Billboard Pop Shop Podcast is your one-stop shop for all things pop on Billboard‘s weekly charts. You can always count on a lively discussion about the latest pop news, fun chart stats and stories, new music, and guest interviews with music stars and folks from the world of pop. Casual pop fans and chart junkies can hear Billboard‘s deputy editor, digital, Katie Atkinson and senior director of Billboard charts Keith Caulfield every week on the podcast, which can be streamed on Billboard.com or downloaded in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast provider. (Click here to listen to the previous edition of the show on Billboard.com.)

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Viva! L.A. Music Festival to Launch With J Balvin, Becky G, Daddy Yankee & More

Viva!, which launched its Viva! Pomona annual festival 10 years ago, is celebrating its anniversary in a big way, announcing a new, one-day festival set to take place at the L.A.’s Dodger Stadium on June 25.

Produced by Goldenvoice, Viva! L.A. Music Festival unveiled Tuesday (March 29) a star-studded lineup for its inaugural edition, which will be headlined by Daddy Yankee, J Balvin, Becky G and Kali Uchis.

The multi-genre fest will also feature performances by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Lenin Ramirez, Carin Leon, Tainy, Carla Morrison, Ivy Queen, Cuco, Los Dos Carnales, The Marías, Los Tucanes de Tijuana, Chicano Batman, Ed Maverick, Cazzu, La Sonora Dinamita, Lido Piemienta, Eslabon Armado, among many others.

Additionally, the festival will donate $1 of every ticket sold to the Los Angeles-based nonprofit No Us Without You LA, which is committed to feeding L.A.’s undocumented immigrant communities. Launched in the pandemic, the volunteer-run organization now provides support to “hundreds of food insecure hospitality, day laborers, street vendors and mariachi families.” 

Viva! was originally created a decade ago by Rene Contreras who wanted to bring resources to his hometown in Southern California via backyard shows and gigs at local spots. “Viva! goes beyond just a music festival, it has a strong mission of building community and representation, which has led to its cult following that started in L.A. and has since gone global,” according to a press release. “The fest celebrates those often overshadowed immigrants, youth of color, the underserved, the working class in the suburbs, various marginalized communities and artists that have long been pushed out of the larger anglo music arena.”

The Viva! Pomona shows will still continue under the Viva! umbrella.

Ticket pre-sale starts Saturday at 10 a.m. PT. Tickets go on sale to the general public later that day at 2 p.m. For ticket and festival information, visit https://vivamusicfestival.com.

See the lineup below:

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The 9.1 Cent Mechanical Royalty Rate Ditched in New CRB Ruling

The longstanding 9.1 cent mechanical royalty songwriters and publishers earn for every song sold is may be a thing of the past. On Tuesday (March 29), the Copyright Royalty Board agreed to abandon that mechanical settlement between music publishers, record labels and digital services for the sale of songs for the upcoming 2023-2027 rate period, giving way to a new battle over what the rate should be for physical and download sales.

The CRB judges’ decision came after receiving the settlement from interested parties in a motion to adopt it, as part of the overall rate-setting process, which also determines royalty rates for on-demand streaming. While the on-demand streaming rates are hard fought between digital services and publishers, with both sides racking up millions of dollars of litigation fees, the mechanical rates for sale formats since 2008 has been relatively easy because of a settlement negotiated at that time. Since then, that rate settlement at 9.1 cents per song— referred to as the subpart B configuration — has been carried forward in every subsequent rate period. Everyone has seemingly been fine with this except for George Johnson, the sole songwriter who has become a fixture as an objecting participant in the proceedings, alongside the National Music Publishers’ Association and the digital services.

The CRB judges proposed the rule, including that rate settlement, on June 25, 2021, which would have once again adopted the settlement rate of 9.1 cents per song or 1.75 cents per song minute — whichever is larger — in the 2023-2027 period. But a comment period on the proposed rule allowed others to weigh in on the proposed ruling, bringing in players like the Songwriters Guild of America, which also vociferously objected to the rate, and other songwriters groups.

Now that the judges withdrew the proposed rule and the 9.1 cent rate, that means all participants either have to come up with a new rate settlement on subpart B or the rate will have to be litigated, adding to the already costly rate determination process.

The motion to adopt the 9.1 cent rate settlement was endorsed by the NMPA, Sony Music Entertainment and UMG Recordings, as well as the Nashville Songwriters Association International. The proposed rule was reviewed over three comment periods, with the final one ending Nov. 22, 2021.

The NMPA’s stance on the rate, which has been in place since 2006, was that it would be inordinately expensive to litigate for a higher rate, since physical and digital downloads only comprise about 15% of the business. But others who advocated for a higher rate argued that the three biggest publishers have a conflict of interest in that they are owned by the three major record companies — which would have to pay the higher rate on all music sales, whether physical or digital downloads.

Nevertheless, the NMPA issued a comment applauding the CRB judges’ decision.

“We are encouraged that the Copyright Royalty Board is open to higher digital download and physical product rates for songwriters and music publishers,” an NMPA Spokesperson said in a statement. “While we continue to focus on fighting the largest tech companies in the world in the trial for higher digital streaming rates which make up the growing majority of songwriter income, NMPA and its members always support higher royalties that reflect the important contributions of songwriters. We appreciate the grassroots efforts of songwriter advocates across the country and we stand with those who are pushing for more equitable songwriter payments.”

SGA also said they were happy with the CRB Judges ruling. That organization, along with other songwriter groups including the Music Creators of North America had argued that the CRB should use the compounded increase in the “Consumer Price Increase for all Urban Consumers” since 2006 to raise the 9.1 cent rate commensurately to set a new higher rate for 2023 and continue to use that ratio each year going forward in setting the mechanical rate.

While SGA and many other songwriter organizations offered statements on the rate issue to the CRB during the comment period, which helped the judges make the decision, their withdrawal of the prosed rule is especially a triumphant moment for Johnson. This marks his first major victory in as the sole participant fighting against the 9.1 cent rate.

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Here Are the Lyrics to 4*TOWN’s ‘Nobody Like U’ From ‘Turning Red’

4*TOWN, the fictional boy band from Pixar and Disney’s new film Turning Red, debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated April 2) at No. 50 with “Nobody Like U.”

The group’s vocals are performed by Finneas, Jordan Fisher, Josh Levi, Topher Ngo and Grayson Villanueva. Finneas produced the song solo and co-wrote it with Billie Eilish.

If you need a guide to follow along with “Nobody Like U,” find the lyrics below:

Yea-yeah, oh-ooh-ooh
Yeah

I’ve never met nobody like you
Had friends and I’ve had buddies, it’s true
But they don’t turn my tummy the way you do
I’ve never met nobody like you

Oh yeah
Yeah

You’re never not on my mind, oh my, oh my
I’m never not by your side, your side, your side
I’m never gon’ let you cry, oh cry, don’t cry
I’ll never not be your ride, or die, alright

Let’s call it what it is, it’s a masterpiece
Got a whole lotta love for them city streets (Glendale!)
Tonight is the place to be
Got a big boombox and a new CD

Come on, everybody, let’s tear it up
If you want mad skills, you can share with us
I want everybody to stop and stare
And you know why, it’s me (Robaire!)

Woo
Uh (it’s too good)
Yeah, haha
(Let’s go!)

You’re never not on my mind, oh my, oh my
I’m never not by your side, your side, your side
I’m never gon’ let you cry, oh cry, don’t cry
I’ll never not be your ride, or die, alright

Li-li-li-li-like you
Li-li-li-li-like you
Li-li-li-li-like you
Like you, like you

Li-li-li-li-like you
Li-li-li-li-like you
Li-li-li-li-like you
Like you, like you

I’ve never met nobody like you
Had friends and I’ve had buddies, it’s true
But they don’t turn my tummy the way you do
I’ve never met nobody like you

You’re never not on my mind, oh my, oh my
I’m never not by your side, your side, your side
I’m never gon’ let you cry, oh cry, don’t cry
I’ll never not be your ride, or die, alright

Lyrics licensed & provided by LyricFind

Lyrics © Walt Disney Music Company

Written by: Billie Eilish Baird O’Connell, Finneas Baird O’Connell

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Camila Cabello & Ed Sheeran Perform ‘Bam Bam’ for the First Time During ‘Concert for Ukraine’

Camila Cabello and Ed Sheeran joined forces at ITV’s Concert for Ukraine on Tuesday (March 29) to perform their new collaboration “Bam Bam” live together for the very first time.

“We’re all praying tonight for the peace and the safety of the people in the Ukraine,” the former Fifth Harmony member said before surprising the crowd by welcoming Sheeran to the stage, adding, “This is such a full circle moment for me…But, like, literally I cried the first time I met him, I’m like such a huge fan of his.”

From there, the duo wasted no time jumping into the song — which has thus far peaked at No. 23 on the Hot 100 — with Cabello singing, “You said you hated the ocean but you’re surfing now/ I said I love you for life, but I just sold our house/ We were kids at the start, I guess we’re grown-ups now/ Couldn’t ever imagine even having doubts/ But not everything works out,” as Sheeran strummed along on his acoustic guitar and a bevy of back-up dancers flooded the stage in sparkly blue outfits.

While the “Shivers” singer later headlined his own solo set over the course of the evening, other acts on the lineup of the Birmingham, U.K.-set benefit concert included Snow Patrol, Anne-Marie, Nile Rodgers with Chic, Emeli Sandé, Tom Odell, Paloma Faith, Eurovision winner Jamala and more.

Earlier today, Cabello previewed two other mystery tracks from her forthcoming third solo album Familia, which is due to be released April 8 via Epic Records.

Sheeran, meanwhile, is still in the throes of promoting his 2021 album =, which has included remixes of “The Joker and The Queen” with Taylor Swift and lead single “Bad Habits” with Bring Me the Horizon.

Watch Cabello and Sheeran jam out to “Bam Bam” during ITV’s Concert for Ukraine below.

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Teen Contestant Emyrson Flora Impresses With Adele Cover on ‘American Idol’: Watch

Cleveland teen Emyrson Flora has made the leap from singing in her bedroom to performing on the national stage in the proverbial blink of an eye, and made it seem effortless.

Flora has made it to Hollywood Week on American Idol, and for this stage in the journey she played a big hand, by performing an Adele cover.

The young Idol hopeful showcased her self-taught piano skills as she performed a solo rendition of “Love In The Dark,” which appeared on Adele’s global hit album 25, from 2015.

Gutsy move. In her pre-recorded intro, the 16-year-old high school recounted how the judges took a chance on her, and how she wanted to repay that faith. She did just that with a tone-perfect effort that had judge Katy Perry on her feet, and viewers lining-up on social media to congratulate her.

Did she progress to the “Duets” round? You bet. 

Watch below.

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Above & Beyond to Mark 500th Installment of Group Therapy With a Pair of Live Events

This fall marks the 500th installment of Above & Beyond‘s Group Therapy mix show, which has broadcast the best in trance and progressive house to millions of global listeners every Friday night for the last 10 years.

The trio will celebrate this accomplishment via a pair of live shows happening this October in Los Angeles. The first show, on Saturday, October 15, will feature a pair of Above & Beyond sets, along with music from other artists. The following day, Anjunadeep — the deep house oriented sister label of A&B’s longstanding Anjunabeats imprint — will present a day-long showcase of melodic house and electronic music.

Lineups for both days will be announced in the coming months. Pre-sale tickets will be available beginning Tuesday, April 26, at 10 a.m. PT. Weekend passes and single-day tickets will be available.

While the venue for these events have also not yet been announced, Above & Beyond fans have always represented hard in Los Angeles. In the last decade, the group has sold out venues including the Hollywood Bowl, the Greek Theatre, the LA Convention Center, The Forum, the Shrine Auditorium, and the Hollywood Palladium. In 2018, tens of thousands of revelers swarmed to Huntington Beach for their Anjunabeach SoCal event.

Above & Beyond also recently made news by delivering the soundtrack for a recently released documentary about climate change. This IMAX film, The Last Glaciers, is out now in select theaters. The soundtrack is the latest in a long list of progressively minded projects Above & Beyond has been a part of, including a yoga event series and Flow State, an album of meditation music.

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Pat McGrath Labs Debuts Second ‘Bridgerton’ Collaboration: How to Shop the Collection

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A collection fit for a queen! Pat McGrath Labs reteamed with Shondaland and Netflix for the second installment of the brand’s exclusive beauty collaboration inspired by the “romance and passion” of Bridgerton. Pat McGrath x Bridgerton II was released ahead of Bridgerton season 2, which arrived on Netflix last Friday (March 25).

Inspired by the regency-era looks showcased on the series, the limited collection has lipsticks, eyeshadow, blush, body shimmer and more ranging from $23-$68.

Bridgerton fans have the option of purchasing the products separately or in a set. The sets include Pat McGrath Labs x Bridgerton II Eye, Cheek & Body Trio ($160), the cheek and lip trio set ($138), and this eyeshadow and eyeliner duo ($85) .

On Sunday, Pat McGrath tweeted a video teasing the new collection, which she captioned in part, “Fit for a queen! Behold the scintillating sequel to #PatMcGrathLabsxBridgerton. Indulge like an icon.”

Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan stars in the collection’s makeup campaign. Her personal must-have from the collab is the Pat McGrath Labs x Bridgerton Eye Shadow & Velvet Kohl Duo ($85). The two-piece set includes MTHRSHP: Belle of the Ball palette and Legendary Wear Velvet Kohl Eyeliner.

Feel like going all out? The Pat McGrath Labs x Bridgerton II Totale collection is $410, but it comes with seven different lipsticks in the collection, body shimmer, blush, eyeliner and the MTHRSHP: Bell of the Ball palette.

Pat McGrath Labs also made a splash at the 2022 Oscars and the Vanity Fair afterparty. Vanessa Hudgens, Hailey Bieber and Oscars host Regina Hall are just some of the stars who wore makeup from Pat McGrath Labs.

Hit the links below to shop the Pat McGrath Labs x Bridgerton II collection. And for more Bridgerton gear, check out the pop-up shop at Bloomingdale’s.

Buy: Pat McGrath Labs x Bridgerton Satin Allure Lipstick ($28)

Buy: Pat McGrath Labs x Brigerton MTHRSHP: Belle of the Ball Palette ($65)

Buy: Pat McGrath Labs x Brigerton Velvet Eyeliner ($28) 

Buy: Pat McGrath Labs x Bridgerton Skintillating Body Shimmer ($52)

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