Billie Eilish & Finneas Will Perform at the 2022 Oscars

The Grammy-winning siblings Billie Eilish and Finneas are now confirmed to perform their Oscar-nominated song “No Time to Die,” from the James Bond film of the same name, during the 94th Oscars ceremony on Sunday night, The Hollywood Reporter has learned from a source involved with the show.

The first-time nominees — who are 20 and 24, respectively — are widely considered the favorites to take home the best original song Oscar statuette, having already been awarded the equivalent Golden Globe, Critics Choice, Grammy and Society of Composers and Lyricists prizes.

Over the past decade, two other Bond songs have won Oscars: Adele’s “Skyfall” from 2012’s Skyfall and Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall” from 2015’s Spectre.

Billie and Finneas extensively discussed “No Time to Die” — and their odds-defying journey to it — on a November 2021 episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast. Find Billboard‘s conversations with every 2022 Oscar song and score nominee — including Billie and Finneas — here.

This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.

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Greta Van Fleet Postpone Remaining Tour Dates Due to Illness

Grammy-nominated rock band Greta Van Fleet have postponed the remaining dates on their Dreams in Gold tour after guitarist Jake Kiszka was hospitalized with pneumonia.

In total, eight dates are affected by the announcement, including a show Tuesday night at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin. The concerts are expected to be rescheduled, with new dates to be announced.

“We are disheartened to announce that the shows from March 22nd through April 2nd must be rescheduled for the health and safety of our brother, Jake,” the band said in a statement. “We recognize how upsetting this news is and share your disappointment. While Jake has been discharged after being hospitalized for four days, he is still struggling with pneumonia and its symptoms. The healing process is long and slower than anticipated.  Jake wanted to push through, however doctors have advised doing so could potentially lead to further complications and a longer recovery.”

Since embarking on their tour March 10 at the Wings Event Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Greta Van Fleet has only been able to play three dates after several bandmates fell ill. Last week, a spokesperson for the group said COVID-19 was ruled out “after medical consultation.”

The band said it plans to announce “new dates as quickly as possible. We are determined to play these shows.”

The Madison show, however, will not be rescheduled, the band said, “due to planned venue renovations later this year.  However, we love you and your city, and will find a way to make it up to you. Refunds will be available at point of purchase. To the fans, friends, and family that planned to travel great lengths to be with us – your unwavering support has not gone unnoticed. We appreciate your dedication, understanding, grace, and sympathy,” the group wrote in a statement before signing off with “it is important for Jake to heal so the rest of Dreams In Gold 2022 can continue as planned through the rest of the year, starting in South America.”

Greta Van Fleet head to South America in May, starting with Rio de Janeiro on, May 3 before returning Stateside in August. Greta Van Fleet’s 2021 sophomore album, The Battle at Garden’s Gate, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Rock Albums chart and has hit the No. 1 spot on the Hard Rock Albums and Vinyl Albums charts and peaked at No. 10 on the all-genre Billboard 200.

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Radio Promotion Vet John Boulos Launches Consulting Firm

Veteran radio promotion executive John Boulos has launched a new consulting firm, JBoulos Music, it was announced Monday (March 21). The company will aim to develop and break new artists while also mentoring young music executives.

JBoulos’ current clients include BlackBox Media Agency, In2une Music, Aware Records MGMT and unnamed major labels.

Boulos most recently served as executive vp, promotion at the relaunched Arista Records for three years, where he oversaw all aspects of radio promotion for the label and built and led a multi-format national promotion team. Before exiting the role in June 2021 to spend time with his loved ones, he led campaigns for JP Saxe, including the singer’s Grammy-nominated duet “If the World Was Ending” featuring Julia Michaels.

Before landing at Arista, Boulos spent 11 years at Roadrunner and Atlantic Records; he has also held promotional and executive roles at Capitol, Warner Bros., Epic, Virgin, Mercury, Island, RCA, Inner City and Vanguard. In the late 1970s, he started his career in the mailroom at London Records while spending his evenings promoting club DJs.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Encanto’ Ballad ‘Dos Oruguitas’ Wins at 2022 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards: Full Winners List

Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s “Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto won best song written and/or recorded for a film at the 2020 GMS Awards, presented by the Guild of Music Supervisors virtually on Sunday (March 20).

So, does this mean momentum in the Oscar race for best original song is shifting Miranda’s way in the closing days of Oscar balloting? (The final-round voting period for the Oscars runs from March 17-22.) It may be, but you can’t draw that conclusion from this outcome. Miranda’s chief rival for the Oscar, Billie Eilish and Finneas’ “No Time to Die” from the film of the same name, wasn’t nominated here. That James Bond theme still seems to be the song to beat for the Oscar.

While the Oscar for best original score is presented only to the songwriter, the GMS award in this equivalent category is presented to the songwriter, the artist (in this case, Sebastián Yatra) and the music supervisor (in this case, Tom MacDougall).

Winning a GMS Award is no guarantee of Oscar success. “Hear My Voice” from The Trial of the Chicago 7 won the GMS Award last year. It was nominated for an Oscar, but lost to “Fight for You” from Judas and the Black Messiah.

Diane Warren, whose “Somehow You Do” from Four Good Days is also Oscar-nominated, received the Icon Award at the GMS Awards. Aloe Blacc performed her song during the fast-paced 90-minute virtual presentation. Reba McEntire sings the song on the film soundtrack.

Mitchell Leib, former president of music and soundtracks for Disney’s live action motion picture production division, received the Legacy Award, honoring excellence within the craft of music supervision.

Having some fun with the virtual format, Warren and Leib presented each other their awards. Warren said to Leib: “You’ve touched something like 400 films during your career, worked with some of the greatest directors, producers, filmmakers and songwriters, and every artist under the sun, and you are loved by your former coworkers and staff which is the greatest testament to being a boss.” Then as the camera pulled back, we could see that they were in the same room. They shared an embrace as Warren gave Leib the Legacy Award.

Later in the presentation, Leib offered words of praise for Warren: “[The Guild of Music Supervisors] are calling you an icon for a good reason. Diane, you’re the definition of the word – widely recognized, well-established as a brand name, acknowledged for distinctive excellence.”

Music supervisor Bonnie Greenberg interrupted the exchange to try and present Warren with the Icon Award, noting that she commissioned Warren to write her past five Oscar-nominated songs, but Leib eventually managed to present Warren with the award.

Mandi Collier won two awards for music supervision on the lower-budget films Sylvie’s Love and Zola.

Presenters included Miranda, Javier Bardem, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Ryan Tedder, Marlon Wayans, Lil Dicky, Rickey Minor, Rufus Wainwright, Wendy Melvoin & Lisa Coleman, Laura Karpman, Glen Hansard and Steve Burns.

Bahari, a female duo signed to Epic Records, performed their single “Savage.” Goapele performed “Look at Us” from Homecoming, a GMS Award nominee for best song written and/or recorded for television.

The production committee for the 12th annual GMS Awards included GMS president Joel C. High, vice president Madonna Wade-Reed and former GMS president Thomas Golubić. Show production is handled by Angelia Bibbs-Sanders from ABS Collective with talent producer Jessica Milten, and technical production by Nick Urbom from Big Push Media Group.

The Guild of Music Supervisors is a nonprofit that was founded in 2010 with the goal of promoting the role of the music supervisor in all forms of media.

The GMS Awards don’t have categories to honor film scorers. Their focus is on music supervision in film, television, documentaries, trailers, advertising and video games. For more information on the ceremony, visit GMSAwards.com.

Here’s the complete list of winners for the 12th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards:

FILM

Best song written and/or recorded for a film: “Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto — songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda; performer: Sebastián Yatra; music supervisor: Tom MacDougall

Best music supervision for film budgeted over $25 million: Steven Gizicki – Tick, Tick… Boom!

Best music supervision for film budgeted under $25 million: Julianne Jordan, Justine von Winterfeldt – Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

Best music supervision for film budgeted under $10 million: Mandi Collier, Frankie Pine – Sylvie’s Love

Best music supervision for film budgeted under $5 million: Mandi Collier, Jen Malone, Nicole Weisberg – Zola

TELEVISION

Best music supervision – television drama: Liza Richardson – Lovecraft Country – Season 1

Best music supervision – television comedy or musical: Janet Lopez – The White Lotus – Season 1

Best music supervision – reality television: Sarah Bromberg, Stephanie Diaz-Matos, Eric Medina – Sweet Life: Los Angeles – Season 1

Best music supervision – television movie: Laura Webb, Lindsay Wolfington – To All the Boys: Always and Forever

Best song written and/or recorded for television: “F*** The Pain Away” — songwriter: Merrill Nisker (aka Peaches); performers: The Moordale Singers and Oli Julian; program: Sex Education episodes 302 and 307; music supervisor: Matt Biffa

DOCUMENTARIES

Best music supervision for a documentary: Angela Asistio – Val

Best music supervision in a docuseries: Aminé Ramer – HBO Music Box Series: Mr. Saturday Night, Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage, Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss, DMX: Don’t Try to Understand, Jagged, Listening to Kenny G

TRAILERS

Best music supervision in a trailer: Toddrick Spalding – King Richard

ADVERTISING

Best music supervision in advertising (synch): Jonathan Wellbelove – Apple – “iPhone 12 – Fumble”

Best music supervision in advertising (original music): Jonathan Hecht, Sarah Tembeckjian – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, The Trombone Shorty Foundation – “Rise And Shine”

VIDEO GAMES

Best music supervision in a video game: Raphaella Lima, Cybele Pettus, Ben Werdegar – FIFA 22

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Lil Durk Scores Second No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With ‘7220’

Lil Durk scores his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart (dated March 26) as 7220 debuts in the top slot. The rapper previously topped the list with The Voice of the Heroes, a collaborative set with Lil Baby, for one week in 2021.

7220 launches with 120,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending March 17, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data – Lil Durk’s best week for a non-collaborative project. 7220 was released on March 11 via Alamo Records.

After eight weeks in a row at No. 1 – and nine weeks in total on top – the Encanto soundtrack is pushed down to No. 3 with 64,000 units (down 12%).

Also in the top 10, Ghost debuts at a career-high No. 2 with Impera – which launches with the largest sales week of any album in 2022 – while Rex Orange County collects his second top five effort with the debut of Who Cares? and for KING & COUNTRY lands its second top 10 with What Are We Waiting For?

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new March 26, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on March 22. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of 7220’s 120,500 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 117,500 (equaling 164.81 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 2,500 and TEA units comprise 500.

7220 is Lil Durk’s fifth top 10 album – and all of them have reached the top five. The set opens with Lil Durk’s largest week, by units, for a non-collaborative album. His previous solo best was logged when The Voice jumped 5-2 with 86,000 units on the Feb. 13, 2021 chart, after the album was reissued with 14 additional tracks.

7220 also lands the third-largest week for an album in the 2022 tracking year. Only the debut frames of Gunna’s DS4Ever (150,300; week ending Jan. 13) and The Weeknd’s Dawn FM (148,000; the same week) posted larger weeks in 2022.

7220 is the third No. 1 for Alamo Records, and first since Sony Music Entertainment acquired the company last June.

Ghost lands a career-high placing on the Billboard 200, as the rock band’s new album Impera debuts at No. 2. The set also earns the group its biggest week both in terms of equivalent album units earned (70,000) and traditional album sales (62,500). The set additionally logs the largest sales week of any album in 2022, bolstered by its availability across multiple vinyl LP variants, as well as CD, cassette and digital download.

Impera is the first new full-length studio album from Ghost since Prequelle, which debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the June 16, 2018 tally (the band’s previous chart high). All told, Impera marks the third top 10 album – and fifth top 40-charting set – for the act.

Of Impera’s 70,000 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 62,500; SEA units comprise 7,000 (equaling 9.11 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 500. The band’s previous biggest week, both in units earned and album sales, was the opening frame of Prequelle (66,000 units, of which 61,500 were album sales).

Impera is the highest-charting rock album on the Billboard 200 in nearly eight months, since John Mayer’s Sob Rock debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the July 31, 2021-dated list. Impera is the highest-charting hard rock set in a year and four months, since AC/DC’s Power Up spent a week at No. 1, debuting atop the list dated Nov. 28, 2020. (Rock and hard rock albums are defined as those that have hit Billboard’s Top Rock Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums chart, respectively.)

Impera also lands the largest week, by units, for a rock album since Sob Rock’s debut week (84,000) and the biggest for a hard rock set in over a year, since the opening week of Foo Fighters’ Medicine at Midnight (70,000; Feb. 20, 2021, chart).

Impera has the biggest week, by album sales, for any album in the 2022 tracking year so far, surpassing the 37,000 copies sold of The Weeknd’s Dawn FM after its CD was released (week ending Feb. 3). Further, Impera has the largest sales week for a rock or hard rock album since the debut of Medicine at Midnight (64,000).

The Encanto soundtrack falls from No. 1 to No. 3 on the Billboard 200 after eight straight weeks on top, and a total of nine nonconsecutive weeks in the lead. It earned 64,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking week (down 12%).

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album falls 3-4 on the Billboard 200 with 46,000 equivalent album units (though up 1%).

Dangerous: The Double Album has now accumulated 61 nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10 on the Billboard 200. It ties Celine Dion’s Falling Into You (1996-97) for the third-most weeks in the top 10 among all albums released since 1990. Ahead of them are only Adele’s 21, with 84 weeks in the top 10 (2011-16), and Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, with 72 weeks in the top 10 (1995-97).

Rex Orange County notches his second top five-charting album, as Who Cares? bows at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with 35,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 20,000; SEA units comprise 15,000 (equaling 19.61 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The artist (born Alexander James O’Connor) previously visited the top 10 with Pony, which debuted and peaked at No. 3 (Nov. 9, 2019 chart).

The Weeknd’s compilation The Highlights is a non-mover at No. 6 with 34,000 equivalent album units (up 4%).

for KING & COUNTRY lands its second top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as the duo’s latest release, What Are We Waiting For?, bows at No. 7 with nearly 32,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 28,000; SEA units comprise 3,500 (equaling 5.08 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 500. The act (brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone) previously visited the top 10 with 2018’s Burn the Ships, which debuted and peaked at No. 7 (Oct. 20, 2018, chart).

Gunna’s chart-topping DS4Ever falls 5-8 with 31,500 units (down 9%), Drake’s former leader Certified Lover Boy is steady at No. 9 with 31,000 equivalent album units (up less than 1%) and Doja Cat’s Planet Her is stationary at No. 10 with 30,000 units (up 1%).

Luminate, formerly MRC Data, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes an exhaustive and thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data, removing any suspicious or unverifiable activity using established criteria before final chart calculations are made and published. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious and unverifiable is disqualified prior to the final calculation.

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Daddy Yankee Announces Retirement With Farewell Tour, Album

Daddy Yankee has announced that he is retiring from music.

The reggaetón star, born Raymond Ayala — whose career exploded with 2004’s breakthrough hit “Gasolina,” launching a genre that altered the sound and business of Latin music and became a global phenomenon — will culminate his musical run with Legendaddy, his first new studio album in 10 years, and a world tour. Daddy Yankee had hinted at retirement and a last album and tour during an interview at Billboard’s Latin Music Week last year, but had yet to make an official announcement.

“Today, I’m announcing my retirement from music by giving you my best production and my best concert tour,” Daddy Yankee said in a statement in a press release issued on Sunday (March 20). “I will say goodbye celebrating these 32 years of experience with this new collector’s item, the album Legendaddy. I’m going to give you all the styles that have defined me, in one single album.”

Daddy Yankee’s Legendaddy is set to be released on March 24 at 8 p.m. ET.

His La Última Vuelta World Tour, a five-month trek, is set to kick off on Aug. 10 in Portland, Oregon and run through December. Pre-sale tickets will go on sale on March 25, with a general public sale to follow on March 30. A full set of current tour dates is available on his official website.

Daddy Yankee has had six No. 1s on the Top Latin Albums chart, starting with 2004’s Barrio Fino, the first-ever reggaetón album to hit that spot. As of March 2022, he’s seen 76 entries on Latin Airplay and 86 on Hot Latin Songs, including the record-shattering “Despacito” alongside Luis Fonsi.

“I like to say I took the bullets,” he told Billboard in 2021 of bringing reggaetón to the mainstream music market. “I wanted people to understand my essence, where I come from, what I represent. But at the same time, I wanted to take my culture to the very top. I can’t tell you there was a formula. Reggaetón was initially only known on the East Coast. When I released Barrio Fino, the West Coast didn’t get it. I’d go to Los Angeles or Mexico and people knew Daddy Yankee, but they didn’t know what reggaetón was. I had to take the culture with me everywhere so it became permanent instead of fizzling out like other genres where artists simply promote themselves. When I did promotion, I talked about all the artists in my album: ‘This is me. But this album also features Zion & Lennox, Plan B, Ivy Queen.’ I had to play their music and say, ‘This is them. This is reggaetón.’”

Watch Daddy Yankee’s announcement of his retirement below.

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Shawn Mendes & Sebastian Yatra Bring the Heat to the Stage at 2022 SXSW

From one star to another, Shawn Mendes and Sebastian Yatra joined forces for a sizzling joint concert, closing a series of superstar shows as part of Samsung Galaxy + Billboard Present THE STAGE at SXSW.

The set, which took place at the newly-opened Moody Amphitheater at Austin’s Waterloo Park on Saturday night (Mar. 19), saw Mendes take center stage for a 60-minute performance, where he was joined by his band for a run of his biggest pop hits like “If I Can’t Have You,” “Treat You Better,” “Señorita” and “In My Blood.” During the concert, the Canadian star offered up his talent and charm, inviting a young girl from the audience to duet with him, getting candid with between song banter and taking a photo with the roaring crowd using the Samsung Galaxy S22, which served as the official host of the event. He also put a spotlight on his latest single, “It’ll Be Okay,” the piano-heavy ballad that the singer dropped after his breakup with Camila Cabello.

“I was completely not expecting the amount of love and support for this one,” Mendes told the audience of the track. “I truly believe that songs can be a true form of healing and come at moments for me when I need to hear them most. This is one of those songs for me and I’m just so happy that people have connected so much.”

While the singer-songwriter put specific detail into the performance set, incorporating extra elements to the live renditions of his pop catalog, the highlight of the concert saw him perform a brand-new song called “When You’re Gone” for the Austin amphitheater. Even though the mid-tempo cut heard him sing about heartbreak in a similar fashion as “It’ll Be Okay,” the pop-rock track pivoted in a different direction with its chanting hook and meant for radio appeal.

Yatra’s portion of the evening saw him treat concert-goers to a smooth string of Latin-charged tracks, including “No Hay Nadie Más,” “Tacones Rojos” and “Dos Oruguitas,” his contribution to Disney’s colossal animated film, Encanto. The track will compete in the Best Original Song category at the 94th Academy Awards in less than two weeks. “I would have never imagined that all this crazy stuff would have happened with [the song],” he told the attendees prior to singing the award-nominated cut. “I just feel grateful and feel like it’s a moment to give thanks.”

The show comes as a teaser ahead of the singer’s upcoming Dharma World Tour, which will jumpstart Feb. 23 in Mexico City, before making its way to Europe, South America and then the United States.

Similar to the preceding evening set, Palm Tree Crew presents Kygo, supported by Frank Walker and Forester, fans took the opportunity to partake in front-row VIP experiences via the Best View in the Housing viewing platform. Reminiscent of a classic coin-operated telescope, the activation allowed concert-goers the opportunities to zoom into a surreal view of the stars using the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. The concerts were a benefit to Waterloo Greenway Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that aims to create an urban park system in affiliation with the city of Austin.

Billboard is reporting live throughout 2022 SXSW, which will take place from March 11-20, so make sure you check back for more details on the exciting Austin takeover.

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