Billboard‘s 2022 Women in Music event began on Wednesday night (Mar. 2) with Woman of the Year Olivia Rodrigo taking the stage for a blistering pre-filmed performance of her second Sour single, the seething “Deja Vu.”

Playing to an empty SoFi stadium, a pink-clad Rodrigo sang the 2021 smash directly into the camera with typically unguarded intimacy and directness. Providing her support was a four-piece, all-female band, who were each wearing all-white outfits, and offered an alternately sweet and grungy rendition of the post-breakup anthem.

After debuting in the top 10 a couple months earlier, “Deja Vu” peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 2021 — becoming her third top 5 hit off her debut album Sour. Rodrigo was announced as Billboard‘s Woman of the Year in February, making her the 15th different artist to receive the honor.

 

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Dave Grohl is on a winning streak. The Foo Fighters singer/guitarist’s memoir The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music moved up a couple of notches to land at No. 9 on the New York Times best-sellers list, which is up two spots from the previous week.

Grohl’s book has spent an impressive 20 weeks on the best-sellers list, and landing in the top 10 puts him a few spots behind Will Smith’s self-titled memoir, which is at No. 5 after notching 15 weeks on the NYT best-sellers list. Mathew McConaughey’s Greenlights is at No. 6 (McConaughey’s book has spent 60 weeks on the list).

Over on the Amazon book charts, The Storyteller is at No. 1 on the Rock Band Biographies list ahead of Crying in H Mart by Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zuner, who takes up two spots on the Amazon list for hardcover and paperback copies of the book. Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present is at No. 4 on Amazon’s list followed by the Kindle edition of Storyteller and Elton John’s autobiography, while The Beatles: Get Back rounds out the top 10.

Grohl’s Storyteller memoir has had a great run since its release last October when it debuted at No. 1 on the NYT best-sellers list. “Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that I would someday be a number one bestselling author, but it’s those same wildest dreams that I’ve followed since the day I picked up a guitar. Honored,” Grohl wrote on Instagram at the time. “Huge thanks to everyone at @deystreet for making my first book such an amazing experience.”

In November, Grohl unveiled limited-edition signed copies of the memoir at select bookstores around the country. If you haven’t gotten around to buying The Storyteller click the link below to purchase a copy. For additional book recommendation, see our list of 15 books that every music fan should read.

Buy: The Storyteller by Dave Grohl: Tales of Life and Music ($17.99)

To celebrate the digital release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2021 film Licorice Pizza, MGM is teaming up with Postmates to release a limited edition, gourmet spicy pepperoni pizza in New York and Los Angeles.

From March 2 through March 6, Postmates users can order a “Licorice Pizza” that includes an exclusive code from Apple TV, which gives you access to watch the film as many times as you want. Additionally, the first orders will receive one of the film’s limited edition vinyl soundtrack, while supplies last. The special pies will be priced at $19.73, which is the year the film takes place.

Order your own “Licorice Pizza” exclusively on Postmates here.

Licorice Pizza, which stars Alana Haim as Alana Kane and Cooper Hoffman as Gary Valentine, is a coming-of-age film that follows the duo as they grow up, have adventures and ultimately fall in love in California’s San Fernando Valley in the 1970s.

“I honestly thought I was going to get fired every day because I had no idea what I was doing,” Haim told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show in December of her acting debut. Instead, she earned a Golden Globe nomination for her role.

Haim’s role was written specifically for her by Anderson, and she also revealed that she had to go to “truck school” for a scene in which she drives Bradley Cooper around in a 1970s manual transmission moving van.

“I’m a terrible driver, and I didn’t tell anybody that I was a bad driver. And then it came the day that I had to, you know, do it, I had to drive this truck and I had Bradley Cooper… America’s sweetheart and [co-star and fellow first-time actor] Cooper Hoffman,” she joked to Fallon.

Dua Lipa was sued for copyright infringement Tuesday (March 1) by a Florida reggae band that claims the British pop star stole her smash hit song “Levitating” from a lesser-known 2017 track.

In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court, the members of a band called Artikal Sound System claim that Lipa’s “Levitating” – which spent 68 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart and was the No. 1 Hot 100 song of 2021 – was ripped off from the band’s “Live Your Life.”

The complaint was very short and contained mostly boilerplate claims of copyright infringement, with little detail about how or why Lipa allegedly copied the song. But it said that the two tracks were so similar that it was “highly unlikely that ‘Levitating’ was created independently.”

“Levitating,” released in 2020 on Lipa’s second studio album Future Nostalgia, was a massive hit, eventually peaking at No. 2 on the Hot 100 and securing the honor of being the longest-running top 10 song ever by a female artist on the chart.

Artikal Sound System is a reggae band based out of South Florida, founded in 2012 as a duo before later adding additional musicians and vocalist Logan Rex. The band released “Live Your Life” on its 2017 EP Smoke and Mirrors.

Like any copyright case, the lawsuit against Lipa claimed that she had “access” to the earlier “Live Your Life” – meaning she heard the song, thus giving her the ability to copy it. But the case does not explain exactly why the band believes the pop star heard their song.

The lawsuit also named Warner Records, as well as others who helped create “Levitating.” Representatives for Lipa and Warner Music Group did not return requests for comment on Tuesday evening.

Listen to the two songs below:

Kane Brown notched his seventh No. 1 on Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart with “One Mississippi,” which climbed to the top of the survey dated March 5, 2022.

“‘One Mississippi’ hitting No. 1 means so much to me, not just for my own career but for each of the co-writers,” Brown previously told Billboard. “I’m also really proud of Levon Gray, who we signed to our publishing company, Verse 2, after discovering him on Instagram. This is the first song Levon and I wrote together. I couldn’t be happier for him!”

If you need a guide to follow along with Kane Brown’s “One Mississippi,” find the lyrics below:

You and I had this off and on so long
You’ve been here, then you’ve been gone
So many times

And every night, yeah I’m always bumping into you
Well, you do the same things we used to
It’s your place or it’s mine, so

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
We’ll lie and swear we’re through
With the lonely, drunken deja vu
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
Five minutes out of downtown
Ain’t nothing but a countdown

One Mississippi, two Mississippi
Three shots of whiskey
Are you on your way?
We’re tipsy, baby, come kiss me
I can’t wait, I can’t wait
Mississippi, two Mississippi
Three in the mornin’
We’ll be on our way
So tipsy, can’t stop kissin’
I can’t wait, I can’t wait
Forever

Mm, every time I’m at this bar
Tap on the shoulder, turn around
And baby, there you are

And it’s fire
Yeah, like this bourbon hundred-proof
Yeah, they don’t burn the way you do
Yeah, we’re better in the dark, so

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
We’ll lie and swear we’re through
With the lonely, drunken deja vu
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
Five minutes out of downtown
Ain’t nothing but a countdown

One Mississippi, two Mississippi
Three shots of whiskey
Are you on your way?
We’re tipsy, baby, come kiss me
I can’t wait, I can’t wait
Mississippi, two Mississippi
Three in the mornin’
We’ll be on our way
So tipsy, can’t stop kissin’
I can’t wait, I can’t wait
Forever

Woo

Kinda like that Georgia wind
We’ll be gone and back again
But always wind up right back where we are
Playing roulette with our hearts
And blowing smoke rings in the dark, yeah

Oh-oh-oh, oh
We’ll lie and swear we’re through
With the lonely, drunken deja vu
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
Five minutes out of downtown (ain’t nothing but a countdown)
Ain’t nothing but a countdown

One Mississippi, two Mississippi
Three shots of whiskey
Are you on your way
We’re tipsy, baby, come kiss me
I can’t wait, I can’t wait
Mississippi, two Mississippi
Three in the mornin’
We’ll be on our way
So tipsy, can’t stop kissin’
I can’t wait, I can’t wait
Forever

Every time I’m at this bar
Tap on the shoulder, turn around
And baby, there you are

Lyrics licensed & provided by LyricFind

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Written by: Ernest Smith, Gary Levon Wallace, Jesse Frasure, Kane Brown