Less than two weeks after winning four Grammy Awards, more than anyone else this year, Beyoncé won four NAACP Image Awards, more than anyone else in the music field this year. Queen Bey shares two of those awards with Megan Thee Stallion, her partner on the smash “Savage.” Beyoncé’s proteges Chloe x Halle and composer Jon Batiste were also two-time winners.

Beyoncé won outstanding female artist for “Black Parade” and outstanding music video for “Brown Skin Girl. (She shared the latter award with her daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, as well as WizKid and SAINt JHN.) Beyoncé and Megan Thee Stallion shared awards for outstanding duo, group or collaboration (contemporary) and outstanding hip hop/rap song.

Chloe x Halle won outstanding duo, group or collaboration (traditional) for “Wonder What She Thinks of Me” and outstanding soul/R&B song for “Do It.”

Batiste won outstanding jazz album – instrumental for Music From and Inspired By Soul and shared the award for outstanding soundtrack/compilation album for Soul with Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Tom MacDougall.

Jhené Aiko’s Chilombo, which was nominated for album of the year at the Grammys, won here for outstanding album. Doja Cat, who was nominated for best new artist at the Grammys, won here for outstanding new artist for “Say So.” Trevor Noah, who hosted the Grammys, won for outstanding host in a talk or news/information (series or special) for The Daily Show With Trevor Noah.

Hit-Boy took the award for outstanding producer of the year. Hit-Boy has won two Grammys, but has yet to be Grammy-nominated for producer of the year (non-classical).

Verzuz, the red-hot webcast series created by Timbaland and Swizz Beatz, won outstanding variety show (series or special).

The non-televised awards began Monday and will continue nightly through Friday. Audiences can watch by visiting NAACPimageawards.net and clicking “Join The Virtual Experience Now.”

A two-hour, live awards show, hosted by actor Anthony Anderson, will air March 27 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on BET. The show will also be simulcast across ViacomCBS networks including CBS, BET Her, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV, MTV2, Paramount, Pop, Smithsonian, TV Land, VH1, BET PLUTO and CMT.

Jazmine Sullivan and Maxwell are slated to perform on Saturday’s show. NBA superstar LeBron James is set to receive the President’s Award.

The show will also include appearances from former First Lady Michelle Obama as well as Alicia Keys, Andra Day, Arsenio Hall, Cynthia Erivo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Misty Copeland, Regina King, Samuel L. Jackson, Swizz Beatz, Tracy Morgan and the cast of Tyler Perry’s Sistas. MC Lyte will serve as announcer.

Here’s the full list of music winners at the 52nd NAACP Image Awards:

Outstanding female artist:
Beyoncé – “Black Parade”

Outstanding male artist:
Drake – “Laugh Now, Cry Later”

Outstanding duo, group or collaboration (traditional):
Chloe x Halle – “Wonder What She Thinks Of Me”

Outstanding duo, group or collaboration (contemporary):
Megan Thee Stallion feat. Beyoncé – “Savage Remix”

Outstanding album:
Chilombo — Jhené Aiko

Outstanding soul/R&B song:
“Do It” – Chloe x Halle

Outstanding hip hop/rap song:
“Savage Remix” – Megan Thee Stallion feat. Beyoncé

Outstanding new artist:
Doja Cat – “Say So”

Outstanding producer of the year:
Hit-Boy

Outstanding music video/visual album:
“Brown Skin Girl” – Beyonce’ feat WizKid, SAINt JHN, Blue Ivy Carter

Outstanding soundtrack/compilation album:
Soul original motion picture soundtrack – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste and Tom MacDougall

Outstanding gospel/Christian song:
“Touch From You” – Tamela Mann

Outstanding gospel/Christian album:
The Return – The Clark Sisters

Outstanding jazz album – instrumental:
Music from and Inspired by Soul – Jon Batiste

Outstanding jazz album – vocal:
Holy Room – Live at Alte Oper – Somi

Outstanding international song:
“Lockdown” – Original Koffee

Here are winners in selected non-music categories that may be of interest to Billboard readers.

Outstanding variety show (series or special):
VERZUZ

Outstanding animated motion picture:
Soul

Outstanding character voice-over performance – motion picture:
Jamie Foxx – Soul

Outstanding host in a talk or news/information (series or special) – individual or ensemble:
Trevor Noah – The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Outstanding host in a reality/reality competition, game show or variety (series or special) individual or ensemble:
Steve Harvey – Celebrity Family Feud

Outstanding documentary (television – series or special):
The Last Dance

Outstanding documentary (film):
John Lewis: Good Trouble

Outstanding literary work – nonfiction:
A Promised Land – Barack Obama

Putting an end to an escalating legal battle, Taylor Swift and Evermore, a theme park in Utah, dropped their opposing lawsuits on Wednesday (Mar. 24), with no money exchanged in the settlement.

“As a resolution of both lawsuits, the parties will drop and dismiss their respective suits without monetary settlement,” reads a statement provided to Billboard from a spokesperson for Swift.

Last month, Evermore Park in Pleasant Grove, Utah, filed a lawsuit against the pop superstar, claiming that Swift infringed its name with her December album, Evermore, and its accompanying merchandise. Evermore Park, which offers an immersive fantasy experience, argued that it had been the registered owner of the trademark for Evermore since 2015.

Three weeks after Evermore filed the suit in federal court in Utah, TAS [Taylor Alison Swift] Rights Management, the singer’s intellectual property management company, filed its own lawsuit against the theme park. TAS claimed that Evermore used Swift’s songs without proper licensing dating back to as early as 2019.

Evermore became Swift’s second No. 1 album of 2020 upon its December release; its predecessor, Folklore, won the album of the year trophy earlier this month. In April, Swift will release Fearless (Taylor’s Version), a re-recorded version of her 2008 sophomore full-length.

The city of Melbourne belonged to Michael Gudinski on Wednesday night (March 24) as Ed Sheeran, Kylie Minogue, Jimmy Barnes, Paul Kelly and other stars of rock and pop took the mic at Rod Laver Arena for an emotional farewell to the late Mushroom Group chairman and founder.

Gudinski always drew a crowd, even in his passing. For his state memorial, thousands packed-in for what was the first concert at Melbourne’s biggest arena since COVID changed our lives.

The memorial was more than a show. It was a special one-off event that brought together the music industry for a send-off to Australia’s great music industry pioneer.

With Gudinski at the helm, his Frontier Touring Company became a concerts powerhouse, producing treks to these shores featuring many of the world’s biggest stars, from Taylor Swift to Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Madonna and many others.

None were bigger than Ed Sheehan’s late 2018 Divide tour, which sold more than 1.1 millions tickets across Australia and New Zealand, smashing records along the way.

On hearing of Gudinski’s untimely death on March 2, at the age of 68, a heartbroken Sheeran remembered their record-smashing feats and life-long friendship.

“His legacy is unmatchable, and will live on for hundreds of years,” he wrote. “To me, and many others, he is the heart of Australian music and always will be.”

Sheeran made the long journey back Down Under for Wednesday’s memorial, where he performed a mini-set as a tribute to his good friend. “Michael would be really buzzed that this is on the Rod Laver,” he addressed the crowd, before hitting an acoustic version of an MG favorite, “Castle on the Hill.”

Recounting his earlier Instagram tribute to Gudinski, Sheeran remembered the independent music legend as “a tornado” whenever he would enter a room. “Then he f—ed off.”

There where whispers in the press that Sheeran was making his way to Melbourne. No-one knew, however, that Sheeran would debut a new song for the occasion, the nostalgic “Visiting Hours.”

Sheeran wrote the song while in quarantine, awaiting entry into Australia. “The best way to process stuff is through song,” he confessed.

In an unguarded moment, Sheeran paused to cry. An audible gasp immediately followed from the audience. It set the emotional bar for a night that was equal parts touching, beautiful, entertaining, and just downright sad.

Sheeran would return later for a duet with Kylie Minogue on, of all things, Kylie’s early career hit “Locomotion.”

Minogue, like many in the room, owes so much to that force-of-nature character. Gudinski, whose Mushroom Group boasts two-dozen companies active in all conceivable areas of music, “made me feel 100 feet tall.” As she surveyed the crowd, Kylie noted MG “would be beaming right now.”

The night was packed with performances, tributes, and speeches. There was so much to say about the man, and so many voices that needed to be heard, the event turned into a marathon, its running time pushing past three hours.

Early on, Sting zoomed in for a performance of “The Empty Chair,” which he ended with a shoutout, “I miss you, brother. I miss you.”

Lifelong friend Jimmy Barnes paid tribute to his “partner in crime.” Wearing a black kilt, the Scotland-born Cold Chisel frontman admitted, “I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for Michael. He was one of a kind and Australian music would not be what it is today without his lifelong support. We’re like flesh and blood, we really are.”

And with that, Barnes cut loose for a premiere of a new number, “Flesh & Blood.”

Gudinski wasn’t just a hero at home. His black book was stuffed with international stars, many of whom paid tribute via video. Billy Joel (“he loved musicians and musicians loved him back”), Taylor Swift (“he believed in me”), Elton John (“what a legend he was… people like him don’t come around very often”), Shirley Manson of Garbage (“he was the greatest record man we have ever known, bar none”), Sam Smith (“legends never die”), Shawn Mendes, Rod Stewart, Eagles’ Joe Walsh, Bryan Adams and many more.

Foo Fighters toured Australia and New Zealand several times with Gudinski and Frontier Touring. “I’m a firm believer in magic and magic people,” Grohl said. “Gudinski was one of those people.”

Grohl’s friend Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age told an hilarious story in which Gudinski double-booked and went about splitting his time between two separate functions at a restaurant. He and Homme ended up seated as guests at a third, totally unrelated dinner. With Gudinski, you never knew where you might end up.

The evening concluded with a rousing, all-in rendition of Easybeats’ “Good Times,” a song which enjoyed a second burst of life in the late 1980s when it was covered by Jimmy Barnes and INXS. Barnes led again on Wednesday night, ably supported by Kylie, Sheeran, Paul Kelly, Diesel, Vika and Linda Bull and others, as confetti rained from the rafters, a reminder that the night was a celebration of a great life and career.

Bruce Springsteen summed up the mood. In his recorded tribute, The Boss remembered MG as the “very last” of the old-school breed of promoters. “When you thought of Australia, you thought of Michael…his generosity and kindness. I’ll see you in my dreams.”

Adorable 4-year-old Maliya Kabs is charming everyone with her beautiful rendition of Selena’s anthem “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom.”

The now-viral moment was caught on camera by her dad who is sitting in a car with his daughter as she shows off her multilingual skills. After becoming overwhelmed by her dad’s questions and his disbelief in her ability to speak multiple languages, she asks: “Can I just put on my songs?”

She starts blasting “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” and belts out the catchy chorus and instructs her dad to sing. “Canta” she tells her father, who is surprised that his little girl would even know the Spanish lyrics to this song. “It means sing,” she explains to him.

It wasn’t just “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” that was “one of her songs.” Maliya goes on to sing “Como La Flor” with so much emotion while her dad, visibly shocked, watches her daughter sing along to Selena.

Maliya is a member of the UK-based Kabs Family, whose popular car singalongs have amassed millions of views on social media.

Watch the adorable moment below:

Kelly Clarkson knows her way around a ’90s R&B ballad — as evidenced by her multiple Toni Braxton covers on The Kelly Clarkson Show — and for her latest Kellyoke performance, she revisits the decade again for SWV’s “Weak.”

Surrounded by appropriately romantic mood lighting, Clarkson forms her very own girl group with her backup singers for the note-perfect cover.

“Weak” spent two weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1993 — the first and only chart-topper for the trio.

Watch Clarkson’s cover below: