Two years ago, a disturbing documentary about a globally famous pop icon won an Emmy for best documentary or nonfiction special. That doc, of course, was Leaving Neverland, which focused on allegations by two men that Michael Jackson had molested them when they were children. Another disturbing doc, Framing Britney Spears, could win in the same category this year.

The New York Times-branded doc centers on Britney Spears’ celebrity, her treatment by the paparazzi, and the court-ordered conservatorship under which she has been living since 2008, which has sparked the #FreeBritney movement.

When the 73rd annual Emmy nominations are announced next week (on July 13), the Spears doc appears to be a lock to be nominated.

Another music doc, Tina (HBO), about rock legend and survivor Tina Turner is also seen as a very likely nominee in the category, while still others are seen as having a reasonably good chance of receiving a nod: The Boy From Medellín, which follows musician J Balvin as he prepares for a concert in his hometown (Medellín, Colombia); The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, a look at the famed brother trio, of which Barry Gibb is the sole survivor; and The Go-Gos, a look at the iconic female rock band.

The last two winners in the category — Leaving Neverland and The Apollo, about the legendary Harlem club — were both music docs, and both aired on HBO. Two other music docs have won in the category in the past decade: George Harrison: Living in the Material World, about the ex-Beatle, and What Happened, Miss Simone?, about Nina Simone, the singer and civil rights activist.

The award will be presented in September as part of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Those awards are a walk-up event to the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which are set for Sunday, Sept. 19, on CBS.

Framing Britney Spears was nominated for best music documentary at the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards but lost to BTS’ Break the Silence: The Movie.

This year, 78 documentary or nonfiction specials are on the Emmy entry list, from which the five nominees will be chosen. Of those, 17 are music docs or non-music docs hosted by famous music stars (namely Cher and Ludacris).

Here’s a complete list of these docs, along with the Emmys’ capsule descriptions (reprinted with just minor edits for style):

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart: Chronicling the triumphs and hurdles of The Bee Gees. Brothers Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb, found early fame writing over 1,000 songs with 20 No. 1 hits transcending through over five decades. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage of recording sessions, home videos, concert performances, and a multitude of interviews.

Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell: Featuring rare footage and in-depth interviews, this documentary celebrates the life of The Notorious B.I.G. on his journey from hustler to rap king.

BlackPink: Light Up the Sky: Korean girl band BlackPink tell their story — and detail the journey of the dreams and trials behind their meteoric rise.

The Boy From Medellín: A portrait of an international music superstar. The Boy From Medellín follows J Balvin as he prepares for the most important concert of his career–a sold-out stadium show in his hometown of Medellín, Colombia.

Cher & the Loneliest Elephant: Cher and a team of vets, trainers, and more lead a large-scale effort to move a bull elephant, Kaavan from a rundown zoo to a faraway wildlife sanctuary, and they must do so during the most disruptive global emergency since World War II: the outbreak of COVID-19.

David Foster: Off the Record: A biography of the composer and producer David Foster, who has sold over a half billion records and produced the careers of Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Lionel Richie, and Michael Bublé.

Framing Britney Spears (The New York Times Presents): Her rise was a global phenomenon. Her downfall was a cruel national sport. People close to Britney Spears and lawyers tied to her conservatorship now reassess her career as she battles her father in court over who should control her life.

The Go-Go’s: The Go-Go’s chronicles the first all-female band to play its own instruments, write its own songs and soar to No. 1 on the album charts. Featuring testimonies, The Go-Go’s charts the meteoric rise to fame of a band born of the L.A. punk scene that created a zeitgeist.

I Want My MTV (Biography): [This film] charts the rise of a cultural phenomenon that came to define a generation: MTV. The network pushed the boundaries of art, sex, gender and race, cementing its image to celebrity. Featuring exclusive interviews with the network’s founders, VJs, artists, and journalists, and including rare footage.

Jimmy Carter, Rock & Roll President: The story of President Jimmy Carter’s relationship with music, the important role that music played in his life and work, and the bonds with musicians Willie Nelson, the Allman Brothers and Bob Dylan.

The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne (Biography): [This film] traces the many lives and career of the man who personifies rock and roll rebellion. Ozzy reflects on his childhood in poverty, fronting Black Sabbath, his award-winning solo career, becoming a beloved 21s century television dad and his recent Parkinson’s disease diagnosis.

Orchestrating Change: The story of the only orchestra in the world created by and for people living with mental illness. Me2/Orchestra’s groundbreaking mission is to erase mental health stigma one concert at a time while changing the lives of these musicians in ways they never imagined.

P!nk: All I Know So Far: A behind-the-scenes look at P!nk as she balances family and life on the road, leading up to her first Wembley Stadium performance on 2019’s “Beautiful Trauma” world tour.

Shawn Mendes: In Wonder: Over the course of a world tour, this documentary follows Shawn Mendes as he opens up about his stardom, relationships and musical future.

Tina: A look at music icon, Tina Turner, and her improbable rise, and 1980’s career resurgence. It combines new interviews with Turner and her closest friends and family with never-before-seen footage and personal photos to tell the complete — and complex — story of the Queen of Rock ‘N’ Roll.

Voices Magnified: Locked Up in America: Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges gives a look into America’s prison system – the heartbreaking realities and life-altering consequences facing inmates, communities, and the nation. The special features a moderated conversation between inmates, calling from prison phones, and prison reform advocates about the challenges and potential solutions to the current system.

What Drives Us: Dave Grohl sits with some of the biggest names in music to discuss the joys and heartaches of touring the world in a van with your band and learning what it takes to connect with an audience and bring live music to the masses.

Here is a link to capsule descriptions of all the eligible docs in the category.

Tyler, the Creator’s Call Me If You Get Lost bows at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated July 10), one of six debuts in the top 10. It’s the second No. 1 for the artist. Also launching in the region: a reissue of Grateful Dead’s 1971 self-titled live album and the latest studio releases from Beartooth, Doja Cat, Gary Allan and Modest Mouse.

Plus, Lady Gaga’s former No. 1 Chromatica returns to the top 10 — and tops the Vinyl Albums chart for the first time — following its first release on black vinyl LP on June 25.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now MRC Data. Pure album sales were the measurement solely utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. The new July 10, 2021-dated chart (where Call Me debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard’s website on July 7. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Call Me sold 55,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending July 1, according to MRC Data. Physical album sales comprise 50,000 of that figure (40,000 CDs and 10,000 cassettes) while digital album sales comprise 5,000.

Call Me was made available as a 15-track standard digital download album, as well as in a 16-track deluxe digital and a streaming edition with one bonus track (“Safari”). The 16-track physical edition of the album, on CD and cassette, added a different bonus cut (“Fishtail”). A vinyl LP release has yet to be announced.

The CD and cassette were exclusively sold via the artist’s webstore and sold out within a day. They were available a la carte, as well as in four limited edition deluxe box sets that sold for $25 each. (The box sets included either a CD, shirt and poster or a cassette, shirt and poster.) It has not been announced if any further CDs, cassettes or box sets will be manufactured, nor if they will become available to any other retailers.

Rock band Beartooth debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with its latest studio album, Below, bowing with 14,000 copies sold. It’s the first top 10 for the group, which previously topped out at No. 13 in 2018 with its last charting set, Disease (Oct. 13, 2018-dated chart). More than half of Below’s sales came from vinyl LPs, with a little over 7,000 sold via the format (53% of the set’s total first week sales). The title also bows at No. 2 on the Vinyl Albums chart.

Grateful Dead’s 1971 self-titled live album debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales following its 50th anniversary remastered reissue on June 25. The set, which was the band’s second live album, is often referred to as Skull & Roses, owed to its cover with a skeleton wearing a rose crown. The album sold 13,000 copies in the week ending July 1 (up from a negligible sum the week previous).

Though this album peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard 200 in 1971, this is its first week on the 30-year-old Top Album Sales chart.

The reissue also garnered an expanded CD and digital edition that adds 10 previously unreleased live recordings from the band’s July 2, 1971 show at the Fillmore West in San Francisco.

Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour falls 2-4 on Top Album Sales in its fourth week on the chart (10,000 sold; down 21%).

Doja Cat’s new studio album Planet Her debuts at No. 5 with nearly 10,000 sold, marking her first top 10 on Top Album Sales. 6,000 were via digital download and 4,000 came via CD. The CD had a limited pressing and was only available via Doja Cat’s webstore.

Gary Allan nabs his sixth top 10 on Top Album Sales as his new album Ruthless bows at No. 6 with 9,000 sold. It’s his first studio effort since 2013’s Set You Free debuted at No. 1 (Feb. 9, 2013-dated chart).

TWICE’s former No. 1 Taste of Love: The 10th Mini Album falls 3-7 in its third week with nearly 9,000 sold (down 19%).

Lady Gaga’s previous Top Album Sales leader Chromatica jumps back into the top 10, flying 82-8, following its 180-gram black vinyl LP release on June 25. In total, the album sold 8,500 copies across all formats (up 304%), and of that sum, 8,000 are in vinyl LP sales (up 354%).

Chromatica also hits No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart for the first time, re-entering the July 10-dated chart at No. 1. It previously debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the June 13, 2020-dated list.

The new vinyl edition of Chromatica was widely available to all retailers and is its first pressing on black vinyl. It accounts for the bulk of its total vinyl sales for the week. The album was previously issued as a picture disc, in a transparent vinyl variant, as well as in silver, milky clear and translucent yellow-colored pressings. (Until the black vinyl release, the only widely available pressing was the milky clear edition. The other variants were either sold exclusively via Gaga’s webstore or through specific retailers.)

The earlier released vinyl editions of Chromatica have sold a combined 68,000 copies.

Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 Evermore falls 4-9 on Top Album Sales with 8,000 sold (down 18%).

Modest Mouse’s new album The Golden Casket opens at No. 10 with nearly 8,000 sold. About 4,900 of that sum came from its CD, another 2,700 were from digital downloads and about 200 copies came via its cassette. The album’s vinyl LP edition is due in August.

The Golden Casket is the third top 10 on Top Album Sales for Modest Mouse. The act previously visited the top 10 with Strangers to Ourselves (No. 3 in 2015) and the chart-topping We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007).

R. Kelly’s new lawyers are asking a judge to postpone his Aug. 9 sex trafficking trial in New York City, arguing they haven’t had enough time to prepare because he’s under a mandatory jail quarantine since his transfer from Chicago.

In a letter Monday (July 5) to U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly, lawyer Deveraux Cannick wrote that Kelly’s 14-day quarantine ending Tuesday has exacerbated what Cannick said was a “herculean effort” to get up to speed after their June 21 hiring.

Cannick argued in the letter that Kelly’s new lawyers haven’t been able to meet with him in person because of the quarantine and that proceeding with the R&B star’s trial as scheduled would rob him of effective and meaningful representation.

Kelly, whose legal name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was placed in quarantine when he arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on June 22 from Chicago, where he was being held on similar charges. Tuesday will mark 14 days since Kelly’s transfer to Brooklyn.

“Robert is anxious to have his day in court; however not at the expense of his Sixth Amendment rights,” Cannick wrote, saying the request was not a delay tactic.

Federal prosecutors hadn’t responded to Cannick’s request as of Monday night and declined to comment. Donnelly has yet to rule on the filing.

Federal lockups have been quarantining transferred and newly incarcerated inmates since early in the COVID-19 pandemic as part of protocols to prevent the disease’s spread.

Kelly, 54, is accused of leading an enterprise made up of his managers, bodyguards and other employees who helped him recruit women and girls for sex. Federal prosecutors say the group selected victims at concerts and other venues and arranged for them to travel to see Kelly. The Grammy Award-winning singer denies ever abusing anyone.

Cannick said that once Kelly’s quarantine ends and he is cleared to meet with his lawyers, they’ll be forced to jockey for one of a limited number of conference rooms at the Brooklyn jail. If a room is not available, he wrote, they’ll have to meet with Kelly at a table alongside other lawyers and inmates.

“The nature of the evidence here does not lend itself to open frank discussions in such an environment,” Cannick wrote.

Amanda Kloots, wife of the late Broadway actor Nick Cordero, shared an emotional message on social media on Monday (July 5), a year after her husband died due to complications from COVID-19.

Cordero was a Tony-nominated actor known for his work in Bullets Over Broadway, Waitress and A Bronx Tale the Musical. He died at age 41, following a grueling battle with the coronavirus.

“Today hurts, there is no other way around it,” Kloots wrote on Instagram, where she posted a number of photos and video clips in Cordero’s memory. “One year ago you left us and became our angel in heaven. You were surrounded by so much love and Led Zeppelin playing on Spotify-no doubt that was your doing, not mine. What happened was unthinkable, losing you was my biggest fear. I used to tell you all the time, ‘Don’t you dare go anywhere. If I lost you, I don’t know what I’d do.’”

Her note continued: “There hasn’t been a day this year where you weren’t missed, thought about and talked about. Thank you for being our guardian angel, for sending me signs, for being my DJ in heaven. I know you’re just 2” away. We only had a few short years together but they were filled with so much love, laughter, adventure, dreams, change and growth. It was my ‘Nick era’ and I’ll have it forever.”

Kloots included the Lukas Nelson song “A Few Stars Apart” in her tribute, saying that she found the second verse to be especially touching: “And it’s hard not to hold you/ But I’m still on the ground/ I miss the light you gave me/ I miss your lovin’ sound/ Never a night will go by/ Forgettin’ the stars in the sky.”

See her emotional post on Instagram.

Katy Perry and fiancé Orlando Bloom captured an unforgettable kiss in the latest snapshots the pop star posted on Instagram.

“infinity & beyond,” Perry wrote on Sunday (July 4), alongside a pair of images of the couple posing in the middle of a dreamy landscape. The caption was surrounded by heart emojis.

Six Senses Kaplankaya, a resort in Turkey, was tagged on Perry’s post. The upscale resort boasts “space, seclusion and serenity,” and Aegean Sea views.

The pair, who welcomed baby Daisy Dove together in August, embrace each other in both of their new Instagram pictures, smooching in one and smiling happily at the camera in the other.

In May, Perry gave an update on baby Daisy’s milestones, proudly telling Ryan Seacrest, “She’s crawling, and she has one tooth. It’s barely poked through, though.”

See Perry and Bloom’s romantic photos on Instagram.