Lucky Daye accepts the Torchbearer award at Billboard’s R&B No.1s 2024 party.
Carl Lamarre:
What it do y’all, can I get a yeah are? Oh, I love that. I love that. I love that. So I’m here to present the next award to a brother of mine, a perennial king in love-making ballads and pillow talk confessions. Lucky Daye has become the new age blueprint in R&B. Women swoon, because when this brother croon it’s just smooth like butter. After his 2019 breakthrough with “Painted,” Lucky Daye put the world on notice and let them know that New Orleans isn’t just a home of Frank Ocean, but another R&B superstar capable of driving the genre forward. By aligning himself with D’Mile early in his career, Lucky became a risk taker, stretching the boundaries of his creativity, as proven by his new album ‘Algorithm.’ His versatility remains unmatched there, as he tap dances through various soundscapes with relative ease. Ultimately, the R&B gods rewarded him for his efforts, as he earned his first No. 1 on R&B Adult this year as a lead artist with “That’s You.” From songwriter to Grammy award winner, Lucky Daye is one of the reasons why R&B will continue to shine for years to come. So without further ado, Billboard would like to present this year’s Torchbearer award, to Lucky Daye.
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Tyla accepts the Global Impact award at Billboard’s R&B No.1s 2024 party.
Heran Mamo:
My name is Heran Mamo. I am the Senior R&B, Hip-Hop and Afrobeats writer here at Billboard. Those who know me know that uplifting other African women gives me one of the greatest joys in this job. So I’m really honored to be presenting our next award this evening. For years, she dreamed of becoming Africa’s first pop star. Now she’s taken over the world with her signature Papiano sound, performing her pop infused take on her native South Africa’s Amapiano in the U.S., France, Portugal, Japan, South Korea and more. Last summer, she made a major splash with “Water,” earning her first Hot 100 Top 10 hit, spending eight weeks at No. 1 on mainstream R&B Hip Hop Airplay, spending 46 weeks and counting, at No. 1 on our US Afrobeats Songs chart, and winning the inaugural Best African Music Performance Grammy award earlier this year. She successfully transformed “Africa’s the world” from a motto to her mission. Please join me in a round of applause for Billboard’s Global Force Honoree, Tyla.
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Usher accepts the R&B Entertainer of the Year award at Billboard’s R&B No.1s 2024 party.
Hannah Karp:
So it would not be a number one’s party without Usher. He is still breaking records as R&B’s biggest and brightest star three decades into his career, and after landing his 16th No. 1 on our R&B Hip Hop Airplay chart in November, he has way more number ones on that chart than any other artist in the charts 32 year history. Then as if that wasn’t enough, he wrapped up his game changing residency in Las Vegas in December, 100 sold out shows produced in partnership with the creative forces behind the box this very special venue that we’re in tonight, and in February, he headlined a little event called the Super Bowl Halftime Show, dazzling a record shattering 130 million viewers and catapulting his 2004 hit. “Yeah!” back to our Hot 100 Singles Chart. Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for our Entertainer of the Year Usher.
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Victoria Monét accepts the Hitmaker Award at Billboard’s R&B No. 1s 2024 party.
Damien Scott:
Thank you for coming out. We really appreciate it. It’s been a historical, amazing hip-hop week here at Billboard. I’m glad that we can have this R&B celebration. I’m Damien Scott. I’m the deputy editorial director at Billboard. I’ve been here for a year so far. It’s been an amazing, amazing ride. But tonight I’m here to talk about a very special person. When we named Jaguar II as one of the best albums of 2023, we said the album signaled Victoria Monét’s commercial breakthrough, and put her on the same page as all the superstars whose career she helped elevate in the years past. Because that’s what she does. She just makes everything better. Then she has kept it moving. Her mainstream arrival came when she won three Grammys, including one for best new artist, and she’s been on a roll since then. Her smash hit “On My Mama” was one of the only two songs to top the Adult R&B Airplay, Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay charts in the last year. But all of that is only a small part of why we’re so proud to present her with the 2024 Hitmaker Award. Victoria Monét, please come down and accept this.
When Benj Pasek and Justin Paul won a Primetime Emmy on night 2 of the Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday (Sept. 8, 2024), they became EGOTs, having won at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony in competition.
They won their Emmy for outstanding music and lyrics for a song they co-wrote for Only Murders in the Building. They co-wrote the song “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” with another songwriting team, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.
Only 21 people have achieved EGOT status, which has become the ultimate mic-drop move in show business.
If the original idea of becoming an EGOT meant going to the very top in four distinct fields of entertainment, shortcuts have materialized to getting there, which has made the achievement more commonplace and less worthy of awe. The Tonys award producer credits far too liberally. Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Hudson won their Tony Awards for being among a platoon of producers of a winning Broadway show. Hudson was one of more than 40 producers on A Strange Loop. Her participation was announced the day before the show began previews in April 2022. It won the Tony two months later.
And not all EGOT awards are equally easy or hard to get. There are currently just 23 categories at the Oscars and 26 at the Tony Awards. Far more awards are handed out at the Grammys (94 categories this year) and the Primetime Emmys (a whopping 123 categories this year, spread out over three nights). And that doesn’t even count the various other Emmy shows, such as the Daytime Emmys and the Children’s and Family Emmys.
We mentioned earlier that the definition of EGOT is having won at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony in competition. There’s some debate about that. Six more individuals — Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte, Quincy Jones and director/producer Frank Marshall — qualify if you count honorary or special awards. However, most EGOT experts don’t count non-competitive awards. The whole point is to have won the awards in competition.
Here’s a comprehensive rundown on the competitive winners’ road to EGOT.
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were spectators at the men’s final of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Sunday (Sept. 8) in New York City, where the two were photographed attending several social events together over the weekend.
Swift and Kelce were spotted going on a pizza date in Brooklyn on Friday, and celebrating Karen Elson and Lee Foster’s wedding at Electric Lady Studios in Manhattan on Saturday, before making it to the tennis match at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens on Sunday. If this is some kind of whirlwind tour around the city, only two boroughs remain in their welcome to New York this week: the Bronx and Staten Island.
The U.S. Open account on Instagram shared various videos of the pop star and football player on site Sunday afternoon, with Swift seen in a classic red gingham sundress (Reformation, $248) and Kelce in a white shorts-polo-cardigan ensemble topped with a bucket hat (all Gucci).
The couple watched the match in a suite with Kelce’s teammate Patrick Mahomes and his wife Brittany.
At one point, Swift and Kelce were filmed in the middle of an animated sing-along to “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” by The Darkness playing over the stadium’s loudspeaker.
The Instagram account also jogged memories with a post referencing Swift’s earliest known appearance at the U.S. Open: 2002, around this time of year.
The then-aspiring singer — at just 12 years old (soon to be 13, with her birthday being in December) — got the opportunity to sing “America the Beautiful” at Arthur Ashe Stadium at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the complex where the U.S. Open is held.
Wearing a black, sleeveless dress and her long hair blow-dried straight, a young Swift — found in a clip that’s somewhat buried in a fan compilation video uploaded to YouTube over a decade ago — seemed aware of the art of commanding a crowd at what must have been one of her earliest stadium gigs. Even in her middle-school years, she didn’t shy away from taking a look around, or making eye contact with people watching from the stands.
At 12, with the slightest twang in her tone, Swift leaned on her early country influence for “America the Beautiful.” Her vocals have matured into something that’s all her own in her 30s, but that almost-teen’s performance is still unmistakably Swift.
“America, America, God shed his grace on thee,” she’s heard singing in the pre-fame clip.
Little did she know how many stadiums her name would headline, sell out and generate total ticket hysteria for within the next couple decades.
For September, and until Oct. 18, Swift’s on break from The Eras Tour, which will see a December finale. For now there’s no new Eras concert clips to pore over or ever-changing acoustic sets to anticipate.
Over the past several days the mind behind The Tortured Poets Department has been quite publicly out and about, which means fans have gotten a glimpse into her social calendar. Thursday night she showed up to support Kelce and the Chiefs at their Thursday game at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium before the couple headed to New York to hang out for the weekend.
Their public appearances this week come after an alleged media plan leak from Kelce’s team earlier in the week — an outline of a supposed strategy in the event of the tight end’s breakup with Swift, whom he’s been linked to for the past year. Kelce’s public relations team, Full Scope, whose logo was put on the papers circulating online, stated the document was “entirely false and fabricated.” A spokesperson for the company said it was “not created, issued, or authorized by this agency” and Full Scope has “engaged our legal team to initiate proceedings against the individuals or entities responsible for the unlawful and injurious forgery of documents.” Swift’s reps did not issue a comment.
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BLACKPINK member Jennie has signed to Columbia Records as a solo artist in partnership with her record label and entertainment company ODDATELIER, it was announced Sunday (Sept. 8). The singer is slated to release a new solo single in October.
The news follows last December’s revelation that all BLACKPINK members had split with their label, YG Entertainment, for their solo output, while extending their contract with the label for group activities.
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Last June, Jennie released “One of the Girls” alongside The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp, her co-stars on HBO’s The Idol. The track has since been streamed more than 1 billion times on Spotify alone and has been certified platinum by the RIAA; it also peaked at No. 18 on Billboard‘s Pop Airplay chart. She followed that up in October with “You & Me,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, making her the second member of BLACKPINK to hit No. 1 on the survey after Rosé’s “On the Ground.”
Earlier this year, Jennie dropped a pair of collaborative singles: “SPOT!” with ZICO and “Slow Motion” with Matt Champion. Her first solo single, the aptly-titled “SOLO,” was released in 2018 and went on to top Billboard‘s World Digital Song Sales chart.
Jennie was first introduced in 2016 as one-fourth of the K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, which in 2023 became the first Korean act ever to headline Coachella. The group has charted a total of nine songs on the Billboard Hot 100, with their highest-charting, “Ice Cream” with Selena Gomez, peaking at No. 13. With the release of the group’s second studio album, 2022’s Born Pink, BLACKPINK became only the third South Korean act ever to top the Billboard 200 after BTS‘ Proof and Stray Kids‘ Stray Kids Mini Album: Oddinary.
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JC Chasez is ready to delve into the world of musical theater. The *NSYNC superstar revealed exclusively via Billboard on Sunday (Sept. 8) that he’s teaming up with Golden Globe-winning songwriter and composer Jimmy Harry for a musical theater concept album called Playing With Fire. The 16-track project is inspired by Mary Shelly’s seminal 1818 novel, Frankenstein,and blends electronic pop with classical music from the romantic era to create a fresh twist on a centuries-old story.
The reimagining of the classic story came together when Harry showed Chavez a theatrical adaptation of the story by his late mother, playwright Barbara Field. Chasez was immediately captivated by the story, and the duo worked together to create an album that represents a conversation between a dying Frankenstein and his creation, The Creature, at the grave of Frankenstein’s wife, Elizabeth. Through musical conversation and flashbacks, “the two grow to understand each other and the reasons for their actions that brutally affected each other’s lives. They eventually find sympathy, love, and forgiveness for each other,” per a press release.
In addition to writing the project, Chasez also lends his vocals to a number of tracks on Playing With Fire, alongside singers Cardamon Rozzi and Lily Elise. The album marks his first major musical project since his 2004 solo album, Schizophrenic.
“There are similarities [between writing a pop hit and musical theater songs] and there are some some very big differences,” the star previously told Billboardof his interest in musical theater. “When you’re writing a single for something, you’re just looking to write about what you’re feeling in the moment. When you’re working on a musical, there’s always a bigger picture and the story is always the driving force.”
He added, “It’s kind of like the last thing that I haven’t really dabbled in. I started in television, then I moved into music and I made a couple of films. Now, it feels like this is the last untapped thing. It’s nice to experience all sides of it.”
Playing With Fire is out via Center Stage Records on Oct. 25. See the full track list below.
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Bass guitarist Herbie Flowers, who played with David Bowie, Elton John, Lou Reed and other music legends in a decades-long career, has died at 86.
The musician’s family confirmed his death on Facebook Saturday (Sept. 7).
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“While we knew and loved him as Uncle Herbie, his musical contributions have likely touched your lives as well,” the husband of Flowers’ niece wrote. “He played bass on many of the songs from the golden age of rock,” the post reads.
A cause of death was not provided.
Flowers was a founding member of the pop group Blue Mink, who later joined the rock band T Rex. He won acclaim for his work with many of the biggest names in U.K. music in the 1970s, giving Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side,” from the 1972 Transformer album, its recognizable twinned bassline.
He also played bass for Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” Bryan Ferry’s “The Bride Stripped Bare,” and Paul McCartney’s “Give My Regards to Broad Street,” and featured in two of John’s early ’70s albums, among many others.
In a tribute, Bowie’s estate wrote on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), “his work with Bowie and associates over the years is too long to list here.”
“Aside from his incredible musicianship over many decades, he was a beautiful soul and a very funny man. He will be sorely missed,” it said. “Our thoughts are with his family and friends.”
Tim Burgess, lead singer for The Charlatans singer, wrote X that Flowers “made the greats sound greater.”
Flowers also founded the instrumental rock band Sky in the late 1970s, releasing seven albums.
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Kendrick Lamar is heading to the Super Bowl — and fans certainly have something to say about it.
On Sunday (Sept. 8), the superstar Compton rapper was announced as the headliner for the 2025 Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show, set for Feb. 9, 2025 in New Orleans. This marks the second time K. Dot will grace the stage at the NFL’s main event, after he was a special guest alongside Dr. Dre’s West Coast hip-hop showcase in 2022.
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“You know there’s only one opportunity to win a championship,” Lamar says in a promotional clip on Instagram for his performance at the big game. “No round two’s.”
Naturally, fans lit up social media shortly after the announcement, with many commenting on Lamar’s high-profile rap beef with Drake and others expressing disappointment over New Orleans native Lil Wayne not being chosen to represent his hometown at the Super Bowl. Others shared their excitement over Lamar possibly bringing his anthemic Drizzy diss “Not Like Us” to millions of viewers around the world.
“The Compton kid has completely cracked the code,” one fan commented under Kendrick’s Super Bowl announcement on Instagram. Another user wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “HE IS ON TOP OF THE WORLD.” That sentiment was echoed in another X comment. “OMG!!!!!!!!! THIS IS KENDRICK LAMAR’S YEAR!!!!!!,” a fan wrote.
“I don’t usually watch the Super Bowl, but I’ll absolutely be watching for the Kendrick concert,” another added on X.
As expected, countless fans on social media also took the opportunity to bring Drake into the conversation, with dozens of onlookers referencing K. Dot’s back-and-forth diss tracks with the Toronto MC earlier this year. The beef culminated with Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” which became a monster hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two nonconsecutive weeks in May.
“Love this! Can’t wait to hear not like us on the world stage. Drake finna cry in the corner,” someone commented on the NFL’s X account, while another added that the 6 God’s fans are “in shambles” following the news. “They just gave bro the opportunity to diss tf outta drake on super bowl,” a user wrote on Lamar’s Instagram page. “drake drops 100 gigs of throwaway bs. kendrick drops a SUPER BOWL ANNOUNCEMENT,” another wrote on X, referencing Drake’s recent drop of content.
Some also speculated the possibility of Kendrick squashing his beef with Drake by inviting him onstage during the halftime show. “Special guest, drake?” an X fan questioned. Another person on Lamar’s Instagram joked, “Scenes when he brings out drake and they squash the beef and make out with each other.”
Lil Wayne’s name became a trending topic on X following K. Dot’s Super Bowl Halftime Show announcement, as numerous Weezy fans found it disrespectful to overlook the veteran rapper, who hails from the Louisiana city.
“Not having Lil Wayne headline is a slap to the face,” a person commented under Lamar’s announcement on Instagram. “Lil Wayne def should’ve been picked to perform at the superbowl. He’s literally from New Orleans and a rap legend…,” another wrote on X. Another Instagram commenter suggested that inviting Wayne onstage as a special guest would be “next level.”
Other social media comments ranged from which other special guests Lamar might invite to join him on stage — including the possibility of Eminem and Beyonce — while others hope that K. Dot’s Super Bowl gig will also bring an announcement of a new album. Lamar’s last studio release, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in May 2022.
The Super Bowl Halftime Show will be shown live on Fox from the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Feb. 9. It will also be the sixth year that the show will be programmed by Roc Nation, which is executive producing the show alongside Jesse Collins, produced by DPS and directed by Hamish Hamilton. Creative direction for Lamar’s performance will be provided by pgLang, the creative imprint co-founded by the rapper.
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