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Don’t miss out! Amazon’s Prime Big Deals Day ends tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT.
Not sure what to buy? Like any big sale, Prime Day can be hard to navigate on your own, especially when your on a time crunch. If you don’t know where to start, we’ve rounded up a dozen of the best Prime Day deals under $10 to shop before the sale ends.
The list consists of bestselling gadgets, gear for the cold weather, travel essentials and a few items that you’ve probably been meaning to buy.
See more below.
Holiday travel will be taking off soon. If you plan on traveling internationally, keep your passport protected in this Tigari passport holder. It’s available in over 10 different colors including black, blue, brown, violet and teal.
Are your AirPods dirtier than you’d like to admit? A cleaning kit will put an end to dirty AirPods for just $5 during Prime Day.
Light out! This 3D sleep mask features breathable, lightweight material and ergonomically-designed, contoured eye cups.
American Home Collection Pillowcases, 2-Pack
Need to spruce up your sleeping space? These pillowcases are available in 16 different colors including white, black, green, pink, red, blue, pink, grey and brown.
Car chargers get lost too easily, but they don’t cost much to replace. The Hussell USB car charger is on sale for $5.
Hula Home Continuous Spray Bottle
This versatile spray bottle can be used on your hair or for cleaning around the house, watering plants, ironing and more.
Kiwen Magnetic Sunglasses Holder
A novelty piece you didn’t know you needed. This magnetic holder for sunglasses attaches to your sun visor to keep your glasses secure.
Suprus Rechargeable Flameless Lighter
Cozy season and candlelight go hand in hand. Get a rechargeable, flameless candle charger for $8.
No need for slippers! These fuzzy socks will keep your feet warm and cozy.
Need new gloves? Winter is coming, but these gloves will arrive well before then. Trendoux winter gloves are on sale starting at $5.60.
Prime Day is a great time to shop oral products such as the MasterMedia tongue scraper. The two-pack is sale for $10 at Amazon.
Maxpower Planet Grooming Pet Brush
A grooming tool for pet parents! If you have a fury pet, this double-sided grooming brush is designed to reduce shedding and matting.
Swifties won’t have to wait until the end of the week to watch Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated Eras Tour concert film, as the superstar revealed on Wednesday (Oct. 11) that the movie will be hitting theaters a day early.
“PREMIERE DAY,” Swift wrote alongside a photo of her outfit ahead of the Los Angeles film premiere. “Andddd I can’t really wrap my head around this but…. Look what you genuinely made me do: Due to unprecedented demand we’re opening up early access showings of The Eras Tour Concert Film on THURSDAY in America and Canada!! As in… TOMORROW. We’re also adding additional showtimes Friday and throughout the weekend. All tickets will be available by 10am tomorrow morning. And it’ll be showing starting Friday in 90 countries all over the world.”
She continued, “I can’t thank you enough for wanting to see this film that so vividly captures my favorite adventure I’ve ever been a part of: The Eras Tour. And the best part is, it’s an adventure we’re still on together. Getting in the car now…”
According to a press release from AMC Theatres, Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has broken all existing records for single-day advance ticket sales revenue in the chain’s 103-year history with $26 million in the first 24 hours of on-sale. The $26 million figure also crushes the previous record for one-day sales for a single title, blowing by 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, which racked up $16.9 million in its first 24 hours; according to AMC, The Eras Tour movie bested the the Spider-Man numbers in its first three hours of on-sale. Tickets are on sale now here and here.
Swift herself also posted a trailer for the film, writing, “The Eras Tour has been the most meaningful, electric experience of my life so far and I’m overjoyed to tell you that it’ll be coming to the big screen soon. Starting Oct 13th you’ll be able to experience the concert film in theaters in North America! Tickets are on sale now at http://taylor.lnk.to/TSTheErasTourFilm…. Eras attire, friendship bracelets, singing and dancing encouraged. 1, 2, 3 LGB!!!! (iykyk).”
Gracie Abrams, Ice Spice, Coco Jones, Jelly Roll, Noah Kahan, Peso Pluma, the War and Treaty and Lainey Wilson are among 405 artists who are vying for best new artist nominations at the 66th annual Grammy Awards.
While the aforementioned artists appear to be front-runners to fill the eight available slots, or at least among the front-runners, Grammy voters have a way of surprising us. Last year, not that many thought that Samara Joy would be nominated. She was not only nominated – she won. And this year’s eligibility list contains the names of 397 other artists, many highly credible, who are also hoping to make the final list.
As expected, Zach Bryan, who received a Grammy nomination (best country solo performance for “Something in the Orange”) last year was ruled ineligible. So was boygenius, which includes Phoebe Bridgers, who has received four previous nominations. A previous nomination is an automatic disqualifier in this category (assuming the artist had released enough tracks to be eligible in a previous year).
But for the most part, the Academy tries to err on the side of inclusiveness in this category. In the past, Whitney Houston, Richard Marx, Lady Gaga and many more potential best new artist nominees and even winners were ruled ineligible based on what were sometimes nitpicky technicalities. The Academy now looks for ways to include artists, not rule them out.
Indeed, several of the artists who were ruled eligible this year have been around awhile. Jelly Roll has been putting out albums, without much notice until recently, since 2011.
Other best new artist contenders who aren’t exactly new include Ava Max, whose hits, dating back nearly five years, include “Sweet but Psycho” and “Kings and Queens”; Cody Johnson, who was nominated for a CMA award for new artist of the year in both 2019 and 2022; and Coi Leray, who was nominated for a BET Award for best new artist in 2021.
Several more of this year’s Grammy best new artist hopefuls have been nominated for new artist of the year at the CMA Awards, including Wilson, who won in that category in 2022, and Jelly Roll, who is the front-runner to win there on Nov. 8. Others include HARDY, Parker McCollum, Megan Moroney and Hailey Whitters.
Several other Grammy contenders have been nominated for best new artist at the BET Awards. Jones won that award this year. FLO, Ice Spice and Lola Brooke were also nominated.
Peso Pluma is vying to become the third Latin artist in the past five years to receive a best new artist nomination. He would follow Rosalía and Anitta. Pluma wasn’t eligible for best new artist at the Latin Grammys and was passed over for nominations in the categories in which he was eligible. A nomination here would be a make-good for an artist who was widely seen as snubbed.
Aespa, Fifty Fifty, Seventeen and Stray Kids are among the K-pop acts that are hoping to make history as the first K-pop act to land a best new artist nomination.
Here are more noteworthy artists, not already named, who are fighting for one of the eight nomination slots: Madison Beer, Sabrina Carpenter, Gus Dapperton, Ezra Collective, Fred Again…, Fridayy, JVKE, David Kushner, Laufey, The Linda Lindas, Lizzy McAlpine, Tate McRae, Mitski, NLE Choppa, Joy Oladokun, Keke Palmer, Pink Pantheress, Raye, Rema, Stephen Sanchez, Lauren Spencer Smith, Toosii, Yves Tumor, Morgan Wade and Bailey Zimmerman.
As noted, 405 artists are entered, so this is just a sampling. We could be in store for a surprise.
The number of best new artist nominees at the Grammys jumped from five to eight in 2018, and from eight to 10 in 2021. This year it will (mercifully) drop back down to a more reasonable eight.
The winners in the past five years, since the number of number of nominees expanded, were Dua Lipa (2018), Billie Eilish (2019), Megan Thee Stallion (2020), Olivia Rodrigo (2021) and Joy (2022). As you can see, Grammy voters tend to favor female artists in this category. The 2017 winner (the last year there were just five nominees), was also a woman (Alessia Cara).
Last year’s nine other nominees — besides Joy – were: Anitta, Omar Apollo, DOMI & JD Beck, Muni Long, Latto, Maneskin, Tobe Nwigwe, Molly Tuttle and Wet Leg.
Best new artist is the only category in what has long been called the Big Four (along with album, record and song of the year) to see an increase in the number of entries from last year. There are 405 entries this year, up from 368 last year. The number of contenders in this category peaked in 2013 at 670.
First-round voting for the 66th annual Grammy Awards opened on Wednesday (Oct. 11) and closes Oct. 20. Nominees will be announced on Nov. 10 (five days earlier than last year). The final-round voting window extends from Dec. 14 through Jan. 4, 2023 (same as last year). Winners will be announced on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, at Crypto.com Arena (formerly known as Staples Center) in Los Angeles.
Everyone has memories that they look back on and cringe — but not everyone’s story involves Harry Styles.
Troye Sivan opened up about the hilarious moment he met the “As It Was” singer during an afterparty for the 2023 Grammy Awards, where Styles’ Harry’s House took home the award for album of the year. “We meet for the first time and I feel like I know him, because it’s Harry Styles,” Sivan said in an interview with KissFM UK this week. “So, I’m super, super chill. He walks up to a conversation that I was already having, and I just said to the other people, ‘Oh, I’m just going to go make a wee.’ Then, he arrives and I’m speaking to him, like, ‘Oh my God, congrats on the Grammy.’ Then he’s like, ‘I’m just going to go to the bathroom.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, you’re going to the bathroom? I’m also going to the bathroom. Let’s go!’”
He continued, “As we were walking to the bathroom, I kind of just realized that I literally just met this man and I’ve already suggested we go to the loo together. I wonder how he feels about this. Was that just the weirdest, worst thing I could have possibly said in that moment. Then, he got kind of stopped along the way by someone and I just beelined for the bathroom embarrassed, and I thought about it for the rest of the night.”
The singer is currently gearing up to release his third studio album, Something to Give Each Other. The collection described as a “celebration of sex, dance, sweat, community, queerness, love and friendship” will drop on Oct. 13 via Capitol Records.
Watch the whole KissFM UK clip below.
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