Miley Cyrus Celebrates Sister Noah Cyrus’ 22nd Birthday With Sweet Throwback Photos and Videos

Noah Cyrus is getting some birthday love from her big sister, Miley Cyrus.

In honor of Noah’s 22nd birthday on Saturday (Jan. 8), Miley shared a series of sweet throwback photos and videos on Instagram alongside her younger sibling. Miley noted in her caption that Noah shares the same birthday with late music icons Davie Bowie and Elvis Presley.

“It’s my baby sisters birthday @noahcyrus #22 (this legend has the same bday as Bowie & Elvis obvi),” Miley wrote.

The first snapshot shows a recent pic of the Cyrus sisters embracing, while the others are throwbacks of Noah and Miley appearing on Hannah Montana in the late 2000s.

“I love u above and beyond my sister,” Noah responded in the comments, adding a red heart emoji.

In a second nostalgic post, Miley shared even more comical childhood videos of Noah, including a clip of the “July” smashing her face into a piece of cake and another one of her dancing in a leopard print outfit behind a psychedelic backdrop.

“Happy birthday to the queen of my universe @noahcyrus coolest girl in the whole wide world #22 #BFF,” Miley captioned the second post.

Noah commented, “I cant,” alongside a series of laughing face and red heart emojis.

Noah’s mom, Tish Cyrus, also took to social media to wish her daughter a happy birthday.

“My beautiful Noie…. You have grown so much this past year and I couldn’t be more proud of you,” Tish wrote on Instagram. “I hope you know how much your are loved. I cannot wait to see what this year holds for you! 22 in 22. Sounds magical. I love you @noahcyrus.”

The day prior to her birthday, Noah shared a series of photos and videos of her birthday celebration with friends. In one video, the singer blows out candles on a large butterfly-shaped cake while being serenaded by her loved ones. “22 tomorrow,” Noah captioned the Instagram post.

Check out Miley’s posts in honor of her sis Noah’s birthday below.

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Adele Shares Another ‘Oh My God’ Music Video Teaser: See the Photo

Adele‘s music video for “Oh My God” is on its way, and she has given fans another glimpse at the new visual for the single.

After announcing the Jan. 12 premiere of her “Oh My God” video on social media earlier this week — along with a brief black-and-white clip — on Saturday (Jan. 8), Adele posted a second look at what’s to come.

She shared what appears to be a still image from the upcoming video: a portrait of herself in a red, off-the-shoulder gown, with red lips, red nails and a red apple to match.

The top comment on Adele’s latest Twitter update came from the official Schitt’s Creek account, which expressed the general excitement of the situation with a compilation clip of David Rose saying “oh my god” in various scenes from the series.

Saturday’s sneak peek follows Adele’s announcement of the new video on Jan. 6, when she wrote, “Rested and Re-Set! Feeling ready for 2022, there’s so much coming, I’m excited for you all to see it x.”

Her new album 30 is currently in its sixth week in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200. Tallying that with the success of previous albums (25, which spent 10 weeks at No. 1) and 21 (24 weeks), Adele has now had a total of 40 weeks at No. 1 on the albums chart throughout her career.

See her new “Oh My God” photo below. The video will make its debut at 12 p.m. ET on Jan. 12.

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Glastonbury Festival Slid to Record £3.1 Million Loss Last Year Amid Pandemic

LONDON – Glastonbury Festival lost £3.1 million ($4.2 million) last year when it cancelled the event for a second consecutive summer because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the company’s latest financial results.

Accounts filed with Companies House, the U.K.’s registrar of businesses, reveal that in the year ended March 31, 2021, turnover fell to £936,000 ($1.3 million), down from £45 million ($61 million) in the previous financial year.

The total operating loss of just over £3.1 million for 2021, which followed a loss of £358,780 ($487,600) in 2020, is understood to be a record drop for the 52-year-old festival. But Glastonbury said it was able to cover the losses with profits retained from previous years.

Paul McCartney, Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift had been due to headline the world-famous green-field festival in 2020 before it became one of the first major European festival casualties of the coronavirus pandemic.

Last year’s three-day event was also pulled, with organizers instead holding a ticketed live stream event, Live At Worthy Farm, featuring performances from Coldplay, Damon Albarn and Idles. The privately owned company also diversified by running a family campsite, Worthy Pastures, on the festival site.

Other major festivals have also started to report huge losses, including Belgium’s Tomorrowland, one of the world’s biggest dance-music event companies, which said it will likely lose 25 million euros ($29 million) from two years of canceled events. To try to recoup some of the losses, Tomorrowland said it is looking to expand to three weekends this summer, from its normal two.

This year’s Glastonbury Festival, which normally hosts up to 200,000 people, is scheduled to take place at its regular home of Worthy Farm, outside the village of Pilton in Somerset, June 22-26. Billie Eilish is the only headline act announced so far. Diana Ross is booked to play the festival’s famous Sunday “legends” teatime spot.

The event is fully sold out, with ticket buyers’ deposits for 2020 having rolled over for a second year, following the festival’s cancellation in 2021. (The majority of ticket monies are held in a retention account, which is released after the festival has taken place.)

Looking ahead to this year’s return, the financial report cautions there are likely to be “significant costs specifically related to necessary COVID-19 measures and related issues.”

Last April, Glastonbury Festival received £900,000 ($1.2 million) from the Government as part of its Culture Recovery Fund. At the time, co-organizers Michael and Emily Eavis said the money would make a “huge difference” in helping to secure the festival’s future. In November it received a further £600,000 (£815,000) from the government support package.

Despite the colossal financial hit caused by the pandemic, the historic festival retains sizable cash reserves of £8.3 million ($11.2 million) — “cash at bank or in hand” — as of March 31, down from £12.2 million ($16.6 million) the previous year, according to the Companies House financial report.

Glastonbury also still managed to make charitable donations of just under £5,000 ($7,000) in 2021, down from £1.1 million ($1.5 million) it gave to charity the previous year.

Going forward, the company directors state, the festival will look to build up its reserve float “once more for the future.”

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Sinead O’Connor’s 17-Year-Old Son Found Dead After Going Missing

Sinead O’Connor’s 17-year-old son, Shane, was found dead in Ireland on Friday (Jan. 7) after the Irish singer-songwriter notified authorities that he had gone missing.

Police said the missing person case was closed after a body was found in the eastern coastal town of Bray, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Dublin.

O’Connor posted on Twitter that her son, “the very light of my life, decided to end his earthly struggle today and is now with God. May he rest in peace and may no one follow his example. My baby, I love you so much. Please be at peace.”

Earlier, the 55-year-old singer had appealed to her son on social media not to harm himself. She noted that he had been hospitalized following two suicide attempts.

Shane was one of O’Connor’s four children. His father was Irish musician Donal Lunny.

O’Connor first became famous for her arresting 1990 cover of the Prince song “Nothing Compares 2 U.” She emerged from an abusive family in Ireland and has been candid about her own struggles with mental illness.

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Grammys Could Be Moving, Have a Hold on a Venue in Las Vegas

Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena could be the host venue for the 2022 Grammys, sources tell Billboard.

Other venues are under consideration to host the rescheduled awards show, sources say, but Recording Academy officials have quietly placed a hold on the MGM Grand Garden Arena, which in just two days has gone from backup-plan venue to front-runner due to the lack of available replacement venues in Los Angeles.

Located on the Las Vegas Strip inside the MGM Grand hotel and casino, the 29-year-old sports and music venue has operated as a joint venture between AEG and MGM Resorts International since 2016 when the two companies built the T-Mobile Arena, which they own and operate as a 50-50 joint venture. In terms of hosting the 2022 Grammys, it meets two essential requirements – it’s available in April 2022 when Recording Academy executives hope to stage the rescheduled Grammys, and at 17,000 seats it has a large enough seating capacity to host the event. (The Recording Academy declined to comment for this story.)

There is, however, one serious disadvantage — unlike the AEG-owned Crypto.com Arena (formerly Staples Center) which has hosted the Grammys 19 times in the last 22 years — the MGM Grand Garden Arena doesn’t have luxury suites.

That could mean a major financial concession for Recording Academy, which generates millions of dollars in sales each year leasing Crypto.com Arena’s 172 suites for “music’s biggest night,” sources tell Billboard. But moving the Grammys to the spring leaves the awards with few good venue options. While a springtime ceremony should be enough time for the current coronavirus surge to pass, it eliminates Crypto.com Arena and nearly every major professional sports arena in the country.

Both the NHL and the NBA require every team in their respective leagues to hold all of April, May and most of June for playoff games and championships. There are exceptions for teams with no chance of making the postseason, but since opening in 1999, one of Crypto.com Arena’s three tenant teams have always made the playoffs. MGM Grand Garden Arena has no sports tenants.

The Recording Academy typically needs 12 to 14 days to build the production, and the Academy’s 2019 contract accommodates the nearly two-week stretch by having the NBA’s Lakers and Clippers and the NHL’s Kings take extended road trips while the Recording Academy is using the building. The contract also extends the Academy’s right to sell Crypto.com Arena’s suite inventory, which earns the academy approximately $5 million annually, sources tell Billboard. According to tax documents from 2017, the last year returns are available covering the Grammys in Los Angeles, suite sales were almost 40% of the $12.8 million in total Grammy ticket sales the academy generated in 2017 at the LA arena. That additional revenue is likely even more important this year, following a scaled-down, no-audience ceremony at the nearby LA Convention Center in March 2021, but even in a big city like Los Angeles, there are not many options.

The Honda Center in Anaheim has a tenant NHL team and faces the same availability restrictions. The Forum in nearby Inglewood is busy with seven concerts on its calendar that month including three Billie Eilish shows, and does not have suites. The new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood where the NFL’s Chargers and Rams play, and where the Super Bowl is scheduled for Feb. 13, is available in April or May as a potential temporary home for the Grammys, stadium officials confirm, but at 70,000 seats — compared to about 20,000 at Crypto.com Arena — it’s probably too big and cost prohibitive for the arena production.

Even in Vegas, finding a venue isn’t easy. T-Mobile Arena has about 50 suites and would serve as an excellent host venue for the Grammys if it weren’t home to the first-place Golden Knights hockey team who are expected to go deep into the playoffs and contend for the Stanley Cup.

AEG also owns 50% of the MGM Grand Garden Arena, which will host concerts by Andrea Bocelli, Bad Bunny and John Mayer through March with no concerts or events booked in April or May. The Grand Garden Arena and its no frills concourse and black box interior isn’t nearly as posh as Crypto.com Arena. It has played host to massive sports and music events like the 2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao fight and Phish’s annual Halloween concert series.

If the show is held in Las Vegas, this would be the first time a Grammy telecast has been held in a city in which the Recording Academy doesn’t have a chapter.

Since the first live telecast in 1971, the Grammys have been held in Los Angeles 39 times, in New York 11 times and in Nashville once (in 1973). If the Grammys do land in Las Vegas, it would also be the first time the Grammys have been held outside of Los Angeles since the show in January 2018 was held at Madison Square Garden in New York.

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