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Pharrell Williams‘ Something in the Water Festival is taking over Washington, D.C., this weekend, with Justin Timberlake, a reunited Clipse, N.O.R.E, Q-Tip and SZA among the special guests.
Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals, bLAck pARty, J Balvin, 21 Savage and hometown acts Bad Brains: A Tribute by Black Dots, TOB and YungManny are also set to take the stage.
If you can’t fly to the nation’s capital for the weekend-long event, you can still enjoy the festival at home. Amazon Prime will stream the entire festival starting at 3 p.m. ET from June 17 to 19 on the Amazon Prime app and on the platform’s Twitch Channel.
“Amazon Music always has the most innovative programming and I’m thrilled they have come onboard to livestream Something in theWater,” said Williams in a statement. “By livestreaming they are helping give access to so many people who can’t travel to DC Juneteenth weekend.”
Williams pulled SITW from his hometown of Virginia Beach, Va., last year after launching it in 2019 citing what he called a “toxic” environment in the city.The inaugural SITW featured sets from A$AP Rocky, Beck, Chance the Rapper, Foo Fighters and more; the 2020 and 2021 events were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
BTS members’ decision to take time off for solo projects is bound to shake up K-pop music consumption in the U.S. because of the group’s dominance in the genre. And the band’s label, Big Hit Music — a division of HYBE, which Universal Music Group’s Geffen Records has distributed in the U.S. since last year — will have a tough time filling the hole.
Since the beginning of 2021, BTS has accounted for 29.4% of sales and on-demand streams of K-pop music in the U.S., according to a Billboard analysis of Luminate data. Over that time, BTS did not release a new studio album but put out two “best of” collections — BTS, the Best in June 2021 and Proof on June 10, 2022. BTS also released multiple variations of the tracks “Butter” (including a remix with Megan Thee Stallion), “My Universe” and “Permission to Dance.”
BTS accounted for 3.6 million album equivalent units since 2021 (through June 9), more than four times the next K-pop group when considering streams and purchases of digital and physical formats.
Another Big Hit artist, Tomorrow X Together, was second in total consumption with 795,000 album equivalent units. Two artists from competing Korean music company JYP Entertainment, TWICE and Stray Kids (both distributed by Republic Records in the U.S.), were third and fourth with 763,000 units and 655,000 units, respectively. BLACKPINK, from another competitor, SM Entertainment (distributed by Interscope Records in the U.S.), ranked fifth with 569,000 album equivalent units.
As a group, BTS has accounted for 2.56 billion U.S. on-demand audio streams since 2021. That gave BTS a 27.7% share of K-pop’s 9.26 billion U.S. on-demand audio streams during the period. TWICE was far behind with 548 million streams.
BTS is likely to put up strong streaming numbers in the near future. The band just released its anthology album, Proof on June 10, and these days tracks can maintain their popularity on streaming platforms through repeat listens on editorial and user-generated playlists.
Sales activity does not have the longevity of streaming, however, which means album and track sales are more dependent on new releases. BTS has accounted for 29.1% of K-pop physical album sales since 2021 and an incredible 72.3% of K-pop digital track sales. The group’s dominance in track sales stems from the band’s fans, known as BTS ARMY. As Billboard reported in 2021, BTS fans are known to coordinate digital buying to influence the band’s chart performance. Since the beginning of 2021, BTS has sold 3.1 million tracks in the U.S. The other top-five K-pop acts have each sold fewer than 100,000 over that span.
Also notable: In 2021, BTS sold more albums on CD in the U.S. than any other artist, with 1.03 million copies sold, representing 2.5% of total CD album sales in the U.S. across all genres of music. The group’s total share of the U.S. album sales market in 2021, across all formats (CD, digital download, vinyl LPs and other formats) was 1%.
Here we go again! With this week’s confirmation that Beyoncé will release a new album, Renaissance, on July 29, it appears very likely that Beyoncé and Adele are headed for a Grammy rematch.
At the 59th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 12, 2017, the two singers went head-to-head in four categories. Adele won all four of these contests. The British superstar’s blockbuster hit “Hello” beat Beyoncé’s socially conscious “Formation” for record and song of the year. “Hello” also topped “Hold Up,” the third single from Beyoncé’s Lemonade album, for best pop solo performance. Finally, 25 bested Lemonade for album of the year.
In her acceptance speech for the latter award, a highly emotional Adele all but handed the Grammy to Beyoncé, who was standing in the front row with her husband, Jay-Z, as the audience rose to its feet to celebrate Adele’s win. Adele’s speech stands as one of the most selfless and gracious in awards show history.
After some introductory thanks, Adele addressed the issue of competing with a friend and artist she greatly admires. “I can’t possibly accept this award and I’m very humbled and I’m very grateful and gracious, but my artist of my life is Beyoncé and this album to me – the Lemonade album – was so monumental.”
Addressing the singer directly, she continued: “Beyoncé, it was just so monumental and so well thought-out and so beautiful and soul-baring and we all got to see another side to you that you don’t always let us see, and we appreciate that. And all us artists here, we fu—ing adore you. You are our light. And the way that you make me and my friends feel – the way you make my Black friends feel – is empowering. And you make them stand up for themselves and I love you. I always have and I always will.”
Beyoncé didn’t go home empty-handed that night. She won two Grammys – best urban contemporary album for Lemonade and best music video for “Formation.” And she has won seven more Grammys since that night.
And Queen B could make more history this year. If she receives four nods when the 65th annual Grammy award nominations are announced later this year, she’ll tie Jay-Z for the most nominations by anyone in Grammy history (83). If she nabs five, she’ll take the title outright — assuming the current nominations leaders – Jay-Z, Paul McCartney (81) and Quincy Jones (80) – don’t add to their nominations tallies too.
If Beyoncé wins three Grammys at the 65th annual Grammy Awards, expected to be held at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles in late January, she’ll tie the late classical conductor Georg Solti for the most wins by anyone in Grammy history (31). If she wins four, she’ll take that title outright.
How likely is it that Beyoncé will put up those kind of numbers this year? Pretty likely. She has amassed four or more Grammy nominations in a given year (the number she needs to tie the nominations record) nine times. She has won three or more Grammys in a given year (the number she needs to tie the awards record) four times.
If Renaissance wins album of the year, Beyoncé will become the first Black woman to win in that category (as a lead artist) since Lauryn Hill won for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 24 years ago. Two other Black women had previously won in the category (as a lead artist) – Natalie Cole for Unforgettable with Love in 1992 and Whitney Houston for The Bodyguard soundtrack in 1994.
But Adele is also in line to make history. If her latest album, 30, wins, she’ll become just the second artist in Grammy history to win album of the year with three consecutive studio releases. Stevie Wonder was the first, with wins for Innervisions, Fulfillingness’ First Finale and Songs in the Key of Life.
Adele previously won the award for 21 and 25. Her three consecutive studio albums have been released over the course of 12 Grammy years, which is much more spread out than Wonder’s, which were released in a four-year period. (That prompted Paul Simon, on winning in 1976, to famously say “And most of all I’d like to thank Stevie Wonder who didn’t make an album this year.”)
Both Beyoncé and Adele are among the most successful artists in Grammy history. Adele has won 15 awards from just 18 nominations, an astonishing winning average.
The main difference between the two artists’ Grammy track records is that Beyoncé has won just one of her 28 Grammys in a Big Four category – album, record and song of the year plus best new artist. It happened in 2010 when “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” won song of the year. Adele has won seven of her 15 Grammys in Big Four categories. She is the only artist in Grammy history to sweep the awards for album, record and song of the year twice.
The voting membership of the Recording Academy has changed since 25 beat Lemonade for album of the year. The membership has grown younger and more diverse, by both race and gender, as a result of an aggressive Academy push to bring in new members.
The voting process has also changed. Last year, nominations review committees were disbanded in favor of direct vote of voting members. (The Academy retained some craft committees.) The review committee in the Big Four categories may have helped push “Formation,” which was not a pop radio smash, into the record and song of the year finals.
The membership drive may favor Beyoncé. The elimination of nominations review committees may work in Adele’s favor. These changes are so recent, it’s hard to know for sure. And the Grammys have always been mysterious and hard to predict.
It’s surprising that Adele and Beyoncé both released their follow-ups to 25 and Lemonade in the same eligibility year. You might think Columbia Records, which distributes both artists’ recordings, would have encouraged them to release in different eligibility years. But the two artists seem to be on similar creative timetables.
With Adele and Beyoncé both seeming like sure-fire nominees for album of the year, that leaves eight spots on the final ballot. (The Grammys expanded from eight to 10 nominees in each of the Big Four categories last year.) So, who else is likely to be nominated?
On May 24, my colleagues Katie Atkinson and Keith Caulfield named 10 top album of the year candidates on their popular Pop Shop Podcast. The front-runners that they discussed were Brandi Carlile’s In These Silent Days, Ed Sheeran’s =, Summer Walker’s Still Over It, Silk Sonic’s An Evening With Silk Sonic, Adele’s 30, The Weeknd’s Dawn FM, Rosalia’s Motomami, Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti, Kendrick Lamar‘s, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers and Harry Styles’ Harry’s House.
The eligibility period for the 65th annual Grammy Awards runs from Oct. 1, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2022. Which means we have more than three months to go. Even more top contenders are likely to emerge before the eligibility year ends.
Hailey Bieber may be one of today’s biggest inspirations for fashion lovers, but her favorite style icon is surprising.
During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night (June 15), the talk show host asked the model how she got into fashion, as she began her modeling career at just 17 years old.
“I definitely always looked at my mom’s style and admired it, and always felt like she was passionate about clothing and fashion,” Hailey shared. “But I would definitely say I was inspired in the modeling space from the greats: Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell.”
Fallon then mentioned that Bieber once said that she was inspired by Miley Cyrus’ Disney Channel character, Hannah Montana. “Yeah, technically, I was also very fashion inspired at the time by Hanna Montana, a.k.a. Miley Cyrus,” Bieber replied with a laugh. “She used to wear outfits on Hannah Montana that I would try to recreate because I thought they were just everything.”
The interview comes following the release of Bieber’s new skincare line, Rhode, which is both her and her mother’s middle names. “It was just always something I felt very passionate about,” she shared of her skincare journey. “I was always someone who, and still am to this day, very committed to a routine. I’m a very regimented person who is very OCD about a skincare routine. I just felt like over the last almost 10 years of working in this industry, I was really able to develop my beauty philosophy and I got to a point where I was like, ‘I want to make a curated, edited line of essentials that could work for anyone.’”
Watch the full conversation below.
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Gloria Estefan and Andy Garcia star as a married couple whose daughter surprises them with plans to marry her fiancé in Father of the Bride. The rom-com remake arrived on HBO Max on Thursday (June 16).
Directed by Gaz Alazraki, Father of the Bride centers on a Cuban-American family’s unbreakable bond and “illustrates the surprising and funny ways the heart can adapt in the name of love,” per Warner Media.
Garcia plays Billy Herrera, the patriarch of the Herrera family who is coming to terms with his daughter’s upcoming wedding. Meanwhile, Billy and his wife, Ingrid (Estefan) are on the brink of divorce.
The latest edition of Father of the Bride is the third remake behind the 1991 film starring Steve Martin and Dianne Keaton and the original 1951 film starring Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor. Father of the Bride is adapted from a 1949 novel of the same name.
Read on for directions on how to stream the movie on HBO Max for free.
How to Watch Father of the Bride on HBO Max
Father of the Bride is streaming exclusively on HBO Max. Those who already have HBO through cable can receive free access to HBO Max (click here for more details). If you don’t have cable, there are at least a couple of ways to land a free trial and stream Father of the Bride at no charge.
A subscription to HBO Max starts at $9.99 a month (or $99.99 a year) for the ad-supported plan, and 14.99 a month ($149.99 a year) to watch without commercials. The more expensive subscription also allows users to download up to 30 programs to watch-on the go and stream certain content in 4K UHD.
HBO Max
Unfortunately, HBO Max does not offer free trial, but the platform does provide episodes that you can watch free of charge. To land a free trial you will need to go through a third party. For example, AT&T customers can receive free HBO Max with select unlimited plans. HBO Max is also free with select Crickett Wireless plans. Direct TV Stream customers will get up to three months free HBO Max with certain streaming packages, and Hulu offers HBO Max as a premium channel ad-on.
HBO Max is certainly one of the best streaming platforms out there. The platform is packed with exclusive originals, hit movies, TV episodes, family-friendly programs and lots more. The mega-roster of HBO and HBO Max exclusives include Starstruck, Legendary, The Staircase, The Flight Attendant, Minx, Somebody Somewhere, Love Life, Succession, A Black Lady Sketch Show, The Gilded Age, Winning Time, Euphoria, Hacks, The Peacemaker, Gossip Girl, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Insecure, The White Lotus, And Just Like That, and Mare of Easttown.
You will also find a great selection of movies streaming on HBO Max including The Batman, The French Dispatch, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, West Side Story, Death on the Nile, Halloween Kills, and Dune.
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