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Last month Olivia Rodrigo was celebrating her first tour selling out. This month, she’s celebrating her breakthrough single, “Drivers License,” turning one.
“happy first birthday to the little song that changed my whole life,” she wrote on Instagram on Saturday (Jan. 8). “I made this video a day or two after I wrote drivers license in my living room (with a very squeaky sustain pedal lol). crazy to think how quickly life changes.”
“thank u to everyone who has supported me so tenderly. music is the most magical thing in the world,” the singer added.
The post was accompanied by a black-and-white throwback video of Rodrigo at home, singing what would soon become a blockbuster hit.
“Drivers License,” released on Jan. 8, 2021, debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 — and it held that spot for eight weeks at the beginning of the year. Her debut album, Sour, topped the Billboard 200 for five weeks and was also the Billboard staff’s pick for best album of 2021.
Watch a clip from the early days of “Drivers License” below.
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.
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.
Oh My God Video – January 12 pic.twitter.com/0bfpxxQgZf
— Adele (@Adele) January 8, 2022
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.”
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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