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Chris Brown was the big winner of last night’s 2019 Soul Train Music Awards, as his song featuring Drake, “No Guidance,” took three awards, including Song of the Year, Best Dance and Best Collaborative performances.

Hosted by Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell (both of Martin) from Las Vegas, the awards show saw gospel singer Yolanda Adams receive the Lady of Soul Award, and producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis honored with the Legend Award.

The following is the list of nominees, with winners listed first and in bold:

Best New Artist

Summer Walker

Lucky Daye

Mahalia

Nicole Bus

Pink Sweat$

Yk Osiris

Soul Train Certified Award

Trevor Jackson

Ciara

Daniel Caesar

Fantasia

india.arie

Kelly Rowland

Best Gospel/Inspirational Award

Kirk Franklin

Bebe Winans

Donald Lawrence

Erica Campbell

Tasha Cobbs Leonard

Tori Kelly

Rhythm & Bars Award

Cardi B, “Money”

21 Savage feat J. Cole, “A Lot”

DaBaby, “Suge”

J. Cole,...

Drake better clear some room on the mantel, he just won Best Rap Song at the 2019 Grammys for "God's Plan." The songwriting credits for that track are Drake (Aubrey Graham), Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron Latour, Matthew Samuels and Noah Shebib. Country duo Dan + Shay presented the award to Drake. "Man, it's the like the first time in Grammys where I actually am who I thought I was for a second," Drake said accepting the award. He took the chance to address viewers at home with a poignant speech—that was cut off. "I want to take this opportunity while I'm up here to just talk to all the kids that are watching this that are aspiring to do music, all my peers that make...

In something of an upset, This is America by Childish Gambino won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year, marking Donald Glover’s third award on the evening. The award goes to Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson, the songwriters, the win no doubt powered by its accompanying groundbreaking video.

Neither was present to accept the award. Song of the Year is a songwriter’s award. A song (singles or tracks) is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year.

Glover’s dissonant song of commentary about the socio-ecnmc status of black me was made especially controversial bs jarring art-house video which includes moments of abrupt violence. Glover himself has a federal heritage — he was born in the Reagan years at Edwards Air Force Base in 1983. Glover is a multi-threat talent with comedy and acting pursuits. His screen credits include Solo: A Star Wars Story,...

Brandi Carlile and Lady Gaga’s “Shallow” emerged as early winners at Sunday’s Grammy Awards.

Kendrick Lamar heads into the ceremony with eight nominations, followed by Drake has seven, and Brandi Carlile and producer Boi-1da follow with six nods apiece.

Drake, Carlile and Lamar were all recognized in the three biggest categories — Album, Song and Record of the Year — for their most recent albums, “Scorpion,” “By the Way, I Forgive You” and the “Black Panther” soundtrack, respectively.

In addition to the four nominations for his work with frequent collaborator Drake, Boi-1da, a.k.a. Matthew Samuels, earned two additional nods in the rap categories for serving as a writer on Eminem and Jay Rock singles. He also received a nomination for Non-Classical Producer of the Year.

Alicia Keys is hosting this year’s ceremony,...

Winners of the 61st annual Grammys were revealed on February 10 in a two-part event. The majority of the 84 Grammy Awards were handed out at the non-televised Premiere Ceremony, which began at 12:30 p.m. Pt/3:30 p.m. Et and was hosted by Shaggy at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

The televised portion of the Grammys took place across the street at the Staples Center. It started on CBS at 5:00 p.m. Pt/8:00 p.m. Et. Winners in the top 10 categories were announced during a three-and-a-half hour concert that was hosted by Alicia Keys. Scroll down for the full and complete list of winners at the 61st annual Grammy Awards.

Heading into the awards, Kendrick Lamar led with eight nominations. But we expect two women to dominate with both Lady Gaga and Kacey Musgraves winning four apiece. Among these are three of the four most prestigious...

Last year Bruno Mars was the king of the Grammy Awards winning all six of his races. This year, one of the artists he bested for many of those prizes, Kendrick Lamar, leads with a whopping eight nominations. Many of these bids come for his work on the “Black Panther” soundtrack and the chart-topping single “All the Stars.” Likewise, Lady Gaga earned four nominations for “Shallow,” the love ballad from her film “A Star is Born.” Both of their songs also contend at the Academy Awards.

The four general field categories — Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist — are the top prizes at the Grammys. While the nominees are drawn from across a variety of music genres, the winners of these Grammy Awards tend to be the biggest pop and rock acts like Mars, Adele, Taylor Swift, and Mumford and Sons.

Lady Gaga and her “A Star Is Born” character Ally are both Grammy winners, but the latter has won what her portrayer never has: a general field Grammy. That could all change in February, though, thanks to “Shallow.”

“Shallow,” the only eligible track from “A Star Is Born” this Grammy cycle, received four nominations Friday: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop/Duo Group Performance and Best Song Written for Visual Media. Record and Song are two of the four general field Grammy categories, along with Album of the Year and Best New Artist, aka the Big Four — none of which Gaga has won.

Not counting the five nominations she received Friday, including one for “Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?)”, Gaga has six wins from 19 nominations, all in genre categories: Best Dance Recording for “Poker Face”; Best Electronic/Dance Album for “The Fame”; Best...

Kendrick Lamar leads all nominees for the 61st annual Grammy Awards with seven, including album of the year for the Black Panther soundtrack. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper earned four noms for "Shallow," from A Star Is Born. Drake, Cardi B and Childish Gambino also are among the leading nominees.

Kendrick Lamar led the nominations for the 61st Grammy Awards, with eight nods recognizing his work for the “Black Panther” soundtrack, including the hit song “All the Stars” with Sza. Drake is right on his tails with seven nominations, and producer Boi-1da and Americana singer Brandi Carlile are just behind them with six apiece.

Cardi B, Lady Gaga, Childish Gambino, Maren Morris, R&B newcomer H.E.R., and producer Sounwave all notched five noms.

In a departure from last year, in which Jay-z was the only artist to score nods in the top three categories, Drake, Lamar, and Carlile all garnered nominations for record, song, and album of the year. Drake’s single “God’s Plan” and his album “Scorpion” are both recognized; Lamar’s “All the Stars” and the “Black Panther” soundtrack he curated are vying for the top categories; and Carlile’s song “The Joke,” along with her album “By the Way,...

Nominations for the 61st Grammy Awards were announced by the recording academy on Dec. 7 in three stages. Nominees in the top four general field categories were unveiled on “CBS This Morning.” The contenders in more races were then revealed on Apple Music before the complete list of nominees in dozens of categories was posted on Grammy.com. The nominations announcement had been scheduled for Wednesday but was pushed back two days due to the scheduled memorial services for President George H.W. Bush.

The four general field categories — Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist — are the top prizes at the Grammys. While the nominees are drawn from across a variety of music genres, the winners tend to be the biggest pop and rock acts including recent champs Bruno Mars, Adele, Taylor Swift, and Mumford and Sons.

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Complete list of winners and nominees of the 2014 Grammy Awards, held in Los Angeles at the Staples Center on Sunday February 8. Winners will be updated as they're announced during the telecast and pre-telecast. Record Of The Year “Fancy,” Iggy Azalea Featuring Charli Xcx “Chandelier,” Sia **Winner** “Stay With Me (Darkchild Version),” Sam Smith “Shake It Off,” Taylor Swift “All About That Bass,” Meghan Trainor Album Of The Year **Winner** “Morning Phase,” Beck “Beyoncé,” Beyoncé “X,” Ed Sheeran “In The Lonely Hour,” Sam Smith “Girl,” Pharrell Williams Song Of The Year “All About That Bass,” Kevin Kadish & Meghan Trainor, songwriters (Meghan Trainor) “Chandelier,” Sia Furler & Jesse Shatkin, songwriters (Sia) “Shake It Off,” Max Martin, Shellback & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift) **Winner** “Stay With Me (Darkchild Version),” James Napier, William Phillips & Sam Smith, songwriters (Sam Smith) “Take Me To Church,” Andrew Hozier-Byrne, songwriter (Hozier) Best New Artist Iggy Azalea Bastille Brandy Clark...

Which music stars went home with awards at the 2014 Grammy Awards? Find out with this full winners list.

Winners in each category are bolded.

Record of the Year

"Get Lucky" -- Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers

"Radioactive" -- Imagine Dragons

"Royals" -- Lorde

"Locked Out of Heaven" -- Bruno Mars

"Blurred Lines" -- Robin Thick feat. T.I. and Pharrell

Album of the year

"The Blessed Unrest" -- Sara Bareilles

"Random Access Memories" -- Daft Punk

"Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" -- Kendrick Lamar

"The Heist" -- Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

"Red" -- Taylor Swift

Song of the year

"Just Give Me a Reason" -- Jeff Bhasker, Pink and Nate Ruess (Pink feat. Nate Ruess)

"Locked Out of Heaven" -- Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine and Bruno Mars (Bruno Mars)

"Roar" -- Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry and Henry Walter (Katy Perry)

"Royals...

Drake is in "command" of the new Aaliyah album - no matter what her family might say. "People should be excited [about the new single]," said the Toronto rapper in an interview with MuchMusic, referring to the newly-released track "Enough Said" which features the late R&B singer's vocals. "It’s all off of an Aaliyah project that me and 40 are commanding and 40 is just doing some incredible, incredible music right now. ...To get 13-14 new Aaliyah songs…everybody should be excited." For those who aren't familiar, "40" is the nickname of sought-after hip-hop/R&B producer Noah Shebib, who in addition to Drizzy...

Drake has confessed that he has stopped working on his forthcoming R&B mix tape It's Never Enough. Talking to MTV News, the musician revealed that he finds it "hard to commit" to the genre as he often prefers to rap rather than sing. "I've been rapping a lot lately. Me and 40 (producer Noah Shebib) have been doing some great rap music, so I sort of took a hiatus on the R&B for a second," he explained. "It's cool to do R&B, I love it, but it's just hard for me to always commit to it. Because some (more)...

One of the most purely entertaining films in the festival, but in its final section also morphing into one of the more subtly disturbing, "The Virgin Suicides" is a knockout directorial debut by Sofia Coppola, daughter of Francis Ford. This very self-assured, well-executed film should win a significant distribution deal with no trouble and go on to a Sterling North American release. Foreign markets will likewise be perky.

Deserving of the Camera d'Or, Coppola is not the only sibling of a celebrated filmmaker to flop in her first acting role and rebound one day as a director (see Anjelica Huston and the long-forgotten "A Walk with Love and Death", directed her by her legendary dad, John). Indeed, plenty of time has passed since "The Godfather Part III", when critics and audiences made young actress Sofia the fall-girl for a movie that failed to meet expectations for many reasons.

Adapting herself the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, Coppola as director has a keen eye for the visual possibilities in the tame environs of 1970s suburbia, both for sparkling comedy and sinister moodiness, but her attention to sound, pacing and the performances are evidence that she's learned a lot from being mentored by one of the all-time masters of the cinema.

Set in Grosse Pointe, Mich., the film is about the strange demise of five pretty teenage sisters, ages 13-17, which we learn at the outset was a neighborhood calamity that permanently scarred the boys they attracted. Unfolding more or less in sequence, with occasional insight and information from one of the obsessed lads as an adult narrator (Giovanni Ribisi), "Virgin" sticks with the loss of the boy's innocence angle but also wonderfully captures the details of the girls' life back then.

In well-executed vignettes usually centered on romance and longing, we are introduced to and get to know the seemingly perfect Lisbon siblings -- Cecilia (Hanna Hall), Bonnie (Chelse Swain), Mary (A.J. Cook), Therese (Leslie Hayman), and Lux (Kirsten Dunst). Their father is the conservative math teacher (James Woods), and mom (Kathleen Turner) is a pious housewife who follows his lead.

At first, the focus is on youngest Cecilia, who cuts her wrists but doesn't die. Never showing violence or anything seriously unpleasant, the uneasy mood is in place from the start, with the humor resulting from the dead-on recreation of the times and the usual stupid stares and fumbled advances of personality-forming high schoolers with crushes. In the midst of a party at the Lisbon home, Cecilia tries again and succeeds.

Danny DeVito and Scott Glenn have short scenes as the school psychiatrist and family minister, but the grieving period is over fast. With the start of the school year, the girls pretend nothing has happened, while the boys (Jonathan Tucker, Athony DeSimone, Noah Shebib, Robert Scwartzman, Lee Kagan) pour over Cecilia's diary and learn that the girls always have the upper hand when it comes to the opposite sex.

We never get inside the real mystery of what causes the rarely-seen-apart girls to give up on life. But when the story shifts to Lux's lovelife, she provides a half-open window to the rest. Lux becomes the prey of cool jock Trip Fontaine (Josh Hartnett), but he has to work to get her attention. Struck to the core with true love, he cleans up his act and gets the parents to let all four girls go on a group date to the homecoming dance.

Well on her way to experiencing the fleshly pleasures of love, Lux leads the girls in a liberating spree that is marvelously evocative (with the unexpected help of a vintage pop anthem by Styx). But when Lux stays out all night, mother Lisbon cracks down hard, taking the girls out of school and imposing harsh penalties, including the tossing of Lux's prized LPs into the fireplace.

Trapped in the house, the four sisters emerge to try to save a diseased, but beloved tree from being cut down. The ominous atmosphere thickens. Tragic but muted, the resolution leaves one uneasy, and somewhat in awe of the filmmaker for so deftly shifting emotions and allowing the viewer to puzzle over the ambiguities without insisting on a precise explanation of what one has just seen.

The Virgin Suicides

American Zoetrope presents

A Muse production

In association with Eternity Pictures

CREDITS:

Writer-director:Sofia Coppola

Producers:Francis Coppola, Julie Costanzo, Dan Halsted, Chris Hanley

Executive producers:Fred Fuchs, Willi Baer

Director of photography:Edward Lachman

Production designer:Megan Less

Editor:Jim Lyons

Music:Air

Costume designer:Nancy Steiner

Casting:John Buchan

Color/stereo

CAST:

Mr. Lisbon:James Woods

Mrs. Lisbon:Kathleen Turner

Lux Lisbon:Kirsten Dunst

Trip Fontaine:Josh Hartnett

Dr. Hornicker:Danny DeVito

Father Moody:Scott Glenn

Running time -- 93 minutes...