This year’s primetime Grammy telecast didn’t offer much cross over action for movie fans, though there was a dash of Hollywood star power on hand two weeks before the Oscars get handed out. For those who love film music, the real excitement was at the afternoon presentation, where the prizes for “Visual Media” (allowing …

By Kevin Galbreath | omg! Wedding crashers, White House party crashers, and of course, awards show stage-crashers. As we approach the 55th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, we’re breaking down the show’s most infamous interruptions. Who can forget when Wu-Tang’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard stormed the stage during Shawn Colvin’s Song …

The Best New Artist Grammy is supposed to celebrate an artist’s entrance into the exclusive world of music stardom—but for some, it’s an exit!

"omg! Insider's" Keltie Colleen caught up with Ed Sheeran at the 15th Annual Grammy Foundation Music Preservation Project Event, where she gifted the singer a homemade Lego Grammy as a good-luck charm. But things didn't go the way she planned. Check out the vid to see how Ed reacted to the thoughtful gift. To see [...]

By Rachel Hoffman | omg! Rock music is making its big return! The genre has been overlooked at the Grammys for the past two decades, but, this year, rock is fighting back and dominating the Album Of The Year category. The Black Keys, fun., Jack White, and Mumford & Sons, are leading the race for [...]

From the "indie invasion" to singular stars, get the scoop on who’s leading the Grammy predictions and who could prove to be the biggest underdogs of 2013. Yahoo! Music editor Lyndsey Parker weighs in on the chances of this year's big nominees, and chats about what makes the 55th annual Grammy Awards' unique selection particularly …

Can Adele squeeze out one more Grammy for a song from her blockbuster album 21? The British singer swept six awards last year, tying Beyonce’s record for the most Grammys won by a female artist in a single night. Adele is nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance this year for “Set Fire To The Rain,” [...]

Thirteen-year-old Cecilia Cassini is a pint-sized fashion designer making a big splash during awards season. With a penchant for feathers and glitter, along with her liberal use of anything “fabulous," Cassini has already designed dresses for some of the music world's biggest stars. Watch Cassini talk about her favorite …

By Sarah Flanigan | omg! With the Grammy Awards quickly approaching, we can’t wait to find out who the big winners are going to be! But Spotify is attempting to spill the beans ahead of time. Based on information that the commercial music streaming site has gathered from its millions of users and enormous database, [.. …

The 2008 race for the Democratic presidential nomination between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton was one for the history books. Now, their spouses are engaged in a contest that is similarly close, if perhaps a tad less consequential. Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton are competing for Best Spoken Word Album at the …

Many music luminaries died last year, from disco queen Donna Summer to Andy Williams, who hosted the first seven Grammy live telecasts. Many of them will be featured in the annual In Memoriam segment on Sunday night’s Grammy telecast. But Levon Helm is being singled out for special recognition. Elton John, Mavis Staples, …

Attention Grammy performers: The network wants you to cover your behind. Literally. "Please be sure that buttocks and female breasts are adequately covered," reads a "wardrobe advisory" sent out from CBS' standards and practices department. "Thong type costumes are problematic." Aren't they always? Don't worry, there are …

The Grammys are typically reserved for the best in the music biz. But there’s a unique group of Hollywood A-listers and world leaders who have the coveted award sitting on their shelves too, including ... President Barack Obama?! No one would have expected them to take home Grammy Gold, but these few winners are definitely …

Like all major award shows, the Grammys have made a few gaffes over the years. There was the time a 40-year old standard was voted Song of the Year. And the time a compilation of old hits won as Album of the Year. The Best New Artist category has proved trickiest to get right. There [...]

By Sarah Flanigan | omg! Ed Sheeran is certainly on “The A Team” when it comes to musical talent! The British breakout star is nominated for a Song Of The Year Grammy for his record The A Team and while he may be a newbie to some here in the U.S., he is no stranger [...]

Rihanna has joined the list of performers at the 55th annual Grammy Awards...with a little superstar help from some of music’s biggest names! On Sunday evening, the Recording Academy announced via Twitter that Rihanna will be taking the stage with Sting and Bruno Mars. Talk about an unlikely trio! Although no details have …

fun. and Mumford & Sons both have a chance to land in the Grammy record book on Sunday. Both groups received six nominations this year. If either group wins them all, it will become just the second group or duo in Grammy history to win six or more awards in one night. Santana swept eight [...]

Unlike last year, when Adele swept the “Big Three” Grammy Awards, this year the top prizes are likely to be spread around. Mumford & Sons, Gotye and fun. all have reason for optimism heading into the 55th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 10. But, despite critical acclaim and media buzz, Frank Ocean may be shut [...]

fun. is likely to win at least one, and quite possibly two, Grammys in the pop field. The New York trio is the clear favorite to win Best Pop Vocal Album and it has a slight edge to take Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “We Are Young,” its smash collabo with Janelle Monae. The other [...]

1990 Best New Artist Grammy-winners Milli Vanilli--who had to give back their Grammy statuette after it was discovered that they hadn't done any actual singing on their debut album--remain one of the darkest cautionary tales in Grammy history. While one-half of Milli Vanilli, Fab Morvan, managed to carry on and reinvent …

Bruce Springsteen has a good chance to win at least one Grammy this year, and possibly two. The Boss has amassed 20 Grammys to date. If he wins both, he’ll tie U2 for the most Grammys won by a rock act. (That is unless U2 also wins another Grammy this year. The band is nominated [...]

Women are likely to dominate the awards in the country field. Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift all have a good chance of going home with Grammys this year. Best Country Album The nominees: Zac Brown Band’s Uncaged, Hunter Hayes’ Hunter Hayes, Jamey Johnson’s Living For A Song: A Tribute To Hank Cochran, …

Kanye West and Jay-Z, whose shelves are already jammed with Grammys, could win three more awards this year: Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. A clean sweep of these three awards would boost West’s Grammy count to 21; Jay-Z’s to 17. Watch The Throne, the pair’s chart-topping 2011 collaboration, …

Kathryn Bigelow made Oscar history three years ago when she became the first woman to win for Best Achievement in Directing. By contrast, a woman has yet to win a Grammy as Producer of the Year. (A movie director and a record producer both take the lead in setting the overall creative direction.) It won’t [...]

Bruno Mars will team with Sting and Rihanna in a joint performance on the Grammy Awards telecast on Sunday. Mars’ “Locked Out Of Heaven” echoes the classic sound of Sting’s old band, The Police. (The #1 smash was released after the close of the eligibility year for this year’s awards, but Mars may perform it [...]

Beyonce is vying for her 17th Grammy, which would put her just one behind Aretha Franklin for the most by an African American woman in Grammy history. B is nominated for Best Traditional R&B Performance for “Love On Top,” the fourth single from her 2011 album 4. (It would be Beyonce’s first win since her [...]

The music world was rocked by the death of Whitney Houston, less than 24 hours before the 2012 Grammys. So...how did the Recording Academy pull off a tribute in just hours?

Losing the Grammy for Best New Artist isn’t the end of the world. Look no further than Mumford & Sons, who lost the new artist race two years ago to Esperanza Spalding. This year, they’re the front-runners to win for Album of the Year for their chart-topping sophomore album, Babel. The British folk/rock band has [...]

The Recording Academy has announced that Carly Rae Jepsen will present an award on this year’s Grammy telecast on Feb. 10. That almost certainly means that Jepsen wasn’t asked to perform on the show (if she had been, they would have announced her as a performer). This is the second time the academy has slighted [...]

Nicki Minaj may have been chosen to be a judge on “American Idol,” but when it came time for the Recording Academy to choose the nominees for the 2013 Grammy Awards, sadly, the pop diva was left out. However, during an interview with the Associated Press, Minaj remained positive about the situation, saying she’ll get [ …

Most times Grammy gold leads to real gold—a lot of it. What better way to flaunt that pay than a ridiculously extravagant mansion? Million Dollar Listing star Madison Hildebrand gives you a tour of Grammy-winners Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, and Kanye West’s palatial purchases, plus we check out the outrageously …

It's not an easy week to be Chris Brown, to say the least. The singer-rapper had a particularly nasty Saturday, when he crashed his car in Los Angeles one day before the 2013 Grammy Awards ceremony. Brown was reportedly driving around Beverly Hills on his way to a charity event when he was cut off [...]

Rihanna, who is scheduled to perform at the Grammys Sunday, joined Chris Brown in court Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. Brown is being accused of violating his parole from his 2009 felony assault on the “Diamonds” singer. According to a motion filed at the Superior Court Of The State Of California For The County …

The anticipation for pop star Justin Timberlake’s third album, The 20/20 Experience, is quickly building. The artist scheduled to perform at the Grammys Sunday revealed the album cover artwork and track listing via Twitter on Wednesday. In the photo, most of Timberlake’s face is hidden behind an ophthalmologist’s phoropter, …

In 2003, Grammy Award winner Beyoncé told Reuters that she had come to dislike the word bootylicious, the title of the Destiny’s Child hit from the group’s 2001 album Survivor. But Beyoncé put her differences aside Sunday night when performing the halftime set at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans. “Bootylicious” is the first …

Super Bowl Sunday is traditionally filled with lighthearted fun--last-minute pregame bets, clever commercials, and a spectacular halftime show. However, the ordinarily upbeat event took a touching, somber turn this year when Grammy-winning singer Jennifer Hudson performed a pregame rendition of "America The Beautiful" accompanied …

Immediately following Jennifer Hudson’s moving performance of “America The Beautiful” with students from Sandy Hook Elementary School, Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys offered her own somber rendition of the National Anthem at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans. [Related: The Best Super Bowl Halftime Performers] Dressed in …

By Zack O'Malley Greenburg, Forbes Staff Beyoncé earned an average of $70 million each year from 2009-2011, dipping to $40 million last year as she and husband Jay-Z welcomed daughter Blue Ivy into the world. When the Grammy Award winner hits the road again, presumably later in 2013, she’ll likely return to grossing more …

Beyoncé lives up to her Baddiebey Instagram handle. The Grammy-winning singer and Super Bowl halftime performer sang the National Anthem acappella as she kicked off her press conference for Sunday’s football game at the Mercedez-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. Beyoncé’s live rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner” was a …

“Heaven Is A Place On Earth” would make a good name for a Yoga studio, right? Maybe Grammy Award-winning pop singer Belinda Carlisle, 54, will keep the title of her 1987 hit in mind now that’s she’s studying to become a yoga instructor. In January, Carlisle, who was also the frontwoman of the 1980s all [...]

Kanye West’s apparent resolution for 2013? Pep up his live show with even crazier stage garb than he chose in 2012. The rapper has one-upped even his infamous leather kilt and crystal mask from last year’s gigs with a supremely weird getup in Abu Dhabi Thursday night. Yep, that’s a straitjacket he’s wearing. We’re not  …

By Sarah Flanigan | omg! Justin Bieber might be the most-followed person on Twitter, but he is certainly not the most-nominated person at the Grammys this year. In fact, he didn’t even get one nomination! Bieber’s long-time manager, Scooter Braun, was appalled, taking to social media to vent his anger. Now, Justin himself …

Carole King and the husband-and-wife team of Alan and Marilyn Bergman are about to join a very exclusive club—songwriters who have won a Grammy for Song of the Year and have also received a career-capping, honorary award from the Recording Academy. King won Song of the Year for 1971’s tender “You’ve Got A Friend.” The  …

Justin Timberlake will need to put on that “Suit & Tie.” He’s been added to the bill for the 55th annual Grammy Awards. It will be Timberlake’s first appearance on the Grammy telecast since 2009, when he and T.I. performed their smash “Dead And Gone.” The Recording Academy didn’t announce what song Timberlake would perform, …

The pre-Super Bowl XLVII suspense is a killer. The bookies have laid down their odds, and sports fans in every home, school, and workplace across America are placing their own bets over the hotly anticipated outcome. Will the winner be... live, or Memorex? Grammy-winning superstar Beyonce enters the halftime show of this …

Grammy nominees Chris Brown and Frank Ocean were reportedly involved in a brawl at a Los Angeles recording studio Sunday night. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirmed receiving a call about six men fighting over a parking space, the Associated Press reported. The fight scene had dispersed by the time police …

The 55th annual Grammy Awards are nearly upon us, and what could be a better way to celebrate Grammy season than an exclusive performance from one of the music world's most versatile Grammy winners? Aaron Neville, who's won scores of awards over his remarkable, multigenre, five-decade career--both as a solo artist and as …

Ed Sheeran is one of London's biggest recent breakout stars. His debut album went platinum four times in the U.K.; this year, he'll join Taylor Swift on a North American tour; and his single, "The A Team," is nominated for Song Of The Year at this year's Grammys. Check out Ed's recent performance of "The [...]

They don’t give a Grammy for the best opening line in a song, but if they did, fun.’s “We Are Young” would be a prime contender this year: “Give me a second/I need to get my story straight.” The Kelly Clarkson hit “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” also has a compelling opening line: “You know [...]

Grammy Award-winning rap star LL Cool J is still shaken up about having a home intruder last summer. In an interview on Oprah’s Next Chapter that aired Sunday, the entertainer offered Winfrey a play-by-play of the incident from the moment the alarm rang at 1 a.m. to the fear that raced through his mind as [...]

Eight-time Grammy winner Adele has a lot to celebrate in 2013: Her happy relationship with boyfriend Simon Konecki, their new baby boy, and the fact that she's up for yet another Grammy next month--as well as an Oscar! However, there's one family member who won't be sharing in the joy with her. Adele vowed last [...]

Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta’s decision to allow women in combat has stirred much discussion and debate. Do women have the physical strength to serve on the front lines? Is this a matter of equality and fairness or an example of political correctness? While that discussion continues, there’s no debate that women …

Rapper/actor and 2013 Grammy Awards host LL Cool J has had lots of memorable moments to chat about over his legendary career. However, there’s one memory he hasn’t spoken publicly about—until now. Back in August 2012, LL’s Los Angeles-area home was broken into in the middle of the night . While his family slept, the [. …

LL Cool J’s racy video “Doin’ It” may be a favorite among his fans, but the wife of the artist tapped to host the Grammys the last two years thinks otherwise. Simone feels that a line was crossed when one of the models licked her husband during the filming of a romantic scene in the [...]

Elton John, who memorably performed on the Grammys with Eminem in 2001 and Lady Gaga in 2010, will team with Ed Sheeran in a performance on this year’s telecast. Sheeran is nominated for Song of the Year for his hit ballad “The A Team.” The 55th annual Grammy Awards are set to air Feb. 10 [...]

The nominations for the 55th annual Grammy Awards were announced Wednesday night in Nashville. The ceremony will take place next year on February 10 in Los Angeles. Below is the full list of nominees: 1. Record Of The Year Lonely Boy The Black Keys The Black Keys & Danger Mouse, producers; Tom Elmhirst & Kennie [...]

It’s been 13 years since Jennifer Lopez made jaws drop when she stepped onto the red carpet at the 2000 Grammys in that low-cut Versace gown with the up-to-there slit – and yet it’s still unforgettable. But the piece of pop culture history is not on display in a museum somewhere.

Forty years ago this week, on January 30, 1973, the band formerly known as Wicked Lester played its first gig under its new name. To three people. In a long-forgotten venue in Queens called the Popcorn Club (later renamed the Coventry). Why is this notable, you ask? Well, because that was the first official concert [.. …

The media made a lot of Justin Bieber’s shut-out in the Grammy nominations, but iHeart radio listeners think Coldplay’s failure to land an Album of the Year nomination was the year’s biggest Grammy snub.

President Barack Obama was treated to a triumphant assortment of musical entertainment during his Inauguration ceremony.

When I saw Jennifer Hudson singing Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” last night for President Barack Obama and the First Lady’s dance at the Inaugural balls, I was hoping it wouldn’t prompt the kind of backlash that Beyoncé received in 2009 after singing Etta James’ “At Last” at Obama’s first victory celebration. But it …

Grammy winner Beyoncé gives fans a rare glimpse into her life in an upcoming HBO documentary, addressing everything from career pressures to her 2011 pregnancy.

Kanye West may have been in a happy mood onstage Sunday night--with good reason; he shared the news that he's about to become a dad with girlfriend Kim Kardashian. However, just the night before in Atlantic City, the rapper was in a distinctly less positive frame of mind, vowing that he's going to boycott the [...]

Four-time Grammy winner Pat Benatar will be celebrating her 60th birthday with longtime partner. Meet Neil Giraldo.

Ever heard of electronic dance artist Al Walser, who was nominated Wednesday for a 2013 Grammy in the Best Dance Recording category alongside much more recognizable names like Skrillex and Calvin Harris? It's OK if you haven't. We hadn't either. The electronic dance community itself--a tightly fraternal group of artists …

The tragic tale of Amy Winehouse has not been laid to rest, as new details of her death scene were revealed this week. A London coroner’s court was told on Tuesday that the 27-year-old Grammy winner spent her last night drinking alone and watching videos of herself on YouTube. According to the Daily Mail, Winehouse’s [ …

Just one day after his death at age 92, Indian music legend Ravi Shankar has been named a recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Shankar learned of the honor last week, when he received a call from Neil Portnow, President and CEO of the Recording Academy. "He was deeply touched and so pleased that [...]

fun. is just the ninth artist in the Grammy Awards' 55-year history to receive nominations for all four of the top awards in the same year. The New York pop trio was nominated for Album of the Year for Some Nights, Record and Song of the Year for "We Are Young" and Best New Artist. [...]

It's official: Justin Bieber was "snubbed" by the Grammy Awards. I think Bieber's shut-out has gotten more attention than the fact that fun. swept the nominations in the top four categories. There's a good reason for that. Everybody knows Justin Bieber; fun. is just now becoming known outside of the slice of the population …

Okay, okay. So we know that Taylor Swift is not exactly the most proficient beatboxer out there--as evidenced in February of this year with 2012 Grammy host LL Cool J, in which he nearly fell down laughing at her game, uh, lame, attempts to scratch and click. Swift is older and wiser--and has yet more [...]