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NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ has announced that Katy Perry will serve as the musical guest on the January 29 edition of the long-running late night show, with Willem Dafoe making his hosting debut.

The Jan. 29 show will mark Perry’s fourth time appearing on “SNL” as a musical guest. Perry is currently headlining her first Las Vegas residency, titled ‘Katy Perry: Play,’ at the Theatre at Resorts World Last Vegas, which currently runs through March. Dafoe is currently on the big screen reprising his role as Green Goblin in the film “Spider Man: No Way Home”.

SNL also recently announced that SNL alum Will Forte will return to make his hosting debut on Jan. 22, with Måneskin serving as musical guest.

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After Adele was forced to postpone all 24 dates of her upcoming Las Vegas residency, the singer FaceTimed with fans that held tickets to the shows, apologizing and offering free merchandise, drink tickets and even a free meet-and-greet when the rescheduled dates takes place. In a video posted on social media last week, Adele cited cases of COVID-19 among her team, and other issues related to the pandemic, as the reason for the postponement.  Adele said that all Weekends With Adele shows that were set to open at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace would be rescheduled.

In the video, an emotional Adele explained:  “We’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays, and half my crew, half my team have come down with COVID. It’s been impossible to finish the show, and I can’t give you what I can right now.”  Adele offered an apology to those who had already traveled to Las Vegas for the show and assured the dates would be rescheduled: “We’re on it right now. I’m going to finish my show and get it where it’s supposed to be. I’m sorry it’s been impossible, we’ve been up against so much but it just ain’t ready. I’m really sorry.”

The residency was set to run through April and available tickets for all of the shows had sold out. Caesars Palace said in a statement: “We understand the disappointment surrounding the postponement of Weekends With Adele. Adele is an incredible artist, supremely dedicated to her music and her fans. Creating a show of this magnitude is incredibly complex. We fully support Adele and are confident the show she unveils at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace will be extraordinary.”   Ticketmaster will offer refunds for all shows.

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Record Store Day has named Taylor Swfit as the first Global Record Store Day Ambassador. Swift follows in the footsteps of recent ambassadors Pearl Jam, Run the Jewels and St. Vincent (who became the event’s first woman ambassador in 2017). Swift will be offering a special release in honor of the event.

The event’s announcement notes that Swift has: “had releases on the Record Store Day and RSD Black Friday lists often in the past (and supported record stores throughout her career) so for the 15th annual celebration of record stores, Record Store Day is proud to welcome [her].”

Swift said in a statement: “I’m very proud to be this year’s Ambassador for Record Store Day. The places where we go to browse and explore and discover music new and old have always been sacred to me. Record stores are so important because they help to perpetuate and foster music-loving as a pass

Record Store Day 2022 is set for April 23, with a full list of official releases soon to come. You can find out more at the website – here.

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Gunna edged out The Weekend to earn the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with his latest LP DS4EVER. Gunna landed 144,000 equivalent album units, with 3,000 estimated to be traditional album sales. The project features 19 tracks with collaborations from 21 Savage, Chris Brown, Future, Lil Baby, Roddy Ricch and Young Thug. DS4EVER is Gunna’s second No. 1 album, and his fourth project to land in the top 10.

The Weeknd’s Dawn FM took the No. 2 spot, and was expected to score about 157,000 units with 15,000 in traditional sales. Disney’s “Encanto” soundtrack fell two spots to No. 3 on the new chart, but saw a 32% boost for the week, scoring 95,700 album-equivalent units, the highest weekly tally to date for the album since it came out in mid-November. Adele’s “30” slipped to No. 4, with Morgan Wallen’s year-old “Dangerous: The Double Album,” hanging in at No. 5.

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Harry Styles has announced rescheduled dates for his world tour, in addition to announcing new shows. Styles’ Love On Tour was postponed due to the pandemic, but finally kicked-off September 2021 in Las Vegas. Styles performed over 40 shows throughout the U.S. at the end of last year.

Styles will kick off the 32-city tour with three new stadium dates in the UK in June, as well as four stadium dates in Europe, including Glasgow Ibrox Stadium, Manchester Emirates Old Trafford and London Wembley Stadium.  The tour will continue in July with rescheduled arena dates in Europe, as well as a new show at Accor Arena in Paris, before wrapping up in Latin America later in the year. Special guests include Mitski on the UK dates, Arlo Parks in Dublin, Wolf Alice on select European dates and Koffee on all Latin American dates.

All existing tickets for rescheduled shows will remain valid. Tickets for the new shows go on general sale 9 am on Friday, January 28th via Ticketmaster. The tour will be following all local and public health guidelines as well as venue protocols set forth at the time of each show. Fans are asked to visit their local venue’s website ahead of each show for the latest health & safety details and requirements.

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Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak are taking their Silk Sonic project to Las Vegas.

Mars and .Paak announced the multi-date residency, titled An Evening With Silk Sonic, will be held at Park MGM’s Dolby Live theater on the Vegas strip. The residency will kick-off February 25, and will include more than 10 shows throughout March before wrapping-up on April 2.

For ticket and full schedule information for the Silk Sonic residency, check out the link – here.

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Iann Dior has released his new single “thought it was” featuring Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker.  The new tune is taken off Dior’s highly-anticipated album ‘On To Better Things’ which is set to drop this Friday, January 21st.

“thought it was” samples the late 90’s iconic hit, “Closing Time” by Semisonic. To coincide with the album release, Dior shared the full tracklisting for ‘On To Better Things’ on Instagram, which includes features from Lil Uzi Vert, Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker on three of the album’s fifteen tracks.

You can listen to “thought it was” on Spotify or on YouTube.   To pre-order/pre-save ‘On To Better Things” head here.

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The 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards have been rescheduled and will now broadcast live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 3, from 8-11:30 p.m on CBS, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.   It’s the first time the show will take place in Vegas.

The show was postponed earlier this month amid the omicron surge from its original date of Jan. 31. It was scheduled to take place at the Crypto.com Arena (formerly known as the Staples Center) in Los Angeles. The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah will return as host of the ceremony. Additional details about the dates and locations of other official GRAMMY Week events, including the GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony, MusiCares Person of the Year and the Pre-GRAMMY Gala will be announced soon.

The news came via a joint announcement from the Recording Academy, CBS and CMT. The CMT Awards will now move from its originally scheduled date of April 3 to a later date in April to be determined. This year will mark the first time that the CMT Awards will air on CBS.

Jon Batiste leads all nominees with 11 nominations; J. Cole, Drake, Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber, Billie Eilish, H.E.R., Olivia Rodrigo, and more also received multiple nominations.

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The official ‘Euphoria’ Twitter account shared a clip previewing the next episode of the hit HBO series, soundtracked to a new song by Lana Del Rey.  The song is rumored to be called “Watercolor Eyes;” fans had speculated earlier this month that the singer had written a track for the HBO drama.

The video clip is just shy of a minute, and features Episode 3 of Season 2, set to air next Sunday, Jan. 23. Given the video clip, the episode appears to feature important backstory on Nate Jacobs’ father, Cal.  It’s not yet known if the song will be featured on that episode, or if it is only being used for the preview.

You can watch the Euphoria preview, featuring the tune from Del Rey – at the Twitter link here.

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Following the release last fall of her single “Bite Me,” Avril Lavigne has dropped “Love It When You Hate Me” featuring blackbear — the second single from her upcoming album Love Sux.  Lavigne posted a video of her rocking out to her newest single on Twitter shortly following the drop.  You can watch the official lyric video for “Love It When You Hate Me” – here.

Lavigne also announced Love Sux is due out Feb. 25 via Travis Barker‘s DTA Records, and will feature appearances from Machine Gun Kelly and blink-182‘s Mark Hoppus.  In addition, Lavigne is set to head out on her 2022 world tour next month, kicking-off in Amsterdam on Feb. 26 and finishing up in Victoria, California, on May 25.  Check out the full list of tour dates and ticket information – here.

To pre-save/pre-order Love Sux – head here.

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