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Rich Fury/Getty Images for dcp After winning 10 trophies at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, The Weeknd just scored another big haul: He won five SOCAN Awards, which are handed out by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, a performance rights organization. The Weeknd won five awards, making him the second artist to win that many in a single year; Shawn Mendes was the first. Among those five awards are the prestigious SOCAN Songwriter of the Year title, and the SOCAN International Song Award for "Blinding Lights." Fellow Canadian Tate McRae was also honored: She received the SOCAN Breakout Songwriter Award as well as a SOCAN Pop Music Award for her global smash, "You Broke Me First." Both The Weeknd and Tate are also nominated for multiple Juno Awards, Canada's equivalent of the Grammys, which will be given out June 6. Other nominees include Justin Bieber, JP Saxe, Celine Dion, Alessia Cara and Alanis Morissette. Copyright © 2021, ABC Audio. All r..

Terence Patrick/CBS ©2021 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved They’re the origin stories you didn’t know you needed. Ahead of the release of Disney’s Cruella, James Corden teamed up with the Jonas Brothers on The Late Late Show to spoof some other potential live-action prequels. One tells the gritty tale of how Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh became so depressed. It stars Joe Jonas as Eeyore, with Kevin Jonas as Pooh and Nick Jonas as Tigger. As bills pile up, Eeyore decides to make some extra cash as a drug mule, and things go downhill from there. In another parody, Corden stars as Tony, the Italian chef from Lady and the Tramp, in a film called Spaghettabout It. And in the most obscure origin story of the bunch, Kevin reveals the dark backstory of the woman who yells “I need six eggs!” in the opening musical number of Beauty and the Beast. That one gets the title Six Eggs Away from Six Feet Under. Copyright © 2021, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers via Getty Images Britney Spears reminisced about being a young mother raising two boys while juggling her successful yet busy career. Taking to Instagram Wednesday, the "Toxic" singer shared a throwback paparazzi photo of herself lounging by a pool with sons Sean Federline and Jayden Federline -- who are now 15 and 14, respectively. "I had my babies very young," Britney, 39, wrote in the caption and shared a funny anecdote about what would happen every time she brought her kids to the pool at the hotels she was staying in. "At all the pools we went to on tours, all the babies flocked to me because I always brought the most toys," Britney revealed, adding a teddy bear, kite and ball emoji. "I really am a baby mamma!!!!" The pop star has largely kept her sons out of the public eye, but in March, she shared a rare image of her teenage boys while out on a hike. "It’s so crazy how time flies .... My boys are so big now," she captioned the update, and told fans t..

Gabe Ginsberg/FilmMagic Gwen Stefani reintroduced herself Wednesday in a wide-ranging interview, from clarifying her political affiliations to addressing her past controversies. Speaking with Paper magazine, the "Slow Clap" singer didn't shy away from the tough subjects, even when her relationship with Blake Shelton was brought up when discussing his previous rumored support of former President Donald Trump. When asked if her fiance's political views influenced hers, said Stefani, 51, "I can see how people would be curious, but I think it's pretty obvious who I am." "I've been around forever. I started my band because we were really influenced by ska, which was a movement that happened in the late '70s, and it was really all about people coming together," the three-time Grammy winner remarked. "The first song I ever wrote was a song called 'Different People,' which was on the Obama playlist, you know, a song about everyone being different and bei..

Courtesy of HBO Max (SPOILER ALERT) Friends: The Reunion is officially streaming on HBO Max, and the cast brought some extra friends along for the ride -- including some of music's biggest stars. As previously reported, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber are among the special guests joining the now-iconic sitcom's six stars: Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer. Both singers are massive fans of the show and each contributed to the reunion in their own special way. Yesterday, the show’s director Ben Winston let the cat out of the bag, so to speak, revealing that Gaga would be teaming up with Kudrow for a rendition of the Phoebe classic, “Smelly Cat.” And team up they did, with Gaga rocking her best Phoebe-inspired look and thanking Kudrow for playing Phoebe as "the different one. The one that was really herself." Justin Bieber, meanwhile, participated in a Friends Fashion Show segment, where celebrity guests modeled some of t..

Paul Bellaart After winning the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest with his song "Arcade," Duncan Laurence is now seeing it become a hit in the U.S. Duncan, who's from the Netherlands, says "Arcade," was inspired by several things that happened when he was young: Moving to a different city, and losing a family friend. As a kid, Duncan moved from a small town to Tilburg, a bigger city that each year hosts the biggest fair in Europe each year. "To me the whole city felt like an arcade, just this whole new place full of opportunities and full of new life," he explains. Duncan says he pictured himself, a small town boy, who was "just seeing all these things, these flashing lights, but also falling in love for the first time, finding out who he is, falling in love with his music." That's how he came up with the arcade imagery in the song's lyrics, but it was another childhood incident that helped inspire the lyrics about lost love. "A friend of the family, when I was younger,..

Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images for Triller Justin Bieber is performing next month at his native Canada’s 50th annual Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys, marking the first time he’s appeared at the ceremony in over 10 years, the CBC reports. Justin is also nominated for five awards this year, including album of the year and pop album of the year, for Changes, single of the year for “Intentions,” featuring Quavo, artist of the year, and the Juno fan choice award. The last time Justin attended the Junos was back in 2010, when he performed a then-new version of his hit “Baby” with fellow Canadian Drake. Justin has won seven Junos to date. The 50th annual Juno Awards will be broadcast throughout Canada on Sunday, June 6 at 8 p.m. ET and will air globally on CBCMusic.ca/junos. The show will also be livestreamed on CBC Music’s TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter pages. Copyright © 2021, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Geffen/Interscope In an #askOlivia session for Twitter on Wednesday, Olivia Rodrigo was asked everything from her favorite snack to her preferred kind of juice. But she also answered some serious questions about her acclaimed new album, SOUR. Asked what song on her debut album she's most excited to perform onstage, Olivia replied, "I'm so stoked to perform 'brutal'!!!!! gonna be a rager." She also revealed that 'brutal" is her best friend's favorite track on the album, while "hope ur ok" is her parents' favorite. Olivia told fans that the two lyrics she's most proud of writing on the album are "hope he took his bad deal and made a royal flush," from "hope ur ok" and "crossed my heart as you crossed the line," from the song "favorite crime." And her favorite part of filming the "good 4 u" video? "Setting the room on fire!!!!" she wrote. As for what advice she'd give her younger self, Olivia summed it up this way: "I would tell her that e..

Courtesy of HBO Max (SPOILER ALERT) Smelly Cat’s out of the bag! Lady Gaga will be performing “Smelly Cat” with Lisa Kudrow on the Friends reunion special, debuting on HBO Max Thursday. The show’s director Ben Winston confirmed the news to Variety. “I said to Lisa, ‘Would you be prepared to sing it?’ And she was like, ‘Yeah, that would be fun,’” Winston said of the classic Phoebe song. “We went through a few names, and we both agreed that Gaga, if we could get her, would be the ultimate one because she associates with and feels close to Phoebe in so many ways, as Gaga says on the show,” he adds. “That was a really beautiful moment. And Lady Gaga jumped at the chance to do it.” He says the two barely rehearsed the special moment. “We sat there with the two guitars with Lisa and her and worked it out there and then,” Winston said. Friends: The Reunion, hosted by James Corden, will also include appearances by Justin Bieber and BTS. Copyright © 2021, ABC Audio. All rights reserve..

Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal Is Kelly Clarkson ready to take up the daytime TV torch from Ellen DeGeneres? The Kelly Clarkson Show is poised to take over The Ellen DeGeneres Show’s time slot when the latter talk show ends its run next year. Kelly’s show is owned and produced by NBC’s syndication arm and will fill the afternoon slot -- 3 p.m. in most markets -- on NBC-owned stations. NBC has carried The Ellen DeGeneres Show in major markets. Valari Staab, president of NBCUniversal Local, said in a statement, "By 2022, The Kelly Clarkson Show will be the star of our daytime entertainment schedules and an asset to our early afternoon newscasts." The Kelly Clarkson Show is currently in its second season and has already been renewed for two additional seasons through 2023. Copyright © 2021, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.