• Drake, Blake Shelton, Wiz Khalifa Read Mean Tweets on 'Jimmy Kimmel'

    "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" aired its second installment of Mean Tweets Music Edition last night, Feb. 2, and it was pretty brutal. Twitter users hurled their best insults at artists like Wiz Khalifa, Drake and Blake Shelton. Also included in the segment were Katy Perry, Josh Groban and 5 Seconds of Summer. As always, the segment provided plenty of laughs at the expense of the celebrities.
  • Missy Elliott's Streams on Spotify Spike 646 Percent Following Halftime Super Bowl Performance

    People must have forgotten about Missy Elliott. After seeing her she perform parts of "Get Ur Freak On" and "Work It" during Katy Perry's halftime performance at the Super Bowl last night, intrigued listeners and fans alike took to Spotify to hear some more. Streams of Missy's music increased by 646 percent, an astonishing amount considering Perry's streams only increased by 85 percent and Lenny Kravitz's popped up 103 percent. Some people liked the tunes so much that they went over to iTunes and purchased a few tracks.
  • Will Ferrell Dominates Kevin Hart and Jimmy Fallon in Lip Sync Battle

    Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart stopped by The Tonight Show recently for a special Super Bowl edition. The comedians were promoting their new comedy Get Hard and pleasantly joking around with Jimmy Fallon before all three took part in an epic Lip Sync Battle. While each entertainer had their moments, Will Ferrell destroyed the competition with his hilarious renditions of Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love" and Frozen's "Let It Go."
  • Super Bowl's Most Shazamed Songs: What Commercial Soundtracks Got Most Interest? Car Commercials Do Best

    Advertisers paid more than $4.5 million per 30 seconds of airtime during the Super Bowl last night so they like to know that their wares get people's attention. One way to do this is to examine what soundtracks get Shazamed, or searched using music identification service Shazam. Last night's most Shazamed moments came during the halftime show (more on that later) but outside of that it looked like New York songwriter Marc Scibilia induced the most curiosity with his rendition of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" featured during a Jeep commercial.
  • Grammys 2015 Best Pop Duo/Group Performance Nominees Who Should Win & Who Will Win

    The category of Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for the 2015 Grammy Awards has Iggy Azalea and Charli XCX's "Fancy" going up against Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj's "Bang Bang." Katy Perry and Juicy J's "Dark Horse" could play spoiler while Coldplay and A Great Big World/Christina Aguilera occupy the underdog spots.
  • One of Katy Perry's Sharks From Her Super Bowl Performance Did an AMA

    The Northeastern and Northwestern sections of the United States wake up in different moods this morning, but for the rest of us without a stake in the fight, we have been left with some interesting images from the Super Bowl. Many will remember Darrell Bevell's terrible call on the goal line to call quick slants when Marshawn Lynch could have punched that in, but Katy Perry's halftime show had some interesting visual pieces that will make forgetting Bevell a little easier. One of the most iconic members of her halftime show were the two sharks that flanked the "Roar" singer as she sang "California Gurls" with a playful, tropical backdrop of palm trees, beach balls and, infamously, two dancing sharks. One of the sharks just did a brief Reddit AMA -- which is below -- and answered a few of the burning questions fans have for the veteran of the Katy Perry crew.
  • Katy Perry Gets "XLIX" Tattoo Commemorating Super Bowl Halftime Performance [PHOTOS]

    Katy Perry delivered a roaring set during last night's Super Bowl Halftime Show, and she commemorated it with some new ink. Still glammed up with her slicked-back ponytail and fur coat, she continued the festivities into the wee hours of the morning, posting a photo on Instagram of a tattoo artist inking "XLIX" into the inside of her ring finger to celebrate a job well done at Super Bowl 49.
  • Super Bowl XLIX Prop Bets: Music Times's Guide to Winning

    The Super Bowl has superseded several real holidays to become perhaps the largest American spectacle of the year. Millions of NFL fans love watching the game, and millions more simply enjoy the parties, commercials and halftime show. Then there is the betting community: The true sports nuts who cannot imagine watching games without betting on what color Gatorade will be poured on the winning coach. Prop bets are one of the most unique traits of Super Bowl Sunday, but they can be tough to predict. In order to better serve our readers, we here at Music Times have decided to help you out with some of them for Super Bowl XLIX.
  • Seattle vs. New England: Spotify Compares and Contrasts Music Listening in Super Bowl Competitiors' Hometowns

    Music Times made an attempt several weeks ago to predict the winner of the Super Bowl based on quality of albums coming out of the regions represented in the AFC and NFC Championship Games. So far so good: Seattle is facing New England, as we predicted, but will the Seahawks triumph? Who knows? Not Spotify. The music streaming service did use its numbers-tracking technology to create two playlists of songs representing the performers that listeners in the respective regions listen in far greater numbers than their foes on the opposite coast.
  • Katy Perry Talks Rumored Taylor Swift Beef, John Mayer Relationship, Childhood, Lenny Kravitz & More Ahead Of Super Bowl Halftime Performance

    With the Super Bowl just days away, Katy Perry graces the cover of Billboard magazine ahead of her halftime performance. When she takes the stage at the University of Phoenix stadium on Sunday, she will perform for 12-and-a-half minutes for an audience of about 100 million TV viewers and 63,400 attendees. The cover story follows Perry through rehearsals, where she dishes on her childhood, her home life, her relationship with John Mayer, her rumored beef with Taylor Swift, and her thoughts on all things Super Bowl XLIX-related, among other topics. Here's what we learned:
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