• Show Us How You GRAMMY Photo Contest: Win 2015 Nominees Compilation Album & More

    Need help catching up on today's hot music talent? The 2015 GRAMMY® Nominees compilation album has you covered. The 21st installment of the best-selling series features 21 top-charting hits from a diverse array of this year's GRAMMY-nominated artists and songwriters. Hear songs from Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Pop Solo Performance, and Best Country Duo/Group Performance nominees including Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Beyoncé, Iggy Azalea, Coldplay, Katy Perry, John Legend, Hozier, Coldplay, Sam Smith, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, The Band Perry, and many more.

  • 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.

  • Super Bowl XLIX: Watch John Legend "America the Beautiful" Performance with Sweet Simplicity [VIDEO]

    It's gearing up to be a major February for John Legend. The "All of Me" singer is nominated at the Grammys and the Oscars, but those are only small fry compared to the audience Legend had to take on tonight: tens of millions of fans at Super Bowl XLIX. Ahead of performances from Idina Menzel and Katy Perry, Legend kicked off the music at the Seattle Seahawks-New England Patriots game by performing "America the Beautiful"

  • Oscars 2015: "Glory," "Everything Is Awesome" and Other Best Original Song Nominees All Get Huge Sales Boost over Last Week

    To the victor goes the spoils. Or, in the case of the nominees for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards, to the nominees go the spoils. Every one of the five tracks nominated for the Oscar—"Glory" by John Legend and Common, "Everything Is Awesome" by The Lonely Island and Tegan & Sara, "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" by Glen Campbell, "Grateful" performed by Rita Ora and "Lost Stars" performed by Adam Levine—all saw boosts in downloads following their nods last week, rising a total of 102 percent between them according to Billboard.

  • Pharrell, Sam Smith, John Legend & Common To Perform at Grammys

    The Grammys is the biggest night in music as all of the biggest names around join together to celebrate what happened in the past year and give out awards, deservingly or not, to each other. As part of the celebrations, many of those artists perform live, at times together, creating some of the most unlikely of pairings. The Grammys already announced several of the performers that include established legends Madonna and AC/DC with new pop acts Ed Sheeran and Ariana Grande. The academy has added to the performers list, giving the night a needed hip-hop and R&B flavor. Usher, Sam Smith, John Legend, Pharrell and Common are the new additions.

  • Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" Speech and More Included on Epic Spotify Playlist with Music by Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, John Legend and More

    Spotify and the role it plays in the spread of music in the modern era will continue to inspire controversy and legal battles into the future. No one, listeners or musicians alike, can deny that the streaming service's playlist in honor of Martin Luther King on the Civil Rights leader's national holiday is spot-on. Spotify has assembled an epic playlist of King's most influential speeches and the music inspired by his actions, available for listening now.

  • Ludacris Comes Angry, Stays Polished on 'Burning Bridges'; EP Features Rick Ross, Jason Aldean, John Legend Guest Spots

    Society always celebrates the records that top the Billboard 200 album chart. Back of The Billboards is a Music Times weekly segment that looks at the opposite end: the new record that finished closest to the back of the Billboard 200 for the previous week. We hope to give a fighting chance to the bands you haven't heard of. This week we look at Ludacris' new EP 'Burning Bridges' and its lead-up to a new album during 2015, 'Ludaversal.'
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