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  • The Grammy Awards 2016: A not-so-appealing “starry” affair

    The Grammy Awards 2016: A not-so-appealing “starry” affair

    MUMBAI: Music world’s much awaited award show of the year, The Grammys, created a lot of buzz before its telecast; but unfortunately did not impress viewers. Only few performances, which had the potential to be interesting, grabbed the eye balls. Apart from those, the show, by its usual standards failed to impress the audience due to poor production ideas.

    The award night from The Recording Academy had a “starry” line-up of more than 30 artists, including the multiple time Grammy nominee Taylor Swift, who opened the show with a song from her Grammy-nominated album, 1989. The show also faced some audio glitches and concerns with the entertainment quality. While performances by Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift are to be appreciated, Lady Gaga clearly was the showstopper of the big awards show.

    The show had a total of 83 categories and 15 performances and tributes. The Recording Academy handed many awards early in the Grammy Awards pre-ceremony. The first big winner of the awards this year went to Swift for Best Pop Vocal Album for 1989. The list of big winners also included Meghan Trainor, who took Best New Artist; and Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, who won Record of the Year for “Uptown Funk.”

    Lamar led the Grammys 2016 ceremony with 11 nominations, and won five awards. Mentioned below are the winners from the different categories at The Grammy Awards 2016:

    Record of the Year: “Uptown Funk” — Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
    Album of the Year: 1989 — Taylor Swift
    Best New Artist: Meghan Trainor
    Best Rock Performance: “Don’t Wanna Fight” — Alabama Shakes
    Song of the Year: “Thinking Out Loud” — Ed Sheeran
    Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: “Uptown Funk” — Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
    Best Pop Solo Performance: “Thinking Out Loud” — Ed Sheeran
    Best Rap Song: “Alright” — Kendrick Lamar Featuring Pharrell Williams
    Best Music Video: “Bad Blood” — Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar
    Best Rap Performance: “Alright” — Kendrick Lamar
    Best Music Film: Amy
    Best Pop Vocal Album: 1989 — Taylor Swift
    Best Urban Contemporary Album: Beauty Behind the Madness — The Weeknd
    Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals: “Sue (Or In A Season of Crime) — David Bowie
    Best Historical Album: The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol 11 — Bob Dylan And The Band
    Best World Music Album: Sings — Angelique Kidjo
    Best Spoken World Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling): A Full Life: Reflections At Ninety — Jimmy Carter
    Best Dance Recording: “Where Are Ü Now” — Skrillex and Diplo with Justin Bieber
    Best Dance/Electronic Album: Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü — Skrillex and Diplo
    Best Metal Performance: “Cirice” — Ghost
    Best Rock Song: “Don’t Wanna Fight” — Alabama Shakes
    Best Rock Album: Drones — Muse
    Best R&B Performance: “Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Gray)” — The Weeknd
    Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: “These Walls” — Kendrick Lamar Featuring Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat

    For the entire list of the winners, click here 

  • The Grammy Awards 2016: A not-so-appealing “starry” affair

    The Grammy Awards 2016: A not-so-appealing “starry” affair

    MUMBAI: Music world’s much awaited award show of the year, The Grammys, created a lot of buzz before its telecast; but unfortunately did not impress viewers. Only few performances, which had the potential to be interesting, grabbed the eye balls. Apart from those, the show, by its usual standards failed to impress the audience due to poor production ideas.

    The award night from The Recording Academy had a “starry” line-up of more than 30 artists, including the multiple time Grammy nominee Taylor Swift, who opened the show with a song from her Grammy-nominated album, 1989. The show also faced some audio glitches and concerns with the entertainment quality. While performances by Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift are to be appreciated, Lady Gaga clearly was the showstopper of the big awards show.

    The show had a total of 83 categories and 15 performances and tributes. The Recording Academy handed many awards early in the Grammy Awards pre-ceremony. The first big winner of the awards this year went to Swift for Best Pop Vocal Album for 1989. The list of big winners also included Meghan Trainor, who took Best New Artist; and Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, who won Record of the Year for “Uptown Funk.”

    Lamar led the Grammys 2016 ceremony with 11 nominations, and won five awards. Mentioned below are the winners from the different categories at The Grammy Awards 2016:

    Record of the Year: “Uptown Funk” — Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
    Album of the Year: 1989 — Taylor Swift
    Best New Artist: Meghan Trainor
    Best Rock Performance: “Don’t Wanna Fight” — Alabama Shakes
    Song of the Year: “Thinking Out Loud” — Ed Sheeran
    Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: “Uptown Funk” — Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
    Best Pop Solo Performance: “Thinking Out Loud” — Ed Sheeran
    Best Rap Song: “Alright” — Kendrick Lamar Featuring Pharrell Williams
    Best Music Video: “Bad Blood” — Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar
    Best Rap Performance: “Alright” — Kendrick Lamar
    Best Music Film: Amy
    Best Pop Vocal Album: 1989 — Taylor Swift
    Best Urban Contemporary Album: Beauty Behind the Madness — The Weeknd
    Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals: “Sue (Or In A Season of Crime) — David Bowie
    Best Historical Album: The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol 11 — Bob Dylan And The Band
    Best World Music Album: Sings — Angelique Kidjo
    Best Spoken World Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling): A Full Life: Reflections At Ninety — Jimmy Carter
    Best Dance Recording: “Where Are Ü Now” — Skrillex and Diplo with Justin Bieber
    Best Dance/Electronic Album: Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü — Skrillex and Diplo
    Best Metal Performance: “Cirice” — Ghost
    Best Rock Song: “Don’t Wanna Fight” — Alabama Shakes
    Best Rock Album: Drones — Muse
    Best R&B Performance: “Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Gray)” — The Weeknd
    Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: “These Walls” — Kendrick Lamar Featuring Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat

    For the entire list of the winners, click here 

  • Nominees for 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards revealed

    Nominees for 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards revealed

    MUMBAI   58th Annual GRAMMY Awards announced its nominations in all 83 categories, reflecting a diverse blend of talented music makers, this year’s nominees were selected from more than 21,000 submissions entered.

     

    This year, Kendrick Lamar leads nominations with 11, followed by Taylor Swift and The Weeknd, who each earn seven. Additionally, music producer/songwriter Max Martin receives six nominations and mastering engineer Tom Coyne, rapper Drake, and engineers/mixers Serban Ghenea and John Hanes each earn five nominations.

     
    “The international music scene is growing phenomenally and this is reflected through the list of nominees for the upcoming 58thAnnual Grammy Awards. Diverse genres are being appreciated thus encouraging artists to push boundaries and further strengthen the community. We are looking forward to airing yet another edition of Grammy Awards on Vh1,” said Ferzad Palia, Viacom18 EVP and english and youth entertainment – head, Ferzad Palia.

     

    The eclectic nature of this year’s nominations is perhaps best exemplified in the Album of the year category, where nominees range from the alternative and soulful rock of Alabama Shakes to Lamar’s thought-provoking jazz-infused rap, the classic country sounds of Chris Stapleton, the pop emergence of Swift, and the genre-bending R&B style of The Weeknd.

     

    The GRAMMY Awards is part of an illustrious award show line up aired Live on Vh1 like The Golden Globe Awards, Video Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, Europe Music Awards & American Music Awards to name a few.

  • AHI registers record sales for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards

    AHI registers record sales for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards

    NEW JERSEY: In anticipation of the upcoming ceremony set to air live in the US on 26 January, on the CBS Television Network, Alfred Haber, President of Alfred Haber, Inc. (AHI) announced yesterday the company has racked up record sales for the 2014 56th Annual Grammy Awards, the 3 and a half hour extravaganza billed as Music’s Biggest Night.

     

    With the 2014 show marking 25 years of representation of the Grammy Awards by AHI, global broadcasters to sign on for this spectacular show that continues to be the world’s most popular televised music event include:  Channel 4 (UK), Rogers Media (Canada), ProSieben (Germany), WOWOW (Japan), D17/Canal Plus (France), Televisa (Mexico), Fox International Channel (Asia), Viacom 18 (India), Turner (Latin America), Shanghai Media Group (China), M-Net (Africa), TV 2 (Turkey), NetMedia (Indonesia), Ren-TV (Russia), TV2 (Denmark)  and Cignal TV (Philippines).

     

    “With over a quarter of a century of representation, we at Alfred Haber, Inc. are honored to once again be representing the Grammy Awards to the international television community,” commented Haber.  “Music has the ability to transcend all language barriers and borders and this remarkable event is something that, this season, will be enjoyed by audiences in more than 190 territories the world over.”

     

    Performers announced thus far for this year’s show include current Grammy nominee Sara Bareilles with four-time Grammy winner and 2014 MusiCares Person of the Year Carole King; nominees Daft Punk with nominee Nile Rodgers, nominee Pharrell Williams, and 25-time Grammy winner Stevie Wonder; nominee Kendrick Lamar joined by nominees Imagine Dragons; nominee John Legend; nominee Lorde; nominees Macklemore & Ryan Lewis; nominee Paul McCartney; eight-time Grammy-winning group Metallica with Grammy Cultural Ambassador to China Lang Lang; nominee Kacey Musgraves; nominee Katy Perry; nominees P!nk and Nate Ruess (of FUN.); nine-time Grammy winner Ringo Starr; Taylor Swift; nominee Robin Thicke with Grammy-winning group Chicago; nominee Keith Urban; and a special “Grammy Moment” featuring two-time Grammy winner Merle Haggard, three-time Grammy winner and 2014 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Kris Kristofferson, seven-time Grammy winner Willie Nelson, and current nominee Blake Shelton. 

  • The American Music Awards 2013 LIVE on Vh1 Presented by Micromax on 25th November 2013

    The American Music Awards 2013 LIVE on Vh1 Presented by Micromax on 25th November 2013

    MUMBAI: Vh1 is back once again to give its viewers the next level of entertainment by airing the ‘American Music Awards 2013’. The stage is set and artists are ready to glam up the awards night. The glitz, glamour and razzmatazz of the 41st Awards night is all set to hit your television screens LIVE on November 25, 2013 at 6:30 am with a prime time repeat at 9 pm.

    The much-awaited awards recognize the most popular artists and albums through online and twitter voting. This year is definitely going to be a Clash of the Titans. The pre-show of the awards night is being hosted by Lance Bass, Jordin Sparks, Zendaya, Jenna Ushkowitz, Rosie Pierri, Colbie Caillat, Ted Stryker, Jonathan Cheban, Aimee Song, Bonnie McKee and Jake Owen with performances by Kurt Hugo Schneider, Jabbawockeez, Jesse McCartney, Fifth Harmony and Aloe Blacc amongst the others.

    Serving as the show’s first host since 2008, Mr. Worldwide Pitbull will perform his new hit single “Timber” with Ke$ha. The duo promises to take burn the stage with their electrifying performance. The star studded night will also see an opening act by Katy Perry on ‘Unconditionally’, and TLC will be performing, marking their AMA return with a special unannounced guest. Also bringing the house down will be Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Florida Georgia Line, Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, Imagine Dragons, Kendrick Lamar, One Direction and a tribute to the music legend Celia Cruz by Jennifer Lopez.

    The AMA 2013 has an impressive line-up of award categories to honour the biggest names in the music industry. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis lead the nominations with six categories, followed by Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake with five nominations each! Rihanna will receive the ‘AMA Icon Award’ and will also perform this year alongside Luke Bryan and Pitbull. Some of the other artists nominated are Bruno Mars, Imagine Dragons, Florida Georgia Line, PINK, One Direction and Hunter Hayes amongst others. So embrace yourselves because this is going to be one of the most amazing award shows to witness!

    That’s not all, this year, awards night will see the first-ever VINE 360 FASHION BOOTH placed right in the middle of the red carpet. Fashion buffs around the world will have a front row seat to an unparalleled close look at celebrity red carpet fashion.

    Says Ferzad Palia, SVP and General Manager – English Entertainment, Viacom18 Pvt. Ltd., “The American Music Awards are one of the most celebrated International music award shows. With each year, they just get more and more exciting and this year’s impressive line-up and unexpected stunts are sure to wow our audiences. Since international music has a huge fan following in India, we at Vh1 are glad to bring this extravagant experience LIVE for our fans. ”

    So make sure you do not miss the fun and behind the scenes drama and tune into Vh1 on November 25, 2013 at 6:30 am and for a Prime Time Repeat at 9 pm!