The 2017 Radio Disney Music
Awards 2017 was held in March where Fifth Harmony and Kelsea Ballerini were the
big winners. Song of the Year however went to Shawn Mendes’ Treat You Better
while Britney Spears was honored with the first Icon Award for her contribution
to music. Some of the best performances of the night included Hailee
Steinfeld’s medley of Most Girls and Starving, Train’s Play That Song, Julia
Michaels’ Issues and of course the Spears’ tribute where a medley of Oops!... I
Did It Again, Circus, …Baby One More Time and Till The World Ends were sung by
Kelsea Ballerini, Sofia Carson, Hailee Steinfeld and Jamie Lynn Spears. The
other significant winners of the night were:
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Best Female Artist: Ariana Grande
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Best Male Artist: Niall Horan
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Best Group: Fifth Harmony
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Best Band: DNCE
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Breakout Artist of the Year: Alessia Cara
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Best New Artist: Grace VanderWaal
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Best Collaboration: Machine Gun Kelly &
Camila Cabello – Bad things
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Fiercest Fans: Harmonizers
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Country Favorite Artist: Kelsea Ballerini
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Country Favorite Song: Kelsea Ballerini – Peter
Pan
Next up we have the 2017 Billboard
Latin Music Awards where Nicky Jam made a massive comeback winning 6 awards
where his song Hasta El Amanecer won the Hot Latin Song of the Year as well as
Digital, Streaming and Latin Rhythm Song of the year. Artist of the Year was
won by Late Juan Gabriel who also won the Top Latin Albums Artist of the Year –
Male, Latin Pop Albums Artist of the Year – Solo and his album Los Duo 2 won
Top Latin and Latin Pop Album of the Year. Enrique Iglesias took away 4 awards
including Latin Pop Songs Artist of the Year – Solo and Latin Pop Song of the
Year for his collaboration with Wisin on Duele El Corazon. Other winners of the
night include:
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Artist of the Year: New – CNCO
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Tour of the Year: Marc Anthony
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Social Artist of the Year: Jennifer Lopez
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Hot Latin Song Artist of the Year: Female – Shakira
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Hot Latin Songs Label of the Year: Sony Music
Latin
2017 Academy of Country Music
Awards was also held in April where Jason Aldean was awarded Entertainer of the
Year. Meanwhile, ACM Song of the Year went to Thomas Rhett’s Die A Happy Man
and Album of the Year was awarded to Miranda Lambert’s The Weight of these
Wings. The other winners of the night were:
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Male Vocalist of the Year: Thomas Rhett
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Female Vocalist of the Year: Miranda Lambert
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Vocal Group of the Year: Little Big Town
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Songwriter of the Year: Lori McKenna
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Single Record of the Year: Florida Georgia Line
– H.O.L.Y
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Video of the Year: Artists of Then, Now &
Forever – Forever country
The world’s apparent greatest
songwriter, Ed Sheeran has privately settled a case against him which was lodged
last year. In 2016, Sheeran was sued by songwriters Martin Harrington and
Thomas Leonard, writers of Matt Cardle's 2011 single Amazing, for USD 20
million for copyright infringement. US judge James Selna confirmed Ed’s case
had been dismissed last month after the Suffolk born star reached an agreement
with the writers, with no admission of guilt. Details of the settlement have
not been made public. Following this saga, his titanic global hit Shape of You
also came under fire as critiques alleged plagiarism from TLC’s legendary 90’s
smash hit No Scrubs. Since then Sheeran has added both Kandi Burruss and Tameka
Cottle who penned the R&B track as co-writers alongside the song's producer
Kevin Briggs.
Glastonbury Festival 2017 has
announced its full line-up where along with its headlining acts – Ed Sheeran,
Foo Fighters and Radiohead, a number of other high profile artists such as
Lorde, Shaggy, Katy Perry, Clean Bandit, Birdy and Stormzy are to perform. Glastonbury
will take place at Worthy Farm, Somerset from June 23-25.
Good news for N-Dubz fans as
the Hip-Hop trio have indicated that they will reunite in the near future.
Fazer confirmed that the group was anyway only on a hiatus and that he along
with Dappy and Tulisa will return to the studio to produce new music. When that
will exactly be God only knows.
Moving onto chart news, in the
US Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You remained unmoved at the top during the entire month
accumulating 12 non-consecutive weeks at No.1. Meanwhile, Drake’s Passionfruit,
Kendrick Lamar’s Humble and Harry Style’s debut single Sign of the Times all
debuted in the top 10. Future’s Mask Off and Sam Hunt’s Body Like a Back Road
also entered the top 10.
In the UK, Sheeran’s reign
with Shape of You was only interrupted when Harry Styles debuted atop the
charts with his Sign of the Times. During
the month Julia Michaels’ Issues, Zedd & Alessia Cara’s Stay and Kendrick Lamar’s
Humble all entered the top 10.
Other songs which became
popular during the month were:
1. Drake
ft. Travis Scott & Quavo – Portland
2. Future
ft. Rihanna – Selfish
3. Kyle
ft. Lil Yachty – iSpy
4. Zayn
ft. PARTYNEXTDOOR – Still got time
5. Stargate
ft. Pink & Sia – Waterfall
6. Lana
Del Rey ft. The Weeknd – Lust for life
Till the next beat...
At Ease!!!
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