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Billie Eilish has just landed a big win at the American Music Awards Birds of a Feather singer Billie Eilish landed the top honor on Monday at the American Music Awards, winning artist of the year in Las Vegas at a red-carpet ceremony that celebrated winners selected by fan votes. Pop singer Eilish claimed the artist prize over Taylor Swift, …

This is Ronan. She’s a California sea lion and she probably has better rhythm than you. Scientists earlier showed that Ronan, a resident of the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was the first nonhuman mammal who could be trained to keep a beat, including moving in time with music. That was in 2013 when Ronan …

“Price of Admission”: The battle over concert tickets – CBS News Watch CBS News Why are concert tickets so expensive and so frustratingly hard to get? Brook Silva-Braga spent a year talking to artists, fans, scalpers, and executives from Ticketmaster and StubHub in search of answers. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and …

The English language is full of wonderful words, from “anemone” and “aurora” to “zenith” and “zodiac.” But these are special occasion words, sprinkled sparingly into writing and conversation. The words in heaviest rotation are short and mundane. And they follow a remarkable statistical rule, which is universal across human languages: The most common word, which in English is “the,” is …

From the archives: Marianne Faithfull on the hard road to becoming a legend – CBS News Watch CBS News Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull, who was part of the 1960s British Invasion with her hit single “As Tears Go By,” and who was a muse to Mick Jagger, died on Thursday, January 30, 2025, at age 78. In this “Sunday …

Two Philadelphia musicians are headed to Los Angeles for the 2025 Grammy Awards, where their collaborative album has earned a nomination for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. Karen Slack, a soprano vocalist, and Michelle Cann, a pianist and professor at the Curtis Institute of Music, collaborated on “Beyond the Years,” a project that highlights the works of Florence Price, a trailblazing …

For nearly two decades, Adrian Maclin has changed lives inside and outside of his classroom. Maclin, a music teacher at Cordova High School in Memphis, Tennessee, is the winner of the 2025 Music Educator Award, which is presented by the Recording Academy and the Grammy Museum. “We don’t refer to ourselves as a choir class,” Maclin said. “We refer to …

Teddy Swims is making waves in the music industry with his genre-defying sound and raw authenticity. As he heads into the 67th Annual Grammy Awards with a Best New Artist nomination and an upcoming performance, the Billboard chart-topping artist behind “Lose Control” is embracing a transformative period in both his personal and professional life. Swims said he finds himself experiencing …

Saturday Sessions: Jeremie Albino performs “Baby Ain’t It Cold Outside” – CBS News Watch CBS News Singer-songwriter Jeremie Albino started his music career by busking in Toronto. Soon, his electrifying live performances were drawing big crowds, and he started playing packed venues across the country. He put out an acclaimed debut album in 2019, and just released his fourth full-length …

Saturday Sessions: Jeremie Albino performs “Our Time In The Sun” – CBS News Watch CBS News Singer-songwriter Jeremie Albino started his music career by busking in Toronto. Soon, his electrifying live performances were drawing big crowds, and he started playing packed venues across the country. He put out an acclaimed debut album in 2019, and just released his fourth full-length …