Winners

The Billboard Music Awards are being handed out Sunday night. In categories presented before the broadcast, Drake was named top artist, while Olivia Rodrigo was named best new artist. Drake won a total of five early awards, including top male artist and top rap album for Certified Lover Boy, while Rodrigo’s six early wins also included top Hot 100 artist, top streaming songs artist and top Billboard 200 album for SOUR. Taylor Swift has four wins so far, including top Billboard 200 artist, while BTS has three…

On Sunday, the winners for the 2022 Billboard Music Awards were unveiled during a live NBC broadcast from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ serving as host.Billboard has announced some of the winners early, with Drake winning Top Artist and his Certified Lover Boy winning Top Rap Album. Elsewhere, Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour won Top Billboard 200 Album, and The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” won Top Hot 100 Song. Additionally, Kanye West took home six awards for Top Gospel Artist and…

The Weeknd and Charlotte Cardin each won in multiple categories at the 2022 Juno Awards’ Opening Night Awards ceremony, which was held at Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto on Saturday. More than 40 awards were presented at the celebration, which took place a day prior to Sunday’s main Juno Awards event and is similar to the Grammys’ Premiere Ceremony, where the bulk of their trophies are presented. Cardin won three awards — artist of the year, single of the year for “Meaningless” and pop album of the…

Martin Lee, lead vocalist, songwriterWe all watched the Eurovision Song Contest and it was our manager, Tony Hiller, who suggested we should enter it. Of all our songs, Save Your Kisses for Me stood out. At first it went: “Oceans of love, oceans, oceans of love” but “Kisses for me, save all your kisses for me” was a stronger hook.We knew the judges would vote after just one or two listens, so we needed something catchy at the end. We tried writing about animals because people all over the world love them, then tried…

iPhone 13 has been named as the smartphone of the year, while Redmi 10 Prime has been named as the best budget smartphone in Amazon Customer's Choice Smartphone and Smart TV Awards 2021. The first-ever awards are a result of the response from over 50,000 participants, the e-commerce company said on Tuesday. Voting for the awards started on December 6, and winners are chosen from 12 different categories in smartphones and nine categories in television.Amazon said that while participating, customers have picked the iPhone…

“That was the greatest night in the history of television!” said a stunned Chris Rock, and it was certainly up there with Bernard Levin getting punched in the face, live on air in 1962, by the husband of a woman whose novel he’d been mean about.But was it the greatest night in the history of the movies. Erm, no. This was an Academy Award ceremony which contrived to give the best picture award to the most shallow and mediocre movie on the list – along, incidentally, with keeping craft prizes out of the live broadcast and…

Low levels of coral bleaching in Hawaii, 2015. Credit: Greg Asner, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation ScienceResearch findings could help manage and build a resilient network of coral reefs.As the world’s ocean temperatures rise, so will the number of cases of coral bleaching. When corals bleach, they become more vulnerable to other stressors such as water pollution. Many reefs, however, are home to corals that thrive despite warming oceans. Unraveling the complex issue of coral bleaching and its impact on their…

Following spectacular smaller winner announcements, the Sony World Photography Awards has announced its overall prizes. Australian photographer Adam Ferguson took the prestigious Photographer of the Year title with series of self-portraits of migrants waiting to cross the border into the United States.The professional Photographer of the Year prize went to a series by Ferguson called Migrantes. The unique series involved Ferguson traveling to Mexico in early 2021 to chronicle the stories of migrants waiting in shelters at…

Apple has revealed ten winners for its 'Shot on iPhone Macro' challenge, which was started a couple of weeks ago. Apple asked iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max users from all around the world to submit their best clicked shots using the Macro mode. Macro mode is an ultra-wide lens feature on the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max handsets, notably missing in the non-Pro models.The list of winners released by Apple highlights the global and diverse communities of iPhone photographers. And the ten finalists are from…

Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) developer Krafton has banned more than 170,000 accounts during the two weeks ending February 6. This is part of the strict countermeasures the developer is undertaking against players caught cheating and negatively impacting gameplay experience for others. Krafton has also published the whole list of Battleground Mobile India players it banned. In December, Krafton mentioned that it will permanently ban devices that are used to cheat in the game. Furthermore, Krafton also announced the…