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Female performers including Beyoncé and Taylor Swift had a record-making night at the 2021 Grammy Awards, a jam-packed but socially distanced show highlighted by live music sorely absent during the pandemic era. FRANCE 24's Alyssa Caverley tells us more.
Spotify has released its annual list of the world's top podcasts, artists, albums, songs, and playlists. "2020 Wrapped" features the artist Bad Bunny in the #1 spot as the most-streamed artist of the year. Bad Bunny ended the year with more than 8.3 billion streams on the app, followed next by Drake and J Balvin. CNN reports that the late rapper Juice WRLD and The Weeknd came in behind the top 3. Billie Eilish was Spotify's most-streamed female artist for the second year in a row. Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande took the second and third spots behind Eilish.
Taylor Swift was the big winner at the American Music Awards The singer won three awards, including fan-voted "Artist of the Year." Swift was not there to accept the awards in person, as she is re-recording her old music. Swift now has 32 AMA wins, the most by any artist in the show's history. Swift says that she feels really connected to her fans, despite the current COVID-19 pandemic. "I just love you so much and I'm really, really lucky because of you."
Disney+ will has started streaming Taylor Swift's "folklore: the long pond studio sessions." According to CNN the sessions were filmed in upstate New York in September 2020 and directed by Swift. The special will feature performances of the 17 songs from her latest album while sharing the stories behind them. Swift announced the project on her verified Instagram account Tuesday. On Sunday Swift broke her own record at the American Music Awards, by winning three which brought her total to 32, the most by any artist in the show's history.