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Sony Music Publishing has promoted Katie Welle to president and head of U.S. A&r, the company announced Tuesday.

In her new role, Welle will lead Smp’s creative team “in attracting top talent and expanding opportunities for songwriters globally,” according to a release. Taking effect Feb. 1, Welle will replace Walter Jones, who is leaving Smp.

Welle, who will report to Smp chairman and CEO Jon Platt, most recently served as the publishing company’s SVP of creative. “Katie has an exceptional gift for identifying and nurturing talent. Since she returned to Smp five years ago, she has made significant contributions to our A&r strategy, playing a pivotal role in shaping the success of numerous incredible songwriters,” Platt said in a statement.

Welle began in the music industry as an A&r assistant at Epic Records before eventually rising to VP of creative at Smp and SVP of...

Katy Perry’s album 143, which is out Sept. 20, has been a long time coming, marking her first LP since 2020’s Smile. The singer officially launched her 143 era in June when she dropped the lead single “Woman’s World.” The song immediately faced pushback for its stereotypical imagery — which Perry later said was intentional — and generic pop sound. Rolling Stone later confirmed that Perry had worked with some of the producers behind Teenage Dream and Prism, including Max Martin — and, to the disappointment of many, Dr. Luke.

Perry followed “Woman’s World” with the electro-pop single “Lifetimes.

Katy Perry is a beachside, motorcycle-riding baddie in the video for her new single “Lifetimes.” On Thursday, the pop star released the visual, which reveals the track list of her upcoming album, 143, and includes collabs with Kim Petras, Doechii, 21 Savage, and J.I.D.

The Stillz-directed video captures the singer during a recent trip to Spain, strutting on the shore in a bikini, riding a yacht with some friends, and throwing pizza to the crowd at a nightclub. The visual ends with a hungover Perry riding the train while drinking a bottle of water.

Katy Perry’s album 143 is on the way — and she’s teasing the electro-pop music on the LP with a new snippet. On Friday, the singer shared a 30-second preview of the track “Lifetimes” from the upcoming album.

“I know you feel it/Can you believe it?/I’m gonna love you ’til the end and then repeat it,” she sings in the shared snippet. “For life/For life.”

Perry shared the teaser on Friday alongside clips of her dancing to the song with her fans during an album preview event.

Katy Perry has opened the portal to her latest studio album 143 with “Woman’s World.”

The video features Perry waterfalling a bottle of “Whisky for Women,” brandishing a hot pink vibrator, and pretending to pee in a urinal all within the first 50 seconds of the song. Elsewhere, she gets crushed under a gigantic anvil and shoves a gas nozzle into her butt to refuel. Trisha Paytas also makes a cameo, pulling a huge monster truck by a rope before driving it with Perry sitting shotgun.

“It’s a woman’s world and...

Ahead of the arrival of Katy Perry’s new single “Woman’s World” tomorrow, the singer has revealed the title and release date for her next album.

143 — named after the Nineties pager code for “I love you” — is due out September 20 via Capitol Records. The album marks Perry’s first studio album since her 2020 LP Smile.

“I set out to create a bold, exuberant, celebratory dance-pop album with the symbolic 143 numerical expression of love as a throughline message,” Perry said of the album in a statement.

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For her upcoming sixth album, Katy Perry worked with some of the producers who helped craft hits on Teenage Dream and Prism, Rolling Stone has learned. The pop singer reconnected with Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Stargate, and several others for KP6, the informal name for her first album in more than four years.

“Katy knew exactly the album she wanted to make and put together the team to make it happen,” a Capitol Records source confirms to Rolling Stone. “And that includes previous collaborators including Luke, Stargate, Max Martin, and Sarah Hudson,...

On Sunday night, Taylor Swift made history with her fourth Album Of The Year award, the most recorded wins in that category at the 66th annual Grammy Awards.

Hosted by Trevor Noah at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, the awards ceremony honored many notable artists and their musical work.

Other winners include Miley Cyrus for her song “Flowers” and Billie Eilish for “What Was I Made For?” South African singer-songwriter Tyla also won Best African Music Performance for her hit single “Water,” which blew up on the social media platform TikTok.

See below for a list of the winners and nominees for the top categories:

Album Of The Year

Winner: Taylor Swift, “Midnights”

Boygenius, “The Record”

Janelle Monáe, “The Age of Pleasure”

Jon Batiste, “World Music Radio”

Lana Del Rey, “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd”

Miley Cyrus, “Endless Summer Vacation”

Olivia Rodrigo,...

Taylor Swift receives the award for Best Pop Vocal Album at The 66th Annual Grammy Awards

Women absolutely dominated the 2024 Grammys, from winning the top awards to delivering the most memorial performances of the February 4th broadcast. Miley Cyrus took home her first-ever Grammy wins, while Taylor Swift made Grammy Awards history for the most Album of the Year wins ever.

Swift also made Swifties worldwide happy by announcing she’ll release her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department, on April 19, 2024.

Tracy Chapman brought down the house with a stunning performance of “Fast Cars” alongside Luke Combs. Joni Mitchell earned a rousing ovation for her first performance on the Grammy stage, singing “Both Sides Now” while backed by Brandi Carlile, Allison Russell, Sistastrings, Lucius, Jacob Collier, and Blake Mills. And Celine Dion, who is suffering from stiff person syndrome, put in a surprise appearance as presenter of the Album of the Year award.

Today, the Recording Academy is handing out all of their 2024 Grammy Award trophies!

If you don’t know, the televised show airs tonight at 8pm Et on CBS. However, most of the awards are actually handed out throughout the day during the pre-show event.

Taylor Swift made history during the show to become the first person to ever win Album of the Year four times.

We’ve gathered up every single winner (and nominee) here for you to see.

Head inside to see the complete list of winners from the telecast and pre-show…

See the full list of winners from the 2024 Grammys below…

Record Of The Year

“Worship,” Jon Batiste

“Not Strong Enough,” boygenius

“Flowers,” Miley Cyrus – Winner!

“What Was I Made For?” [From The Motion Picture Barbie], Billie Eilish

“On My Mama,” Victoria Monét

“Vampire,” Olivia Rodrigo

“Anti-Hero,” Taylor Swift

“Kill Bill,” Sza

Album Of The Year

World Music Radio, Jon Batiste

the record,...

Grammy Awards 2024 Winners List ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

One of the biggest award nights in the world of music is finally happening, and yes, we are talking about the 2024 Grammys. A total of 94 categories are there, and numerous talents have their eyes on the prize. From Miley Cyrus bagging her first Grammy to Taylor Swift announcing her new album, we bring you the complete list of the winners.

This year, Sza had the maximum number of nods for her album Sos, followed by R&b singer Victoria Monet and indie rocker Phoebe Bridgers of boygenius with seven nominations. Meanwhile, Miley, Taylor, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Jon Batiste, and Brandy Clark have secured six nmnods.

Olivia Rodrigo performed her hit song Vampire, and Miley Cyrus entertained everyone with her song Flowers. Songwriter Justin Tranter, a 2024 Grammy nominee, provided as the master of ceremonies. Trevor Noah hosted the ceremony.

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Presented on February 4, 2024, the 66th Annual Grammy Awards honored the best in recorded media released from October 1, 2022 through September 15, 2023. Scroll down for the complete list of winners, updated throughout the day and evening.

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Sza came into these awards with a leading nine nominations including Album of the Year (“Sos”), Record of the Year (“Kill Bill”) and Song of the Year (“Kill Bill”). Following with seven nominations apiece were breakthrough R&b artist Victoria Monet, alternative star Phoebe Bridgers and recording engineer/mixer Serban Ghenea.

Of those, Monet was arguably the biggest surprise, picking up Best New Artist and Record of the Year (“On My Mama”) bids in addition to sweeping the noms in the R&b field. Meanwhile, Bridgers secured most of her noms with supergroup Boygenius, including Album of the Year (“The Record“) and Record of the Year (“Not Strong Enough”). And Ghenea,...

The 2024 Grammy Awards ceremony is being held this weekend and we’re predicting the winners in all of the major categories!

Sza leads the pack this year with nine nominations.

In general, women are totally crushing it: Sza, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, and Miley Cyrus all dominated the biggest categories. Jon Batiste is actually the only man in the Record of the Year and Album of the Year categories.

Taylor has a chance at setting a record for most Album of the Year wins if she picks up the award for Midnights. She currently is tied for the most wins in the category with three previous wins!

Make sure to tune in on Sunday for the Grammys, hosted by Trevor Noah for the fourth time. The show is airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ starting at 8pm Et. Check out the full list of nominations.

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The 66th Annual Grammy Awards is expanding its broadcast to include Las Vegas’ one-of-a-kind venue, Sphere. 22-time Grammy winners U2 will take the stage at Sphere for the first live Grammy Awards broadcast performance.

Sphere will also host a special awards presentation airing during the broadcast.

Joni Mitchell will be making history of her own during the 2024 Grammy Awards. The nine-time Grammy winner and Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award winner is confirmed to make her Grammy Awards performance debut. Mitchell’s Joni Mitchell at Newport (Live) is nominated in the Best Folk Album category this year.

Joni Mitchell and U2 join previously announced performers Billy Joel, Burna Boy, Luke Combs, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, and Travis Scott.

Trevor Noah will return as host for the fourth consecutive year. The awards show will be held on Sunday, February 4, 2024 and air live from Los Angeles...

Justin Timberlake has dropped the music video for his new song, “Selfish,” ahead of a musical guest appearance on Saturday Night Live this weekend.

The R&b-inspired video, directed by Bradley J. Calder, pulls back the curtain on Timberlake’s production process as he is seen seemingly in rehearsals on a soundstage as the line between the vulnerable artist and person blurs.

Timberlake starts off in casual clothing before upgrading to a black suit, where he fills a spotlight as he dances and sings alone on a dark stage. “Baby you got such a hold on me / So if I get jealous, I can’t help it / I want every bit of you / I guess I’m selfish,” Timberlake croons.

Midway through the video, Timberlake spots a brightly lit doorway that leads to a dollhouse-sized office he has difficulty navigating. At the end of the trailer, and after repeating the...

As expected, Justin Timberlake dropped his new single and video “Selfish” today, just ahead of tonight’s appearance on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon and two days before his appearance as musical guest on NBC’s Saturday Night Live.

The single is the first from his upcoming, long-in-coming album Everything I Thought It Was. The album, set for a March 15 release by RCA, is his first since Man of the Woods in 2018.

“I worked for a long time on this album and I ended up with 100 songs,” Timberlake says in a promotional interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, released today to coincide with the single’s debut. “So narrowing them down to 18 was a thing, and then, yeah, I’m really excited about this album. I think every artist probably says this, but it is my best work.”

“Selfish,” which Timberlake performed at a concert in Memphis last week,...

After Justin Timberlake debuted his new song “Selfish” last weekend at an intimate Memphis show, the singer has now released the video for the first single from his upcoming album Everything I Thought It Was.

In an Apple Music interview coinciding with the single release, Timberlake said of the track, “We were talking about the song itself and just breaking down the idea that you just don’t hear that from men often, that they would express an emotion that makes them vulnerable. And then, growing up the way I grew up,...

Justin Timberlake has announced his first new album in six years, Everything I Thought It Was, set for release on March 15th via RCA Records. As a preview, he’s shared the album’s first single, “Selfish,” along with the track’s official music video. Watch it below. Update: Timberlake has announced a 2024 world tour.

Everything I Thought It Was marks Justin Timberlake’s return after 2018’s lukewarm Man of the Woods. “Selfish” was written by Timberlake, Louis Bell, Cirkut, Theron Thomas, and Amy Allen, and produced by Timberlake, Louis Bell and Cirkut.

Justin Timberlake will perform as the musical guest on this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live alongside host Dakota Johnson. Timberlake has also announced a free one-night-only concert at New York City’s Irving Plaza set for Wednesday, January 31st. The ticket request window ends Friday, January 26th at 11:59 p.m.; request tickets here.

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On Friday morning, nominations were revealed for the 2024 66th Grammy Awards, and Sza, Phoebe Bridgers, Victoria Monét and Taylor Swift dominated the top categories.

Sza led the nominations with nine nods in total. Sza’s extensive repertoire of songs reflects her unique blend of diverse influences, and her album Sos and its songs span pop, rap, and R&b categories. Her single “Kill Bill” is up for Song and Record of the Year.

The singer currently has won one Grammy award with 14 previous nominations.

Sza’s collaboration “Ghost in the Machine” with Bridgers was also nominated for the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

Monét, Bridgers and Serban Ghenea all follow Sza with seven nominations each. Monét is also nominated for Best New Artist, alongside singers Coco Jones and Gracie Abrams.

Swift has six nominations and could set a new record as the first artist to ever win Album of the Year four times.

The 2024 Grammys nominations are here!

The Recording Academy announced the nominees in a YouTube livestream on Friday (November 10).

With nine nods for her hit album Sos, Sza is the most nominated artist this year. (Sos topped the Billboard 200 chart for 10 weeks.)

Keep reading to find out more…

In general, women are totally crushing it: Sza, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, and Miley Cyrus all dominated the biggest categories. Jon Batiste is actually the only man in the Record of the Year and Album of the Year categories.

With an Album of the Year nomination for Midnights, Taylor has a chance to make history by becoming the first artist to ever win the category four times. She’s previously won for Fearless, 1989, and Folklore.

Her collaborator and good friend Jack Antonoff, who won Producer of the Year the last two years, is nominated in the category once again.

The 2024 Grammys...

The 66th Annual Grammy Awards announced their nominations on Friday morning, November 10. These awards honor the best in recorded media that were released from October 1, 2022 through September 15, 2023. Scroll down for the list of contenders, updated throughout the morning.

The presentation took place at 10:45am Eastern/7:45am Pacific during a livestream on live.grammy.com and YouTube starting with the contenders in the general field and other select categories. Video announcements of the nominees in the remaining races were also published on live.grammy.com and YouTube while the event was underway, and the full list of nominees was published on Grammy.com immediately following the presentation.

Joining Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. to deliver the good news were Grammy winners Arooj Aftab, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Jimmy Jam, Jon Bon Jovi, Samara Joy, Muni Long, Cheryl Pawelski, Kim Petras, Judith Sherman, St. Vincent, Jeff Tweedy, and “Weird Al” Yankovic,...

The tracklisting for Jung Kook‘s upcoming debut solo album Golden has just been revealed!

The 26-year-old BTS superstar’s debut album will be released in just a few weeks, on November 3rd, through Big Hit Music, and will feature previously released singles “Seven” and “3D.”

Keep reading to find out more…

Golden features 11 tracks, with four features and songs written by some big names!

Featured on the album include Jack Harlow, for “3D” of course, as well as Latto on “Seven,” plus DJ Snake, and Major Lazer.

Fans are freaking out over track five, “Yes or No,” as it has Ed Sheeran listed as a writer, and track seven, “Hate You,” which has Shawn Mendes as one of the writers!

The album also features production by Jon Bellion, Andrew Watt, DJ Snake, Diplo and BloodPop.

Check out the full track list, producers, writers and features for Jung Kook’s Golden below…...

BTS’ Jung Kook recently released the Latto-assisted single “Seven” as an essential step forward in his solo career. This week, it was reported by the South Korean news outlet Ten Asia that the record shares similarities with “Time of Mask,” a song released by Fin.K.L in 2000, surfacing claims of copyright infringement and plagiarism. Ten Asia ran the original report citing Alpha Economy. In a statement to Rolling Stone, Big Hit Music dismissed those claims as being “one-sided.”

“We would like to inform you that the claim of copyright...

Adele, Beyonce and Lizzo at ‘The 65Th Annual Grammy Awards’

History was made at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, with Beyoncé claiming the title of the most Grammy wins in history with 32. Beyoncé added four wins at the 2023 Grammys held February 5, 2023 in Los Angeles, collecting awards in the Best Dance/Electronic Music Album, Best Dance/Electronic Recording, Best R&b Song, and Best Traditional R&b Performance categories.

Viola Davis became the newest member of the exclusive Egot club after adding to her Emmy, Oscar, and Tony wins with a Grammy for narrating her memoir, Finding Me. And Kim Petras entered the Grammy record book as the first transgender artist to win the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category for “Unholy” with Sam Smith.

Bad Bunny kicked off the show with an amazing performance, Trevor Noah guided the broadcast as host for the third consecutive year, and Bonnie Raitt pulled...

The 2023 Grammy Awards returned to the Crypto.com Arena on Sunday evening, and while Beyoncé made history by breaking the record for the most Grammy wins of all time, Harry Styles took home Album of the Year for his album “Harry’s House.” Styles also won Best Pop Vocal Album.

Beyoncé took home four awards, bringing her career total to 32 — enough to unseat composer Georg Solti as the winningest artist of all time. But this marks the fourth time in a row she’s lost Album of the Year. An astonishing fact for the Grammy record-holder.

Bonnie Raitt pulled an upset in Song of the Year for “Just Like That,” besting the likes of Lizzo, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.

Lizzo, meanwhile, became the first Black woman to win Record of the Year since Whitney Houston in 1994 for “I Will Always Love You.” Lizzo won for “About Damn Time,” stressing the need for positive,...

In a surprise announcement, Lizzo will be the musical guest for “Saturday Night Live” next week, on Dec. 17, which will feature “Elvis” star Austin Butler as host.

Originally announced musical act the Yeah Yeah Yeahs had to cancel their appearance on the show due to guitarist Nick Zimmer’s battle with pneumonia.

“As many of our fans know, Nick has been sick with pneumonia the past month and it’s been an up and down recovery process,” the group wrote on Instagram. “The band’s top priority is supporting Nick through a full recovery. As a result we had to pull out of from our engagements at Kroq’s Acoustic Christmas and Saturday Night Live.”

Lizzo will become the second musical guest on “SNL” to assume that role twice this year, following Brandi Carlile’s second appearance of 2022 Saturday night. In April, Lizzo hosted as well as performed during the music slots.

Beyoncé is officially tied with her husband Jay-Z for most Grammy nominations received by a musician after the 2023 nominees were announced Tuesday. For the upcoming 65th annual Grammy Awards, the performer received nine nominations – eight for her latest album Renaissance and one for her song “Be Alive” from the 2021 film King Richard. Beyoncé will compete against Adele in the Album of the Year category for a second time. The award show will air in February 2023.

Here is a list of the notable nominations for the 65th Grammy Awards.

Record Of The Year:

“Don’t Shut Me Down” – Abba

“Easy On Me” – Adele

“Break My Soul” – Beyoncé

“Good Morning Gorgeous” – Mary J. Blige

“You And Me On The Rock” – Brandi Carlile feat. Lucius

“Woman” – Doja Cat

“Bad Habit” – Steve Lacy

“The Heart Part 5” – Kendrick Lamar

“About Damn Time” – Lizzo

“As It Was” – Harry Styles

Album Of The Year:

Voyage – Abba

30 – Adele...

Beyonce’s ‘Renaissance’ Album Cover (Photo by Carlijn Jacobs)

Beyoncé topped the list of The 65th Annual Grammy Awards nominees, earning nine nominations including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year. The nine nominations move Beyoncé into a tie with Jay-Z for the most-nominated artist. Both artists have been nominated for 88 Grammys.

Kendrick Lamar picked up eight nominations followed by Adele and Brandi Carlile with seven. Mary J. Blige, DJ Khaled, Future, Terius “The-Dream” Gesteelde-Diamant, Randy Merrill, and Harry Styles each earned six nominations.

“Celebrating the miracle of music is at the core of everything we do at the Recording Academy and today we are proud and honored to celebrate music’s power to lift people up and to bring them together,” said Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of The Recording Academy. “I’m energized by this year’s slate of nominees and how each...

The 2023 Grammy Awards are getting closer.

On Tuesday, the Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 65th annual music awards show, which will broadcast live on Feb. 5, with a host yet to be announced.

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Among the nominees, Beyoncé sits in the lead with nine nominations, including for her album Renaissance and her hit single “Break My Soul”.

Following close behind is Kendrick Lamar, with eight nominations from his album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, along with Adele and Brandi Carlile, who each scored seven nods.

Mary J. Blige, DJ Khaled, Future, The-Dream, Randy Merrill and Harry Styles all tied with six nominations each.

Blige and Syles are both nominated for Album of the Year, along with Beyoncé, Lamar, Carlile, Adele, Doja Cat, Lizzo, Coldplay, Bad Bunny and Abba.

This year’s Grammys also feature five new categories: Songwriter of the Year,...

Chris Brown was the big winner of last night’s 2019 Soul Train Music Awards, as his song featuring Drake, “No Guidance,” took three awards, including Song of the Year, Best Dance and Best Collaborative performances.

Hosted by Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell (both of Martin) from Las Vegas, the awards show saw gospel singer Yolanda Adams receive the Lady of Soul Award, and producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis honored with the Legend Award.

The following is the list of nominees, with winners listed first and in bold:

Best New Artist

Summer Walker

Lucky Daye

Mahalia

Nicole Bus

Pink Sweat$

Yk Osiris

Soul Train Certified Award

Trevor Jackson

Ciara

Daniel Caesar

Fantasia

india.arie

Kelly Rowland

Best Gospel/Inspirational Award

Kirk Franklin

Bebe Winans

Donald Lawrence

Erica Campbell

Tasha Cobbs Leonard

Tori Kelly

Rhythm & Bars Award

Cardi B, “Money”

21 Savage feat J. Cole, “A Lot”

DaBaby, “Suge”

J. Cole,...

The latest edition of the Hot 100 is overrun by Drake: Thanks to a bonanza of streaming, the star has 27 different songs on the chart. His streamers are impressively committed, fervent enough in their fandom that Drake single-handedly accounts for more than 50 percent of the Top 40. It’s a display of commercial dominance so emphatic, it’s almost cruel.

But Drake’s record-breaking feat forces a question: How do we track music consumption in the streaming era? The Hot 100 promises to capture “the week’s most popular current songs across all genres,...

Ciara's back! After taking some time off to break into motherhood and raise her adorable baby boy Future Zahir Wilburn, the songstress made her return to music and just released her first track "I Bet," close to two years after the release of her self-titled album. The Harmony Samuels-produced song is reminiscent of some of her slower tempo songs like "And I' and "Promise," with a catchy beat and background ad-libs by Theron Thomas of Rock City, who also co-wrote the song. But her new release leads to one obvious question—are these lyrics inspired by her recent breakup with rapper Future? Here are a few lines from the track: "I bet you start loving...

Fergalicious will have a new album out in 2015.

The Duchess is back and she's reppin' that SoCal love.

Fergie released an new solo single "L.A.Love (La La)" on Monday – and that chorus is already stuck in our heads. The 39-year-old raps and sings on the track, which blurs the line between smooth slow jam and pop party anthem.

Fergie tweeted a photo from the studio with DJ Mustard (with whom she co-wrote the track), Royce the Choice and Rock City's Theron Thomas. The caption: "R u ready 4 this?" Our answer: "Yaaasss!!!"

R u ready 4 this? #Lalove http://t.co/7olL1IVBZc pic.twitter.com/9QwQtsNUzM

— Fergie (@Fergie) September 29, 2014

Fergie's last solo album, The Duchess, hit shelves back in 2006 and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The album went on to sell more than 6 million copies and almost 30 million tracks worldwide, spawning the hit singles "London Bridge," "Glamorous," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Fergalicious...