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‘Spotlight’ Best Picture Oscar Is Surprise Of The Night

Spotlight Surprise: The film upset favoriteThe Revenantto win the Academy Award for Best Picture. (AFP PHOTO / MARK RALSTON / AFP / MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images).

WhenSpotlightcappedtheOscars with a Best Picture win, a collective gasp rippled through the press room in Los Angeles–and it wasn’t just because a group of journalists were elated to see a filmabout their profession honored.

Spotlightwas the biggest surprise of this year’s Oscars, as those who...

Kanye West Less Influential Than Taylor Swift, Says Nielsen Study

Taylor Swift and Kanye West: Star-crossed superstars. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for NARAS).

Kanye West recently boasted that he’s 50% more influential than Stanley Kubrick, Pablo Picasso, Paul the Apostle or any other human being, dead or alive.

But, as West’s pal Jay Z says, “Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t.” And the numbers are in: according to Nielsen Talent Analytics, only 24% of U.S. adults consider West to be influential–versus 55% for Taylor Swift.

Nielsen’s numbers are de...

Grammys 2016: Taylor Swift And Kendrick Lamar Lead Big Winners

Kendrick Lamar: The Compton rapper may not have won any of the big four categories, but his five victories was the most of any artist at the 58th Grammy Awards . (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for NARAS).

The Recording Academy just finished handing out 83 Grammy awards to a host of the world’smost talented acts. But before the end of music’s biggest night, it’s worth a quick look at those who stood out from the crowd–for better or worse.

Winners: Kendrick Lamar, Alabama Shakes, Taylor S...

Grammys 2016: Winners, Losers, Aftermath And Analysis

Kendrick Lamar: The Compton rapper may not have won any of the big four categories, but his five victories was the most of any artist at the 58th Grammy Awards . (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for NARAS).

The Recording Academy just finished handing out 83 Grammy awards to a host of the world’smost talented acts. But before the end of music’s biggest night, it’s worth a quick look at those who stood out from the crowd–for better or worse.

Winners: Kendrick Lamar, Alabama Shakes, Taylor S...

Grammy Winners 2016: The Full List

The Grammys 2016: Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar were among the big winners. (Photo by Zack O’Malley Greenburg).

The 58th annual Grammys have come to a close, and some of music’s biggest names are going home with a lot of hardware. Taylor Swift grabbed three golden gramophones, not the highest total of the night, but she won arguably the most prestigiousaward: Album of the Year, for 1989.

“I want to thank the fans for the last ten years, and the Recording Academy, for this incredible honor,”...

Meghan Trainor Wins Best New Artist Grammy, As Expected

Runaway Trainor: Heavily-favored Meghan picked up her first Grammy award. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images for NARAS).

Meghan Trainor just nabbed the Grammy award for Best New Artist, the only category in which she was nominated this year—and it was perhaps the least-surprising majorcategory win at tonight’s ceremony.

In the days leading up to music’s biggest night, Trainor was the favorite for all the online betting sites monitoredby OddsTracker. A $1 bet on a Trainor victory today w...

Kendrick Lamar Has Won Five Grammys So Far, But Won’t Break Michael Jackson’s Record Tonight

Grammy Glory: Lamar will be taking home quite a few golden gramophones tonight. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP).

Kendrick Lamar has been nominated for 11 awards at this year’s Grammys, and he’s already taken home five of them. He’s got a chance for more, namely Song of the Year and Album of the Year. But it’s now statistically impossible for him to top the King of Pop.

Michael Jackson won eight awards on 12 nominations back in 1984; sixteen years later, Carlos Santana also took home ei...

Taylor Swift Has Already Won Two Grammys Today

Swift Victory: The “Blank Space” singer is well on her way to an epic night at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images for NARAS).

The majorawards at the 58th Grammys won’t be doled out until the televised portion of the festivities, which begins at 8pm EST. But the first 75 golden gramophones have already been doled out in the pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony—and Taylor Swift has snagged two of them.

“We won Best Pop Vocal Album?” she shouted through the iPhone of J...

Why Kanye West Doesn’t Need Mark Zuckerberg’s Help To Get Out Of Debt

Kanye West’s lack of financial stability is a head-scratcher–but there’s a simple path to prosperity for him. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Kanye West set the internet ablaze this week with the release of new album The Life Of Pablo and his accompanying Madison Garden fashion-show-slash-listening-party. But it was his set of proclamations about the state of his personal finances that really seemed to pique the public’s interest.

Two days agoWest tweeted that he was $53 million in...

Dr. Dre’s Apple TV Series: Added Proof Beats Deal Was About More Than Headphones

The Next Episode: Dr. Dre will star in Apple’s first scripted TV series, the loosely biographicalVital Signs.(Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images).

Dr. Dre was out for a walk with then-Interscope chief Jimmy Iovine when he mentioned he’d been thinking about starting a shoe line. “F[orget] sneakers,” Iovine shot back, as the story goes. “Let’s make speakers!”Nearly a decade–and $3 billion–later, it’s safe to say Iovine had the right idea.

Apple’s Beats buyout was the tech giant’s largest acquis...