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The Oscars have struggled with how to include the five nominated songs without having a four-hour show.

The producers of the 93rd annual Academy Awards had good news and bad news for the singers who are performing this year’s Oscar nominees for best original song. The good news: All five nominees will be performed in their entirety. The bad news: They’ll be featured on a 90-minute pre-show, Oscars: Into the Spotlight, which is billed as “the lead-in” to the Oscars.

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Katy Perry has dropped the video for her uplifting new song “Electric.” The track appears on upcoming compilation Pokémon 25: The Album, which will arrive this fall via Capitol Records.

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BTS will not only perform "Butter" for the first time at the BBMAs, but they're also finalists in four categories at the awards show: top duo/group, top song sales artist, top social artist and top selling song for their Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit "Dynamite." BTS could win their fifth consecutive award in the top social category, but RM is expecting another "comeback" on the stage itself after BTS brought "Dynamite" last year. "It's gonna be huge," he teases.

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Importantly, the popular song competition was a hit with young audiences. The 15–24-year-old demographic was up 7 percentage points against the corresponding data from 2019. More than half that age group (52.8%) tuned in on TV.

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Instagram will begin showing users full-screen videos in their feeds in response to "stiff competition" with TikTok and YouTube, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said on Wednesday.

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Exit Wounds marks The Wallflowers’ highest-charting album yet, and second top 10, on the 30-year-old Top Album Sales chart. The act’s previous high came with its debut set, 1996’s Bringing Down the Horse, which peaked at No. 4 in 1997.

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ABBA ARE BACK with Voyage!
A brand new album out November 5 and revolutionary concert coming to London Spring 2022. Listen to two brand new songs and pre-order the album.

Stevie Wonder will headline Global Citizen Live in Los Angeles. The concert takes place at outdoor venue The Greek Theatre on September 25th and will air live on BBC One the same day, and on ABC on September 26th. Tickets to attend the Los Angeles festival are available now.

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Here's the complete list of winners. (Three winners will be named during the CBS special. This story will be updated as those winners are announced.) The categories are listed in alphabetical order.

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