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A Latin act was the most-watched artist on Vevo this past year and surprisingly it wasn’t Bad Bunny. The video streaming platform revealed today (December 7) that Colombian superstar Karol G pulled in the most views globally.

2022 turned out to be the year of Karol G. She scored multiple global hits with the feel-good “Provenza” and the breakup anthem “Mamiii.” On Spotify, she claimed the crown for the most-streamed female Latin artist on the music platform this year. Karol G also took the title for the high-grossing tour of 2022 by a female Latin artist for her Strip Love Tour.

Now Karol G’s reign is translating over to Vevo. Among the most-watched artists globally on the video platform this year, Karol G came in at No. 1 with over 2.76 billion cumulative views. Latin music proved to be popular with Shakira placing in second with over 2.49 billion views. Another Colombian star, J Balvin, pulled in at No. 8. Mexican singer Christian Nodal rounded out the list at No. 10. Bad Bunny did not appear in the top 10.

Karol G also claimed the most-viewed video of the year. “Provenza” came out on top with over 546.9 million views. “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Disney’s Encanto soundtrack came in at No. 2. Shakira’s “Te Felicito” featuring Rauw Alejandro appeared at No. 3. Karol G scored another hit on the list with “Gatúbela” featuring Maldy at No. 5. Rosalía’s video for “Despechá” finished the year at No. 6.

The New York Knicks acquired Cam Reddish in a trade from the Atlanta Hawks in January. It’s been less than a year since they decided to bring the former top-10 draft pick on board, and apparently, the team is already sitting down with his representatives in an effort to find a deal to send him elsewhere.

According to Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News, talks are ongoing between the two sides on the heels of Reddish falling out of the team’s rotation. Reddish, who turned 23 in September, appeared in 20 games with eight starts for the Knicks this season, averaging just under 22 minutes per game. He is also slated to become a restricted free agent at the conclusion of the year, as he was unable to figure out a long-term deal with the team.

It is not the first time that Reddish has been available on the trade block since he came to the Knicks, as Fred Katz of The Athletic reported on Wednesday that the team tried to trade him “leading up to February’s deadline and then again over the summer.” Katz went on to report that both Reddish and Immanuel Quickley could be available in a trade as a way to facilitate a deal to move off of Evan Fournier’s contract in the lead-up to the deadline this year.

This season, Reddish is averaging 8.4 points per game on 44.9 percent shooting from the field and 30.4 percent shooting from three.

A lot of the entertainment industry has bounced back from COVID delays and disruptions, but the virus is still out there. While we hear stories about various TV shows dealing with cases and illnesses, it seems like there is no real protocol for how certain production companies choose to approach COVID. It’s also not uncommon right now: much of The White Lotus cast also managed to get sick while filming in Italy for season two. Netflix’s latest hit Wednesday is now coming under fire for how the production handled an alleged COVID case, and people have a lot of thoughts.

A video of Jenna Ortega‘s titular character dancing recently went viral, showcasing her own self-taught moves on the dance floor. Of course, Ortega expertly executed her own dance routine, but it was recently revealed that she was feeling sick the day of filming, and eventually tested positive for COVID.

Ortega recently spoke to NME when she admitted she woke up on the day of her big shoot feeling sick. “I felt like I’d been hit by a car and that a little goblin had been let loose in my throat and was scratching the walls of my esophagus,” she continued. She revealed that they continued to film while waiting for the results, which turned out to be positive. She added, “They were giving me medicine between takes because we were waiting on the positive result.” After it was confirmed that Ortega was sick, she was removed from the set.

While this kind of problem seems to be happening more and more, a lot of fans are criticizing how the situation was handled.

While many might be placing the blame on Ortega, others are pointing out that a Netflix production should have had safer protocols when it comes to COVID. MGM, the company that produced Wednesday, told The Hollywood Reporter that “strict protocols were followed,” after Ortega’s result, but in that time, it’s possible that she could’ve gotten her peers sick.

Ortega hasn’t commented on the backlash, but the show has been a major hit for the streamer, so maybe it will just be quietly ignored!

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

During yesterday’s (December 6) episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the host highlighted a video from a recent visit to the Space Force cadets in Greenland and mentioned wanting to repay them with what he is good at: “telling jokes and drinking alcohol.”

“I wanted to thank the service members at Thule for making me feel at home, so I invited them out for a night of fun at the Top Of The World bar,” Colbert explained. “I recently found out the Space Force is so new that while you’ve got a 120-year-old Sousa march called ‘The Invincible Eagle,’ it doesn’t have any lyrics yet. That ends tonight.”

Colbert goes on to introduce none other than the country star (and US Navy veteran) Sturgill Simpson to help him out with the words. The Space Force crew was immensely excited, chanting Simpson’s name in the audience as a warm welcome.

“Hail the guardians’ vigil keeping, on the Earth both night and day / Watching o’er you when you’re sleeping / But not in a creepy way,” Simpson and Colbert jokingly duet as the video is spliced with footage of the crew working.

And the jokes in the new Space Force anthem don’t end there. “Hail the guardians, we’ve seen aliens / As the galaxies they cross / Oops / We were supposed to keep that secret / So, please don’t tell our boss,” they continue, as the sing-along lyrics allow everyone to start joining in on the space-age bit.

Watch Simpson perform the new (and totally real) Space Force anthem with Stephen Colbert above.

Taylor Swift has a Grammy (many of them, actually), an Emmy, and two Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards for Favorite Global Music Star, her most important career achievement. But you know what she doesn’t have? An Oscar. Swift tried with “Beautiful Ghosts,” her song for the big-screen adaptation of Cats, but it wasn’t even nominated. Maybe that’s why, when asked by the Hollywood Reporter if she could trade places with anyone in Hollywood for a day, she picked Best Director winner Guillermo del Toro.

“Imagine having that imagination, that visual vocabulary, and that astonishing body of work,” she said about the Blade II, Pan’s Labyrinth, and The Shape of Director filmmaker. “To have such a diverse storytelling range but to somehow put your distinctive artistic fingerprint on every film. And yet, it fells like he’s still so curious and enthusiastic about his work. I can only imagine that a day in his mind would be fascinating.”

Swift is right: I didn’t think I needed a new Pinocchio movie in my life, until I saw del Toro’s Pinocchio. It’s wonderful. So weird and dark, and there’s a scene where one character taunts another character with a singing and dancing piece of poop. Robert Zemeckis could never. Also, if any movie studio executive is reading this, please greenlight a Freaky Friday remake starring Swift and del Toro. Thank you in advance.

(Via the Hollywood Reporter)

Next year will mark five years since Cardi B released her debut album, Invasion Of Privacy. While five years is a long hiatus to take in between albums, Cardi has kept the Bardigang fed with bangers like “Up,” “WAP,” and “Hot Sh*t.”

Still fans, are thirsting for a new full-length project.

Last night (December 6), Cardi took to Instagram live to give fans an update on her much-anticipated sophomore album. She admitted that she is having anxiety leading up to the release, and having to launch a new era, complete with a tour.

“I’m just a mom and I do have anxiety,” she said. “I’ve been having a lot of anxiety, because I know right after I drop my album, I have to go out on tour and I have bad separation anxiety from my kids.”

Cardi also admitted that she’s also feeling nervous around putting out her music due to the pressure she’s put on herself to measure up to the success of Invasion Of Privacy.

“When it comes to music and everything, I just be feeling like I don’t be liking anything,” she said. “I feel like I got so many songs and I don’t like anything. I feel like nothing is good enough… And I got so much money saved up I just be like, ‘Yeah, whatever the f*ck.’”

She continued, letting her fans know that while she is struggling with the anxiety of making her art, she plans to learn to let go, and put herself out there for he impending era.

“Making music to me has become like a job that gives me anxiety because everybody just critiques everything that I do,” Cardi said. “It’s just like, sometimes you don’t want to do something that gives you that much anxiety, so I just be freezing myself, but I have to let that go. I have to release more music — I have to go out there.”

Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

After locking down an Oscar for her command performance in Monster, Charlize Theron surprised audiences by starring as Rita Leeds, a recurring character on the third season of Arrested Development. At the time, the show hadn’t yet reached its cult status and was constantly on the verge of cancellation, which actually happened at the end of Theron’s season. Her character was strange (and wildly problematic in hindsight), but it’s still a solid highlight of Arrested Development‘s original magic before the unfortunate Netflix years. Let’s go with that.

As for how Theron ended up on the show, she recently admitted that she was trying to get ahead of Aeon Flux bombing at the box office, which she knew was going to be a “f*cking flop” from the minute she started filming. Worried that her career would be over, Theron wanted to do something that showed even more of her versatility, which Arrested Development provided.

Via The Hollywood Reporter:

It was one of the scariest things, to walk onto a set of a show that’s so developed and so brilliant. But I think I needed that, to put myself out there in a different way, because people thought of me as someone who was f*cking depressing, like my mother shot my father. [When Theron was 15, her dad came home drunk and threatened her and her mom with a gun, prompting her mother to shoot and kill him in what officials later determined was self-defense.] And I just f*cking loved that show, and this is going to sound so “poor me,” but I do feel like sometimes, as women, we get one shot.

Aeon Flux also taught Theron to be more like Tom Cruise when a movie isn’t working. “Shut this shit down, get four more writers on it and let’s figure this out,” Theron said, which she didn’t even know was a thing you can do. “F*ck, no one told me that was an option.”

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

With the release of her new single, “Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd,” Lana Del Rey is now entering album mode. Last week, the songwriter excitedly shared the news of her return, and like clockwork, the new track is now available across streaming platforms. But when can fans expect the full project?

Well, it’s official, Lana’s eighth studio album, by the same name, is slated to hit the web next year on Friday, March 10. The multiple album covers suggest Lana will remain true to her sad-girl aesthetic. Director Mike Hermosa, Bleacher’s Jack Antonoff, Drew Erickson, Mini Mansions’ Zach Dawes, and Benji all contributed to the album’s production. As far as guest features are concerned, Jon Batiste, Bleachers, Father John Misty, Tommy Genesis, SYML, and Judah Smith will also make an appearance.

According to Apple Music, the album will feature a total of 16 tracks. Of those tracks, six are labeled “explicit” including the project’s lead single and title track. The other five explicit songs include track numbers 3, 4, 9, 15, and album closer track 16 — all are unnamed at this time. Following in many of this year’s biggest album releases including Beyoncé’s Renaissance and Taylor Swift’s Midnights, Lana will also release a limited edition 2-disc vinyl for the project.

Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd is out 3/10/2023 via Polydor Records/Interscope. To pre-order, click here.

Alex G’s latest album, God Save The Animals, might very well be his best work to date. In fact, the 29-year old Philadelphia singer-songwriter — who rose to prominence in earnest after his extensive work with Frank Ocean in the mid 2010s — claimed a spot among Uproxx’s Best Albums Of 2022. Now, he just visited the NPR’s offices in Washington DC to perform an NPR Tiny Desk Concert, and the somber beauty of God Save The Animals (and more) was on full display.

Before addressing the room, Alex G and his band began playing the single “Runner.” Backed by a guitarist, bassist, drummer, and a violinist who also played the piano, he sang, “I like people who I can open up to, who don’t judge for what I say, but judge me for what I do.” He meekly introduced his band and cheekily told the intimate audience, “I don’t have a lot to say,” before chuckling and getting right back down to business. Alex G and the band then played a wonderful rendition of “Miracles.”

The set then took to some deeper cuts with “Gretel” off of his 2019 album, House Of Sugar, and then closing it off with “Snot” from 2015’s Beach Music. It was a humble performance that showcased Alex G’s quiet confidence and meaningful expressiveness.

Watch Alex G’s NPR Tony Desk Concert above.

When SZA shared the tracklist for her long-awaited album, S.O.S., much of the buzz surrounded the appearance of indie star Phoebe Bridgers and fans wishing for a contribution from Paramore’s Hayley Williams. As it turns out, though, in addition to buzzy features from names like Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Travis Scott, she wanted way more features on the upcoming album. There’s just one problem: Many of them never turned in their verses.

Appearing on Hot97’s Nessa On Air with host Nessa Diab, SZA expressed disappointment that so many of her requested collaborators didn’t get their verses back on time, but also said she understood, since she’s done the same thing. “For a lot of these people, I didn’t turn in my verse – so I can’t be too mad,” she explained. “But also, on the same token, it’s like, ‘Damn this sucks, I really needed you. I wish you showed up for me.’ But I’m sure they felt the same way for me.”

Of Bridgers’ contribution, she said, “I’m grateful Phoebe showed up for me, I didn’t think she would come to the studio in person. She did, which is crazy. We laughed, it’s just hilarious.” You can watch the full interview above.

S.O.S./em> is out 12/9 via Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA Records. You can pre-save it here.