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North West’s TikTok has been a sore subject for her estranged parents, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, but it’s a treat for her 11.7 million followers. Last month, the nine-year-old made a dancing TikTok with Lizzo while backstage at her Los Angeles stop of The Special Tour. And this weekend, North took to the platform to share glimpses into the annual Kardashian holiday party, hosted at Kourtney Kardashian’s Calabasas home on Christmas Eve (as noted by People and TMZ).

North shared a “Boy’s A Liar” TikTok with Kim and Kylie Jenner, and another pose-filled one with her mom, but the 17-second snippet of North duetting with Sia especially stood out.

North and Sia stood together in a life-sized gift box and sang “Snowman,” a track from Sia’s 2017 Everyday Is Christmas album. A fan account also re-posted clips of Sia singing her ubiquitous 2014 hit “Chandelier.”

The famously private artist will have at least one more public appearance in 2022. Sia is slated to perform at Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party, Miley Cyrus’ second NBC special recorded live from Miami. Cyrus will co-host the event with Dolly Parton. Other musical guests will include Fletcher, Latto and Rae Sremmurd. Still, North West’s TikTok will probably spark more FOMO on New Year’s Eve.

Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party will air live on Saturday, December 31 on NBC from 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. ET. The special will also stream live on Peacock.

TikTok users love to be a part of the latest trends, and one of the newest ones is a bit dark but also funny for the right audience. As people visited home and otherwise spent time with their families over the holiday weekend, they read fake headlines about the death of a relative’s favorite celebrity, filming all the while to capture their reactions.

A video from TikTok user @stevescooche compiles some of these clips and has racked up about 10 million views since yesterday. The first clip is focused on an older couple as the person behind the camera fraudulently announces, “Oh my god: ‘Cher Dead At 81.’” Some in the room look up and offer a shocked, “No!” A man then yells, “My Cher?!”

Another user said in their video, “Oh my god: ‘Bon Jovi Dead At 60.’” Their shocked relative looked up before quickly summoning further research, saying as the video cuts off, “Alexa, did Bon Jovi…” Somebody else used Jon Bon Jovi for their video, too, and in that clip, after hearing the fake news, a woman urgently puts down her drink, gets up, and exclaims, “F*ck! Sorry, excuse me.” Of that video, a commenter cracked, “The Bon Jovi lady at the end got up like she is the executor of the will or something.”

Check out the compilation above.

Two years after unleashing Whole Lotta Red, his first career No. 1 album, Playboi Carti stirred up a whole lotta speculation. The drawn-out Whole Lotta Red rollout involved ambiguous release dates, viral teases, and rampant fan excitement. Now, the Atlanta rapper appears to be repeating history.

On Christmas Day (December 25), Carti sent his first tweet since October 2021 (“Hello Twitter”) and four hours later, he followed it with, “love all my supporters it’s time.” He paired that with two Instagram posts, including a screenshot of an audio preview on his Instagram Story.

Carti was asked about his next album during an April interview with XXL. “I was about to name my album Music because that’s where I’m at, you know what I’m saying? Music,” he said. When pressed to clarify what the album’s name would be, he doubled down: “Music because that’s all it is at this point.”

Carti was then asked about “the topics that are important” or that he found himself rapping about or writing about while crafting the project.

“Love. Sex. Drugs. Changes in my life,” he said. “I’ve been rapping about going to rehab. I want to go to rehab because I think I’m bipolar. I want everybody to feel free. I want this album to make everyone feel free. I hope this album brings peace to the world, honestly. I’m in love with what I’m doing. Like I told you, you can’t put a genre alternative [on me]. My little brother told me that all the time.”

Below, see some of the fan reaction to Carti’s latest tease.

Surely, you’ve heard Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” at least a handful of times this holiday season. When it comes to plays worldwide, though, “a handful” is a severe understatement: On December 24 (Christmas Eve), Spotify listeners worldwide listened to the song 21,273,357 times, which is the new all-time record for the most global Spotify streams for a song in a single day.

The previous record holder was Adele’s “Easy On Me,” which had 19,749,704 plays on October 15, 2021, so Carey claimed the throne handily. In fact, Christmas Eve’s second most-played song, Wham!’s “Last Christmas,” nearly topped Adele’s mark as well, with 19,079,817 streams.

Some other tunes that drew major streaming crowds on the 24th include Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” (17.3 million global streams), Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” (15.9 million), Michael Bublé’s “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas” (14.8 million), Andy Williams’ “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” (12.7 million), Ariana Grande’s “Santa Tell Me” (12.4 million), José Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” (12.2 million), and Dean Martin’s “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” (11.9 million).

Meanwhile, “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is No. 1 on the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart. As for this week’s ranks, due to the holiday, the reveal of the top 10 spots has been postponed to December 27.

Nick Cannon, in case you haven’t heard, has a lot of kids: 11, to be exact. He had those kids with six different women, so if he planned to get together with all of them for the holidays, Cannon was going to have to spend some serious time on the road to make it work. Well, there’s no word yet on how that panned out, but before Christmas, Cannon declared he planned to make it happen.

On December 23, Cannon (along with model Brittany Bell and two of their three children) visited Los Angeles Mission to serve holiday meals. There, a TMZ cameraperson caught up with Cannon and asked how he plans to divide his time among his kids this holiday season. He answered, “Me and Santa Claus do it together.” He later added, “I have the same vibe as Santa Claus: I’m traveling all night.”

This comes shortly after Akon showed his support for Cannon’s prolific fatherhood, saying, “I agree with him 1,000 percent. That’s how life is supposed to be. Why not? He’s rich. He’s responsible. He takes care of every one of those children. And the baby mothers are with it. And they hurt for nothing. And they live comfortably. […] He’s there for every one of them. He’s there for every single one of those kids. I got nine and I’m there for every one of mine.”

The Warriors and Grizzlies have become arguably the most heated rivalry in the NBA today, as their playoff series a year ago sparked plenty of trash talk, bad blood, and accusations of dirty play on the court and on Twitter.

The young Grizzlies made it clear they wanted to face the Warriors on Christmas Day and got their wish, traveling to San Francisco to face a reeling Golden State team that is without Steph Curry, having lost its last two games by a combined 68 points. It seemed like a golden opportunity for the Grizzlies to pick off a win over the Warriors, but instead they found themselves getting run out of the Chase Center in what ended up a 123-109 Warriors win.

The two sides spent much of the game chirping at each other, but it reached a fever pitch after Klay Thompson drilled a jumper over Dillon Brooks to put Golden State up 117-101 and took the opportunity coming back down the floor to make sure Brooks, who had fallen on the contest and was sliding at midcourt, heard all about it.

Thompson picked up the technical, but in this situation he’s happy to pick that up to add to the embarrassment of the loss for Brooks and the Grizzlies. It’s clear that Golden State was just as fired up for this game as Memphis, and if anything the Grizzlies may have been a bit overconfident they had the advantage over the Steph-less Warriors. Hopefully we can see this matchup once again over the course of a playoff series, because it continues to deliver on entertaining moments, if nothing else.

The Rams spent their Christmas afternoon pummeling the Broncos, as NVP Baker Mayfield, Cam Akers, and the Rams offense rolled up 51 points on Denver in what became a 37-point win in L.A., with Russell Wilson throwing three interceptions in the loss.

After the game, most players were exchanging holiday pleasantries, but Broncos edge rusher Randy Gregory and Rams guard Oday Aboushi weren’t necessarily in the Christmas spirit. The two had some words as they wandered through the sea of players exchanging jerseys and handshakes, with Gregory eventually taking a swing at Aboushi, who returned the favor.

The two would quickly be separated, although Gregory seemed to want to continue the altercation as he tried to push by people to get back to Aboushi, so nothing escalated any further, but it’s never what you want to see after a game. It’s also just a funny dichotomy to see those two trade punches while 10 feet away two players are taking their jerseys off to swap them.

Frustrations have been building all year for the Denver defense, as the dam seemed to break on Sunday after they’d done incredible work trying to keep the Broncos in games despite an anemic offense. Against the Rams, that wasn’t the case and it seems like whatever issues Gregory had with the Rams may have been exacerbated by the full season issues in Denver.

When the NFL schedule makers put the Rams and Broncos in a standalone spot as the late afternoon game on Christmas Day, they did not anticipate it being a matchup of 4-win teams with no playoff implications.

As such, it was the game most casual fans likely tuned out of to do Christmas festivities, but those that wanted a lighter way to watch what became a 51-14 Rams demolition of the Broncos were able to tune in to the Nickelodeon broadcast for some laughs. Along the way they were treated to Patrick Star calling a Russell Wilson interception live, a baby in the stands getting slimed, Santa doing the Griddy in the end zone, and Baker Mayfield completing 24-of-28 passes for 230 yards and two touchdowns in the win.

Afterwards, Mayfield was presented with the vaunted NVP award, becoming the first winning quarterback to earn the honors as previous winners Dak Prescott and Mitchell Trubisky had lost in their NVP winning efforts. Mayfield, who won the Heisman Trophy in college, was asked where the NVP ranked among his list of career accolades and he said “it’s up there…it’s a true honor” which is an incredible quote about a blimp trophy.

I hope the NFL never stops doing Nickelodeon games because watching players speak earnestly about the NVP award and who they’d like to slime is far better than most any postgame interview in any sport. I hope the blimp trophy earns a rightful, prominent placement in the Mayfield house.

It is hard for Russell Wilson’s first season as a member of the Denver Broncos to go any worse. Having said that, things might have hit a new low on Christmas Day during the team’s game against the Los Angeles Rams, as Wilson threw an abysmal interception to Bobby Wagner and got absolutely roasted by Patrick Star from SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon’s broadcast of the game.

The pick itself is bad enough — Wilson does not see Wagner, his longtime teammate with the Seattle Seahawks, basically standing in the middle of the field. Wagner barely moved from where he stood pre-snap, and yet Wilson decided to fire a ball right near him in an effort to complete a pass to his tight end, Greg Dulcich.

This happened while Patrick, SpongeBob’s lovably dumb neighbor who lives under a rock, was providing play-by-play on the Nickmas Game. After the pick, Patrick decided to crack a joke at the former Pro Bowl signal caller’s expense based on the let Russ cook meme.

“That’s not what he wanted to cook!” Patrick said. Even Noah Eagle got in on the fun and said that Russ “burnt whatever he was cooking.”

It is hard to describe this as anything other than the low point of Russ’ tenure in Denver. This will, of course, change if Cosmo and Wanda from The Fairly OddParents clown him later in the broadcast.

The Miami Dolphins once seemed destined for an AFC playoff berth at 8-3, tied atop the AFC East with the Buffalo Bills. Flash forward one month and Miami is still stuck on eight wins after suffering their fourth consecutive loss, this time a home loss against the Packers on Christmas.

The Dolphins led 20-10 in the first half, but would not score again in the final 35 minutes of game time, with the Packers scoring 16 unanswered to win 26-20. In the fourth quarter, Miami forced an interception of Aaron Rodgers that seemed like it might swing things their way.

However, on the first play after the Rodgers interception, Tua Tagovailoa sailed a pass over the head of Tyreek Hill into coverage that was picked off by Jaire Alexander and returned inside the 15.

Miami’s defense would force a field goal, and the Dolphins would drive down into field goal range themselves on the next drive, only for a second Tagovailoa interception, this time to De’Vondre Campbell, to end another scoring opportunity.

Once again, the Dolphins defense was able to force a short field goal attempt and leave Miami with one more chance to win the game with a touchdown. On the second play of Miami’s two-minute drill attempt, Tagovailoa again missed badly with a throw, going in between two receivers to Rasul Douglas, who sealed the game with the third consecutive fourth quarter pick for the Packers defense.

It was a disastrous quarter for Tagovailoa in what has been a disastrous month. In their four game losing streak, Tagovailoa has six touchdown passes and five interceptions, while completing just 52.5 percent of his passes (after completing 69.7 percent in the first 11 games of the season). The loss drops Miami into the seventh and final playoff spot in the AFC, with the various 7-8 teams in the AFC all now still in the hunt behind them, and plenty of questions about the once high-flying Dolphins offense and whether Tua has been figured out.