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ABC News In an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday, Ed Sheeran discussed why he thinks he won the copyright infringement lawsuit that alleged he copied the Marvin Gaye song “Let’s Get It On” when he wrote his Grammy-winning hit “Thinking Out Loud.” Ed said it was “101 songs with the same chord sequence” that helped the jury decide in…

Courtesy FOX Just when you thought there’d been enough documentaries about Britney Spears, here comes another one — and it seems to be just as sensationalized as some of the previous ones. Fox has announced that it will air TMZ Investigates: Britney Spears: The Price of Freedom, which promises to give viewers an “exclusive look at Britney’s life a…

Atlantic The songs we’ve heard from Kelly Clarkson‘s upcoming album, Chemistry, seem to be pretty on the nose when it comes to her feelings about her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock. But Kelly says fans have no idea how far she went in the songs she didn’t put on the album. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Kelly says the songs on Chemistry are “definitely very honest,” but…

ABC/Randy Holmes RAYE‘s global hit “Escapism” will compete for Best Contemporary Song at The Ivors, the U.K.’s most prestigious songwriting award. Another nominee at next week’s ceremony is Ed Sheeran, and as a fellow British songwriter, RAYE tells ABC Audio she’s relieved he won his copyright trial last week. RAYE suggests it would’ve been terrible for the songwriting community…

The latest episode of Yellowjackets was a harrowing one for Sophie Nélisse’s character, Shauna, and she says Harry Styles helped her get through her emotional scenes. “I was listening to, for some reason, ‘Fine Line’ by Harry Styles,” she tells Entertainment Weekly of how she was preparing between takes. “It wrecks me. I don’t know…

Republic Records Jonas Brothers have partnered with the mobile game Candy Crush to promote their new album, as previously reported. And they’ve also teamed up with another popular app: Waze.  If you open your Waze mobile app and tap “Customize your drive,” you can choose “Drive with the Jonas Brothers” to have Nick, Joe and Kevin give you directions … perhaps to your nearest “Waffle…

Jeff Kravitz/AMA2014/FilmMagic When Taylor Swift released her album Red back in 2012, her “Easter eggs” were still taking the form of hidden messages in her lyric booklets. Now, actress Dianna Agron, best known for playing Quinn on Glee, has responded to a longstanding rumor about her and Taylor in a conversation sparked by one of those hidden messages. The message in the Red booklet…

Courtesy Sony Music/Netflix Alicia Keys‘ reimagined version of 2003’s “If I Ain’t Got You” features a global orchestra comprised of women of color appearing alongside her in the new music video. The singer tapped original director Diane Martel to recreate the new clip, which sees a slew of international musicians, including South Africa’s first Black female conductor, Ofentse Pitse; Amel Bent from France; and…

Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal After several years in Los Angeles, The Kelly Clarkson Show is moving to New York City, and so is Kelly. Variety reports that next season — the show’s fifth — will film at NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza in studio 6A, which has been home to talk shows hosted by Jimmy Fallon, David Letterman and Conan O’Brien. According to Variety, the reason for the…

Photographed by Tyler Mitchell; Styled by Sara Moonves While The Weeknd has “died” in his videos multiple times, the artist, born Abel Tesfaye, says he’s getting ready to kill off his alter ego once and for all. Speaking to W magazine, Tesfaye says he’s currently experiencing an identity crisis, and not just because he’s playing a character on his upcoming HBO series The Idol. …