Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” — starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe — will open the upcoming Venice Film Festival. The latest trailer shows a member of the Deetz family who has passed three generations of sudden death. They returned to their house in the city of Winter River, Connecticut. Beetlejuice 2 will start showing in cinemas throughout the world in September 2024.
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Miley Cyrus holds longest-running Number 1 single by a female solo artist this decade
Miley Cyrus’s Flowers is now officially the longest-running Number 1 single by a female solo artist this decade so far, as it rules the roost of the Official Singles Chart for a 10th consecutive week. Miley overtakes Olivia Rodrigo’s nine-week Number 1 stint with 2021’s drivers license.
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Shakira named Billboard’s first Latin Woman of the Year
Billboard announced on Monday they would award Shakira as their Latin Woman of the Year at their inaugural Latin Women In Music celebration airing on 7 May this year. The two-hour special, hosted by Ivy Queen and Jacqueline Bracamontes, would mark the first Billboard-presented gala celebrating female Latin music stars.
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Today Music’s History
On March 16 1959, Doo-wop group The Platters scored their only UK No.1 hit with ‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes’ (also a US No.1 hit). The song was a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for their 1933 musical Roberta. Paul Whiteman had the first hit recording of the song in 1934.
