Ed Sheeran fans can never get enough of his music. Fortunately, there are now four more tracks to stream.

Ed Sheeran’s latest album, =, is getting a “tour edition.” The Fall 2021 release, pronounced Equals, has been updated with the addition of nine new tracks. Two songs from the extended version are brand new, “Welcome to the World” and “I Will Remember You,” while two others are from the 2019 film Yesterday, in which the singer also appeared. Those tracks, “Penguins” and “One Life,” were never officially released.

The “tour edition” of the album also includes the previously released collaborations “The Joker and the Queen” with Taylor Swift; “Peru” with Fireboy DML; “Bad Habits” with Bring Me the Horizon, which they performed together at the 2022 BRIT Awards; and his new single with Lil Baby, “2Step,” which includes a video shot in Kyiv, Ukraine before the Russian invasion.

Earlier this year, Sheeran collaborated with J Balvin on two songs, “Forever My Love” and “Sigue.” He also joined Camila Cabello in “Bam Bam,” a single for Cabello’s new album Familia. Ed Sheeran is now on tour in the United Kingdom, with plans to continue around Europe during the summer and autumn.

Sheeran also recently released the sixth official remix of ‘2step,’ this time with Australian rising artist Budjerah, after remixes with Ellinoora, Antytila, 1.Cuz, and Ultimo.

Sheeran met Budjerah, an R&B singer-songwriter from the coastal community of Fingal Head, New South Wales, at the 2021 ARIA Awards, where he received the Breakthrough Artist award.

Budjerah’s remix of ‘2step’ was followed by remixes by artists such as Leto, Chefin from Brazil, Reezy from Germany, and Denise Chaila from Ireland.

Last November, Sheeran’s fourth No. 1 album debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 list. In his own country, he boasts a perfect five-from-five chart record.

Lady Gaga’s latest single is on the way, and Little Monsters should thank Top Gun: Maverick for that. Gaga confirmed on Wednesday that the soundtrack’s opening song, “Hold My Hand,” would be released on May 3.

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The singer announced the song’s release on Instagram, along with song art and a message expressing her “love letter to the world.” Lady Gaga added that she has “been working on it for years” in order to perfect it and “make it ours” amid this trying time for the planet.

“When I wrote this song for Top Gun: Maverick, I didn’t even realize the multiple layers it spanned across the film’s heart, my own psyche, and the nature of the world we’ve been living in,” she shared. “I wanted to make music into a song where we share our deep need to both be understood and try to understand each other — a longing to be close when we feel so far away and an ability to celebrate life’s heroes.”

The song, which was co-produced by Lady Gaga and BloodPop, is set to be included in the film’s soundtrack, which is composed by Harold Faltermeyer and Hans Zimmer.

“Me, BloodPop, Ben Rice and everyone else who worked on it with us are so excited to share it with you,” she continued before concluding the message with song lyrics. “🎶 But if you decide to; I’ll ride in this life with you; I won’t let go till the end 🎶.”

The song is Gaga’s first release after her collaboration with Tony Bennett on Love for Sale. It’s also her first foray into music soundtracks since co-starring in A Star Is Born and winning an Academy Award for “Shallow” alongside Bradley Cooper.

Gaga has been tweeting the song’s lyrics as a tease for a few days now. “Hold my hand everything will be ok  I heard from the heavens that clouds have been grey,” she tweeted on Tuesday. She went on to tweet, “Pull me close wrap me in your aching arms I see that you’re hurtin’” and “Why’d you take so long to tell me you need me.”

The single will be a musical homage to the original Top Gun soundtrack, which included ’80s mega-hits like Kenny Logins’ Danger Zone and Berlin’s Oscar-winning “Take My Breath Away,” produced by Giorgio Moroder and writer Tom Whitlock and performed by Berlin. It will also feature the Harold Faltermeyer-penned “Top Gun Anthem.”

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Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian, “Aladdin” actor, and possessor of Hollywood’s most unique voice, died Tuesday after battling a long illness, his family confirmed. He was 67 years old.

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According to his publicist, he died of myotonic dystrophy type 2, a kind of muscular dystrophy.

“We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our beloved Gilbert Gottfried after a long illness. In addition to being the most iconic voice in comedy, Gilbert was a wonderful husband, brother, friend and father to his two young children. Although today is a sad day for all of us, please keep laughing as loud as possible in Gilbert’s honor,” his family announced on Twitter.

Gottfried is most recognized for his role as the parrot Iago in the 1992 film Aladdin. He returned to reprise the character in the film’s sequels, including The Return Of Jafar and Aladdin And The King Of Thieves, as well as the video game franchise Kingdom Hearts.

His other accomplishments include Kraang Subprime in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), Family Guy, SpongeBob SquarePants, Clerks: The Animated Series, and The Ren & Stimpy Show, among others.

Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast, which he has hosted since 2014, features discussions of classic movies and celebrity interviews, with the most recent episode airing on April 4. A documentary film on his career, “Gilbert,” was released in 2017.

Many fellow comedians and Gottfried’s former co-stars paid tribute on social media.

“Gilbert Gottfried made me laugh at times when laughter did not come easily. What a gift,” actor Jason Alexander tweeted.

“Gilbert Gottfried was never not funny,” wrote comic Dane Cook. “He was a lovely guy, always friendly & made many people happy.”

“Nobody was funnier than @RealGilbert on a roll,” writer and director Judd Apatow tweeted. “He could put you into convulsive hysterics. He was also the sweetest man. His podcast is a comedy treasure. What a terrible loss.”

Gilbert Gottfried is survived by his wife Dara, daughter Lily, 14, son Max, 12, sister Karen, and nephew Graham.

At Sunday’s 94th Academy Awards, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell took home the Academy Award for original song for “No Time to Die,” the title track of the latest James Bond film.

It’s the third Academy Award for music in the long-running spy saga, after Adele’s win for “Skyfall” in 2012 and Sam Smith’s for “Writing’s on the Wall” from 2015’s “Spectre.”

The song was written nearly three years ago by the two and was released in February 2020. They also performed the song during the Oscars broadcast.

It was also a clean sweep for the brother-sister duo, who had already won a Grammy and a Golden Globe, as well as Critics’ Choice and Society of Composers & Lyricists awards, for their song “No Time to Die.”

“This is so unbelievable I could scream,” Eilish said at the start of her acceptance speech. Finneas, 24, expressed gratitude to his parents, saying, “We want to thank our parents, who have always been our biggest inspirations and heroes, and we love you as parents, and we love you as real people too.”

Beyoncé, Van Morrison, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Diane Warren were all nominated for Best Original Song, but Eilish and Finneas took the win.

Billie Eilish is one of the category’s youngest winners, although not the youngest; that honor belongs to Markéta Irglová, who was 19 when “Falling Slowly” from Once won in 2008. However, Eilish and Finneas made history by being the first American composers to win Best Original Song for a Bond theme.

Eilish told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe that they were given bits of the script to help them decide which themes to focus on. 

Following the completion of the demo, the siblings worked with Hans Zimmer, who produced the orchestration, and recorded the song with a 70-person orchestra. Johnny Marr played guitar in the song as well.

Billy Joel has not given his approval to the upcoming biopic on his life, Piano Man.

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A spokesman for the legendary musician has stated that Billy Joel “is not involved with” Michael Jai White’s Jaigantic Studios’ upcoming biopic.

“No rights in music, name/likeness or life story will be granted,” the representative said in a statement.

According to Variety, the biopic “will follow Billy Joel’s early years — from being discovered by Irwin Mazur, who managed the band The Hassles that Joel joined as a teenager, to his breakout performance in 1972 that captured the attention of Clive Davis.

Jaigantic reportedly obtained the “life rights” to Mazur, Joel’s music rep in the early 1970s, just before the breakthrough of his ‘Piano Man’ album.

The upcoming film’s producers told Variety that the music requirements for the film are “yet to be determined.”

Adam Ripp, the film’s expected director and screenwriter, told Variety that Joel “has been a part of my life since my father signed him to his record label when I was 4 years old.”

“His music is ingrained in my DNA and it’s been a dream of mine as a filmmaker to explore and celebrate the untold story of how Billy Joel became the ‘Piano Man,'” Ripp further said.

Variety also confirmed that Apple is planning a biopic of renowned actress Audrey Hepburn starring Rooney Mara.

The movie will be directed by Oscar-nominated Call Me by Your Name filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, with Mara producing and The Giver co-writer Michael Mitnick writing the script.

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper had a touching reunion at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

When the co-stars bumped into each other inside The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, where the star-studded event was held, they shared a heartfelt embrace.

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Lady Gaga, 35, was nominated for her role of Patrizia Reggiani in House of Gucci. Likewise, Cooper, 47, was nominated for his performance in Licorice Pizza as an Outstanding Male Actor in a Supporting Role.

The SAG reunion comes three years after they worked together on the highly acclaimed film A Star is Born, which he directed and co-starred in with Gaga.

Both were nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress at the 2019 Academy Awards, with Gaga taking home the award for Best Original Song for ‘Shallow.’

The pair also performed at that event, performing an intimate duet of the song ‘Shallow,’ which has been viewed more than 500 million times on YouTube, making it the most-watched Oscars moment of all time.

Since its debut in 2018, Lady Gaga’s official music video for ‘Shallow’ has accumulated 1.2 billion views.

A Star Is Born helped form an unbreakable relationship between the Grammy-winning singer and actor.

Cooper told People in 2018: “I made a friend for life. As great as this movie was, the thing that I think I’ll take away forever is the relationship I have with her because she is an incredible person. I’m very lucky to have worked with her.”

Robert Pattinson has expressed his relief at finally being able to put The Batman behind him – after a three-year shoot that cost a staggering $150 million and a rumored dispute with the film’s perfectionist director, Matt Reeves.

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He also said that he was the sort to “looking for the exit strategy before you’ve even started” anything, adding that the movie “was one of the hardest things I’ve done in my life.”

Not only did the actor, 35, injure his wrist during a stunt early in the filming process, but he was also reportedly forced to reshoot scenes more than 50 times and refused to stay in shape during a six-month hiatus due to lockdown restrictions.

Upon returning to The Batman sets, he allegedly caused paranoia among crew members by testing positive for Covid, fought loneliness while living in a tent throughout the country, and had his take on Batman’s voice rejected after two weeks of production.

At Wednesday’s London screening of the superhero film at Waterloo’s BFI IMAX, the former Twilight actor said: “It’s a relief. For (director) Matt Reeves, this is five years. I’ve been kind of working on this for three years. “

Initially scheduled for release in 2018, Robert Pattinson is said to have been paid $3 million to replace Ben Affleck. The latter had signed on to act in the titular role while directing and producing the film before experiencing personal issues.

Ben checked into rehabilitation for alcohol addiction in 2018 after his divorce from his then-wife Jennifer Garner after a thirteen-year marriage.

Matt then cast Zo Kravitz as Catwoman, but she quickly found herself hoping that he would shout ‘cut’ before her co-star’s sweat fell into her mouth during difficult scenes that led him to sweat heavily.

According to a source, “Matt will insist on doing scenes over and over again and get bogged down in the tiny details. Some­times it’s like he doesn’t know when to stop.”

Zeo Kravitz reportedly avoided going out in fear of contracting the virus and confessed she “started to cry” after being fitted for her ‘tight and restrictive’ costume, but found consolation in Robert, with Matt stating the pair “really connected.”

Robert Pattinson also said that he was slapped on the wrist barely two weeks into production for speaking in a whispery voice as Bruce Wayne.

He had been trying to distance himself from his predecessors’ “gruff and gravelly” portrayals by Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, George Clooney, and Michael Keaton.

Robert claimed he felt ‘alone’ while living in a tent between London, Liverpool, and Glasgow, thus isolating himself from the outside world.

Moviegoers looking forward to seeing Robert Pattinson’s The Batman film in theatres on March 4 should prepare themselves, as it is expected to be the longest film in the franchise’s history, clocking in at about three hours.

The 94th Academy Awards will undoubtedly be a success.

According to six sources cited by The New York Times, Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer, and Regina Hall are in final discussions to host the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony.

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Will Packer, the Oscars telecast’s producer, initially intended to bring on two hosts for each hour, but the award event, scheduled for Sunday, March 27, is now looking for three hosts altogether, according to The New York Times.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscars have not been hosted by three people in 35 years, and the 2022 ceremony will be the first time that many women served as emcees in a single evening. According to the publication, each comedian will host a one-hour segment of the event, with Amy starting things off.

Three hosts is a significant change from the previous three years of ceremonies, which had no host at all. Jimmy Kimmel was the most recent host in 2018. Other notable emcees include Chris Rock in 2016, Neil Patrick Harris in 2015, and Ellen DeGeneres in 2014 when she took the now-famous selfie from the event, which was the most retweeted image in history until 2017.

When the show lacked a primary host, each award was presented by a long lineup of actors and celebrities.

The 2021 Oscars were shot in person from different places after being rescheduled from February to April due to the virus. This year’s event has also been rescheduled from February 27 to March 27.

Andrew Garfield has been nominated for his leading part in Tick Tick… Boom!, Kristen Stewart has been nominated for her leading role in Spencer, and Ariana DeBose has been nominated for her supporting role in West Side Story.

Wanda, Amy, and Regina, all of whom have experience hosting events, will undoubtedly entertain the nominated actors and filmmakers in attendance.

According to Deadline, the Academy expects to formally announce the ceremony’s hosts Tuesday, Feb. 15, on Good Morning America.

Avril Lavigne is bringing one of her most well-known songs to the big screen.

The 37-year-old singer is turning her hit track “Sk8er Boi” from 2002 into a feature film. Lavigne told the She Is the Voice podcast that she hopes to make a movie to honor the single’s 20th anniversary.

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“Recently with it being almost the 20th anniversary, a lot of people have been asking me to play this song on some TV shows, so it keeps getting brought back up and people will always reference it to me,” Lavigne remarked.

She added that “Sk8er Boi” is one of her favorite songs to sing live and said, “I’m actually going to turn this song into a film… and take it to the next level. “

“Sk8er Boi” was inspired by Lavigne’s own high school experience, she told She Is the Voice, who wrote the song when she was only 17 years old.

“You know what it was like in high school, you have all the different groups and cliques, and there’s like skaters, preps, jocks,” she said. “It’s kind of like a missed opportunity at love.”

Lavigne added that “The skater boy is in love with the preppy girl but like she’s too cool for him but then five years from now she’s feeding the baby and she’s all alone and she wishes she would have followed her heart and not tried to live up to society’s expectations.”

The singer did not provide any other information on the “Sk8er Boi” movie, but it will be based on the music video she made for the song, which tells the story of a ballet dancer who secretly loves a future rock star but rejects him due to his “skater boy” look.

In 2003, “Sk8er Boi” was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and it was ranked No. 5 on Spin Magazine’s list of the best pop-punk choruses of the twenty-first century.

In addition to the film, Avril Lavigne will release a new album next year.