The Guild of Music Supervisors Awards’ 12th annual GMS Awards will be held on March 20, 2022, one week before the 94th annual Academy Awards will be presented at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The GMS Awards will be held midway through the final-round voting period for the Oscars (March 17-22), so wins here could help in Oscar balloting for best original song and best original score.

The GMS Awards are meant to honor the best in the craft of music supervision.

Awards will be presented in the following categories:

Best music supervision for film budgeted over $25 million

Best music supervision for film budgeted under $25 million

Best music supervision for film budgeted under $10 million

Best music supervision for film budgeted under $5 million

Best song written and/or recorded for a film

Best music supervision – television drama

Best music supervision – television comedy or musical

Best music supervision – reality television

Best music supervision – television movie

Best song written and/or recorded for television

Best music supervision for a documentary

Best music supervision in a docuseries

Best music supervision in a trailer

Best music supervision in advertising (synch)

Best music supervision in advertising (original music)

Best music supervision in a video game

The Guild of Music Supervisors is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2010 with the goal of promoting the role of the music supervisor in all forms of media. The guild holds educational and networking events throughout the year, including the annual State of Music in Media Conference.

For more information on the ceremony, visit GMSAwards.com.

Cardi B wished her other half Offset a happy 30th birthday on Tuesday (Dec. 14) by thanking him for always being by her side.

She scrolled down memory lane with a carousel of her and Offset’s best memories, from photoshoots to nights out to playtime with their 3-year-old daughter Kulture to the first time he held his second child with Cardi, whom she gave birth to in September. Cardi praised Offset for his love and commitment to her, business acumen and dedication as a father to the children they share as well as his other three previous children.

“Happy birthday to my huuuuusband, best friend and babydaaadddyyy. I love you so much and I’m so proud of you. We have overcome so much together. I love the man that you’re becoming and I love the father that you are. Thank you for always being there for me, for being a great confidant and advisor and for never allowing me to sell myself short. I’m so lucky to have you as a partner raising our beautiful kids,” she started the caption. “You have soo many projects and businesses that you are managing and leading yet you have helped me so much in this journey wit our two babies. May life keep blessing you and you continue to thrive. I’m so excited for the world to see what you got coming. I love you!! We turning up tonight and next week for your party.”

Cardi and Offset have been together since early 2017 and secretly married on September of that year before the Migos rapper proposed to her onstage at Power 99’s Powerhouse concert in Philadelphia in October 2017.

See her sweet birthday tribute to Offset below.

With the help of their ARMY, BTS are known for their record-breaking achievements, including on Billboard‘s very own charts.

The guys are regulars in the Guinness Book of World Records, including member V’s recent double achievement as the fastest to reach both 1 million and 10 million followers on Instagram when he launched his individual account on Dec. 6.

Below, find the full list of BTS’ Guinness World Record achievements.

First K-pop group to reach No. 1 on Billboard 200 

BTS released their third studio album, Love Yourself: Tear, on May 18, 2018. The album debuted in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 in the week ending May 24 and appearing on the list dated June 2. With the release of Love Yourself: Tear, the group earned the highest sales ever for a K-pop group, with the album becoming the first foreign-language release since 2006 to top the chart and the first world music album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

First K-pop act to lead the Billboard Artist 100 chart 

Following the release of Love Yourself: Tear, BTS skyrocketed to the top of the Artist 100 — a feat that would later hint at how big the group would become in the United States.

First K-pop group to earn a top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100

“Fake Love” was released as the lead single from Love Yourself: Tear, and the track debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 on June 2, 2018 (the highest placement for a K-pop artist since Psy’s “Gangnam Style,” which debuted at No. 12), making them the first K-pop group to reach the top 10 of the chart. Their highest entry before “Fake Love” was on Dec. 16, 2017, with  when “MIC Drop,” featuring Desiigner, debuted on the Hot 100 at No. 28.

Most weeks at No. 1 for Billboard‘s Social 50 chart

BTS became the first act in the Social 50‘s nearly decadelong history to lead in the No. 1 spot for 200 weeks. The K-pop group first entered and topped the chart on July 29, 2017, and have yet to leave.

Most weeks for a K-pop group on the Billboard Hot 100

BTS broke another record previously held by Psy’s “Gangnam Style” with the release of their 2020 single “Dynamite.” The track spent a total of 32 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart until April 2021 and spent three weeks in the No. 1 position.

Most weeks at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Digital Singles chart 

“Butter” recently spent 18 weeks in the No. 1 position on the Digital Singles chart, tying their own single “Dynamite” for most weeks on the chart. As of Dec. 13, 2021, BTS now has the most cumulative weeks at No. on the chart, beating out Taylor Swift.

Most streamed act on Spotify (group)

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, BTS is currently the most streamed group on Spotify of all time with over 16.3 billion streams, a title previously held by their “My Universe” collaborators, Coldplay (16.1 billion streams).

Most streamed track on Spotify in 24 hours 

Shortly after the release of “Butter,” BTS’ ARMY streamed the song on Spotify 20.9 million times by May 23 times within its first 24 hours of being live on the app. Though this record appears in the 2022 Guinness World Record book (published Sept. 14, 2021), Adele recently snagged the title from BTS when she dropped her 30 lead single, “Easy on Me,” on Oct. 15, beating them with 24 million stream in the first 24 hours of its release.

Most Twitter engagements (retweets) for any account and most Twitter engagements for a group

Given how devoted BTS ARMY is on social media, it’s no surprise that the group earned the Guinness World Record title for the most Twitter engagements for any account and most engagements for a group — in 2019, the group had an average of 422,228 retweets on the social media app.

Fastest to 1 million followers on TikTok

BTS joined TikTok on Sept. 25, 2019, to promote their single “Boy With Luv” featuring Halsey, and quickly shattered the app’s record for having the quickest time to reach 1 million followers. The group secured the benchmark number in just three hours and 31 minutes of being live.

Most viewers for the premiere of a music video on YouTube

“Butter” broke several records on YouTube — ahead of the video’s premiere, 3.9 million users were waiting to watch it, a figure that also earned the group the title for the most viewers for the premiere of any video on the website.

Most viewed YouTube music video in 24 hours by a K-pop group

The music video for “Butter” would earn a whopping 108,200,000 views within the first 24 hours of its release. The group previously held the title in August 2020 with the official video for “Dynamite.” With this figure, “Butter” would also become the most viewed YouTube music video in 24 hours.

Most viewed YouTube video in 24 hours

BTS secured this title on August 22, 2020, with the release of their music video for  “Dynamite,” which amassed 101,100,000 views.

Most viewers for a music concert livestream on a bespoke platform

As livestream concerts became a staple in 2020 due to the pandemic, BTS did the virtual concert Bang Bang Con: The Live, with 756,000 fans across 107 countries tuning in to watch the show. With this concert, BTS also secured the Guinness World Record title for the most tickets sold for a livestreamed concert (current year).

Most “daesang” (“grand prize”) awards won at the Mnet Asian Music Awards

As of 2020, BTS has won a total of 13 Daesang awards (South Korea) at the Mnet Asian Music Awards between 2016 and 2020.

Most Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards won by a music group

At the 34th annual Kids’ Choice Awards on March 13, BTS tied Fifth Harmony with a total of five Kids’ Choice Awards. BTS earned their first Kids’ Choice Award in 2018 for favorite global music star and added wins for favorite music group in 2020 and 2021. BTS additionally won favorite global music star a second time and favorite song.

Best-selling album in South Korea

According to Guinness World Records, BTS sold approximately 4,440,800 units of their album Map of the Soul: 7, earning the K-pop group the record title for best-selling album in their home country as of March 2021.

Highest earnings for a K-pop band

Forbes estimated that BTS earned $50 million in 2020, a number that was significantly boosted by their reported $170 million in touring revenue. The estimate placed the group at No. 47 on the magazine’s list of highest-earning celebrities for the year.

Most followed group on Instagram

In April 2021, BTS secured the title for the most followers for a group on Instagram — at the time, the group had 40,220,226 followers, which has now jumped to over 57 million as of December 2021.

Bonus: Fastest to reach both 1 and 10 million followers on Instagram (V)

All seven members of BTS debuted solo Instagram accounts on Dec. 6, but V amassed the most followers in the shortest amount of time. Guinness World Records announced that it took a mere 43 minutes for him to reach 1 million followers on the platform, with the figure jumping to 10 million in just four hours and 52 minutes.

Britney Spears and her fiancé Sam Asghari teased they had a “new addition to the family” Tuesday (Dec. 14), but the superstar is keeping her fans guessing as to what exactly that means.

She posted an Instagram video of herself cradling something in front of her magnificent Christmas tree and feeding it milk from a baby bottle while “Look at the Sky” by OsMan plays in the background.

“New addition to the family guess if it’s a boy or a girl,” she captioned the clip. “Thank you again baby @samasghari !!!!” Her fiancé Asghari commented a series of speechless-looking emojis, which defined how the rest of her fans felt in the comments section.

“Baby, one more time???” one IG user wrote, referencing her 1998 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit. Last month, the 39-year-old pop superstar revealed she was “thinking about having another baby” when she posted a black-and-white photo of a baby standing on their tiptoes. She and Asghari joked about having a little girl together in late September when he captured the singer holding a baby doll to form a matching mother-daughter duo. “Exclusive! We had a baby,” he captioned one of the videos on his IG Story with crying-laughing emojis. “What should we name her?”

Spears already has two sons — Sean, 16, and Jayden, 15 — with ex-husband Kevin Federline. But in June, during a hearing to address her now-terminated court-ordered conservatorship, she told Judge Brenda Penny that the team in charge of her situation wouldn’t allow her to have another baby like she wanted.

“I want to be able to get married and have a baby. I was told right now in the conservatorship, I’m not able to get married or have a baby. I have an IUD inside of myself right now so I don’t get pregnant,” Spears said during her emotional testimony. “I wanted to take the IUD out so I could start trying to have another baby. But this so-called team won’t let me go to the doctor to take it out because they don’t want me to have anymore children. So basically, this conservatorship is doing me way more harm than good.”

See her latest video below.

LONDON – New restrictions for nightclubs and music venues in England have been introduced to tackle a sharp rise in cases of the coronavirus omicron variant. Members of Parliament backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s controversial ‘Plan B’ measures on Tuesday (Dec. 14), with 369 MPs voting in favor of making COVID-19 vaccine passports a legal requirement to enter clubs and some concert halls, versus 126 against.

The rules come into force on Wednesday (Dec. 15), meaning that people aged over 18 in England will need to show they’ve either had two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine or proof of a negative test taken in the past 48 hours to enter a number of music venues, including nightclubs and indoor unseated venues with more than 500 people.

Proof of vaccine status via an NHS Covid Pass is also needed for unseated outdoor venues with more than 4,000 people and any venue (indoor or outdoor) with more than 10,000 people. Similar Covid passport schemes are already in place in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

MPs also voted to back compulsory face masks in most indoor settings in England, although this rule doesn’t apply to nightclubs and music venues.

“We can’t eliminate the risk of COVID-19 but we can reduce it, and these proposals offer a pragmatic way of doing this,” said Health Secretary Sajid Javid in the House of Commons ahead of the vote. Javid said the regulations “would make some of the most potentially high-risk environments even safer” and would be reviewed on Jan. 5.

Almost 100 Conservative MPs rebelled against their own party and voted in opposition to vaccine passes. The government originally announced it would be making vaccine passports a legal entry requirement for English venues and nightclubs in July, but then scrapped the plans several months later because of high vaccination levels and new coronavirus treatments.

That optimism is now rapidly fading following the emergence of the omicron variant. On Monday, there were 4,713 confirmed cases of omicron in the U.K. reported as well as the first death connected with the variant. The U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) estimates the true number of daily infections is much higher at around 200,000.

According to the latest data, nearly 47 million people in the U.K. have had both vaccine doses, equivalent to 81% of the adult population. The government has committed to offer booster jabs to all adults who want one by the end of December.

The introduction of vaccine passports for nightclubs and music venues has been fiercely opposed by the live music and entertainment sector due to the logistical challenges they pose for businesses and the negative impact they have on footfall. According to the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), trade in Scottish venues and clubs fell by 30% following their implementation on Oct. 1. In Wales, business was down 26%, the organization says.

“These additional restrictions will jeopardise the survival of businesses in 2022,” said NTIA CEO Michael Kill in response to Tuesday’s vote. “Our members have supported the national pandemic effort for over two years, closing when they were asked, limiting trade, working with guidelines which took investment on new mitigations and training to be able to open there [sic] doors, and keep customers and staff safe,” said Kill, calling for “urgent additional support” for the sector.

The new measures come at a pivotal time for U.K. grassroots music venues, which have seen attendance drop by 23% and revenue go down 27% in the six days since the government announced its Plan B restrictions, according to research by the Music Venue Trust.

Of 284 venue owners the trust surveyed, 61% said they had to cancel at least one event between Dec. 6-13 because of poor sales, a member of the touring party testing positive for COVID-19 or canceled bookings. Advance ticket sales have fallen by 27% due to declining consumer confidence, says the organization, which puts total losses across the sector at almost £2 million.

The Music Venue Trust is calling for the government to immediately create a “ring-fenced stabilisation fund” to protect grassroots live businesses.

“This is the busiest time of the year for grassroots music venues,” says Beverley Whitrick, strategic director at the trust. “Losses of this magnitude cannot be sustained without throwing hundreds of music venues into crisis mode and at risk of permanent closure.”

Kelly Clarkson delved into her own Christmas songbook on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Tuesday (Dec. 14) with a performance of “Merry Christmas Baby.”

Dressed in a sparkling gray gown, the pop singer powered through the opening track of her new holiday album, When Christmas Comes Around…, which she co-wrote with Aben Eubanks.

“You’ll wake up all alone and/ Wonder why I’m not home/ And I’ll let my phone ring/ A dose of your kind of love and/ I’ll let my absence show you/ What I got you for Christmas/ Is losing me/ Merry Christmas, baby,” she belted on the chorus while flanked by a trio of back-up singers and her talk show’s house band, Y’all.

The track is just one of five original Christmas tracks penned by the American Idol champ on the new LP, including lead single “Christmas Isn’t Canceled (Just You),” “Merry Christmas (To the One I Used to Know),” Chris Stapleton collab “Glow” and Ariana Grande-assisted bop “Santa, Can’t You Hear Me.” The studio set also features holiday classics such as “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” “Santa Baby,” “Last Christmas” and “Jingle Bell Rock.”

To promote her second Christmas record, Clarkson even nabbed her own holiday special, Kelly Clarkson Presents: When Christmas Comes Around…, which premiered on NBC earlier this month.

Other “Kellyoke” numbers The Voice coach has nailed to open her eponymous show range from her 2021 cut “Christmas Come Early” and beloved 2003 single “The Trouble With Love Is” to covers of Amy Grant’s “Breath of Heaven,” The Chicks’ “There’s Your Trouble” and Linda Ronstadt’s “You’re No Good.”

Check out Clarkson’s gorgeous live rendition of “Merry Christmas Baby” below.