Genesis Owusu’s debut Smiling With No Teeth has won Triple J’s coveted J Award for Australian album of the year.

Owusu took the main prize at the broadcaster’s annual J Awards, to beat out a list of LPs by the likes of Gretta Ray, Amyl and The Sniffers, Rufus Du Sol, Tones And I, and others.

Smiling With No Teeth stood out for its funk spirit, and leanings into hip-hop, jazz, punk, and soul, all cooked up with good humor and a taste for the experimental.

“From early in his career, Genesis Owusu made it obvious that he was an artist that you could not pigeonhole, and no better example of this is on Smiling With No Teeth,” comments triple j music director Nick Findlay.

“His debut album is equal parts chaos and consistency; a hugely ambitious record that absolutely nails its vision, wrapped up in outstanding storytelling and bold, confident sonic landscapes.”

Owusu scooped a second J Award, Australian music video of the year, for Smiling standout ”The Other Black Dog,” directed by Riley Blakeway.

The J Awards could be the first of many honors this month for the hip-hop artist.

A 2015 Unearthed High finalist, the Ghanian-Australian visionary (real name Kofi Ansah-Owusu) is the equal-leader heading into the 2021 ARIA Awards, with six nominations, including artist of the year and best album.

Also at the J Awards, rising Indigenous act King Stingray! took home the Unearthed artist of the year prize, while The Avalanches won Double J’s artist of the year award, for the duo’s third studio set, We Will Always Love You.

The Avalanches’ 2020 album has enjoyed the type of critical and commercial acclaim that’s reserved for only a select few electronic acts. The album debuted at No. 4 on the ARIA Albums Chart last December, and won the 16th annual Australian Music Prize back in March of this year.

Meanwhile, Brisbane indie artist Jaguar Jonze (Deena Lynch) was named winner of the 2021 Done Good Award.

Jonze has been at the vanguard of Australia’s long-overdue #MeToo movement, by advocating for change, and addressing the abuse and misogyny she’s faced in her own music career.

“The reckoning against sexual harassment and assault in Australia’s music industry in 2021 wouldn’t be the same without Deena’s courage,” the Australian Broadcasting Corporation notes.

As Jonze explained in June, victim-survivors “aren’t responsible for creating change,” the state-funded broadcaster notes. “And yet, Deena has selflessly used her own story to spark a conversation that will no doubt create a safer industry for the next generation of artists.”

In August, she won her first AIR Award for Outstanding Achievement in “calling out unacceptable behavior and raising awareness for the industry to have a code of conduct to ensure that all practitioners operate in safe and respectful environments.”

Due to lingering restrictions on border-hopping within Australia, organizers abandoned plans for a J Awards announcement party. Instead, the winners were announced throughout the day of Thursday across the Corporation’s platforms.

Yotuel, Gente De Zona, Descemer Bueno and El Funky brought Cuba to the Latin Grammy stage with their poignant anthem “Patria y Vida.”

Dressed in all white, the group took turns running through each verse with conviction, howling their famous “Patria y Vida” slogan as a Cuban flag waved in the audience. The performance ended with a fiery chant that quickly left the stage and emerged among the crowd: “¡Viva Cuba Libre!”

After winning best urban song at the Latin Grammy premiere ceremony earlier in the day, “Patria y Vida” also won one of the biggest awards of the night: song of the year. With his Latin Grammy in hand, Yotuel dedicated the win to his mother and all Latina mothers who dream of a better future for their children.

Hosted by Ana Brenda Contreras, Carlos Rivera, and Roselyn Sánchez, the 22nd annual Latin Grammys Awards includes a star-studded lineup of both performers and presenters such as C. Tangana, Maná, Los Dos Carnales, Ozuna, Gloria Trevi, and Myke Towers, among others, taking the stage.

With the theme “rediscovering life through music,” the three-hour show will “invite audiences to rediscover what’s important in life using music as a storyline,” according to a statement from the Latin Recording Academy.

For the first time ever, Maná & Alejandro Fernández performed their new version of the old classic, “Mariposa Traicionera,” at the Latin Grammys on Thursday night (Nov. 18).

Joined by the band, Fernandez and frontman, Fher Olver took turns serenading the audience with the timeless track. Both the band and Fernandez hail from Guadalajara, making this collaboration a natural and highly publicized union.

The top-selling Latin rock band released the Fernández collaboration with a music video which premiered earlier that day.

Hosted by Ana Brenda Contreras, Carlos Rivera, and Roselyn Sánchez, the 22nd annual Latin Grammys Awards includes a star-studded lineup of both performers and presenters such as C. Tangana, Maná, Los Dos Carnales, Ozuna, Gloria Trevi, and Myke Towers, among others, taking the stage.

With the theme “rediscovering life through music,” the three-hour show will “invite audiences to rediscover what’s important in life using music as a storyline,” according to a statement from the Latin Recording Academy.

Colombian singer-songwriter Camilo leads the 2021 Latin Grammys nominees with 10 nods, including nominations in the album, record, and song of the year categories. He’s followed by tropical music icon Juan Luis Guerra with six, Spanish rapper Tangana with five nominations, and multiple artists, including Bad Bunny, with four.

Bad Bunny was on fire during his soul-baring performance of “Maldita Pobreza” at the 2021 Latin Grammy awards.

Surrounded by pulsing flames, the Latin Grammy winner closed out the night with the somber deep cut, alongside a full band. Sporting a dark pink suit and curly mohawk, the hitmaker entered the stage with a black veil covering his face and inverted coloring on screen. Joining the band, Benito rocked out for the rest of his performance, as strobe lights flashed in the background.

The Puerto Rican chart topper is among the most-nominated acts at the 2021 Latin Grammys, winning best rap/hip-hop song for “Booker T” and best urban album for El Último Tour Del Mundo. He is preceded by Colombian singer-songwriter Camilo with 10 nods, tropical music icon Juan Luis Guerra with six and Spanish rapper Tangana with five nominations.

Hosted by Ana Brenda Contreras, Carlos Rivera, and Roselyn Sánchez, the 22nd annual Latin Grammys Awards includes a star-studded lineup of both performers and presenters such as C. Tangana, Maná, Los Dos Carnales, Ozuna, Gloria Trevi, and Myke Towers, among others, taking the stage.

With the theme “rediscovering life through music,” the three-hour show “[invites] audiences to rediscover what’s important in life using music as a storyline,” according to a statement from the Latin Recording Academy.

Steve Perry’s first holiday album, The Season, jingles onto Billboard’s charts, as the set debuts at No. 6 on Top Album Sales with 11,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 11, according to MRC Data. It’s Perry’s second top 10 in the 30-year history of the chart, following his 2018 studio album Traces, which debuted and peaked at No. 4.

The Season also arrives at No. 4 on Top Holiday Albums, No. 16 on Independent Albums and No. 21 on Vinyl Albums.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now MRC Data. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Leading the latest Top Album Sales chart is ABBA’s first studio album in nearly 40 years, Voyage, which sails in at No. 1 with 78,000 copies sold. That marks the largest sales week of 2021 for an album by a group.

Radiohead’s Kid A Mnesia starts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with 21,000 copies sold. The set operates as a reissue of Radiohead’s 2000 album Kid A and its 2001 album Amnesiac. The former debuted at No. 1 on Top Album Sales in 2000, while the latter debuted and peaked at No. 2 the following year. The new Kid A Mnesia package also boasts additional previously unreleased tracks.

Ed Sheeran’s = falls from No. 1 to No. 3 in its second week on Top Album Sales, with 17,000 sold (down 76%) while NCT 127’s former leader Sticker: The 3rd Album jumps 14-4 (16,000; up 150%) after it garnered a deluxe reissue with additional tracks.

Summer Walker’s Still Over It enters at No. 5 with 12,000 sold, while Snail Mail’s second studio album Valentine bows at No. 7 with 10,000 sold. The latter marks the best sales week and first top 10 for Snail Mail. Valentine also starts in the top 10 on Top Rock Albums, Top Alternative Albums, Independent Albums, Vinyl Albums and Tastemaker Albums. The latter ranks the week’s top-selling albums at independent and small chain record stores.

Rapper Key Glock sees his latest release Yellow Tape 2 debut with 9,000 sold at No. 8, while Sena Kana’s Show Me starts at No. 9 with just under 9,000 sold.

Closing out the top 10 is Vince Guaraldi Trio’s evergreen holiday hit A Charlie Brown Christmas TV soundtrack, as it flurries up the list 24-10 with 8,000 sold (up 82%). It also bounds 4-1 on the Soundtracks chart, 11-4 on Vinyl Albums and 159-63 on the Billboard 200.