Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Grammys: John Legend & Common Will Perform “Selma” Song, Sam Smith, Usher Added

Share

The Grammy Awards are coming on February 8th, and the lineup looks good. LLCoolJ will host again (don’t know why– he’s blackmailing someone, obviously). But there’s plenty of good news: John Legend and Common will perform their Oscar nominated “Glory” from “Selma.” Other performers including Sam Smith, Usher, Miranda Lambert and Pharrell (he’d better do “Happy”).

Still waiting for more announcements. I’d guess that Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, and maybe even Barbra Streisand, will on the show. Ken Ehrlich might even wrangle Bob Dylan, who’s getting the MusiCares Person of the Year Award on Friday before the Grammy show. We wait, and we see.

In other music news, Streisand scored her 31st Platinum album this week with her “Partners” duets album. It’s the Most everything– most for a female, most for anyone, etc. Bravo!

Donate to Showbiz411.com

Showbiz411 is now in its 13th year of providing breaking and exclusive entertainment news. This is an independent site, unlike the many Hollywood trades that are owned by one company. To continue providing news that takes a fresh look at what's going on in movies, music, theater, etc, advertising is our basis. Reader donations would be greatly appreciated, too. They are just another facet of keeping fact based journalism alive.
Thank you


Roger Friedman
Roger Friedmanhttps://www.showbiz411.com
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

Read more

In Other News