The Weeknd, Dolly Parton, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Amid Emmy Audio Entries
Three months from now, the Weeknd could just have an Emmy to location along with his four Grammys and his Oscar nomination.
That’s for the reason that he joins a dozen other music superstars — together with Dolly Parton, Common, Ryan Tedder, “Weird Al” Yankovic and Meshell Ndegeocello — who have entered perform in this year’s Emmy opposition.
Voting commenced yesterday in the 7 tunes groups. About 550 users of the Academy’s new music department (composers, songwriters, audio administrators, orchestrators or tunes supervisors) will solid ballots, though viewing the hundreds of entries ahead of voting finishes on June 26 is an difficult undertaking, Academy officers privately concede.
The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, is among the 19 entries in the Songs Course category. He submitted “The Weeknd Live at Sofi Stadium,” an HBO unique that aired in February. If nominated, he’s likely to be up versus this kind of earlier winners as Adam Blackstone (entered for the “Super Bowl LVII 50 percent-time Show,” “Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame” ceremony and Rihanna’s “Savage X Fenty Show”) and Rickey Small (“The Oscars”).
Most of the significant-title performers have entered the song group (officially Outstanding Authentic Audio and Lyrics). Parton, who received an Emmy two several years in the past as a producer of her Television film “Christmas on the Sq.,” submitted songs from NBC’s “Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas” and HBO’s “Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame Induction Ceremony.”
Also coming into songs are Kid Cudi from Netflix’s “Entergalactic,” David Byrne from Netflix’s “John Mulaney: Little one J,” Ryan Tedder from Peacock’s “Pitch Great: Bumper in Berlin,” Donald Glover from Key Video’s “Swarm,” Yankovic from Roku’s “Weird: The Al Yankovic Tale,” Steve Martin from Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” and Lainey Wilson from Paramount’s “Yellowstone.”
In all, 80 music are entered, like a few each individual from Primary Video’s “Daisy Jones & the Six” (which include a single by Marcus Mumford) and Paramount+’s “Grease: Increase of the Pink Women.” Oscar winners Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz entered a track from Disney+’s “Disenchanted,” and fellow Oscar winners Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez entered Hulu’s “Up Here” in two groups: original tune and key title theme.
Tunes-major “The Wonderful Mrs. Maisel” (Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore, on Prime Online video) and “Schmigadoon!” (Cinco Paul, on Apple Tv set+) entered one song apiece.
The superior-profile musicians amongst the 158 entries for Outstanding Audio Composition for a Collection involve Typical for Netflix’s “Mo,” P.J. Harvey for Apple Television set+’s “Bad Sisters,” Meshell Ndegeocello for Starz’s “BMF,” T Bone Burnett for FX’s “The Old Man” and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis for Hulu’s “Unprisoned.”
That classification is in particular appealing for the certain episodes submitted. Nicholas Britell entered episode 12, the finale, of Disney+’s “Andor” but episode 3 – curiously, not the substantially-viewed finale – of HBO’s “Succession.” Episode 3, “Connor’s Marriage ceremony,” is the 1 in which Logan Roy dies.
Amongst the fantasy and sci-fi entries, Bear McCreary entered episode 1 of Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Ability,” although Ramin Djawadi submitted episode 10, the finale, of HBO’s “House of the Dragon.” Joseph Shirley and Ludwig Goransson entered episode 24, the finale, of Disney+’s “The Mandalorian,” but Stephen Barton entered episode 4 of Paramount+’s “Star Trek: Picard,” not the broadly acclaimed finale of the sequence. And Tom Howe entered the finale of “Ted Lasso” on Apple Television+.
Amid the 69 entries in the class of Songs for a Limited or Anthology Collection, Motion picture or Particular, the most noteworthy is “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” with audio by John Williams and Natalie Holt. Williams, who currently has 3 Primetime Emmys, did not submit his topic for the Disney+ sequence in the most important-title theme class.
Observers speculated that it may perhaps have been a strategic transfer on the aspect of Lucasfilm to draw in votes to this distinct entry somewhat than break up the votes concerning two tunes groups citing the famous “Star Wars” composer.
The 71 entries in Principal Title Concept also include things like a handful of notables: Jarvis Cocker for AMC+’s “This Is Heading to Harm,” Danny Elfman for Netflix’s “Wednesday” and Howard Shore (who currently has 3 Oscars for “Lord of the Rings” films) for “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy.”
Oscar-profitable songwriting groups have entered this class as properly. Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez entered their topic for “Up Here,” and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (with Lizzy McAlpine) submitted the Apple Tv+ collection “Dear Edward.”
Three significant-profile movie composers are included among the 75 entries for Music Composition for a Documentary Collection or Specific: Hans Zimmer, one of a few composers for Apple Television set+’s “Prehistoric Planet,” James Newton Howard for Disney+’s doc “Light & Magic,” and John Powell for Apple Tv set+’s “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie.”
There are 138 entries in the New music Supervision class. This will be the seventh yr that an Emmy has been awarded to music supervisors three of them have long gone to “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and supervisor Robin Urdang could earn a fourth she has entered the collection finale.
