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Taylor Swift skipped the Grammys because they couldn’t guarantee she’d win

#TaylorSwift #62ndAnnualGrammyAwards #Grammys Music insiders say the real reason  Taylor Swift  didn’t go to the  Grammys  is they wouldn’t guarantee she’d win Song of the Year. Multiple sources have confirmed to Page Six that Swift’s team talked to show bigwigs a few days before the live event and said that Swift would only attend and perform if she was to win a big Grammy. But Swift’s team was told the winners are not known to those planning the show, and they would not bend the rules for her. “[Her team] called and wanted to be assured that she would win the Grammy. And while it wasn’t an explicit demand, they certainly were fishing to find out if Taylor was a winner. It was understood in the conversation that if she’s not winning, she’s not coming to the Grammys,” one insider said. Another music insider said, “It’s widely known in the industry that [Swift’s team] called to find out if she was getting a Grammy, they wouldn’t tell her, so she didn’t go....

These Are YouTube's 10 Most Popular Music Videos Ever

#YouTube #MusicVideo #MajorLazer #TaylorSwift #JustinBieber #LuisFonsi  You might think viral clips rule YouTube -- the " Keyboard Cats " and " Charlie bit my fingers " of the world. Sure, they spread across the web like wildfire, dominating your feeds and hijacking your attention. But earworm-y pop songs? Those hits you end up wanting to wipe from your memory forever? Their visuals are the real Scrooge McDucks of the site, gleefully swimming in  millions  upon  millions  upon  millions   of Vevo views. In fact, Psy's "Gangnam Style,"  long-reigning king  until  recently , became so pervasive in 2014 it forced YouTube to  rewrite the code for its play counter . Now the site boasts an expanded metric for chronic popularity and an ever-changing batch of insanely popular music vids. Read on as we (re-)watch the current top 10*. *View counts are estimates from August 2017. Totals and ranks will change, and we will...