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With over 120,000 votes cast, the time has finally arrived for the winners of the That Grape Juice End of Year Awards 2016 to be announced!

While some acts maintained a major lead, upon the penultimate cut-off point, the final list brought with it many last minute surprises.

Check out the full list of winners below. Prepare yourselves for what awaits…and sound off!

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Kelly Rowland is no stranger to talent-searches, having starred on ‘The X Factor’ and more recently ‘Chasing Destiny.’

Now, the ‘Motivation’ maven is taking her judging acumen Down Under.

Dive below for details…

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Voting for the That Grape Juice: End Of Year Awards 2016 closes…tonight at 23.59pm PT!

As at writing, over 110,000 votes have been cast and the winners of many categories are presently separated by as little as 1%.

Hence, ensure your voice is heard by voting – and if you have already, feel free to vote again! There is also a festive prize in store for one lucky voter!

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The congenial Katy Perry has stepped out to support the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement before the unveiling of her politically-aware new album.

Details below…

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Camila Cabello‘s defection from Fifth Harmony has done little to damage her relationship with bosses at the group’s label Sony Music Entertainment.

In fact, a new report posits that they’re on course to offering her a lucrative solo recording contract.

Good news below…

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New video alert!

Keen to keep interest in her brand alive in an arena inundated with new lady lyricists is Dej Loaf.

Her latest move? The release of a new video shot to support a song named ‘In Living Color’.

Please stop gassin’ these [expletive] before I attack ’em. Came from the bottom, some days I cannot fathom / Went from the ‘jects to a mansion / Took every L, came back a champion.

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As we’ve previously indicated, now is a good time to be a guy named J. Cole.

Indeed, as if seeing his new album, ‘4 Your Eyez Only,’ conquer charts with a whopping 492,000 units moved wasn’t enough (the third largest figure of the year), he made history by seeing every song from the project crack the top 40.

Now, Billboard reports Cole has even more reason to celebrate:

4 Your Eyez Only also logs a big streaming week as it tallied 118,000 in SEA units (equaling 176.9 million streams of the album’s songs), which is the second-largest streaming debut ever for an album. It trails only the bow of Drake’s Views, which launched with 163,000 streaming units in its opening frame (equating to 245.1 million streams of songs from the album that week). 4 Your Eyez Only is just the third album to surpass 100,000 streaming equivalent album units in a single week, following Views and The Weeknd’s Starboy (with its opening frame of 117,000 in SEA units).

Tuck in below to see who joined Cole this week on the refreshed Billboard 200:

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Photo courtesy:  PEOPLE Magazine

Scribbled in history books for some good and not-so-good reasons, 2016 brought with it some of modern entertainment’s most memorable moments.

As the year draws to a close, TGJ is reflecting on 31 moments that rocked – and to some degree shaped – the Urban and Pop musical landscape as we know it.

Now we reflect on the announcement Janet Jackson fans have been waiting for…

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Readers of That Grape Juice know what avid music lovers we are – especially of hits past.

So, just as our retrospective features ‘From the Vault’ and ‘TGJ Replay’ allow us the chance to re-spin the gems and jams of yesterday of one artist, our newest feature Chart Rewind – a variation of our current Retro Rewind assay – accedes salutes to an entire era of music history.

This week we say “hello” to ‘Goodbye’ by 90s pop group The Spice Girls.  The first single the group ever released as a quartet (post the departure of “Ginger Spice” Geri Halliwel), the fab foursome stormed the Hot 100 this week with an impressive #11 premiere of the pop ballad.  A gem found on the group’s third album, ‘Forever,’ ‘Goodbye’ may have been greeted with fanfare following the hoopla of Geri’s exit, but that favorable response was short-lived.  Going on to be the Girls’ last top 20 run (to date) on the Hot 100, the tune peaked at the same position it debuted.  Yet, despite its short run in the upper rankings of the Billboard singles chart, it endures nearly two decades after its release as a fan favorite of the group’s list of colossal hits.

A timely ode as this week saw pop’s currently reigning girl group, Fifth Harmony, become 4th Harmony (for lack of better terms), tuck in below to remember the time in 1998 when the Girls said goodbye to Ginger…

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Viola Davis‘ efforts to promote her new movie ‘Fences’ saw her make her way to ‘The Tonight Show‘ to spread the word about the poignant project.

There, she joined host Jimmy Fallon for fun and games and gave his viewers good reason to make their way to theatres to see the movie for themselves following its release on December 16th.

Watch below…

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With Nicki Minaj’s ‘The Pink Print’ movie premiering on BET at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s, it looks like the lady rhymer is preparing to strong arm 2017. Much to the joy of her fans, after she spent most of this year in a musical aloofness.

See what else the rap diva has is store come the end of 2016 below.
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The American football player/ ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ star Kordell Stewart has learned that a visual of him exposing his bare bottom during a Facetime session with a male lover has surfaced online.

The only problem?

It wasn’t him.

Follow us on a confusing journey below…

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