Eminem on stage during the 2024 NFL Draft in April in Detroit, Mich. Gregory Shamus/Getty Images hide caption
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Vice President Harris gets ready to speak to campaign staff at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., on Monday. Harris won the crucial backing of Democratic heavyweight Nancy Pelosi to lead the party against former President Donald Trump in November after President Biden's stunning exit from the 2024 race. As the endorsements stacked up, the 59-year-old Harris made her first public appearance since Biden's announcement in a ceremony at the White House, where she warmly praised the outgoing president's "unmatched" achievements. Erin Schaff/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Duke Fakir holds his life time achievement award backstage at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2009. Fakir, the last of the original Four Tops, died Monday of heart failure at age 88. Matt Sayles/AP hide caption
The 2024 Kennedy Center honorees (clockwise from left): the Apollo Theater; the Grateful Dead (Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann); jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval; blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Bonnie Raitt; and director and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Apollo Theater, Jay Blakesberg, Jeremy Lock, Ken Friedman, Chad Keig/The Kennedy Center Honors hide caption
Grateful Dead, Francis Ford Coppola, Bonnie Raitt on 2024 Kennedy Center Honors list
Bernice Johnson Reagon, seen here at the memorial celebration for Odetta at Riverside Church in 2009 in New York City. Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images hide caption
Sixwire performs the national anthem at the Music City Grand Prix in August 2023 in Nashville, Tenn. Catherine Powell/Getty Images hide caption
Taylor Swift, seen onstage in Amsterdam earlier this month during the European leg of her record-breaking Eras Tour, has broken another record with her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department. Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images hide caption
Ingrid Andress sings the national anthem prior to the 2024 Home Run Derby at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, on Monday. Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images hide caption
Young Thug performs during halftime of a game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Boston Celtics on Nov. 17, 2021, at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Ga. Adam Hagy/NBAE via Getty Images hide caption
Marshall Allen, who will be included in the class of Jazz Masters awarded by the NEA next year, performs onstage at the 2024 A Great Night In Harlem Gala at the Apollo Theater in New York City in March. Arturo Holmes/Getty Images hide caption
Shaboozey performs during the 2024 BET Awards in Los Angeles in June 2024. Michael Tran/Getty Images hide caption
Megan Thee Stallion performs during the 2022 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival. Rich Fury/Getty Images hide caption
Post Malone has reclaimed the throne this week. Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Stagecoach hide caption
"Beethoven" (1936). A new study suggests the German composer and pianist may have suffered from lead poisoning. The Print Collector/Getty Images hide caption
Beethoven was a classical and romantic composer, but his body was full of heavy metal
Sabrina Carpenter’s ascent is complete — this week, she scored her first No. 1 hit. Nina Westervelt/Billboard via Getty Images hide caption
Protesters attend a rally against a death sentence given to Toomaj Salehi, a popular rapper in Iran, and to support to the women of Iran, in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday, April 28, 2024. Iran's Supreme Court overturned Salehi's death sentence on Saturday, June 22, 2024, his lawyer Amir Raisian said. Ebrahim Noroozi/AP hide caption
Travis Scott performs in Austin, Texas, in October 2018. Scott was arrested on Thursday for drunken intoxication at the Miami Beach Marina. Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Taylor Swift on stage in France in May, during the European leg of her Eras Tour. Since its release in April, Swift's latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, has been the top album in the United States for eight consecutive weeks. Julien de Rosa/Getty Images hide caption
Wynton Marsalis performs during "Live from Here" at The Town Hall on Oct. 12, 2019, in New York City. Taylor Hill/Getty Images hide caption
Justin Timberlake, pictured at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in March, has been arrested for driving while intoxicated. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption
George Strait performs at the Coal Miner's Daughter: A Celebration Of The Life & Music Of Loretta Lynn at the Grand Ole Opry on Oct. 30, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. Jason Kempin/Getty Images hide caption