{"id":100039,"date":"2017-04-27T01:20:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T05:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100039"},"modified":"2017-04-27T01:20:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T05:20:31","slug":"youtube-announces-music-competition-series-for-emerging-acts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/27\/youtube-announces-music-competition-series-for-emerging-acts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube announces music competition series for emerging acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100041\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4481461680_4273d06822_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100041\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4481461680_4273d06822_z.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Seacrest Productions and Endemol Shine North America announced Wednesday that \u201cBest.Cover.Ever\u201d will debut on YouTube later this year. (Photo: Rego Korosi\/ Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4481461680_4273d06822_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4481461680_4273d06822_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Seacrest Productions and Endemol Shine North America announced Wednesday that \u201cBest.Cover.Ever\u201d will debut on YouTube later this year. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/korosirego\/\">Rego Korosi\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2013YouTube is launching a new music competition series for emerging artists featuring Backstreet Boys, Demi Lovato and Jason Derulo.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Seacrest Productions and Endemol Shine North America announced Wednesday that \u201cBest.Cover.Ever\u201d will debut on YouTube later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Ludacris will host the series, where pop stars will give budding artists a chance to perform a cover of one of their songs. The winner will perform a duet version of the song with the star, which will debut on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can submit videos through May 19 for the first phase. The songs include Backstreet Boys&#8217; \u201cAs Long As You Love Me,\u201d Lovato&#8217;s \u201cConfident\u201d and Derulo&#8217;s \u201cTrumpets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additional artist-participants will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013YouTube is launching a new music competition series for emerging artists featuring Backstreet Boys, Demi Lovato and Jason &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[18415,136],"class_list":["post-100039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-music-competition","tag-youtube","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}