{"id":99998,"date":"2017-04-26T22:59:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T02:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=99998"},"modified":"2017-04-26T22:59:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T02:59:55","slug":"youtube-announces-music-competition-series-for-emerging-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/26\/youtube-announces-music-competition-series-for-emerging-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube announces music competition series for emerging acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_97208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97208\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14915318_10155148305236754_7471955098066766739_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97208\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14915318_10155148305236754_7471955098066766739_n.png\" alt=\"YouTube is launching a new music competition series for emerging artists featuring Backstreet Boys, Demi Lovato and Jason Derulo. (Photo: YouTube\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14915318_10155148305236754_7471955098066766739_n.png 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14915318_10155148305236754_7471955098066766739_n-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14915318_10155148305236754_7471955098066766739_n-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14915318_10155148305236754_7471955098066766739_n-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">YouTube is launching a new music competition series for emerging artists featuring Backstreet Boys, Demi Lovato and Jason Derulo. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/youtube\/photos\/a.464430426753.276653.7270241753\/10155148305236754\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\"> YouTube\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 YouTube 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 YouTube is launching a new music competition series for emerging artists featuring Backstreet Boys, Demi Lovato and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":97208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-99998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-youtube","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99998","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=99998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}