The quantity of musical visitors on late-night tv is ready to lower once more in 2026 after it emerged that Jimmy Kimmel Stay! is lowering its variety of efficiency slots.
Deadline has confirmed that JKL! will reduce the variety of musical performances every week to round two. We hear this isn’t a tough quantity and the present has not at all times had a musical slot on every episode, however the plan is to cut back it.
This week, nonetheless, will see three musical artists performing: folks artist Molly Tuttle is on the present tonight, Debbie Gibson is sitting in with The Cletones on Wednesday and HUNTR/X from KPop Demon Hunters, that includes EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, might be on the present on Thursday.
This comes after the variety of musical performances on late-night dropped from round 800 between 2011 and 2013 to nearer to 200 in 2023, in line with a report from music publication Consequence of Sound.
THR reported that JKL! music producer Jim Pitt had began informing folks, presumably artist managers, document labels and promo bookers, that the present would reduce its quantity down. Pitt works on the music with former sElf bassist Mac Burrus.
Final 12 months, JKL! options musical performances from the likes of The Linda Lindas, The Weeknd, My Morning Jacket, Soccer Mommy, Finneas, Purple Kross, Cameron Winter, Japanese Breakfast, Smokey Robinson, Rilo Kiley, Rubbish, Lil Wayne, Queens of the Stone Age, Public Enemy, Haim, Dawes and MJ Lenderman.
The information comes as music on late-night tv noticed a brand new entrant final 12 months with the launch of Netflix’s Everyone’s Stay with John Mulaney, which included performances from the likes of Kim Gordon and Kim Deal, Model Pussy, Metz, Sleater-Kinney and The Velvet Underground’s John Cale, offering a shot within the arm for the style.
It additionally comes a day after Kimmel gained the Critics Selection for Finest Discuss Present, the place he thanked President Donald “Jennifer” Trump in addition to Disney’s Dana Walden and Rob Mills and OpenAI founder Sam Altman.
