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How to Watch the 2026 NAACP Image Awards Online
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Prepare for a night of stardom as Hollywood’s biggest names, including Sinners director Ryan Coogler, One Battle After Another actor and singer Teyana Taylor, Grammy-Award winning rapper Kendrick Lamar amongst others celebrate black talent and excellence at the 57th NAACP Image Awards.
Airing on on Saturday (Feb. 28) at 8 p.m. PT/ET, the awards ceremony will broadcast on both BET and CBS from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, Calif. Don’t have cable? There are plenty of popular streaming services fans can subscribe to and watch the event live and for free. Signing up for either DirecTV, Fubo or Hulu + Live TV, new subscribers can take advantage of free trials for award night.
How to Watch 2026 NAACP Image Awards, At a Glance:
- Date: Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026
- Start time: 8 p.m. ET
- TV Channel: BET, CBS
- Streaming: DirecTV (with a five-day free trial), Fubo (with a five-day free trial), Sling TV, Hulu + Live TV, Paramount+, Philo
The nominations are jam-packed with top talent, including Teyana Taylor who has a whopping six nominations for the night, tying Kendrick Lamar in the music categories. Both are also nominated for entertainer of the year along with Cynthia Erivo, Doechii and Michael B. Jordan.
Since the ceremony’s creation in 1967 by activist and Hollywood stuntwoman Toni Vaz, the NAACP Image Awards have honored many iconic names in the creative industry including Jennifer Hudson, Chadwick Boseman, and Will Smith. Tonight, Double-Academy Award winning actress Viola Davis will also be honored with the Chairman’s Award for her career and contributions to the arts and advocacy throughout her career.
How to Watch the 2026 NAACP Image Awards Online
If you don’t have cable, you will be able to watch the 2026 NAACP Image Awards through many popular streaming platforms, including Paramount+, DirecTV, Sling, Philo Paramount+ and Hulu + Live TV. The show airs on CBS and BET, and streaming services with free trials make it easy to tune in from home. Keep reading on how to watch the event for free.
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DirecTV
DirecTV is offering a five-day free trial for new subscribers.
At $39.99 per month, the streaming service’s MyNews package features CBS, along with other local channels, like NBC, ABC and FOX. It has cable news networks, like CNN, FOX News, MS Now and others, while DirecTV features unlimited DVR storage and the ability to stream on three devices simultaneously. Once the five days is up you’ll be charged the subscription price based on what package you choose at checkout.
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FuboTV
Fubo is affordable option offering a seven-day free trial for new users who sign up.
There are four packages to choose from and ever single one includes CBS and CBS Sports. You’ll receive more than 200 channels starting at $48.99 for your first month of service ($73.99 per month). Along with the ability to livestream channels, you’ll get 1,000 hours of DVR and the ability to stream on up to 10 devices simultaneously.
Paramount+
There are two plans to choose from: Paramount+ Essential and Paramount+ Premium.
The Essential plan is ad-supported package and is the cheapest option at $8.99 per month. You’ll get access to tens of thousands of episodes and movies including exclusive and original content as well as NFL on CBS, UEFA Champions League and 24/7 live news on CBS News.
If you want to go ad-free, you can subscribe to Paramount+ Premium for $13.99 per month and you’ll not only receive access Showtime’s exclusive and original programs, but your local CBS station, additional live sports and the ability to download content to watch on-the-go.
Hulu + Live TV
Hulu + Live TV doesn’t just let you watch everything within the Hulu library, it also gives you more than 95 live TV channels including CBS to watch sports at home.
If you don’t have a Hulu + Live TV subscription, the streamer offers a free trial that’ll get you your first three days free. Once the free trial is over, you’ll be charged the regular subscription fee starting at $89.99 per month. For even more content, you can also bundle Hulu + Live TV with Disney+ and ESPN Unlimited to watch additional exclusive and original sporting events and programs that won’t air on CBS.
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Philo
No subscription required to start watching live channels.
Stream the 57th Annual NAACP Image Awards without cable using Philo. The service includes a variety of networks, including BET, and offers a seven-day free trial. Alongside many on-demand titles, Philo offers free live channels too for entertainment, lifestyle, news, sports, shopping and much more.
The service includes more than 110 channels, such as AMC Thrillers, beIN Sports Xtra, Cheddar News, Design Network, Ebony TV, Game Show Central, HSN, IFC Films Picks, Kin, LOL!, QVC, Screambox TV and many others.
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Have a Brat Summer Today With Charli xcx’s ‘The Moment’ Now on Streaming
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Looking to relive Brat Summer? Charli xcx’s mockumentary The Moment is now available to stream in the comfort of your own home.
The “360” singer’s film received a limited screening in theaters, and grossed close to $428,000 on four screens for a per-theater average of $107,000, according to Deadline. If you didn’t get a chance to see the singer’s flick in theaters, both Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video have Charli’s certified Brat creation available to stream. If you’re still looking to get that theater experience, tickets to in-person showings of The Moment are still available on Fandango.
On Amazon, the film will be available starting Monday (March 2) at 9 p.m. ET. Those curious can pre-order the film for just $24.99 now. If you’d rather watch on Apple TV, all you need is a subscription to the streaming service, which will run you $12.99 a month. With your subscription, you’ll be able to watch The Moment on demand, along with other great titles featured in Apple TV’s extensive library.
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The Moment is a mockumentary that follows Charli xcx as the singer gets ready for her debut arena tour. The satire flick features Charli along with actors Alexander Skarsgård, Rachel Sennott and a cameo from Kylie Jenner.
Directed by Aidan Zamiri and produced by Charli in collaboration with David Hinojosa, The Moment is a unique romp through the singer’s Brat brainchild. The film is set to release Jan. 30, according to A24. Alexander Skarsgård plays a high-profile director hired to film Charli’s show, blurring the lines between reality and fiction. The movie also stars Rachel Sennott and features a cameo from Kylie Jenner.
In short, the film aims at taking a closer look at the cultural phenom that was Brat, Charli’s 2024 album. On the Billboard charts, collaborative tracks off the album such as “Guess” featuring Billie Eilish and “Sympathy Is a Knife” with Ariana Grande made the top 50, landing at 12 and 36, respectively.
The Brat takeover was an interesting one, given Charli had been making music for more than 15 years with plenty of hits under her belt, from “Boom Clap” to her feature work on hits such as Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” to “I Love It” by Icona Pop. Her rise poses an interesting question about fame and when artists really “make” it, a notion that is heavily explored in memes such as the infamous “Khia asylum,” of which Charli was a former member. The same can be said for artists including Zara Larsson, who is currently having a moment thanks to her track “Midnight Sun,” although she’s been pumping out hits since 2015.
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Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Two-Steps Back to No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100
Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” twirls back to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, adding a second week atop the chart. Up from the runner-up spot, it first led the list three weeks earlier.
Meanwhile, as “Choosin’ Texas” rules the Hot 100, Megan Moroney’s Cloud 9 debuts atop the Billboard 200 albums chart — making Langley and Moroney the first women who primarily record country music to lead Billboard’s premier all-genre song and album charts simultaneously, dating to the Hot 100’s August 1958 inception (after the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular weekly basis March 1956; in four other weeks, men/women/group combinations placed country music at No. 1 on the surveys together, but not two women in the same week).
Also contributing to the chart double-up for women artists, Miranda Lambert is among the co-writers and co-producers of “Choosin’ Texas.” Langley and Lambert co-penned the song with Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor and co-produced it with Ben West. It became the first Hot 100 No. 1 for each talent; Moroney earns her first Billboard 200 leader.
“Choosin’ Texas” previews Langley’s album Dandelion, due April 10.
Plus, Alex Warren’s former Hot 100 No. 1, “Ordinary,” reaches a milestone in the chart’s top three.
Check out the full rundown of this week’s Hot 100 top 10 below.
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated March 7, 2026) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, March 3. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
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Megan Moroney Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With ‘Cloud 9’
Megan Moroney earns her first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as Cloud 9 debuts atop the list dated March 7. The set is the singer-songwriter’s third studio effort and starts with 147,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Feb. 26, according to Luminate. That marks the biggest week for a country album by a woman in nearly two years.
Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Hilary Duff’s first album in more than a decade, luck… or something, starts at No. 3; Baby Keem notches his highest-charting album yet with the No. 4 arrival of Ca$ino; and Mumford & Sons score their sixth top 10 with the No. 10 bow of Prizefighter.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new March 7, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on March 3. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of Cloud 9’s 147,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, album sales comprise 78,000 (Moroney’s best sales week; it debuts as her first No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 69,000 (equaling 71.54 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks, her best streaming week; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
Cloud 9 is the second top 10, and third chart entry, for Moroney. She previously hit the chart with Am I Okay? (No. 9 in 2024) and Lucky (No. 38 in 2023). Cloud 9 also marks the first country album by a woman to be No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since Beyoncé spent two weeks atop the list with her first country effort, Cowboy Carter, on the charts dated April 13 and 20, 2024.
Among country albums by women, Cowboy Carter tallied the last larger week by units (407,000 in its debut week; April 13, 2024, chart) and streams (90.08 million in its third week; April 27, 2024, chart).
Few country albums by women have reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in the past 10 years (dating to March 2016): just seven albums by five women. They are: Cloud 9, Cowboy Carter, Taylor Swift’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) in 2023, Red (Taylor’s Version) in 2021 and Fearless (Taylor’s Version) in 2021, Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty in 2018 and Shania Twain’s Now in 2017. In the same 10-year span, 17 country albums by 11 different men have hit No. 1.
Cloud 9’s first-week sales got a boost from its availability across five vinyl variants (including a signed edition and a Target-exclusive version with two bonus tracks), three CD variants (including a signed edition, and a Target-exclusive version with two bonus tracks) and four deluxe boxed sets containing a piece of branded clothing and a copy of the CD.
The album was preceded by four charting tracks on Billboard’s charts, all of which reached the top 40 on the Hot Country Songs chart (“6 Months Later,” “Beautiful Things,” “Wish I Didn’t” and the title track). “6 Months Later” also scored Moroney her highest-charting hit on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 when it reached No. 29 in January.
Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS falls to No. 2 on the Billboard 200, with 85,000 equivalent album units earned (down 37%).
After more than a decade, Hilary Duff returns to the Billboard 200 chart with luck… or something debuting at No. 3. The set, her first studio album since 2015’s Breathe In. Breathe Out., arrives with 84,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 73,000 (her best sales week since 2007; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 11,000 (equaling 11.51 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
In total, luck… or something gives the singer-actor her fifth top 10, following Breathe In. Breathe Out. (No. 5 peak in 2015), Dignity (No. 3, 2007), Most Wanted (No. 1, 2005), her self-titled effort (No. 2, 2004) and Metamorphosis (No. 1, 2003).
The new album’s first-week sales were aided by its availability across seven vinyl variants (including a signed edition), three CD variants (including a signed edition, and a Walmart-exclusive edition with seven bonus tracks), a deluxe boxed set containing a branded shirt and a signed CD, and a deluxe digital download edition with 11 bonus tracks (including the seven bonus Walmart tracks, plus four additional cuts).
The new album was preceded by the chart hit “Roommates,” which has reached the top 20 of the Adult Pop Airplay chart and the top 30 of Pop Airplay.
Baby Keem clocks his second top 10 — and highest-charting album yet — as Ca$ino cashes in with a No. 4 debut. The set earned 72,000 equivalent album units in its first week. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 55,500 (equaling 56.67 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 5 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 16,500 (his best sales week, it debuts at No. 4 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
Ca$ino is the rapper’s third chart entry, following The Melodic Blue (No. 5 peak in 2021) and Die for My Bitch (No. 162, 2020). The new album’s first-week sales benefited from its availability on vinyl, CD and two deluxe boxed sets (each containing branded merch and a copy of the CD).
Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping I’m the Problem moves 4-5 on the latest Billboard 200 (nearly 71,000 equivalent album units earned, down 8%) and Don Toliver’s former No. 1 OCTANE falls 3-6 (68,000 units, down 13%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving dips 5-7 (61,000 units, down 15%) while two former No. 1s follow, as J. Cole’s The Fall-Off slides 2-8 (53,000 units, down 34%) and Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl is a non-mover at No. 9 (44,000 units, down 13%).
Rounding out the top 10 is Mumford & Sons’ Prizefighter, punching in at No. 10 with nearly 44,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the sixth top 10-charted effort for the band, and comes less than a year after its previous studio release, Rushmere. Of the new album’s first-week units, album sales comprise 25,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 18,500 (equaling 18.69 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs, it debuts at No. 32 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 500.
The album was preceded by the radio-promoted single “Rubber Band Man” (featuring Hozier), which notched 10 nonconsecutive weeks atop the Adult Alternative Airplay chart from November through February. It also peaked at No. 2 on Alternative Airplay.
Prizefigher’s first-week sales got a lift from its availability across seven vinyl variants (including a signed edition) and four CD variants.
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
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