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...And a middling record about late nights can become the US’s bestselling album of 2022 and the second-biggest seller of 2023. Yes, Midnights was a Swiftacular success....
...Gonzalez has a knack for melody which at least partly mitigates his lyrical limitations....
...It was the world’s ninth-largest seller of arms in 2022, up from 31st place in 2000, according to Sipri....
...“I took references from TikTok trends, K-pop idols, role-playing, and ‘VTubers’ [who live-stream as digital avatars]. It provides a very rich palette to play with.”...
...With its strummed guitars and breezy melody, the holiday romance bop “Summer Vibes” feels comfortably positioned as a commercial hit....
...In another reported exchange, Forlano replied that “Rigatoni”, a nickname for Viggiano, “literally works for” Blackstone, and Bleckley responded, “F[**]k u should’ve told me f[**]k the feds.”...
...A percentage of profits go to the platform’s operations but the majority goes directly to the sellers....
...There are hip-hop chants, big booming basslines, EDM peaks, Bollywood-style melodies, Paganini samples (yes, really: “Shut Down”) and, topping it all, the pure-pop sugar-rush of precisely engineered, addictive...
...Dior’s homeware and childrenswear lines are the top seller at London luxury department store Harrods, according to managing director Michael Ward, another field Beccari could look at....
...‘Mr K-Pop’: a music showdown heats up in South Korea The battle for control of K-pop juggernaut SM Entertainment is getting uglier by the day....
...The super group was instrumental in taking K-pop to a global audience with catchy melodies and slick dance routines....
...Whereas sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich was a forced seller of Chelsea, the Glazers are in no such position....
...That position is crimping profits and attracting sceptical short sellers betting against it, the FT reports in this deep dive....
...A ‘K’. We assume for Kremlin. 2. Inflation is on the up — including in the eurozone....
...In less than a day, Midnights was already the biggest seller of the year and is forecast to reach about 1.5mn in sales by the end of the week....
...The short seller alleged — among many things — that Adani’s businesses used a web of shell entities based in Mauritius to manipulate the stock price of Adani Group’s listed companies and conceal the scale...
...Who can resist those tinkling ’80s pop melodies or that effervescent grin? I’m not even going to try....
...No one wants to protect a short seller.”...
...Palihapitiya’s Spac to take Akili Interactive public in $1bn deal (Reuters) Mike Lynch loses latest legal fight against US extradition (FT) Citi plans £100m revamp of Canary Wharf tower (FT) Hedge fund short sellers...
...Webtoons, comic strips that are designed to be read on a smartphone, are South Korea’s latest cultural export to break out of Asia after the global success of K-pop superstars BTS and Netflix sensation Squid...
...Meanwhile, the song precisely channels the higher power of 1980s pop, all starburst synths, big drums, slick bass lines and expansive melodies....
...“You can buy and sell an NFT on a public platform and make it look like there is plenty of interest in the piece when it’s just you pushing up the price,” said Rüdiger K Weng, chief executive of Germany-based...
...These have included sales of items from people such as the acclaimed film director Wong Kar Wai and Jay Chou, the K-Pop music star and art collector....
...The Resilient Societyby Markus K Brunnermeier, Endeavor $24 In this important book, Princeton’s Brunnermeier argues that “resilience can serve as the guiding North Star for a post-Covid society”....
...“Lessons”, with a guest appearance by Wretch 32, sets reflections about poverty, crime and personal responsibility to a mournfully cyclical guitar melody....
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