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The Weeknd hits new Spotify milestone of 100m monthly listeners
We called this one in January! The Weeknd has become the first artist to have more than 100 million listeners on Spotify.
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Harry Styles ‘As It Was’ was the biggest global music track in 2022
The biggest music track globally in 2022 was Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’ with 2.28bn ‘global subscription stream equivalents’.
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The Weeknd may soon have more than 100m listeners on Spotify
A full year after The Weeknd released album ‘Dawn FM’, his Spotify metrics are going from strength to strength rather than dropping off.
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The Weeknd beats Ed Sheeran for most-streamed Spotify track
Congratulations are due to The Weeknd, whose track ‘Blinding Lights’ has (at the time of writing) 3,334,180,640 streams on Spotify.
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Musicians facing lawsuit over Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs
One result of the recent crypto-market difficulties has been anger from people who bought expensive NFTs, then saw their value plummet.
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UMG’s deal with The Weeknd: ‘This isn’t an acquisition…’
Universal Music Group’s new deal with The Weeknd offers an interesting snapshot of how deals with current, frontline artists are evolving.
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The biggest digital track of 2021 racked up 2.15bn streams
BTS may have been the biggest artist of 2021 by the IFPI’s calculations, but the body’s prize for the biggest digital single last year went elsewhere.
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The Weeknd bags 705m Spotify streams in just two weeks
If anyone had any doubt about The Weeknd’s status as a top-tier streaming star (spoiler: they didn’t) they’ll have been set straight now.
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Pearpop takes investment from The Weeknd, Snoop Dogg and more
We wrote about startup Pearpop in October last year, when it launched as a way for TikTok stars to charge fans for the privilege of making collaborative videos with them. Now the company has […]
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The Weeknd will hold his first NFT sale this Saturday
We knew a non-fungible token sale from The Weeknd was coming, but now we know the details. It’s going to be a collection released this weekend on the Nifty Gateway marketplace, […]
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NFTs explosion: Crypto.com, The Weeknd, Gorillaz, Lindsay Lohan…
Say what you like about non-fungible tokens (NFTS) – and right now, everyone appears to be doing exactly that on Twitter – but it’s undeniable that there is a gold rush of […]