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SON WSB forum created! LOL We can discuss the financial markets here. I suspected that was happening. 😠

Yeah, it's awful. "You can sell, but you can't buy." Such B.S. We should start our own group called SONWallStreetBets. 😆

Of course I'm holding! LOL The potential of a short squeeze is still there and I don't want to miss out. And the thing is, it's the fault of these Hedge Funds who shorted the company at an absurd amount. People found out and said, "That's wrong! This is what we're going to do about it." And here we are. Good luck! I'm with you with me one share. 🤣

It's been a crazy week and only got crazier today with platforms like Robinhood restricting people to buy. There's a huge fight going on here......and I'm definitely not on the side of these Hedge Funds/Firms. I'm with the retail investors here. I hope the stock soars and crushes the funds/firms even more.......and of course I'll make a little bit of money too. LOL

This GameStop story has been fascinating to watch - and now it's reached the political level. Note: I have one share of GameStop. LOL

Drivers License has its first block! If it weren't for DL, 34+35 would've gone to #1. It got the remix-push-to-#1 with the addition of Dojo Cat and Megan - Ariana, Dojo, and Megan all had #1s last year. DL is expected to stay at #1 until the Super Bowl week where Blinding Lights has a good chance to regain the top spot.

It's the 24th song to do this - WAP was the last song to do it. I wish Billboard released the points with their reports. Olivia Rodrigo's 'Drivers License' Is One of the Most Dominant No. 1s of Last 30 Years "With Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License" racing onto the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Jan. 23, 2021) at No. 1, the out-of-the-box pop powerhouse easily laps every potential challenger, arriving with well over twice as many Hot 100 chart points as its closest competitor, the current No. 2 "Mood" by 24kgoldn featuring iann dior. "License" is the 24th song that can claim to be at least twice as popular as any other song on the chart that week."

Welcome back to the rest of the world, America! 😄 What great and historic day!

Way to go, Olivia! Ballads don’t often have this kind of success anymore. It’s amazing to see this song, from a new artist, blow up like this. The song doesn’t really have a catchy hook, or awesome beats, or some kind of viral meme/challenge that people are doing. She’s also half-Filipina which is really cool because there isn’t really any big female Asians popstars. I’m rooting for her because she makes (so far) the kind of music I like. She’s the first out of all these younger pop acts that I’m truly excited about. She has the look, she plays the guitar, she writes her own songs, she has a good voice, she has a good personality.....I see a lot of potential. I really hope she isn’t a one hit wonder, or let the this success to go her head, or let the scrutiny and pressure lead to something bad.

It's going to be one of the biggest hits of 2021......it could be a one of those mega-hits that blocks songs from reaching #1. Let's see if that happens.

She's expected to debut at #1 which is pretty crazy for an almost unknown with her first single.

The original video was funny but this is brilliant. 😂

Is every Senator going to speak?? Let’s just get this thing certified.

This is insane!!! WTF America.

Way to go, Georgia!!! F U, Moscow Mitch!!! 😂

And Ossoff is clawing back!! Let's go, Georgia!!

B&B - Evgeny Afineevsky first listed as Director on May 5 DAYS GH - Barbara Bloom last listed as Breakdown Writer on June 28 - Shannon Peace first listed as Breakdown Writer on July 29 - Larry Carpenter last listed as Director on August 17 - Ashley D. Cook first listed as Breakdown Writer on August 25 Y&R - James Harmon Brown last listed as Script Writer on February 18 - Susan Banks first listed as Script Writer on March 1 - Christopher Dunn last listed as Breakdown Writer on September 13 - Sonia Blangiardo first listed as Director on November 23 - Susan Dansby last listed as Story Consultant on November 24

Yay for Taylor! I really hope she releases the new versions of "Love Story" (peaked at #4) and "You Belong With Me" (peaked at #2) before she releases the re-recordings on albums because I think those songs can go #1 (as long as there's no viral song that's just too big to overcome).

Rankings after one week 1. long story short (+8) 2. no body, no crime (same) 3. dorothea (+1) 4. ‘tis the damn season (+1) 5. Marjorie (-4) 6. ivy (+7) 7. champagne problems (-1) 8. tolerate it (-5) 9. willow (+3) 10. cowboy like me (+1) 11. gold rush (-1) 12. happiness (-5) 13. evermore (-6) 14. coney island (same) 15. closure (same) First week numbers for evermore: Taylor Swift’s ‘Evermore’ Arrives at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart Of Evermore’s 329,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Dec. 17, SEA units comprise nearly 167,000 (equaling 220.49 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs), album sales comprise 154,000 and TEA units comprise a little under 8,000. It's the biggest week under Billboard 200's new rules. And these numbers don't include any physical albums since those were released on the 18th. ------ Fantastic 1 hour interview with Zane Lowe (he's such a good interviewer): youtube link Here's Variety's recap of that interview: Taylor Swift Opens Up About the Creation of ‘Evermore’ Excerpt: Writing “Folklore” during quarantine led the songwriter to surprise release it shortly after the project came together. The week after its release, however, she decided to keep going. Five months later, “Evermore” is out for the world to stream, but Swift is ready to close the book on this two-part series. “I feel differently today than I felt the day after releasing ‘Folklore’ because, even the day after releasing ‘Folklore,’ Aaron and I were still bouncing ideas back and forth and we just knew we were gonna keep writing music,” she said. “With this one I have this feeling of sort of quiet conclusion and sort of this weird serenity of we did what we set out to do and we’re all really proud of it, and that feels really really nice. Virtually every song on Swift’s first seven studio albums can be traced back to a moment from the artist’s own life. But she chose to forego the well-trodden path to success with “Folklore,” sharing instead a host of stories about people or places she made up. With the subjects’ stories unfamiliar to her own personal life, Swift shifted gears into a form of storytelling that kept her own experiences more private. “Folklore” earned critical and commercial success in its first week, letting Swift know that the quarantine outlet she had picked up was appreciated by others stuck at home, as well.“ My world felt opened up creatively,” she said. “There was a point that I got to as a writer who only wrote very diaristic songs that I felt it was unsustainable for my future moving forward. So what I felt after we put out ‘Folklore’ was like ‘oh wow, people are into this too, this thing that feels really good for my life and feels really good for my creativity… it feels good for them too?” ----- I thought maybe some of the songs on evermore were ones that didn't make that cut on folklore but they were all made after folklore's release. With the success of both albums, she can now continue writing made up stories/characters. It was really smart of her to change directions like this now that she's in her 30's. From Aaron's interview, there's a very good chance Taylor will be on on the next Big Red Machine album. ---- Rolling Stone interview with Aaron Dessner: Aaron Dessner on How His Collaborative Chemistry With Taylor Swift Led to ‘Evermore’ Billboard Intervew: Aaron Dessner on the 'Weird Avalanche' That Resulted in Taylor Swift's 'Evermore' Article is on a paywall, so I'll post it in the spoiler tag.

Biden and Harris are officially the President-elect and Vice President-elect......and Bill Barr is out. What a great day! 👏

evermore is definitely more "indie" and has less "pop" sounding songs than folklore (I'm a pop guy so I'm just a little bit disappointed in that respect). I guess this is because Aaron Dessner produced 14 out of the 15 songs. Jack Antonoff only did 1 song. "dorothea" was the first song written for the album, and "happiness" was the last (it was finished just last week). So here were my rankings after one listen: 1. marjorie 2. no body, no crime 3. tolerate it 4. dorothea 5. ‘tis the damn season 6. champagne problems 7. happiness 8. evermore 9. long story short 10. gold rush 11. cowboy like me 12. willow 13. ivy 14. coney island 15. closure After a couple of listens this list has changed. LOL I'll post my one week, and one month rankings. What a great tribute to her grandmother! It's so relatable and made my tear up thinking about my own grandparents who are gone. This was a fun song. LOL Aaron Dessner's post on Instagram: It’s only been 5 months since folklore was released. But truth be told @taylorswift and I never actually stopped exchanging ideas and somehow we've finished a sister record called evermore that I love just as much. These songs are wilder and freer, sometimes in strange time signatures and darker hues, but very much a continuation of what we started with folklore. I can't begin to express my gratitude and respect for Taylor -- I never cease to wonder at her seemingly boundless talent as a singer and a songwriter and storyteller. It’s been the experience of a lifetime to work so fast and furiously with her. As with folklore, @jackantonoff, @blobtower and William Bowery all contributed brilliant ideas and songwriting — the same alchemy and teamwork continued. This time my brother @brycedessner contributed much more as well— helping write and produce Coney Island and orchestrating the entire record. I’ve never done anything creatively of any value without Bryce helping to elevate it, as he does here again. As important, @heyjonlow has been my brother in all of this work too -- I could never have conceived of this without him by my side every step of the way. And Justin @blobtower , who has taught me so much, is here again too, lending his insane talents. If that wasn’t enough, my bandmates in @thenational , Matt, Bryan and Scott along with Bryce, are here too. We learned to write songs and make records together. Hearing Matt sing with Taylor and the entire band perform on Coney Island — things have come full circle. And there are so many other friends who have made very significant contributions to this record (more later on them later)

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