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Anson's just upset he wasn't asked. Who cares. It's a harmless video.

Italy is now ahead of China in total deaths. 😔

Justin Trudeau’s wife, Sophie, tests positive.

NHL suspends season. No spring training for MLB.

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/2020/3/12/1_4850159.html Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is self-isolating after his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, began exhibiting mild flu-like symptoms after returning from a speaking engagement in the U.K.

So much news in the least 60 minutes. I agree that the NHL and MLB have to be next and suspend their season. They can't wait until a player gets the virus, they have to suspend NOW. And Tom Hanks! I love Tom Hanks! Why was the UK exempt from the ban?

CNBC: NCAA March Madness basketball games will be played without fans The National Collegiate Athletic Association announced the upcoming men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be played with “only essential staff and limited family attendance,” NCAA president Mark Emmert said in a statement Wednesday. No public fans will be allowed to attend. --------------------- THR: Late-Night Shows to Go Without Live Audiences as Coronavirus Precaution Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Trevor Noah, Samantha Bee, John Oliver and Andy Cohen will soon be playing to empty houses. Several New York-based late night shows are suspending live audiences starting March 16 in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. NBC's Tonight Show and Late Night, CBS' Late Show, Comedy Central's Daily Show, TBS' Full Frontal, HBO's Last Week Tonight and Bravo's Watch What Happens Live will all continue to tape new episodes next week but will do so without in-studio viewers. Full Frontal With Samantha Bee is going without an audience for Wednesday's show as well.

The WHO just officially called it a pandemic.

Just thought I'd create a thread for updates and discussion on the Coronavirus. As of right now there's about 120,000 cases worldwide with 4300 deaths.

What does that scenario look like? Is it Like what happened in House of Cards where each state yells out who they’re going to vote or something like that?

That was the first American debate that I watched from beginning to end. First thing is, I loved Amy whenever she spoke! I loved her passion and her, well, heart as she mentioned in her closing. I just connected to her the most (emotionally). Unfortunately, I think she had the least speaking time. Bloomberg definitely got his ass handed to him. Wow he took a beating and I don't think he recovered very well. I mean, everyone took hits, but they were also able to retaliate with their own comebacks, except for Bloomberg who was so robotic and had no passion at all. When you go up against Trump, you're going to need that passion, those good retorts, and show that you can go toe-to-toe with Trump. Right now, I can't see Bloomberg having good debates vs Trump. I still think Biden is the best bet to beat Trump, but man, my heart is with Amy after today. I hope the next debate they'll attack Trump and the Republicans more. It was a bit disheartening to see everyone attack each other so much. Can someone explain the last question? It was when everyone, except Bernie, agreed to “the process.”

Love the music! Can't wait to listen to Michael Giacchino's score. He's one of my favourite movie/tv composers.

Thanks! So BJH doesn't get an Oscar for Best International Film? No person gets a trophy, just the movie wins? I thought he won 4 but apparently not.

PARASITE!!! What a night! 🙌 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Intentional film. History was made tonight. A non-English speaking film/all Korean cast just won Best Picture. That is unbelievable. Bong Joon Ho deserves that drink. 😂 Has anyone ever won more than 2 or 3 Oscars in one night? "Up! Up! Up! Up" - love that moment. That’s two Oscar wins now for the Joker character - both very well deserved. Heath is still my favourite Joker.

Parasite won Original Screenplay and Jojo Rabbit won Adapted Screenplay. With 1917 winning the DGA and PGA, it's the favourite to win Best Picture, with Parasite right now running second.

The Djoker!! Inching closer to Nadal and Federer. None of these young players are super-quality. 3 old guys are still kicking their ass. It's going to be a very long time before we see another golden era in Men's tennis once the big 3 retire.

When that happened, I was like, "Alright.....it might have a great chance to win tonight." First foreign film to win at the SAGs! Amazing! So Best Picture is probably down to Parasite and 1917 (with its Producers Guild win). If one of those movies win the Directors Guild, I think it would be a safe bet that it'll win Best Picture. I think the Best Actor and Best Actress are safe bets too, but I'm still not sure about the Supporting Categories. If there is an upset I think it will happened in Supporting.

There are some articles on Billboard how Tik Tok is helping all these viral hits, but too bad the site is not free to read anymore. TikTok Fueled No. 1 Hits In 2019 -- But Is It Here To Stay? TikTok Is Rewriting How Hits Get Made What I'm wondering is, do those short clips on Tik Tok count as streams? They're like 15 second clips. I remember years ago, Rae Sremmurd's "Black Beatles" went to #1 on the Hot 100 thanks to the Mannequin challenge.

Got all my "sure shots" and "good chance to get in" right except for 1! There were no surprises for Best Picture. I don't really have a rooting interest right now for Best Picture, but I think it could be cool to see a Korean movie win - imagine that huge upset! I definitely have to watch Parasite before the Oscars.

Thanks for clarifying things, @Faulkner I still think it's dumb how Billboard counts things now. LOL

What if I bought 5 songs one week and then 5 songs another week? That wouldn't count as 1 album unit because it wasn't bought in the same week?

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/8546247/billboard-200-changes-youtube-video-data-streaming-album-charts Video data will also impact Billboard’s genre-specific album consumption charts, starting Jan. 3. Video and audio data from YouTube, along with visual plays from several music streaming services, will soon be factored into the Billboard 200 albums chart, it was announced on Friday. In addition to YouTube, officially licensed video content plays from Apple, Spotify, Tidal and Vevo will be included in the album chart's calculations. The inclusion of video data into the Billboard 200 arrives five years after audio streams were added, marking the chart's shift from a measure of pure sales to a consumption model. The addition of video will also impact Billboard's genre album consumption charts, such as Country, R&B/Hip-Hop, Latin and others. While YouTube streams have factored into the Billboard Hot 100 and other song-specific charts since February 2013, this marks a first for the album charts. In contrast with song charts, which can be impacted by user-generated videos, only official licensed video content uploaded by or on behalf of rights holders will be counted for the Billboard 200 and other albums charts. -------- I never understood/don't like the "streaming equivalent albums" or the "track equivalent albums", and now they're including youtube views. SEA means streaming equivalent albums. SEA is calculated by adding up all of the audio song streams from an album. Premium streaming totals are divided by 1,250 and free streaming totals are divided by 3,750. Thus, 1,250 premium streams or 3,750 free streams from the same album is equivalent to 1 album unit. TEA means track equivalent albums. TEA is calculated by adding up all of the song sales from an album and dividing by 10. Thus, 10 song downloads from the same album is equivalent to 1 album unit. Can someone explain this? Say an album has 15 songs, but I only download 10 songs, does that count as the 1 album unit? Or does it mean 10 different people downloading just the same one song will count as 1 album unit?

Producers Guild Nominations: - 1917 - Ford v Ferrari - The Irishman - Jojo Rabbit - Joker - Knives Out - Little Woman - Marriage Story - Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood - Parasite Alright, so with the all the Guild nominations being out, we can make some predictions for Best Picture! Sure shots: - 1917 - The Irishman - Jojo Rabbit - Joker - Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood - Parasite Good chance to get in: - Ford v Ferrari - Little Woman - Marriage Story - Bombshell Long shots but possible: - Rocketman - Knives Out - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood My final predictions....I think they'll be 8 movies nominated: - 1917 - Bombshell - The Irishman - Jojo Rabbit - Joker - Little Woman - Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood - Parasite

Ugh....streaming. LOL

"I didn't know then that soon enough people would decide on something else I wasn't quite doing right, and then the circle would keep going on and on and rolling along......" I'm glad she mentioned that. I've been following her career closely for a very long time and there's so much truth to that. ------ "I'm fairly certain he knew exactly how I would feel about it though. And let me just say that the definition of the toxic male privilege in our industry is people saying, ‘But he's always been nice to me,’ when I'm raising valid concerns about artists and their rights to own their music. And of course he's nice to you. If you're in this room, you have something he needs." Yup. I hate it when people say that too when someone is trying to bring up an experience that they went through. I immediately thought of Demi Lovato's instagram post when people were talking about their experiences with Scooter: "I have dealt with bad people in this industry and Scooter is not one of them. He's a good man." --------- "The fact is that private equity is what enabled this man to think, according to his own social media post, that he could buy me. But I'm obviously not going willingly. Yet the most amazing thing was to discover that it would be the women in our industry who would have my back and show me the most vocal support at one of the most difficult times, and I will never, ever forget it. Like, ever." I've been waiting for her to finally bring this up! He is so *that type* of a guy. "This speech I'm referring to was on my 25th birthday. I'm about to turn 30 tonight, woo! But my exact quote during the speech was, ‘I really just feel like we need to continue to try to offer something to a younger generation of musicians, because somewhere right now your future Woman of the Year is probably sitting in a piano lesson or in a girls' choir "and today right now we need to take care of her.’ I've since learned that at that exact moment, an 11-year-old girl in California really was taking piano lessons and really was in a girls' choir. And this year she has been named Woman of the Year at the age of 17. Her name is Billie." Cool story. ------ "I've watched as one of my favorite artists of this decade, Lana Del Rey, was ruthly criticized…in her early career and then slowly but surely she turned into, in my opinion, the most influential artist in pop. Her vocal stylings, her lyrics, her aesthetics, they've been echoed and repurposed in every corner of music, and this year her incredible album is nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys because she just kept making art. And that example should inspire all of us, that the only way forward is forward motion. That we shouldn't let obstacles like criticism slow down the creative forces that drive us. And I see that fire in the newer faces in our music industry whose work I absolutely love. I see it in Lizzo, Rosalia, Tayla Parx, Hayley Kiyoko, King Princess, Camila Cabello, Halsey, Megan Thee Stallion, Princess Nokia, Nina Nesbitt, Sigrid, Normani, H.E.R., Maggie Rogers, Becky G, Dua Lipa, Ella Mai, Billie Eilish. And so many other amazing women who are making music right now." "When a spotlight shines on someone and they hold up a mirror and shine the light around the room, they deserve that spotlight." - random quote in a comments section. --------------------------- Billboard Woman of the Decade Taylor Swift: 'I Do Want My Music to Live On'