Faulkner

It’s tough, I know, but IMO the charts feel particularly off right now.

My top 5 most-listened-to songs on Spotify this year:

From Geneva 🇨🇭

The Talk names Amanda Kloots and Elaine Welteroth as new co-hosts, replacing Marie Osmond and Eve: https://tvline.com/2020/12/01/the-talk-new-hosts-amanda-kloots-elaine-welteroth-season-11-cast/

I happened to watch the premiere, even though I’m kind of “eh” on the show. I really like Grace Park (Katherine) here, even though she has that icky NXIVM stuff swirling around her IRL. She’s a great actress.

This guy sort of reminds me of David Tennant.

From Australia 🇦🇺

Yeah, for me, charts need to accurately reflect what people are consuming, and streaming and radio are the ways most people listen to music. And the industry wants to incentivize revenue and reward fandom. But how many people beyond the small-set of BTS fans are listening to “Life Goes On”? That’s really the No. 1 song in America now? The charts have always been an imperfect way of providing a snapshot of what’s popular, but I can’t see how Billboard’s current situation does anything other than accelerate their march toward total irrelevance.

BTS fans have learned how to game the system so well that BTS is going to end up with the most No. 1s in history if BB doesn’t significantly change methodology.

From Cologne, Germany 🇩🇪

From Taipei 🇹🇼

From Los Angeles 🇺🇸

Just on the tweet, I thought maybe he’d been ill, as he had stepped down from Zappos. This is just sad and shocking. Injuries suffered in a house fire?!

From Texas 🇺🇸