Judd Apatow is commenting on the trend of streamers licensing content from rival studios.
06.03.2024 - 16:29 / variety.com
Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer When Benson Boone released his sledgehammer ballad “Beautiful Things” in January, his expectations weren’t high. “Every song I’ve had, I’ve had to work so, so, so hard for every stream while the song is out,” says the 21-year-old.
“I’ve been posting videos and doing any promotion I can, but this one, after a week, just kind of started taking off on its own. That’s the first time I’ve experienced that, and it was incredible to just do everything I can and let the rest just be the music that’s carrying the streams. It was insane.” In a year already jam-packed with marquee releases from Ariana Grande, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, Boone started off his year with a somewhat whimper, followed by a big bang.
The song, an aching gut-punch of angst and determination to keep a relationship intact, had a similar rollout to much of the music he’s released since his 2021 debut single “Ghost Town”—frankly, posting to death on social media and previewing the song in advance. But something was different with “Beautiful Things”—could it perhaps been the titanic chorus, or the pleading made-for-TikTok lyrics?—and after its debut at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, it shot up to third position in the weeks that followed.
Now, a little more than a month after “Beautiful Things” touched down, it’s resonated with worldwide audiences. In the week after the release of “Beautiful Things,” Boone’s streams on Spotify grew by 200 percent, and through the end of February, average daily streams surged by 370 percent. On the streaming service, where the song was programmed by the editorial team on 140 international playlists, Boone consistently tops the Top 50 Global chart, eclipsing tracks by Kanye West and Tate
.Judd Apatow is commenting on the trend of streamers licensing content from rival studios.
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He is the best thing that’s ever been hers!
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Jimmy Kimmel is hosting the Oscars this year for the fourth time. Other than Bob Hope (19 times), Billy Crystal (nine) and Johnny Carson (five), no solo host has done it more. (Whoopi did it 4 times as well.) But it is a good bet that among those hosts, no one has seen as many of the nominated films. Kimmel is a self-described movie fan, and as I learned from our conversation he not only spends weeks, months even, prepping his monologue, but he also might be one of the few in the room at the Dolby Theater who actually has seen everything. And I mean everything.
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