Shakira Holiday: Spotify declares September 29th as ‘Shakira Day’

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Debby Friday officially has Canada’s best album of the year.

Debby Friday is the winner of the 2023 Polaris Music Prize. The Nigerian-born, Toronto-based electronic artist's latest project Good Luck, which featured the Song You Need-playlisted "So Hard To Tell," was selected by a panel of Canadian journalists and industry professionals as the country's best album of the year.

Spotify has launched a new tool, which allows artists to pay to have their music promoted on the site’s homepage.The new marketing feature – named Showcase – was announced last week (September 13), when Spotify shared a blog post confirming it will be offering artists a new way to target potential listeners.The feature works by allowing the artist to select a song, an EP or an entire album to appear as a mobile banner on the site’s homepage, and cater the promotion to a specific demographic of listeners.Musicians will then be able to select a headline for the Showcase banner – to declare whether it is a new release, if they’re currently on tour, if the song is a deep cut or currently gathering a lot of streams – and the final Showcase recommendation will appear as a banner at the top of the home screen.The streaming giant has also claimed that the users who see a Showcase banner are six times more likely to listen, and that users will be able to develop multiple campaigns for the same release.“Artists and their teams want even more flexibility when it comes to surfacing the right music to the right fans at the right time,” read the blog post. “Whether that’s reaching new listeners with a trending song, engaging super listeners with an anniversary album, or targeting previously active listeners with a reminder of your tour.”Showcase also allows artists to separate their audience into different categories and cater their campaigns to reach each type of listener accordingly.

Ukraine has selected the Sundance competition title 20 Days In Mariupol, from journalist-turned-filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov, as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars.

Soap star Billy Miller was remembered today by his daytime drama colleagues for his talent, great humor, and his warm and charming personality.

Billy Miller, a three-time Daytime Emmy winner known for his roles on “The Young and the Restless” and “General Hospital,” died Friday, Sept. 15. He was 43, but would have celebrated his 44th birthday today.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle packed on the PDA as they celebrated the Duke of Sussex's 39th birthday at the Invictus Games in Germany. Prince Harry and Markle were photographed getting cozy while watching a volleyball game during the sixth edition of the games. Harry created the Invictus Games in 2014 for wounded, injured and sick military service members.

Prince Harry is 39!

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Paul Walker‘s daughter Meadow Walker Thornton-Allan is remembering her late father on his birthday.

Shakira and Karol G just took home one of the most coveted awards at the MTV VMAs. The two Colombian stars received the VMA for Best Collaboration for ‘TQG,’ taking the stage during an emotional moment, sharing how proud they are of representing their home country and making the audience go crazy.SHAKIRA’S EPIC VMA PERFORMANCE: CROWD SURFING, KNIVES, AND HYPNOTIC HIPSTAYLOR SWIFT MOVES HER HIPS AND DANCES TO SHAKIRA DURING HER VMAS PERFORMANCESHAKIRA AND HER SONS SASHA AND MILAN STUN AT THE VMAS IN MATCHING VERSACEThe pair were all smiles holding hands as they approached the stage, with Karol G wearing a gray sheer dress and Shakira wearing a baby blue satin dress.

Shakira was honored at the MTV VMAs 2023 with the Video Vanguard Award for her career in music. Ahead of accepting the special Moon Person trophy, the Colombian superstar performed a medley of her greatest hits.

Shakira is currently in New York City, where in a few hours she will attend the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards and will be taking the stage for her highly anticipated performance, in honor of her successful music career.MTV VMAS 2023: FULL LIST OF NOMINATIONS (SHAKIRA & KAROL G NOMINATED FOR ARTIST OF THE YEAR)A LOOK AT SHAKIRA’S EPIC LOOKS AT THE MTV VMASThe singer is set to receive the Video Vanguard Award and has decided to take her two children Sasha and Milan to NYC, as she prepares to accept the incredible award. Shakira decided to give her kids a big surprise, as she has previously admitted that they have contributed to her work in recent years.The proud mom took her two kids to Times Square and surprised them by showing them a billboard on one of the screens.

Raquel Leviss isn’t ready to be friends with Tom Sandoval.

Spotify has denied claims that users can repeatedly listen to their own uploaded 30-second song in order to receive monthly royalty payments.As BBC News reports, finance analysts at JP Morgan had previously claimed that subscribers to the streaming service could make $1,200 (£960) a month by listening to their track on repeat for 24 hours a day.The apparent trick suggested that Spotify’s royalty payment structure could be manipulated. However, the music platform’s CEO Daniel Ek has now said this is not how the app’s royalties function.The theory was first reported in the Financial Times.

Pink celebrated her 44th birthday the other day and a Twitter troll tried to bring her down by wishing her a happy birthday with a photo of Eddie Izzard.

Spotify to launder money, according to a Swedish newspaper.The publication, Svenska Dagbladet, reported that gang members convert money received from drug deals, robberies, fraud, and assassination missions into Bitcoin, which they then use to acquire fake streams for artists with gang associations. They then collect the money paid out to those streams at a later date.One source Svenska Dagbladet spoke to said that Spotify is “very good for recruiting purposes,” since gang members can use popular artists, particularly in Sweden’s gangster rap scene, as a front for their activities.

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penned on Instagram on Monday.On Aug. 28, Guthrie and family took in a tennis match at the US Open.