Spotify Hits 365 Million Users as Q2 Sales Reach $2.8 Billion

Rock In Rio has announced details of its Brazilian for 2022, the first time that the festival will hold its Brazilian and Portuguese festivals in the same year.The Brazilian edition will be held on September 2-4 and 8-11 next year at the Olympic Park in Rio De Janeiro, and will be headlined by Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato.Earlier in the year (June 18-19 and 25-26), the previously announced Lisbon-based edition of the festival will take place, featuring Foo Fighters, The National and Liam

A new video allegedly shows Hunter Biden naked and doing drugs with a prostitute — but there’s apparently an even crazier video he doesn’t want you to see!

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It was a triumphant second weekend for indie Stillwater from Focus Features, which hit the $10 million mark in 2,611 theatres (up by 80) and 233 DMA’s in North America, where it was no. 5.

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The New York Times Company announced its second quarter earnings Wednesday, revealing the media brand has just hit 8 million subscribers. Times leadership would like to see 8.5 million subscribers by year’s end.

Rick Astley. The “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video has passed 1 billion views on YouTube. The video reached the milestone on Wednesday, almost 12 years after its upload date and more than 30 years after Astley’s earworming declaration of devotion became a worldwide No.

Scots road. Emergency services raced to the scene on Station Road in Kelty in Fife on Monday morning.

acquired augmented reality startup WaveOptics for $500 million in May. Around the same time, Snap also shared it had reached 500 million monthly users and was now used by 90% of Americans between the age of 13-24.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTwitter easily topped Wall Street financial expectations for the second quarter of 2021 — with its strongest quarterly revenue growth since 2014 — and grew its global users base despite a sequential drop in the U.S.The social network reported average monetizable daily active users of 206 million, up from 199 million in the first quarter and up 11% year over year.All of Twitter’s DAU growth came from overseas: Average U.S.

It all makes sense now! Adele‘s unexpected new romance with sports agent Rich Paul, 39, was apparently alluded to weeks before their outing at the NBA playoffs on July 17. In a May 31 interview with The New Yorker, Rich said that he was “hanging out” with a major pop star — and now it’s all but clear that he was talking about Adele, 33. “She was over yesterday,” Rich told the publication. He never referred to the “Hello” singer, or whomever he was talking about, by name.

$100 million Spotify deal is justified. The actor and “WTF with Marc Maron” host also mocked Rogan and others’ recent move to “hipster Alamo,” Austin, Texas.  Maron paid a visit to Tom Segura’s “2 Bears, 1 Cave” podcast on Monday, where he assured Segura, who recently set-up shop in Austin himself, that, “you’re different.

coronavirus.After founding the rock group Zvuki Mu (Sounds of Mu) in 1982, Mamonov became an underground cult figure in Moscow. He gained wider recognition after Soviet restrictions on rock music and alternative culture were lifted in the late 1980s as part of then-leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.Mamonov further expanded his fame through acting.

She started her career in a reality TV show starring people no-one had ever heard of on a little-watched channel. And now 30-year-old Sam Faiers has landed her first film role alongside five-year-old son Paul.The family duo will join a star-studded cast including Jimmy Kimmel, Dax Shepard and Randall Park, in voiceover roles for the upcoming animated Paw Patrol movie, which is set to premiere in August.

he died of AIDS-related complications in 1985.Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen purchased it in 1992 and added several surrounding parcels to the estate, which are included in the sale. Allen died in 2018 of complications from Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and the property is being sold by his estate, which was last reported to be executed by his sister Jody Allen.The main home has beamed ceilings and wood and stone floors.

CANNES, France -- Celebrated Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov is banned from leaving his home country, so he is attending the Cannes Film Festival virtually. Serebrennikov phoned into the red-carpet premiere of his film, “Petrov's Flu,” by FaceTime and spoke to the media on Tuesday by Zoom.A seat was left open for the 51-year-old director when “Petrov's Flu” premiered Monday in Cannes.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorStay-at-home orders during the COVID pandemic have been a boon to the games biz — and may have altered consumer behavior for years to come.About 55% of U.S. video gamers say they have played more during the pandemic, and 90% say they are likely to continue playing even after social distancing is no longer required.

Megan Fox opened up about the very odd and life-changing experience she had drinking the psychoactive tea ayahuasca with her boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly.  Fox appeared on Monday’s "Jimmy Kimmel Live" where she got candid with guest host Arsenio Hall about the journey they went on to Central America to do the hallucinogenic tea in the wilderness with indigenous people in Costa Rica.  The "Till Death" actress noted that the intense experience lasted three days and took her on a spiritual journey