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Inside Taylor Swift’s ‘genius’ branding and ‘Midnights’ debut

Inside Taylor Swift’s ‘genius’ branding and ‘Midnights’ debut

Taylor Swift’s brand is a bonafide business — and her new album proves it. On Friday, the singer-songwriter released her fourth studio album in three years, titled “Midnights.” The album generated so much demand that it crashed the Spotify (SPOT) platform upon its debut with nearly 8,000 outages reported on Downdetector shortly after midnight. Prior to the album’s release, Swift delivered an intentional marketing campaign complete with viral TikTok videos, which have amassed more than 80… Source link

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Google wins court battle with Genius over song lyrics

Google has once again prevailed in an ongoing legal battle with song lyrics website Genius, which claimed that Google was using its transcribed lyrics without permission in search results. Genius sued Google in 2019, arguing that Google was scraping lyrics from its website in violation of Genius’ copyright. Genius has a large database of song lyrics, and bills itself as “the world’s biggest music encyclopedia.” It tried to demonstrate that Google was scraping info from its… Source link

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Diego Maradona’s life was a duality of genius and chaos

The duality in Diego Maradona’s outsized life was perhaps laid out clearest within his most famous game. In the quarterfinal at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, against Argentina’s hated rivals England, just four years after they fought the brief Falklands War, Maradona set up an attack that appeared to be going nowhere. But England midfielder Steve Hodge clumsily shanked the ball back between Maradona and English goalkeeper Peter Shilton. Maradona, standing a stocky 5-foot-5, somehow dinked… Source link

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