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These lyrical shots, while definitely disrespectful, really are not anything too explosive. In fact, these are accusations rap fans have heard before about Drizzy via disses by Rick Ross, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/megan-thee-stallion\">Megan Thee Stallion\u003c/a> and Pusha T. But at 3:10, K.Dot breaks his usual poetic form to list out every detail about the streaming-era star he just simply cannot stand:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk\u003cbr>\nI hate the way that you dress\u003cbr>\nI hate the way that you sneak diss\u003cbr>\nIf I catch a flight it’s gonna be direct\u003cbr>\nWe hate the b****** you f*** because they confuse themselves for real women\u003cbr>\nNotice I say, “We”\u003cbr>\nIt’s not just me; I’m what the culture feeling\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Deployed in rapid succession, this caliber of a callout is so visceral and real that it’s exactly what’s been missing in this rap beef. 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The legitimacy of “Push Ups” was confirmed by live streamer DJ Akademiks and eventually hit DSPs, but this disorientation created an added layer of internet chatter, one Drake could capitalize on. Proving he was taking cues from social media timelines, Drake doubled down on his response to Lamar with another track, “Taylor Made Freestyle” just a few days later. Only this time, he started off the song with AI-generated verses from the late \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/tupac-shakur\">Tupac Shakur\u003c/a> and the very alive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/tag/snoop-dogg\">Snoop Dogg\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13912853']The attempt to irk Lamar with manipulated voices of two West Coast legends was a uniquely 2024-type of move, but ultimately, it undercut any potency of the song. 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The measured softness and minimalistic simplicity of Ovrkast.’s instrumentals provide a fresh canvas for Drake — now an established veteran in the youth-dominated rap genre — who goes on to confesses his maturity in “The Shoe Fits”: “To all the ladies wondering why / Drake can’t rap like that same old guy / It’s ’cause I don’t know how anymore / I don’t know how.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The news of Ovrkast.’s collaboration with a superstar of Drake’s stature likely came as a major surprise for many of Ovrkast.’s fans, who are used to seeing him perform locally inside dimly lit, small venues around the Bay Area. Though Ovrkast. only played a small role in the massive OVO-backed project, it’s undoubtedly a major leap forward for the 25-year-old. As of this writing, Drake’s \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0GsvYNj45QjR245EWqgfDs\">Spotify playlist\u003c/a> that features his Ovrkast.-produced songs has over a million likes, which practically guarantees a Herculean boost in exposure. [aside postid='arts_13938193']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s not the first time \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djG63dMErKE\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the 6 God\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has leveraged the Bay Area in his music. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> \u003cem>note\u003c/em>:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>This story is part of KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/youthtakeover\">Youth Takeover\u003c/a>. Throughout the week of April 24-28, we’re publishing content by high school students from all over the Bay Area. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anytime I feel the urge to listen to the \u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em> soundtrack, a sense of shame floods over me. In recent years, I’d go as far as to shut off my shared listening activity and indulge in Spotify incognito mode. I had to listen in secret, because no way were any of my 17 followers going to see that I — a pop hating snob on the surface — find pleasure in singing along to an ultra-popular musical soundtrack. \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13928153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/OliviaHopkins.headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"160\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind my strictly alternative facade hides a girl with a taste for musical theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t want people to know that I enjoy something so mainstream, especially something that was popular back in middle school. It feels vulnerable to reveal this side of me to the outside world, and it saddens me to be ashamed of a part of my music taste, something so integral to who I am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I continue to face these feelings, I’ve started to think, why am I insecure about something I genuinely enjoy? Whose judgment am I afraid of, anyway? And how do other people process these feelings of embarrassment? To get some answers, I set out to speak to three distinct music lovers, and their perspectives challenged me to grow in ways I didn’t expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the back of a classroom, I spoke with Skyline High School student Zane Boyd, a member of an underground SoundCloud community he described as “exclusive.” Zane’s sub-niche is his group, NA (Never Alone). They create experimental beats with influences from an array of genres, including drill and new Sigilkore — a hyper-online rap subgenre involving occult symbols, anime references and heavy layered effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zane says that he and other beatmakers find a sense of community on Discord, where they support one another’s creative ventures and help each other through family and mental health struggles. They prioritize making sure nobody in the group ever feels alone, hence their name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 626px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13928158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/99C28991-F93D-4B73-A0B9-B0E4499ACCA8.jpg\" alt=\"A young man sits in his room in front of a computer and speakers.\" width=\"626\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/99C28991-F93D-4B73-A0B9-B0E4499ACCA8.jpg 626w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/99C28991-F93D-4B73-A0B9-B0E4499ACCA8-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skyline High School student Zane Boyd is part of a tight-knit music community on SoundCloud and Discord. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Zane Boyd)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like me, Zane often finds himself writing off mainstream music, but not necessarily because he feels embarrassed. Rather, he believes that supporting his friends’ music is more impactful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way I see it is a lot of people support Drake — someone with millions of dollars and [who] does not acknowledge your existence,” he says. “It’s like, why support Drake when you could support your friends?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he may not wear it on his sleeve, Zane does enjoy some popular music like Paramore and other 2000s artists. But he’s not ashamed. “I’m still proud of it because, why should you be scared to show other people who you are?” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For him, it’s the artist’s values that are important. “It’s more about who the artist is and what they stand for than the music. … I’d be more embarrassed to say I listen to Kanye than to say I listen to Paramore… cause it’s Kanye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/7A0B9147-D741-4CF5-A3E9-B95A5CF4118C-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman plays guitar in a dark club.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/7A0B9147-D741-4CF5-A3E9-B95A5CF4118C-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/7A0B9147-D741-4CF5-A3E9-B95A5CF4118C-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/7A0B9147-D741-4CF5-A3E9-B95A5CF4118C-768x517.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/7A0B9147-D741-4CF5-A3E9-B95A5CF4118C.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley High School senior Georgia Fishman is the lead singer of the band I’d Rather Sleep. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Georgia Fishman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rather than fearing judgment about her music taste, Berkeley High School senior and musician Georgia Fishman says she feels pressure when it comes to her own sound. Georgia is the lead vocalist and guitarist in a band called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/idrathersleep_510/?hl=en\">I’d Rather Sleep\u003c/a>, who make experimental alt rock. She’s involved in the local hardcore scene, nicknamed the “Bay scene,” and has performed at all-ages shows at venues like Berkley’s 924 Gilman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, she feels judged by the diehards in the scene, but realizes she can’t appeal to everyone. “Sometimes people are very rigid with their music taste, and then it kind of makes it feel like, ‘Oh no, should we go heavier? Like, are we not accessible enough?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Georgia’s own music taste might fall outside of what’s considered typical for the singer of an alt rock band, but she sees her middle school favorites — like Fall Out Boy — as an opportunity to connect with others. 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Before, he was apprehensive to let people glance at his phone to see what he was listening to. But — unlike how I hid \u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em> on Spotify — Roman decided to embrace it when he realized his Discord followers could see his \u003cem>Pitch Perfect\u003c/em> playlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m Black and there’s usually in the Black community a lot of hip-hop and rock,” he says. “And while I do listen to those types of music that might be considered Black music or music that Black people usually listen to… I do find myself listening to other genres as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to think there was some sort of expectation, but I’ve just grown more comfortable with sharing the things I like with others,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing from different people my age who love music just as I do, I felt much less alone in my experiences with embarrassment. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the back of a classroom, I spoke with Skyline High School student Zane Boyd, a member of an underground SoundCloud community he described as “exclusive.” Zane’s sub-niche is his group, NA (Never Alone). They create experimental beats with influences from an array of genres, including drill and new Sigilkore — a hyper-online rap subgenre involving occult symbols, anime references and heavy layered effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zane says that he and other beatmakers find a sense of community on Discord, where they support one another’s creative ventures and help each other through family and mental health struggles. 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Rather, he believes that supporting his friends’ music is more impactful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way I see it is a lot of people support Drake — someone with millions of dollars and [who] does not acknowledge your existence,” he says. “It’s like, why support Drake when you could support your friends?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he may not wear it on his sleeve, Zane does enjoy some popular music like Paramore and other 2000s artists. But he’s not ashamed. “I’m still proud of it because, why should you be scared to show other people who you are?” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For him, it’s the artist’s values that are important. “It’s more about who the artist is and what they stand for than the music. … I’d be more embarrassed to say I listen to Kanye than to say I listen to Paramore… cause it’s Kanye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/7A0B9147-D741-4CF5-A3E9-B95A5CF4118C-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman plays guitar in a dark club.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/7A0B9147-D741-4CF5-A3E9-B95A5CF4118C-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/7A0B9147-D741-4CF5-A3E9-B95A5CF4118C-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/7A0B9147-D741-4CF5-A3E9-B95A5CF4118C-768x517.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/7A0B9147-D741-4CF5-A3E9-B95A5CF4118C.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley High School senior Georgia Fishman is the lead singer of the band I’d Rather Sleep. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Georgia Fishman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rather than fearing judgment about her music taste, Berkeley High School senior and musician Georgia Fishman says she feels pressure when it comes to her own sound. Georgia is the lead vocalist and guitarist in a band called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/idrathersleep_510/?hl=en\">I’d Rather Sleep\u003c/a>, who make experimental alt rock. She’s involved in the local hardcore scene, nicknamed the “Bay scene,” and has performed at all-ages shows at venues like Berkley’s 924 Gilman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, she feels judged by the diehards in the scene, but realizes she can’t appeal to everyone. “Sometimes people are very rigid with their music taste, and then it kind of makes it feel like, ‘Oh no, should we go heavier? Like, are we not accessible enough?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Georgia’s own music taste might fall outside of what’s considered typical for the singer of an alt rock band, but she sees her middle school favorites — like Fall Out Boy — as an opportunity to connect with others. 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Also among the event organizers, however, was the conglomerate Live Nation, the world’s largest live-events company—and one that has already been linked to hundreds of deaths and injuries in the past 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13905983']Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Live Nation Worldwide have been connected to about 200 deaths and at least 750 injuries since 2006, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/Astroworld-Festival-concert-producer-has-history-16597508.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Houston Chronicle \u003c/em>\u003c/a>reported on Monday after searching past court records, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reports and news coverage. 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Our entire team is mourning alongside the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_84656']The Live Nation-linked incidents reported by the \u003cem>Houston Chronicle\u003c/em> include deaths and injuries committed by intruders, including the suicide bomber who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/22/529588482/british-police-confirm-deaths-after-explosion-at-manchester-arena-concert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attacked\u003c/a> an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, in 2017 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/02/554976369/section-of-las-vegas-strip-is-closed-after-music-festival-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mass shooting\u003c/a> at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas later that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, those incidents also include a 2011 stage collapse in Indiana in which seven people were killed and 61 injured; the company settled with the victims for $50 million. In a 2013 incident, a concert staffer in Long Island, N.Y., suffered brain damage after a forklift tipped over the booth he had been working in. A jury awarded him $101 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has also found records on OSHA’s website showing that Live Nation has been cited for previous safety violations, including an incident in 2018 when a Live Nation employee was hit on the head by a 6-foot steel metal post that tipped over; the victim required hospitalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, Live Nation reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.livenationentertainment.com/2021/11/live-nation-entertainment-reports-third-quarter-2021-results/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$2.7 billion\u003c/a> in revenue for its third quarter, beating Wall Street expectations. The company attributed its growth to consumers’ pent-up demand for concerts, festivals and other live events that had been squelched by the coronavirus pandemic. The company has also been able to corner even more of the live-events market during the last 19 months, as smaller independent venues and organizers have struggled to stay afloat during lockdowns. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This report includes allegations of sexual and physical abuse.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal trial against \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/156679430/r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R. Kelly\u003c/a> in New York is now almost at the end of its fourth week of testimony. Dozens of witnesses for the prosecution, including 11 alleged victims, have appeared on the stand in this case, in which the R&B superstar stands accused of running a criminal enterprise not unlike the mob. In this case, the government says, the purpose of that enterprise was to “prey upon young women and teenagers” and lure them into sexual relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13900892']When jurors were selected early last month, Judge Ann Donnelly told them that the trial would take about a full month after testimony began on Aug. 18. We’re almost at that point already now, and the prosecution is still laying out its argument. We don’t know how many more witnesses the government expects to call, who the defense team is going to put forward, or whether Kelly himself is going to take the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems exceedingly unlikely, however, that the trial will wrap up in the next few days. And that’s without considering Kelly’s second scheduled federal trial, to take place in Chicago at some future time. There, Kelly will face separate charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to all charges across both federal indictments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve attended the trial in Brooklyn on many days. It’s been a strange experience so far, even by the standards of high-profile celebrity cases. Because of COVID protocols, journalists and the public have been assigned to overflow courtrooms, to watch the proceedings via video and audio feeds. Every trial day, hours before the court even opens, R. Kelly supporters line up to snag hotly coveted seats in the overflow areas; multiple \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/vicbekiempis/status/1430136654916997143?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disputes\u003c/a> over seats and places in line have precipitated the intervention of U.S. marshals and local police. After court ended on Sept. 3, the NYPD \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/emilyepalmer/status/1433842112810860544?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested\u003c/a> one male Kelly supporter who, according to police, was accused of sexually harassing another supporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Is that a weird shadow?”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, we journalists covering the trial spend our days peering at tiny figures rendered so small onscreen that even the sketch artists seated in the front row of our overflow courtroom have had considerable difficulty discerning participants’ basic features. (“Is she wearing glasses?” “Does he have a shaved head, or is that just a weird shadow?”) We can’t see the jurors at all, because—again, due to coronavirus protocols—they are seated not in the traditional jury box, but instead spaced out in the gallery, where public observers usually sit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, we in the media have no idea how jurors are reacting to the testimony they’re hearing. Is anyone snoozing through long stretches while experts are describing the particulars of cell phone data? When alleged victims burst into tears on the stand, as several have, is anyone in the jury viscerally responding? Are jurors taking notes, or just letting information wash over them? When the defense team brings up the names of Kelly’s former peers and colleagues—for example, the late singer Whitney Houston, whose name has been raised repeatedly—do they seem star-struck?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13901400']None of those kinds of reactions will determine their eventual judgment of innocence or guilt, of course. But body language could provide insights into how they’re feeling at any given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not following the “rules”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Day in and day out, testimony from witnesses—both those named in the indictment and some who are alleged victims of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019972507/r-kelly-prosecutors-evidence-more-crimes-bribery-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“uncharged crimes”\u003c/a> purportedly committed by Kelly—has rung similarly throughout, and much of it has been very difficult to listen to. Six alleged victims described being abused by Kelly while they were minors. Women have detailed being forced into unwanted sexual encounters, sometimes with other people, including strangers. Women have recounted alleged episodes of intense physical and sexual abuse for breaking one of his many “rules.” Women have stated that Kelly had lied to them by claiming he had no STDs, and finding out after the fact that he had given them herpes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both women and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/r-kelly-trial-week-3-recap-accuser-testimony-aaliyah-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">men\u003c/a>, who were minors or still teenagers when they met Kelly, have said that either Kelly or one of his associates slipped them his phone number after seeing him somewhere—at a show, at a mall, at a McDonald’s—and wound up as one of his sexual partners. One woman said on the stand that Kelly made her have sex with another man as punishment for breaking his rules, and also forced her to have an abortion. Another described being \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/r-kelly-trial-victim-imprisoned-drugged-raped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raped\u003c/a> backstage at one of the singer’s shows, soon after meeting Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still another, “Angela,” a former back-up dancer for Kelly and a back-up singer for Kelly’s late protégée, Aaliyah, said in testimony Monday that she witnessed Kelly appearing to perform oral sex on Aaliyah when the singer was just 13 or 14 years old. “Angela” appeared in the docuseries \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>, but did not make accusations of her own there. On the stand, however, she said that she, too, was sexually abused by Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Zombieish”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Also on Monday, a man who went by “Alex” in court, but who also was referred to in other testimony by the nickname “Nephew,” recounted being directed by Kelly to have sex with “countless” young women, as well as with Kelly himself, while Kelly recorded them all on video. Alex said he was not allowed to talk to the women or to learn their names. He flatly described the women’s demeanor during their sexual encounters as “zombieish.” Alex also said that he himself was “brainwashed” by Kelly. When asked by a prosecutor, “Why did you do what the defendant told you to do?” Alex hung his head and said, “I actually don’t even know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109968']Two experts recently told \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/cult-experts-why-r-kelly-accusers-stayed-despite-alleged-abuse-2021-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Insider\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that Kelly’s alleged behavior fits that of a cult leader. According to Rick Ross, executive director of the Cult Education Institute, “The women that are under his control, or have been under his control, they’re not functioning independently. He’s engendered dependency upon himself to make value judgments, to critically think, to analyze things—it’s incapacitated these women from being able to think for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, the defense team has alternately sought to characterize the women as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-r-kelly-bd42a092620ac9d159a8e6e8e9824e62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“groupies\u003c/a>,” or argued that Kelly treated them lavishly, providing them with gifts, trips and spending sprees, while always opening doors for them and standing if they entered a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Was it MSG?”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Defense lawyer Devereaux Cannick has repeatedly asked women on the stand \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/r-kelly-lawyer-twerking-sex-crimes-trial-2021-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">if they twerked\u003c/a> at Kelly’s shows or in his presence, as if dancing suggestively meant that they deserved alleged abuse. Cannick also tried to discredit the allegations of one woman, “Sonja,” who believes that she was drugged and sexually assaulted at Kelly’s home after going there to interview him for a Utah radio station. In her testimony, she said that she’d eaten a few bites of Chinese food shortly before she fell asleep. “Was it MSG?” Cannick asked her during cross-examination, implying that she’d gotten sick because she’d ingested monosodium glutamate, a common amino acid present in everything from tomatoes to Cool Ranch Doritos. (Activists say that anti-MSG sentiments are more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/asia/chinese-restaurant-syndrome-msg-intl-hnk-scli/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racism\u003c/a> than about science.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly has a team of four lawyers, two of whom have never argued a federal trial before—and it often shows. Just during the defense’s opening statement, for example, Judge Donnelly interrupted defense lawyer Nicole Blank Becker to ask for a sidebar, or sustained objections against her, more than half a dozen times. My media colleagues who are full-time court reporters, who also are covering the Kelly trial, tell me this is very unusual, especially in such a high-profile case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the defense has pointed out inconsistencies between what one witness said on the stand during the trial and statements she had made earlier. Another woman brought forward by the prosecution as a former girlfriend of Kelly’s clearly did not want to testify; what she said on the stand didn’t fit certain patterns laid out by other female witnesses, which served the defense’s argument well.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“It’s a bit misleading to call him a co-lyricist”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, outside of court, R. Kelly received a songwriting credit on Drake’s new album, \u003cem>Certified Lover Boy\u003c/em>, which dropped earlier this month. The project has earned Drake a \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9629040/drake-hot-100-history-way-2-sexy-number-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">historic place\u003c/a> on the \u003cem>Billboard \u003c/em>charts, with nine out of the top 10 songs on the Hot 100. Drake’s “TSU”—currently charting at No. 9—incorporates material from a song released by R. Kelly in 1998 called “Half on a Baby.” The Drake song includes a sample from a track on which Houston DJ OG Ron C raps over an orchestral passage from the Kelly song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_108417']In a recent Instagram comment, longtime Drake producer and collaborator \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/music/news/drake-r-kelly-songwriting-tsu-certified-lover-boy-sample-1235057256/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noah “40” Shebib wrote\u003c/a>: “It [the R. Kelly sample] has no significance no lyrics are present, r Kelly’s voice isn’t even present but if we wanted to use Ron c talking we were forced to license it. Doesn’t sit well with me let me just say that. And I’m not here to defend drakes lyrics, but I thought I would clear up that there is no actual r Kelly present and it’s a bit misleading to call him a co lyricist.” Still, having worked in the business as long as Drake and Shebib have, they surely must know how credits are parceled out for samples—and it’s hard to imagine Drake and his collaborators wouldn’t have foreseen any \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEJ_enUS883US883&sxsrf=AOaemvKH0VzX-5W7TyHAKr9rVyZGkMpPTw:1631042539096&q=drake+r.+kelly+tsu&tbm=nws&source=univ&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDrJ_5yu3yAhWgGVkFHa1vC_wQt8YBegQIAhAG&biw=1280&bih=577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blowback\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s equally hard to fathom that they didn’t realize the optics of utilizing an R. Kelly-related sample in this particular moment in time—and that they didn’t recognize that scandal sells. After \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly \u003c/em>first aired, streams of R. Kelly’s music \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/video/kellys-music-sales-reportedly-spike-docuseries-60207069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surged\u003c/a>, even though he had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/06/01/616179202/spotify-to-roll-back-its-hateful-conduct-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed\u003c/a> from Spotify’s playlists the preceding year. Just as Aaliyah’s name and the story of her marriage to Kelly at age 15 was coming up in court testimony, her uncle Barry Hankerson—who had managed both her and Kelly, and who owns the rights to much of her material—began to \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9610793/aaliyah-music-return-streaming-services-blackground-empire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">release\u003c/a> many of her recordings to streaming services for the first time, to the dismay of Aaliyah’s estate, including \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/music/news/aaliyah-estate-manager-battle-hankerson-1235035097/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her mother\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“It was dues time”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a weeping “Angela” gave testimony about her own alleged abuse and that of Aaliyah. During one tour stop in 1992 or 1993 in Washington, D.C., Angela said, she and a group of other teenaged girls, including Aaliyah, were instructed by Kelly to stay at the hotel while he and his male associates hit the town. Hungry, the girls went to a nearby 7-Eleven for food. While outside, they ran into Kelly, who was enraged. The punishment for their supposed infraction, Angela said, was to “put out” and have sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was dues time,” she explained. Angela said that on this occasion she refused him, and suggested to Kelly that she would call her mother and let her family know what was going on. Kelly allegedly relented, saying he was “just joking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaliyah billboards have \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-focus-finally-turns-to-aaliyah-in-r-kellys-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sprouted up\u003c/a> around Manhattan in the past few weeks, hailing the arrival of her albums on streaming services. Often, just minutes after I leave court, I pass underneath a giant version of her towering over Canal Street, full of such promise, fire and swagger. Some days, it’s been hard even to glance up at her, given the testimony that we’ve heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>None of those kinds of reactions will determine their eventual judgment of innocence or guilt, of course. But body language could provide insights into how they’re feeling at any given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not following the “rules”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Day in and day out, testimony from witnesses—both those named in the indictment and some who are alleged victims of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019972507/r-kelly-prosecutors-evidence-more-crimes-bribery-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“uncharged crimes”\u003c/a> purportedly committed by Kelly—has rung similarly throughout, and much of it has been very difficult to listen to. Six alleged victims described being abused by Kelly while they were minors. Women have detailed being forced into unwanted sexual encounters, sometimes with other people, including strangers. Women have recounted alleged episodes of intense physical and sexual abuse for breaking one of his many “rules.” Women have stated that Kelly had lied to them by claiming he had no STDs, and finding out after the fact that he had given them herpes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both women and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/r-kelly-trial-week-3-recap-accuser-testimony-aaliyah-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">men\u003c/a>, who were minors or still teenagers when they met Kelly, have said that either Kelly or one of his associates slipped them his phone number after seeing him somewhere—at a show, at a mall, at a McDonald’s—and wound up as one of his sexual partners. One woman said on the stand that Kelly made her have sex with another man as punishment for breaking his rules, and also forced her to have an abortion. Another described being \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/r-kelly-trial-victim-imprisoned-drugged-raped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raped\u003c/a> backstage at one of the singer’s shows, soon after meeting Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still another, “Angela,” a former back-up dancer for Kelly and a back-up singer for Kelly’s late protégée, Aaliyah, said in testimony Monday that she witnessed Kelly appearing to perform oral sex on Aaliyah when the singer was just 13 or 14 years old. “Angela” appeared in the docuseries \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>, but did not make accusations of her own there. On the stand, however, she said that she, too, was sexually abused by Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Zombieish”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Also on Monday, a man who went by “Alex” in court, but who also was referred to in other testimony by the nickname “Nephew,” recounted being directed by Kelly to have sex with “countless” young women, as well as with Kelly himself, while Kelly recorded them all on video. Alex said he was not allowed to talk to the women or to learn their names. He flatly described the women’s demeanor during their sexual encounters as “zombieish.” Alex also said that he himself was “brainwashed” by Kelly. When asked by a prosecutor, “Why did you do what the defendant told you to do?” Alex hung his head and said, “I actually don’t even know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Two experts recently told \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/cult-experts-why-r-kelly-accusers-stayed-despite-alleged-abuse-2021-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Insider\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that Kelly’s alleged behavior fits that of a cult leader. According to Rick Ross, executive director of the Cult Education Institute, “The women that are under his control, or have been under his control, they’re not functioning independently. He’s engendered dependency upon himself to make value judgments, to critically think, to analyze things—it’s incapacitated these women from being able to think for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, the defense team has alternately sought to characterize the women as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-r-kelly-bd42a092620ac9d159a8e6e8e9824e62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“groupies\u003c/a>,” or argued that Kelly treated them lavishly, providing them with gifts, trips and spending sprees, while always opening doors for them and standing if they entered a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Was it MSG?”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Defense lawyer Devereaux Cannick has repeatedly asked women on the stand \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/r-kelly-lawyer-twerking-sex-crimes-trial-2021-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">if they twerked\u003c/a> at Kelly’s shows or in his presence, as if dancing suggestively meant that they deserved alleged abuse. Cannick also tried to discredit the allegations of one woman, “Sonja,” who believes that she was drugged and sexually assaulted at Kelly’s home after going there to interview him for a Utah radio station. In her testimony, she said that she’d eaten a few bites of Chinese food shortly before she fell asleep. “Was it MSG?” Cannick asked her during cross-examination, implying that she’d gotten sick because she’d ingested monosodium glutamate, a common amino acid present in everything from tomatoes to Cool Ranch Doritos. (Activists say that anti-MSG sentiments are more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/asia/chinese-restaurant-syndrome-msg-intl-hnk-scli/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racism\u003c/a> than about science.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly has a team of four lawyers, two of whom have never argued a federal trial before—and it often shows. Just during the defense’s opening statement, for example, Judge Donnelly interrupted defense lawyer Nicole Blank Becker to ask for a sidebar, or sustained objections against her, more than half a dozen times. My media colleagues who are full-time court reporters, who also are covering the Kelly trial, tell me this is very unusual, especially in such a high-profile case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the defense has pointed out inconsistencies between what one witness said on the stand during the trial and statements she had made earlier. Another woman brought forward by the prosecution as a former girlfriend of Kelly’s clearly did not want to testify; what she said on the stand didn’t fit certain patterns laid out by other female witnesses, which served the defense’s argument well.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“It’s a bit misleading to call him a co-lyricist”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, outside of court, R. Kelly received a songwriting credit on Drake’s new album, \u003cem>Certified Lover Boy\u003c/em>, which dropped earlier this month. The project has earned Drake a \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9629040/drake-hot-100-history-way-2-sexy-number-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">historic place\u003c/a> on the \u003cem>Billboard \u003c/em>charts, with nine out of the top 10 songs on the Hot 100. Drake’s “TSU”—currently charting at No. 9—incorporates material from a song released by R. Kelly in 1998 called “Half on a Baby.” The Drake song includes a sample from a track on which Houston DJ OG Ron C raps over an orchestral passage from the Kelly song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a recent Instagram comment, longtime Drake producer and collaborator \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/music/news/drake-r-kelly-songwriting-tsu-certified-lover-boy-sample-1235057256/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noah “40” Shebib wrote\u003c/a>: “It [the R. Kelly sample] has no significance no lyrics are present, r Kelly’s voice isn’t even present but if we wanted to use Ron c talking we were forced to license it. Doesn’t sit well with me let me just say that. And I’m not here to defend drakes lyrics, but I thought I would clear up that there is no actual r Kelly present and it’s a bit misleading to call him a co lyricist.” Still, having worked in the business as long as Drake and Shebib have, they surely must know how credits are parceled out for samples—and it’s hard to imagine Drake and his collaborators wouldn’t have foreseen any \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEJ_enUS883US883&sxsrf=AOaemvKH0VzX-5W7TyHAKr9rVyZGkMpPTw:1631042539096&q=drake+r.+kelly+tsu&tbm=nws&source=univ&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDrJ_5yu3yAhWgGVkFHa1vC_wQt8YBegQIAhAG&biw=1280&bih=577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blowback\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s equally hard to fathom that they didn’t realize the optics of utilizing an R. Kelly-related sample in this particular moment in time—and that they didn’t recognize that scandal sells. After \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly \u003c/em>first aired, streams of R. Kelly’s music \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/video/kellys-music-sales-reportedly-spike-docuseries-60207069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surged\u003c/a>, even though he had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/06/01/616179202/spotify-to-roll-back-its-hateful-conduct-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed\u003c/a> from Spotify’s playlists the preceding year. Just as Aaliyah’s name and the story of her marriage to Kelly at age 15 was coming up in court testimony, her uncle Barry Hankerson—who had managed both her and Kelly, and who owns the rights to much of her material—began to \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9610793/aaliyah-music-return-streaming-services-blackground-empire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">release\u003c/a> many of her recordings to streaming services for the first time, to the dismay of Aaliyah’s estate, including \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/music/news/aaliyah-estate-manager-battle-hankerson-1235035097/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her mother\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“It was dues time”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a weeping “Angela” gave testimony about her own alleged abuse and that of Aaliyah. During one tour stop in 1992 or 1993 in Washington, D.C., Angela said, she and a group of other teenaged girls, including Aaliyah, were instructed by Kelly to stay at the hotel while he and his male associates hit the town. Hungry, the girls went to a nearby 7-Eleven for food. While outside, they ran into Kelly, who was enraged. The punishment for their supposed infraction, Angela said, was to “put out” and have sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was dues time,” she explained. Angela said that on this occasion she refused him, and suggested to Kelly that she would call her mother and let her family know what was going on. Kelly allegedly relented, saying he was “just joking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaliyah billboards have \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-focus-finally-turns-to-aaliyah-in-r-kellys-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sprouted up\u003c/a> around Manhattan in the past few weeks, hailing the arrival of her albums on streaming services. Often, just minutes after I leave court, I pass underneath a giant version of her towering over Canal Street, full of such promise, fire and swagger. Some days, it’s been hard even to glance up at her, given the testimony that we’ve heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Notebook%3A+A+Month+Into+R.+Kelly%27s+Trial%2C+Here%27s+What+It%27s+Been+Like+In+The+Courtroom&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "The Past Year in Music Listening: Video Rules, The Boy's Club Remains",
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"content": "\u003cp>As we ease into the 2020s, data about the music industry’s growth is more abundant than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the last week, BuzzAngle and Nielsen Music—the two central, competing, public-facing music-data firms in the U.S.—released their \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/files/pdfs/NIELSEN_2019_YEARENDreportUS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">annual\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzanglemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/BuzzAngle-Music-2019-US-Report-Industry.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports\u003c/a> on music listening trends. BuzzAngle powers \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/charts-methodology/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>‘s charts\u003c/a> and is owned by \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Penske Media\u003c/a>, the parent company of \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Deadline\u003c/em>; Nielsen Music was \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8546636/billboard-nielsen-music-valence-media-acquisition-mrc-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acquired\u003c/a> by Valence Media, the parent company of \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em>, in December 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two reports differ on some details, but are directionally similar. Both put the total number of music streams in the U.S. last year over one trillion for the first time, representing a 15% growth in streams year-over-year. Both note that on-demand streaming accounted for over 80% of total consumption in the U.S., and that audio streaming in particular continued to register solid annual growth (from Nielsen’s 24% to BuzzAngle’s 32%).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen’s report in particular sheds light on the artists who dominated the past decade. Drake, Eminem and Taylor Swift were the only three artists to rank in the top 10 for the most album sales and streams last decade—country stars like Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw and Toby Keith lead the radio airplay charts over the same time period. Interestingly, while Adele had the two best-\u003cem>selling\u003c/em> albums of the decade—\u003cem>21\u003c/em> and \u003cem>25\u003c/em>, respectively, both released in 2015 or earlier—she’s nowhere to be found on any decade-end streaming charts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, music listening is accelerating: According to BuzzAngle, last year’s streams alone accounted for more than 30% of all streaming activity over the past six years. But beneath the “one trillion streams” headlines are some deeper truths about the current state of the music business—some of which reflect the industry’s stubborn resistance to change, and others of which provide a sign of the global transformation to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Audio streams might rule the U.S., but video streams rule the world\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Audio-streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music tend to suck up much of the air when talking about the modern music industry, at least in the U.S. But zoom out to a global level and it’s actually video—not audio—that reigns supreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen Music and BuzzAngle both found that audio accounted for around 70% of total on-demand streams in the U.S. in 2019, with video comprising the remaining 30%. But Nielsen’s worldwide streaming data flips that ratio on its head: Out of the 5.1 trillion on-demand music streams generated globally in 2019, including U.S. plays, 66% came from video, while the remaining 33% came from audio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is because YouTube is the preferred consumption platform and marketing machine for several international music genres, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.getrevue.co/profile/cheriehu42/issues/why-are-none-of-the-top-10-music-video-debuts-in-youtube-history-from-hip-hop-artists-173643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K-pop\u003c/a> in Korea to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/world/asia/t-series-youtube-india.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bollywood\u003c/a> in India (YouTube alone accounts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.musicplus.in/indian-music-industry-cross-%E2%82%B919-2-billion-2021/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40%\u003c/a> of Indian labels’ revenues). Unlike Spotify Premium or Apple Music, YouTube is free and doesn’t require a login, raising its appeal for music markets whose consumers might have lower per-capita incomes or haven’t yet warmed up to the concept of a paid streaming subscription.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More songs than ever are in the 500-million-streams club, but power is still concentrated\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the reports also outlines a dual narrative with respect to whether the music industry is really becoming a more-level playing field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one hand, more artists and songs are participating in the “top 1%” of the industry. According to BuzzAngle, 31 songs were streamed over 500 million times in 2019, up from 21 such songs in 2018. A tier below, nearly 900 songs were streamed over 100 million times last year, up from 525 in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t mean the distribution of power has gotten any more equitable. BuzzAngle found that the 1,000 most-streamed songs in 2019 accounted for 18% of \u003cem>all\u003c/em> streams, while the top 500 album titles were responsible for 30% of all album sales—same as the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major labels also dominate nearly all of the top artist, album and song charts in both reports. With the exception of YNW Melly’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.thefader.com/2019/02/20/ynw-melly-murder-on-my-mind-charis-e-kubrin-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Murder On My Mind\u003c/a>,” the top 25 songs, albums and artists of 2019 in BuzzAngle’s report were all owned and/or distributed by a major label. Nielsen Music \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/business/8547770/nielsen-music-mrc-data-2019-report-streaming-tops-1-trillion-first-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found\u003c/a> that Universal Music Group, the largest record label by annual revenue, saw little change to its dominant market share, controlling 38.7% of the market in 2019 versus 38.1% in 2018 .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t necessarily to say that the music business is stale, or hostile to disruption. Consider “Old Town Road.” Within just one year, the song that Lil Nas X made with a $30 beat and then strategically seeded onto platforms like Triller and TikTok ended up becoming the most-streamed song \u003cem>of the past 10 years\u003c/em>, beating ubiquitous hits like “Despacito,” “Rockstar” and “Uptown Funk.” But even “Old Town Road” arguably could not have gotten to its historic peak without major-label backing—in this case, a distribution deal with Columbia Records, which helped Lil Nas X land remixes with Billy Ray Cyrus, Young Thug, Mason Ramsey and RM from BTS. Not only did these high-profile celebrities help promote the single, the remixes’ streams \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/18/743121439/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-billie-eilish-bad-guy-remix-billboard-charts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also counted toward the original song’s tallies\u003c/a>, helping the track make history as the longest-running No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vinyl might be having a “revival,” but CDs still account for the vast majority of physical albums\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Album and song sales continue to wane across the board, seeing a 20% to 25% decline year-over-year in 2019, per BuzzAngle and Nielsen, respectively. Yet vinyl album sales continue to grow, by 11% to 15% annually (BuzzAngle and Nielsen, respectively). According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), revenues from vinyl records are poised to \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/vinyl-cds-revenue-growth-riaa-880959/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surpass\u003c/a> those from CDs within the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s one important caveat: In terms of units, vinyl is \u003cem>not\u003c/em> the top physical music format—far from it, in fact. In 2019, CDs still accounted for 74% to 80% of physical album units sold, according to BuzzAngle and Nielsen, respectively. (Absolute numbers differ between the two reports; BuzzAngle pegs the number of CDs sold last year at 44.9 million, while Nielsen Music reports 54.8 million.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, vinyl constituted only around 17% to 19% of physical units sold last year—10.7 million per BuzzAngle and 18.8 million per Nielsen. While vinyl might be providing the music industry with a growing source of revenue, it doesn’t come close to achieving the reach of the CD market. The vinyl market also skews the oldest out of all music formats; six out of the top-10-selling vinyl albums of 2019 were released before 2000, and 67% of vinyl sales overall last year came from catalog (i.e., music older than 18 months), according to Nielsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Remember: album sales aren’t all created equal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since streaming now accounts for the vast majority of music listening in the U.S. (again, about 80%), it’s natural to assume that those plays are an appropriate proxy for consumer behavior across other formats. But a closer examination of the Nielsen Music and BuzzAngle reports reveals that that could not be further from the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sales-oriented music charts, like the Billboard 200, calculate artists’ rankings using formulas that convert stream counts into approximate “album equivalents.” For example, as of summer 2018, the Billboard charts register one “album unit” for every 1,250 paid audio streams, 3,750 ad-supported streams or 3,750 video streams. BuzzAngle, meanwhile, has a simpler, unweighted formula, adding one “album project unit” for every 1,500 on-demand streams, regardless of the streams’ source or financial value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under these formulas, if only one song on a ten-track album was streamed a million times, with the remaining tracks receiving zero activity, that would count just as much towards an album ranking as every track receiving 100,000 streams each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this month—this week, in fact—the Billboard 200 chart is also now \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/business/chart-beat/8546247/billboard-200-changes-youtube-video-data-streaming-album-charts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">incorporating YouTube data\u003c/a> into its formula, which puts even further weight on an album’s biggest single(s) rather than on all the project’s tracks as a whole. In short, album equivalent units often don’t reflect actual album consumption, let alone physical album purchases—a nuance that’s difficult to communicate in the context of a surface-level chart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Radio listening and album sales paint a completely different picture of popularity than streaming\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s compare the top artists on streaming versus terrestrial radio in both reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, hip-hop/R&B was the top genre for on-demand streaming in 2019, accounting for nearly a third of total on-demand streams. Moreover, rappers accounted for over half of the top ten most-streamed artists and songs of the year, according to Nielsen. BuzzAngle reported an even stronger skew in favor of hip-hop/R&B, with the genre accounting for 80% of the top 25 artists of the year (by on-demand streams).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Nielsen’s radio airplay charts are almost completely devoid of hip-hop. Towards the end of Nielsen’s report, there are four lists of the top artists and songs by airplay spins and audience reach for the decade ending 2019, encompassing 40 total slots. Only \u003cem>five\u003c/em> of those slots went to hip-hop/R&B artists, with country and rock dominating nearly all others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isolating album and song sales presents a similar story. Country and rock accounted for 14 of BuzzAngle’s top 25 artists by album sales from 2015–2019, while only two rappers make an appearance in Nielsen’s top 10 artists of the decade by album sales and song sales—Drake and Eminem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Once disparate, the demographics of streaming, album sales and terrestrial radio listeners are now starting to blur\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listeners of all ages, including parents and seniors, are adopting smart speakers and other voice-enabled devices at a rapid pace, helping revivify back catalog in the streaming era. And it’s not just the old guard who can benefit from selling vinyl: Colorful physical products like vinyl records can potentially help an artist stand out in the crowded streaming landscape—and, when bundled with a digital download, can even help them climb the charts (as long as they \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/want-an-album-with-that-t-shirt-billboard-tightens-rules-on-bundling-music-and-merchandise-11574776800\">stick to the rules\u003c/a>). In general, the physical market is also increasingly online, with nearly half of all physical album sales in 2019 happening via online e-commerce stores, according to BuzzAngle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most surprising case study: While Billie Eilish may be a streaming darling, she also has a much more solid track record in vinyl sales than most of her modern-pop peers. In 2019, 19% (BuzzAngle) to 26% (Nielsen Music) of physical units sold for Eilish’s \u003cem>When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go\u003c/em> were vinyl LPs. In contrast, only 6% of physical sales for Taylor Swift and 9% of those for Harry Styles came from vinyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The upper echelon of music is still a boy’s club\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A disappointing takeaway from both BuzzAngle’s and Nielsen’s reports is the lack of women among the top-selling artists and songs of both 2019 and the past decade—suggesting that progress towards gender equality in recorded music over the past five to ten years has been incremental at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender inequities vary somewhat by musical genre. The upper echelons of the pop charts tend to be more inclusive—with the likes of Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift reigning in 2019—but the top of the hip-hop, country and rock charts remain male-dominated. BuzzAngle’s report reveals that all of the top-consumed hip-hop songs and albums of 2019 were performed by men. With the exception of Lizzo, Nielsen’s hip-hop/R&B year-end charts were also completely male, and not a single woman made it onto Nielsen’s top country and rock charts for the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While disruptive in a commercial sense, the advent of streaming has not necessarily made this gender split any better. According to BuzzAngle, with the exception of Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” and Camila Cabello’s “Havana,” \u003cem>all\u003c/em> of the 25 top-streamed songs over the past five years were by male artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These findings parallel more longitudinal studies carried out by institutions such as the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which \u003ca href=\"http://assets.uscannenberg.org/docs/no-country-for-female-artists-research-brief_2019-04-04.pdf\">found\u003c/a> that female artists accounted only for 16% of the top 500 charted country songs from 2014 to 2018. Artists like \u003ca href=\"https://www.glamour.com/story/jennifer-nettles-equal-play?curator=MusicREDEF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jennifer Nettles Glamour\u003c/a> have been speaking out against these inequities for years, yet they still play out across streaming, physical and radio formats, as well as in the live sector (e.g. the \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/01/9131472/2020-coachella-lineup-no-women-headlining\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">absence of women headliners\u003c/a> from this year’s Coachella lineup).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be a new decade, but the music business is still rife with ingrained biases and gatekeeping practices that prevent women and other minority groups from accessing key exposure, revenue and career opportunities—let alone appearing on year-end industry reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As we ease into the 2020s, data about the music industry’s growth is more abundant than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the last week, BuzzAngle and Nielsen Music—the two central, competing, public-facing music-data firms in the U.S.—released their \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/files/pdfs/NIELSEN_2019_YEARENDreportUS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">annual\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzanglemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/BuzzAngle-Music-2019-US-Report-Industry.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports\u003c/a> on music listening trends. BuzzAngle powers \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/charts-methodology/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>‘s charts\u003c/a> and is owned by \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Penske Media\u003c/a>, the parent company of \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Deadline\u003c/em>; Nielsen Music was \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8546636/billboard-nielsen-music-valence-media-acquisition-mrc-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acquired\u003c/a> by Valence Media, the parent company of \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em>, in December 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two reports differ on some details, but are directionally similar. Both put the total number of music streams in the U.S. last year over one trillion for the first time, representing a 15% growth in streams year-over-year. Both note that on-demand streaming accounted for over 80% of total consumption in the U.S., and that audio streaming in particular continued to register solid annual growth (from Nielsen’s 24% to BuzzAngle’s 32%).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen’s report in particular sheds light on the artists who dominated the past decade. Drake, Eminem and Taylor Swift were the only three artists to rank in the top 10 for the most album sales and streams last decade—country stars like Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw and Toby Keith lead the radio airplay charts over the same time period. Interestingly, while Adele had the two best-\u003cem>selling\u003c/em> albums of the decade—\u003cem>21\u003c/em> and \u003cem>25\u003c/em>, respectively, both released in 2015 or earlier—she’s nowhere to be found on any decade-end streaming charts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, music listening is accelerating: According to BuzzAngle, last year’s streams alone accounted for more than 30% of all streaming activity over the past six years. But beneath the “one trillion streams” headlines are some deeper truths about the current state of the music business—some of which reflect the industry’s stubborn resistance to change, and others of which provide a sign of the global transformation to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Audio streams might rule the U.S., but video streams rule the world\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Audio-streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music tend to suck up much of the air when talking about the modern music industry, at least in the U.S. But zoom out to a global level and it’s actually video—not audio—that reigns supreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen Music and BuzzAngle both found that audio accounted for around 70% of total on-demand streams in the U.S. in 2019, with video comprising the remaining 30%. But Nielsen’s worldwide streaming data flips that ratio on its head: Out of the 5.1 trillion on-demand music streams generated globally in 2019, including U.S. plays, 66% came from video, while the remaining 33% came from audio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is because YouTube is the preferred consumption platform and marketing machine for several international music genres, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.getrevue.co/profile/cheriehu42/issues/why-are-none-of-the-top-10-music-video-debuts-in-youtube-history-from-hip-hop-artists-173643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K-pop\u003c/a> in Korea to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/world/asia/t-series-youtube-india.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bollywood\u003c/a> in India (YouTube alone accounts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.musicplus.in/indian-music-industry-cross-%E2%82%B919-2-billion-2021/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40%\u003c/a> of Indian labels’ revenues). Unlike Spotify Premium or Apple Music, YouTube is free and doesn’t require a login, raising its appeal for music markets whose consumers might have lower per-capita incomes or haven’t yet warmed up to the concept of a paid streaming subscription.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More songs than ever are in the 500-million-streams club, but power is still concentrated\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the reports also outlines a dual narrative with respect to whether the music industry is really becoming a more-level playing field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one hand, more artists and songs are participating in the “top 1%” of the industry. According to BuzzAngle, 31 songs were streamed over 500 million times in 2019, up from 21 such songs in 2018. A tier below, nearly 900 songs were streamed over 100 million times last year, up from 525 in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t mean the distribution of power has gotten any more equitable. BuzzAngle found that the 1,000 most-streamed songs in 2019 accounted for 18% of \u003cem>all\u003c/em> streams, while the top 500 album titles were responsible for 30% of all album sales—same as the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major labels also dominate nearly all of the top artist, album and song charts in both reports. With the exception of YNW Melly’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.thefader.com/2019/02/20/ynw-melly-murder-on-my-mind-charis-e-kubrin-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Murder On My Mind\u003c/a>,” the top 25 songs, albums and artists of 2019 in BuzzAngle’s report were all owned and/or distributed by a major label. Nielsen Music \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/business/8547770/nielsen-music-mrc-data-2019-report-streaming-tops-1-trillion-first-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found\u003c/a> that Universal Music Group, the largest record label by annual revenue, saw little change to its dominant market share, controlling 38.7% of the market in 2019 versus 38.1% in 2018 .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t necessarily to say that the music business is stale, or hostile to disruption. Consider “Old Town Road.” Within just one year, the song that Lil Nas X made with a $30 beat and then strategically seeded onto platforms like Triller and TikTok ended up becoming the most-streamed song \u003cem>of the past 10 years\u003c/em>, beating ubiquitous hits like “Despacito,” “Rockstar” and “Uptown Funk.” But even “Old Town Road” arguably could not have gotten to its historic peak without major-label backing—in this case, a distribution deal with Columbia Records, which helped Lil Nas X land remixes with Billy Ray Cyrus, Young Thug, Mason Ramsey and RM from BTS. Not only did these high-profile celebrities help promote the single, the remixes’ streams \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/18/743121439/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-billie-eilish-bad-guy-remix-billboard-charts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also counted toward the original song’s tallies\u003c/a>, helping the track make history as the longest-running No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vinyl might be having a “revival,” but CDs still account for the vast majority of physical albums\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Album and song sales continue to wane across the board, seeing a 20% to 25% decline year-over-year in 2019, per BuzzAngle and Nielsen, respectively. Yet vinyl album sales continue to grow, by 11% to 15% annually (BuzzAngle and Nielsen, respectively). According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), revenues from vinyl records are poised to \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/vinyl-cds-revenue-growth-riaa-880959/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surpass\u003c/a> those from CDs within the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s one important caveat: In terms of units, vinyl is \u003cem>not\u003c/em> the top physical music format—far from it, in fact. In 2019, CDs still accounted for 74% to 80% of physical album units sold, according to BuzzAngle and Nielsen, respectively. (Absolute numbers differ between the two reports; BuzzAngle pegs the number of CDs sold last year at 44.9 million, while Nielsen Music reports 54.8 million.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, vinyl constituted only around 17% to 19% of physical units sold last year—10.7 million per BuzzAngle and 18.8 million per Nielsen. While vinyl might be providing the music industry with a growing source of revenue, it doesn’t come close to achieving the reach of the CD market. The vinyl market also skews the oldest out of all music formats; six out of the top-10-selling vinyl albums of 2019 were released before 2000, and 67% of vinyl sales overall last year came from catalog (i.e., music older than 18 months), according to Nielsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Remember: album sales aren’t all created equal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since streaming now accounts for the vast majority of music listening in the U.S. (again, about 80%), it’s natural to assume that those plays are an appropriate proxy for consumer behavior across other formats. But a closer examination of the Nielsen Music and BuzzAngle reports reveals that that could not be further from the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sales-oriented music charts, like the Billboard 200, calculate artists’ rankings using formulas that convert stream counts into approximate “album equivalents.” For example, as of summer 2018, the Billboard charts register one “album unit” for every 1,250 paid audio streams, 3,750 ad-supported streams or 3,750 video streams. BuzzAngle, meanwhile, has a simpler, unweighted formula, adding one “album project unit” for every 1,500 on-demand streams, regardless of the streams’ source or financial value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under these formulas, if only one song on a ten-track album was streamed a million times, with the remaining tracks receiving zero activity, that would count just as much towards an album ranking as every track receiving 100,000 streams each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this month—this week, in fact—the Billboard 200 chart is also now \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/business/chart-beat/8546247/billboard-200-changes-youtube-video-data-streaming-album-charts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">incorporating YouTube data\u003c/a> into its formula, which puts even further weight on an album’s biggest single(s) rather than on all the project’s tracks as a whole. In short, album equivalent units often don’t reflect actual album consumption, let alone physical album purchases—a nuance that’s difficult to communicate in the context of a surface-level chart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Radio listening and album sales paint a completely different picture of popularity than streaming\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s compare the top artists on streaming versus terrestrial radio in both reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, hip-hop/R&B was the top genre for on-demand streaming in 2019, accounting for nearly a third of total on-demand streams. Moreover, rappers accounted for over half of the top ten most-streamed artists and songs of the year, according to Nielsen. BuzzAngle reported an even stronger skew in favor of hip-hop/R&B, with the genre accounting for 80% of the top 25 artists of the year (by on-demand streams).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Nielsen’s radio airplay charts are almost completely devoid of hip-hop. Towards the end of Nielsen’s report, there are four lists of the top artists and songs by airplay spins and audience reach for the decade ending 2019, encompassing 40 total slots. Only \u003cem>five\u003c/em> of those slots went to hip-hop/R&B artists, with country and rock dominating nearly all others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isolating album and song sales presents a similar story. Country and rock accounted for 14 of BuzzAngle’s top 25 artists by album sales from 2015–2019, while only two rappers make an appearance in Nielsen’s top 10 artists of the decade by album sales and song sales—Drake and Eminem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Once disparate, the demographics of streaming, album sales and terrestrial radio listeners are now starting to blur\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listeners of all ages, including parents and seniors, are adopting smart speakers and other voice-enabled devices at a rapid pace, helping revivify back catalog in the streaming era. And it’s not just the old guard who can benefit from selling vinyl: Colorful physical products like vinyl records can potentially help an artist stand out in the crowded streaming landscape—and, when bundled with a digital download, can even help them climb the charts (as long as they \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/want-an-album-with-that-t-shirt-billboard-tightens-rules-on-bundling-music-and-merchandise-11574776800\">stick to the rules\u003c/a>). In general, the physical market is also increasingly online, with nearly half of all physical album sales in 2019 happening via online e-commerce stores, according to BuzzAngle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most surprising case study: While Billie Eilish may be a streaming darling, she also has a much more solid track record in vinyl sales than most of her modern-pop peers. In 2019, 19% (BuzzAngle) to 26% (Nielsen Music) of physical units sold for Eilish’s \u003cem>When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go\u003c/em> were vinyl LPs. In contrast, only 6% of physical sales for Taylor Swift and 9% of those for Harry Styles came from vinyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The upper echelon of music is still a boy’s club\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A disappointing takeaway from both BuzzAngle’s and Nielsen’s reports is the lack of women among the top-selling artists and songs of both 2019 and the past decade—suggesting that progress towards gender equality in recorded music over the past five to ten years has been incremental at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender inequities vary somewhat by musical genre. The upper echelons of the pop charts tend to be more inclusive—with the likes of Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift reigning in 2019—but the top of the hip-hop, country and rock charts remain male-dominated. BuzzAngle’s report reveals that all of the top-consumed hip-hop songs and albums of 2019 were performed by men. With the exception of Lizzo, Nielsen’s hip-hop/R&B year-end charts were also completely male, and not a single woman made it onto Nielsen’s top country and rock charts for the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While disruptive in a commercial sense, the advent of streaming has not necessarily made this gender split any better. According to BuzzAngle, with the exception of Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” and Camila Cabello’s “Havana,” \u003cem>all\u003c/em> of the 25 top-streamed songs over the past five years were by male artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These findings parallel more longitudinal studies carried out by institutions such as the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which \u003ca href=\"http://assets.uscannenberg.org/docs/no-country-for-female-artists-research-brief_2019-04-04.pdf\">found\u003c/a> that female artists accounted only for 16% of the top 500 charted country songs from 2014 to 2018. 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Where are the farmers and the creator of the video now? \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the internet hailed the dancing farmer video, life has changed in big and small ways, says Sriram Srikanth, 28, the vlogger who choreographed the dance and shot the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their little jig put the tiny village of \u003ca href=\"http://www.onefivenine.com/india/villages/Karimnagar/Mallial/Lambadipally\">Lambadipally\u003c/a> in the southern Indian state of Telangana on the map.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so0BwyMEO8w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans seek out their village, Srikanth says. “Many of our days begin by meeting people who’ve traveled long hours to come to see us,” he says. At least 20 people show up every day on weekdays, and many more on weekends. He says they often just want to tell them how much they appreciate village life and their vlogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great feeling to meet them, to see their interest in our village and our work,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The viral video also helped grow Srikanth’s YouTube channel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=My+village+show\">My Village Show\u003c/a>. He started it in 2012 to chronicle the exasperating and endearing aspects of village life with doses of slapstick comedy. When the channel first launched, it had a little over 1,000 subscribers. Today, it has over 900,000 subscribers and 200 episodes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Kiki challenge, Srikanth and his team uploaded 38 videos last year, 22 of which have scored over a million views. 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