Spotify’s Discovery Mode allows artists to flag songs to be boosted in Spotify’s algorithmic recommendations in exchange for a 30% royalty commission—but a lawsuit accuses the streaming company of boosting artists who pay them.
Ronaldo became the first active team-sport athlete to surpass $1 billion in career earnings in 2020.
More than 26 billionaires gave to campaigns to defeat New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Amanda Lacaze has been at the helm of ASX-traded Lynas Rare Earths for a decade. The stock shot up 120% over the last year, amid China/U.S. trade tensions. Now, Lacaze is spearheading the capacity, certainty, and speed of the Australian/U.S. rare earth supply chain.
Sweeney said the American Eagle advert heard around the country “didn’t affect me one way or the other.”
The leading cryptocurrency has pared back historical gains in recent weeks.
Cheney, who served under President George W. Bush, is widely considered to be the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
Threads surpassed X in daily active users on mobile devices worldwide for the first time by a razor-thin margin late September, though now Threads has since extended its lead by millions of users.
Jeff Bezos’ stake in Amazon is up almost $30 billion since Friday.
A federal lawsuit filed Sunday in California federal court accuses Spotify of failing to prevent streaming fraud, including by allowing “billions” of bot-generated streams that allegedly boosted rapper Drake’s streaming numbers, though he is not named as a defendant.