Here are the winners from last night's Billboard Music Awards!
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By : Gil Kaufman Source : Billboard Twenty One Pilots spent more than seven months planning, rehearsing and building the elaborate livestream that beamed out on Friday night (May 21). The hour-long event showcasing most of their new album, Scaled and Icy, incorporated more than half a dozen Broadway-style sets arrayed on the floor of their hometown Columbus, Ohio, arena -- the Schottenstein Center -- as well as roping in a full band to augment their usual two-man set-up, a troupe of dancers, a retro 1970s storyline and some fancy footwork...
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By : Rachel Kurzius Source : Microsoft News When Rabbi Hannah Goldstein would talk to families before a funeral in pre-pandemic times, she remembers how they would share information about a loved one with her. Everyone tended to “jump in, and someone corrects a detail and then someone adds another piece of it,” recalls Goldstein, who works at Temple Sinai in D.C. “It’s collaborative. It’s like everyone’s sort of telling that story together. Oftentimes, I think when you’re remembering a loved one,...
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By : Protect Young Minds Staff Source : Protect Young Minds Ever heard of Discord? It’s a popular way for kids to chat with friends while playing Fortnite, Minecraft, or Among Us. You may have seen media reports warning parents about the dangers of Discord: hate speech, vulgar language, bullying, spreading malware, and even predators or human traffickers stalking kids on Discord. So what exactly is Discord? And can my teen safely use it? read more...  
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By : Murray Stassen Source : Music Business Worldwide Spotify published its financial results for Q1 2021 today (April 28), revealing that its global Premium Subscriber base grew to 158 million in the quarter (ended March 31). That was up 21% year-on-year, but up by just 2%, or 3 million subscribers, on the 155m that SPOT counted at the end of the prior quarter (Q4 2020). The company’s total global Monthly Active Users, (MAUs), meanwhile, grew 24% year-on-year to 356m in Q1 2021 and by 3% compared to the previous quarter (Q4 2020)...
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By : Tim Ingham Source : Music Business Worldwide YouTube‘s advertising business is exploding. The platform’s latest revenue figures were revealed last week as part of the Q1 results of parent company Alphabet. They show that YouTube is now generating an average of over $2 billion every month from ads – and that it’s potentially on course to generate somewhere near to $30 billion across the course of this year. They also show that YouTube’s ad business materially closed the gap on...
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By : Robert Preidt Source : HealthDay News Bullied and mistreated teens are much more likely to fantasize about hurting or killing others, a new study warns. "One way to think about fantasies is as our brain rehearsing future scenarios," said lead author Manuel Eisner, director of the University of Cambridge Violence Research Center in the U.K. His research included more than 1,400 young people in Zurich, Switzerland, who were asked about their thoughts and experiences at ages 15, 17 and 20. Among other things, they were asked...
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