In seminal 2001 movie Josie and the Pussycats, which I may or may not have watched this weekend, music by the titular band is used by evil record label Mega Records as a vehicle for subliminal messages:Please just sit on that for a minute, while I tell you about something else that happened this weekend: Ed Sheeran released his third album, ÷ (Divide), on Friday and broke the following records on Spotify:
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- The most streams in a day for an album. This record was previously held by The Weeknd's Starboy, which racked up 29 million streams a single day. Sheeran did over 56 million;
- The most streams in a day for a song, which was actually his own record. "Shape of You" had previously received over 7 million streams, but on Friday Sheeran busted it open with over 10 million streams of that very song – maybe the only one where a multi-millionaire discusses taking a date to an all-you-can-eat buffet;