Random music news for Saturday, December 30, 2023
New Year’s resolution: Don’t make your bed in the morning. Here’s why. You’re welcome. On to music news for December 30, 2023.
- We’ll see this list a lot over the next 48 hours: Celebrity deaths in 2023.
- Drilling down, we have the “musicians we lost in 2023” lists.
- Then there’s stuff like this: Google search trends from 2023.
- Imagine Dragons did a great thing for a Ukranian teenager whose who home was destroyed by the Russians.
- Mariah Carey will soon get some major royalty cheques for “All I Want for Christmas is You.”
- What’s going on, Paramore?
- Cher has filed for conservatorship of her adult son Elijah Blue (also the son of Gregg Allman) after an “attempted kidnapping.”
- Only one album sold more than a million physical copies in the US in 2023. Any guesses?
- Spotify now has more than 100,000 video podcasts.
- This ancient Greek theatre had excellent acoustics. Scientists now know why.
- Metallica got tired of paying for royalties from a movie–so they just bought it.
- How do we feel about Metallica playing in Saudi Arabia?
- Could 2024 be the year of “green” vinyl?
- It’s Eminem vs. two of the Real Housewives of Potomac.
BONUS: This scientist says he can prove we’re all just living in a simulation.
BONUS BONUS: Watch this all the way through to understand why 0.001 second matter.
