This article lists the most expensive music videos ever made, with costs of $500,000 or more.
David Bowie's video for the 1981 single "Ashes to Ashes" was the first music video to exceed this sum. Janet Jackson leads with six videos on the list, while Michael Jackson, Britney Spears and Ayumi Hamasaki have five each. Madonna has made three appearances in the top five, and four total, making her the artist with the most expensive videos of all time combined. TLC, Mariah Carey, Kanye West, Busta Rhymes, Guns N' Roses, Mylène Farmer and MC Hammer appear on the list twice.
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This ranking presents the top Spotify artists based on streams from tracks available inside their personal page’s sections Albums, Singles and Compilations. They are combined together and defined as “Lead streams”.
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Films made in Japan produce revenue through various sources; the lists below only consider box office earnings at cinemas, not other sources of income such as merchandising or home video. The lists include both anime and live-action films produced by Japanese studios, but do not include English-language international co-productions between Japanese and Hollywood studios (for example, a number of Hollywood films based on Japanese source material were co‑produced with Japanese production companies).
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There are 24 clubs who have won the English title, including 7 who have won the Premier League (1992–present). The most recent to join the list were Leicester City (2015–2016 champions) and before that, Nottingham Forest (1977–1978) and Derby County (1971–1972).
Thirteen previous champions will compete in the upcoming 2022-2023 Premier League season.
The English Premier League is England's top-flight league and the most valuable league in the world. Its revenue generation has been tremendous since its inception, as it is the most commercially successful league in the world. It is also regarded as the most-watched league globally, with an estimated audience of around four billion.
As of 2022, it generates over $3.14 billion annually from sponsorship deals, international TV rights, and multiple endorsements. This is why the league's current valuation is at a whopping $9.03 billion.
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This is a list of the most-played video games ordered by their estimated player count, which include downloads, registered accounts, video game subscription services, and/or monthly active users.
This list does not include games with official sales figures. This list is also not comprehensive, because player counts are not always publicly available, reliable, or up-to-date.
The list does not include mobile games, unless versions of the game have also been released on non-mobile platforms. Four of the top five most-played video games on this list are published by Tencent.
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The top movie distributors have had a long staying power since 1995. That year, the top 5 distributors (ranked from first to fifth) were Walt Disney, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Universal, and Paramount. In 2021, the top 5 distributors were Sony Pictures, Walt Disney, Universal, Warner Bros, and United Artists. Not much has changed!
This dataset ranks the top movie distributors throughout 1995-2022 by the cumulative amount they earned at the domestic box office during that time period. Walt Disney, over the past 27 years, holds the top spot with 17% market share during this period.
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An over-the-top media service is a streaming media service offered directly to viewers via the Internet. OTT bypasses cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms, the companies that traditionally act as a controller or distributors of such content.
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The following table lists the fifty most-subscribed YouTube channels, as well as the primary language and content category of each channel. The channels are ordered by number of subscribers; those whose displayed subscriber counts are identical are listed so that the channel whose current growth rate indicates that its displayed subscriber count will exceed that of the other channel is listed first.
Automatically-generated channels that lack their own videos (such as Music and News) and channels that have been made effectively obsolete as a result of the transferal of their content (such as JustinBieberVEVO and TaylorSwiftVEVO) are excluded. As of April 2022, 22 of the 50 channels listed primarily produce content in English while 15 primarily produce content in Hindi.
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Who said the musical is dead? The last few years have produced box office hits out of film adaptations of Broadway smashes, original movie musicals and a few, beloved, all-time classics.
Here are the highest grossing movie musicals of all time based on their worldwide box office gross.
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As of March 2022, Meryl Streep was the person with the most Oscar nominations of all time, with an impressive 21 nominations and three wins. Katherine Hepburn (1907-2003) received 12 nominations but took home one more Academy Award than Streep throughout her acting career. Four out of the seven actors with the most Oscar wins are women.
While nominees such as Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, and Lupita Nyong'o struck it lucky and won an award with their first nomination, others have been waiting for years to finally hold their acceptance speech on stage. As of 2022, Glenn Close and Peter O'Toole topped the ranking for the most nominations in an acting category without a win.
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