📈 Chart toppers

The numbers are in for the most-played songs of the year

November 30, 2022

IN THIS ISSUE 🎧 Apple Music reveals year-end charts 🐦 Twitter ditches COVID-19 misinformation rule 🚘 Tesla eyeing redesign for Model 3 🎄 Get ready for 'All I Want For Christmas Is You'

APPLE MUSIC Apple Music reveals year-end charts Find out what Music subscribers have been listening to over the last 12 months Apple Music has revealed its year-end charts, highlighting 2022's top songs, top fitness songs, most-read lyrics, and top Shazams, among its community of subscribers.   The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber finished ahead of the field for Top Songs of 2022 with their collaboration, Stay, which remained in the top 100 during all of this year while also reaching number 1 on the Daily Top 100 in 69 countries and regions worldwide.   As for Apple Music's Most Read Lyrics chart, that was topped by We Don't Talk About Bruno from Disney's Encanto soundtrack.   The most popular song Apple Music subscribers listened to while working out was Head & Heart (feat. MNEK) by British DJ Joel Corry. So if you haven't stuck it on your fitness playlist yet, now's the time.   At the top of the chart for most Shazams was Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) by Elton John and Dua Lipa, marking the first time for the iconic music star to top the Shazam global chart.   Apple also unveiled a redesigned Replay experience, which uses a subscriber's listening history to present personalized trends for the year. Read more

TWITTER Twitter ditches COVID-19 rule tackling misinformation The company quietly dropped the policy in recent days It has emerged that Twitter has stopped enforcing its policy geared toward tackling misleading COVID-19 content on its platform. The move comes a month after Elon Musk acquired the company in a controversial deal worth $44 billion.   In September, San Francisco-based Twitter reported suspending more than 11,000 accounts and removing almost 98,000 pieces of content related to COVID-19 misinformation that appeared on the service.   Twitter made no official announcement about the recent change, instead simply adding a note about it to a page on its website.   "Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy," the note said.   Twitter's policies on other forms of misinformation remain in place, at least according to its website.   Musk has promised to reinstate around 11,000 previously banned Twitter accounts as early as this week. As CNN points out, it's possible that some of these could be ones that were booted off the platform for violating Twitter's former COVID-19 misinformation rules. Read more

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Tesla eyeing redesign for Model 3 The electric-car maker also launched a redesigned Model S last year Tesla is planning to redesign its popular Model 3 electric car, Reuters reported this week.   Citing sources with knowledge of the matter, the electric-car maker wants to overhaul the vehicle's interior, simplifying it in a bid to reduce costs and complexity. However, it's not clear if the savings will be passed on to the customer.   If the revamp goes ahead, Reuters says Tesla's factories in Fremont, California, and Shanghai, China, will produce the vehicle. The Shanghai plant could start making the redesigned Model 3 in the third quarter of 2023, the sources said, while no date was mentioned regarding the Fremont facility.   A redesign of the five-year-old Model 3 wouldn't come as a complete surprise as Tesla did the same for its Model S last year. Read more

ON THE HORIZON Brace yourself: 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' is coming You can't avoid it, so you might as well embrace it Tomorrow is the first day of December, and that means one thing: Mariah Carey's classic holiday tune "All I Want For Christmas Is You" will play incessantly from now until January 2023, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's unstoppable.   The song is a statistical anomaly. Unlike most songs, which slowly fade out and decline in popularity over time, AIWFCIY has become increasingly popular since its original release in 1994. In December 2017, it reached the top ten on Billboard's Hot 100 chart for the first time, 25 years after its debut. In December 2019, it reached the number one spot on that same chart -- and it has done so every year since then. It even hit an all-time record for total listens in 2021, outpacing its 2020 stats by over 600,000.   So if this upward trend is any indication, 2022 is poised to be the song's biggest year yet. Brace yourself. Read more

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