Most critics don't focus on megastars exclusively, or even cover that many megastars at all (hello, Selena Gomez made a fantastic album last year).
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We all don't need to be internet megastars, in fact I think we'd all be better if we weren't all trying to be internet megastars.
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Audiences have watched the cast grow up on screen and become megastars.
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Lots of men messed around with masculinity, and not just the megastars.
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Irish megastars U2 released their 14th studio album, Songs of Experience, on Friday.
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There are a few American megastars who never quite became solo-famous internationally.
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If it cannot attract football's megastars, that will limit the Premier League's appeal to fans.
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We have our megastars like Celine Dion, Shania Twain, and more peppered throughout the 90s.
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Austerlitz was complaining that megastars have replaced mind-numbingly dreary indie bands in the canon.
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The roster for this year's VMAs is teeming with megastars who've each had a killer year.
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Cohen agrees that the increase in originals makes it harder for new megastars to emerge organically.
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Much of the film's success is thanks to the casting of megastars Ryan Gosling and Stone.
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Hollywood action films in the mid 1990s were about megastars, B-story romances, and gratuitous explosions.
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What's a music award show in 2019 without megastars like Adele, JAY-Z, or Ariana Grande?
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The Beatles and Elvis had done telecasts but it was only really open to megastars like them.
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Other than the fact that they're megastars ... they all also have a Harvard class under their belts.
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They are always obsessing over their heroes like Beyoncé, Spiderman, Justin Bieber, Ferdinand Magellan and other megastars.
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It's impossible to think of 90s rave music without thinking of one of its megastars Joey Beltram.
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Smith, who herself started as a musician, never intended to be the woman behind so many megastars.
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After all, there is history of former WWE megastars walking into the UFC and earning quick title shots.
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At the top of the tree are the patriarchal Drake-like megastars like Tony Colombo and Gianni Celeste.
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Paris or Rome it isn't, but then Geneva isn't vying to be one of the megastars of Europe.
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Paris or Rome it isn't, but then Geneva isn't vying to be one of the megastars of Europe.
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Rap is now a huge and dominant professional industry, they say, pointing to megastars like Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
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"We're not a sport that generates a lot of attention without big megastars and big money," Bouchard-Hall said.
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The summertime fair dates back to 1946 and has hosted megastars such as Justin Bieber, Britney Spears and Aerosmith.
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Someone told me earlier that these ritzy affairs are how megastars like Schwarzenegger "give something back" to their fanbase.
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Throughout the series, several other surprise music megastars will encourage fans to record covers of their songs on future dates.
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"I feel immense gratitude for these megastars, these women here, who've signed on to do it," he told USA Today.
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Scooter Braun is one of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, managing megastars like Justin Bieber and Arianna Grande.
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Even those fans who are not interested in football will likely tune in just to see these two megastars perform.
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They've become nuanced megastars where Britney is somehow staid, still being judged on her mental health as much as her performances.
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Complain all you want about megastars, obscene wealth, social media overload, reality television, cult of celebrity, the Kardashians, what have you.
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Jon Caramanica In this era of social-media personal-brand saturation, pop megastars deploy so many different kinds of nontransparent transparency.
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It was LeGaspi as much as any other person who deserves credit for the look of the arena rock megastars Kiss.
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And for Beyoncé, Jessica Simpson and a few other megastars (ahem, Madonna) that team has one person in common: colorist Rita Hazan.
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And while it might come as a surprise, even megastars like Kanye West can't get enough of the inexpensive Swedish decor brand.
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These operas are not the types of performances seen at traditional opera venues with their generous budgets, megastars, and perfect-pitch performances.
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The excitement of seeing megastars voguing started to wear off, though, when some realized it wouldn't have lasting effects for the broader community.
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Between the two megastars, "MIA" evokes the slow churn of a sensual body roll, and the two pace themselves perfectly on the track.
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Talk about people who are such megastars now, in their early careers especially: They were really professional and really serious about their craft.
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But it has limits on foreign players and is too unwieldy to command a big broadcasting deal, meaning it cannot afford global megastars.
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The rise of proven entrepreneurial megastars, such as Jack Ma, co-founder and executive chairman of Alibaba, has also helped drive the euphoria.
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They're both pop megastars who specialize in torch ballads of uplift and heartbreak, but Pink and Kelly Clarkson perform in remarkably different ways.
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He'd also secured a slot on the Up In Smoke Tour, which boasted sets by megastars Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Snoop Dogg.
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Megastars like Rihanna and Shonda Rhimes received accolades, as did activists Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, the founders of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
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But, Bregman and Altuve just changed that with brief statements out at Houston's spring training camp ... with the two megastars admitting they screwed up.
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Megastars have superfans, but they also have legions of casual viewers who don't really care what shoes they're wearing or what soda they're drinking.
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His iconic red-soled shoes, which start at £500 or $695 a pair, are beloved by Hollywood A-listers, royalty, and global megastars alike.
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Sam Mendes's achingly tender period piece reunited Titanic megastars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, and neither one of them got much recognition for it.
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So, how would nWo stack up against wrestling's new dominant trio, The Shield -- composed of WWE megastars Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose?!
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The marching bands of early shows gave way to Up With People — an educational organization — and eventually to theatrical spectacles and concerts from megastars.
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Spotted these days on megastars including Pharrell and Justin Bieber, the floppy topper has also showed up on fashion runways, most notably Prada and Lacoste.
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The independent from Vermont leads the Democratic field when it comes to celebrity endorsements, having won the support of megastars Cardi B and Ariana Grande.
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Blue Ivy's parents may be megastars in the world of music, but she might already be carving out a path for a future career in comedy!
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It's a paradoxical reality that these seemingly humble lifeforms exert a far greater influence on Earth's processes than ocean megastars like whales, sharks, squids, and octopuses.
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The K-pop artist Seungri, once a darling of the genre and one of its megastars, has been indicted on charges including prostitution and habitual gambling.
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Haag will be joined on the Disrupt stage by 100 Thieves co-owner Scooter Braun, who also manages megastars like Justin Bieber and Arianna Grande. 5.
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Indian films featuring megastars with a global appeal, coupled with the backing of affluent production houses, garnered millions of ticket sales around the globe last year.
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But when two megastars, both equally beautiful and svelte, are standing side by side in near-identical gowns, what makes one a "best" pick and another not?
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Thus far, JetSmarter's clientele include celebrities who fly private, yet aren't megastars like Tom Cruise or Sean "Jay-Z" Carter, who each own their own private planes.
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When megastars want a white male singer to mumble on one of their songs, they call James Blake, as Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, and Travis Scott have.
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At the time, we were surrounded by megastars like the Strokes, and Interpol, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs that exploded literally right around us in New York in 2001.
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Documentaries about music megastars are all the rage right now, and this year will also see nonfiction films about Rihanna and Billie Eilish, to name just a few.
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Nor do rock heroes, even the megastars who currently sit atop the Rock Hero heap, make concessions to commercial fashion no matter how surreal commercial fashion has gotten.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sunidhi Chauhan, one of India's biggest pop stars, wants to collaborate with megastars like Justin Timberlake and Usher as she looks to push her career beyond Bollywood.
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It was her easy relationship with megastars that led to some of the most indelible moments in the company's history, like shows with performances by Prince and Tupac Shakur.
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Matt Damon has worked with some of the biggest celebrities in the world, but he will always remember his first impressions of two megastars who passed before their time.
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The next day, Meadows teamed up with Blevins and Nelson, also an NRG player, to win the $200,000 Twitch Rivals Apex Legends tournament against a lineup of streaming megastars.
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But the lyrics address the contradictions of celebrity and family life with more insight than megastars usually bring to that topic, which renders the beat's slow burn more palatable.
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Since the 1980s, visitors to Japan would gawk at campy advertisements (but lucrative) featuring megastars from the West who would not be caught dead in similar productions back home.
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Boxing fans' lens into what training camp is like is mostly through HBO's 24/7 or Showtime's All Access programs, which focus on megastars' journeys ahead of forthcoming contests.
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Isn't it time that we stop focusing on megastars and dependable producers of inflated works, and begin seeing all the interesting and challenging stuff that is being quietly made?
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"Do you really want the megastars of the dinosaurian world displaying colourful yet gaudy feathers and dancing like a demented turkey cock?" paleontologist Mark Wildman wrote at the time.
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Megastars took the stage on both sides of the Atlantic, among them Bob Dylan again, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, U2, Queen, the Who, Joan Baez, Elvis Costello and Madonna.
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It's a little like discovering an unknown band when their first album comes out — and then coming back for the follow-up, only to learn they're now chart-topping megastars.
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Of all the breaks from competition taken by MMA megastars, however, not one is as long as the break Brock Lesnar took from late 2011 to July of this year.
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Okay, let's face it, the Grammy awards mean very little to the megastars of the music industry—Beyoncé would need a house made of doors for all her Grammy doorstops.
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They were there to see their favorite YouTubers — video megastars like Nigahiga, Jenna Marbles, PewDiePie and countless other, um, names(?) that made me feel irreparably out of touch with pop culture.
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Apple TV Plus is set to feature new productions from Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, and "The Morning Show" stars a trio of megastars: Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, and Jennifer Aniston.
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Shanghai's megastars Butterfly Wu and Ruan Lingyu appear on dozens of front pages, but one other cover girl suggests what's to come: Jiang Qing, the actress later known as Madame Mao.
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It's not that all our present rock heroes happen to be megastars, but that the most critically acclaimed major artists right now also happen to be the most culturally iconic celebrities.
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Guest highlights include Senator Bernie Sanders; acting heavyweights Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chris Pratt and Neil Patrick Harris; and music megastars Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Mary J Blige, amongst many, many others.
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This year's impressive lineup will feature megastars like Sting, Selena Gomez and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, plus a slew of others from an array of genres to fill out the bill.
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The Mashable review of Season 1 pointed out the similarities between Carrey and his character, two megastars whose inner life is overshadowed by the emotionally blunted comedic characters that made them famous.
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Thanks to casting social media megastars like Kylie Jenner in his past shows, and inviting the entire Kardashian Krew to sit in his front rows, West's fashion shows are spectacles to behold.
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Ray Lewis says he and The Rock were like jacked up Nostradamuses back in college -- predicting they would one day be WORLD FAMOUS MEGASTARS back when they were football teammates in Miami.
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Cover models are as likely to be about women like Angela Lansbury, Zadie Smith or the fashion photographer Inez Van Lamsweerde (wearing a fake mustache and beard) as they are about megastars.
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"We just had these megastars gravitating towards us, which was such an interesting social experiment because normally there&aposs no way they would have come to say hello to me," Pieters said.
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His reign saw huge revenue streams flow into the continent's big clubs, turning Manchester United, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and others into multi-billion dollar enterprises, and their players into global megastars.
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Its a step forward for Starlite, who is more engaging on his own gentle piano ballads than he is on collaborations with megastars, and he's honest enough to let his agony mix with wit.
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The latter is a world-renowned hotbed of international megastars such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, not to mention a proving ground for would-be superstars such as Christian Pulisic and Joao Felix.
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In a sneak peek at Sunday's NBC tribute to director James Burrows, Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen uncovers the dirt that not all the megastars-to-be had to audition for their roles.
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So, in honour of the megastars, a couple of folks from Invercargill City Libraries and Archives in New Zealand decided to have "a totally impromptu, definitely not planned, photo-shoot," according to its Facebook post.
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Netflix has also been aggressive in its approach to poach network TV megastars like Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes, both of whom landed seven-figure contracts (though Murphy was noticeably granted a much higher sum).
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Michael Jordan — a six-time NBA champion and five-time MVP widely considered one of, if not the, greatest player in the history of basketball — took a jab at one of the sport's current megastars.
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Heading into Sunday, the Open leaderboard was a densely packed mix of players on the rise, established threats and megastars from different golfing generations: Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and again, at long last, Tiger Woods.
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LeBron and his wife rented out an upscale private home in Toronto for All-Star weekend and threw a "Trap Karaoke" bash attended by megastars like Drake, Kevin Hart, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Amber Rose and Fabolous.
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Although these longtime friends are megastars, the focus of this event will be Mr. Springsteen: his 40-plus years as a leading musical voice of working-class America, and what his ambitions are for the future.
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Michelle Pfeiffer, Judi Dench, Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe, and Derek Jacobi are its megastars, while the second tier boasts Olivia Colman, Leslie Odom Jr., and Marwan Kenzari, the future "hot Jafar" of the new Aladdin.
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But despite the occasional lavish trip, Brady and Bündchen are the rare celebrity couple that can actually afford to live a megastar lifestyle, but opt to live more modestly — relative to other high-earning megastars, at least.
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Megastars Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross defended Michael Jackson this weekend against two men who claim the pop star sexually assaulted them as boys, events they describe in stark detail in a new HBO documentary Leaving Neverland.
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That's the question Twitter is asking after the Oscar-winner appeared on the latest Vanity Fair cover for its annual Hollywood issue along with megastars like Nicole Kidman, Tom Hanks, Jessica Chastain, Gal Gadot and Robert De Niro.
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A screen in the auditorium displayed photos of Justin Bieber and other global megastars who'd got their start online, while Meitu staffers explained to the young hopefuls what the future might hold if they kept up their assiduous posting.
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It attracted millions of viewers who tuned in to watch the brand's supermodels strut runways in six-inch heels, crystal-encrusted lingerie and massive wings, with musical performances from megastars like Taylor Swift, the Spice Girls and Lady Gaga.
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The company quickly made the decision to flip that deal and agreed to pay royalties to artists played by any user — perhaps due to one of pop's biggest megastars threatening to withhold her million-selling album unless changes were made.
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Getting the public participating in Clean India has been key -- Bollywood megastars and filmmakers brought the issue to Indian screens, and there were well-publicized reports of women refusing to get married unless their prospective husband's house had a toilet.
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With a little help from worldwide megastars, a Countdown queen, a football legend, and some unexpected guests along the way, Shell is collaborating with others to work towards creating a future with access to more and cleaner energy for all.
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After scoring 17 hits on the Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart in 2017 alone, he's been touring the U.S. with guest appearances from J. Balvin and Becky G and is rumored to be releasing music with megastars Jennifer Lopez and Drake.
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While Hosono achieved a surprising level of popularity in America in the '80s through his work as the chief operator behind Japanese techno-pop megastars Yellow Magic Orchestra, recently his music has spread to the West through entirely different channels.
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Or to put it another way: This sounds a lot like artist-run mini-labels that big music labels have bankrolled in the past as part of deals to work with megastars like Dr. Dre (Aftermath Entertainment) and Eminem (Shady Records).
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Before Fall Out Boy became unlikely megastars—before they showed up on Punk'd and dominated TRL and provided the background music to a hundred million black and neon MySpace pages—all they wanted to do was headline The Metro in Chicago.
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He asks people about entertainment-world minutiae with the intensity of a thousand suns; he brings megastars and civilians together in strange, humble scenarios; when a contestant's answer upsets him in one segment, he flops onto a mountain of garbage bags.
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How rich is the American program if it can leave the greatest shooter who ever lived, the best player alive (and reigning Finals MVP), the Defensive Player of the Year, and five other megastars at home and still waltz toward a gold medal?
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Wearing a No. 45 jersey and a crisp Yankees hat at his introductory news conference on Wednesday, Cole captivated an audience of team executives, coaches and even some cynical reporters used to hearing dull platitudes from the megastars who arrive in the Bronx.
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It turns out, there are plenty of reasons besides, say, profile-raising or street cred-garnering; why both visual artists and media megastars would want to commit themselves like that, ranging from romance, to creative freedom, horizon-expansion, bucket list reasons—even a dare.
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One team's fans were filled with victorious joy, the other's with the agony of defeat; the bombastic halftime show with megastars J.Lo and Shakira got tongues wagging; and the NFL raked in the kind of eye-popping profits that are inconceivable to normal people.
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The company has spent the last few years dodging rumors that it would ever experiment with signing artists directly to an in-house label, but it's also spent the last 12 months launching initiative after initiative designed to turn "emerging" artists into commercial megastars.
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To me, fandom culture is equal parts dangerous, intriguing, and somewhat understandable, and while its degree of severity may be transient over time, fans of megastars and the call-to-action aspect that comes in line with said fandom isn't going anywhere, anytime soon.
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All eyes were on Lady Gaga, who was up for a swag of awards in 2019, the first appearance by Korean megastars BTS, and the tight race in the rap categories between Cardi B, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Travis Scott, to name a few.
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His frequent collaborations with megastars like his fellow Traveling Wilburys, the Eagles, and Stevie Nicks (with whom he shared a Grammy nomination for 1981's "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around") ensured that by the mid-'90s, Petty was universally recognized as a rock great.
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What is true of the NBA has always been true of the NBA: The tempo of the league is mostly dictated by its megastars—more than the NFL and just a notch ahead of Major League Baseball, pro basketball is a player-first business.
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"You have to understand, when you're 15 and you're doing this Steven Spielberg movie with megastars — Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts — you know you want to be cool," Dante Basco, who played Rufio, told Entertainment Tonight of his initial reaction to that now-iconic costume.
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And while plenty of words have been written discussing how these changes affect YouTube megastars like PewDiePie, far fewer have been devoted to one prominent early adopter of the platform: independent pro wrestling companies that in part rely upon YouTube ad revenue to stay in business.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Not only is billionaire Donald Trump outpolling the rest of the Republican presidential field, the former reality TV star has charged ahead of megastars Justin Bieber and Kanye West for celebrity mentions on social media, according to new data from the past month.
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The Shift You might guess that a surefire way to make a hit video on YouTube would be to gather a bunch of YouTube megastars, film them riffing on some of the year's most popular YouTube themes and release it as a year-in-review spectacular.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads You wouldn't know it from listening to the same old hits on Christmas radio, but every year a flood of new Christmas music hits the market, as canny megastars and the cornier indie bands strive to prove their devotion to sentiment.
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Whether she's out there breaking long-held records, collaborating with megastars like Jason Aldean, or simply relentlessly pursuing her goals and securing a position right next to some of Nashville's heaviest hitters, she is living, thriving proof that women are more than just tomatoes in country music's salad.
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Notorious for the lengthy parties thrown by megastars like Freddie Mercury—who spent a birthday there, throwing a party so outlandishly lavish that the firework display was visible from Mallorca, about 100km away—and for the endless other celebrities who have bunked up in its absurdly luxurious suites.
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While mainstream gay megastars remain relatively rare in the worlds of country, rap and even pop, many genre-spanning artists, from Frank Ocean, Tyler the Creator, and Kevin Abstract to Janelle Monáe, Brandi Carlile and Troye Sivan, have spoken openly or written songs about same-sex attraction and relationships.
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That critics like her upbeat material while dismissing her ballads represents to me a distortion of what she's about, because Beyoncé's big, powerful voice makes her an ace ballad singer like few other megastars currently topping the charts, and because corny, shameless emotional overkill has always been her specialty.
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Jeff Bridges for Stella Artois The megastars revisit their iconic characters — Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw for her and The Big Lebowski's The Dude for him — and rock the world when they change up their signature drink orders in a silly spot for the beer brand.
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Fyre Fest victims have been offered things like the use of a multimillion-dollar home in the Hamptons, front-row seats and backstage access at the Victoria's Secret fashion show, meet-and-greets with megastars like Taylor Swift and LeBron James, and VIP tickets to events like Burning Man and Coachella.
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Two years ago, an eternity in the music industry, the big scandal in rockcrit concerned an article by Saul Austerlitz in the New York Times called "The Pernicious Rise of Poptimism" in which the disillusioned critic accused a bunch of other critics of having embraced megastars to the exclusion of everything else.
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Just as Carl Wilson famously failed to identify Celine Dion's genre and eventually picked the all-purpose "schmaltz," these divas, including the drama's male and female leads, don't employ a taggable singing style that exists outside the realm of the international ballad but rather the vocal modes megastars like Dion have long since made the international ballad's hallmark.
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After Rihanna released her long-awaited album Anti on January 28, with little to no advance fanfare, and Beyoncé followed up less than two weeks later with a surprise single of her own and a bonkers Super Bowl performance to match, any artist would find it hard to top those two megastars and pry attention away from their projects.
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While the best picture field may still include intimate entries like "Roma," a black-and-white foreign-language film directed by Alfonso Cuarón (who won best director in 2014 for "Gravity"), you can also count on it to make room for "A Star Is Born," a big-studio crowd-pleaser starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga as singing megastars.
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While Saturday's European Champions League final between Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid will feature megastars like Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale playing in Milan's historic San Siro stadium, the most enduring figure in club soccer's biggest game actually could be the one made of metal and hailing from here, just outside the city center, on a nondescript street choked with industrial warehouses.
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What if you want to throw on something from Adele's 25 as the party winds down (not available streaming … maybe try YouTube?) While a few megastars like Adele, Taylor Swift, and Beyonce may be able to get away without streaming or with limited streaming, time and time again we've seen even artists who championed Tidal or Apple Music exclusivity quickly move away from it.
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It was pretentious and centered around the idea that rock'n'roll was this immortal genre, just as it was becoming far less interesting than other new and innovative musicians who had started releasing music – rappers like Young Thug and Tyler, the Creator, internet-savvy pop producers like AG Cook and SOPHIE; and really, a lot of the acts we can now call today's megastars: Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Dev Hynes and Frank Ocean.
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Ms. Jones happens to be angling toward jazz at a moment when its pulse can be felt through a lot of popular music: nestled in the style of hip-hop artists like Kendrick Lamar and pop megastars like Beyoncé; in the touring bands of soul survivors like D'Angelo and Maxwell; in the bloodstream of vanguardist electronic producers like Flying Lotus; all over a valedictory recent album by David Bowie.
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It's telling, as well, that Nashville has recently become something of a refuge for well-known pop punk and emo artists of the aughts—members of Saves The Day, Braid, New Found Glory, Further Seems Forever, and Bayside all call Music City home, and emo adjacent megastars Paramore never left—although their presence appears to be more a coincidence, due to a comparatively low cost of living and a high opportunity for songwriting and production gigs, than a phenomenon that has any direct correlation to the city's new emo scene.
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