Rihanna has become the best-selling solo artist of all time! She managed to do this in just 12 years of her music career. She began her journey with the song Pon De Replay in 2005. 213.2 million albums sold later, she has taken the crown of the most successful solo artist in music history. She dethroned the king of rock'n'roll, Elvis Presley. Now Rihanna has a new target on the fly - the legendary band The Beatles, who are the only ones to have sold more albums than the Barbadian beauty. But even this record is at risk...
Only 27 films can boast that they have earned more than a billion US dollars from ticket sales. As recently as 2011, there were only 10 of them, and in 2014 there were 19. See who are members of the elite club. These are the highest grossing films in history.
2016 is slowly coming to an end, which means it's time to look back and check what marked the past year. Let's start with the ads. These are the most viral ads of 2016. We're sure you haven't seen them all.
What are the best places to live in 2016? The Economist magazine has revealed a fresh list of cities where life is the best in the world. The ranking of 140 cities was prepared by its research and analytical department, but unfortunately there are no Slovenian cities among them, which is why the city that is only a stone's throw away from Slovenia is at the very top. There were no changes at the very top. The title of the best place to live in the world went to the Australian city for the sixth time in a row.
This is a list of the best movie classics of all time, ranked by real audience reactions. Only they are often different from professional film critics. Check whether your favorites have also made it to the list of top films.
Where in the world do most billionaires live? New York is no longer the world capital of billionaires, the title was taken away by Beijing, where, according to the latest data from the Hurun Research Institute (Global Rich List 2016), 100 billionaires live, which is five more than in New York. More than 40 percent of all billionaires under the age of 40 live in China.
The YouTube channel recently published a list of the 10 most popular music videos of 2015. Do you dare to guess who came out on top? No, it's not Adele! The first four most viewed videos of 2015 were viewed more times than last year's winner Katy Perry and her Dark Horse, which collected 703,227,848 views in 2014. This year's winner collected as many as 1,166,000,000!
Do you know how much the highest paid female musicians earned in 2015? If once supermodels did not want to get out of bed, if they were not promised 10 thousand US dollars a day for their work, today the best-paid female musician earns 2 million US dollars per concert. If you're wondering who they are, Forbes has revealed the list of the highest paid female musicians in 2015, which you can check below...
"The world, stop, we'd like to get out." That's how the British Independent published a list of ten music videos that have exceeded one billion views on YouTube. All those of you who have already given up on the future can just stop reading, but for everyone else, here is a list that is not really a surprise. There are eight musicians in the elite club who cannot be classified as top musicians, but as if that matters at all. Wiz Khalifa was the latest to join the over-a-billion-views-on-YouTube club with See You Again, making him the first hip-hop artist in history to achieve the feat. Find out who the other YouTube "billionaires" are and who is the absolute king of YouTube below.
Forbes magazine has published a fresh list of the hundred most influential women in the world. Also in 2015, for the fifth year in a row, and for the ninth time in total, German Chancellor Angela Merkel came out on top, and this time American politician Hillary Clinton came closest to her. The list of women with the most power includes as many as 15 billionaires, mostly representatives of show business such as Oprah Winfrey and Beyoncé, while the youngest on the list is the 25-year-old American pop star Taylor Swift.
Every 10 years, the film magazine Sight and Sound conducts a short survey of film critics around the world to determine which films are considered the best of all time. The survey was first conducted in 1952 and is now generally considered the most important and respected survey in the field of film and film criticism.
Although we have already stepped deep into 2015, some accounts for 2014 are still coming. The latter was "broadcast" by Billboard, the famous music chart that has become a measure of musical success in the modern era. This is still difficult to define, but also to measure, since the influx of musicians also comes from many other, non-musical sources. The list of the biggest music earners in 2014 according to Billboard is made only on the basis of income from songs, albums and performances.