Facebook officially files its long-awaited IPO Friday. To help the company celebrate, we decided to put together a playlist on Spotify.
Many people are going to make a lot of money when the company goes public with a valuation of approximately $100 billion. This includes Mark Zuckerberg, who stands to make upwards of $1 billion himself.
As such, our Spotify playlist features a good number of songs about getting money and spending money. However, we also tried to include songs about dreaming big, including “If I had $1,000,000″ by Barenaked Ladies. Of course, Zuckerberg probably carries that much in cash on him these days, but it certainly wasn’t always that way.
Although the NBA Playoffs round two Lakers vs. Nuggets game earned over 2 million more social media mentions than The Voice, the latter’s season finale caused quite a large ripple in the social ocean.
People took to the socialverse last Tuesday to chat about and celebrate the reality show competition’s winner, Jermaine Paul. A former backup singer to Alicia Keys and Mary J. Blige, Paul finally earned his own celebrity bragging rights by wowing both judges and viewers.
The runners-up also performed their closing songs during the two-hour finale, and famous acts like Daryl Hall and John Oates entertained the audience alongside pop stars like Justin Bieber, who sang his new single, “Boyfriend.”
Televised talent show America’s Got Talent returns May 14 for season 7 and it’s again letting skilled fans audition via YouTube submissions.
This online component of AGT began in 2010 and spawned 10-year-old singer Jackie Evancho. She had previously unsuccessfully auditioned twice before earning a slot on the show thanks to her operatic YouTube entry. Evancho finished as runner-up that season.
This year, people living in the U.S. have until June 1 to woo producers, who will handpick 20 YouTube acts for a public vote. The top voted performer makes it into the TV show’s quarterfinals. Eleven other YouTube acts will compete in a live show in August for places in the semifinals.
Remember that funky beat your buddy at work shared with you over Google+? Don't bother digging through their post history, Mountain View's music service has you covered with its new "Shared with me" auto-playlist. This self-maintaining list keeps track of all the songs friends and colleagues send your way, making it easy to hunt down a catchy tune your brother sent you, or to endlessly ridicule a coworker's awful sense of sound. The playlist not only shows the track, artist, duration and price, but also a preview of the Google+ post (and a thumbnail of its author) that you scored the shared song from in the first place. Looking for lost music? Just take a look at your auto-playlists.