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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Apr 14, 2020
April 14, 2020
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It's well into the year 2020, but Spotify has just put together a list of its biggest songs, albums and artists of the last decade.
Turns out Drake is the most-streamed artist of the 2010s, with the top-5 artists including:
- Eminem
- Ariana Grande
- Post Malone
- Ed Sheeran, and
- Drake, whose most popular song, One Dance, was played 1.7 billion times alone.
Of course, just because all together, his songs were streamed more than 28 billion times, doesn't mean there were singers who had more streams for a specific song. Broken down, the top-5 most-streamed songs were:
- "Thinking Out Loud" by Ed Sheeran
- "Closer" by The Chainsmokers
- "Rockstar" by Post Malone
- "One Dance" by Drake, and
- "Shape Of You" by Ed Sheeran, which pulled down 2.4 billion streams, making it the decade's most listened-to track.
We are just about a week away from this year's NFL Draft. Yes, whether or not the pro football season will be happening because of the coronavirus aftereffects, the draft will be taking place at ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol, CT, with various insiders and even NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell chipping in from his home as well. Look for ESPN to air the whole thing starting on April 23 and running thru April 25.
You knew how catchy coronavirus could be --that's why we're wearing masks and avoiding people who cough who might have it. But now, the CDC says a new study from Wuhan, China, found that about half of health-care professionals working in intensive care units carried the coronavirus on the soles of their shoes. Footwear News reports there was also a 100% positive rate from the floor of the pharmacy, where only health-care workers traveled, and not infected patients. That said, the recommendation is that medical staff (and others) who are in wards with coronavirus patients disinfect the soles of their shoes before walking out of those wards. Or, how about putting those shoes in bleach overnight? The CDC says to disinfect your shoes, you should make a mixture of 70% alcohol and water.
Fortune magazine reports that if you've been waiting for that $1200-dollar stimulus check to land in your mailbox, it may not wind up in your pocket. Although the federal and state governments will not be allowed to seize the payments to satisfy your tax debts, private debt collectors could garnish the checks in order to satisfy debts for things like unpaid medical bills, student loans, car payments, or other overdue bills.
One way to keep this from happening is reportedly taking the money and putting it in your pocket, or having it posted to a new or different bank account. You're welcome.
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