Bieber Spanks The Competition, Wins Golden Paddle
Justin Bieber is awarded a Golden Ping Pong paddle to celebrate the success of "What Do You Mean?" on Spotify. The music site chose a golden paddle because Bieber recently defeated Spotify C.E.O. Daniel Ek at ping-pong. The 'Golden Paddle' was presented last week to mark the occasion of the singer's recent #1 song "What Do You Mean" setting the record for biggest first-week song streams on Spotify in the service’s history. Bieber also set new global and U.S. debut week streaming records on Spotify with his latest album, 'Purpose,' which hit 205 million global streams (and 77 million U.S. streams) in its first week of release. Left to right: Mike Chester/SB Projects Head of Radio, Katie Schlosser/Spotify, Michele Santucci/Spotify, Justin Bieber, Steve Savoca/Spotify, Scooter Braun (photo credit: Scott Gries)
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