SPOTIFY WRAPPED & SPIDERMAN: NO WAY HOME

If you’ve been subscribed to us for a while, you already know my love of Spotify Wrapped, which I am clearly not alone in. 2021’s year in review came out on Wednesday and yes, I have been unabashedly listening to my top 100 songs playlist since then. But what are the global trends, you ask? Well, Bad Bunny took the top spot for most streamed artist, with Olivia Rodrigo nabbing both top album and top song. THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE (which Spotify paid $100 million for exclusive rights to last year) was the most-listened-to podcast. 

In film news, SPIDERMAN: NO WAY HOME, the third installment in the Tom Holland Spiderman series comes out on December 16, and there’s already much to discuss. People are trying to sell their opening night tickets for thousands of dollars (no word yet on how that’s going) after they went on sale on November 29. And, AMC and Sony joined forces to give exclusive NFTs to early premiere ticket buyers. A lucky 86,000 AMC members will get access to one of the NFTs, which come in over a hundred different designs and will be accessible with a special code. 

And, while we were out eating pecan pie last week, Riot Games' new show ARCANE was the series to finally unseat SQUID GAMES in Parrot Analytics’ chart of what the measurement company calls the “most in-demand breakout series."

Okay, this TikTok might be the most wholesome video I have ever seen. Highly recommend a watch to get your weekend off to a positive start, my friends. And this one is another winner, where a neighbor has a surprise in store for the girl next door who’s been ding-dong-ditching them.

—Darlene Kenney, Digital Strategist