Kellie

[B ❤️‍🔥 @FateoftheHawks]

The coverage of guests coming out of their hotels. It’s like the Met Gala lol.

[Noah Kahan @NoahKahan]

I’ve never stepped on a stage before and felt so numb by shock and disbelief. I cannot believe the energy and the community I saw last night. Thanks for making me cry Philly.

[Noah Kahan @NoahKahan]

Philly sooooon first stadium show of tour lfg

[MLB @MLB]

The 5th-longest single-season scoreless innings streak since 1893!

Cristopher Sánchez had a run for the ages 🔥

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

i know a super hot shower is bad for your skin and hair but being boiled alive is important for my mental health

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that.

Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion. Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday.

Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab. Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers.

Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too. Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets.

Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did.

Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this.

Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

[Annie Wu (all socials: @annie_wu_22) @Annie_Wu_22]

if Bryce Harper has a good day it’s because Philly is the greatest city in the world. if it’s a bad day it’s because of the raw milk

[alex @vaudevillehook]

Lovely weather we’re having today. Thank you, women.

[. @emmasarchivee]

a family is nothing without their taylor swift obsessed eldest daughter

[Tom Smyth @Tom_Smyth_]

ban it from showing the people i went to high school with what they’d look like as a cartoon character too while you’re at it

[Kellie @kvander2]

@DaveMcNamee3000 Can confirm

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

Bad Bunny naming dozens of countries in the Americas and then holding up a football that reads "together we are America"....such an iconic Super Bowl performance wow

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

Just a reminder that Jake Paul and his brother *literally* moved to Puerto Rico to avoid American taxes and now cant vote in American elections anymore

So when he tells a REAL American to 'go live somewhere else' remember HE already left and cant tell real Americans what to do🤷‍♂️

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Team USA skier: Just because I wear the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the US.

[Pennsylvania Governor's Office @PAGovOffice]

Since @DHSgov is once again trying to politicize a tragedy, let's set the record straight here.

Every commercial driver’s license issued by PennDOT is cleared by the federal SAVE database... administered by Kristi Noem.

This person had legal status in Noem's database when the license was issued, and actually still shows as eligible to receive a license *as of today.*

@Sec_Noem — you should probably get your own shop in order, because your operational failures seem to match the scale of your moral failures.

[Kellie @kvander2]

In the last year they have tried to make protein WATER!!! Gtfo with “war on protein” being a thing

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN🥩

➡️https://t.co/sFEIm5WrbO

[🦫🇺🇾 @doubtpointv2]

I hate it when people don't recognize that I am always right. If I'm ever wrong it's because some time needs to pass so information can be revealed that proves me right.

[Mike 📺 @michaelcollado]

The food scientist at Tostitos who added that lil hint of lime