What’s Trending: Tuesday, March 21st, 2023
#EdSheeran
o The singer is opening up and getting personal.
o The trailer for the new Disney+ documentary called “The Sum Of It All” not only shows his rise to fame but also shows the challenges he has faced in the last few years.
o That includes his wife’s health scare and the death of his best friend and Ed break down in tears in the trailer.
o The four-part docuseries wlll stream on May 3rd, two days before his new album – (“Subtract.)
o It’s described as spotlighting “how an unlikely child with a stutter rose to fame to become one of the biggest global music superstars and how his chart-topping hits were born.”
o And this Friday, he will release the first single off of the album called “Eyes Closed.”
#QueenEllizabeth #TaylorSwift
o When you choose a password for a website or account, do you use the same one each time or do you switch it up?
o New data from Atlas VPN is out that shows we are making it pretty easy for that password to end up on the dark web.
o Some passwords, like password, 123456, qwerty, and other similar basic choices, have always been and will remain some of the most insecure picks to protect one's account.
o The death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth and other news about the royal family ignited the use of queen, queen elizabeth, and royal family as passwords. In total, credentials with the aforementioned keywords were used 167,000 times in 2022,
o The study also shows that hundreds of thousands of login credentials include keywords connected to celebrities Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, and Elon Musk.
o In fact, Swift's 10th album, "Midnights," which reportedly generated $230 million in sales, resulted in passwords such as taylor, taylor swift, swiftie, and midnights being used 186,000 times.
o Speaking of Taylor, she will be hitting the stage at Allegiant Stadium this Friday and Saturday for her second stop on her “Eras” tour.
#JulianneHough
o Tyra Banks announced that after three seasons as host of “Dancing with the stars,” she is stepping down because she said she wants to focus on her "business and entrepreneurship."
o She added, "I think it's time to graduate from the dance floor to the stock market floor."
o And it was just announced that a familiar face on the show would be stepping in to take her place.
o Julianne Hough is set to return to the ballroom, this time as a co-host, along with Alfonso Ribeiro.
o She first appeared on “DWTS” as a pro dancer in 2007. She won back to back seasons — 4 and 5 — with partners Apolo Anton Ohno and Hélio Castroneves, respectively.
o This year will be the the 32nd season for the show that now airs on Disney+.