What’s Trending: Tuesday, June 1st, 2021
#OliviaRodrigo
o Her new album Sour had the biggest week of 2021.
o It opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 295,000 albums sold during its first week of release.
o It beat out Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) when it sold 291,000 units back in April.
o And it had a great streaming week, too! It had the second-largest streaming week for a non-R&B/Hip-Hop Album, totaling 300.73 million on-demand streams of the album’s 11 tracks.
o Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next, continues to hold that record with 307.07 million streams in its first week.
o And one other note on its debut. It brings just the second person named Olivia to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Before Olivia Rodrigo, the only Olivia to top the chart was Olivia Newton-John with two No. 1 albums in 1974 and 1975.
#RyanReaves
o The Vegas Golden Knights forward Ryan Reaves has been suspended for two games.
o This comes after a league hearing for the roughing/unsportsmanlike conduct penalty he received after an incident in Sunday’s game against the Avalanche’s Ryan Graves.
o There was a lot of pushing and shoving in the penalty-filled game in Denver as Colorado beat the Golden Knights 7-1 in Game 1 of the series.
o Game 2 is on Wednesday in Colorado at 7pm.
o Do you google your own name? If you do, you’re not alone.
o A new survey found one in 11 Americans google themselves every day.
o Another 5% said they do it about once a week.
o Almost 25% of people do it at least once a month and another 20% said at least once a year.
o Just half of us do it less often than that or have never googled themselves.
#Amazon #ZenBooths
o The company announced a new feature in its warehouses called “ZenBooths,” where workers can go to get away when they feel overwhelmed.
o They immediately got mocked for it online.
o Each one is about the size of a porta-potty and the inside is supposed to be calming but it basically looks like a tiny office with a few small plants.
o There’s a computer with pre-loaded “AmaZEN” videos about mindful meditation and mental health.
o People online immediately labelled them “crying booths.”
o Amazon deleted their tweets about the program so it’s not clear if they’re keeping the booths or not.