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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Three South Korean musicians appear inside the top 10 of the Digital Song Sales chart this week in a show of popularity for artists from that part of the world. Two of those tunes are debuts, with one of them landing their intro hit, while another has added to their already impressive list of successes. So!YoON! and RM, both beloved South Korean artists, debut their joint single “Smoke Sprite” inside the top 10 on the Digital Song Sales chart, opening it at No. 9. The cut sold just over 5,200 copies, according to data shared by Luminate. “Smoke Sprite” is the first chart hit for So!YoON! and the fourth top 10 hit for RM as a soloist. As a member of the popular South Korean band, BTS, RM has sent 32 different songs into the highest tier on the Digital Song Sales chart. He now claims one of the most impressive collections of top 10 hits on the Digital Song Sales chart among South Korean musicians, ranking in third place … [Read more...] about BTS’ RM Scores Another Milestone Solo Top 10 Billboard Chart Hit

Explore the full 2023 list of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies , 540 organizations that are reshaping industries and culture. We’ve selected the firms making the biggest impact across 54 categories, including advertising , beauty , design , and more. In this age of tumult, the world needs more than pretty buildings. The architects, designers, and firms in this year’s list of Most Innovative Companies are designing beautiful things, to be sure, but they are also thinking bigger and deeper about the production, the impacts, and the future of what they’ve designed. This year’s winning firm, 3XN , has created what could be a model-setting project: an office tower built mostly from the bones of the aging building it’s replaced. The approach not only slashed the building’s environmental impact, it demonstrated that creative, new designs don’t always need blank slates—or new construction! Other companies in this year’s list, such as Carmody Groarke and … [Read more...] about The 10 most innovative companies in architecture for 2023

Explore the full 2023 list of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies , 540 organizations that are reshaping industries and culture. We’ve selected the firms making the biggest impact across 54 categories, including advertising , beauty , design , and more. How do four septuagenarian Swedish pop stars pull off a dazzlingly energetic 20-song set list before thousands of fans in a custom-built stadium? Easy: They get their holograms to do it. ABBA Voyage , a stunning marriage of art and technology architected by the visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), has been a critical and financial success. It’s also a symbol of how the live performance industry is being transformed by technology, as digital elements are deployed to deepen fan immersion while staying true to what makes a live music experience so irreplicable. With concerts becoming increasingly visual extravaganzas, artists have access to new mediums to explore their creative … [Read more...] about The 10 most innovative companies producing live events in 2023

Eventbrite is No. 42 on Fast Company’s list of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2023 . Explore the full list of companies that are reshaping industries and culture. Halloween. That’s the tell for Eventbrite . If the haunted yacht cruises and cemetery tours are reaching out to the event planning and digital ticketing platform to list and promote their events, then the Thanksgiving Eve bar crawls, holiday light shows, and New Year’s Eve specials will follow. During Halloween 2022, the number of paid events on Eventbrite grew 30% over 2019, and ticket volume beat the company’s prior record by more than 50%. The reinvigorated enthusiasm for live experiences has been a boon to Eventbrite’s fortunes—and a success made possible only because Julia Hartz, cofounder and CEO, has spent the past few years effectively re-founding the company, which she created with her husband, Kevin, and their technical cofounder Renaud Visage in 2006. After the pandemic hit in … [Read more...] about How Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz brought the ticketing platform back from the brink

E.l.f. is No. 26 on Fast Company’s list of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2023 . Explore the full list of companies that are reshaping industries and culture. E.l.f. (which stands for “eyes, lips, face”) may sit beside L’Oréal and Revlon on shelves at Walgreens, Ulta, and Target, but its leaders also view it as an entertainment company, servicing a huge audience of followers across its social platforms. “When you have 14 million people showing up on your doorstep every day,” says CMO Kory Marchisotto, “you can’t just sell them a product, you have to entertain them.” Known for its affordable, fair-trade products and beloved “dupes” of high-end items, E.l.f. began partnering three years ago with marketer Movers+Shakers on inventive digital work that went viral. Its 2019 #eyeslipsface campaign, with original music by Grammy-winning producer Ill Wayno and featuring Holla FyeSixWun, garnered 7 billion views. It attracted the most user-generated videos ever at the … [Read more...] about How Gen Z favorite E.l.f. cosmetics became an entertainment powerhouse

FromSoftware is No. 15 on Fast Company’s list of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2023 . Explore the full list of companies that are reshaping industries and culture. When open-world fantasy game Elden Ring hit video-game consoles last February, it landed like a blockbuster film. FromSoftware , the game’s Japanese developer, sold 12 million units (starting at $60) within two weeks, and the release was heralded with a tribute traditionally associated with major filmmakers—a lengthy New Yorker profile of the game’s creator, Hidetaka Miyazaki, who is known for taking players into magical kingdoms that are anything but fairy tales. Over the previous decade, Miyazaki had established a reputation for punishingly difficult games with Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls , in which you might take the role of a knight or magician to battle through labyrinths of lethal enemies. Along the way, the ghosts of other players who’ve died might warn you of what’s around the bend … [Read more...] about Game developer FromSoftware attracts fans by making play more challenging

Airbnb is No. 3 on Fast Company’s list of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2023 . Explore the full list of companies that are reshaping industries and culture. Spring 2020 felt like a “near-death business experience,” says Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky, as bookings dropped 80% within a few weeks . It was also an opportunity to trim back the company’s distracting side projects—tours, hotels, even an airline—and, he says, “focus on the core”: the design and experience of Airbnb’s home-rentals platform. “If not for the pandemic and the crisis, I don’t know how I would have made that pivot,” Chesky says. “But I had to basically rebuild the company a bit from the ground up.” Last spring, that work led to the biggest change to Airbnb in a decade : a top-to-bottom redesign that lets people search accommodation by category, rather than just destination, which has the benefit of introducing travelers to places and properties they might have otherwise … [Read more...] about After a “near-death business experience,” Airbnb’s Brian Chesky is perfecting his home-rentals platform

Valve is No. 37 on Fast Company’s list of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2023 . Explore the full list of companies that are reshaping industries and culture. Valve’s Steam Deck is more than just a beefed-up Nintendo Switch alternative. It’s also a counterpoint to the closed platforms that have come to define modern consumer electronics, and a way to upend traditional consoles by making PC gaming more accessible. The handheld costs more than a Switch at $399, but it’s better-equipped to play the latest games at higher quality, and it draws on Valve’s wildly popular PC storefront to offer a vast game selection. Even so, Valve doesn’t limit users to the Steam catalog. Through a built-in Linux-based desktop mode, the Steam Deck supports installing all kinds of other applications, from web browsers and classic emulators to such rival game marketplaces as the Epic Games Store. Users can also tweak the system’s theme, sounds, and boot-up animations, and they … [Read more...] about Valve’s Steam Deck is letting gamers hold the future of open platforms in their hands

Bristol Myers Squibb is No. 18 on Fast Company’s list of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2023 . Explore the full list of companies that are reshaping industries and culture. In 2022, Bristol Myers Squibb found itself on the cutting edge of drug development—reflected not only in groundbreaking products but in a sweeping diversity agenda. The New York City–based company, which reported 2022 revenue of $46.2 billion, had three drugs approved by the FDA last year: Opdualag, a first-line treatment for advanced melanoma, in March; Camzyos, a first-in-class cardiac drug for symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, in April; and, in September, Sotyktu, the first new oral treatment for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis in nearly 10 years, discovered by BMS scientists. In 2022, these three new drugs had $284 million in combined sales. For most other pharma companies, that would be sufficient to appease investors and grow the business, but alongside its work … [Read more...] about This pharma giant is making sure new medicine works for more people

A bizarre video of a Missouri school board candidate making what appeared to be racist remarks about an Asian woman has resurfaced this week, prompting an apology from the candidate as his opponents called on voters to reject him. In the expletive-laden tirade recorded inside a car, candidate Ryan Kerr appears to describe an Asian woman as a “panda.” “We ain’t got no pandas in this car,” he says. Kerr then goes on to refer to a woman — who he said falsely accused him of assaulting her — as “a fat bag fuckin’ milk bag mule.” Kerr said he recorded the video in 2016 and originally sent to “a small group” of friends, according to KSDK 5. He also told the outlet that the four-minute rant was “a very targeted event, intoxicated, and immediately following [a] false allegation of assaulting a female.” Kerr posted a seven-minute response video on Facebook, in which he claims the video has been on YouTube for seven years and was re-posted to Twitter in 2019 by the same … [Read more...] about ‘Ain’t No Pandas In This Car’: Missouri School Board Candidate Under Fire After Video Of Bizarre Rant Resurfaces