The Price Of Milk: Holy Bat-Numbers, The Batman!
The Batman KAPOW!-ed and KERSPLAT!-ed its way into the number one spot in cinemas this week, earning both strong critical reception and an enormous secret cave full of bat-money. Elsewhere, the music charts started to finally free itself from Encanto's spell with Glass Animals latest track 'Heat Waves' dominating US & UK charts, as well as being the most streamed & played song globally. Finally, Vikings: Valhalla raided Netflix (again) and this follow-up series to the original took up the number one spot in most markets (although, oddly, not the US), delivering a ferocious 113m hours of viewing last week.
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If this is your first time here... I recently realised I didn't know what was "Number 1", not in music, streaming, film, anything really. I also realised it's really time-consuming to find out, so I pulled together some (pretty lo-fi) tech that compiles the top-ranking bits of content from charts around the world - the most popular, the highest selling, the most played, and the most binge-watched pieces of the zeitgeist. It's called?The Price Of Milk?in honour of all those politicians who got called out on TV for not knowing what everyday things cost, and I'm using it as a cultural crib sheet each week, a quick check-in on what's popular around the world. If you think it's useful, you can sign up to this as a weekly newsletter - none of my dumb opinions, just what's topping charts based on published data. No spam, no selling, not ever, I promise.