Andra Day - Rise Up [Inspiration Video screen] - Warner Records
Thanks to Joss Stone’s performance on the UK version of “The Masked Singer” (as The Sausage) and Christian Shelton’s cover for the Indeed Super Bowl ad, Andra Day’s enduring “Rise Up” has made yet another return to the limelight.
Benefiting from the renewed buzz and an iTunes pricing discount, “Rise Up” has soared to the top of the US iTunes song sales chart.
“Rise Up” holds the #1 position as of press time at 2AM ET Tuesday morning. The song first made the iTunes chart in the summer of 2015 and has continued to resurface just about any time it has received some form of exposure. It enjoyed a particularly strong run on the chart in the spring of 2020.
Hillman Grad is partnering with Indeed for the Rising Voices initiative, which will give 10 BIPOC filmmakers $100,000 each to make short films depicting the meaning of work.
Christian Shelton, a 19-year-old singer from Las Vegas, was selected to sing in a Super Bowl LV commercial, and his family's reaction is so heartwarming.
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It s Maya Rudolph times four in Klarna s Super Bowl ad. Video screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET
The Super Bowl ad landscape looked different this year as big names like Budweiser, halftime show sponsor Pepsi and Coke sat out their usual commercial buys and rethought how to best promote their brands during the coronavirus pandemic. But there was no shortage of creative and entertaining ads to watch as the NFL s Tampa Bay Buccaneers took on the reigning champs, the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Sony/ATV landed a dozen synchs, followed by Warner Chappell and UMPG, during a game in which some major brands sat out.
If any Super Bowl ad summed up the past year for synch placements, it was the ScottsMiracle-Gro spot starring
John Travolta and his daughter,
Ella, recreating his iconic dance steps from
Grease in the backyard. It was Scotts first-ever ad for the big game, largely because the company gained 20 million customers during the pandemic, and it was an homage to TikTok, on which the underlying track, Surface s Sunday Best, went viral last summer.