The post Madonna’s New No. 1 Marks An Important Return To The Top Spot appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Madonna scores her first No. 1 on one of Billboard’s radio charts in nearly two decades as “I Feel So Free” climbs to the Dance/Mix Show Airplay list’s summit. Madonna in concert in Tokyo, Japan. She wears the famous outfit designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier. (Photo by THIERRY ORBAN/Sygma via Getty Images) Thierry Orban Madonna’s upcoming album, Confessions II, her fifteenth full-length, will arrive in just over a month. The project, a sequel to her critically and commercially successful Confessions on a Dance Floor, is scheduled to drop on July 3, and the superstar has already shared two songs from the project. The first, “I Feel So Free,” is being pushed largely to electronic dance fans, while follow-up “Bring Your Love,” a collaboration with pop musician Sabrina Carpenter, is present on several of Billboard’s pop-only charts. Both tracks appear on multiple rankings, but only one o
The post Spotify Launches 650+ Narrated Magazine Articles From The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Vogue, And More… appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
The feature, which went live on Tuesday (May 26), brings more than 650 articles from publications including Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety, Billboard, Vibe, GQ, WIRED, Vanity Fair, and Pitchfork to the Spotify app. Each narrated article is under two hours long and has been produced in-house by Spotify‘s Audiobooks team. Conde Nast via Getty Images Spotify expands beyond music and podcasting by turning long-form magazine articles into an audio format. Spotify, the streaming giant, has added more than 650 narrated articles to its audiobook library. It is pulling in stories from major publications, including Spotify, Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Atlantic, Variety and Pitchfork. Instead of inserting full news archives into its app, Spotify has strategically focused on the kind of stories its target audience is already likely to binge, s
The post GBP/JPY Price Forecast: Pound retreats below 214.00 as Japanese data supports Yen appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
The British Pound (GBP) is practically flat against the Japanese Yen (JPY) on Friday, trading a few pips below 214.00 at the time of writing, after bouncing from weekly lows near 213.35 on Thursday. The pair remains on track for its second consecutive weekly gain, although a string of positive Japanese data has provided some respite to a weak Japanese Yen. Tokyo Consumer Prices Index (CPI) data released earlier on Friday has shown easing inflationary pressures in May. Nevertheless, stronger-than-expected Industrial Production data, an unexpected decline in unemployment, and upbeat Retail Trade figures have revealed that the economy remains resilient, despite the energy shock, and feed hopes that the Bank of Japan (BoJ) will hike rates in June. Later on the day, Bank of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey is expected to speak at the Reykjavik Economic Confere
Tokyo-listed Bitcoin Japan Corporation has invested in SpaceX through a U.S.-based private secondary market transaction tied to digital infrastructure and AI expansion. According to a press release shared with crypto.news, Bitcoin Japan made the investment through BTCJPN US LLC, its…
The post Bruno Mars Matches Taylor Swift With A New Top 10 Smash appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
“Risk It All” becomes the twenty-second top 10 hit for Bruno Mars on Billboard’s Radio Songs chart. He ties Taylor Swift’s historic record with his latest smash. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – APRIL 10: Bruno Mars reacts onstage after a parade honoring his impact on Las Vegas entertainment on April 10, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. As part of the event, Park Avenue, the road outside Dolby Live at Park MGM, the theater where he had a long-running residency, was officially renamed Bruno Mars Drive. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for MGM Resorts) Getty Images for MGM Resorts Bruno Mars is one of the most reliable hitmakers when it comes to the American airwaves. Whenever the superstar drops a new single, it is played nonstop on stations that focus on pop and R&B, as his work typically straddles the line between those two genres. Throughout 2026, “I Just Might,” the lead single from his recently re
The post Michael Jackson’s Career-Changing Album Reaches New Peaks On Several Charts appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall, which changed the trajectory of his career and ensure his solo superstardom, climb to new peaks on several Billboard charts. VARIOUS, VARIOUS – JUNE 25: Michael Jackson performs at the 12th Annual MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on September 7, 1995. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage) WireImage Several weeks into a renaissance on the charts, many of Michael Jackson’s albums continue to perform extremely well. Titles like Thriller and compilations such as Number Ones and The Essential Michael Jackson remain major winners, but at this point, long after his namesake biopic Michael first debuted in movie theaters all around the world, almost none of his full-lengths are close to reaching new peaks. That is, except for one. Off the Wall rises on nearly every tally where it carves out space this period and est
The post Chart of the Day: Drake’s ‘Iceman’ Becomes a Live Polymarket Volatility Event appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Drake’s ninth studio album Iceman dropped at midnight ET on May 15, and within hours the most informative place to watch the market digest it wasn’t Spotify’s trending tab or Billboard’s pre-print — it was Polymarket. The crypto-collateralized prediction market platform is currently hosting 11 active Iceman markets and 139 active Drake markets, with cumulative volume north of $24 million. Two of those charts tell the story of release week with unusual clarity. Drake Iceman sales, Source: Polymarket Pricing first-week sales in real time The first-week sales market, which buckets equivalent units in 50,000-unit increments and resolves after Hits Daily Double publishes debut figures, swung wildly across the release window. The market-implied first-week number climbed from around 500,000 in early May to a peak near 548,000 in the run-up to launch, crashed to roughly
The post Metaplanet Q1 Profit Surges Despite $728M Bitcoin Loss appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Terrill Dicki
May 13, 2026 13:20
Metaplanet’s Q1 operating profit rose to $14.4M, but a $728M non-cash Bitcoin valuation loss weighed heavily as BTC dropped 24%.
Tokyo-listed Metaplanet reported robust first-quarter operating income of 2.27 billion Japanese yen (approximately $14.38 million) for fiscal year 2026, driven by surging Bitcoin-related revenues. However, the company suffered an ordinary loss of $728 million due to non-cash valuation markdowns on its expanding Bitcoin holdings as BTC prices tumbled 24% in the same period. Revenues climbed sharply to $19.5 million, up from $5.5 million a year earlier, fueled by its Bitcoin Income Generation business, which includes option premiums and derivative valuation gains. Despite these gains, the company marked down its Bitcoin holdings as prices fell from $87,000 on January 1 to $66,000 by March 31, according to Coinge
