ITV

Tag: Lady Gaga

  • Show Business personalities dominate Twitter all over the globe

    Show Business personalities dominate Twitter all over the globe

    NEW DELHI: Singers Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, and Shakira feature among the top ten followed celebrities on Twitter.

     

    Twitter was launched with an idea to update statuses and interact on cyber space with a limitation of 140 characters but has become a sensation of its own kind, according to the Pakistani ‘More Magazine’.

     

    American President Barack Obama is the only non-show business personality in the top ten list and the tenth place is held by footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. The top ten are:

     

        Justin Bieber 19 year old singing sensation holds number 1 spot on twitter with 46 million followers.

        Katy Perry the girl who shot to fame with Teenage Dream holds 2nd place with 45.7 million followers

        Lady Gaga Exotic singer and performer who has set a whole new standard with her live performance holds third largest number of followers with 40.3 million fans

        Barack Obama Only non-showbiz personality in the list is the current US President Barack Husain Obama with 38.7 million followers.

        Taylor Swift Beautiful singing diva who had shown vast talent in country and pop singing currently resides on fifth spot with 35.7 million followers

        Britney Spears A star of her own kind, who recently made a comeback with her sensational Criminal has 33.2 million followers on Twitter.

        Justin Timberlake A guy who fascinated us first with his songs and now with his acting skills has 27.5 million followers.

        Jenifer Lopez Known as Jlo, this singer-actress holds 24.7 million followers,

        Shakira – A singer who used to sizzles her performances with Belly dancing is having 22.5 millions following her Twitter feeds.

        Cristiano Ronaldo Footballer from Portugal who also appears in various ads nowadays makes it at number 10 with 22 million followers

     

  • Madonna tops Forbes 2013 list of the top-earning celebrities

    Madonna tops Forbes 2013 list of the top-earning celebrities

    MUMBAI: Madonna’s latest album, MDNA, was a flop. Her 12th studio album, Madonna sold fewer than a million copies of MDNA in the US and the singles, like “Give Me All Your Luvin,” failed to impress on the pop music scene.

    But the tour that the ‘Material Girl’ launched to go along with her new album was a spectacular success. Fans didn’t flock to the stadium and spend upwards of $100 per ticket to hear Madonna’s latest stuff. They went to hear hits like “Vogue,” “Like a Virgin” and “Lucky Star.” The tour grossed $305 million and earned her the Top Touring Award at the Billboard Music Awards. Add to that strong merchandise sales, a clothing line, fragrance and investments in companies like Vita Coco and Madonna tops the list of the highest earning celebrities. It is estimates that the pop star brought in $125 million between June 2012 and June 2013.

    That’s more money than Madonna has ever earned in the time Forbes has been doing the Celebrity 100 list. The closest she came to $125 million was in 2009 when she earned $110 million.

    Madonna’s success, at age 55, just goes to show the incredible power of a successful music career. Many have accused Lady Gaga of copying Madonna’s career. The young star is certainly emulating Madonna when it comes to raking in the moolah. Gaga ranks 10th on the list of highest-paid celebrities with $80 million in earnings. She would have brought in even more than that if her tour hadn’t been cut short by a hip injury. Her latest single, “Applause,” was overshadowed last week by Katy Perry‘s latest, “Roar.” But Gaga can comfort herself with the knowledge that last year at least, she earned a lot more money than Perry who brought in an estimate $39 million.

    To compilation of the list is based on, talks with agents, managers, producers and other in-the-know folks to come up with estimates for each celebrity’s entertainment-related earnings between June 2012 and June 2013, the time frame for Forbes’ Celebrity 100 list. There is no deduction for taxes, agent fees or the other expenses of being a celebrity.

    Ranking second on the list with $25 million less than Madonna is Steven Spielberg. The director earned an estimated $100 million between June 2012 and June 2013. Most of that money comes from his extensive library. Hit movies like E.T. and Jurassic Park are always playing on TV somewhere in the world. Last year’s Lincoln was a critical and financial hit earning $275 million on a budget of $65 million. Now Spielberg’s DreamWorks is starting to show some real strength on TV. The studio’s latest show, Under the Dome, is one of the few bright spots on broadcast television.

    Author E.L. James, Howard Stern and Simon Cowell all tie for third place on Forbes’ list with $95 million each. James took the publishing world by storm with 50 Shades of Grey. The trilogy has sold 70 million copies worldwide and a movie is now in the works at Universal Studios. Stern still earns big from his contract with Sirius/XM (despite lawsuits) and Cowell is raking it in from the The X Factor and Got Talent formats which air in dozens of different countries. Stern and Cowell overlap with Got Talent. Stern is earning an estimated $15 million per year as one of the judges on America’s Got Talent.

  • How celebrities should use Twitter

    How celebrities should use Twitter

    MUMBAI: Twitter might limit its users to a 140 characters but it isn’t just a tool to make small talk!

    Despite its popularity, not every celebrity seems to have used the platform effectively. Recently, Sylvester Stallone and Megan Fox decided to skip tweeting, calling this a futile effort to connect with fans.

    This resulted in a destruction of a perfect bridge between these actors and their fans, causing them to lose out on a substantially large audience online: a loss not echoed by Twitter.

    Little did Sylvester and Megan know that the micro-blogging platform has worked wonders for several celebrities online including Justin Bieber, the teenage pop sensation, who currently enjoys the love of 33,931,436 fans on Twitter; Britney Spears, the American singer and entertainer, currently has 23,639,424 fans; and Lady Gaga has 33,760,113 followers.

    Twitter is the perfect platform between celebrities and their fans because it allows direct communication. This gives fans the opportunity to read tweets by their favourite personalities in real-time. Also, this communication isn’t one-way, since celebrities too can have a peek at what their fans think about them and respond as and when they wish. Besides celebrities, prominent world figures including Barack Obama and His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI are also active on the micro-blogging platform.

    Quitting Twitter shows a lack of understanding of the power of social media platforms on a celebrity’s part. Their inability to adapt to it could be cited as a reason for this shift away from the platform.

    It’s only a matter of time until every celebrity and world figure understands the true potential of connecting with their audiences online while realising the importance of staying in touch with the quickly transitioning world of technology.

    It seems like Megan and Sylvester will be at loss in the long-run, having quit Twitter; certainly not the other way around!

  • Harvey Weinstein mulls leaving MPAA

    Harvey Weinstein mulls leaving MPAA

    MUMBAI: Reacting to Motion Pictures Association of America‘s (MPAA) decision to upload the R rating given to Lee Hirsch‘s documentary Bully, Harvey Weinstein has said that he had no choice but to consider parting ways with the Association.


    Said Weinstein said in a statement, “As of today, The Weinstein Co. is considering a leave of absence for the foreseeable future. We respect the MPAA and their process, but feel this time it has just been a bridge too far.”


    Weinstein said that he is personally going to ask public figures and celebrities around the world–from First Lady Michelle Obama to Lady Gaga to the Duchess of Cambridge to help allow the movie to be seen without any restrictions.
     
    However, it is not clear whether the Weinstein Co. that isn‘t an official member of the MPAA is mulling with the idea of no longer submitting its films to the ratings board.


    The Classification and Ratings Administration has strict rules regarding language, which resulted in Bully, a documentary about schoolyard bullying, getting an R rating.


    Bully was filmed over the course of the 2009/2010 school year and looks at how bullying has touched five kids and their families. The film also documents the responses of teachers and administrators to aggressive behaviours besides capturing a growing movement among parents and youths to change how bullying is handled in schools, in communities and in society as a whole.