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The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Independent artists increased output during lockdown, but direct-to-fan opportunities still being under-utilised
completemusicupdate.comDigital distribution firm Amuse has published the results of a new survey of the independent artist community undertaken in partnership with consultancy MIDiA Research, revealing some general trends about self-releasing artists, and also some lockdown specific data.
On the latter, the study reveals that one of the few upsides of the COVID lockdown is that artist productivity increased.“Nearly 70% of artists spent more time writing or making music since the COVID-19 lockdown and a further 57% created more content for social media”, the company says based on its survey. “Another 36% of artists said they have been collaborating more online, and nearly 20% said they have been doing livestreaming performances.
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