Spotify said Saturday that Taylor Swift set a first-day streaming record for her new single, “Look What You Made Me Do.” The music delivery site said it had logged more than 8 million same-day streams on Friday for the much-anticipated song, which dropped late Thursday on streaming platforms and iTunes. The song was released along with an Alfred Hitchcock-style animated lyric video, which was viewed on YouTube more than 19 million times on its first day. That made it the most-viewed lyric video on YouTube in a single day, Variety reported. On top of all that, many people paid to have the song in their digital libraries. Billboard reported that the song was downloaded about 200,000 times Friday. The 27-year-old singer wrote and produced the song with frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, who performs in the bands Bleachers and fun. It’s the first single from her sixth album, reputation, set to be released Nov. 10.
Israelis took to social media over the weekend with messages of love for celebrity funnyman Conan O’Brien, who arrived Friday to film his latest Conan Without Borders special. He said he plans to visit both Jerusalem and Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, but over the weekend he spent time in Tel Aviv and the ancient port city of Jaffa. The comedian was spotted enjoying the cuisine and soaking up the sunshine on the beach — albeit in a sun-protective shirt. In one post on social media, Miki Fromchenko of Tel Aviv wrote: “I went out to have a cup of coffee on the boulevard, and I wondered if it was legitimate to wear the shirt my friends and I had made at the age of twenty and had holes the size of Ramon Crater in the armpit area. In my naivety I thought I would go out, get coffee and go home, no one would see me, but Conan liked the shirt.” A photo showed that the star appeared to have swapped shirts with Fromchenko. On Saturday, O’Brien posted a video on Facebook summing up his impressions. Standing at an overlook in Jaffa with Tel Aviv in the background, he described tasting shakshuka, the popular egg-and-tomato breakfast dish, and drinking a Goldstar beer.