Nine out of the top 10 are from Filipino artists. The music has gone a long way since the ballad/cover era when I was growing up.

Context: A Spirit Airlines fan has launched Spirit 2.0, a crowdsourcing effort to buy the airline: 'The people can own it'

Disclosure: I contributed to this effort. I think it's a noble one and wish for their success.

Missed opportunity to somehow get the "People Express" trademark

cross-posted to: artph@reddit.com

After POTA, Ozine Events Goes Dark 📵

Local artist merchants reported to Kuhaku Media that they have lost all communication with prominent Philippine convention organizer Ozine Events this October.

Kuhaku Media independently verified these claims, discovering that official media relations channels for Ozine were also unreachable due to an email domain expiration.

According to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) database, the Ozine Events web domain, hosted via GoDaddy, officially expired on Sept. 3.

The ongoing radio silence has sparked growing anxiety within the local artist community, following the abrupt suspension of the organizer's Idol Fest event in September.

...if it is a time-bound prohibition, maybe in the order of a few weeks, so society can rethink about their consumption habits.

Indefinite prohibition, of the kind that was amended in the US constitution, denies the human desire to consume alcohol and pretend it can be legislated away. A cursory reading of the Wikipedia article on the capital-P Prohibition showed lasting effects in alcohol consumption (I guess, good in the sense that there's changes in domestic abuse patterns, for example?) and organized crime (bad, with Al Capone and people like him)