Composer honors and BTS’s 5 billion streams may show range outweighing a single hit

Daniel Pemberton won Film Composer of the Year at the World Soundtrack Awards on Oct. 10 for four scores, Variety and Screen Daily reported. The Ivors Academy said Tuesday that Max Richter will receive an Ivor Novello Award for Innovation on Nov. 17. BTS’s “Arirang” passed 5 billion Spotify streams, its label said; Yonhap reported all 14 tracks have passed 200 million. Read together, they may show range outweighing a single hit.

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