ADELE MAKES 152 MILLION DOLLARS

Adele is expected to make a £152 MILLION by the end of the year through her live tour

ADELE PERFORMING LIVE

Adele is raking in over £1m a night on her huge tour

Forget Rolling In The Deep, Adele is just rolling in a lot of Cash – to the tune of £152million.

That’s how much she is predicted to make by the end of this year from her Adele Live tour.

New figures show the star has already raked in £123million from the shows.

That works out at £1.34million per gig, around £74,400 per song, and near enough £31 each word. And now ­Billboard has rated the Londoner’s 25 tour as the biggest earner of 2016.

No wonder she’s planning a lengthy break to focus on son Angelo as he prepares to start school, and to work on a sibling for him with partner Simon Konecki.

Adele's wide appeal and long gaps between tours means fans are prepared to spend big, a marketing expert explains

She has previously avoided touring for long periods, but Adele has thrown herself into life on the road to promote third album 25, playing to 1.5 million fans in Europe and North America since February.

And the Someone Like You singer slayed eight nights at LA’s Staples Center, playing to 118,149 fans.

Adele is now on the final leg of the tour, which ends in Phoenix, Arizona, on November 21, then will head home to LA to celebrate Thanksgiving on the 24th.

Jon Boon, of US marketing agency Front Page Media, said: “Adele has been 2016’s stand-out tour.

Venues were able to charge high prices as they knew after a five-year break, fever for tickets was off the charts.

“Adele is the dream – she appeals to fans of all ages, genders and is unique with exceptional songs. Fans worry they may have to wait a long time to see her, so they spend big.”

And despite being released last year, 25 is still 2016’s biggest seller.

Never mind sending love to her ex’s new lover, chucking a tenner to the bloke who inspired her biggest songs wouldn’t dent the coffers.

JMK

WIZKID AND YEMI ALADE DAZZLES IN MAMA AWARD 2016

WIZKID AND YEMI ALADE DAZZLES IN MAMA AWARD 2016

 

South Africa rap talent Cassper Nyovest picks up award for Best Live Act at the MTV Africa Music.

 He edges out Eddy Kenzo (Uganda), Flavour (Nigeria), Mafikizolo (South Africa) and Stonebwoy (Ghana).

Sauti Sol wins Best Group beating Mi Casa (South Africa), Navy Kenzo (Tanzania), R2bees (Ghana) and Toofan (Togo).

Yemi Alade wins Best Female edging out her Nigerian counterpart Tiwa Savage, Ghana's Mz Vee, Tanzania's Vanessa Mdee and Josey of Ivory Coast. This makes her the first artist to win the award for Best Female twice (2015 and 2016).

Drake wins Best International Act beating Adele, Beyoncé, Future and

Rihanna to it.

Star Boy Wizkid has been declared winner Best Male according to the fans, edging out AKA, Black Coffee, Diamond Platnumz and Patoranking.

Hugh Masekela, a South African human rights activist, musician and composer wins the  MTV Legend award at MAMA 2016.

See full list of winners.

Best Live Act

Cassper Nyovest (South Africa)  - Winner

Eddy Kenzo (Uganda),

Flavour (Nigeria),

Mafikizolo (South Africa)

Stonebwoy (Ghana).

Best Group

Sauti Sol (Kenya)- Winner

Mi Casa (South Africa),

Navy Kenzo (Tanzania),

R2bees (Ghana)

Toofan (Togo).

Best Female

Yemi Alade (Nigeria) - Winner

Tiwa Savage (Nigeria)

Josey (Ivory Coast)

Mz Vee (Ghana)

Tiwa Savage (Nigeria)

Vanessa Mdee (Tanzania)

Best Pop/Alternative

Desmond & The Tutus (South Africa)

LCNVL (South Africa)

Shekinah (South Africa) / Kyle Deutsch (South Africa) - Winner

Timo ODV (South Africa)

Tresor (DRC)

Best International

Adele (UK)

Beyoncé (USA)

Drake (Canada) - Winner

Future (USA)

Rihanna (Barbados)

Best Lusophone Act

C4 Pedro (Angola) - Winner

NGA (Angola)

Lizha James (Mozambique)

Nelson Freitas (Netherlands/Cape Verde)

Preto Show (Angola)

Best Francophone Act

Franko (Cameroon)

J-Rio (Gabon)

Magasco (Cameroon)

Serge Beynaud (Ivory Coast) - Winner

Toofan (Togo)

Best Male

AKA (South Africa)

Black Coffee (South Africa)

Diamond (Tanzania)

Patoranking (Nigeria)

Wizkid (Nigeria) - Winner

Listener's Choice

Adiouza (Senegal)

Bebe Cool (Uganda)

Burna Boy (Nigeria)

Den G (Liberia)

EL (Ghana)

Jah Prayzah (Zimbabwe) - Winner

Jay Rox (Zambia)

Kansoul (Kenya)

Kiss Daniel (Nigeria)

Lij Michael (Ethiopia)

LXG (Sierra Leone)

Meddy (Rwanda)

Messias Marioca (Mozambique)

Prince Kaybee (South Africa)

Reda Taliani (Algeria)

Saad Lamjarred (Morocco)

Sabri Mosbah (Tunisia)

Sidiki Diabate (Mali)

Tamer Hosny (Egypt)

The Dogg (Namibia)

Yamoto Band (Tanzania)

Best Collaboration in partnership with Absolut

AKA feat. Burna Boy, Khuli Chana & Yanga – "Baddest" (South Africa/Nigeria)

DJ Maphorisa feat. Wizkid & DJ Bucks - "Soweto Baby" ((South Africa/Nigeria) - Winner

Nasty C feat. Davido, Cassper - "Juice Back Remix" (Nigeria/South Africa) 

Patoranking feat. Sarkodie – "No Kissing" (Nigeria/Ghana) 

Sauti Sol feat. Alikiba - "Unconditionally Bae" (Kenya/Tanzania)

Video of the Year

“Jump” - Anatii & Cassper feat. Nasty C (South Africa); Director: Kyle Lewis

“Caviar Dreams” - AL Bairre & PhFAT (South Africa); Director: Daniel Levi

“If I Start to Talk” - Tiwa Savage feat. Dr Sid (Nigeria); Director: Clarence Peters

“Kisasi Kumi” - Sheeba (Uganda) - Director: Sasha Vybz

“ Niquer Ma Vie“ - Youssoupha (Congo) - Director: Antony Abdelli & Jose Eon - Winner

Personality of the Year in association with DStv

Caster Semenya (South Africa) - Winner

Linda Ikeji (Nigeria)

Pearl Thusi (South Africa)

Pierre Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon)

Wizkid (Nigeria)

Best Hip Hop in association with MTN

Emtee (South Africa) - Winner

Kiff No Beat (Ivory Coast)

Olamide (Nigeria)

Riky Rick (South Africa)  

Ycee (Nigeria)

Best Breakthrough

Babes Wodumo (South Africa)

Emtee (South Africa)

Falz (Nigeria)

Franko (Cameroon)

Nasty C (South Africa)

Nathi (South Africa)

Raymond (Tanzania)

Simi (Nigeria)

Tekno (Nigeria) - Winner

MAMA 2016 MTV Legend award goes to South African musician and human rights activist Hugh Masekela

JMK

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HACKERS TAKEOVER US WEB

East coast Internet service attack resolved

So yesterday was basically an East coast lock down as hackers blocked access of many popular websites. JMK wasn’t there but was sniffing around, according to USA TODAY,

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Eleven hours after a massive online attack that blocked access to many popular websites, the company under assault has finally restored its service.

Dyn, a New Hampshire-based company that monitors and routes Internet traffic, was the victim of a massive attack that began at 7:10 a.m. ET Friday morning. The issue kept some users on the East Coast from accessing Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Tumblr, Reddit, PayPal and other sites.

At 6:17 p.m. ET, Dyn updated its website to say it had resolved the large-scale distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) and service had been restored.

DDoS attacks flood servers with so many fake requests for information that they cannot respond to real ones, often crashing under the barrage. It's unclear who orchestrated the attack.

“It’s a very smart attack. We start to mitigate, they react. It keeps on happening every time. We’re learning though,” said Kyle York, Dyn’s chief strategy officer said on a conference call with reporters Friday afternoon.

Troubling to security experts was that the attackers relied on Mirai, an easy-to-use program that allows even unskilled hackers to take over online devices and use them to launch DDoS attacks. The software uses malware from phishing emails to first infect a computer or home network, then spreads to everything on it, taking over DVRs, cable set-top boxes, routers and even Internet-connected cameras used by stores and businesses for surveillance.

These devices are in turn used to create a robot network, or botnet, to send the millions of messages that knocks the out victims' computer systems.

The source code for Mirai was released on the so-called dark web, sites that operate as a sort of online underground for hackers, at the beginning of the month. The release led some security experts to suggest it would soon be widely used by hackers. That appears to have happened in this case.

Dyn is getting “tens of millions” of messages from around the globe sent by seemingly harmless but Internet-connected devices.

“It could be your DVR, it could be a CCTV camera, a thermostat. I even saw an Internet-connected toaster on Kickstarter yesterday,"  said York.

The complexity and breadth of the multiple attack points makes it difficult to fight, because it's hard to distinguish legitimate traffic from botnet traffic.

York said one bright spot for the company had been the tremendous outpouring of aid from its customers, competitors and law enforcement. “You guys wouldn’t believe the amount of support we’ve received,” he told reporters.

Effects felt nationwide

Dyn first  posted on its website at 7:10 a.m. ET that it "began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure."

These resolved towards 9:30 a.m.. Then more waves began. "It's been a hectic day," said York.

The attack comes at a time of heightened public sensitivity and concern that the nation's institutions and infrastructure could face large-scale hacking attacks. The most recent example has been the release of emails stolen from the servers of the Democratic National Committee, which U.S. intelligence sources say was the work of Russia. The topic has come up frequently during the fall's hard-fought presidential campaign.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the Department of Homeland Security was “monitoring the situation" but that “at this point I don’t have any information about who may be responsible for this malicious activity.”

So far Dyn has not been able to ascertain whether the attack is aimed at any specific customer. “We have no reason to believe it is at this point,” said Dave Allen, the company’s general counsel.

The attack is “consistent with record-setting sized cyber attacks seen in the last few weeks,” said Carl Herberger, vice president of security at security company Radware.

Disruption

A post on Hacker News first identified the attack and named the sites that were affected. Several sites, including Spotify and GitHub, took to Twitter Friday morning to post status updates once the social network was back online.

JMK

SOURCE: USA TODAY