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In music, 2021 was defined by the lack of new blockbuster tours (due to rolling lockdowns) and the rise of the "catalog sale." Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul Simon sold their life’s work to Sony and Hipgnosis for hundreds of millions of dollars. This signaled that in , the asset wasn't the next hit—it was the last hit. By 2021, TikTok was no longer just an

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If 2021 had a king, it was streaming television. With production delays creating a bottleneck of high-quality scripts, the year produced some of the most talked-about series in recent memory. Squid Game (Netflix) was the undisputed phenomenon. A brutal Korean satire of late-stage capitalism, it transcended language barriers to become Netflix’s biggest series launch ever. It tapped into the global anxiety of debt, inequality, and desperation—a dark mirror held up to the economic precarity felt by millions post-lockdown.