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Thus far, absolutely nobody has taken to social media with an impassioned video endorsing us or any of our content. But we’re proud to throw our support behind the industry professionals pictured herein, even if they’d probably go to extraordinary lengths to avoid being associated with us.

Atlantic stars Ed Sheeran and Coldplay's Chris Martin surprise fans at the Global Citizen Festival with an impromptu acoustic set. Later, Donald Trump claimed the crowd had been generated with AI.

Top Dawg discusses arcane tax law with attorney Josh Binder, who was honored at the Creative Community For Peace's sixth annual Ambassadors of Peace event. Josh has informed us that the time it took him to email us this photo represents a billable hour.

Former Universal Spain boss and newly appointed GTS CEO & President Narcís Rebollo, Universal Music Latino hitmaker Luis Fonsi, Universal Latin America & Iberian Peninsula Chairman Jesús López and Spanish pop star Manuel Carrasco pose to commemorate Fonsi's show at Madrid's capacious WizInk Center. They have never heard of us.

Pier Pressure: A local stage tech joins Goldenvoice SVP Danny Bell at the Portola Music Festival at San Francisco's Pier 80.

Rock & Roll and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Jimmy Jam ponders the return of the Synclavier with Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr.—who recently re-upped for four more years as Grammy boss—at the Black Music Action Coalition's fourth annual BMAC Gala.

Primary Wave's Marty Silverstone, PW artist Stephen Marley, Bad Monkey music supervisor Tony Von Pervieux and PW's Peter Kurczaba join Samson (Marley's rottweiler) to hail the Apple TV series' soundtrack of Tom Petty covers. In related news, it was briefly thought that Samson had Full Moon Fever, but the vet said it was just worms.

Prior to taking the stage at The Met Philadelphia, Martin Kierszenbaum-repped superstar Sting joined Live Nation's Jon Hampton (left) and Geoff Gordon (right) to present a $25,000 donation to Amanda Strain, principal of North Philly's Laura W. Waring School, to enhance its music program. Hampton subsequently performed "Giant Steps" in its entirety on recorder.

Grammy-winning artist Anthony Hamilton, Warner's Andra Day (center), Telescope Music Group CEO Jeriel Johnson and Versus Creative partner Nate Auerbach pose in support of Amazon Music's Phylica Fant (second to left), who was honored as an Ambassador of Peace at the Creative Community for Peace event. Later, Alexa said their hors-d'oeuvres would arrive on Thursday, December 12.

At an iHeart Post Modern event, Shinedown's Brent Smith and iHeart EVP of Global Music Marketing Alissa Pollack join HITS' Karen Glauber for a spontaneous "Guster Gab With Glauber" podcast. We tried to call in, but the screener refused to put us through.