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Andy Pettitte had their emotional farewells this past week. Was it affordable Chanel handbagsJoe Girardi’s turn on Sunday?namely the amount of time he’s forced to spend away from his family. One daughter is on the cheerleading squad, another plays youth soccer and his son plays football and baseball. The Yankees’ organizational meetings will likely begin later this week, but before the Yankees manager speaks to the team about a new contract, Girardi must first sit down with his wife and their three children to discuss his future. I asked the music streaming service Spotify if it could break down by gender the favourite music of its 20m active users last year. Rather than crunching 12 months of data, the boffins at Spotify’s analytics HQ in Sweden provided a snapshot, picking one day a month, and charted the top 10 most popular artists among Spotify’s approximately 5m US male and female users in each 24-hour period.
(There were more male users of Spotify than female among the service’s US subscribers by a ratio of roughly 52:48.) Some of the data are unsurprising. One Direction were the most popular band among female listeners on the picked day in December, by a proportion of 80 per cent. Meanwhile Eminem, on the equivalent day in Discount GucciAugust, was the most popular among male listeners (72 per cent). (Perhaps the boy band and the rapper should maximise their market penetration with a duet.) More notable was the gender of the performers in each sex’s tables. Female Spotify users turn out to be far more open to listening to the opposite sex. There were on average five men each month in their top 10 favourite acts. Male Spotify users notched up a risible 0.3 per cent of female artists per month
“We’ve talked about it, but we’ll sit down and actually have a real pow-wow around the dinner table,” Girardi said after the Yankees ended the season with a 5-1 win in 14 innings over the Astros. “It comes down to family. They are first, and whatever is best for group of us – not one individual, not me or just my wife or just one of my children – whatever is best for us as a group, that’s what we’ll decide to do.” Girardi is closing out a Gucci cosmetic casethree-year, $9 million deal he signed after the 2010 season. Those talks took place right after the Yankees were eliminated from the ALCS as the two sides agreed to a new deal in less than a week.