The power of DJ Avicii

Tim Bergling, aka Avicii, stands high and revered in his DJ’s pulpit, his sharp Scandinavian features crowned by headphones. Perched between two enormous screens that project his image to the 16,000-strong Sydney crowd, he twiddles knobs and does unfathomable things on his computer, producing bass-heavy electronic house music that delights his fans to the point of ecstasy

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China’s millions of ‘Big Bang Theory’ fans

When producers at US network CBS launched a show in 2007 chronicling the daily lives and dating woes of four nerdy California Institute of Technology scientists and their cute female neighbor, they almost certainly didn’t expect to create one of the biggest television sensations in China. Yet that’s exactly what they did with “The Big Bang Theory,” a sitcom that has accumulated almost 1.3 billion views since first appearing on popular Chinese video site Sohu TV in 2009

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