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Rebecca Renee Black (born June 21, 1997) is an American singer, songwriter, and YouTuber. She gained extensive media coverage when the music video for her 2011 debut single "Friday" went viral on YouTube and various social media sites. The song peaked at number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 amidst being panned by audiences and music critics, many of whom considered it "among the worst songs ever made". In 2013, Black released a follow up single "Saturday" (with Dave Days) to similar commercial success and marginally improved reception.Black has also pursued a career as a YouTube personality. Her debut studio album Let Her Burn—preceded by two extended plays—was released in February 2023 to generally favorable critical reception. Early life Rebecca Renee Black was born on June 21, 1997, in Irvine, California. She is the daughter of John Jeffery Black and Georgina Marquez Kelly, both veterinarians. Her mother is a Mexican emigrant, and her father, originally from Iowa, is of English, Italian, and Polish descent. Black attended private school from kindergarten to 6th grade, and moved to a public school due to bullying. She joined the school's musical theater program, where she felt she was "meant to be". In April 2011, Black dropped out in favor of homeschooling, citing both a need to focus on her career. Black has said that she was also failing English class due to her busy schedule. Career 2010–2011: "Friday" In late 2010, a classmate of Black and music video client of Los Angeles record label ARK Music Factory told her about the company. Black's mother paid US$4,000 for ARK Music to produce the music video while the Blacks retained ownership of both the master and the video. The single, "Friday", written entirely by ARK, was released on YouTube and iTunes. The song's video was uploaded to YouTube on February 10, 2011, and received approximately 1,000 views in the first month. The video went viral on March 11, acquiring millions of views on YouTube in a matter of days, becoming the most discussed topic on social networking site Twitter, and garnering mostly negative media coverage. The single was released on March 14, with first-week sales estimated to be around 40,000 by Billboard. On March 22, Black appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, during which she performed the song and discussed the negative reaction to it. The song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 and the New Zealand Singles Chart at numbers 58 and 33, respectively. In the UK, the song debuted at number 61 on the UK Singles Chart. In response to the YouTube video of "Friday", Black began to receive phone and email death threats, which were investigated by the Anaheim Police Department. Black teamed up with Funny or Die on April Fools' Day 2011 (when the comedy site was renamed Friday or Die) for a series of videos, including one about the underage teens driving a car in her "Friday" video. She signed to manager Debra Baum's DB Entertainment, reportedly with Ryan Seacrest's help.Black stated that she is a fan of Justin Bieber, and expressed interest in performing a duet with him. MTV selected Black to host its first online awards show, the O Music Awards Fan Army Party, in April 2011. As an homage to "Friday", Black appeared in the music video for Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)", in which Black plays alongside Perry as the hostess of a party Perry attends. A cover version of "Friday" was performed on Glee in the second-season episode, "Prom Queen". When asked about why the song was covered on Glee, show creator Ryan Murphy replied, "The show pays tribute to pop culture and, love it or hate it, that song is pop culture."With more than 167 million views and more than 3,190,000 "dislikes" during its first four months, prior to its temporary removal., "Friday" was revealed as YouTube's No. 1 video of 2011, with Black hosting a short video called YouTube Rewind in the year-end recap.Not long after the "Friday" video went viral on YouTube, Black and her mother, Georgina Kelly, got into legal issues with ARK Music over rights to the song. In a letter from Kelly's lawyer to ARK Music on March 29, 2011, it was alleged that ARK Music failed to fulfill the terms of their November 2010 agreement by not giving her the song and video's master recordings, by claiming Black as exclusively signed to the label, and by exploiting the song without permission – for example, selling a "Friday" ringtone. While Ark founder (and "Friday" co-writer) Patrice Wilson stated that Kelly "will get the masters and the song [...] [t]hey can have it all", and agreed that Black was not exclusive to Ark, his attorney claimed that Ark owns the copyright for the song and the November agreement is invalid. In June 2011, ARK Music Factory started charging $2.99 (equivalent to $3.89 in 2022) to watch the music video on YouTube. Later that month, "Friday" was removed as a result of the legal dispute; it was restored to YouTube on September 16, 2011, on Black's official channel. After the fallout with ARK Music Factory, Black started an independent record label named RB Records. 2011–2015: Early songs and covers Black released a self-produced single titled "My Moment" on July 18, 2011, the first on her label, with an accompanying music video published to her YouTube channel the same day. In the video, director Morgan Lawley features real life footage of Black from both before and after the popularization of "Friday". In late October 2011, production began on the music video for Black's third single, "Person of Interest". About the song, Black stated "The basis of it is that it's a love song but it's not a love song. It's about almost teenage crushes – when you're not in love yet but you really like a guy – which I'm really excited about because I don't think there are too many out like that. It's very much a dance type song. It will make you get up and dance and sing along in your car." The single and its accompanying music video were released on November 15, 2011. Black released two more singles in 2012: "Sing It" in May, and "In Your Words" in November. Black was planning to release her debut studio album in late 2011, which she said would include "a bunch of different kinds of stuff." The album was being recorded at a studio belonging to music producer Charlton Pettus. However, the album was never released. Black was featured in an ABC Primetime Nightline: Celebrity Secrets special entitled Underage and Famous: Inside Child Stars' Lives.In 2012, Black signed onto the Maker Studios YouTube network. She was also brought to Australia by Telstra to promote the launch of their 4G service. Zeitgeist, which sorted billions of Google searches to capture the year's 10 fastest-rising global queries, listed Black as "#1 Most Searched – Google". The searches for the teen singer topped even those of pop icons Lady Gaga and Adele. In late 2013, Black released the song "Saturday". For her sequel to "Friday", she collaborated with Dave Days. .... Discover the Rebecca Black popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Rebecca Black books.

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  • You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty synopsis, comments

    You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

    Akwaeke Emezi

    A Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a Best Romance of 2022 by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily, Vulture, Harper’s Bazaar...

  • Out There Screaming synopsis, comments

    Out There Screaming

    Jordan Peele, John Joseph Adams, N. K. Jemisin, Rebecca Roanhorse, Tananarive Due & Nnedi Okorafor

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of allnew stories...

  • The Toll House synopsis, comments

    The Toll House

    Carly Reagon

    Discover the spinetingling ghost story everyone is raving about:'If you like a good ghost story put this chilling thriller to the very top of your reading list' Sarah Pearse autho...

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    If I Die Before I Wake

    Sherwood King

    Laurence is a young exsailor who can't resist the lure of the good life, and when he finds a job as chauffeur to the wealthy Mr and Mrs Bannister, his occasional work leaves him fr...

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    Henry James

    James Henry & Philip Horne

    James's correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Edith Whart...

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    Once Upon a River

    Diane Setterfield

    From the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “eerie and fascinating” (USA TODAY) The Thirteenth Tale comes a “swift and entrancing, profound and beautiful” (Madelin...

  • The Collector of Dying Breaths synopsis, comments

    The Collector of Dying Breaths

    M. J. Rose

    New York Times bestselling author M. J. Rose’s “wondrously original” (Providence Journal) suspense novel featuring perfumer Jac L’Etoile “combines fascinating history, torrid roman...

  • Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure synopsis, comments

    Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

    John Cleland & Peter Wagner

    Forced by the death of her parents to seek her fortune in London, Fanny Hill is duped into prostitution by an old procuress. In Mrs Brown's bawdyhouse the naïve young woman begins ...

  • Conviction synopsis, comments

    Conviction

    Julia Dahl

    New York City 1992: a year after riots exploded between black and Jewish neighbors in Brooklyn, a black family is brutally murdered in their Crown Heights home. A teenager is quick...

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    Storm of Locusts

    Rebecca Roanhorse

    Kai and Caleb Goodacre have been kidnapped just as rumors of a cult sweeping across the reservation leads Maggie and Hastiin to investigate an outpost, and what they find there wil...

  • The Blood Is Still synopsis, comments

    The Blood Is Still

    Douglas Skelton

    A riveting, immersive thriller from the author of Thunder Bay"If you don't know Skelton, now's the time" (Ian Rankin). When a man in eighteenthcentury Highland dress is f...

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    Poems of Thomas Hardy

    Claire Tomalin & Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy wrote some of the most moving and personal poems in his era and this collection brings together the best of his verse on life and love.Hardy's poems are by turn haunti...

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    Alive and Kicking

    David Bryce

    From running with the infamous Calton Tongs to running Calton Athletic, David Bryce's life story is a remarkable account of crime, violence, alcoholism and drug addiction in Glasgo...

  • The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888 synopsis, comments

    The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888

    Thomas Hardy

    "See if she is dark or fair, and if you can, notice if her hands be white; if not, see if they look as though she had ever done housework, or are milker's hands like mine."So Rhoda...

  • Portrait of an Artist synopsis, comments

    Portrait of an Artist

    Laurie Lisle

    “Readers will welcome what Lisle has found. The woman who emerges has extraordinary personal stature, artistic gifts, commitment to her vision.” (Chicago Tribune)Recollections of m...

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    Leo

    Sally Kirkman

    You are a Leo. You are the creative expert and shining light of the zodiac.The signs of the zodiac can give us great insight into our daytoday living as well as the many talents an...

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    The Wife Before

    Shanora Williams

    Fans of Verity will be engrossed by this unpredictable novel of suspense as a new bride’s fairytale marriage becomes a prison of secrets. From the New York Times and USA Today best...

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    The Life of Samuel Johnson

    James Boswell & David Womersley

    In Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality. While Johnson’s Dictionary remains a...

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    Theaetetus

    Plato

    Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself, in a debate with the geom...

  • The Organ Thieves synopsis, comments

    The Organ Thieves

    Chip Jones

    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 196...

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    A Hero of Our Time

    Mikhail Lermontov

    A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later 19th century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov. Lermotov's hero, Pechorin, ...

  • Thunder Bay synopsis, comments

    Thunder Bay

    Douglas Skelton

    Stoirm Island’s secrets are worth killing for in this immersive, unrelenting thriller for readers of All the Missing Girls and Neon Prey"this crime novel has it all" (Pub...

  • The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance synopsis, comments

    The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance

    Trisha Telep

    You never forget your first time with a vampire.Whether reaquainting yourself with some of your favourite, sexy creatures of the night or getting bitten by the vampire romance phen...

  • The Matter of Black Lives synopsis, comments

    The Matter of Black Lives

    Jelani Cobb & David Remnick

    A collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in Americaincluding work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, TaNehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and morewit...

  • Literature and Evil synopsis, comments

    Literature and Evil

    Georges Bataille & Alastair Hamilton

    'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil ...

  • Medea synopsis, comments

    Medea

    Eilish Quin

    Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek antiquity, in this propulsive and evocative debut in the tradition of Circe, Ele...

  • Rebecca, Not Becky synopsis, comments

    Rebecca, Not Becky

    Christine Platt & Catherine Wigginton Greene

    In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whipsmart, compulsively readable novel about two upperclass stayathome mothersone white, one Blackliving in a "perfect" suburb that explores mother...

  • Don Juan synopsis, comments

    Don Juan

    Lord Byron, E. Steffan, T.G. Steffan & W.W. Pratt

    Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Ital...

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    Armed Candy

    Reg McKay

    Armed Candy is the true story of one woman's struggle for survival on Britain's meanest streets. Kay has spent her whole life trying to escape. Sexually abused by her grandmother, ...

  • Light is the New Black synopsis, comments

    Light is the New Black

    Rebecca Campbell

    An encouraging guidebook to awaken to your potential, connect with the callings of your soul, and light up the world with your presence.This international bestselling book has help...

  • The Little Demon synopsis, comments

    The Little Demon

    Fyodor Sologub & Ronald Wilks

    A dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher's descent into sadism, arson and murder.Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provi...

  • The Henry Game synopsis, comments

    The Henry Game

    Susan Davis

    Imagine meeting Henry VIII and finding he's madly in love with you!One lazy summer afternoon Abigail persuades Lauren and Marina to experiment with a homemade ouija board. The girl...

  • An Apology for Idlers synopsis, comments

    An Apology for Idlers

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and sem...

  • Space at the Speed of Light synopsis, comments

    Space at the Speed of Light

    Dr. Becky Smethurst

    From the big bang to black holes, this fastpaced illustrated tour of time and space for the astrocurious unlocks the science of the stars to reveal fascinating theories, surprising...

  • The Red Prince synopsis, comments

    The Red Prince

    Helen Carr

    War, revolution, treason and love – the thrilling tale of Sir John of Gaunt brought to life by medieval history's rising star.‘The Red Prince announces Helen Carr as one of the mos...

  • Chaos Broken synopsis, comments

    Chaos Broken

    Rebekah Turner

    The final instalment of the Chronicles of Applecross trilogy finds Lora left in charge – and quickly losing control. Lora Blackgoat is in charge. But after losing a lucrative contr...

  • Formidable synopsis, comments

    Formidable

    Elisabeth Griffith

    “An essential history of the struggle by both Black and white women to achieve their equal rights.”Hillary Rodham ClintonThe Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black a...

  • Black Lamb and Grey Falcon synopsis, comments

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

    Rebecca West & Christopher Hitchens

    “Rebecca West’s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time.” The New Yorker   Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West’s classic examination of the history...

  • Essays and Letters synopsis, comments

    Essays and Letters

    Friedrich Hölderlin, Charlie Louth & Jeremy Adler

    One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (17701843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This new translation of se...

  • A Journal of the Plague Year synopsis, comments

    A Journal of the Plague Year

    Daniel Defoe & Christopher Bristow

    'The most reliable and comprehensive account of the Great Plague that we possess' Anthony Burgess In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Def...