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court, was told that Eddie was a twin
born shortly before Christmas 2018 to
Simon Boxall and Siobhan Murphy, of
Worthing. Mr Boxall had returned to
work at the time of Eddie’s death, leav-
ing Ms Murphy home working and
looking after the boys alone.
June 24 was “extremely hot” and she
had two hours of conference calls.
“When Siobhan finished her work
meeting, she called the boys,” Mel
Doyle, the coroner’s officer, said. “Eddie
did not come out of the bedroom. Siob-
han realised the back door was open
and Eddie must have crawled outside.
She saw the lid of the hot tub was open.
She went to the hot tub and found Ed-
die in the water.” He was flown to hospi-
tal but declared dead soon afterwards.The Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny
has been unveiled as the most-
streamed global artist of 2020 on Spoti-
fy — while Lewis Capaldi, Ed Sheeran
and Stormzy dominate the UK charts.
Bad Bunny, 26, whose real name is
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is one
of the world’s leading reggaeton and
Latin trap vocalists, with a fanbase that
stretches across the Spanish-speaking
world as well as the United States.
YHLQMDLG, his second studio al-
bum, is the most popular on Spotify this
year, ahead of After Hours by the Cana-
dian singer The Weeknd, Hollywood’s
Bleeding by Post Malone and Fine Line
by the British former One Direction
star Harry Styles.
Bad Bunny is also the most-streamed
artist overall, with his tracks played
more than 8.3 billion times on the
streaming service in 2020.
Four years ago he was working in a
supermarket in Puerto Rico, releasing
Briefing, from The Times, is the third
most popular podcast.
The briefing offers headlines and
analysis from the paper’s experts in a
short audio bulletin. The podcast is up-
dated three times a day. Since Septem-
ber it has been part of Spotify’s Your
Daily Drive playlist, providing news up-dates between users’ favourite songs.
Spotify now has 320 million monthly
active users. However, the Swedish
platform and other similar services are
facing a backlash from artists who
claim they cannot live off the royalties.
Meeting public demand in turbulent
times, leading article, page 31Bunny who?
Little-known
rapper hops to
top of Spotify
his own music online. Now the rapper
has a credible claim to being the world’s
biggest pop star after a rapid rise fuelled
by his viral popularity on YouTube,
TikTok and Instagram.
His style straddles Latin trap — a
blend of rapping and singing about life
on the street — and reggaeton, an
established Puerto Rican genre influ-
enced by both US hip hop and South
American music.
After gaining popularity in Spanish-
speaking markets, Bad Bunny became a
mainstream hit in the US in 2018,
thanks to the song I Like It, a collabora-
tion with the rapper Cardi B. Further
collaborations with Drake and J Balvin
boosted his profile.
His distinctive fashion sense and crit-
icism of homophobia and violence
against women have set him apart from
the often macho rap world.
He has released three studio albums,
X 100pre, YHLQMDLG and El Último
Tour Del Mundo, the latter last month.
None has reached the UK Top 40.
The year’s biggest single on Spotify is
Blinding Lights by The Weeknd, with
almost 1.6 billion streams.
Drake, the Canadian rapper, is the
most-streamed artist in the UK, ahead
of the American rapper Juice Wrld,
who died of a painkiller overdose last
year, and the veteran hip-hop star
Eminem. The highest-placed British
performer is Sheeran, in fourth.
Capaldi has the most-streamed al-
bum in the UK, with his debut release
Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent.
The Scottish singer-songwriter also
makes the top five most popular British
artists with domestic audiences, along-
side Sheeran, Stormzy, Dua Lipa and
Styles.
Spotify’s most popular podcast glo-
bally is The Joe Rogan Experience. The
American interviewer signed an exclu-
sive deal — thought to be worth $
million — to bring his show to the plat-
form in May. In the UK, Times NewsMatthew Moore Media Correspondent
Dua Lipa is among the top five most
popular British artists in the UK
CHRISTOPHER POLK/GETTY IMAGES FOR SBSA French boy who suffered life-chang-
ing injuries when he was thrown off a
viewing platform at Tate Modern is
learning to walk again.
The boy was aged six when he and his
parents visited the art gallery in
London on holiday in August last year.
Jonty Bravery, a teenager from west
London who was also on the tenth-
storey viewing platform, grabbed the
boy and threw him over the railings to
fall 100ft down the sloped side of the
building and land on a roof.
Bravery pleaded guilty to attempted
murder. He was sentenced in June to a
life term and ordered to serve a mini-
mum of 15 years in jail.
The boy is slowly recovering in
France. His parents posted an update to
thank wellwishers who had donated
An 18-month-old boy drowned in a hot
tub after crawling outside while his
mother worked from home during the
Covid-19 lockdown, an inquest was told
yesterday.
Eddie Murphy-Boxall was found
unresponsive in the water by Siobhan
Murphy, who had left a door open to let
in cool air.
Karen Henderson, assistant coroner
for West Sussex, said that a combina-
tion of the hot tub lid being open and
the difficulty of caring for children
while working from home had led to
the “truly heartbreaking situation”. She
recorded a verdict of accidental death.
The inquest, at Crawley coroner’sToddler died in hot tub as
mother worked from home
Emma Yeomans
Stars lighting up
the streaming charts
Most streamed artists
in the UK, from the UK
Ed Sheeran, above
Stormzy
Dua Lipa
Lewis Capaldi
Harry Styles, belowMost streamed albums
in the UK
Divinely Uninspired to a
Hellish Extent (Capaldi)
Fine Line (Styles)
Shoot for the Stars Aim for
the Moon (Pop Smoke)
After Hours (The Weeknd)
Future Nostalgia (Dua Lipa)Most popular podcasts
in the UK
The Joe Rogan Experience
Sh**ged Married Annoyed
Times News Briefing
That Peter Crouch Podcast
Off Menu with Ed Gamble
and James AcasterMost streamed artists
globally
Bad Bunny
Drake
J Balvin
Juice Wrld
The WeekndNews
Stars lighting up
Boy thrown off Tate relearns to walk
Kaya Burgess
more than €293,000 to support his
treatment. They said that he was no
longer allowed home from hospital at
weekends because of the pandemic.
Family members now spend seven days
a week at his bedside, a vigil they de-
scribed as “very tiring because of the
noise and also very disturbing”.
The boy, who cannot be named for
legal reasons, still has problems with his
memory, grip and speech, they said.
"Our son’s memory is once again
greatly affected,” they wrote. “He no
longer remembers what he did that day
or what day it is.
“Despite everything, he continues to
make efforts and progress: he begins to
walk with a tetrapod cane while we hold
him by the back of the coat for balance.
He also has less pain, so the doctors
were able to lower his medication. He
tries to do more and more things with
his left arm, like holding his tube of
toothpaste or his glasses case to close it.”
They said that he was able to breathe
more easily, adding: “He still speaks
very slowly but now speaks word by
word and no longer syllable by syllable.
He tries to sing and make up songs with
rhymes. He was able to start using the
blowpipe with the rehabilitators to
continue improving his breathing.”
The Old Bailey was told last year that
Bravery had told police that he wanted
to be on the television news to protest
against his autism treatment. He said
that he had planned an attack “for a
long time”.
Bravery, 19, is applying to be moved
from HMP Belmarsh in London to
Broadmoor, the high-security psychi-
atric hospital in Berkshire. He faces a
trial over allegations that in January he
attacked two hospital workers there.The rapper Bad Bunny, whose tracks were played 8.3 billion times, with Jennifer Lopez