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Asia · Thursday, 12 November 2026

Bahrain

No written brief today: there’s too little data for one, or the draft didn’t pass our checks.


Rising

  1. 1Collision Course

    Breakout

    Movies & TV · Netflix Top 10 · #1 in films

  2. 2Dead-End Job

    Rising

    Movies & TV · Netflix Top 10 · #2 in TV

  3. AtlantaFX, CC BY 3.0

    3Bryson Tiller

    Breakout

    Music · Apple Music · #1 in songs

  4. Muhammad Ashar, CC BY-SA 4.0

    4Pakistan

    Sustained

    Travel & places · Google Trends · 1,000+ searches

  5. 5Baththa

    Rising

    Movies & TV · Netflix Top 10 · #2 in films


Top today

  1. 1Collision Course

    Breakout

    Movies & TV · Netflix Top 10 · #1 in films

  2. 2Dead-End Job

    Rising

    Movies & TV · Netflix Top 10 · #2 in TV

  3. AtlantaFX, CC BY 3.0

    3Bryson Tiller

    Breakout

    Music · Apple Music · #1 in songs

  4. Toglenn, CC BY-SA 4.0

    4Ty Dolla Sign

    New

    Music · Apple Music · #24 in songs

  5. Muhammad Ashar, CC BY-SA 4.0

    5Pakistan

    Sustained

    Travel & places · Google Trends · 1,000+ searches

  6. 6Baththa

    Rising

    Movies & TV · Netflix Top 10 · #2 in films

  7. National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Public domain

    7Sri Lanka

    Sustained

    Travel & places · Google Trends · 1,000+ searches

  8. 8Bangladesh

    Sustained

    Travel & places · Google Trends · 1,000+ searches

  9. 9Majid Jordan & Drake

    Rising

    Music · Apple Music · #19 in songs

  10. Smallbones, Public domain

    10Place of worship

    Sustained

    Other · Google Trends · 200+ searches


What the news is talking about

How much of the news here is about each issue today, and how it sounds, compared with the past 4 weeks. From 221 articles by the country’s own news sites over the last 7 days. How we read the news

Share of the coverage

  1. 1.4% of the news · usually 1.9% · 3 articles
  2. 1.4% of the news · usually 0.2% · 6.2× usual · 3 articles
  3. 0.5% of the news · usually 0.0% · 1 articles
  4. 0.5% of the news · usually 0.6% · 1 articles
  5. 0.5% of the news · usually 0.0% · 1 articles
  6. 0.0% of the news · usually 0.1% · 0 articles
  7. 0.0% of the news · usually 0.1% · 0 articles
  8. 0.0% of the news · usually 0.2% · 0 articles

How the news sounds

News coverage in more than 100 languages, machine-translated and counted with English word lists, from The GDELT Project.

Pro The news mood day by day for the last 90 days, with each issue’s share, as CSV and PDF. Try Pro free for 7 days →


By category

Movies & TV

  1. 1Collision Course

    Breakout

    Netflix Top 10 · #1 in films

  2. 2Dead-End Job

    Rising

    Netflix Top 10 · #2 in TV

  3. 3Baththa

    Rising

    Netflix Top 10 · #2 in films

Music

  1. AtlantaFX, CC BY 3.0

    1Bryson Tiller

    Breakout

    Apple Music · #1 in songs

  2. Toglenn, CC BY-SA 4.0

    2Ty Dolla Sign

    New

    Apple Music · #24 in songs

  3. 3Majid Jordan & Drake

    Rising

    Apple Music · #19 in songs

Travel & places

  1. Muhammad Ashar, CC BY-SA 4.0

    1Pakistan

    Sustained

    Google Trends · 1,000+ searches

  2. National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Public domain

    2Sri Lanka

    Sustained

    Google Trends · 1,000+ searches

  3. 3Bangladesh

    Sustained

    Google Trends · 1,000+ searches


Industries here

Music 57Media & entertainment 19Travel & tourism 9


The numbers behind the mood

The latest official figures, with the period each one covers. Yearly numbers can be a year or more old.

Politics in the news

Upcoming national votes

    Economy

    Research

    Most-published fields last month

    • Education
      16 papers
    • Surgery
      11 papers · rising +93%
    • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
      8 papers · rising +59%

    OpenAlex

      Society


      Charts

      Netflix · TV

      1. 1Obsess

      2. 2Dead-End Job

        Rising

      3. 3Akka: The Protectors

      4. 4Lupin

        Falling

      5. 5Taken: Natalee Holloway

      6. 6Doctor X: Mafia in White

      7. 7A Couple of Lies

      8. 8WWE Crown Jewel

      9. 10Black Doves

      Netflix Top 10 · 2026-11-08

      Netflix · Films

      1. 1Collision Course

        Breakout

      2. 2Baththa

        Rising

      3. 3Avaraachan & Sons

      4. 4Dilwali Diwali

      5. 5Heist

      6. 6The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

      7. 7Don't Trouble the Trouble

      8. 8Manoj Bajpayee

        Falling

      9. 9Meethe Mein Kya Hai

      10. 10A Dog's Perfect Christmas

      Netflix Top 10 · 2026-11-08

      Apple Music · Artists

      1. AtlantaFX, CC BY 3.0

        1Bryson Tiller

        Breakout

      2. 2Tate McRae

        Falling

      3. 4Karol G

        Falling

      4. 5Drake

      5. 6Mac Miller

        Rising

      6. 9DJ Khaled

        Rising

      Apple Music · 2026-11-13


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