Bieber's album, which critics have widely lauded, also shattered Spotify's global record for most streams in the first week of an album's release after logging 205 million streams across the globe, according to Nielsen Music.
"We all still know who 'The Simpsons' are," says Marty Kaplan, at the University of Southern California, "even if we've only ever watched it for five minutes".But surely the PVR and TV-on-demand, once widely available, will shatter what remains of communal TV viewing?
Nadia offered us a view inside Yemen that shattered a few stereotypes widely held about this poorest country in the region.
Confidence in investments widely considered to have little or no risk has been periodically shattered in the recent past.
The problem, rather, is that Obama's heavily publicized and widely praised promise to respect state medical marijuana laws has recently been shattered into more pieces than the campaign can count.
The study shatters the widely held myth that tool use and laterality are connected only in humans, say behavioral scientists.
As the Jewish community became more and more widely dispersed, and then when the Temple was destroyed and the Jewish community shattered by the Roman Empire, the ancient rabbis realized they could no longer celebrate Shavuot this way.
Apart from shaking buildings to their foundations, the Northridge quake shattered the faith structural engineers had in the safety of several types of widely used forms of construction.
The war in Iraq is widely seen as a colossal blunder of American hubris that killed tens of thousands and displaced many more, leaving a shattered, sectarian wreck of a country.
Shadoobie, shattered, shattered . . .
