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Saudi Arts, Entertainment Sector Achieves 20% Growth in 2024

File photo of the Saudi capital Riyadh - File/AAWSAT
File photo of the Saudi capital Riyadh - File/AAWSAT
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Saudi Arts, Entertainment Sector Achieves 20% Growth in 2024

File photo of the Saudi capital Riyadh - File/AAWSAT
File photo of the Saudi capital Riyadh - File/AAWSAT

The Saudi Ministry of Commerce has revealed that commercial registers in the arts and entertainment sector grew by 20% during 2024 compared to 2023.
The ministry highlighted significant growth in several key sectors, in which innovative arts and entertainment activities saw a 30% increase, with a total of 4,188 registers. Amusement park activities recorded a 26% rise, bringing the total to 6,108 registers.
Registers for other entertainment activities grew by 25%, reaching a total of 14,239. Sports club activities saw an 18% increase, with the total number of registers rising to 8,095 by the end of 2024, SPA reported.
The arts and entertainment sector is a key pillar of the Kingdom's Vision 2030, playing a vital role in boosting the local economy, diversifying income sources, increasing the GDP, and creating opportunities for the private sector to offer experiences that enhance the quality of life for all members of society.

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Jingle Jangle: Draft Lyrics to ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ Sell for $508K at US Auction 

An image released by Julien's Auctions shows musician Bob Dylan's lyrics for various famed songs are show in this undated image. (Julien's Auctions via AP)
An image released by Julien's Auctions shows musician Bob Dylan's lyrics for various famed songs are show in this undated image. (Julien's Auctions via AP)
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Jingle Jangle: Draft Lyrics to ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ Sell for $508K at US Auction 

An image released by Julien's Auctions shows musician Bob Dylan's lyrics for various famed songs are show in this undated image. (Julien's Auctions via AP)
An image released by Julien's Auctions shows musician Bob Dylan's lyrics for various famed songs are show in this undated image. (Julien's Auctions via AP)

Draft lyrics to Bob Dylan’s song “Mr. Tambourine Man” went for over a half-million dollars as part of a weekend sale of dozens of items related to the iconic American singer-songwriter.

About 60 Dylan items — including photos, music sheets, his guitar, pencil drawings and an oil painting composed by the Nobel Prize for literature winner — were sold on Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee, through Julien’s Auctions.

The items generated nearly $1.5 million in sales overall through in-person and online bidding, the auction house said. Julien's said 50 of the items, including the lyrics that received the highest sale price, came from the personal collection of late music journalist Al Aronowitz.

The typewritten lyrics, which covered three drafts of the 1965 song, were written on two sheets of yellow paper, with Dylan’s annotation on the third draft.

Dylan wrote the original draft lyrics in the journalist's New Jersey home, according to Julien’s, citing a 1973 newspaper article by Aronowitz.

Dylan sat “with my portable typewriter at my white formica breakfast bar in a swirl of chain-lit cigarette smoke, his bony, long-nailed fingers tapping the words out” on copy paper, Aronowitz was quoted as writing.

The third draft, while close to the final version, still had significant variations from the final lyrics, the auction house said on its website.

The song appeared as the lead track on the acoustic side of his 1965 “Bringing It All Back Home” album and was the first Dylan composition to reach No. 1 in the United States and the United Kingdom, Julien’s said.

Other high-selling items Saturday included a 1968 Dylan-signed oil-on-canvas painting for $260,000 and a custom 1983 Fender guitar that he owned and played for $225,000.

Dylan, now 83, is garnering attention with last month's release of the movie “A Complete Unknown," which focuses on his rise to stardom in the early 1960s. Dylan is played by Timothée Chalamet, who has worked for several years on the role, which involves singing and playing guitar.