Blue Monday (date) press releases, with 2014 seeing Blue Monday invoked by legal firms and retailers of bottled water and alcoholic drinks. Some versions of the story purport to analyse trends in social media posts to calculate the date. In 2018, Arnall told "The Independent" newspaper that it was "never his intention to make the day sound negative", but rather "to inspire people to take action and make bold life decisions". It was also reported that he was working with Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Holidays, having "made it his mission to challenge some of the negative news associated with January and to debunk
Blue Monday (opera) in Blue" as well as a source to his Preludes, Piano Concerto and "Porgy and Bess". After its disastrous flop on Broadway, "Blue Monday" was reportedly renamed 135th Street when Ferde Grofé re-orchestrated it in 1925, with a concert performance at Carnegie Hall on December 29 under the direction of Paul Whiteman. However, the original Grofe score exists in the archives of the Oscar & Hammerstein Library at Lincoln Center, part of the New York Public Library and is titled Blue Monday (135th Street). In an unusually daring move for 1950's television, it was presented in that medium in 1953,