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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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The signing of the Mayflower Compact, 1620.
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The Declaration of Independence: the Committee of Five presenting their draft to the Second Continental Congress in 1776
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Music
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Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time. The common elements of music are pitch, rhythm, dynamics, different styles or types of music may emphasize, de-emphasize or omit some of these elements. The word derives from Greek μουσική, Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as the harmony of the spheres and it is music to my ears point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, There is no noise, the creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. There are many types of music, including music, traditional music, art music, music written for religious ceremonies. For example, it can be hard to draw the line between some early 1980s hard rock and heavy metal, within the arts, music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art or as an auditory art. People may make music as a hobby, like a teen playing cello in a youth orchestra, the word derives from Greek μουσική. According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, the music is derived from mid-13c. Musike, from Old French musique and directly from Latin musica the art of music and this is derived from the. Greek mousike of the Muses, from fem. of mousikos pertaining to the Muses, from Mousa Muse. In classical Greece, any art in which the Muses presided, Music is composed and performed for many purposes, ranging from aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, or as an entertainment product for the marketplace. With the advent of recording, records of popular songs. Some music lovers create mix tapes of their songs, which serve as a self-portrait. An environment consisting solely of what is most ardently loved, amateur musicians can compose or perform music for their own pleasure, and derive their income elsewhere. Professional musicians sometimes work as freelancers or session musicians, seeking contracts and engagements in a variety of settings, There are often many links between amateur and professional musicians. Beginning amateur musicians take lessons with professional musicians, in community settings, advanced amateur musicians perform with professional musicians in a variety of ensembles such as community concert bands and community orchestras. However, there are many cases where a live performance in front of an audience is also recorded and distributed. Live concert recordings are popular in classical music and in popular music forms such as rock, where illegally taped live concerts are prized by music lovers
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A painting on an Ancient Greek vase depicts a music lesson (c. 510 BC).
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Jean-Gabriel Ferlan performing at a 2008 concert at the collège-lycée Saint-François Xavier
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The composer Michel Richard Delalande, pen in hand.
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Funk places most of its emphasis on rhythm and groove, with entire songs based around a vamp on a single chord. Pictured are the influential funk musicians George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic in 2006.
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Teen pop
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Teen pop is a subgenre of pop music that is created, marketed and oriented towards preteens and teenagers. Teen pop copies genres and styles such as pop, R&B, dance, electronic, hip hop, country, teen-oriented popular music had become common by the end of the Swing Era, in the late 1940s, with Frank Sinatra being an early teen idol. However, it was the early 1960s that became known as the Golden Age for pop teen idols, other successful singers and bands appealing to tweens and teens were Bobby Sherman, The DeFranco Family, The Partridge Family, Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy and a pre-disco Bee Gees. In the early 1990s, teen pop dominated the charts until grunge, in 1996 the girl group Spice Girls released their single Wannabe, which made them major pop stars in the UK, as well as in the US the following year. In their wake, other teen pop groups and singers came to prominence, including Hanson, the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, Robyn, All Saints, S Club, B*Witched, and Destinys Child. In 2001 artists like Aaron Carter, Swedish group A-Teens, girl groups 3LW, Play, Edens Crush and Dream, alternate looks for female teen pop stars include Hoku, and girl group No Secrets. In the UK, teen pop continued to surge with Ellie Campbell, Atomic Kitten, many teen artists starting incorporating genres such as Pop Rock, Contemporary R&B and Hip-Hop. B2K, a hip hop, pop and R&B group, was made up of boys, so it was considered a boy band and was popular across the world. Their style of music was different than other teenage artists, sounding more mature than the typical boy band. Other teenage artists who sounded more mature in this way were Jhene, since early 2000s, but some did many years before that, many teen stars have developed careers through their involvement with Disney. Alongside Disney, other teen pop stars emerged by 2007, among them American Idol winner Jordin Sparks and Nickelodeon stars Miranda Cosgrove, Victoria Justice, miley Cyrus is another example of a Teen Pop singer whose career also started in Disney Channel. Her success worldwide was the reason of her status as Queen of Teen Pop since she has the biggest sales, the introduction of Canadian singer Justin Bieber, a protégé of Usher, created a resurgence of interest in teen pop. As for Japanese teen pop culture, the category of idol is playing an important role, momoiro Clover Z is ranked as number one among female idol groups according to 2013–2016 surveys
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Jonas Brothers in 2007.
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In Japan, Momoiro Clover Z is popular among teenagers because of their energetic performance including acrobatic stunts.
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Nickelodeon
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Nickelodeon is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1,1977, and is owned by Viacom through Viacom Media Networks and based in New York City. It is primarily aimed at children and adolescents aged 7–18 while its weekday morning edutainment programs are targeted at children ages 2–6. As of July 2015, Nickelodeon is available to approximately 93.7 million pay television households in the US, the name of the channel comes from the first five cent movie theaters called nickelodeons. Nickelodeons history dates back to December 1,1977, when Warner Cable Communications launched the first two-way interactive cable system, QUBE, in Columbus, Ohio. Its C-3 cable channel carried Pinwheel daily from 7,00 a. m. to 9,00 p. m. Eastern Time, Nickelodeon launched on April 1,1979, initially distributed to Warner Cable systems via satellite on the RCA Satcom-1 transponder. Originally commercial-free, advertising was introduced in January 1984, the channel also airs reruns of select original series that are no longer in production, as well as occasional original made-for-TV movies. The channel also aired special editions of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. The channel occasionally airs feature films produced by the networks Nickelodeon Movies film production division, although the film division bears the Nickelodeon brand name, the cable channel does not have access to most of the movies produced by its film unit. Nick Jr. – Nickelodeon currently programs shows targeted at preschool-age children on Monday through Fridays from 8,30 am-3,00 pm Eastern, the block primarily targets audiences of preschool age as Nickelodeons usual audience of school-age children are in school during the blocks designated time period. Programs currently seen in this block include Blaze and the Monster Machines, Team Umizoomi, Bubble Guppies, PAW Patrol, Max & Ruby, Saturday morning block - a morning block of primarily animated series from 9 am-12,30 pm Eastern and Pacific Time. It launched on September 22,2012, as Gotta See Saturday Mornings, recent episodes of certain original series may air when no new episodes are scheduled to air that week. The schedule features series such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Bunsen Is a Beast, ALVINNN. nicks New Saturday Night – a primetime live-action block airing from 8-10pm Eastern and Pacific Time. It launched on September 22,2012, as Gotta See Saturday Nights, recent episodes of certain original series may air when no new episodes are scheduled to air that week. The schedule features The Thundermans and Henry Danger, premieres of the networks original made-for-cable movies also occasionally air during the primetime block, usually in the form of premiere showings. SNICK – SNICK was the networks first dedicated Saturday primetime block that aired from 8,00 to 10,00 p. m. Eastern, geared toward pre-teens and teenagers, it debuted on August 15,1992. The block featured mainly live-action series, although it featured animated series. SNICK was discontinued on August 28,2004, and was replaced the following week by a Saturday night edition of the TEENick block and it was hosted by Stick Stickly, a Mr. Bill-like popsicle stick character. The block was replaced for the summer of 1999 by Henry, the Stick Stickly character was later revived for The 90s Are All That on TeenNick, which debuted in 2011
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Nickelodeon Studios as viewed from the Hard Rock Cafe in March 2004 before it moved.
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An attempt at the Guinness record for the world's largest picnic, sponsored by Nickelodeon in Petah Tikva, Israel.
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Kids' Choice Awards
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The Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, also known as the KCAs or Kids Choice Awards, is an annual awards show that airs on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Usually held on a Saturday night in late March or early April, the show that honors the years biggest television, movie, winners receive a hollow orange blimp figurine, a logo outline for much of the networks 1984–2009 era, which also functions as a kaleidoscope. The show features celebrity guests and musical acts. In recent years, slime stunts have been incorporated into the show, the KCAs also host live entertainment. It has also known to overwhelmingly cover people with the networks trademark green slime. The series SpongeBob SquarePants has won the most KCA awards, with fourteen overall through the series run, individually, Selena Gomez and Will Smith have both won the most trophies with ten, followed by, Miley Cyrus and Amanda Bynes. Whoopi Goldberg is the person to have won a Kids Choice Award, along with the mainstream EGOT combination of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar. Rosie ODonnell and Jack Black have hosted the show the most times, alan Goodman, Albie Hecht, and Fred Seibert created the awards show after Nickelodeon produced a show called The Big Ballot in 1987, named for the ballots kids voted with. To vote, the viewers would send in ballots and then before the show, the ballots would be counted, Goodman, Hecht, and Seibert felt that the network needed a bigger, more exciting platform. Hecht selected the awards logo from a series of network designs created by original logo designers Tom Corey and Scott Nash, overseen by Goodman, the award was configured into the current blimp shape/kaleidoscope in 1990. The only change to the award since that time has been to change the embossed logotype on the side of the trophy for 2010 to fit the new logo typeface. In 2010, an application and mobile browser voting was also added. The 2009 Kids Choice Awards featured a new award called The Big Green Help Award which goes to the celebrity who goes above, the inaugural award was presented to Leonardo DiCaprio. For the 2010 awards, the The Big Green Help award was renamed The Big Help award, unlike traditional awards shows, the Kids Choice Awards uses other items to announce an award winner rather than a traditional envelope. The show sometimes uses balloons, T-shirts, models, giant letters, stickers. voting for Canadians became available for the 2010 ceremony with the inauguration of Nickelodeons Canadian service in November 2009. In June 2010, Nickelodeon Latin America announced a Kids Choice Awards for Mexico, the Australian Kids Choice Awards had its last one in 2012. In August 2011, Nickelodeon Latin America announced a Kids Choice Awards for Argentina, in June 2014, Nickelodeon Latin America announced a Kids Choice Awards for Colombia. In July 2014, Nickelodeon presented the Kids Choice Sports awards, honoring kids favorite athletes, teams, michael Strahan produced and hosted the ceremony
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Jonas Brothers performing at the 2009 show
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Finishing up with the "Orange Carpet" for the Kids' Choice Awards outside of Pauley Pavilion, UCLA campus
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The final slime at the 2010 Kids' Choice Awards
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Corus Entertainment
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Corus Entertainment is a Canadian media and broadcasting company. Formed in 1999 as a spin-off from Shaw Communications, it is headquartered at Corus Quay in Toronto, Ontario, and has prominent holdings in the radio, publishing, and television industries. Corus Entertainments voting majority is held by the companys founder JR Shaw and his family, Corus has a large presence in Canadian broadcasting, as owner of the national Global Television Network,39 radio stations, and a portfolio of 45 specialty television services. The spin-out would leave Shaw as a pure play telecommunications company, Corus would be a separate, publicly-traded company, first listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in September 1999, but would still be primarily controlled by the Shaw family. In September 1999, Corus acquired the assets of the Power Corporation of Canada. One of these stations, CHAU-TV, was later re-sold to Télé Inter-Rives, Corus also stated that it planned to use the purchase to help launch a preschool-oriented cable network in the United States. In March 2001, in response to complaints by the CRTC over its near-monopoly on ownership of childrens specialty channels in Canada, Corus sold Family Channel to Astral Media for $126.9 million. Corus also sold its stake in Western Canada pay-per-view service Viewers Choice to Shaw for $22.6 million, in August 2002, Corus sold CKDO and CKGE-FM to Durham Radio. Corus also sold its Red Deer, Alberta stations CKGY-FM and CIZZ-FM to Newcap Radio, in July 2007, Corus acquired CKBT-FM and CJZZ from Canwest. In June 2008, CHRC was sold to the group of the Quebec Ramparts hockey team. Also in August 2007, Corus announced a partnership with Hearst Corporation to launch Cosmopolitan TV, in March 2008, CTVglobemedia sold Canadian Learning Television to Corus for $73 million Corus launched a Canadian version of Nickelodeon on November 2,2009, replacing Discovery Kids. In 2010, Coruss sister company Shaw Communications re-entered the broadcasting industry through its acquisition of the assets of the bankrupt Canwest. On April 30,2010, Corus announced that it would sell its Québec radio stations, with the exception of CKRS, to Cogeco for $80 million, Corus cited their low profitability in comparison to their stations elsewhere as reasoning for the sale. On June 25, it was reported that Corus had agreed to sell CKRS to Radio Saguenay, on November 9,2010, Hasbro Studios signed an agreement with Corus to broadcast their productions on its networks. On March 26,2012, Corus and Shaw launched ABC Spark and this aspect of the deal, intended to quell concerns from the CRTC regarding Bells total market share after the merger, was approved by the Competition Bureau on March 18,2013. In an unrelated deal, Corus also announced that it would acquire Shaw Medias stakes in ABC Spark, Historia, Corus indicated that these purchases were meant to help the company expand its television holdings in the competitive Quebec market. Corus also planned to open a new office in Montreal following the sale, on September 1,2013, Coruss television business was reorganized into five divisions, Corus Kids, Corus Women and Family, Corus Content Distribution and Pay TV, Corus Airtime Sales and Corus Média. The Corus Kids division was subdivided into operations for YTV and its networks, the Teletoon Canada group
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Corus headquarters in Toronto as seen from CN Tower
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Corus Entertainment Inc.
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2006 Radio Disney Music Awards
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The 2006 Radio Disney Music Awards were held on December 11,2006, at the Radio Disney, Burbank, California. At that time, the Radio Disney Music Awards werent a ceremony, on November 16,2006 the nominations were announced. The awards would be held on December 11,2006, the Radio Disney Music Awards contained 21 categories, with 3 to 4 nominees for votes in 4 weeks
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2013 Radio Disney Music Awards
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The 2013 Radio Disney Music Awards were held on April 27,2013, at the Nokia Theatre L. A. Live in Los Angeles, California, after a hiatus after 2007. On March 15,2013, The 11th Radio Disney Music Awards was confirmed at Nokia Theatre L. A. Live, in Los Angeles, the awards would be held on April 27,06,00 pm. The tickets started selling on March 15, on Ticketmaster, the Radio Disney Music Awards contained 11 categories, with 3 to 5 nominees for votes in 4 weeks. For his work w/ Free the Children Caroline Sunshine & Adam Irigoyen - presented Hero for Change Award to Denzell P. of the Boys and Girls Club On March 15,2013 the nominations were announced. Mary Dawson, a 15-year-old student from Los Angeles, won the Heroes for Change for her charity work and her involvement with PressFriends, misha Ahmad, Denzell Perry, Dara Reyes and Ben Harowitz were the other honorees. Official website 2014 Radio Disney Music Awards
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Microsoft Theater
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The Microsoft Theater is a music and theatre venue in downtown Los Angeles, California at L. A. Live. The theatre auditorium seats 7,100 and holds one of the largest indoor stages in the United States, the theatre was designed by ELS Architecture and Urban Design of Berkeley, California on a commission by the Anschutz Entertainment Group in 2002. It opened on October 18,2007 with six concerts featuring The Eagles, in June 2015, the venue was re-branded as Microsoft Theater as part of a new naming rights deal with AEG Live. Microsoft had acquired Nokias mobile device business in 2014, as part of the new naming rights deal, the L. A. Live plaza was also renamed Microsoft Square, and Microsoft provided upgrades to the venues technology, since its opening, the Microsoft Theater has been a popular venue for award shows. The theatre has hosted the ESPY Awards since 2008 as well as the American Music Awards since 2007, the venue has been the home to the Primetime Emmy Awards since 2008 and will continue to do so until at least 2018. It hosted the MTV Video Music Awards in 2010,2011 and 2015, in 2008 and 2011, the venue hosted The Grammy Nominations Live, a concert announcing the nominees for the Grammy Awards were announced. The Microsoft Theater has hosted the Peoples Choice Awards since 2010 and it has also been used by Nintendo multiple times for press conferences during E3. It was also the venue for the finale of American Idol from seasons 7–13 as well as the 2015, vocaloid character Hatsune Miku made her US debut at Microsoft Theater on July 2,2011, as part of Anime Expo. She returned to the venue on October 11–12,2014 as part of Miku Expo LA2014, Hatsune Miku returned for another performance on May 6,2016 as part of her first North American tour. The 28th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions were held at the Microsoft Theater on April 18,2013, the BET Awards moved to the Microsoft Theater in 2013. Since 2013, the Microsoft Theater has hosted the Radio Disney Music Awards, the Microsoft Theater most recently hosted the 58th Annual Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony on February 15
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Front facade of the Microsoft Theater prior to name change
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Microsoft Theater as viewed from the stage
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Selena Gomez
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Selena Marie Gomez is an American actress and singer. Having appeared as a child in the television series Barney & Friends. Due to the success of the series, Gomez worked on films, television shows. Gomez also formed her own company in 2008, titled July Moon Productions, she serves as an executive producer on the Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why. She signed a contract with Hollywood Records in 2008 and subsequently formed her band Selena Gomez & the Scene the following year. The band released three albums by 2011. Gomez hoped to focus on her career by transitioning into film work, earning starring roles in films such as Ramona and Beezus. Gomez hoped to achieve a mature image with a role in the exploitation film Spring Breakers. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 in the United States, Gomez embarked on her Stars Dance Tour, though it was later canceled due to personal and medical struggles. In 2014, Gomez fired her parents as her managers and signed with the WME, during this time, she signed a new recording contract with Interscope Records, releasing a compilation album as her fifth and final release through Hollywood Records. Gomez released her studio album, Revival, in October 2015. The album debuted at one on the Billboard 200, while the first three singles Good for You, Same Old Love and, Hands to Myself all topped the Mainstream Top 40 chart in the United States. She embarked on her worldwide Revival Tour in 2016, like her previous tour, Gomez is currently working on her third solo studio album. Aside from her solo releases, Gomez has collaborated with American singer-songwriter Charlie Puth on the song We Dont Talk Anymore, outside of entertainment, Gomez released her own clothing line through Kmart in 2010 and a self-titled fragrance in 2013. She has worked with charitable organizations for years and became a UNICEF ambassador at the age of seventeen. Since the start of her career, Gomez has gone on to sell over 7 million albums and 22 million singles worldwide, as of November 2016, Gomez is the most-followed Instagram user in the world. Selena Marie Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas on July 22,1992, to Ricardo Joel Gomez, Gomez was named after Tejano singer and actress Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, who died in 1995. Her father is of Mexican descent while her mother, who was adopted, has some Italian ancestry, regarding her Hispanic heritage, Gomez has stated, My family does have Quinceañeras, and we go to the communion church
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Gomez at the Walmart Soundcheck Concert, July 2013
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Gomez on the set of Wizards of Waverly Place (2007)
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Gomez performing during the Stars Dance Tour (2013)
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Bridgit Mendler
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Bridgit Claire Mendler is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. Mendler has a degree in Anthropology from the University of Southern California, in 2004, she began her career in the animated Indian film The Legend of Buddha. As a teenager, she starred in the films Alice Upside Down, The Clique, in 2009, she signed with Disney Channel and played Juliet van Heusen on Wizards of Waverly Place. Following the positive reception to her character, she landed the role of Teddy Duncan on the Disney series Good Luck Charlie, in 2011, she appeared in Good Luck Charlie, Its Christmas, the film based on the series. Mendler starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Lemonade Mouth, in which her character Olivia performs numerous songs, two singles were released from the soundtrack featuring her vocals, with both charting on the US Billboard Hot 100. In 2012, Mendler released her debut album Hello My Name Is. which featured a pop sound and it debuted at number 30 on the US Billboard 200, and has sold over 200,000 copies. Her debut single off the album, Ready or Not, became an international Top 40 hit, the song was certified gold in Norway, platinum in New Zealand, the United States, and Canada, and peaked at number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was announced that her second single would be Hurricane, the video premiered on April 12,2013 and was shot in London. Hurricane has been certified gold in the United States, Mendler has links with several philanthropic projects and humanitarian causes. In 2010, she became ambassador to First Book, a campaign to encourage reading, in July 2012, she became ambassador of the campaign Give With Target with Target Corporation to raise funds to reform schools in the United States. She was featured in a March 2013 public campaign called Delete Digital Drama with the Seventeen magazine to end cyberbullying. In May 2013, she traveled to the United Kingdom to raise funds for the BBCs Comic Relief telethon, the campaign aimed to raise £100,000 and give families in poverty hope. In March 2014, Mendler traveled to El Quiché to participate in the project of Save the Children that helps underprivileged children in developing countries. She also represented the institution during the charity congress Save the Childrens annual Advocacy Summit in Washington, Mendler was born in Washington, D. C. She has a brother named Nick. She moved with her family to Mill Valley, California at the age of eight and it was there where she first expressed interest in acting and began working in plays. When she was eight years old, Mendler began taking part in local roles in dramatic and musical theatre, and became the youngest performer in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. When she was 11 years old, she hired an agent to help her get acting jobs, in 2004, Mendler got her first acting role in the animated Indian film The Legend of Buddha, in which she portrayed Lucy
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Mendler in May 2013
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Mendler at Alice Upside Down premiere in 2007.
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Jason Dolley, Mendler and Bradley Steven Perry in October 2010
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Cody Simpson
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Cody Robert Simpson is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician, dancer and actor from Gold Coast, Queensland, who was previously signed to US record label Atlantic Records. He owns a record label called Coast House Records, Simpson was born on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, to Brad and Angie Simpson. He has two siblings, Tom and Alli. Simpson has won two medals at the Queensland Swimming Championships. Simpson trained at the Miami Swimming Club under coach Ken Nixon, Simpsons mother Angie worked as a volunteer at the club. He was subsequently discovered on YouTube by Shawn Campbell, Simpsons rise to recognition was featured on The 7.30 Report in December 2009. He released his single, iYiYi, on 15 May 2010. The music video for Simpsons second single, Summertime, was released on 20 September 2010, Simpson relocated to Los Angeles in June 2010 with his family to record his songs with Atlantic Records Shawn Campbell. That same month, Simpson appeared on Sunrise, on 22 June 2010, it was announced that Simpson would participate in the Camplified 2010 Tour, along with other artists, touring across the United States. The tour began on 5 July 2010 and ended on 14 August 2010, other tours that year included a middle school tour that took place from October–November 2010 and covered 9 U. S states. An EP,4 U was released on 21 December 2010, the EP included five tracks in total, four of them being previously unreleased. Simpson recorded a remake of the song I Want Candy by The Strangeloves as the theme song for the Easter-themed live-action/CGI-animated film Hop. In May 2011, Simpson was egged during a performance at Westfield Miranda in Sydney. He then started the Waiting 4U tour with American singer Greyson Chance on April 9 in Ivins, the tour ended on May 18,2011, in Portland, Oregon. Coast to Coast was released on 20 September 2011 by Alantic Records and it reached number 12 on Billboard 200 selling 24,000 copies. On 23 April 2011, Simpson released the single On My Mind on 23 May 2011, on 5 August 2011, he performed on The Today Show. On 6 August 2011 Simpson started his Coast to Coast Mall Tour in Lake Grove and he played nine dates around the United States and finished it in Orange, California on 18 September 2011. On 22 September, it was announced that Cody Simpson hired Justin Biebers manager, Scooter Braun as his manager, in December 2011, The Wish Factory released a Cody Simpson doll in two formats
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Simpson at the ARIA Music Awards of 2013
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Simpson performing at the Nevada Wild Fest outside the Rio in Las Vegas, Nevada 25 October 2012.
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Simpson performing in Montreal in 2013
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2014 Radio Disney Music Awards
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The 2014 Radio Disney Music Awards were held on April 26,2014, at the Nokia Theatre L. A. The ceremony was edited and aired on April 27,2014 on Radio Disney and Disney Channel, the big winner was Selena Gomez taking home 3 ardys including song of the year. Shakira received the Hero Award, an honor for contribution for the charitable work, arianna Lopez, Matthew Kaplan and Yossymar Rojas was honor for contribution for the charitable work. Ariana Grande was honored with the Chart Topper Award for her performance on the charts. R5 was honored with the Show Stopper Award for their sold out shows on Louder Tour
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Fifth Harmony
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Fifth Harmony is an American girl group formed on the second season of The X Factor US in July 2012. The group consists of members Ally Brooke, Normani Kordei, Dinah Jane, Lauren Jauregui and previously, Camila Cabello, whose departure was announced on December 18,2016. In January 2013, they signed a joint deal with Syco Music, owned by Simon Cowell, in December 2016, it was reported that all group members are also individually signed to Epic Records. Following their exit from The X Factor, they released their debut single Miss Movin On and its music video won the group the MTV Video Music Award for Artist to Watch. Their debut extended play, Better Together, had a first week position of six on the US Billboard 200. The group released their studio album Reflection in 2015, debuting at number five on the Billboard 200. The album included the platinum singles Boss, Sledgehammer and Worth It, the latter achieved triple platinum certification in the United States and reached the top-ten in thirteen countries. Work from Home, the single from their second album 7/27, became the groups first top-ten single on the US Billboard Hot 100. As of December 2016, Fifth Harmony has sold a total of 424,000 albums, seven million digital songs and earned 1.6 billion on-demand streams in the United States, according to Nielsen Soundscan. On July 27,2012, they were formed as a group at the end of bootcamp by Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato, originally, the groups name was LYLAS, but another group called The Lylas claimed that the show stole their name. Thereafter, LYLAS changed their name to 1432, which was announced on the first live show on October 31,2012, Simon Cowell and L. A. Reid were critical of the new name, and Cowell suggested that the group be renamed again. During the first live show on November 1,2012,1432 performed Skyscraper by Demi Lovato in a sing-off with Sister C. Cowell decided to send 1432 through to the Top 12 and he announced that they would be renamed by the viewers online, the name chosen by the public was announced, Fifth Harmony. In the semi-finals stage of the show, they performed Ellie Gouldings Anything Could Happen as well as Shontelles Impossible and their performance of Anything Could Happen was a finals-caliber performance according to L. A. Reid and described as magic by Britney Spears. Their performance of Impossible received mostly negative reviews from the judges because the group had performed the song at Simon Cowells home. Three members of the group sang parts of the song in fluent Spanish, the following nights public vote results advanced Fifth Harmony to the final 3 along with Tate Stevens and Carly Rose Sonenclar. On the Top three live show, Fifth Harmony performed Ellie Gouldings Anything Could Happen for the time as their Song of the Series song. Their second song was a duet with The X Factor judge Demi Lovato singing Give Your Heart a Break and their final song of the night was Let It Be by The Beatles, billed as their $5 million song
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Fifth Harmony performing in 2013
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Fifth Harmony performing on their Harmonize America Tour, August 2013.
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Zendaya
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Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman, known mononymously as Zendaya, is an American actress, singer, and dancer. From 2010 to 2013, she starred in the Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up as Rocky Blue and she has starred in two films and played one of the lead roles in the film Frenemies as Halley Brandon. She voiced Fern in the Pixie Hollow Games and she appeared in Good Luck Charlie as Rocky Blue and in a Good Luck Charlie and Shake It Up crossover title Charlie Shakes It Up. She appeared on PrankStars as herself in the episode Walk The Prank, farm as Sequoia Jones in the episode Creative ConsultANT. Zendaya signed a deal with Hollywood Records on August 8,2012 and she released a single from an independent label called Swag It Out and another single with Bella Thorne called Watch Me, which is featured on the Break It Down album. On March 20,2012, Zendaya released the song Something to Dance For as promotional single from Shake It Up, Zendaya was born in Oakland, California, the daughter of Claire Marie and Kazembe Ajamu. Her father is African-American, with Arkansan roots, her mother is white, with German, Zendaya began her professional career working as a fashion model for Macys, Mervyns and Old Navy. She was featured in an iCarly toys ad and she also appeared as a back-up dancer in a Sears commercial. In 2009, she was a performer in the Kidz Bop music video for its cover of the song Hot n Cold. She auditioned in November 2009 for the role of CeCe Jones to join the cast of Dance Dance Chicago, for her audition, she performed Michael Jacksons Leave Me Alone. In 2011 Zendaya release Swag It Out, an independent single. The song was composed by Bobby Brackins and produced by Glenn A. Foster and she also starred in the book trailer for From Bad To Cursed by Katie Alender. In the same year, she released Watch Me, featuring Bella Thorne, the song peaked at 86 on the Billboard Hot 100. The second season of Shake It Up was announced on March 16,2011, on June 5,2011, Shake It Up had a crossover episode with Good Luck Charlie. Zendaya hosted Make Your Mark, Ultimate Dance Off 2011 and her first movie role was in the 2012 film, Frenemies, a Disney Channel Original Movie. On February 29,2012, Something to Dance For was released as single for Live 2 Dance. For the soundtrack, Zendaya also recorded three songs, Made In Japan, Same Heart, and Fashion In Krytonite, released as promotional single. On September 2,2012, she signed to Hollywood Records, in October, Zendaya performed at the Teen Music Festival and at the Operation Smile benefit
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Zendaya at the premiere of Disney Channel's Let It Shine in 2012
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2015 Radio Disney Music Awards
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The 2015 Radio Disney Music Awards were held and filmed on April 25,2015, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. The show premiered on Sunday, April 26,2015 at 8/7c on Radio Disney and Disney Channel. For the first time, the broadcast nominees for the show were announced in a televised special, Disney Channel Presents the 2015 RDMA Nomination Special. All categories and nominees were highlighted on the Radio Disney’s 2015 RDMA Nomination Special, the main show included Fifth Harmony, Nick Jonas, Becky G, R5, Natalie La Rose, Sheppard, Rachel Platten, Tori Kelly, Shawn Mendes and Sabrina Carpenter. Jennifer Lopez received the Hero Award in recognition of her charity work throughout the world, a compilation album featuring various 2015 RDMA nominees was released on April 21,2015, through Walt Disney Records
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2015 Radio Disney Music Awards
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Nick Jonas
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Nicholas Jerry Nick Jonas is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. Jonas began acting in theater at the age of seven, and he released his eponymous debut album in 2004 to little success, though it did catch the attention of Columbia Records. Jonas opted to form a band with his brothers, Joe and Kevin. The group released their studio album Its About Time through Columbia Records. The record failed to achieve success, thus the group parted ways with their label. Their self-titled second studio album was released through Hollywood Records in 2007, the band became prominent figures on the Disney Channel during this time, gaining a large following through the network. The band starred in the successful film Camp Rock. The release of the third studio album, A Little Bit Longer, helped the band achieve further success. The release of their studio album saw a decline in sales for the band. Jonas and his brothers starred in the Disney Channel series JONAS in 2009 and 2010 and it was later confirmed that the Jonas Brothers would be taking a hiatus, with Nick forming a new band known as Nick Jonas & the Administration. The band released one album in 2010, though it failed to achieve much commercial success. Following the release, Jonas opted to focus on work in theater, the Jonas Brothers briefly reunited in 2013, though officially parted ways due to creative differences. Jonas decided to return to his music career following the bands disbandment. He signed with Island Records, releasing Nick Jonas through the label, the album entered the top ten of the Billboard 200, while both of the albums singles entered the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100. The project was re-released as Nick Jonas X2 in 2015, the release helped provide Jonas with a new public image, earning him the title of a sex symbol. Jonas later co-founded Safehouse Records, a label in conjunction with Island Records. Jonas released his studio album, Last Year Was Complicated. The project became his highest peaking entry as a solo artist on the Billboard 200, Jonas was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Denise and Paul Kevin Jonas
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Jonas at the premiere of Kingdom in October 2014
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Jonas performing in July 2009
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Jonas performing live as part of the Jonas Brothers in 2010.
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Jonas at the Drama League Benefit Gala in 2012
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Rachel Platten
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Rachel Ashley Platten is an American singer and songwriter. She released three independent albums between 2003 and 2014, before signing with Columbia Records in early 2015, Platten won an Emmy Award for the live performance of the song on Good Morning America. Her major-label debut album, Wildfire, released in 2016, was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and featured the hits Stand by You and Better Place. Platten was born on May 20,1981, in New York City to a mother of Irish ancestry, Platten studied classical piano from the age of 5 and then took up guitar in high school. She attended Buckingham Browne and Nichols high school, where she sang in the singing group. At Trinity College, she was a member of the Trinity College Trinitones, as a part of a study abroad program, she went to Trinidad to do an internship at a diplomats office and at a record label. While she was there, she sang backup for a band in front of over 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch finals in 2002. According to Platten, from that moment on she knew she had to pursue music full-time, Platten graduated from Trinity College with a degree in international relations in 2003. She then moved to New York Citys Greenwich Village where she cut her teeth playing with Prince and Sly, in 2012, she married Kevin Lazan. She performed her music around the Village and eventually began touring the country. She has worked with charities, Musicians on Call for 11 years. She also works with the Ryan Seacrest Foundation and was an ambassador for Live Below the Line, Platten released her debut studio album Trust in Me in 2003, which she has called a collection of demos. Her second album, Be Here, was released from Rock Ridge Music in 2011 and her 2011 single 1,000 Ships peaked at number 24 on the US Billboard Adult Top 40 chart, also playing at various radio stations. An earlier song, Seven Weeks, was used for the film The Good Guy, the theme song for ABC Familys Jane by Design, Work of Art was performed by Platten on hire. Also, her song Begin Again was used in the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars 100th episode Miss Me x 100 and her song Dont Care What Time It Is was used in VH1s Basketball Wives. Her song Youre Safe was used in MTVs Finding Carter in September 2014, on June 27,2014, Platten debuted Fight Song on the music social network We Heart It as part of an artist spotlight. In the spring of 2015, Platten released Fight Song from Wildfire, the song was used in the Christmas episode of Pretty Little Liars fifth season and in promos for the fourth season of Revenge on the Seven Network in Australia. In May 2015, the song was featured in the trailer for the then-upcoming CBS Television series Supergirl and it was the official anthem of the presidential campaign of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton
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Rachel Platten on stage at The Saint in Asbury Park, New Jersey on June 4, 2011.
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Rachel Platten performing in a live concert on August the 20th, 2015
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Sheppard (band)
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Sheppard is an Australian indie pop band from Brisbane, formed in 2009. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2013, Sheppard were nominated for Best Independent Release for Let Me Down Easy. At the 2014 ceremony, they were nominated for Album of the Year, Best Group, Best Independent Release, Best Pop Release, Song of the Year, Producer of the Year, and Best Video. The Sheppard siblings grew up and attended a primary school in Port Moresby. The family, except Greg, relocated to Brisbane where Amy attended Somerville House for secondary education and, by 2009, after attending Brisbane Boys College in 2004, George had shifted to Sydney where he was toying with a career in acting before returning to Brisbane six years later. Emma started learning to play bass while still enrolled at Somerville House, in 2009, Sheppard were formed as a duo by George and Amy Sheppard. Amy had asked for help on an assignment, I had to write a song, and I really wanted to put in harmonies. George was the one at home. For the duo Amy provided vocals, while George was on lead vocals, in 2011, Jay Bovino – Georges friend from Sydney – joined as the third songwriter and rhythm guitarist. By 2012, their six-member line-up also included Emma on bass and backing vocals, Michael Butler on lead guitar, Greg was their talent manager and Linda their tour manager, the parents funded the groups early career and established their own record label, Empire of Song. Sheppard released an extended play of the same name on 17 August 2012, with recording label Empire of Song. By September that year, they had performed at festivals in South Africa, London, the EP peaked at No.18 on the ARIA Singles Chart in July of the following year. Its lead track, Let Me Down Easy, was nominated for Best Independent Release at the ARIA Music Awards of 2013 and its second track, Hold My Tongue, was issued as the groups debut single in August but it did not reach the top 50. All five tracks were produced by Stuart Stuart at Analog Heart Studios, the group played at the Sonic Bang Festival in Bangkok on 24 August 2013, sharing the roster with Placebo, Pitbull, Far East Movement, Jason Mraz, and Owl City. The band appeared at Sullivan Hall in New York City on 18 October for the 2013 CMJ Music Marathon, on 1 December 2013, they performed and presented an award at that years ARIA Music Awards. By that time, the band had enlisted Dean Gordon to replace Tredly on drums, sheppards second single, Geronimo, was issued in February 2014 on Empire of Song/Chugg Music. It was recorded and produced at Analog Heart Studios in Brisbane by Stuart Stuart, brendan Plowman of AdamNotEve noted that the lyrics throughout the song suggest an idea of taking the plunge together. But it appears this is no accident, George told Plowman how he wrote songs with Amy and Bovino, We all have very different music tastes
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Sheppard at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in October 2014. From left to right: George, Amy and Emma Sheppard, Jason Bovino, Dean Gordon and Michael Butler.
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2016 Radio Disney Music Awards
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The 2016 Radio Disney Music Awards were held and filmed on April 30,2016, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony premiered on Sunday, May 1,2016 at 7/6c on Radio Disney and Disney Channel, scooter Braun was announced as creative executive-producer this year. This years show also introduced new categories including Country Music Awards in honor of the newly opened, Radio Disney DJ Brooke Taylor and American singer Alex Aiono were announced as the red carpet presenters. On April 28,2016, Radio Disney and Disney Channel announced it has partnered with Immersive Media, the virtual content was viewable on tablets and mobile devices. The nominees were announced on March 4,2016, the winners were revealed on April 30,2016. Gwen Stefani received the Hero Award, an honor for contribution for the charitable work, whitney Stewart and Braeden Mannering – a 19-year-old and a 12-year-old studantes, respectively – was honor for contribution for the charitable work. She is a founder of Seed to Soil, a group that educates peoples about healthy and he is founder of Braes Brown Bags, which provides food to homeless and low-income families
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Radio Disney Music Awards
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Justin Bieber
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Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian singer and songwriter. After a talent manager discovered him through his YouTube videos covering songs in 2008 and signed to RBMG, Bieber released his debut EP, My World and it was certified Platinum in the U. S. He became the first artist to have seven songs from a record chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Bieber released his first full-length studio album, My World 2.0 and it debuted at or near number one in several countries, was certified triple Platinum in the U. S. and contained his single Baby. He released his studio album, Under the Mistletoe, in November 2011. Bieber released his studio album, Believe, in 2012. His fourth studio album Purpose was released in November 2015, spawning three number one singles, What Do You Mean and his U. S. album and singles sales total 44.7 million. He has sold an estimated 100 million records, making him one of the world’s best-selling music artists, Bieber has won numerous awards, including the American Music Award for Artist of the Year in 2010 and 2012. In his career, he has won one Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for the song Where Are Ü Now at the 2016 ceremony. He has been listed four times by Forbes magazine among the top ten most powerful celebrities in the world in 2011,2012, Bieber also became the first artist to surpass 10 billion total video views on Vevo. Bieber was born on March 1,1994, in London, Ontario, at St Josephs Hospital and he is the only child of Jeremy Jack Bieber and Patricia Pattie Mallette. Pattie raised her son with the help of her mother, Diane and his mother is of French-Canadian descent, his paternal great-grandfather was of German ancestry, and his other roots are English, Scottish and Irish. He has also claimed that he has some undetermined Aboriginal Canadian ancestry, through Jeremy, Bieber has two younger half-siblings, Jazmyn and Jaxon. Pattie worked a series of low-paying office jobs, raising Bieber as a mother in low-income housing. Bieber has maintained contact with his father, Bieber attended a French-language immersion elementary school in Stratford, the Jeanne Sauvé Catholic School. Growing up, he learned to play the piano, drums, guitar and he graduated from high school in Stratford, Ontario, the St. Michael Catholic Secondary School in 2012 with a 4.0 GPA. In early 2007, aged 12, Bieber sang Ne-Yos So Sick for a singing competition in Stratford and was placed second. Mallette posted a video of the performance on YouTube for their family and she continued to upload videos of Bieber singing covers of various R&B songs, and Biebers popularity on the site grew
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Bieber at the 2012 NRJ Music Awards
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Bieber in 2010, displaying his earlier haircut.
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Bieber performing during his Believe Tour in October 2012.
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Bieber performing in Zürich, 2011
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Hailee Steinfeld
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Hailee Steinfeld is an American actress, model and singer. After singing Flashlight in Pitch Perfect 2, Steinfield released a version of the song and was later signed to Republic Records. She released her single, Love Myself, which has been certified platinum in several countries. In 2016, she released Starving, a collaboration with both Grey and Zedd, which peaked at number 12 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100. In addition to her acting and singing careers, Steinfeld also has done modeling work, she was hired as the face of Miu Miu in 2011, shortly after True Grit was released. Steinfeld was born on December 11,1996, in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Cheri, a designer, and Peter Steinfeld. She has a brother, Griffin. Her paternal uncle is fitness trainer Jake Steinfeld, and her maternal grand-uncle is former child actor Larry Domasin and her maternal first cousin, actress True OBrien, appeared in a television commercial when Steinfeld was eight years old, inspiring her to try acting as well. Her maternal grandfather was of half Filipino and half African-American descent and she was raised in Agoura Hills and later in Thousand Oaks, California, attending Ascension Lutheran School, Conejo Elementary, and Colina Middle School. She was home-schooled from 2008 until her school graduation in June 2015. Steinfeld began acting at the age of eight, she appeared in short films. She made several television guest appearances and commercials, Steinfeld was chosen for the role of Mattie Ross in True Grit when she was 13. Reviews from Roger Ebert, the Los Angeles Times, and Rolling Stone were also complimentary, the role earned Steinfeld a nomination at the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress, the Oscar went to Melissa Leo. In May 2011, five months after Grit was released, Steinfeld was chosen to be the new face of Italian designer brand Miu Miu, also in 2011, Steinfeld was cast at age 14 to play Juliet Capulet in a 2013 adaptation of Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet. The screenwriter added that the films purity was important, and the characters dont make love until they have been married. The film was released in October 2013 to poor reviews in the United States, Steinfeld played Violet, one of the leads in the romance-drama Begin Again. The film was given a release in the United States on June 27,2014, grossing $134,064 on its opening weekend. It was re-released by The Weinstein Company on August 29, Steinfeld starred as Petra Arkanian in Enders Game, a science-fiction action-adventure film based on the book by Orson Scott Card
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Steinfeld at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival
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Steinfeld at the premiere of Secretariat, September 2010
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Steinfeld attending the 2011 National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City
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Zara Larsson
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Zara Maria Larsson is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She first gained fame for winning the 2008 season of the talent show Talang. Larsson signed with the record label TEN Music Group in 2012 and released her debut EP album, Introducing, the single Uncover topped the charts in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. By February 2013, Uncover was certified platinum by Universal Music Sweden, in July 2013, Introducing was certified triple platinum in the country. Larsson also signed a contract with Epic Records in the United States in April 2013. She performed at the opening and closing ceremonies in France for UEFA Euro 2016, Larssons debut international album, So Good was released on 17 March 2017 and debuted at number 7 on the UK Albums Chart. The album was met with acclaim and produced six singles, including Lush Life, Never Forget You, Aint My Fault, I Would Like, all of the albums singles reached top 15 in the UK. Never Forget You peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Larsson, Larsson was born at Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden to Agnetha and Anders Larsson. In an interview with Svenska Dagbladet, she said that she was dead due to a lack of oxygen from nuchal cord. She has a sister, Hanna, who is also a singer. In a 2015 interview, Larsson said that she was accepted into the Adolf Fredriks Music School, Larsson won the 2008 season of Talang, the Swedish adaptation of Got Talent, at the age of 10, winning 500, 000SEK. My Heart Will Go On, originally sung by Celine Dion, was released as Larssons debut single. Larsson signed with TEN Music Group in 2012 to record her debut extended play, Larssons debut EP, Introducing, was leaked on 9 December 2012 through a preview of Uncover on YouTube. The five-song album was released on 21 January 2013, Uncover was released as the albums lead single. The song entered the Svensktoppen track lists, in July 2013, at Sommarkrysset in Gröna Lund, she received a triple platinum award for Introducing. On 27 March 2013, Larssons next EP was revealed through a preview of Shes Not Me, the five-song EP, Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself, was released on 5 July 2013. The double-single Shes Not Me was released on 25 June 2013, on 3 April 2013, Larsson revealed on her blog that she had signed a three-year contract with Epic Records in the United States. On 1 October 2014, Larsson released her studio album 1, including the songs Uncover, Bad Boys
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Zara Larsson at Sommarkrysset (Gröna Lund) in 2015
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Zara Larsson at Allsång på Skansen in June 2013
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Train (band)
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Train is an American roots rock band from San Francisco, formed in 1993. The band currently consists of Patrick Monahan, Jimmy Stafford, Luis Maldonado, Hector Maldonado, Drew Shoals, and Jerry Becker. As of the summer of 2016, founding member Jimmy Stafford is currently in the band, Trains 2001 album, Drops of Jupiter contained the lead single Drops of Jupiter, which won two Grammy Awards in 2002. The album was certified platinum in the United States and Canada. Trains third studio album, My Private Nation, released in 2003, was certified platinum in the United States with the hit Calling All Angels. Following the departures of Hotchkiss and Colin, the released their fourth album, For Me, Its You in 2006, with Brandon Bush. Despite a generally positive reception from critics, the album was commercially unsuccessful, because of this, Train went on a two-year hiatus from recording any new music. The album itself has been certified gold by both the RIAA and ARIA and has sold 954,000 units, since 2008, Jerry Becker and Hector Maldonado have been touring and recording with the group around the world. In May 2012, Nikita Houston and Sakai Smith also became touring members Train, in April 2012, Train released their sixth studio album titled California 37. The first single from the album entitled Drive By reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was a Top 10 hit in the UK, just under two and a half years later, in September 2014, Train released their seventh studio album titled Bulletproof Picasso. It received positive reviews from critics, however, similar to the bands fourth album For Me, Its You, it failed commercially. Despite peaking high on charts, it failed to generate any hit singles and it was also the bands first album without drummer and founding member Scott Underwood, who departed the band prior to recording the album. Following his departure, Drew Shoals became the new drummer of the band, shortly after the bands tour for Bulletproof Picasso, Train released a Christmas album exclusively on Amazon Music titled Christmas in Tahoe in November 2015. The album features 15 songs, which included covers of classic holiday hits and three original songs. In June 2016, Train released another new album titled Train Does Led Zeppelin II, the bands tenth studio album, titled A Girl, a Bottle, a Boat, was released in January 2017. Since their debut in the industry, Train has sold over 10 million albums and 30 million tracks worldwide. Following the dissolution of his Led Zeppelin cover band Rogues Gallery, singer Pat Monahan left his hometown of Erie and he resettled in California and crossed paths with Rob Hotchkiss, who performed in coffee houses and local clubs. The two shared vocals, with Hotchkiss on guitar and harmonica, and Monahan playing percussion
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Pat Monahan and Jimmy Stafford of Train performing in January 2011
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Erin Bowman
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Erin Bowman, is an American pop singer songwriter. She is an independent artist whose first single Problem debuted in the United States November 1,2011, Erin Bowman was born on August 11,1990 and raised in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey. Bowman has been singing her whole life, in 8th grade Bowmans choir teacher took notice and gave Bowman her first solo performance. After graduating high school, Bowman began going to New York City meeting with producers, auditioning for production companies, girl groups and she started working with a producer in New York and began writing and recording original music at the age of 18. At the age of 18, Erin Bowman was commuting to New York City writing and recording her music, composer David Wolfert, working a few doors down from the studio, and overheard one of Bowmans tracks. Wolfert, at time, was looking for a female singer for Diamond & Pearl, Galactic Battles, The twelfth season of the Pokémon animated series. She agreed to sing the theme song Battle Cry along with Black and White for Pokémon, Black & White. These Pokémon episodes are aired regularly on national TV through the Cartoon Network, Erin Bowman launched her solo career on November 1,2011 by releasing her debut single Problem to top 40 radio in the United States. The first radio station to play “Problem” on a full-time basis was Sirius XM channel 3,20 on 20, in early 2012 Bowman began doing promotional tours throughout the United States that included live performances and radio interviews. Some of Bowmans first stops were Z100 New York, and Krave Las Vegas, by the end of the summer Bowman had appeared in 10 states and 17 cities. She continued in the fall on tour with Erin Bowmans School of Pop Tour performing in over 20 schools throughout the mid-atlantic states. Erin Bowmans second single King Boy, was released in June 2013, the success of “King Boy” lead to recording with many producers in 2014, and in the spring released “Hey Summer”, which made a major impact in a number of local markets. Most recently, Erin Bowman released a holiday song Wish List in collaboration with Dave Bassett who wrote Fight Song and Exs and Ohs. Bowman began writing and recording songs at the age of 18. Her first song, Problem, was originally called What Your Problem is that aired on season 4 episode 4 of Bad Girls Club in 2009 on the Oxygen Network. After her first song Bowman quickly moved on from writing chorus lyric ideas, to writing verse and chorus lyrics, to writing lyrics, Bowmans biggest influences include TLC, Spice Girls, Britney Spears, and Gwen Stefani
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Erin Bowman performing at The Bitter End in New York City September 2014
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Erin Bowman performing at 93Q's Summer Jam on Papermill Island in Syracuse, New York 2014
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Britney Spears
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Britney Jean Spears is an American singer, dancer, and actress. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, she performed acting roles in stage productions, Spearss first and second studio albums. Baby One More Time and Oops. I Did It Again, became international successes, with the former becoming the album by a teenage solo artist. Title tracks. Baby One More Time and Oops, I Did It Again broke international sales records. In 2001, Spears released her third studio album, Britney. She assumed creative control of her studio album, In the Zone. In 2007, Spearss much-publicized personal issues sent her career into hiatus and her fifth studio album, Blackout, was released later that year, and spawned singles such as Gimme More and Piece of Me. Her erratic behavior and hospitalizations continued through the year, at which point she was placed under a still ongoing conservatorship. Spearss sixth studio album, Circus, included the international chart-topping single Womanizer and her seventh studio album, Femme Fatale, became her first to yield three top-ten singles in the United States. She released her studio album Britney Jean in 2013. Later that year, Spears began the four-year residency show, Britney, Piece of Me, in 2016, Spears released her ninth studio album, Glory. In 2017, she announced that her show would develop into a world tour, Britney. Spears is regarded as a pop icon and credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and she became the best-selling teenage artist of all time and garnered honorific titles including the Princess of Pop. In 2009, Billboard ranked her as the 8th overall Artist of the Decade, the Recording Industry Association of America lists Spears as the eighth top-selling female artist in the United States, with 34 million certified albums. She has sold 100 million albums and over 100 million singles worldwide making her one of the music artists of all time. According to Billboard Spears has sold about 22.38 million singles in digital downloads in US and is the fourth best-selling female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began. Forbes reported that Spears was the highest paid musician of 2012, with earnings of $58 million. Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi, the child of Lynne Irene Bridges and James Parnell Spears
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Spears at the 102.7 KIIS FM Wango Tango concert in Carson, California, May 2013
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Spears performing at the NFL Kickoff Live, September 2003
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Spears performing during The Onyx Hotel Tour on April 2004
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Spears performing "Freakshow" at The Circus Starring Britney Spears, May 2009
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Taylor Swift
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Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. One of the most popular contemporary female recording artists, she is known for songs about her personal life. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at age 14 to pursue a career in country music and she signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest artist ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. Her eponymous debut album in 2006 peaked at five on Billboard 200. The albums third single, Our Song, made her the youngest person to single-handedly write, Swifts second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop success of the singles Love Story and You Belong with Me. The album won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest Album of the Year winner, Swift was the sole writer of her 2010 album, Speak Now. It debuted at one in the United States and the single Mean won two Grammy Awards. Her fourth album, Red, yielded the successful singles We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, with her fifth album, the pop-focused 1989, she became the first act to have three albums sell a million copies within one week in the United States. Its singles Shake It Off, Blank Space and Bad Blood reached number one in the US, Australia, the album received three Grammy Awards, and Swift became the first woman and fifth act overall to win Album of the Year twice. The 2015 eponymous concert tour for 1989 became one of highest-grossing of the decade, as a songwriter, Swift has received awards from the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Swift is one of the artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums—including 27.1 million in the US—and 130 million single downloads. She has appeared in Times 100 most influential people in the world, Forbes top-earning women in music, Forbes 100 most powerful women and she was the youngest woman to be included in the third of these and ranked first in Celebrity 100. Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13,1989, in Reading and her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a financial advisor, and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift, was a homemaker who worked previously as a mutual fund marketing executive. She has a brother named Austin. Swift spent the years of her life on a Christmas tree farm in Cumru Township. She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by Franciscan nuns, the family then moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School. At the age of nine, Swift became interested in musical theater and she also traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons
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Swift performing at Ford Field in Detroit during The 1989 World Tour in May 2015
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Swift performing at Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, California in 2007
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Swift performing in the Prudential Center in New Jersey during the Fearless Tour in 2010
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Swift performing in Los Angeles during the Fearless Tour in 2010
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Ashley Tisdale
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Ashley Michelle Tisdale is an American actress, singer, and producer. During her childhood, Tisdale was featured in one hundred advertisements and had minor roles in television. She achieved mainstream success as Maddie Fitzpatrick in the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and this success was heightened when she starred as Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical franchise. The film series proved to be a success for Disney. The success of the led to Tisdale signing with Warner Bros. Records, releasing her album, Headstrong, through the label. The album was a success, earning a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. She starred as Candace Flynn in the animated series Phineas & Ferb from 2007 to 2015, Tisdales second studio album, Guilty Pleasure, was released to less commercial success than its predecessor. Tisdale would part ways with Warner Bros. Records following the release of the album, during this time, Tisdale began appearing in more films, and returned to television with shows such as Hellcats. Tisdale starred in the High School Musical spin-off film Sharpays Fabulous Adventure and this marked her final portrayal of the character to date. Tisdale announced work on her studio album in 2013, releasing the promotional single Youre Always Here. She had the role in the horror comedy film Scary Movie 5. Tisdale has continued to appear in roles, joining the main cast of Clipped. She also serves as producer of the ABC Family television series Young & Hungry. Tisdale began dating singer Christopher French in 2012, the couple wed in 2014, in September 2015, Tisdale was named creative director of Signorelli. She launched her Illuminate makeup brand in 2016, in 2017 she confirmed that she is working on her third studio album, although no details of its release were given. Ashley Michelle Tisdale was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey, on July 2,1985, to Lisa Morris and her father is Christian and her mother is Jewish, she was raised with a little bit of both religions. Tisdales elder sister Jennifer is an actress and producer and she is also related to businessman Ron Popeil through her maternal grandfather Arnold Morris who was best known for being a pitchman for the Ginsu knife
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Tisdale at Macy's Herald Square in Manhattan, New York, July 2012
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Tisdale performing at the High School Musical concert tour in 2006
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Tisdale has listed Robin Williams as an influence
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Lindsay Lohan
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Lindsay Dee Lohan is an American actress and singer. Lohan began her career as a fashion model when she was three, and was later featured on the soap opera Another World for a year when she was 10. At age 11, Lohan made her motion picture debut in Disneys commercially and critically successful 1998 remake of The Parent Trap and her next major motion picture, Disneys 2003 remake of Freaky Friday, was also a critical and commercial success. However, Lohans next starring role in the romantic comedy Just My Luck, following Just My Luck, Lohan focused on smaller, more mature roles in independent movies, receiving positive comments on her work, including A Prairie Home Companion, Bobby and Chapter 27. After recording several songs for her movie soundtracks, Lohan signed with Casablanca Records, though the album received mostly lukewarm reviews, it was certified platinum and sold over 4 million copies worldwide. Lohans second album, titled A Little More Personal, was released in December 2005 and that album received mixed reviews, and it was certified gold. In 2007, two driving under the influence led to Lohan being put on probation, and together with three visits to rehabilitation facilities caused the loss of several movie deals. In 2008 and 2009, Lohan worked as a fashion model and she resumed her acting career with TV work in 2008, and starred in the TV film Labor Pains. She appeared in Robert Rodriguezs feature film Machete, between 2010 and 2013, Lohan went into rehabilitation three times, and spent much of her time entangled in legal problems stemming from misdemeanors and probation violations. In 2012 and 2013, she did television work, including starring as Elizabeth Taylor in the biographical TV film Liz & Dick. In 2013, she starred in Paul Schraders independent film The Canyons, in 2014, the docu-series Lindsay aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network, and Lohan made her stage debut in the London West End production of Speed-the-Plow. Lindsay Lohan was born on July 2,1986, in The Bronx, New York City and she is the eldest child of Dina and Michael Lohan. Her father, a former Wall Street trader, has been in trouble with the law on several occasions, while her mother is a former singer and dancer. Lohan has three siblings, all of whom have been models or actors, Michael, Jr. who appeared with Lohan in The Parent Trap, Aliana, known as Ali. Lohan is of Irish and Italian heritage, and she was reared as a Catholic and her maternal antecedents were well known Irish Catholic stalwarts and her great-grandfather, John L. Sullivan, was a co-founder of the Pro-life Party in Long Island. Lohan attended Cold Spring Harbor High School and Sanford H. Calhoun High School, where she did well in science and mathematics, until grade 11, Lohan is a natural red head. Lohans parents have a turbulent history and they married in 1985, separated when she was three, and later reunited. They separated again in 2005 and finalized their divorce in 2007, Lohan began her career as a child model with Ford Models at the age of three
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Lindsay Lohan at General Motors Annual Ten event on February 28, 2006
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Lohan in 2002
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Lohan at the New York premiere of Georgia Rule in May 2007
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Lohan at the Cynthia Rowley fashion show in 2011
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Kelly Clarkson
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Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to fame in 2002 after winning the first season of American Idol, Clarksons debut single, A Moment Like This, topped the Billboard Hot 100 and became the best-selling single of 2002 in the U. S. It was followed with her studio album, Thankful, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Trying to reinvent her own image, Clarkson decided to part ways with American Idol management and developed a pop sound for her second album. It sold over 15 million copies worldwide and earned Clarkson two Grammy Awards and she took further creative control for her third album, My December, by becoming the executive producer and co-writing the entire material. However, it caused feud with her label, that was dissatisfied with her darker, less commercial rock music, Clarkson returned to the top of the charts with her more mainstream-oriented fourth album, All I Ever Wanted. Its lead single, My Life Would Suck Without You, holds the record for the biggest jump to one on the Billboard Hot 100. She scored another Hot 100 number-one single with Stronger from her studio album. Clarkson also became the first act to win the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album twice. Her sixth studio album and first Christmas record, Wrapped in Red, ended up as the holiday album of the year. Her seventh and final album under RCA, Piece by Piece, was her album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. Its title track became her eleventh single on the Hot 100. She signed with Atlantic Records in 2016 and has prepared a soul-influenced album for a 2017 release, Clarkson has sold over 70 million records worldwide and scored a total of 100 number ones on the Billboard charts. Her accolades include three Grammy Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards, four American Music Awards, and two Academy of Country Music Awards. Often called one of the best vocalists in the industry, Clarkson is known for her powerhouse voice and she became the first artist in history to top each of Billboards pop, adult contemporary, country and dance charts. She was ranked nineteenth on VH1s list of 100 Greatest Women in Music, Clarkson has also ventured into television and film, as well as writing childrens book. Clarkson was born in Fort Worth, Texas, to Jeanne Ann, a first-grade English teacher, and Stephen Michael Clarkson and she is the youngest of three children with a brother named Jason and a sister named Alyssa. Clarkson also has two half brothers from her fathers second marriage
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Clarkson at the 57th Presidential Inauguration, January 21, 2013
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Clarkson performed at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2002, following her win on American Idol
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Clarkson performing during her Hazel Eyes concert tour on November 15, 2005, Canberra, Australia
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Clarkson and Reba McEntire performing during the 2 Worlds 2 Voices Tour
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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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MTV Video Music Award
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An MTV Video Music Award is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium. By 2001, the VMA had become a coveted award, the statue given to winners is an astronaut on the moon, one of the earliest representations of MTV, and colloquially called a moonman. The statue is now made by New York firm, Society Awards, since the 2006 ceremony, viewers are able to vote for their favorite videos in all general categories by visiting MTVs website. The first VMA ceremony was held in 1984 at New York Citys Radio City Music Hall, the ceremonies are normally held in either New York City or Los Angeles. However, the ceremonies have also hosted in Miami and Las Vegas. 1984, At the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, Madonna performed her hit Like a Virgin wearing a combination bustier/wedding gown, during the performance, she rolled around on the floor, revealing lacy stockings and a garter. Cyndi Lauper spoke in Exorcist-esque gibberish to explain the VMA rules right before winning the Best Female video for Girls Just Want to Have Fun, David Bowie and The Beatles were rewarded with the first ever Video Vanguard Awards for their work in pioneering the music video. 1988, At the 1988 Video Music Awards Michael Jackson appeared for the first time, a pre-recorded live performance of Bad was shown. He was also awarded the Video Vanguard Award, paula Abdul was nominated for six awards, picking up four wins. She performed a medley of her singles Straight Up, Cold Hearted. When Madonna won the Viewers Choice Award for her Like a Prayer video, the tone that the commercial sought to convey sharply contrasted with the music video. When Pepsi executives saw the video, they yanked the advertisement after only two airings, in an attempt to dissociate themselves from Madonna. She also gave one of the most memorable performances of her hit Express Yourself, the performance consisted of both a dramatic 18th-century reinterpretation of Vogue as well as her dramatically becorseted breasts. His video Thriller influenced and changed music videos into what it is like today, a conflict between Poisons Bret Michaels and C. C. DeVille culminated in a fistfight at the Video Music Awards in 1991, deVille was fired and replaced by Pennsylvanian guitarist Richie Kotzen. Paul Reubens had his first public appearance following an arrest for lewd-conduct earlier that year, taking the stage in costume as Pee-wee Herman, he received a standing ovation, after which he asked the audience, Heard any good jokes lately. Prince & The New Power Generation performed their sexually charged song Gett Off on a Caligula-esque set and his trousers were parodied numerous times throughout the following year, on In Living Color & even on the next years VMAs by Howard Stern. It also marked the last TV appearance of Kiss with Eric Carr,1992, In the 1992 show, MTV requested Nirvana perform Smells Like Teen Spirit, while the band itself had indicated it preferred to play new songs Rape Me and tourettes
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The 1983-1984 Video of the Year "Moonman" award.
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Radio City Music Hall, site of 11 VMAs, including the first
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Madonna has won 20 VMAs, the most for any artist.
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West taking the microphone from Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
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IHeartRadio Music Awards
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IHeartRadio Music Awards is a music awards show founded by iHeartRadio in 2014 to recognize the most popular artists and music over the past year as determined by the networks listeners. It rewards the music that was heard throughout the year across iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide, the inaugural edition was held on May 1,2014 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and was broadcast live on NBC. The fourth edition was held on March 5,2017 and aired on TBS, TNT, the trophy is manufactured by the New York firm Society Awards. The nominations are based on results from the iHeartRadio Chart, the iHeartRadio Countdown, the two-hour weekly program, highlights the top 20 contemporary hit radio songs in the iHeartRadio Chart. The latter is supplied and compiled by Mediabase, in addition, every public-voting category, includes social hashtags as the primary voting mechanism. The categories cover an array of genres, including rock, hip-hop, R&B, Latin. The category Artist of the Year was replaced by the categories Female Artist of the Year, public-voting categories through social media are indicated with a double dagger. Most Wins Most Nominations iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards iHeartRadio Music Festival Official website
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Logo of the inaugural ceremony
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YouTube Music Awards
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The YouTube Music Awards is an awards show presented by YouTube to honor the best in the music video medium. The 2013 edition of the YTMAs were held at New York Citys Pier 36 and were broadcast live at Youtube. com/YTMA, some notable artists, including Arcade Fire, Pentatonix and Lindsey Stirling, Tyler, The Creator, M. I. A. The award show started at 6pm EST and was scheduled for 90 minutes, fans could vote in each category by posting a specific links from Youtube. com/YTMA on either their Facebook, Google+ or Twitter. The video with the most posts in each category was the winner, Artist of the Year was won by Eminem and Video of the Year was won by Girls Generation for their video I Got a Boy. The 2013 edition was directed by Spike Jonze, the show was mostly unscripted because Jonze wanted the show to. feel like a YouTube video — the raw messiness of making stuff. The winners of the 2015 edition of the show were announced on March 2,2015. 50 winners were based on the growth in views, subscribers. Breakthrough of the Year Response of the Year Innovation of the Year YouTube Phenomenon Video of the Year Artist of the Year Official website
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People's Choice Awards
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The Peoples Choice Awards is an American awards show, recognizing the people and the work of popular culture, voted on by the general public. The show has been held annually since 1975, the Peoples Choice Awards is broadcast on CBS and is produced by Procter & Gamble and Mark Burnett. In Canada, it is shown on Global, on April 6,2017, E. announced they would begin airing the show in 2018, they also announced they would begin overseeing the awards digital, social and voting platforms. The award shows creator was Bob Stivers, who produced the first show in 1975, the first awards recognized The Sting as Favorite Picture of 1974, Barbra Streisand as the years Favorite Film Actress, and John Wayne as its Favorite Film Actor. Ratings for the event peaked in 1977, when the third Peoples Choice Awards attracted 35. Procter & Gamble, the only sponsor, bought the show from Stivers in 1982. Apart from the local advertising and network promotional time, all advertising during the awards show is solely by P&G brands. The award categories have varied over the years, for example, the 16th Peoples Choice Awards had categories including Favorite All-Around Movie, and both a Favorite Movie Actor and a World Favorite Movie Actor. At the 23rd Peoples Choice Awards, Rob Reiner was named the Peoples Choice Awards Honoree, in 2008, the Peoples Choice Awards introduced a new category, Favorite Sci-Fi Show. The nominees were Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, Stargate Atlantis was the first recipient of the award. In the 20th century, the awards were based on results from Gallup polls, each year, Gallup took a survey of different categories for favorite actor, actress, movie, artist, television program or group. The scope was unlimited—the public could choose whomever or whatever it liked, the results of the annual survey were announced in the form of the Peoples Choice Awards. Since polls have margins of error, many awards have had ties in at least one category. For instance, in 2003, both Spider-Man and The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring were recognized as Favorite Motion Picture, the winners of the 31st Peoples Choice Awards were decided by online voting rather than Gallup polls. The nominees submitted for Internet voting were selected using a process involving editors at Entertainment Weekly, the shows production team. After being presented with a list of candidates determined by national ratings averages, box office grosses and album sales, the nominees for the 2010 Peoples Choice Awards were determined by the media research company Visible Measures, which specializes in measuring Internet video audience behavior. To measure True Reach, Visible Measures deploys a robust and patented set of technologies with the goal of capturing the universe of Internet video viewership data in near real-time, the first ceremony in 1975 had 14 categories. From Entertainment Weekly A 35th Anniversary article from The Hollywood Reporter
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World Music Awards
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The World Music Awards is an international awards show founded in 1989 under the high patronage of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and is based in Monte-Carlo. Awards are presented to the worlds best-selling artists in the various categories, sales figures are provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Nine awards are voted online by the public, the awards are gold-plated, each depicting an artist holding the world. Past Legend Award winners include, The Diamond World Music Award was created in 2001 to honor artists who have sold over 100 million records over the course of their careers, the awards were presented to Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey in the male and female artist award categories
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Detroit Music Awards
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The Detroit Music Awards was initially proposed in 1988. Presented by the Motor City Music Foundation, the awards ceremony was established to bring recognition to Detroit area musicians. The first award show was held in 1992 at Detroits Music Hall, in 1998, the organization merged with the Metro Times-sponsored Detroit Music Awards. It has now held at The Fillmore Detroit theatre annually in April
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Held annually at The Fillmore Detroit in April
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Latin Grammy Award
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A Latin Grammy Award is an award by The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences to recognize outstanding achievement in the Latin music industry. The Latin Grammy honors works produced anywhere around the world that were recorded in either Spanish or Portuguese and is awarded in the United States. Submissions of products recorded in languages from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula of Hispanophone or Lusophone countries such as Nahuatl, Catalán. Both the regular Grammy Award and the Latin Grammy Award have similar nominating and voting processes, the first annual Latin Grammys ceremony was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on September 13,2000. Broadcast by CBS, that first ceremony became the first primarily Spanish language primetime program carried on an English-language American television network, the most-recent ceremony, the 17th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, was held on November 17,2016 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since 2005, the awards are broadcast in the United States by the television network Univision, in 2013,9.8 million people watched the Latin Grammy Awards on Univision, making the channel a top-three network for the night in the U. S. The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences was formed by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in 1997 and it was founded by Michael Greene and Producers & Songwriters Rudy Pérez & Mauricio Abaroa. Rudy Pérez was the Grammy Florida chapters first President of the Board, the concept of a separate Grammy Awards for Latin music began in 1989. According to organizers, the Latin Grammy Awards was established as the Latin music universe was deemed too large to fit on the Grammy Awards, the Latin Grammy Awards mainly focuses on music from Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the United States. In 2000, it was announced that the 1st Annual Latin Grammy Awards would take place at the Staples Center on September 13,2000, on July 7,2000, the nominations were announced in Miami, Florida, United States. The Latin Grammys were introduced with over 39 categories included limited to Spanish, the first telecast took place at the Staples Center and was broadcast. The following years show was canceled due to the September 11,2001 attacks, in 2002, the academy elected its first independent Board of Trustees. In 2005, the broadcast was moved from CBS to Univision where the whole telecast was in Spanish, voting members live in various regions in the US and outside of the US including Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. Products recorded in languages and dialects such as Catalan, Nahuatl, Quechua, Galician, Valencian, Mayan, for instrumental music, the Latin Recording Academy accepts recordings that have been composed or interpreted by an Iberian American musician. The eligibility period is July 1 to June 30 for an awards ceremony. Recordings are first entered and then reviewed to determine the awards they are eligible for, following that, nominating ballots are mailed to voting members of the academy. The votes are tabulated and the five recordings in each category with the most votes become the nominees, final voting ballots are sent out to voting members and the winners are determined. Winners are later announced at the Latin Grammy Awards, the current President & CEO of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences is Gabriel Abaroa, who is related to Mauricio, one of the founders
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Lo Nuestro Awards
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The artist with the most Premios Lo Nuestro awards is Puerto Rican singer Olga Tañón. The awards ceremony features famous Latino actors, musicians and show business personalities, the show is broadcast all over the Americas. In February 2006, Univision announced that closed captioning in English would be offered for the first time in the history of the broadcast, the 2013 edition, which officially marks its 25th anniversary on the network was dedicated to singer Jenni Rivera after her death in December 2012. In 1989, the Lo Nuestro Awards were established by Univision, the nominees were initially selected by Univision and Billboard magazine, and the winners chosen by the public. The trophy awarded is shaped like a treble clef, before the Latin Grammy Awards inception, the Lo Nuestro Awards were considered as the Grammy Award equivalent for Latin music. Therefore, the Lo Nuestro ceremony was advanced from May to February since the 1st Latin Grammy Awards were held in September,2000, the eligibility period for songs to be nominated are from October 1 to September 30. In addition to categories for different genres of music, the honors include Premio Lo Nuestro a la Excelencia, the following list are past years recipients
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Ozone (magazine)
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Ozone is an American magazine focused on the hip hop music of the Southern United States. It was founded in Orlando, Florida in 2002 by current editor by Julia Beverly, in 2006 the magazine relocated its headquarters to Atlanta. The magazine provided early coverage of artists including Stat Quo, Pitbull. The magazine has a number of staff and contributors. In addition to publisher and editor-in-chief Julia Beverly, features editor Eric Perrin, other contributors include recording artist Killer Mike, Charlamagne, mixtape artist DJ Wally Sparks, Wendy Day, Rohit Loomba and DJ ADG. The first annual Ozone Awards were held on August 6,2006, Ozone Magazine held its second annual Ozone Award Show at the James L. Knight Center in downtown Miami, Florida, in conjunction with the TJs DJs Tastemakers Conference. The 3rd Annual Ozone Award and TJs DJs Tastemakers Conference was held on the weekend of August 8–11,2008 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. The awards focused on southern artists mostly and included performances by Lil Wayne, Trick Daddy, Rick Ross, Pimp C, official website Digital Copies of Ozone Magazine available to read at www. issuu. com
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Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
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The Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, also known as the KCAs or Kids Choice Awards, is an annual awards show that airs on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Usually held on a Saturday night in late March or early April, the show that honors the years biggest television, movie, winners receive a hollow orange blimp figurine, a logo outline for much of the networks 1984–2009 era, which also functions as a kaleidoscope. The show features celebrity guests and musical acts. In recent years, slime stunts have been incorporated into the show, the KCAs also host live entertainment. It has also known to overwhelmingly cover people with the networks trademark green slime. The series SpongeBob SquarePants has won the most KCA awards, with fourteen overall through the series run, individually, Selena Gomez and Will Smith have both won the most trophies with ten, followed by, Miley Cyrus and Amanda Bynes. Whoopi Goldberg is the person to have won a Kids Choice Award, along with the mainstream EGOT combination of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar. Rosie ODonnell and Jack Black have hosted the show the most times, alan Goodman, Albie Hecht, and Fred Seibert created the awards show after Nickelodeon produced a show called The Big Ballot in 1987, named for the ballots kids voted with. To vote, the viewers would send in ballots and then before the show, the ballots would be counted, Goodman, Hecht, and Seibert felt that the network needed a bigger, more exciting platform. Hecht selected the awards logo from a series of network designs created by original logo designers Tom Corey and Scott Nash, overseen by Goodman, the award was configured into the current blimp shape/kaleidoscope in 1990. The only change to the award since that time has been to change the embossed logotype on the side of the trophy for 2010 to fit the new logo typeface. In 2010, an application and mobile browser voting was also added. The 2009 Kids Choice Awards featured a new award called The Big Green Help Award which goes to the celebrity who goes above, the inaugural award was presented to Leonardo DiCaprio. For the 2010 awards, the The Big Green Help award was renamed The Big Help award, unlike traditional awards shows, the Kids Choice Awards uses other items to announce an award winner rather than a traditional envelope. The show sometimes uses balloons, T-shirts, models, giant letters, stickers. voting for Canadians became available for the 2010 ceremony with the inauguration of Nickelodeons Canadian service in November 2009. In June 2010, Nickelodeon Latin America announced a Kids Choice Awards for Mexico, the Australian Kids Choice Awards had its last one in 2012. In August 2011, Nickelodeon Latin America announced a Kids Choice Awards for Argentina, in June 2014, Nickelodeon Latin America announced a Kids Choice Awards for Colombia. In July 2014, Nickelodeon presented the Kids Choice Sports awards, honoring kids favorite athletes, teams, michael Strahan produced and hosted the ceremony
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Jonas Brothers performing at the 2009 show
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Finishing up with the "Orange Carpet" for the Kids' Choice Awards outside of Pauley Pavilion, UCLA campus
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GMA Dove Award
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A Dove Award is an accolade by the Gospel Music Association of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the Christian music industry. Formerly held in Nashville, Tennessee, the Dove Awards took place in Atlanta, Georgia during 2011 and 2012, the ceremonies feature live musical performances and are broadcast on TBN. The awards were established in 1969, and represent a variety of styles, including rock, pop, hip hop, country. The Dove Awards were originally conceptualized by Gospel singer and songwriter Bill Gaither, the idea of the award being represented by a dove is credited to Gaither and design for the award itself is credited to gospel singer Les Beasley. The first GMA Dove Awards were held at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, in 1971, the awards moved to Nashville. There were no awards held in 1979, due to a decision by the Gospel Music Association to move the awards from autumn to spring, every ceremony since has been held in the spring. The first televised ceremony was the 15th GMA Dove Awards of 1984, the awards were held in Nashville until 2011 before being presented at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia in 2012. They returned to Nashville in 2013, and have held at the Allen Arena on the campus of Lipscomb University since. The General Field includes seven awards which are not restricted by genre, Song of the Year is awarded to the songwriter, prior to the definition, the only qualified music was that sold in Christian Booksellers Association affiliated stores. The new standards resulted in complaints by fans and artists after thirteen entries were disqualified as being too secular in the 1999 Dove Awards. The rules were rescinded afterwards, and many groups disqualified by the rulings in 1999 were winners in 2000, Christian pop culture Gospel Music Association of Canada Covenant Awards Official website GMA website Past winners
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American Country Awards
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The American Country Awards is an annual country music awards show, entirely voted on by fans online. Created in 2010 by the Fox Network, the awards honor country music artists for singles, albums, music videos, in 2012, Song of the Year was added with the nominations coming from the Nashville Songwriters International Association. In addition to the CMA Awards, the ACM Awards and the CMT Music Awards, the first two ceremonies took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 6,2010 and December 5,2011. The 2012 ceremony took place at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Luke Bryan won nine awards, including artist and album of the year, while Miranda Lambert won three. Carrie Underwood won female artist of the year and Lauren Alaina won new artist of the year, the show was executive produced by Bob Bain, produced by Paul Flattery, Tisha Fein, Kelly Brock and Fletcher Foster and directed by Michael Dempsey. The Fox Network cancelled the American Country Awards in 2014 and replaced it with the American Country Countdown Awards from dick clark productions, the ratings for ACCA dropped dramatically compared to the 2013 American Country Awards. According to TV By The Numbers 18-49 Ratings/Share dropped from 1. 4/4 to 0. 9/3, nominees for the first inaugural awards show were announced on Monday October 18,2010. Lady Antebellum and Easton Corbin led the field with seven each, followed by Carrie Underwood with six nominations. Voting continued through November 8, except for Artist of the Year, trace Adkins was the host of the awards show. Winners in each received a custom-made Fender guitar in lieu of trophies. In 2010, the guitar was the Stratocaster model, in 2011 it was the Telecaster, at the 2010 ceremonies, Carrie Underwood was the top winner with 6 awards, including the first-ever Artist of the Year. Rascal Flatts received the Decade Award, Toby Keith received the Visionary Artist award, in 2011, Jason Aldean was the big winner with 6 Awards, including Artist of the year. In 2012, Luke Bryan was the big winner with 7 Awards, alabama received the Greatest Hits Artist award and Toby Keith was Artist of the Decade. The artist who has won the most ACAs is Carrie Underwood with 12 Luke Bryan has the most for a Male artist with 10 and Lady Antebellum has the most for a group with 9. On December 31,2011, Fox aired a country music-themed New Years Eve special co-branded with the show, known as American Country New Years Eve Live. The special differentiated itself from competing programs through an emphasis on music instead of popular music, with performances by Joe Nichols. The special was not reprised in subsequent years, and subsequent episodes of New Years Eve Live have reverted to pop music. The 2014 version will be rebranded as the American Country Countdown Awards, named after the series of the same name
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