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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Plain White T's
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Plain White Ts is an American rock band from Lombard, Illinois, formed in 1997 by high school friends Tom Higgenson, Dave Tirio, and Ken Fletcher. They were joined a short time later by Steve Mast, the group had a mostly underground following in Chicago basements, clubs and bars in its early years. The Plain White Ts was formed in Lombard in early 1997, the group began as a trio, with Higgenson as singer and guitarist, Fletcher on bass guitar and Tirio on drums. The group played mostly local shows in Chicagos suburbs, eventually having gigs at the Metro in Chicagos Wrigleyville neighborhood. As the band began to establish itself in the scene, a fourth member was recruited, Steve Mast. Higgenson broke several vertebrae in a car crash in 1999 while driving the bands van and he was in a back brace for three months and had to learn to walk again. Higgenson changed his song-writing process, choosing songs that were meaningful to him. In 2000, the band recorded its first album, titled Come on Over, in 2002, the band self-financed the recording of Stop, a full-length album that attracted the attention of Fearless Records. While the band toured in support for the album, both Fletcher and Mast left and were replaced by Tim Lopez and Mike Retondo, shortly after in 2003, Tirio decided to switch from drumming to rhythm guitar and a new drummer named DeMar Hamilton was added to the line-up. The 2005 release, All That We Needed, was the first studio album from the reformed line-up, Hey There Delilah was first released on the bands third album, All That We Needed, in 2005. The group recorded Every Second Counts that year, on which Hey There Delilah was added in order to allow it a chance on mainstream radio, the band signed with Hollywood Records, which released Every Second Counts on September 12,2006. That same year, Hey There Delilah reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks, the song was written for the track star Delilah DiCrescenzo, whom Higgenson had met in 2002. The song received two Grammy nominations, and Every Second Counts was certified gold, in early 2006, the band teamed up with Motion City Soundtrack for a winter/spring tour. In 2008, the released the album Big Bad World. The album had two hit singles,1,2,3,4 and Natural Disaster, both were on the American Top 40 at numbers 1 and 2 for three consecutive weeks. By late 2008, the band had joined the Rock Band Live tour with Panic. at the Disco, Dashboard Confessional, later that year, the band played at the Give It a Name festival in the UK. In 2007, the performed the single Our Time Now on an episode of the Nickelodeon television series. Our Time Now was also the song of the ABC Family dramedy series
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Big Bad World
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Big Bad World is the fifth studio album by American rock band Plain White Ts. It was released on September 23,2008 by Hollywood Records, the creation of this album was a follow up album to Every Second Counts in hopes of breaking free from being the Hey There Delilah Band. To promote the album, the Plain White Ts launched a few webisodes, the majority of the album was written while on the road, in planes, in hotels, and on buses. The producer of album, Johnny K and mixer Andy Wallace approached the recordings as if it were an old recording. Typically, a studio would layer the guitars, by recording everyone separately. Instead, Tom Higgenson revealed his ultimate goal, that he would rather the band back onto the beetles to bring that back- the real songs. Both producers decided to let the ambiance of the room fill out the rather than layer the performances. To produce this kind of sound, the album was recorded in one room with the P. A, monitors, monitor wedges, and no headphones. They even decided to use live recordings, rather than fiddling with the artificial sounds of an electric set. The clothing store Aéropostale started selling the album and this was also done with the latest Fall Out Boy album to increase awareness of the Aero brand. The free download is no longer due to it being limited until midnight of the album release. The single Natural Disaster is featured as downloadable content for the Rock Band series, absolutePunk later lampooned the record by claiming that album had sold 10 million copies, as their April Fools Day joke of 2009. However, the album gained a positive reception from critics
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Hollywood Records
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Hollywood Records, Inc. is an American record label of the Disney Music Group. The label focuses in pop, rock, alternative, hip hop, the label also releases Marvel Studioss soundtrack and compilation albums in conjunction with Marvel Music. At the time, the company was limited to the release of soundtracks from Touchstone, lawyer Peter Paterno was the first president of the label, until his resignation in 1993 because of the divisions lackluster sales. In 1997, Disney acquired Mammoth Records, in order to get a record label that could succeed. However, the acquisition of Mammoth was a failure and the label was closed and integrated to Hollywood in 2003. In 1998, the decided to form Buena Vista Music Group, integrating the operations of Walt Disney Records along with Hollywood, Lyric Street, Mammoth. Bob Cavallo, former manager of Earth, Wind & Fire and Prince was appointed as chairman of the group and this movement looked to organize the music operations of the company under a more integrated direction. The launch of Duffs career represents a new model for the record, utilising the synergies around the company, including important outlets like Disney Channel, Radio Disney. Duffs albums released under Hollywood proved to be successful including 2004s Hilary Duff. Their musical careers proved that the label had become a success, the label also continued to release soundtracks from films and TV shows, mainly those derived from Marvel Studios productions. In 2010, Hollywood absorbed the operations of country music label Lyric Street Records. In 2011, Queen left EMI for Universal-owned Island Records, with Hollywood continuing to remain the groups North American music distributor. In January 2012, after 14 years of a successful tenure, Bob Cavallo retired as chairman of the Group, since 2013, Hollywood Records also uses the brand name DMG Nashville to specialize in country music. The genre label was founded to provide music licensing for Bigger Picture Music Group, after Bigger Pictures closure in 2014, DMG Nashville released its first studio album, Lucy Hales Road Between. Hollywood Basic was Hollywood’s short-lived hip-hop subsidiary, run by Dave Funkenklein and it also released Shadows Legitimate Mix on the B-side of a single by the group Zimbabwe Legit in 1992. Although the BASIC Beats Sampler confirmed its release date for April 1992, other notable releases came from Organized Konfusion, its challenging second album, Stress, The Extinction Agenda, was widely acclaimed. The label was home of Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, although, following the shooting death of Charizma in 1993. This would later inspire Peanut Butter Wolf to found Stones Throw Records in order to make this music available, acts on Hollywood BASICs roster included Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, Lifers Group, Organized Konfusion, Raw Fusion, Hi-C, and Zimbabwe Legit
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Natural Disaster (Plain White T's song)
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Natural Disaster is the first single from the Plain White Ts fifth studio album Big Bad World. It was released to pop radio on August 8,2008 and peaked at #25 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, the music video for the song became available in August 2008 and was released in many music channels, such as MTV and VH1. It begins with the famous line Frankly, my dear, I dont give a damn as the camera pans the Plain White Ts, the video shows the band playing on a club and each member of the band is seduced by a beautiful model. One of the girls, who is seducing Tom Higgenson, is Tiffany Dupont, who was known for playing Frannie Morgan on ABC Family TV series Greek in seasons 1 &2, the song is available for download as a playable track in Rock Band and Rock Band 2
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Rhythm of Love (Plain White T's song)
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Rhythm of Love is a song by American rock band Plain White Ts. It is the first single from their studio album Wonders of the Younger. The song debuted at number 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, the song was featured in a fall 2010 promo for the season two premiere of Parenthood on NBC, and also during the closing credits of the 2011 film No Strings Attached. As of April 2011, the single has sold over 1,000,000 copies, rhythm of Love is written by Tim Lopez. On the band’s previous disc, Lopez shared vocals with Higgenson on two tracks, but this marks his first time doing a solo lead vocal. The band described the song which has a markedly gentle feel—gentler even, maybe and its a distinct style change than what weve done in the past, says Lopez, and not just because of his temporary frontman status on it. Just with that island-y scratch guitar – its the sound I heard in my head when it came to writing a song, the song is played by gently lilting acoustic guitars. The music video was directed by Mike Venezia who also helmed the bands previous hit video for 1,2,3,4. Premiering August 14,2010 on VH1, it was voted to the VH1 Top 20 Countdown fourteen weeks in a row. The music video was ranked one of the top seven clips of the year by tween magazine J-14. Filmed at Point Mugu, California, the video follows singer Tim Lopez as he walks, band performance also occurs in front of a circus themed red and white striped wall, surrounded by dancers. The wall was later recreated as an illustration for the cover of Wonders of the Younger. Rhythm of Love debuted at number 96 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week of August 28,2010 before falling off the next week and it re-charted at number 99 on the week of September 28,2010 before falling off again two weeks later. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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90210 (TV series)
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90210 is an American teen drama television series, developed by Rob Thomas, Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah, that aired on The CW from September 2,2008 to May 13,2013. It is the series in the Beverly Hills,90210 franchise created by Darren Star. The series was produced by CBS Television Studios, like its predecessor, the show follows the lives of several wealthy students attending West Beverly Hills High School in the upscale and star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California. The show later focuses on how much more Bradley Broughton loves Zani Dickinson. same group of friends when they graduate, some attend college at California University, while others begin exploring avenues beyond post-secondary education. The show originally revolved around the Wilson family, including new Beverly Hills residents Annie Wilson and Dixon Wilson, Annie and Dixon struggle to adjust to their new lives while making friends and yet adhering to their parents wishes. During the first two seasons, cast members from the series made appearances, including Jennie Garth, Shannen Doherty, Ann Gillespie, Tori Spelling. After the second season, however, they were not featured, the primary connection between the two series was the new series character of Erin Silver, the sister of Kelly Taylor and David Silver from the original series. Tracy has a daughter of her own, Naomi Clark, who dates jock Ethan Ward, brief rival of Dixon, Annie and Ethan then pursue a relationship after having dated the summer prior to Annie moving to Beverly Hills, when Annie was visiting her grandmother for the summer. Both girls alternate between being friends, enemies, in a triangle, and almost sisters, due to their parents child. Their respective mothers find themselves in a triangle of their own after Tracys marriage to Charles Clark implodes. Meanwhile, Ethan and Annies relationship hits the rocks as he begins to rethink his life after a car accident and gets more or less attracted to Rhonda, the girl he hit. Soon Naomi and Liam begin a romance, and once she becomes friends with Annie again, Naomis best friend, fallen starlet Adrianna Tate-Duncan, battles a drug addiction. This gets her into trouble when Harry decides to raid the school, thanks to the help of a cop, Kimberly McIntyre, Kimberly begins a relationship with teacher/lacrosse coach Ryan Matthews, which gets him into trouble with the school. There, she begins a relationship with Navid Shirazi, head of the paper and Dixons best friend. Navid and Adrianna are in different groups in high school. Adrianna was much more outgoing and popular while Navid was more focused on his studies, navids dream was to have an opportunity to date Adrianna. Although at first she only does it to him, they start to genuinely care about each other. Adrianna later discovers she is pregnant as a result of her promiscuity while she was addicted, after telling Navid of her pregnancy, he breaks up with her
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Discovery Family
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Upon its launch, the network primarily offered adventure, nature, and science-themed programs aimed towards a childrens audience between ages 6 and 11. From 1996 until 2000, Discovery Kids was carried by only a few cable television providers. By late 2001, the channel was carried in at least 15 million homes, in September 2001, a Canadian version of Discovery Kids was launched in partnership with Corus Entertainment. In December 2001, Discovery Kids announced a partnership with NBC, in which it would produce a new Saturday morning block for the known as Discovery Kids on NBC. The block, which replaced a block consisting only of sitcoms. With the launch of the new block, Discovery Kids also branched out into animated programming with the premieres of Kenny the Shark and Tutenstein. In March 2006, Discovery declined to renew its contract with NBC for its Saturday morning block, since the launch of the NBC block, Discovery Kids had grown its cable carriage to over 43 million homes. NBC would replace the Discovery Kids block with Qubo in September 2006, under the arrangement, Discovery would be in charge of handling advertising sales and distribution for the new channel, while Hasbro would be involved in acquiring and producing programming. While the network planned to maintain educational series, plans called for new programs based off Hasbro-owned franchises such as G. I. Joe, My Little Pony, Transformers, and game shows adapted from its board game brands. In January 2010, Discovery and Hasbro announced that the new network would be known as The Hub, the network planned to continue targeting Discovery Kids main demographic of children aged 2 through 14, but also planned to feature a primetime block with family-oriented programming. The networks original imaging was developed by Troika Design Group, the final logo design was the result of a number of drafts by Troika designers, some of which had incorporated typography similar to Hasbros logo. The Hub was launched on October 10,2010 at 10,00 a. m, ET, its first program was an episode of The Twisted Whiskers Show. The management of The Hub subsequently underwent a fair value analysis of the channel, in March 2013, The Hub picked up its first work from POW. Entertainment, Stan Lees Mighty 7, a pilot movie to be aired in early 2014. The network also began to phase in an amended branding as the Hub Network, in late 2013, Hub Network introduced an updated logo and a new imaging campaign, Making Family Fun, which was developed by the Los Angeles-based agency Oishii Creative. On June 12,2014, it was reported that Margaret Loesch would step down from her role as Hub Network president, Discovery staff was also unable to display a full commitment to Hub Networks operation, due to factors such as the troubled launch of the Oprah Winfrey Network. Believing that they had overvalued its stake in the venture, Hasbro decided to cede the operation of the network to Discovery so it could focus more on content and its core toy business
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Hey There Delilah
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Hey There Delilah is a song by American rock band Plain White Ts. It was released in May 2006 as the single from their third studio album All That We Needed. It received radio play over the year and eventually reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 2007. The song was featured in television shows Journeyman, I Love the New Millennium, Orange Is the New Black, and Family Guy. The song is from the Plain White Ts third album, All That We Needed, the intervening fourth album, Every Second Counts, has Hey There Delilah added as a bonus track with a string section written and performed by Eric Remschneider augmenting the original recording. The song was written by frontman Tom Higgenson after meeting Delilah DiCrescenzo, Plain White Ts released the song in May 2006 as the third single from their third studio album All That We Needed. In June 2007, over one year after the release, it became the bands first hit in the United States. From July 3,2007 through July 28, the song was the one most played song on the radio. It was the Plain White Ts first, and to date and it also reached number two in the UK. The song ended 2007 as the years 14th biggest-selling single in the UK, since its release, Hey There Delilah has been covered by many artists worldwide in one form or another. It has sold over 4,000,000 digital copies in the US alone, the video was directed by Jay Martin. It features the lead singer, Tom Higgenson, singing the song while the band members are in another room behind him. The other band members are not playing in the song, the only other instruments are the strings provided by Eric Remschneider, who does not appear in the video. In a split screen it shows Delilah, not the singers girlfriend, played by model Melissa McNelis and she walks around the city, presumably, from a class to her job. Time magazine named Hey There Delilah one of The 10 Best Songs of 2007, Music critic Josh Tyrangiel called it an intimate love song thats damn near universal. Allmusic positively compared the song to Thirteen by Big Star, the song was a double 2008 Grammy Award nominee, for Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. The real Delilah attended the Grammy Award show that year as the guest of Tom Higgenson, on VH1s Top 40 Videos of 2007, Hey There Delilah was No. 8, ahead of If Everyone Cared by Nickelback and behind Say It Right by Nelly Furtado, vH1 also had the song at No.78 on its list of the 100 Greatest Songs of the 00s
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Acoustic music
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Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means. The retronym acoustic music appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the guitar, electric violin, electric organ. It has its origins in the music of the 1960s. The trend has also dubbed as acoustic rock in some cases. Navigating the Music Industry, Current Issues & Business Models, Music and the Modern Condition, Investigating the Boundaries
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VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown
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The 20 was a weekly television show that aired on the VH1 cable television network in the United States. The long-running series began in 1994 as the VH1 Top 10 Countdown, over the years a variety of hosts counted down the top ten or twenty music videos of the week. The order of countdown was originally decided by a mix of record sales, radio airplay, video spins, message board posts, the series finale aired unexpectedly without any ceremony on November 28,2015, with the last number one on the show belonging to Drakes Hotline Bling. As part of VH-1s re-branding as VH1, Music First in 1994, the channel launched a new series, the VH1 Top 10 Countdown, that counted down the top ten music videos played on VH1 each week. A combination of sales, radio airplay, video spins, message board posts. A rotating cast of VJs picked up hosting duties for the show over the years, the series expanded from ten to twenty music videos, becoming the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown, in October 2000. Each week, the show would broadcast from a different location around New York City, following a decline in the shows relevance, popular Survivor contestant Jenna Lewis was hired to host the show in 2001. After her departure from the show, from 2002 to 2006, the show was hosted by either Rachel Perry, Bradford How, or Aamer Haleem. In a fundamental change from the classic format of compiling the top twenty videos of the week. Fan participation was introduced via VSPOT, VH1s online music video outlet, also as part of the change, VH1 temporarily moved the shows first airing of the week to Friday evenings instead of Saturday mornings. On the week of July 15,2006, the show stopped airing on Friday evenings, on the September 16,2006, episode, Pinfield announced that after being on the countdown for 20 weeks, a video would be retired. Before this time, videos could remain on the countdown for as long as seemed appropriate, one notable exception, however, was Keanes Somewhere Only We Know, which remained in the countdown for 28 non-consecutive weeks in two countdown runs. The video did not reach the top ten and its second wind was caused by the popularity of the VH1. com live version of the video. After Pinfield did not show up for a few recordings of the show on October 7,2006, Haleem continued to host VH1 Top 20 every week from a different location until August 4,2007, when he hosted his final episode. Alison Becker became the new host on August 11,2007, around this time, the VSPOT online video center was renamed to Video. VH1. com, so the series regained its classic title, VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown. Since then, each episode has featured one or two interviews with a celebrity or celebrities of current notoriety who either have a video, movie. The countdown sometimes has videos high in its countdown despite virtually no radio airplay for the song, one example is Bret Michaels Go That Far which was directed by Shane Stanley. This video spent twelve weeks on the countdown and bowed out at number seven, the video supported Michaels show Rock of Love which is shown on the network
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CNN
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The Cable News Network is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. It was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner as a 24-hour cable news channel, upon its launch, CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage, and was the first all-news television channel in the United States. While the news channel has numerous affiliates, CNN primarily broadcasts from the Time Warner Center in New York City and its headquarters at the CNN Center in Atlanta is only used for weekend programming. CNN is sometimes referred to as CNN/U. S. to distinguish the American channel from its sister network. As of August 2010, CNN is available in over 100 million U. S. households, broadcast coverage of the U. S. channel extends to over 890,000 American hotel rooms, as well as carriage on cable and satellite providers throughout Canada. Globally, CNN programming airs through CNN International, which can be seen by viewers in over 212 countries and territories, as of February 2015, CNN is available to about 96,289,000 cable, satellite, and telco television households in the United States. The Cable News Network was launched at 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time on June 1,1980, after an introduction by Ted Turner, the husband and wife team of David Walker and Lois Hart anchored the channels first newscast. Burt Reinhardt, the vice president of CNN at its launch, hired most of the channels first 200 employees, including the networks first news anchor. Since its debut, CNN has expanded its reach to a number of cable and satellite providers, several websites. The company has 36 bureaus, more than 900 affiliated local stations, the channels success made a bona-fide mogul of founder Ted Turner and set the stage for conglomerate Time Warners eventual acquisition of the Turner Broadcasting System in 1996. A companion channel, CNN2, was launched on January 1,1982, on January 28,1986, CNN carried the only live television coverage of the launch and subsequent break-up of Space Shuttle Challenger, which killed all seven crew members on board. On October 14,1987, Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old toddler, fell down a well in Midland, CNN quickly reported on the story, and the event helped make its name. This was before correspondents reported live from the capital while American bombs were falling. Before Saddam Hussein held a press conference with a few of the hundreds of Americans he was holding hostage. Before the nation watched, riveted but powerless, as Los Angeles was looted and burned, before O. J. Simpson took a slow ride in a white Bronco, and before everyone close to his case had an agent and a book contract. This was uncharted territory just a time ago. The moment when bombing began was announced on CNN by Bernard Shaw on January 16,1991, as follows, lets describe to our viewers what were seeing. The skies over Baghdad have been illuminated, were seeing bright flashes going off all over the sky
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Chicago Sun-Times
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The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the paper of the Sun-Times Media Group. The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city and it began in 1844 as the Chicago Daily Journal, which was the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine OLeary was responsible for the Chicago fire. The Evening Journal, whose West Side building at 17-19 S. Canal was undamaged, in 1929, the newspaper was relaunched as the Chicago Daily Illustrated Times. The modern paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun, founded December 4,1941 by Marshall Field III, and the Chicago Daily Times. The newspaper was owned by Field Enterprises, controlled by the Marshall Field family, when the Daily News ended its run in 1978, much of its staff, including Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko, were moved to the Sun-Times. During the Field period, the newspaper had a populist, progressive character that leaned Democratic but was independent of the citys Democratic establishment, although the graphic style was urban tabloid, the paper was well regarded for journalistic quality and did not rely on sensational front-page stories. It typically ran articles from the Washington Post/Los Angeles Times wire service, the advice column Ask Ann Landers debuted in 1943. Ann Landers was the pseudonym of staff writer Ruth Crowley, who answered readers letters until 1955, eppie Lederer, sister of Dear Abby columnist Abigail van Buren, assumed the role thereafter as Ann Landers. Kups Column, written by Irv Kupcinet, also made its first appearance in 1943, Jack Olsen joined the Sun-Times as editor-in-chief in 1954, before moving on to Time and Sports Illustrated magazines and authoring true-crime books. Hired as literary editor in 1955 was Hoke Norris, who covered the civil-rights movement for the Sun-Times. Jerome Holtzman became a member of the Chicago Sun sports department after first being a boy for the Daily News in the 1940s. He and Edgar Munzel, another longtime sportswriter for the paper, famed for his World War II exploits, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin made the Sun-Times his home base in 1962. The following year, Mauldin drew one of his most renowned illustrations, two years out of college, Roger Ebert became a staff writer in 1966, and a year later was named Sun-Times film critic. He continued in this role for the remainder of his life, after the friend wrote a story about it, Grizzard fired Banks. With that, the employees union intervened, a federal arbitrator ruled for Banks and 13 months later. The articles received considerable publicity and acclaim, but a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize met resistance from some who believed the Mirage series represented a form of entrapment. In March 1978, the afternoon publication the Chicago Daily News, sister paper of the Sun-Times
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The Bonnie Hunt Show
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The Bonnie Hunt Show was an American syndicated talk show hosted by Bonnie Hunt. It premiered on September 8,2008, the shows second and final season premiered on September 8,2009. It was announced on December 7,2009 that The Bonnie Hunt Show would not return for a third season, the Bonnie Hunt Show first aired on September 8,2008. Her first guest was Robin Williams and her first musical guest was Meiko, in 2009, December 15, Kaitlyn Maher from the American television reality show Americas Got Talent, performed Ave Maria at only 5 years old. This show has the concept as of other talk shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The show has a monologue at the beginning of the show, the show has cleared in 85% of the US ahead in its launch and sold to 17 of the top 20 markets. The show is taped in Culver City, California, in June 2009, it was announced the show had been renewed for a second season. The show was awarded a Gracie Award for Best Talk Show in 2009, the show did not win in any of the three categories, losing to The View. The Bonnie Hunt Show returned for its season on September 8,2009. The Bonnie Hunt Show was again nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards in its season, including one for best talk show host. Bonnie talks to her mom during the Ask Alice segment, in Ask Alice, Bonnie talks about television shows and answers viewer questions. During the segment titled, Mail From You Guys, Bonnie answers viewer e-mail, the show also plays games such as Dr. Know It All in which Bonnie, Don Lake, and an audience member do improvisation. On special occasions, a segment Make It Happen involves audience members learning a dance, in Young People Dont Know Nothin Bonnie asks questions about past TV shows, singers, and popular topics from the 1980s and earlier to three young audience members. On special occasions, Niecy Nash and Bonnie will perform a parody of The Real Housewives of Atlanta in which Bonnie plays Kim, the shows set was a Dean Martin tribute. On the wall were pictures of her dog, Charlie, the guests used many entrances such as the door, the stairs, or the firemans pole. Bonnie had never gone down the firemans pole nor the stairs, instead Bonnie entered through an entrance near her desk. About The Bonnie Hunt Show Telepictures Webpage The Bonnie Hunt Show at the Internet Movie Database The Bonnie Hunt Show at TV. com
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GfK Entertainment Charts
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The GfK Entertainment Charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment GmbH on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Following a lawsuit in March 2014 by Media Control AG, Media Control® GfK International had to change its name, dissemination of the charts is conducted by various media outlets, some of which include VIVA music channel, and the Swiss charts website. Other entities that present the charts are MusicLoad and MIX1, furthermore, GfK Entertainment also runs a dedicated website providing chart-related news and access to most of the charts. Charts have been published in Germany since 1959, in a magazine called Der Musikmarkt, since 1959, the growing desire to have a well-developed music program has made Bundesverband Musikindustrie work together with charts providers to improve the way the charts are determined. For this purpose, different research institutes were tested, out of which Media Control, hence, the first official charts were made available in the magazine Der Musikmarkt in September 1977. Initially, there used to be 50 positions only, which later in January 1980, was extended to 75 slots, since 1989, however, GfK Entertainment has adapted the international standards providing 100 positions, now called Offizielle Top 100 Charts. In 2001, the Top-100 singles charts was modified to reflect the sales of the singles, Media Control developed Music Video charts in 2001, which later, in 2004, was renamed as DVD charts. While music-videos have their own charts, in 2001, GfK Entertainment made it possible for the music-video singles to have the ability to enter the Top-100 singles chart. Similarly, in 2002, it was available for music-video albums to chart on the Top-100 album chart. If not, then, the DVD album could qualify for the DVD chart only, in the same vein, if an audio CD contains at least 50% of video recording, then, it could qualify to chart on the DVD chart. In 2003, Media Control joined forces with GfK, thus the name officially being changed to Media Control GfK International GmbH. In 2004, Germany became one of the first music markets wherein sales charts were reflected by online digital downloads, digital-only releases came into existence on 13 July 2007, for online downloads only, which also altered the way the sales figures were conducted up to that point. Consequently, chart positions would no longer be affected by the number of music downloads as before. Thus, the albums would not necessarily be the ones ending up in the number-one position on the charts. In March 2014, GfK announced that the official chart providers name in Germany will change from Media Control GfK International GmbH to GfK Entertainment, there are currently 3,000 outlets that report their sales on weekly bases in Germany. The weekly sales data is transmitted to GfK Entertainment via communication network channel and this is the list of categories, for each of which charts are provided by GfK Entertainment
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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Mainstream Top 40
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Mainstream Top 40 is a 40-song music chart published weekly by Billboard Magazine which ranks the most popular songs being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States. The rankings are based on radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, arbitron refers to the format as contemporary hit radio. The chart debuted in Billboard Magazine in its issued date October 3,1992, both Top 40 charts measured actual monitored airplay from data compiled by Broadcast Data Systems. Both charts were born of then-new BDS electronic monitoring technology as a more objective and this data was also used as the airplay component for Hot 100 tabulations. They returned to the print edition in the August 2,2003, songs on the chart are ranked by the total number of spins detected per week. Songs which gain plays or remain flat from the week will receive a bullet. A song will also receive a bullet if its loss in plays does not exceed the percentage of monitored station downtime for the format. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the increase in plays is placed first. Since the introduction of the chart until 2005, songs below No.20 were moved to recurrent after 26 weeks on the chart, in the chart week of December 3,2005, songs below No.20 were moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Since the issue dated December 4,2010, songs older than 20 weeks on the chart are moved to recurrent after they drop below No.15 and this chart was often mistaken for and confused with the now discontinued Pop 100 Airplay chart. 12, Mariah Carey - Dreamlover, Taylor Swift - Shake It Off No,13, Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar - Bad Blood No. 14, Lady Gaga - Born This Way, Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z - Suit & Tie No,16, Madonna - Frozen, Britney Spears - Hold It Against Me No. I. The panel is regularly updated, with stations being added or removed sometimes even weekly, as of 2011, Britney Spears holds the record for the longest span between No. 1s at 12 years, seven months and four days between her first No.1 and her latest, katy Perrys Teenage Dream is the first and only album to have 6 singles top the chart. JoJo at age 13, became the youngest solo artist to have a single on the chart with Leave. Three acts have replaced themselves at No,1, Mariah Carey, OutKast and Iggy Azalea - with Azalea being the only one to do so with her first two chart entries. com BDS Top 40/CHR chart
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Recording Industry Association of America
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The Recording Industry Association of America is a continental North and South American trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors, which the RIAA says create, the RIAA headquarters is in Washington, D. C. The RIAA was formed in 1952 and its original mission was to administer recording copyright fees and problems, work with trade unions, and do research relating to the record industry and government regulations. Early RIAA standards included the RIAA equalization curve, the format of the record groove and the dimensions of 33 1/3 rpm,45 rpm. Since 2001, the RIAA has spent $2 to $6 million each year on lobbying in the United States, the RIAA also participates in the collective rights management of sound recordings, and it is responsible for certifying Gold and Platinum albums and singles in the United States. Cary Sherman has been the RIAAs chairman and CEO since 2011, Sherman joined the RIAA as its general counsel in 1997 and became president of the board of directors in 2001, serving in that position until being made chairman and CEO. Mitch Glazier has been the RIAAs senior executive vice president since 2011 and he served as executive vice president for public policy and industry relations from 2000 to 2011. The past RIAA chairman and CEO is Mitch Bainwol, who served from 2003 to 2011 and he left in 2011 to become president and CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. The board of directors consists of 26 members of the board, the RIAA operates an award program for albums that sell a large number of copies. The program originally began in 1958, with a Gold Award for singles, the criterion was changed in 1975 to the number of copies sold, with albums selling 500,000 copies awarded the Gold Award. In 1976, a Platinum Award was added for one million sales, the awards are open to both RIAA members and non-members. Since 2000, the RIAA also operates a program for Latin music sales. Currently, a Disco De Oro is awarded for 30,000 units, the RIAA defines Latin music as a type of release with 51% or more of its content recorded in Spanish. In 2006, digital ringtones were added to branch of certification. In the same year, the RIAA introduced the Latin Digital Award for digital recordings in Spanish and this release format includes DVD and VHS releases, and certain live albums and compilation albums. The certification criteria is different from other styles. Gold,50,000 Platinum,100,000 Multi-Platinum,200,000 copies The RIAA opposes unauthorized sharing of its music, studies conducted since the association began its campaign against peer-to-peer file-sharing have concluded that losses incurred per download range from negligible to moderate. The association has commenced high-profile lawsuits against file sharing service providers and it has also commenced a series of lawsuits against individuals suspected of file sharing, notably college students and parents of file sharing children
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Every Second Counts (album)
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Every Second Counts is the fourth studio album by American rock band Plain White Ts. It is the first Plain White Ts album to be released on Hollywood Records along with Fearless Records, the album peaked at number 10 on Billboard 200 on July 29,2007, and was certified Gold by the RIAA in October 2007. Every Second Counts peaked at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart, the song Our Time Now is used in most commercials/trailers for the ABC Family show Greek, and is performed by the band in the episode The Rusty Nail. Our Time Now and You and Me were used in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Johnny Kapahala, the Plain White Ts also performed Our Time Now on an episode of the Nickelodeon show iCarly. Making A Memory was played during Katy Foxs final episode in Hollyoaks, the same song was put after the US version of The Voices blind auditions, after Christina Aguilera made her choice. The song Let Me Take You There was used as the song for the BBCs Live Masters Golf coverage. All songs written by Tom Higgenson, except where noted, a deluxe edition of Every Second Counts was released. It has a different cover, with a background instead of brown. It contains, Tracks 1-12 as above Hey There Delilah –3,53 We Can Work It Out Hold On –2,40 The DVD includes a concert in the bands hometown
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Wonders of the Younger
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Wonders of the Younger is the sixth studio album by American rock band Plain White Ts. It was released by Hollywood Records on December 7,2010 and was produced by Ian Kirkpatrick, the collection of the songs was designed to evoke the feeling of awe and the yearning for adventure remembered from youth. On September 9, the art was revealed on the bands official MySpace account. On September 13, the album finished up with mastering engineer Brian Big Bass Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood, frontman Tom Higgenson says of the album, Its still very much a Plain White Ts album. The songs are sincere and melodic, no matter what the subject matter and we want to create an experience that takes our fans to an unexpected place while still giving them songs to sing along to. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Higgenson said that and we were in Vegas last year around Valentines Day and saw the Cirque du Soleil show O. The show had clowns, pirates and a bunch of crazy stuff, from that point on, my mind went wild. In regards to Wonders of the Younger, The scope is a lot bigger than anything weve done before and we definitely tried to get out of our comfort zone. Not that we wanted to sound like a different band and it all has to give you that epic feeling that we wanted the album to have. Even the performances that were doing and the video we made has to have that slightly surreal, Higgenson built and decorated the recording studio in the basement of his Chicago home with Wonders of the Younger as his thematic inspiration. The album gets off to a start with Irrational Anthem. Lyrically, says Higgenson, I think it says exactly what I want the album to say, I think the line that sums up the whole album is Let your mind go anywhere it wants to. Dont get so wrapped up in your life that you forget to dream or be creative. Im a very nostalgic guy, so a lot of where my head lives is in memories, I spend a lot of my time looking back and smiling at past things that have happened in my life. Rhythm of Love is the first single from Plain White Ts upcoming studio album, Higgenson noted that the song is all about pushing the boundaries of their creativity and musical imagination combined with a dose of nostalgia. On this single, the lead singer Tom Higgenson was on vocals only. Tom Higgenson said during a chat on Stickam that the second single off Wonders of The Younger would be Boomerang. Wonders of the Younger received generally mixed reviews from music critics, amy Bangs of Rock Sound gave note that the band stuck with their sound as a response to the detractors
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Hate (I Really Don't Like You)
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Hate is a single by the Plain White Ts. It is the first single from their studio album Every Second Counts. This song has a version available on the Best Buy version of Every Second Counts. The song had one of the bands highest charting singles. The video has been seen on MTV, Kerrang, the music video shows lead singer Tom Higgenson taking a stroll in the city while many scenes of chaos are happening. It also has shots of the band performing in what seems to be a warehouse and his ex-girlfriend, played by Italia Ricci, comes along, and in surprise continues to watch him perform. It was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, promo CD Single Hate —3,45 Hate —3,45 Hate —3,28 Digital Download Hate —3,45 It has been released in Australia through The Hot Hits. Heard in Saints Row 2 soundtrack, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Our Time Now
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Our Time Now is the third single from the Plain White Ts from their album Every Second Counts. It was shipped to Pop Radio on November 6,2007 and it peaked at number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 29 on US Modern Rock charts. The song was featured during a montage of people getting approved to go to Hollywood during American Idol on January 29,2008, the promo caused the song to jump 20 spots on iTunes from 75 to 55 overnight. Our Time Now was written by Tom Higgenson, Mia Post and it was used in some commercials/trailers for the first season of the ABC Family show Greek, and is performed by the band in the episode The Rusty Nail. This song was performed by the Plain White Ts in an actual appearance on the 11th episode of the first season on Nickelodeons iCarly. It was also featured in the Disney Channel Original Movie Johnny Kapahala, Back on Board, the track was recorded in Simlish for The Sims 2, Teen Style stuff pack. The song was used in The Ultimate Band Trailer, the music video was inspired by the 1967 film The Graduate. It stars the band performing the song on a stage with a crew working around them. A family appears at the start of the second verse having a party with a pool. The ending shows Tom stopping a wedding and running off with the bride, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Little Miss Obsessive
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Little Miss Obsessive is a song recorded by American singer Ashlee Simpson for her third studio album, Bittersweet World. It features uncredited guest vocals from Tom Higginson, the singer of the Plain White Ts. The song was written by Simpson, Jim Beanz, Victor Valentine, Little Miss Obsessive was produced by Jack Joseph Puig and Berringer, with vocal production by Beanz. The song was released as the first official single from Bittersweet World on March 11,2008, following the disappointment of its predecessor. Little Miss Obsessive is a pop power ballad that chronicles the ostensibly aural dance of a couple who break up to make up –. Simpson looked to herself for inspiration when writing the song, Music critics were divided on Little Miss Obsessive, some critics felt the song was impressive, while others were critical of Simpsons vocals and the songs lyrics. The song only managed to chart on the charts of Canada and the United States. Little Miss Obsessive was written by Ashlee Simpson, Jim Beanz, Victor Valentine, the song was produced by Jack Joseph Puig and Berringer. Simpsons vocals, which were produced by Beanz, were recorded at Archon Studios in Los Angeles and at Chalice Studios in Hollywood by Aris Achontis and Tal Herzberg, respectively. The guitar was played by Ray Brady, while Joey Kamani played the guitar and Abe Laboriel. Dean Nelson engineered the song, while Puig mixed the song at Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood, Simpson looked to herself for inspiration when writing Little Miss Obsessive, which chronicles the ostensibly aural dance of a couple who break up to make up – and like it. Of the songs concept, Simpson commented, Its what we can all become in a relationship sometimes and we put our foot in our mouths and we wish we didnt — No, I didnt mean to say it. According to Simpson, the kind of relates to the last album. And every girl has gone through that situation and you put your foot in your mouth and you go, Wait, why did I do that. Were on our phones writing and texting too much, Little Miss Obsessive is a pop rock power ballad, with a duration of three minutes and forty-two seconds. The song features crashing guitars, drum thuds, confused Avril-style rants, Little Miss Obsessive begins with a mid-tempo piano line, before transcending into a more rollicking chorus, which sees Simpson sing, Little miss obsessive, cant get over it. Lyrically, Simpson laments about a breakup with the fervor of a late-night text message. Sophie Bruce of BBC Music wrote that the song is the success of Bittersweet World
