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Stockholm
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The city is spread across 14 islands on the coast in the southeast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago and the Baltic Sea. The area has settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC. It is also the capital of Stockholm County, Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the countrys GDP and it is an important global city, and the main centre for corporate headquarters in the Nordic region. The city is home to some of Europes top ranking universities, such as the Stockholm School of Economics, Karolinska Institute and it hosts the annual Nobel Prize ceremonies and banquet at the Stockholm Concert Hall and Stockholm City Hall. One of the citys most prized museums, the Vasa Museum, is the most visited museum in Scandinavia. The Stockholm metro, opened in 1950, is known for its decoration of the stations. Swedens national football arena is located north of the city centre, Ericsson Globe, the national indoor arena, is in the southern part of the city. The city was the host of the 1912 Summer Olympics, and hosted the equestrian portion of the 1956 Summer Olympics otherwise held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Stockholm is the seat of the Swedish government and most of its agencies, including the highest courts in the judiciary, and the official residencies of the Swedish monarch and the Prime Minister. The government has its seat in the Rosenbad building, the Riksdag is seated in the Parliament House, and the Prime Ministers residence is adjacent at the Sager House. After the Ice Age, around 8,000 BCE, there were already a number of people living in the present-day Stockholm area. Thousands of years later, as the ground thawed, the climate became tolerable, at the intersection of the Baltic Sea and lake Mälaren is an archipelago site where the Old Town of Stockholm was first built from about 1000 CE by Vikings. They had a positive impact on the area because of the trade routes they created. Stockholms location appears in Norse sagas as Agnafit, and in Heimskringla in connection with the legendary king Agne, the earliest written mention of the name Stockholm dates from 1252, by which time the mines in Bergslagen made it an important site in the iron trade. The first part of the name means log in Swedish, although it may also be connected to an old German word meaning fortification, the second part of the name means islet, and is thought to refer to the islet Helgeandsholmen in central Stockholm. Stockholms core, the present Old Town was built on the island next to Helgeandsholmen from the mid 13th century onward. The city originally rose to prominence as a result of the Baltic trade of the Hanseatic League, Stockholm developed strong economic and cultural linkages with Lübeck, Hamburg, Gdańsk, Visby, Reval, and Riga during this time
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Sweden
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Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, at 450,295 square kilometres, Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of 10.0 million. Sweden consequently has a low density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre. Approximately 85% of the lives in urban areas. Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times, emerging into history as the Geats/Götar and Swedes/Svear, Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural, while the north is heavily forested. Sweden is part of the area of Fennoscandia. The climate is in very mild for its northerly latitude due to significant maritime influence. Today, Sweden is a monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a monarch as head of state. The capital city is Stockholm, which is also the most populous city in the country, legislative power is vested in the 349-member unicameral Riksdag. Executive power is exercised by the government chaired by the prime minister, Sweden is a unitary state, currently divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities. Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages, in the 17th century, it expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire, which became one of the great powers of Europe until the early 18th century. Swedish territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were gradually lost during the 18th and 19th centuries, the last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Norway was militarily forced into personal union. Since then, Sweden has been at peace, maintaining a policy of neutrality in foreign affairs. The union with Norway was peacefully dissolved in 1905, leading to Swedens current borders, though Sweden was formally neutral through both world wars, Sweden engaged in humanitarian efforts, such as taking in refugees from German-occupied Europe. After the end of the Cold War, Sweden joined the European Union on 1 January 1995 and it is also a member of the United Nations, the Nordic Council, Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Sweden maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides health care. The modern name Sweden is derived through back-formation from Old English Swēoþēod and this word is derived from Sweon/Sweonas. The Swedish name Sverige literally means Realm of the Swedes, excluding the Geats in Götaland, the etymology of Swedes, and thus Sweden, is generally not agreed upon but may derive from Proto-Germanic Swihoniz meaning ones own, referring to ones own Germanic tribe
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Electro house
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Electro house is a form of house music. Electro house is characterized by a prominent bassline and/or kick drum and its origins were influenced by electro, electroclash, electropop, synthpop, and tech house. The term has been used to describe the music of many DJ Mag Top 100 DJs, including Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Hardwell, Skrillex, electro-house is typified by its heavy bass. This is often in the form of buzzing basslines, such as those created with sawtooth waves and it is also often in the form of large bass drum sounds in a four-on-the-floor pattern. The tempo of electro house is usually around 130 beats per minute, electro house sometimes resembles tech house, but it can contain melodic elements and electro-influenced samples and synths. The genre has been described as a genre of house and electro, either in its original form or as fused with electropop and techno in its late-1990s revival. The word electro is now used as an adjective, such as electro-house. Early songs that have been labelled retroactively as electro-house include Dark Invader by Arrivers in 1996, mr. Oizos 1999 hit Flat Beat has also been considered an early example of the genre. Benny Benassi, with his track Satisfaction released in 2002, is seen as the forerunner of electro-house who brought it to the mainstream, by the mid 2000s, electro-house saw an increase in popularity. Since then, electro-house producers such as Feed Me, Knife Party, The M Machine, Porter Robinson, in the early 2010s, a type of electro-house known as big room began to develop, particularly gaining popularity through EDM-oriented events and festivals such as Tomorrowland. Big room now is beginning to subside from the classification of a subgenre of electro house, big room songs resemble Dutch house, often incorporating drops, minimalist percussion, regular beats, sub-bass layered kicks, simple melodies, and synth-driven breakdowns. The layout of a big room track is similar to the layout of a typical electro-house song. Big room is thought of as a subgenre of electro-house, complextro is typified by glitchy, intricate basslines and textures created by sharply cutting between instruments in quick succession. The term, a portmanteau of the complex and electro, was coined by Porter Robinson to describe the sound of the music he was making in 2010. He has cited video game sounds, or chiptunes, as an influence on his style of music along with 1980s analog synth music and it is primarily defined by complex rhythms made from Latin-influenced drum kits, a lower emphasis on basslines, and squeaky, high-pitched lead synths. Influences on the subgenre include Detroit techno, hip hop and other styles of music. It contains influences from Chicago house, Detroit techno, Baltimore club, Kuduro, Pimba, bassline, bouncy techno, dubstep, techstep, hip hop easy listening and world music. Purveyors of the genre include The Bloody Beetroots, AC Slater, Danger, Hervé, Sinden, Jack Beats, the term fidget house was coined by DJs/producers Jesse Rose and Switch, as a joke, which has now gone a little too far
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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Ministry of Sound
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Ministry of Sound Group is a multimedia entertainment business based in London with a nightclub, worldwide events operation, music publishing business and fitness studio. James Palumbo is the co-founder and former Chairman and CEO of the Group, in 2008, he handed over the day-to-day running of the business to Lohan Presencer. 2016 saw Presencer become Chairman, handing over running of the group to former Clear Channel Executive. Ministry of Sound began as the idea of Justin Berkmann, inspired by New York’s Paradise Garage, Berkmann set out to create London’s first club devoted to the American house music scenes of 1980s New York City, Chicago and Detroit. As opposed to striking a balance between the typical hallmarks of a music venue, Ministry of Sound was conceived as an arena purely dedicated to sound. Berkmann stated, My concept for Ministry was purely this, 100% sound system first, lights second, design third, Berkmann was introduced to James Palumbo, who was working in property finance at the time, by Humphrey Waterhouse to realise the concept. The site, a bus garage, is located in Elephant & Castle in Southwark. The club opened on 21 September 1991 and has remained in this location since, with opening sets from American house DJs Larry Levan, David Morales, Roger Sanchez and Tony Humphries, Ministry of Sound grew as a clubbing venue. It now attracts around 300,000 clubbers per year and has hosted sets from popular DJs including, Adam Beyer, DJ Harvey, Dixon, Marshmello and it has won the IDMA ‘World’s Best Sound System’ award four years in a row - every year they ran the category. As a venue, Ministry of Sound in London operates 3 weekly club nights, fridays feature Lock n Load brand The Gallery which are primarily trance music, whilst Saturdays host a number of club nights which are primarily house music. In 2016, these included Defected, Glitterbox, Rinse FM, Hospitality, on Tuesday the club hosts a student session called Milkshake, established in 2002. Ministry of Sound’s existence has been threatened on a number of occasions by nearby redevelopment in Elephant & Castle, the most notable concerned the redevelopment of Eileen House, a tower block opposite the nightclub’s entrance. From 2009 to 2014, Ministry of Sound fought various campaigns to save the club from the threat of closure. These culminated in a hearing before then Mayor of London Boris Johnson at City Hall in November 2013, on 19 December 2013, a landmark legal deal was agreed between Ministry of Sound and the developer Oakmayne to enable Eileen House to be redeveloped without jeopardizing the club’s future. In 2016 Ministry of Sound partnered with Dolby Laboratories to bring surround sound Dolby Atmos to the nightclub, the Box, Ministry of Sound’s main room, now boasts a 64-speaker, 22-channel sound system, allowing the artists to control where certain sounds are sent across the space. Under its Ministry of Sound and Hed Kandi brands, the business hosts approximately 500 international events annually across the world, in 2017 the brand will feature as part of the stage line-up at festivals including, The Ark, Adria Summer Festival and Ultra Europe. Ministry does Fitness is the name of Ministry of Sound’s new high intensity interval training experience. Previously the club’s back-of-house vault where the alcohol was stored, The Arches studio opened in February 2017, the concept takes a club-style sound system and lighting rig and pairs it with a bespoke, instructor-led workout
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Def Jam Recordings
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Def Jam Recordings is an American record label, focused predominantly on hip hop and urban music, owned by Universal Music Group. In the UK, the takes on the name Def Jam UK and is operated through Virgin EMI, while in Japan. The label distributes various record labels, including Kanye Wests GOOD Music, Ludacris Disturbing Tha Peace, Def Jam was founded by Rick Rubin in his dormitory in Weinstein Hall at New York University and its first release was a single by his punk-rock group Hose. Russell Simmons joined Rubin shortly after they were introduced to other, according to one story. Another cites DJ Jazzy Jay as their connector, Rubin has said he met Simmons on the TV show, Graffiti Rock and recognized him then as the face of hip hop, He was five years older than me, and he was already established in the music business. And I had no experience whatsoever, the first single released with the Def Jam Recordings logo was T La Rock & Jazzy Jays Its Yours. The first releases with Def Jam Recordings catalog numbers were LL Cool Js I Need a Beat, the singles sold well, eventually leading to a distribution deal with CBS Records through Columbia Records the following year. A few years later, Russell Simmons and Lyor Cohen started a label called Rush Associated Labels to handle Def Jam. RAL became the home to Nice & Smooth and EPMD after both acts were acquired due to the folding of their former label Sleeping Bag Records, other acts under the RAL umbrella included Redman, Onyx, Flatlinerz, Domino, Warren G and Jayo Felony. As the decade drew to a close, the label signed Public Enemy, Lyor Cohen became president of Def Jam/RAL in 1988, after winning a power struggle with Rubin, who would shortly thereafter leave the company to form Def American Recordings. Rubin would take Slayer with him to Def American in its initial stages, by 1992, despite recent multi-platinum selling releases from Public Enemy, and EPMD, Def Jam ran into severe financial troubles and was faced with folding. However, in 1994, PolyGram purchased Sonys 50% stake in Def Jam Recordings — subsequently bringing the label into its fold, following PolyGrams purchase, Def Jam distributed the Violator Records-signed artist Warren Gs Regulate. G Funk Era album, which went triple platinum and brought much-needed revenue to Def Jam through its distribution deal with Violator, PolyGram acquired an additional 10% in Def Jam Recordings in 1996, further strengthening its ownership of Def Jam. Shortly thereafter, Rush Associated Labels was renamed Def Jam Music Group, the label remained profitable as its veteran star LL Cool J released his successful album Mr. Smith in 1995. The label later signed Foxy Brown, whose debut album Ill Na Na became a seller in 1997. In 1998, PolyGram was purchased by Seagram and merged with the MCA family of labels and it then purchased the remaining interest of Def Jam Recordings from Russell Simmons for a reported $100 million. UMG merged 14+ record labels including, Def Jam, Island Records, despite the formation of IDJMG, the Def Jam, Mercury, and Island labels continued to operate as separate imprints underneath the bigger umbrella. Lyor Cohen was appointed co-president of IDJMG, and Kevin Liles succeeded him as president of Def Jam, Def Soul also issued recordings by Musiq, Montell Jordan, Case,112, Patti LaBelle, and Christina Milian
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Virgin EMI Records
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Virgin EMI Records is a British record label owned by the Universal Music Group that was formed in 2013. Virgin EMI Records was founded in March 2013 through the merger of Mercury Records UK and it operates two distinct A&R and marketing streams—Virgin and EMI Records. Virgin EMI became one of Universal Music UKs front-line labels, alongside Polydor Records, Island Records, Decca Records, furthermore, Mike Oldfield, whose Tubular Bells album launched the original Virgin Records, is also a Virgin EMI artist. Official website Virgin 40 official website Discography Virgin EMI at LabelsBase
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Anitta (singer)
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Larissa de Macedo Machado, known by her stage name Anitta, is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actress, dancer and record producer. Anitta rose to fame in 2013 after releasing her debut single Show das Poderosas and she signed a contract with Warner Music Brasil in January 2013 and released her debut studio album. In July of the year, she received a triple gold record certificate. The first single from the album, Show das Poderosas, reached the top of the Brazilian charts and its music video has been viewed over 100 million times on YouTube, with less than two years in the website. The album hit the mark of 170,000 copies sold, Ritmo Perfeito, her second studio album, sold 45,000 copies after a month of its release. On the same day she released her first live album, Meu Lugar, in November 2014, she performed at the Latin Grammy Award, becoming the youngest Brazilian singer to perform at the awards. In 2015, she released her studio album entitled Bang. In 2013, Anitta was the singer who most remained at the top of iTunes Brazil and was elected by the same as the Artist of the Year and she was also elected by the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte as the revelation of the year in music in 2013. Anitta is also a winner as the Best Brazilian Act on the MTV Europe Music Awards. Anitta was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and she is the youngest daughter of Míriam Macedo and Mauro Machado, her brother Renan Machado serves as her artistic producer. Her mother raised the two children by herself and she began her career at 8 years old singing in the choir of Santa Luzia Church in Rio de Janeiro by the intervention of her maternal grandparents. At 11 years old, with the allowance she received, she decided to take an English course and she later received dance lessons provided by her mothers teacher. At 16, she finished a course in administration at a school in Rio de Janeiro. A year later, she decided to pursue an artistic career and that same year, she was the winner of the Revelation of Music award. Anittas stage name was inspired by the character Anita, from Rede Globo TV series Presença de Anita and she thought the character amazing because could be sexy without looking vulgar, girl and woman at the same time. Following the advice of a producer, she added an extra t to the name. In January 2013, due to the success of the song Meiga e Abusada in Rio de Janeiro and her self-titled debut album was released in June 2013. The music video for the song Show das Poderosas received considerable attention by the media in May 2013, the video became the most watched on YouTube in Brazil, surpassing 120 million views
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David Guetta
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Pierre David Guetta is a French DJ, record producer, remixer, and songwriter. He co-founded Gum Productions with Lisa Dodgson and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, later, he released Guetta Blaster and Pop Life. The 2011 follow-up album, Nothing but the Beat, continued this success, containing the hit singles Where Them Girls At, Little Bad Girl, Without You, Titanium, and Turn Me On. He is among the first DJs to get into the EDM scene and is known as the Grandfather of EDM, Guetta has sold over nine million albums and 30 million singles worldwide. In 2011 Guetta was voted as the number one DJ in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs fan poll, in 2013, Billboard crowned When Love Takes Over as the number one dance-pop collaboration of all time. Pierre David Guetta was born in Paris, France in 1967, to a Moroccan Jewish father, Guetta began to DJ at the Broad Club in Paris. He first played songs, and he discovered house music when he heard a Farley Jackmaster Funk track on French radio in 1987. The next year, he began hosting his own club nights, in 1990, he released Nation Rap, a hip-hop collaboration with French rapper Sidney Duteil. In the mid-1990s Guetta played in clubs including Le Centrale, the Rex, Le Boy, released in 1994 Guettas second single, a collaboration with American house vocalist Robert Owens titled Up & Away, was a minor club hit. In 1994, Guetta became the manager of Le Palace nightclub and he continued to organise parties there and in other clubs, such as the Scream parties in Les Bains Douches. In 2001, Guetta along with Joachim Garraud founded Gum Productions, Willis was vacationing in France when he met Guetta. Guettas debut album Just A Little More Love was released in 2002 on Virgin Records, the follow-up singles, were released in 2002. Guetta released a compilation, F*ck Me Im Famous, in 2003 and it included Just for One Day, a remix of David Bowies song Heroes. Later in his career, Guetta continued recording compilations under that title, Guettas second album, Guetta Blaster, was released in 2004. It released four singles, Money and Stay featuring Chris Willis and The World Is Mine, in 2006 the Just a Little More Love single Love Dont Let Me Go was re-released as a mash-up with the Tocadisco remix of Walking Away by The Egg. The mash-up single entitled Love Dont Let Me Go was charted higher than the release of the song. In 2007, Guettas third album Pop Life was released, the album was successful in the UK and Ireland as well as in mainland Europe. According to EMI in 2010, the album has sold a total of 530,000 copies worldwide, the lead single Love Is Gone reached Number 1 on the American Dance Chart and charted on the Billboard Hot 100
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Sebastian Ingrosso
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Sebastian Carmine Ingrosso is a Swedish DJ and record producer. He was also a member of the electronic music supergroup Swedish House Mafia, together with friends Axwell. Born in Nacka, Ingrosso is of Italian descent and grew up in Stockholm and his first official remix was released on Mega Records in 1999. Sebastian Ingrosso is head of A&R for his own label, Refune. Ingrosso is married since 2011 with the singer and songwriter Kinnda, in 2014, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso officially formed the group Axwell Λ Ingrosso. 2002 Sheridan - Wants Vs. Floyd - Proper Education Julien Jabre - Swimming Places 2007 Hard-Fi - Suburban Knights 2008 Felix Da Housecat featuring P
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Ryan Tedder
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Ryan Benjamin Tedder is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Tedders production and songwriting work has proven successful commercially, Apologize, written with and performed by his band OneRepublic, Bleeding Love, performed by Leona Lewis, and Halo, performed by Beyoncé, all made it to the list of best-selling singles of all time. In early 2014, Billboard named him The Undercover King of Pop, ryan Benjamin Tedder was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was raised by an family of missionaries and pastors in a Christian church. He began learning to play the piano at the age of three via the Suzuki method and his early interest in music was prompted by his musician father and school-teacher mother, who coaxed their young son into practicing piano in exchange for candy corn. Tedder started singing at the age of seven and he has commented, I sang for two hours a day every day of my life until I was eighteen. He continued to perform musically during his adolescence through church, school, in his senior year, he moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado. There he met and became friends with future OneRepublic bandmate Zach Filkins on their team at the Colorado Springs Christian School. He attended Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma and began to showcase his own material there, Tedder completed his college education and graduated from ORU in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Relations and Advertising. For years Tedder worked as a waiter, and also as an assistant at Pottery Barn, before securing an internship at DreamWorks SKG in Nashville. He produced demos for songwriters and labels, charging $300 to $400 a track, the prize for the winner was a music contract with Basss now-defunct management company, Free Lance Entertainment. The contestants performed live and were rated by judges and the audience. Tedder later revealed the record and publishing deal he was offered wasnt real and it was just a bunch of hype that didnt turn into anything. One year after winning the MTV competition, Tedder caught the attention of the hip hop producer Timbaland, Tedder commented that he was with Timbaland from 2002–2004 to develop as an artist while producing for other artists at the time. Tedders work crossed many genres and he has had many chart successes both in America and the United Kingdom with a number of artists. In June 2007, Tedder signed a publishing administration deal with Kobalt Music Publishing. The deal included Tedders new works and all songs not performed by OneRepublic, Tedder met producer Morten Schjolin in 2005, doing various collaborations for Tattoos second album. Tedder is the writer of the hit, Apologize, performed by his band OneRepublic
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Matthew Koma
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Matthew Koma is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and DJ. Matthew Koma is one of the writers behind numerous hit songs, including Zedd’s Spectrum, Koma was born and raised in Seaford, New York, on Long Island. Inspired by Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen, Koma started his career in punk rock, later transitioning into a mixture of genres ranging from pop. Komas early collaborations include work with Hardwell, Zedd, Miriam Bryant, Sebastian Ingrosso, Alesso, Tiësto, Vicetone, Koma was noticed by Jimmy Iovine who signed him to Interscope Records after watching an acoustic performance of the record She. Since then he has part in the Sorry For Party Rocking worldwide tour with LMFAO and Far East Movement. In March 2012, Bruce Springsteen released Rocky Ground, a remix that Koma co-produced with Ron Aniello as a single from his album Wrecking Ball, in 2012 Koma also did the main vocals for the song End of Pretend by Black Cards. The following spring, he toured Europe supporting Ellie Goulding alongside Charli XCX, in 2014, Koma and DJ Hardwell released the single Dare You, appeared on RACs debut album, featuring on the single Cheap Sunglasses. EDM star Audiens single Serotonin, and on Showteks Cannonball which reached number one on the UK Dance Chart, Koma collaborated with the The Knocks on I Wish, which was released as a single in September 2015 and later appeared on the Knocks 2016 album,55
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Dirty South (musician)
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Dragan Roganović, better known by his stage name Dirty South is a Serbian-Australian DJ, record producer and remixer based in Melbourne. Born in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia, now Serbia, Dirty Souths producing career developed in tandem with his DJing career and he got his start at the age of 13 after he relocated to Melbourne, Australia, where he currently resides. He also ranked second in the annual InTheMix 50 DJ Poll in 2007, Dirty South teamed up with British DJ Paul Harris in 2007 and produced Better Day, which earned Dirty South another essential radio play by Pete Tong. He also remixed a number of songs, including Reach For Me, Feels Like Home, in late July 2007, he joined together with MYNC Project to release Everybody Freakin. Another one of his honours came when his single, Let It Go, was released on Axwells record label Axtone in 2007, Dirty Souths track Phazing, which featured vocals by Rudy, was one of the top sellers on Beatport when it was released in 2010. In August 2012, Dirty South released the single City of Dreams with Alesso featuring vocals from Ruben Haze and it was initially released exclusively on Beatport and it reached the No.1 position on the Beatport Top 100 its first week of release. In support of City of Dreams, Dirty South announced his largest North American tour to date, the 30+ stop tour takes him across North America from September through to December 2012 and includes stops at venues such as New York Citys Roseland Ballroom and Los Angeles Palladium. He is the brother of professional footballer and former Melbourne Heart goalkeeper Nikola Roganovic. Nikola currently plays in the National Premier League for South Melbourne, inaya Day – The Glamorous Life 20062006 Ferry Corsten – Watch Out 2006 Depeche Mode – Just Cant Get Enough 2006 Evermore – Its Too Late 2006 Isaac James – Just Cant Handle This 2006 Chris Lake feat. Nancy Vice – Bimbo Nation 2006 TV Rock feat, seany B – Flaunt It 2006 Vandalism – Never Say Never 2007 Chab feat. JD Davis – Closer to Me Cicada – The Things You Say Funky Green Dogs aka Murk – Reach for Me Kaskade – Sorry Meck feat, dino – Feels Like Home Mark Ronson feat. Daniel Merriweather – Stop Me Roger Sanchez – Not Enough Wink – Higher State of Consciousness Tiësto feat, jon Bellion - Beautiful Now Official Site MySpace Page Dirty South at Discogs Interview on Clubplanet
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Calvin Harris
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Adam Richard Wiles, known professionally as Calvin Harris, is a Scottish record producer, DJ, singer and songwriter. His debut studio album I Created Disco was released in June 2007 and its lead single Im Not Alone became his first number-one single on the UK Singles Chart. Harris rose to prominence with the release of his third studio album 18 Months in October 2012. Topping the UK charts, the album became his first to chart on the US Billboard 200 chart, Harris released his fourth studio album Motion in November 2014. It debuted at two in the UK and at number five in the US, and became Harriss second consecutive number one album on the US Dance/Electronic Albums chart. The albums first three singles Under Control, Summer and Blame all topped the UK chart, Harris has collaborated with numerous other recording artists. His collaboration with Rihanna We Found Love became an international success, Harris later collaborated with Rihanna on the singles Where Have You Been and This Is What You Came For. Harris currently holds the record for the most top 10 songs from one album on the UK Singles Chart with nine top 10 entries. In October 2014, he became the first artist to place three songs simultaneously on the top 10 of Billboards Dance/Electronic Songs chart and he also became the first British solo artist to reach more than one billion streams on Spotify. Harris has received ten Brit Award nominations—three for Best British Male and he received the British Academys Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year in 2013 and at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards was named Top Dance/Electronic Artist. Additionally, Harris topped Forbes list of the worlds highest-paid DJs for three years from 2013 to 2015. One of the most successful musicians in contemporary British popular culture, Harris runs his own record label, Fly Eye Records. Adam Richard Wiles was born on 17 January 1984 in Dumfries and his parents, David Wiles, a biochemist, and Pamela, a homemaker, married in Oxford before moving to the Dumfries suburb of Georgetown. He has a sister, Sophie, and an older brother. He attended Dumfries High School, and after leaving school he stacked shelves in supermarkets and he was first attracted to electronic music in his teens and began recording bedroom demos in 1999. When Harris was 18 he released two songs Da Bongos and Brighter Days, both were released as 12-inch club singles and CD-EPs by the label Prima Facie in early 2002 under the name Stouffer. With these singles to his credit, Harris moved from Scotland to London, Only one of his songs was released during his time in London, Let Me Know with vocalist Ayah Marar on the Unabombers 2004 live-mix CD Electric Soul, Vol.2. With the lack of job opportunities and money, Harris returned home to Dumfries, Harris signed contracts with Three Six Zero Group, EMI and Sony BMG in 2006 after he had been discovered on the social networking website Myspace
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Hurts
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Hurts are an English synthpop duo formed in 2009, consisting of synthesist Adam Anderson and singer Theo Hutchcraft. Their first two albums, Happiness and Exile, both reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Anderson and Hutchcraft met outside the 42nd Street nightclub in Manchester in November 2005, whilst their friends got involved in a fight. Too drunk to join in, they began discussing music instead, realising they had similar tastes, over the next few months, they exchanged music and lyrics via e-mail, before forming Bureau in March 2006. They performed their first gig as a quintet in May at The Music Box in Manchester and they released their first double A-side single After Midnight/Dollhouse in November, which was made Single of the Week on Xfm. In 2007, Bureau disbanded and soon after Hutchcraft and Anderson formed the band Daggers and they signed to Label Fandango and in October released another double A-side single, Money/Magazine, which, despite failing to chart, was nominated for the Popjustice £20 Music Prize. They recorded a ballad called Unspoken together and they immediately realised that this was the sound that they wanted to develop as a duo. After informing the rest of the band that it was finished, they went on a break to Verona in Italy. Daggers split on 30 January 2009, after uploading the video to their YouTube channel on 21 April 2009, it quickly went viral. The video has since had over 21 million views on YouTube, in July the band was signed to Sony subsidiary RCA Records as well as RCA imprint Major Label Records, run by their old friend Biff Stannard. On 7 January, Zane Lowe premiered the song Blood, Tears & Gold as his Hottest Record in the World and this was quickly followed by gigs at Wiltons Music Hall, London, and in Berlin and Cologne in Germany. In March, Wonderful Life was released to radio in various European territories, as manager Matt Vines explained to Music Week, were looking at tours across Europe to back up the work we are doing in the UK. The single became a hit in countries such as Denmark, Cyprus. On 10 March, their first UK single Better Than Love was premiered on Huw Stephens show on BBC Radio 1. After a nationwide tour with the NME Radar tour, the song was released on download, CD and vinyl formats on 24 May. Following success on Greek radio, Hurts were invited to perform at the MAD Video Music Awards ceremony in Athens in front of 11,000 people on 15 June. Also in June, Kylie Minogue recorded a verse and backing vocals for the song Devotion, Hurts recorded a performance of Kylies 1994 hit Confide In Me for newspaper The Suns website, and has since been a regular inclusion on their gig setlists. Kylie later returned the compliment by recording a performance of Wonderful Life in Radio 1s Live Lounge, throughout the summer, Hurts performed at several music festivals including V Festival and T in the Park in the UK, Pukkelpop in Belgium, and SWR3 New Pop Festival in Germany. Wonderful Life was released in Germany on 6 August and it debuted at two on the German Singles Chart
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Tove Lo
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Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson, better known by the stage name Tove Lo, a name she has had since she was 3, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She was born and raised in the affluent Djursholm district of Danderyd Municipality, just north of Stockholm and she formed the Swedish rock band Tremblebee in 2006. Following the disbanding of Tremblebee, she pursued a career in songwriting, working with producers Alexander Kronlund, Max Martin, and Xenomania, she became a successful songwriter recording and independently releasing her own compositions. In 2014, she was signed to Max Martins songwriting collective Wolf Cousins and was offered a recording deal and she signed to the American label Island and Polydor Records in the UK. Lo rose to fame with the release of her debut album Queen of the Clouds, the album spawned the sleeper hit single, Habits, which peaked at number three on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100. She has collaborated with Coldplay, Flume, Alesso, Nick Jonas, Adam Lambert, Years & Years, Seven Lions, Broods, Lucas Nord, Urban Cone, and Wiz Khalifa. Deemed Swedens darkest pop export by Rolling Stone, Tove Lo is known for her raw and her characteristically honest, complex and autobiographical lyrical content has led to her being dubbed the saddest girl in Sweden by a number of media sources. Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson was born on 29 October 1987 in Stockholm and her mother is a psychologist and her father is a businessperson. Her lifelong nickname and adopted stage name, Tove Lo, was given to her at age three by her godmother because of her love for lynxes, Lo grew up in the affluent Djursholm district of Danderyd Municipality, just north of Stockholm. She describes her childhood as being protected and her family as pretty posh. With her parents being academics, Lo earned good grades in school and grew fond of literature, writing poetry, in an interview with the BBC, she explained, Growing up so safe, I think I was looking for something else. Lo then developed a love for music and formed a band with her friends. With the band, she wrote her first song at age 10 or 11, by age 15, Lo had written a compilation of lyrical content which nobody ever saw and had performed twice on stage, before enrolling at Rytmus Musikergymnasiet, a musical school in Stockholm. During her time at Rytmus, Lo developed a friendship with Caroline Hjelt, after two years, Lo graduated from the school and felt assured that her career would be in music despite her parents preferring otherwise. In March the same year she gave an interview with Out magazine stating that she had never been in a relationship with a woman, in 2006, Lo began writing songs with Christian Bjerring, a guitarist from Rytmus. The pair then formed a rock band, Tremblebee, with three other male students from the school. Tremblebee played together for a few years in bars across Sweden, independently releasing some of their songs, during her time with the band, Lo developed a passion for performing on stage, and was introduced to Swedish production duo The Struts. After the dissolution of Tremblebee, Los musical focus turned toward pop and she then decided to focus on her own tracks, spending six months in her shed studio producing a demo, while doing session singing as a means of income
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Swedish House Mafia
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Swedish House Mafia was a Swedish electronic music supergroup consisting of Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso. The group officially formed in late 2008, the supergroup placed at number ten on the DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ Poll 2011 and have been called the faces of mainstream progressive house music. In the DJ Magazine Top 100 Poll 2012 they were ranked at number twelve, on June 24,2012, the group announced via their website that they would split up after embarking on One Last Tour, which ended at Ultra Miami 2013 on March 24,2013. Before the official formation in late 2008, the trio would play shows together with fellow Swedish DJ Eric Prydz joining them for some shows. The name Swedish House Mafia came about after friends and fans began labelling the four as they played shows together. Eventually the group adopted the name, Prydz decided not to join the group, describing himself as a control freak in the studio who cant abide collaboration, even with close friends. The first production that was released by Axwell, Angello and Ingrosso was Get Dumb and it was produced with Laidback Luke and released in 2007. In 2009, they released Leave the World Behind with Laidback Luke, in 2010, Swedish House Mafia signed a record deal with UMGs Polydor Records after a falling-out with previous record label EMI, due to differing ideas. They released One, their first official single under the name Swedish House Mafia, on Beatport on May 2,2010, the group followed this with an equally well received vocal version featuring Pharrell, retitled One. The next single, Miami 2 Ibiza, with Tinie Tempah, both tracks were taken from the album Until One, a collection of productions and remixes from both Swedish House Mafia as a group and as individuals. It has achieved a BPI Gold Sales award in the United Kingdom, in May 2011, Swedish House Mafia released a new single, Save the World, featuring John Martin on vocals, which charted at number 10 in the UK Chart. Later that year on December 16, they released the track Antidote with Knife Party, on March 12,2012, Swedish House Mafia released their next single titled Greyhound. Their final and most commercially successful track Dont You Worry Child and that same month on September 17, the group announced the release of a second compilation album titled Until Now, forming the official soundtrack to One Last Tour. The album was released on October 22,2012, exactly two years after the release of their first compilation album Until One, Axwell and Ingrosso also wrote and performed Roar for the 2013 Pixar movie Monsters University and its soundtrack. On November 29,2010, Swedish House Mafia released their first DVD documentary called Take One, the movie was filmed over the course of 2 years,253 gigs and 15 countries by two Swedish directors Christian Larson and Henrik Hanson. They commented on Take One by saying Its not narrated at all and its just sequences of them and its made into a story. Its just us following them around and they become characters in their own film and it was pretty easy because they are all such strong characters, all three of them. The documentary starts with Swedish House Mafia in the studio with Laidback Luke working on Leave the World Behind and concludes at Ultra Music Festival in 2010 premiering their hit One
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Shots Studios
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Shots Studios has partnered and successfully helped the careers of internet comedians Hannah Stocking, Anwar Jibawi, Lele Pons and Rudy Mancuso. In October 2015, Shots Studios launched the Awkward Puppets, a show in partnership with comedian and internet star. In 2016, Shots Studios launched YouTube channels with internet stars Lele Pons, Rudy Mancuso, Lorenzo Cromwell, as of October 2016, Shots Studios channels generate over 2 million daily views with an average watch through rate of 78%. Shots Studios was created in 2009 by video game creators and brothers, John Shahidi, the company started as a mobile gaming company called RockLive and after a large investment from Justin Bieber in 2013, RockLive renamed to Shots Studios an became a digital studio. In November 2013, Shots Studios released a social network called the Shots app, the app was removed from the App Store in 2016. On April 20,2016 it was announced that Shots Studios purchased the Mindie app, the company is backed by Justin Bieber, Floyd Mayweather, King Bach, Marlon Wayans, Omar Epps, Shervin Pishevar, WI Harper, Upfront Ventures and DCM Ventures. After the Shahidi brothers worked on Mike Tysons management team from 2009 -2012, the channel includes parody music videos and comedy sketches. After Twitter CEO, Anthony Noto accidentally tweeted a message about an acquisition for Twitter, CEO, John Shahidi stated to Fox News that the company is not for sale
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Theo Hutchcraft
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Theo David Hutchcraft is an English singer and songwriter best known as the lead singer of the synthpop duo Hurts. Hutchcraft met Adam Anderson outside a nightclub in late 2005 whilst their friends were fighting, too drunk to join in, they started talking about music and realised they had similar tastes, they decided to start a band. Over the next few months they exchanged music and lyrics via e-mail and they performed their first gig as a quintet in May at The Music Box in Manchester, and were shortly afterwards signed to independent record label High Voltage Sounds. They released their first double A-side single After Midnight / Dollhouse in November, in 2007, Bureau disbanded and soon after Hutchcraft and Anderson formed the band Daggers. They signed to Label Fandango and in October released another double A-side single Money / Magazine and they recorded a mournful ballad called Unspoken together, and they immediately realised that this was the sound that they wanted to develop as a duo. After informing the rest of the band that it was finished, they went on a break to Verona, Italy. Daggers announced on their Myspace page in January 2009 that they had split up, now called Hurts, Hutchcraft and Anderson recorded an amateur music video for a song called Wonderful Life with a female dancer who had responded to an advert in a shop window. After they uploaded the video to their YouTube channel in April 2009 and they were signed to RCA imprint Major Label in July. The video has since had over 21 million views on YouTube, Hurts finished fourth on the BBCs Sound of 2010 poll, and Zane Lowe premiered new song Blood, Tears & Gold as his Hottest Record in the World soon after. Hurts performed their first gig on 22 January at the Michalsky Stylenite in Berlin, followed by a gig on 22 February at St Phillips Church in Salford and this was quickly followed by gigs at Wiltons Music Hall, London, and in Berlin and Cologne in Germany. Following massive success on Greek radio, Hurts were invited to perform at the MAD Video Music Awards ceremony in Athens in front of 11,000 people on 15 June, also in June, it was announced that Kylie Minogue was recording with the band. She recorded a verse and backing vocals for the song Devotion, Hurts recorded a performance of Kylies 1994 hit Confide In Me for newspaper The Suns website, and has since been a regular inclusion on their gig setlists. Kylie later returned the compliment by recording a performance of Wonderful Life in Radio 1s Live Lounge, Hurts debut album Happiness was released in September 2010, reaching the Top 10 in 12 European countries and selling over 1 million copies worldwide. Hurts have also more than 1 million singles worldwide. Happiness debuted at four in the UK Albums Chart, selling 25,000 copies in its first week on sale. With Hurts, Happiness Exile Surrender Official website
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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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Usher (musician)
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Usher Raymond IV is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. Born in Dallas, Texas but raised and lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee until moving to Atlanta, at the age of 12, his mother put him in local singing competitions, before catching the attention of a music A&R from LaFace Records. In 1994 he released his debut album, Usher. 8701 produced the number-one singles U Remind Me and U Got It Bad and it sold 8 million copies worldwide and won his first two Grammy Awards as Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 2002 and 2003. Confessions established him as one of the musical artists of the 2000s decade. Bolstered by its four consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number one singles, Burn, Confessions Part II, and My Boo, it has been certified Diamond by the RIAA. Here I Stand and Raymond v. Raymond, debuted atop of the Billboard 200, the EP, Versus, also produced the Hot 100 top-five single DJ Got Us Fallin in Love. Looking 4 Myself, also debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, Raymond v. Raymond and Looking 4 Myself received Grammy Awards for R&B singles There Goes My Baby and Climax. Hard II Love peaked at five of the Billboard 200 albums chart. Usher has sold 23.8 million albums and 38.2 million digital songs in the United States, to date, his worldwide sales stand at 43 million albums and 75 million records overall, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Usher has won awards and accolades including 18 Billboard Music Awards and 8 Grammy Awards. Billboard also placed him at number 6 on their list of Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years, Usher has attained 9 US Hot 100 number-one singles. Considered an icon and sex symbol, he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, in 2008, he started his own record label Raymond-Braun Media Group, a joint venture with talent manager Scooter Braun that includes Canadian singer Justin Bieber. Usher was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Jonetta Patton, from Tennessee, Usher spent the majority of his young life in Chattanooga, his father left the family when Usher was a year old. Usher grew up with his mother, then-stepfather, and half-brother, while in Atlanta, Usher attended North Springs High School. At age 10, Usher joined an R&B local quintet called the NuBeginnings, Usher recorded 10 songs with the group in 1991, and the ensuing album, Nubeginning Featuring Usher Raymond IV, was only made available regionally and by mail order. However, Patton took him out because, according to her, the album was re-released nationally in April 2002 by Hip-O Records. At age 13, Usher would meet A. J, alexander at local talent show in Atlanta
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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
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It was co-founded by Paul Tollett and Rick Van Santen in 1999, and is organized by Goldenvoice, a subsidiary of AEG Live as of 2001. The event features many genres of music, including rock, indie, hip hop, across the grounds, several stages continuously host live music. The main stages are the, Coachella Stage, Gobi Tent, Mojave Tent, Outdoor Theatre, and Sahara Tent, the festivals origins trace back to a 1993 concert that Pearl Jam performed at the Empire Polo Club while boycotting venues controlled by Ticketmaster. After no event was held in 2000, Coachella returned on an annual basis beginning in April 2001, in 2002, the festival reverted to a two-day format. Coachella was expanded to a day in 2007 and eventually a second weekend in 2012, it is currently held on consecutive three-day weekends in April. Organizers began permitting spectators to camp on the grounds in 2003, Coachella showcases popular and established musical artists, as well as emerging artists and reunited groups. Coachella is one of the largest, most famous, and most profitable music festivals in the United States, the 2016 festival sold 198,000 tickets and grossed $94.2 million. On November 5,1993, Pearl Jam performed for almost 25,000 fans at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, the site was selected because the band refused to play in Los Angeles as a result of a dispute with Ticketmaster. Around 1997, Goldenvoice was struggling to book concerts against larger companies, Tollett said, We were getting our ass kicked financially. We were losing a lot of bands, and we couldnt compete with the money. As a result, the idea of a festival was conceived. While attending the 1997 Glastonbury Festival, Tollett began to brainstorm ideas for a festival of his own with multiple venues. His intent was to book artists who were not necessarily chart successes, Maybe if you put a bunch of them together. Press coverage leading up to the inaugural Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was dominated by Woodstock 1999, a festival in July 1999 that was marred by looting, arson, violence, and rapes. Goldenvoices insurance costs increased 40% as a result and they faced uncertainty regarding Coachellas tickets, organizers were already aiming to provide a high-comfort festival experience for Coachella but rededicated themselves to those efforts after Woodstock 1999. Advertisements boasted free water fountains, ample restrooms, and misting tents, on October 9–10,1999, the inaugural Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was held. Headlining the event were Beck, the Chemical Brothers, Tool, Morrissey, originally, promoters had hoped to make the event three days and even considered the UK band Massive Attack as the third-day headliner. The organizers strived to recreate European music festivals with small crowds in a setting with plenty of turntables
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Electric Daisy Carnival
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Electric Daisy Carnival, commonly known as EDC, is one of the biggest electronic dance music festivals in the world, with its flagship held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada. Big name electronic dance producers and DJs such as Armin van Buuren, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Yellow Claw, the festival incorporates various styles of dance music including trap, bounce, trance, techno, bass, house, hardstyle, and more. Since its inception It has since spread to various venues across the United States as well as abroad, including Mexico, Puerto Rico, the largest electronic music festival outside of Europe, EDC was dubbed the American Ibiza in 2010. In 2009, EDC became an event, and in 2011 a three-day event in Las Vegas that drew 230,000 people. In 2015 it drew more than 400,000 over three days, the first Electric Daisy Carnival rave was held in the early 1990s at an open field in the city of Pacoima, in Los Angeles, California, by Gary Richards and DJ Steve Kool-Aid. In 1997, its next incarnation was held at the Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles, Electric Daisy Carnival was selected by Insomniacs partner Philip Blaine. The name usage was approved by Steve Kool-Aid via Gary Richards as a homage to the creation from several years prior. Philip at the time was partners with Gary Richards at 1500 Records,2009 marked the first year that the festival occurred in Puerto Rico. In 2010, the event expanded to Dallas, Texas, and in 2011, in 2012, the EDC expanded to New York, and in 2013 expanded to Milton Keynes, UK, and Chicago. The California event was held June 28 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, unexpectedly high attendance caused massive lines and long waits of several hours. There were claims that it was over its capacity of 65,000 people. EDC organizers promised to reduce the wait, opening the two hours early for Nocturnal Wonderland 2008. The Colorado event took place on June 14 at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds in Aurora, announced at Nocturnal Festival 2008 to be a two-day festival, the California event was held on June 26–27. On Friday, approximately 55,000 attendees were present and Saturday saw a crowd of approximately 99,000, EDC2009 was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and used the entire southern half of Exposition Park. The Colorado event was held at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds in Aurora on June 13 and it was headlined by Infected Mushroom, Paul Van Dyk, and several others. The Puerto Rico event was held on August 14, the venue was The Arena Fairgrounds in San Juan. EDC Los Angeles had one of the highest attendance, up to 185,000 people, though tickets were starting at $60, some attendees paid over $100 per ticket. It drew criticism from local authorities and promoters alike after minors under the age of 16 gained entrance
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Tomorrowland (festival)
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Tomorrowland is an electronic music festival held in Boom, Belgium. Tomorrowland was first held in 2005, and has become one of the worlds largest and most notable music festivals. It now stretches over 2 weekends and usually gets sold-out in minutes, the first edition of the festival took place on August 14,2005. Performers included Push, Armin van Buuren, Cor Fijneman, Yves Deruyter, Technoboy, Yoji Biomehanika, the second festival, on July 30,2006, hosted Armin van Buuren, Axwell, Marco Bailey, Fred Baker, David Guetta, Ruthless and DJ Zany. The DJ and producer Paul Oakenfold was also announced on the poster, emjay, the producer of Stimulate, the anthem of 2006, performed on the main stage with The Atari Babies. The third year, the festival lasted two days for the first time in its history, taking place on July 28 and 29,2007, in 2008, the festival took place on July 26 and 27. For the first time, more than 100 DJs participated, the number of visitors exceeded 50,000 for the first time. For the fifth event, ID&T led to even more venues, one ski, sun has included an I Love the 90s stage, where musicians such as Push, Natural Born Deejays and SASH from the dance scene were present. La Rocca performed live at the event for the first time, the special act on the main stage was Moby. Tomorrowland 2009 took place on July 25 and 26 and attracted 90,000 people, the track was made by Like Mike, Dada Life and Dimitri Vegas and the vocal melody and lyrics were written and recorded by Tara McDonald. The song reached number 5 in the Belgian commercial charts and is the biggest selling anthem for Tomorrowlands to date,2011 marked the festivals expansion to three days. Only a few days after the official pre-sale of tickets kicked off and it was voted the best festival of its kind in the world at the International Dance Music Awards in 2012. Tomorrowland 2012 took place between from July 27–29,2012, at the De Schorre, a recreation area in Boom. 185,000 people from over 75 countries around the world were in attendance, because of the enormous success of Tomorrowland and the fact that it is a Belgian festival, ID&T decided to give Belgians an exclusive chance with a pre-sale on March 24. In less than one day, all of the sold out. The worldwide sale started April 7, within 43 minutes, the other 100,000 tickets sold out. In addition to regular tickets, Tomorrowland partnered with Brussels Airlines to provide travel packages from over 15 cities around the world. Tomorrowland 2013 took place on July 26–28 and reached 180,000 attendees at De Schorre in Boom, full madness passes sold out in 35 minutes, and the remainder of tickets sold out in a reported one second
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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years
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The MDNA Tour
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The MDNA Tour was the ninth concert tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It showcased material from her studio album, MDNA. The tour visited the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East and this marked the singers first performances in the United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Scotland, and Colombia. The tour was planned to reach Australia in January 2013 but was cancelled. Madonna described the tour as the journey of a soul from darkness to light, the tour has received mostly positive reception from critics. The tour courted many controversial subjects such as violence, firearms, human rights, nudity, lawsuits threatened against Madonna have also been engaged from the tour. The MDNA Tour created immense success at the box office and many venues were sold out. It was dubbed as the tour of 2012 by Billboard. Madonna broke the record for occupying the top two highest-grossing female tours of all time, Madonna accepted the Top Touring Artist of the year at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards. A concert special titled Madonna, The MDNA Tour aired on Epix in the United States on June 22 at 8,00 pm ET. The television special documented the November 19 and 20 shows at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, a live album, MDNA World Tour, was released on September 9,2013. After performing at Hope for Haiti telethon, MTV News, stated the singer will feature the cast of Glee on the forthcoming tour, the gesture was a show of appreciation for the episode featuring Madonnas hits. This information was followed by fansite DrownedMadonna releasing a proposed tour itinerary from Live Nation. The report showed the singer playing a tour beginning in New Zealand. It also showed dates in Australia, China, Southeast Asia, Europe, days later, many media outlets around the world posted the itinerary, causing Live Nation to respond to the reports authenticity. While promoting her first feature film, W. E, Madonna partnered with Smirnoff to produce a global dance contest. Called the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project, the contest asked for dancers to submit footage to becoming a dancer on the forthcoming tour. Eleven finalists performed for Madonna and fans at the Roseland Ballroom in November 2011, the winner of the contest was Charles Riley
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DJ Mag
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DJ Magazine is a British monthly magazine dedicated to electronic dance music and DJs. Founded in 1991, the magazine is adapted for distribution in UK, USA, Spain, France, Italy, Latin America, China, South Korea, the magazines biggest property is a list of the Worlds most popular DJs, called Top 100 DJs. The poll attracted over 1 million votes in 2015, making it the Worlds biggest music poll, armin van Buuren currently holds the record of most overall wins with five and a record four consecutively. The awards party for the poll was hosted at the Ministry of Sound nightclub in London. For the 2011 poll, the event was hosted outside of the UK for the first time in its history, the 2012 and 2013 award shows were both held on 19 October at the same event. Until 2002, the top three had consisted of at least one British DJ, since the year at least one Dutch DJ has featured in the top three. In 2015 the Top 100 DJs Awards Party took place as the moment of the Amsterdam Music Festival. Over 40,000 guests witnessed the crowning of 2015s winners Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, following the Amsterdam event, the winning DJs were flown to London, where they performed to a sold out Brixton Academy for the Top 100 DJs London show. Top 100 DJs is considered to be important to DJs as an influencer of booking fees. DJs regularly campaign for votes, a process which is allowed by the magazine, however due to the weight that is placed on Top 100 DJs ranking by bookers worldwide, there have been criticisms of the poll. Top 100 DJs has been criticised as being influenced by the marketing power of DJs. A recent article that appeared in the US edition of the Huffington Post explores this claim, yu asks Has the DJMag list transformed into a popularity contest or is it still a resemblance of the DJs talent. The list has also criticized for not including a more balanced reflection of artists from other Electronic dance music styles. A feature in The Guardian in 2010 by the journalist Ben Child entitled What does DJ Mags top 100 poll tell us about UK dance music. This has pretty much always been the case, with the odd Drum N Bass or Breakbeat acts occasionally making it into the lower reaches in years gone by, as the poll is publicly voted, DJ Mag have no direct input into which DJs are featured. In 1997 the magazine opened the top 100 list to a vote which is still the current format. Awards as given by DJ Mag Notes, DJ Mag also run an annual poll called Top 100 Clubs, since 2013, Top 100 Clubs has been sponsored by Miller Genuine Draft. DJ Blackbook Votes and standings from 1997 to 2013 EDM Source and Resident Advisor Webzines Alternative Top 100 DJs list 2014
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Forever (Alesso album)
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Forever is the debut studio album by Swedish DJ and record producer Alesso. It was released on 22 May 2015 by Def Jam Recordings, Alesso has said of the album, Its been an indescribable journey to get this album together. Im so proud of it, its personal to me, its a dream to me that this has come together. I hope my fans enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it and all the memories. Thank you to everyone who helped me on this incredible journey, forever received mixed reviews from music critics. All tracks are produced by Alesso alone, except Under Control which is produced by Calvin Harris, notes If It Wasnt for You features uncredited vocals by Simon Strömstedt. In My Blood features uncredited vocals by John Martin, cool contains samples of Kylie Minogues 2010 single Get Outta My Way
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Swedes
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Swedes are a Germanic ethnic group native to Sweden. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland, with a substantial diaspora in other countries, the English term Swede has been attested in English since the late 16th century and is of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin. The term is believed to have derived from the Proto-Indo-European reflexive pronominal root, *se. The word must have meant ones own, the same root and original meaning is found in the ethnonym of the Germanic tribe Suebi, preserved to this day in the name Swabia. Sweden enters proto-history with the Germania of Tacitus in AD98, in Germania 44,45 he mentions the Swedes as a powerful tribe with ships that had a prow in both ends. Which kings ruled these Suiones is unknown, but Norse mythology presents a line of legendary and semi-legendary kings going back to the last centuries BC. In the 6th century Jordanes named two tribes, which he calls the Suehans and the Suetidi, who lived in Scandza and these two names are both considered to refer to the same tribe. The Suehans, he says, has very fine horses just as the Thyringi tribe, the Icelander Snorri Sturluson wrote of the 6th-century Swedish king Adils that he had the finest horses of his days. The Suehans supplied black fox-skins for the Roman market, then Jordanes names the Suetidi which is considered to be the Latin form of Svitjod. He writes that the Suetidi are the tallest of men - together with the Dani, later he mentions other Scandinavian tribes as being of the same height. Originating in semi-legendary Scandza, a Gothic population had crossed the Baltic Sea before the 2nd century AD and they reaching Scythia on the coast of the Black Sea in modern Ukraine, where Goths left their archaeological traces in the Chernyakhov culture. In the 5th and 6th centuries, they divided as the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths. Crimean Gothic communities appear to have survived intact in the Crimea until the late 18th century, the Swedish Viking Age lasted roughly between the 8th and 11th centuries. During this period, it is believed that the Swedes expanded from eastern Sweden and it is believed that Swedish Vikings and Gutar mainly travelled east and south, going to Finland, the Baltic countries, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine the Black Sea and further as far as Baghdad. Their routes passed through the Dnieper down south to Constantinople, on which they did numerous raids, the Byzantine Emperor Theophilos noticed their great skills in war and invited them to serve as his personal bodyguard, known as the varangian guard. The Swedish Vikings, called Rus are also believed to be the fathers of Kievan Rus. The Arabic traveller Ibn Fadlan described these Vikings as following, I have seen the Rus as they came on their merchant journeys, each man has an axe, a sword, and a knife, and keeps each by him at all times. The swords are broad and grooved, of Frankish sort, the adventures of these Swedish Vikings are commemorated on many runestones in Sweden, such as the Greece Runestones and the Varangian Runestones
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Italians
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Italians are a nation and ethnic group native to Italy who share a common culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a native tongue. The majority of Italian nationals are speakers of Standard Italian. Italians have greatly influenced and contributed to the arts and music, science, technology, cuisine, sports, fashion, jurisprudence, banking, Italian people are generally known for their localism and their attention to clothing and family values. The term Italian is at least 3,000 years old and has a history that goes back to pre-Roman Italy. According to one of the common explanations, the term Italia, from Latin, Italia, was borrowed through Greek from the Oscan Víteliú. The bull was a symbol of the southern Italic tribes and was often depicted goring the Roman wolf as a defiant symbol of free Italy during the Social War. Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus states this account together with the legend that Italy was named after Italus, mentioned also by Aristotle and Thucydides. The Etruscan civilization reached its peak about the 7th century BC, but by 509 BC, when the Romans overthrew their Etruscan monarchs, its control in Italy was on the wane. By 350 BC, after a series of wars between Greeks and Etruscans, the Latins, with Rome as their capital, gained the ascendancy by 272 BC, and they managed to unite the entire Italian peninsula. This period of unification was followed by one of conquest in the Mediterranean, in the course of the century-long struggle against Carthage, the Romans conquered Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. Finally, in 146 BC, at the conclusion of the Third Punic War, with Carthage completely destroyed and its inhabitants enslaved, octavian, the final victor, was accorded the title of Augustus by the Senate and thereby became the first Roman emperor. After two centuries of rule, in the 3rd century AD, Rome was threatened by internal discord and menaced by Germanic and Asian invaders. Emperor Diocletians administrative division of the empire into two parts in 285 provided only temporary relief, it became permanent in 395, in 313, Emperor Constantine accepted Christianity, and churches thereafter rose throughout the empire. However, he moved his capital from Rome to Constantinople. The last Western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed in 476 by a Germanic foederati general in Italy and his defeat marked the end of the western part of the Roman Empire. During most of the period from the fall of Rome until the Kingdom of Italy was established in 1861, Odoacer ruled well for 13 years after gaining control of Italy in 476. Then he was attacked and defeated by Theodoric, the king of another Germanic tribe, Theodoric and Odoacer ruled jointly until 493, when Theodoric murdered Odoacer. Theodoric continued to rule Italy with an army of Ostrogoths and a government that was mostly Italian, after the death of Theodoric in 526, the kingdom began to grow weak
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Beatport
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Beatport is an electronic music-oriented online music store owned by LiveStyle. The company is based in Denver with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Beatport is oriented primarily towards DJs, selling full songs as well as resources that can be used for remixes. Established in 2004, the service was acquired in 2013 by Robert F. X. Sillermans company SFX Entertainment for a price of slightly over $50 million. SFX Entertainment filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on February 1,2016, however, in May 2016, SFX suspended its proposed auction of the company, and cut its streaming and original content operations in order to focus on its core music sales business. SFX has since emerged from bankruptcy as LiveStyle, and continues to operate as a music store. The first version of Beatports web store, Beatport 1.0, was released on January 7,2004, half a year later, Beatport was beginning to become recognized after a few collaborations with well-known DJs and partnerships with the technology company Native Instruments. In January 2005, a revised Beatport 2.0 was released, Beatport was also made accessible through a scaled-down GUI embedded within DJ software, Traktor DJ Studio by Native Instruments. In February 2007, Beatport launched the Beatport Player, a viral marketing web widget to play back relevant content by Artist, Label, Genre, and Chart. Built using Adobe Flash and HTML, the player gives users the ability to create custom, in August 2007, Beatport launched a community-oriented music site, Beatportal, whose stated mission is. to provide music lovers with up-to-date information about the world of electronic music. Following up on the idea of the site, Beatport introduced the Beatport Music Awards on March 18,2008. Each year Beatport users can vote for the best electronic music artists in an effort to trace the progress of these artists over the years or determine which has the largest growing fan base. The BMAs are broken down into 19 categories, including Best Artist categories from each genre, Best Remix, the nominees for the BMAs are based solely on unit sales at Beatport. The third version of the store, named The New Beatport, was released on January 21,2009. Multiple features were added to the site including embedded artwork in purchased music, as a newer version of the store, it integrated the use of a Adobe Flex 3 web application provided by RealEyes Media. On July 14,2011, Beatport launched their HTML5 website with new features, designs, the annual revenue of Beatport for 2012 was reportedly around $15–18 million, with losses of $2 million. In February 2013, Beatport was acquired by Robert F. X, Sillermans SFX Entertainment, a conglomerate focusing on EDM properties such as festivals and promoters. Additionally, Beatport announced a partnership with the music recognition service Shazam, in December 2013, the company laid off 20 employees in the Denver office and six in San Francisco, reportedly leaving the sites technical infrastructure supported by only a skeleton crew. Under SFX ownership, Beatport began to reposition itself towards the electronic dance music culture
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Pressure (Nadia Ali song)
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Pressure is a song by Nadia Ali, Starkillers and Alex Kenji. It was released on February 15,2011 by Spinnin Records, the song reached No.16 on the Ultratip Chart in Wallonia, Belgium. Pressure is Nadia Alis sixth single as a lead artist and it was written by Ali and produced by American DJ Nick Terranova and Italian DJ Alessandro Bacci. Ali and Terranova met in 2009 when Ali requested him to remix her single Love Story, after that, the two decided to collaborate on original productions and had studio sessions on Christmas Eve 2009 and produced a number of songs, of which one was Pressure. Ali described Pressure as a fun song venting about the frustrations and expectations which come with being successful, a music video for Pressure, directed by Brando Neverland was uploaded on YouTube on July 7,2011. At the beginning of the video, Nocturne in E-flat major by Frédéric Chopin can be heard, the song was described by Kaskade as the Tune of 2011. The remix was nominated for the Best Progressive Track at the 27th International Dance Music Awards at the Winter Music Conference
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Hype Machine
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Hype Machine is a music blog aggregator created by Anthony Volodkin. Hype Machine was originally a music created in 2005 by Anthony Volodkin. The site was out of Volodkins frustration with music magazines. He said, I discovered MP3 blogs like Stereogum and Music for Robots, I couldnt believe there were people spending their time writing about music, putting up tracks so you could hear them. And I thought, there has to be a way to bring this all together, in 2005, Volodkin sent his site address to pioneers in the online music domain, including Lucas Gonze of Webjay, in order to gain feedback. Instead of sending a response, Gonze and others posted the link online, Volodkin observed, got launched without ever being launched. Hype Machine had a partnership with BuzzMedia until 2014, when it switched to Townsquare Media. Hype Machines structure has been described as an amalgamation of Pandora Radio and it aggregates the most recently posted songs from a selection of music blogs and lists them on the websites main page. Users have the ability to love songs, which saves the song to their Loved List, the site has thirteen different genres to select music from. Users can also select the Latest tracks from categories including Freshest, Remixes Only, No Remixes, Hype Machine also provides a full directory of the blogs from which their database of music is derived. Additionally, Hype Machine maintains a Popular List for the last three days and the week, both of which are determined by the number of loves given to each song by users. In March 2008, the added a Listening History section. Above each song are provided links to music retailers such as eMusic, Amazon. The commission from each sale serves as one of the revenue streams for Hype Machine. In January 2010, The Hype Machine partnered with SoundCloud, allowing labels to provide music bloggers with new, Hype Machine released an iPhone application on May 11,2011, and a Blackberry 10 version in 2013. Hype Machines traffic has grown steadily since its launch in 2005 and it has been profiled by CNN, Wired, and The Guardian. It was named to The Guardians list of 100 essential websites of 2009, fred Wilson called the site the best thing to happen to music since the Rolling Stones and the Technorati for music. Gawker Media founder Nick Denton called the site the future of all media, Official website Official blog Official IPhone App Official Android app
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BBC Radio 1
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Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7,00 pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by radio stations. Recently, the BBC claimed that it targets the 15–29 age group. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991, Radio 1 was established in 1967 as a successor to the BBC Light Programme, which had broadcast popular music and other entertainment since 1945. Radio 1 was conceived as a response to the popularity of offshore pirate radio stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London. Radio 1 was launched at 7,00 am on Saturday 30 September 1967. The first words on Radio 1 – after a countdown by the Controller of Radios 1 and 2, Robin Scott, welcome to the exciting new sound of Radio 1. This was the first use of US-style jingles on BBC radio, the first complete record played on Radio 1 was Flowers in the Rain by The Move. The second single was Massachusetts by The Bee Gees, the breakfast show remains the most prized slot in the Radio 1 schedule, with every change of breakfast show presenter exciting considerable media interest. Despite this, it gained massive audiences, becoming the most listened to station in the world with audiences of over 10 million claimed for some of its shows, in the early-mid-1970s Radio 1 presenters were rarely out of the British tabloids, thanks to the Publicity Departments high-profile work. Alan Freemans Saturday Rock Show was voted Best Radio Show 5 years running by readers of a music publication. In his last few months as controller, Johnny Beerling commissioned a handful of new shows that in some set the tone for what was to come under Matthew Bannister. One of these Loudnproud was the UKs first national radio series aimed at a gay audience, far from being a parting quirk, the show was a surprise hit and led to the networks first coverage of the large outdoor Gay Pride event in 1994. Bannister took the reins fully in October 1993 and his aim was to rid the station of its Smashie and Nicey image and make it appeal to the under 25s. Although originally launched as a station, by the early 1990s. Many listeners rebelled as the first new DJs to be introduced represented a crossover from other parts of the BBC with Emma Freud, Evans was a popular but controversial presenter who was eventually sacked in 1997 after he demanded to present the breakfast show for only four days per week. Evans was replaced from 17 February 1997 by Mark and Lard – Mark Radcliffe and they were replaced by Zoë Ball and Kevin Greening eight months later in October 1997, with Greening moving on and leaving Ball as solo presenter. Documentaries like John Peels Lost in Music which looked at the influence that the use of drugs have had over popular musicians received critical acclaim but were slated inside Broadcasting House, later in the 1990s the Britpop boom declined, and manufactured chart pop came to dominate the charts
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Ultra Music Festival
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Ultra Music Festival is an annual outdoor electronic music festival that takes place during March in the city of Miami, Florida. The festival was founded in 1999 by Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes and is named after the 1997 Depeche Mode album, Ultra Music Festival is held in Downtown Miami at Bayfront Park. It was a festival from 1999 to 2006, then grew into a two-day weekend event from 2007 to 2010. Since 2011, Ultra has taken place three days during the month of March. In 2012, an attendance of 155,000 people attended the festival. In 2013, for the first time in Ultra’s history, the took place across two consecutive weekends welcoming a combined attendance of 330,000 people. In 2014, the returned to its original one weekend format. The most recent edition of Ultra, in 2016, welcomed 165,000 people to the festival, although they share names, Ultra Music Festival was not directly tied to Ultra Records, an electronic music record label. However, the two entities did announce an alliance in August 2012, which would allow them to collaborate on marketing. The twentieth edition of Ultra Music Festival will be taking place March 23–25,2018, Ultra Music Festival was inaugurated and produced in 1999 by business partners Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes. The first festival was held as an event on March 13,1999. Artists at Ultras first festival included Paul van Dyk, Rabbit in the Moon, Josh Wink, the first Ultra Beach Music Festival, which was held at Collins Park in Miami Beach proved popular, with an estimated ten thousand concertgoers in attendance. However, Faibisch and Omes still saw a loss of between $10,000 to $20,000 during the festivals inaugural year. Although, in March 2000 the festival returned to South Beachs Collins Park and was met with more success. The festival was immediately renewed for a third year, due to the massive rise in attendance between 1999 and 2000, festival organizers decided to relocate to Bayfront Park in Downtown Miami for Ultras third annual event in 2001. In 2005, Fabisch met with Adam Russakoff, who has since been the producer, director of business affairs. With the record-breaking attendance of the seventh annual Ultra Music Festival in 2005, in 2007, the festival held its first two-day event at Bicentennial Park with more than 50,000 concert goers in attendance, which was another record at the time for Ultra. With an estimated attendance of over 70,000 people, Ultra Music Festival set a new record for the City of Miami for number of tickets sold at a single event, each stage was accompanied with visual arts provided by VJs Vello Virkhaus, Psyberpixie, and Cozer
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If I Lose Myself
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If I Lose Myself is a song recorded by American pop rock band OneRepublic for their third studio album, Native. It was released as the albums first official single on January 8,2013, the song was written by Ryan Tedder, Benny Blanco, Brent Kutzle and Zach Filkins. It was produced by Tedder and Blanco while Kutzle served as the co-producer, the song peaked at number 74 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 6 on the Media Control Charts in Germany. In early 2014, the single was re-released in the UK after the success of Counting Stars. If I Lose Myself runs for 4,01 minutes and has a tempo of 140 beats per minute, on March 28,2013, OneRepublic performed If I Lose Myself on American Idol with former Idol contestant and NBC Smash star Katharine McPhee. They also performed on Good Morning America, The Ellen Degeneres Show and Rachael Ray, as well as other concerts. In an interview with fuse. tv, Tedder said, The original concept was borrowing from the scene of Garden State—the planes going down and all the oxygen masks drop out. We chased that for a minute but realized and its one thing to watch that kind of video once, but you dont wanna sit there and hit repeat on watching a plane crash. The music video was released on January 24,2013, in the video, a group of people are sent a text from Ryan Tedder, of a picture of a wolf and the numbers 11.11.11 at the bottom. The video cuts to scenes of the performing the song in a dark. There are pictures of owls and foxes being projected around the room which are allusions to the cover for Native. At the end of the video, there is a fox being projected on Tedders face, the video was inspired by the movies 12 Monkeys and The Matrix. If I Lose Myself was promoted and released in the United Kingdom and this remix was later featured on both the UK and US reissue of the groups album, Native, as well as Alessos debut album, Forever. The remix was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Remixed Recording, alesso explained, Digital download If I Lose Myself –3,34 Digital download — extended remix If I Lose Myself –7,08 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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SoundCloud
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SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform based in Berlin, Germany, that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds. SoundClouds content is split between music and other audio. Founders Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss are the executive officer and chief technical officer. SoundCloud was established in Berlin in August 2008 by Swedish sound designer Ljung, in a 2009 interview with Wired, Ljung said, In April 2009, SoundCloud received €2.5 million Series A funding from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures. By May 2010, SoundCloud announced it had one million users, in January 2011, it was confirmed that SoundCloud had raised a US$10 million Series B funding round from Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures. On 15 June 2011, SoundCloud announced they had five million registered users, on 23 January 2012, SoundCloud announced on their blog that they had 10 million registered users. By May 2012,15 million users were announced by the company at a conference held in San Francisco. The usage level for the site was growing by 1.5 million users per month at this stage, the new API was released to the public in December 2012. The response from users was mixed, and many expressed dissatisfaction with the change, SoundCloud received over 60,000 comments regarding the new layout by 10 December 2012. Also in December 2012, the data showed that SoundCloud was reaching 180 million people per month—8 percent of the global Internet—while users were uploading 10 hours of content every minute. In March 2013, Twitter announced SoundCloud as a third-party music partner, alongside iTunes, however, the initiative never eventuated, SoundClouds inability to load licensed music—due to the absence of arrangements with the major music labels—was cited as a major reason. SoundCloud announced in January 2014 that it had commenced negotiations with the music companies. The announcement was publicised after a round of funding in which US$60 million was raised, the additional finances were suggested as the reason for the plan, as finalizing such deals is a costly process. In March 2014, SoundCloud was reportedly in a round of talks with major music labels about licensing after the January negotiations did not amount to anything substantial. However, the outcome of the talks was not forthcoming in any media sources, later in May, the media reported that Twitter had regained interest in SoundCloud and was considering acquiring the platform for around US$2 billion. The next after the publicity of the deal surfaced, the prospect was no longer an active consideration, on 28 September 2016, Spotify announced that it was in talks to buy SoundCloud. On 8 December 2016, Spotify was reported to have abandoned its acquisition plans, other startups that have crossed such a threshold include Spotify and Uber. At this time, SoundCloud claimed that 175 million unique listeners used the site each month, although SoundCloud did not have paid subscriptions for ad-free streaming, they had planned to launch one in 2015
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Under Control (Calvin Harris and Alesso song)
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Under Control is a song recorded by Scottish DJ Calvin Harris and Swedish DJ Alesso, featuring vocals from English duo Hurts. The song was released on 7 October 2013 as the first single from Harriss fourth studio album, Motion and Alessos first studio album, Forever. Under Control debuted at one on the UK Singles Chart with first-week sales of 74,704 copies, becoming Harriss fifth number-one single. Under Control was premiered on 2 August 2013 during a DJ set by Alesso at Ushuaia, Ibiza, Harris performed the song at the end of his set at the V Festival on 20 August. On 18 September, Harris posted a preview of the song on SoundCloud, the cover was unveiled on Alessos Twitter page on 4 October. On 9 September 2013, Harris stated on Facebook that 1,000 fans would take a part in the video shoot. Later a message was reposted by Alesso and Theo Hutchcraft from Hurts in a blog on Twitter, the video was shot in Los Angeles on 10 and 11 September. On the second day of the shoot, already with the fans, filming was held at the 6th Street Bridge, the world didnt actually end in the video because the meteor failed to hit the Earth. The video was uploaded to Harriss Vevo account on 21 October 2013 and has over 180 million views, credits adapted from CD single liner notes
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Afrojack
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Nick van de Wall, professionally known as Afrojack, is a Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer. In 2014, he released his debut album Forget the World, Afrojack regularly features in the top 10 of DJ Mag Top 100 DJs. Van de Wall was born and raised in Spijkenisse, Netherlands and is of Dutch and he developed an interest in music at an early age and learned to play the piano at the age of five. From a single-parent household, his mother Debbie owned a local gym, after leaving school, Van de Wall studied graphic design for a year before embarking on a career as a DJ/producer. At the age of 14, Van de Wall started DJing at local pubs and clubs, in 2007, he released In Your Face, the first recording under the Afrojack name. He received international success with the song Take Over Control featuring Eva Simons and he took part in Episode 2 of Behind The Speedo, which is a comedy series by Redfoo. His 2010 entry into the poll at number 19 was the highest new entry of that years list, Afrojack was listed as number 7 on the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs of 2011. He ranked at number 9 on DJ Mags Top 100 DJs of 2012, in 2013, he ranked at number 9 again. In July 2010, Afrojack created an Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1 and he released the Lost & Found EP in December 22,2010. In 2011, he was featured on Pitbulls number 1 hit single Give Me Everything along with Ne-Yo and he also contributed to the single Run the World by Beyoncé. In January 2012 Afrojack received a European Border Breakers Award, afrojacks newest single The Spark featuring Spree Wilson has so far hit number 3 in Australia and New Zealand, and top 10 in over 7 more countries. In 2013, Afrojack was the 7th highest-earning DJ in the world, in 2011, Afrojack co-produced music with many artists including David Guetta, Mike Brown and Madonna. In 2012, he was a headliner at a number of dance music festivals, including Tomorrowland, Ultra Music Festival. His debut album, Forget the World, was released May 19,2014 to mixed reviews, on March 17,2015, Afrojack was featured in David Guettas single Hey Mama in which he co-produced with Guetta. The song featured him along with Nicki Minaj, and Bebe Rexha, in 2016, one of his songs, Braver, was featured on the game Final Fantasy XV. Afrojack runs his own label, Wall Recordings, which represents producers including KIIDA, Apster, D-Wayne, D. O. D, Amil Smeets, Afrojack and Paris Hilton dated for 6 months while he was producing her second album. He has a daughter, Vegas, from a relationship to Dutch model Amanda Balk. Albums Forget the World Official website Afrojack discography, forum, and marketplace at Discogs Afrojack at the Internet Movie Database
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Snapchat
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One of the principal concepts of Snapchat is that pictures and messages are only available for a short time before they become inaccessible. The prototype for Snapchat was started by Brown and Spiegel as a project for one of Spiegels classes at Stanford, beginning as Picaboo, the idea was to create a selfie app which allowed users to share images that were explicitly short-lived and self-deleting. The temporary nature of the pictures would therefore encourage frivolity and emphasize a more natural flow of interaction, Murphy was eventually brought into the project to write the source code for the application, and Picaboo first launched as an iOS-only app in July 2011 from Evan Spiegels living room. The application was relaunched two months later under the name Snapchat, Snapchat evolved into a mix of private messaging and public content, including brand networks, publications, and live events such as sports and music. Nevertheless, according to studies conducted in March 2016, the personal oriented messaging was still being accessed by users more than the publicly offered content that was being presented. 24% responded that they accessed all features equally, however, about three quarters of those surveyed were also familiar with the events, media brands, and celebrity content, having a favorable opinion of those areas. According to documents and deposition statements, Reggie Brown brought the idea for a disappearing pictures application to Evan Spiegel because Spiegel had prior business experience, Brown and Spiegel then pulled in Bobby Murphy, who had experience coding. Early on, the Snapchat team focused on usability and technical aspects, one exception was the decision to keep a mascot designed by Brown, Ghostface Chillah, named after Ghostface Killah of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan. The project eventually formed the parent company, Snapchat Inc. On May 8,2012, Reggie Brown sent an email to Evan Spiegel during their year at Stanford in which he offered to re-negotiate his equitable share regarding ownership of the company. Lawyers for Snapchat responded by insisting that he had never had any connection to the product. The attorneys also accused Brown of committing fraud against Spiegel and Murphy by falsely claiming to be a product inventor. On behalf of their clients, the law firm concluded that Reggie Brown had made no contributions of value or worth, in September 2014, Brown settled with Spiegel and Murphy for $157.5 million and for getting credited as one of the original authors of Snapchat. In their first blog post, dated May 9,2012, CEO Evan Spiegel described the companys mission and its about communicating with the full range of human emotion—not just what appears to be pretty or perfect. In May 2012,25 images were being sent per second and, as of November 28,2012, users had shared over one billion photos on the Snapchat iOS app, with 20 million photos being shared per day. In November 2012, Spiegel cited problems with userbase scalability as the reason why Snapchat was experiencing some difficulties delivering its images, known as snaps, Snapchat was released as an Android app on October 29,2012. In December 2012, Snapchat added the ability to send video snaps in addition to photos, by holding down on the photo button while inside the app, a video of up to 10 seconds in length can be captured. After a single viewing, the video disappears by default, Spiegel explained that this process allowed the video data to be compressed into the size of a photo
