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Buenos Aires
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Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata. The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Provinces capital, rather, in 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include the towns of Belgrano and Flores, the 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Its citizens first elected a chief of government in 1996, previously, Buenos Aires is considered an alpha city by the study GaWC5. Buenos Aires quality of life was ranked 81st in the world and one of the best in Latin America in 2012 and it is the most visited city in South America, and the second-most visited city of Latin America. Buenos Aires is a top tourist destination, and is known for its preserved Spanish/European-style architecture, Buenos Aires held the 1st Pan American Games in 1951 as well as hosting two venues in the 1978 FIFA World Cup. Buenos Aires will host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and the 2018 G20 summit, Buenos Aires is a multicultural city, being home to multiple ethnic and religious groups. Several languages are spoken in the city in addition to Spanish, contributing to its culture, the hill was known to them as Buen Ayre, as it was free of the foul smell prevalent in the old city, which is adjacent to swampland. During the siege of Cagliari, the Aragonese built a sanctuary to the Virgin Mary on top of the hill, in 1335, King Alfonso the Gentle donated the church to the Mercedarians, who built an abbey that stands to this day. In the years after that, a story circulated, claiming that a statue of the Virgin Mary was retrieved from the sea after it miraculously helped to calm a storm in the Mediterranean Sea, the statue was placed in the abbey. Spanish sailors, especially Andalusians, venerated this image and frequently invoked the Fair Winds to aid them in their navigation, a sanctuary to the Virgin of Buen Ayre would be later erected in Seville. Pedro de Mendoza called the city Holy Mary of the Fair Winds, mendoza’s settlement soon came under attack by indigenous people, and was abandoned in 1541. For many years, the name was attributed to a Sancho del Campo, a second settlement was established in 1580 by Juan de Garay, who sailed down the Paraná River from Asunción. Garay preserved the name chosen by Mendoza, calling the city Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María del Buen Aire. The short form Buenos Aires became the common usage during the 17th century, the usual abbreviation for Buenos Aires in Spanish is Bs. As. It is common as well to refer to it as B. A. or BA /ˌbiːˈeɪ/ bee-AY), while BA is used more by expats residing in the city, the locals more often use the abbreviation Baires, in one word. Seaman Juan Díaz de Solís, navigating in the name of Spain, was the first European to reach the Río de la Plata in 1516 and his expedition was cut short when he was killed during an attack by the native Charrúa tribe in what is now Uruguay
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Argentina
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Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a federal republic in the southern half of South America. With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2, Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the second largest in Latin America, and the largest Spanish-speaking one. The country is subdivided into provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system, Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The earliest recorded presence in the area of modern-day Argentina dates back to the Paleolithic period. The country has its roots in Spanish colonization of the region during the 16th century, Argentina rose as the successor state of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, a Spanish overseas viceroyalty founded in 1776. The country thereafter enjoyed relative peace and stability, with waves of European immigration radically reshaping its cultural. The almost-unparalleled increase in prosperity led to Argentina becoming the seventh wealthiest developed nation in the world by the early 20th century, Argentina retains its historic status as a middle power in international affairs, and is a prominent regional power in the Southern Cone and Latin America. Argentina has the second largest economy in South America, the third-largest in Latin America and is a member of the G-15 and it is the country with the second highest Human Development Index in Latin America with a rating of very high. Because of its stability, market size and growing high-tech sector, the description of the country by the word Argentina has to be found on a Venice map in 1536. In English the name Argentina probably comes from the Spanish language, however the naming itself is not Spanish, Argentina means in Italian of silver, silver coloured, probably borrowed from the Old French adjective argentine of silver > silver coloured already mentioned in the 12th century. The French word argentine is the form of argentin and derives of argent silver with the suffix -in. The Italian naming Argentina for the country implies Argentina Terra land of silver or Argentina costa coast of silver, in Italian, the adjective or the proper noun is often used in an autonomous way as a substantive and replaces it and it is said lArgentina. The name Argentina was probably first given by the Venitian and Genoese navigators, in Spanish and Portuguese, the words for silver are respectively plata and prata and of silver is said plateado and prateado. Argentina was first associated with the silver mountains legend, widespread among the first European explorers of the La Plata Basin. The first written use of the name in Spanish can be traced to La Argentina, a 1602 poem by Martín del Barco Centenera describing the region, the 1826 constitution included the first use of the name Argentine Republic in legal documents. The name Argentine Confederation was also used and was formalized in the Argentine Constitution of 1853. In 1860 a presidential decree settled the name as Argentine Republic
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Spanish language
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Spanish —also called Castilian —is a Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain, with hundreds of millions of native speakers around the world. It is usually considered the worlds second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese and it is one of the few languages to use inverted question and exclamation marks. Spanish is a part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. Beginning in the early 16th century, Spanish was taken to the colonies of the Spanish Empire, most notably to the Americas, as well as territories in Africa, Oceania, around 75% of modern Spanish is derived from Latin. Greek has also contributed substantially to Spanish vocabulary, especially through Latin, Spanish vocabulary has been in contact from an early date with Arabic, having developed during the Al-Andalus era in the Iberian Peninsula. With around 8% of its vocabulary being Arabic in origin, this language is the second most important influence after Latin and it has also been influenced by Basque as well as by neighboring Ibero-Romance languages. It also adopted words from languages such as Gothic language from the Visigoths in which many Spanish names and surnames have a Visigothic origin. Spanish is one of the six languages of the United Nations. It is the language in the world by the number of people who speak it as a mother tongue, after Mandarin Chinese. It is estimated more than 437 million people speak Spanish as a native language. Spanish is the official or national language in Spain, Equatorial Guinea, speakers in the Americas total some 418 million. In the European Union, Spanish is the tongue of 8% of the population. Spanish is the most popular second language learned in the United States, in 2011 it was estimated by the American Community Survey that of the 55 million Hispanic United States residents who are five years of age and over,38 million speak Spanish at home. The Spanish Constitution of 1978 uses the term castellano to define the language of the whole Spanish State in contrast to las demás lenguas españolas. Article III reads as follows, El castellano es la lengua española oficial del Estado, las demás lenguas españolas serán también oficiales en las respectivas Comunidades Autónomas. Castilian is the official Spanish language of the State, the other Spanish languages as well shall be official in their respective Autonomous Communities. The Spanish Royal Academy, on the hand, currently uses the term español in its publications. Two etymologies for español have been suggested, the Spanish Royal Academy Dictionary derives the term from the Provençal word espaignol, and that in turn from the Medieval Latin word Hispaniolus, from—or pertaining to—Hispania
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Nonprofit organization
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A nonprofit organization is an organization whose purpose is something other than making a profit. A nonprofit organization is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a particular point of view. This is known as the non-distribution constraint, the decision to adopt a nonprofit legal structure is one that will often have taxation implications, particularly where the nonprofit seeks income tax exemption, charitable status and so on. The terms nonprofit and not-for-profit are not consistently differentiated across jurisdictions, in laymans terms they are usually equivalent in concept, although in various jurisdictions there are accounting and legal differences. The nonprofit landscape is varied, although many people have come to associate NPOs with charitable organizations. Although charities do make up an often high-profile or visible aspect of the sector, overall, they tend to be either member-serving or community-serving. e. It could be argued many nonprofits sit across both camps, at least in terms of the impact they make. For example, the support group that provides a lifeline to those with a particular condition or disease could be deemed to be serving its members. Many NPOs use the model of a bottom line in that furthering their cause is more important than making a profit. Although NPOs are permitted to generate revenues, they must be retained by the organization for its self-preservation, expansion. NPOs have controlling members or a board of directors, many have paid staff including management, whereas others employ unpaid volunteers and executives who work with or without compensation. In some countries, where there is a fee, in general. The extent to which an NPO can generate surplus revenues may be constrained or use of surplus revenues may be restricted. Some NPOs may also be a charity or service organization, they may be organized as a corporation or as a trust. Their goal is not to be successful in terms of wealth, NPOs have a wide diversity of structures and purposes. Some of the above must be expressed in the charter of establishment or constitution. Others may be provided by the authority at each particular jurisdiction. While affiliations will not affect a legal status, they may be taken into consideration by legal proceedings as an indication of purpose, most countries have laws that regulate the establishment and management of NPOs and that require compliance with corporate governance regimes
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1989 (Taylor Swift album)
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1989 is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on October 27,2014, through Big Machine Records, Swift began preparing for the album during the same year which Red was released, and during a significant amount of media scrutiny. Over the course of the two-year songwriting period, she collaborated with producers Max Martin and Shellback—Martin served as the albums executive producer alongside Swift. Named after Swifts birth year, the title was inspired by the pop music scene of the 1980s. The album represents a departure from the music of her previous albums. In contrast to Swifts previous work, the production of 1989 consists of programming, synthesizers, pulsating bass, processed backing vocals. 1989 received generally positive reviews from music critics and it was ranked as one of the best albums of 2014 by several publications, including Billboard, Time. After debuting at one on the US Billboard 200,1989 sold 1.287 million copies during the first week of release. 1989 eventually became the album of 2014 in the US market and has sold over 6 milion as of January 2017. The first five singles have all reached number one on the Adult Top 40 and Mainstream Top 40, the album also won Best Pop Vocal Album, Swifts first victory in the category. The first two singles Shake It Off and Blank Space were both nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance, the Bad Blood remix featuring Kendrick Lamar was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and won the award for Best Music Video. Swift released her studio album, Red, on October 22,2012. The album marked a change in Swifts musical style with the experimentation of heartland rock, dubstep, Red was a commercial success and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 1.21 million copies. This was the highest opening sales in a decade and ultimately made Swift the first woman to have two albums sell more than a million copies in their first week. To promote the album Swift embarked on the North American leg of her Red Tour, the tour visited arenas and stadiums in North America, New Zealand, Australia, England, Germany and Asia. In the Red era, Swifts romantic life became the subject of media scrutiny. Gawker remarked that Swift had dated every man in the universe, the New York Times asserted that her dating history has begun to stir what feels like the beginning of a backlash and questioned whether Swift was in the midst of a quarter-life crisis. During both the Red Tour and media scrutiny, Swift began work on 1989, following the release of her fourth studio album, Red, and its corresponding tour, Swift was six months deep in the songwriting process
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21st Century Breakdown
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21st Century Breakdown is the eighth studio album by American punk rock band Green Day. It is the second rock opera, following American Idiot. The album was released May 15,2009 through Reprise Records, the singles Know Your Enemy and 21 Guns exemplify the themes of alienation and politically motivated anger present in the record. Critical response to 21st Century Breakdown was generally positive and it was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards held on January 31,2010. As of December 2010, 21st Century Breakdown has sold 1,005,000 copies in the United States and more than 4 million worldwide. Green Day began to write new songs for what would become 21st Century Breakdown in January 2006 after touring extensively in 2005 in support of their studio album American Idiot. At the time, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong stated, Well start with silence, the band did not release any details of the writing and recording process until October 2007, when Armstrong said in an interview with Rolling Stone that he had written something like 45 songs. The band members worked on the conceptual stages of the album at their rehearsal studio in Oakland. Little was revealed on the themes or musical style of the album and he added that many of the 45 songs were written on piano rather than guitar. Green Day began the process for 21st Century Breakdown in January 2008. Later that year, it was confirmed that the worked with producer Butch Vig. While recording in Hollywood, the members bought cheap turntables from Amoeba Music and listened to many vinyl records for inspiration, including albums by The Beat. Armstrong cited as inspiration the music of The Kinks Ray Davies, sorrow, The Doors The Doors and Strange Days, and Meat Loafs Bat Out of Hell. Drummer Tré Cool noted the influence of Eddie Cochran and The Creation on Armstrongs writing. While writing at his studio, Armstrong worked on a cover of The Whos 1966 mini-opera A Quick One, While Hes Away. Vig noted that frustrations would sometimes cause delays in the process for 21st Century Breakdown. Armstrong kept his lyrics closely guarded and intentionally mixed his demos so that the vocals were low in the mix and thus unintelligible to the other band members. It was not until late 2008 that he chose to share his words with Cool, Vig, the band members made the finishing touches on the album in early April 2009 and claimed that its release would lead to a kind of
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A Head Full of Dreams
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A Head Full of Dreams is the seventh studio album by the British rock band Coldplay. It was released on 4 December 2015 by Parlophone and Atlantic, Coldplay recorded the album from late 2014 to mid-2015, right after the completion of Ghost Stories, with a markedly different style and sound from its predecessors. For various songs, Coldplay collaborated with Beyoncé, Noel Gallagher, Tove Lo, Khatia Buniatishvili, the album was produced by Rik Simpson and Stargate. The album also features a sample of President Barack Obama singing Amazing Grace at Clementa C, the album received mixed reviews from critics. Commercially, it topped the UK Albums Chart, and was the runner-up in the United States, Australia, Canada, at the 2016 Brit Awards the album was nominated for British Album of the Year. It was the eighth best-selling album of 2015 with 1.9 million copies sold worldwide, as of March 2017, the album has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Coldplay began working on A Head Full of Dreams in the summer of 2014 while they were promoting their sixth album Ghost Stories, the album has a markedly different style and sound from its predecessors. Frontman Chris Martin hinted at the style of the album by saying that the band was trying to make something colourful and he also stated that it would be something to shuffle your feet to. On 26 September 2015, the performed at the Global Citizen Festival 2015 in New York City, playing a six-song set. The bands producer Rik Simpson confirmed that the song would be on the new album, on 21 November 2016 frontman Chris Martin announced new material to be released for 2017 via Twitter, it would be named Kaleidoscope EP. The album was produced by Rik Simpson and Norwegian duo Stargate, mixing duties were carried out predominately by Rik Simpson. It was confirmed that the band perform in locations such as India and South America – more specifically Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Colombia. They have since confirmed that pre-production on the tour has started, in February, the band featured a picture on various social media sites of a hot air balloon by Glastonbury farms main pyramid stage field, along with the date Sunday 26 June. Glastonbury organisers have since confirmed a record-breaking fourth headline appearance, having performed on the stage in 2000,2002,2005 and 2011. The bands appearance was confirmed to be Coldplays festival show of this years tour. On 7 October 2016, the band announced eighteen more shows in North America beginning in Aug 2017, on 15 November 2016, they announced shows in Asia for April 2017, visiting Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. Around 30 October 2015 anonymous posters were pinned up on the London Underground showing a pattern, known as the Flower of Life. Coldplay fans claimed that the symbol resembled the design on a T-shirt worn by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin at the Global Citizen Festival in New York
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All I Ever Wanted (album)
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All I Ever Wanted is the fourth studio album by American singer and songwriter Kelly Clarkson, released on March 6,2009 by RCA Records. After the controversies that surrounded her previous album, My December. In order to do so, she enlisted her previous collaborators Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Sam Watters and Louis Biancaniello, and new collaborators, Ryan Tedder, Howard Benson and Dre & Vidal. Originally entitled Masquerade, its title was changed due to the similarities to other albums released at the time, such as Pinks Funhouse. All I Ever Wanted was considered lighter and less angrier than her previous effort, though it features pop rock and pop punk-inspired songs, as well as dance. Its cartoon-colored artwork was criticized by reviewers and Clarkson herself for using too much photoshop, All I Ever Wanted mainly deals with themes of romantic relationships, dignity, independence and emotional truthfulness. It also features five covers, with Clarkson writing six out of the fourteen tracks on the album, the album received generally favorable reviews from most music critics, who praised her approach with mainstream music, without losing her identity and personality. Her vocals were praised, but a few critics called the album hackneyed and overworked. The album was also a success, debuting at number-one on the US Billboard 200 chart, becoming her second to do so and it was certified platinum in Australia and Canada, and gold in Ireland and the United Kingdom. The album was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards, the albums title track was released as a radio single only in the U. S. while Cry was released only in selected territories. To promote the album, Clarkson embarked on the All I Ever Wanted Summer Fair Tour, Clarkson denied to do it and the albums date was pushed back several times. In October 2008, she posted on her blog she had finished the album and was excited about it. Clarkson also told the same month, she was working with a new collaborator, Ryan Tedder and she also explained that Clive Davis introduced them to each other in a label meeting, and later they ended up writing five or six songs. Tedder explained to Digital Spy that the songs featured big choruses, Dr. Luke was interviewed by Entertainment Weekly and said, After Since U Been Gone, we wrote all these songs for Kelly. This one, which I think is the first single — we had the chorus a while ago and he further added, She sings a song in two hours and kills it. You’re just like, ’Holy sh–. ’ She has powerful lungs, she’s like the Lance Armstrong of vocal cords. She also worked again with songwriter Kara DioGuardi, who co-wrote several tracks on Breakaway, and received two songs co-written by Katy Perry. Perry claimed she worked on her album for five years and recorded so many songs for it that both songs didnt make it to the album, then Clarkson heard them, liked them
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Amar Sin Mentiras
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Amar Sin Mentiras is the seventh studio album recorded by American singer-songwriter Marc Anthony. It was released by Sony Music Latin and Columbia Records en June 8,2004, the album was produced by Colombian singer-songwriter Estéfano. It also features the vocals of Jennifer López and it won Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album at 47th Annual Grammy Awards on February 13,2005. ¿Ahora Quién. reached #1 on Hot Latin Tracks in 2004, mauricio Gasca – arranger, programmer and recording engineer Andrew Synowieck – electric guitar Julio C
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Amarantine (album)
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Following the release of her compilation box set Only Time – The Collection, Enya took a short break before she started work on a new album in September 2003, her first since A Day Without Rain. Amarantine was recorded in Ireland with her longtime recording partners, arranger and producer Nicky Ryan and his wife and it marks Enyas first album without a song recorded in Gaelic lyrics, and marked her first sung in Japanese and Loxian, a fictional language created by Roma. Enya released two singles from the album, Amarantine and Its in the Rain, a Christmas Special Edition was released in 2006. To promote the album, Enya made several interviews and televised performances, in 2007, the album won Enya her fourth Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. According to Nielsen SoundScan, it is the top selling new age album of the 2000s in the United States. After the release of her box set Only Time – The Collection in November 2002, Enya took several months off from writing, recording, and releasing music. She resumed in September 2003 to start work on Amarantine, her first studio album since her commercially successful 2000 release and she worked with her longtime recording partners, producer and arranger Nicky Ryan and his wife, lyricist Roma Ryan. Recording took place at Aigle Studio, a facility installed at the Ryans home in Killiney, Enya adopted a five-day working schedule to work on the album, working from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. and taking weekends off. The album is Enyas first of her not to include a song sung in Gaelic. Amarantine is a song, of which its title is a word that Enya said addresses the idea of everlasting. Roma had used the word in Floras Secret on A Day Without Rain which in its lyric was spelled amaranthine, in her notes about the song, Roma wrote the track is a song of sadness, adding, for how else can one describe such sorrow. Not knowing where a loved one is, not knowing how they are, the idea of returning home after a long journey is what Long Long Journey was written about, and is a theme Enya has covered across her career. The theme of sadness is revisited once more on Someone Said Goodbye, a song about one reflecting on life which at times may bring on sad feelings. A Moment Lost addresses two ideas, the feeling of words spoken at times of anger by a loved one that leave a mark on ones heart. Drifting is a piece that developed from a piano melody. According to Roma, Amid Falling Snow was inspired by a childs amazement of seeing snowfall for the first time, Amarantine features Enya singing in two new languages for the first time. Sumiregusa is sung in Japanese, of which its opening bars is taken from an arrangement of the hymn Hark, the Vesper Hymn is Stealing by the Irish composer John Andrew Stevenson. The album also marks the creation of Loxian, a language created by Roma Ryan during the development of Water Shows the Hidden Heart
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Americana (The Offspring album)
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Americana is the fifth studio album by the American punk rock band The Offspring, released on November 17,1998. Following a worldwide tour in support of its previous album, Ixnay on the Hombre and it is the bands second best selling album to their 1994 breakout Smash. Americana has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, with over 9 million copies certified, the album contains the hit singles Pretty Fly, Why Dont You Get a Job. and The Kids Arent Alright. Crossing over from mainstream rock and alternative radio to Top 40 pop radio stations. Shes Got Issues, the single of the album, was moderately well-received. The albums singles were included on the bands Greatest Hits compilation, the CD version of the album also includes the music video for The Meaning Of Life, a song from their 1997 album Ixnay On the Hombre, playable on DVD ROM. Americana was nominated for the 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards for Best Album, the Offspring supported the album with a worldwide tour and appeared at the infamous Woodstock 1999, where their performance was broadcast live on pay-per-view television. The band played Americana in its entirety for the first time in 2015 and it is also the last Offspring album to contain a hidden track. After the unexpected success of Smash, The Offspring were signed to Columbia Records in 1996, releasing the studio album Ixnay on the Hombre. Although Ixnay on the Hombre was not as well received as Smash, it managed simultaneous gold, after touring in support of Ixnay on the Hombre, The Offspring began writing new material for their next album. Frontman Dexter Holland told Rolling Stone in August 1998 that, I wanted to write a record that wasnt a radical departure from what weve done before, I feel like we have managed to change stuff up from Ignition to Smash to Ixnay. Were in a place where we more or less set the boundaries where we can do a lot of stuff without having to stretch it out farther, and do a swing song or something. Recording took place from July to September 1998 at Eldorado Recording Studios with producer Dave Jerden, on the albums direction, Holland told Guitar World, The idea wasnt to reinvent the wheel. We expanded our horizons on our last record and thats okay, Pay the Man was even left off Ixnay on the Hombre for sounding too different from anything else the band had currently made at that time. The structure of the song more resembles progressive rock, Holland also contributed the song Too Much Drama to The Vandals album Hitler Bad, Vandals Good, which was released five months before Americana. The chorus melody is reused on this album on the song Walla Walla, Americana contains themes of unhappy American lifestyles. Speaking of the shortly after its release, Holland explained, The songs on Americana arent condemnations, theyre short stories about the state of things. We want to expose the darker side of our culture and it may look like an episode of Happy Days out there in America, but it feels more like Twin Peaks
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Anthology 1
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Anthology 1 is a compilation album by the Beatles, released on 20 November 1995 by Apple Records as part of The Beatles Anthology series. It features rarities, outtakes and live performances from the period 1958–1964, including songs with bass player Stuart Sutcliffe. It is the first in a trilogy of albums with Anthology 2 and Anthology 3 and it contains Free as a Bird, billed as the first new Beatles song in 25 years. The album topped the Billboard 200 album chart and was certified 8x Platinum by the RIAA, the Anthology albums were remastered and made available digitally on the iTunes Store on 14 June 2011, individually and as part of the Anthology Box Set. The album includes material from the Beatles days as the Quarrymen and it is of historical interest as the only official release of performances with Best and Sutcliffe in the band. Sutcliffe, the original bass player during 1960, and sporadically during the groups second Hamburg season, appears on the disc-one tracks Hallelujah, I Love Her So. Disc one tracks 10–12 were recorded at a session in Hamburg where the Beatles served as the band to the English rock. Some songs from this session were released on the 1962 LP My Bonnie, credited to Tony Sheridan, the song My Bonnie would be their introductory single in England, featuring Sheridan on lead vocal and guitar. Disc one tracks 21–22 are the surviving recordings of the Beatles first EMI session. Track 22 is the recording of Love Me Do, which would be re-recorded by the group four months later for their first single. Disc one track 23 features EMI session drummer Andy White in place of Starr. The live BBC Radio recording of Lend Me Your Comb was held back from Live at the BBC for inclusion on this album, the cover of Anthology 1 is the first third of the Anthology collage made by Klaus Voormann. Various photographs and album covers are torn and collected together, Pete Bests face was torn away from the Savage Young Beatles record jacket in the centre of the album cover, revealing the face of his successor, Ringo Starr, below. The missing piece was used on the cover of Bests Haymans Green album in 2008. The album was a success throughout the world. It was the first Beatles album to enter the Billboard 200 album chart at number one and it sold 855,473 copies in its first week, the 27th largest one-week sales in the Soundscan history, preventing Fresh Horses by Garth Brooks from reaching No. 1—Brookss only ’90s studio album to fall short of the top slot, in its second week, Anthology 1 sold 453,000 copies and maintained the top spot. This was repeated the week, with 435,000 copies sold
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Antichrist Superstar
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Antichrist Superstar is the second studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson, released on October 8,1996 by Nothing and Interscope Records. The album debuted at three on the Billboard 200 which launched the band into mainstream success. This, allied with the bands uncompromisingly anti-Christian stance and transgressive performances, led to picketing and numerous protests from religious, the album displayed a more musically cohesive and developed sound than any of their previous releases. According to Rolling Stone magazine, the release marked the end of the grunge era in popular music. As a rock opera and an album, it was the first installment in a trilogy which included succeeding releases Mechanical Animals. It was recorded at Nothing Studios in New Orleans and produced by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and it is the last album to feature Daisy Berkowitz as he left the band halfway through the albums recording. Antichrist Superstar has sold seven million copies worldwide, including 1.9 million copies in the United States alone. It spawned two singles, and an autobiography. The band supported the album with the controversial Dead to the World Tour, in the years since its release, it has been heralded by numerous publications as the bands finest work. The albums title is a takeoff on Andrew Lloyd Webbers 1971 musical Jesus Christ Superstar, similarly, the record is a rock opera which, in an issue of Kerrang. Magazine edited by the frontman, is stated as a tribute to—and inspired by—the works of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. After the release of Holy Wood, Marilyn Manson divulged that his concept album trilogy is a story told in a reverse timeline. That means Holy Wood opens the storyline followed by Mechanical Animals, furthermore, though Antichrist Superstar and Mechanical Animals made sense as individual concept albums on their own, there was a hidden overarching story running through the three releases. Also, found on the front of the cover is a circle surrounded by the words Heart, Mind, Complacent. The booklet also makes reference to Revelation chapter 12, verses one to five, in the Bible. The album, despite containing a gap of silence a few long, is cyclical. When the album is placed on loop, the pacing between the matches that of the additional distorted recitation found in the preceding hidden track. The names of the two latter cycles seem to be a reference to two films by avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and Lucifer Rising, the Beautiful People is the first single of Antichrist Superstar
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Artpop
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Artpop is the third studio album by American singer Lady Gaga, released on November 6,2013, by Streamline and Interscope Records. Gaga began planning the project in 2011, shortly after the launch of her studio album. Work continued until 2013 while Gaga was traveling for her Born This Way Ball concert tour, Gaga described Artpop as a celebration and a poetic musical journey and an exploration of the reverse Warholian phenomenon in pop culture. It displays a lack of maturity and responsibility by comparison to the darker. Gaga collaborated with longtime partners Paul DJ White Shadow Blair and RedOne and new partners Zedd, Artpop also features guest vocals from T. I. Too Short, Twista, and R. Kelly, the release of Artpop was prefaced by a two-day album release party dubbed an ArtRave. It also topped national record charts in five countries. Artpop was the ninth best seller album of 2013 with 2.3 million copies worldwide and it was included in several year-end lists by music critics and publications. The second single Do What U Want was released on October 21 and it was followed by promotional singles Venus and Dope shortly before the albums release. G. U. Y. was the third and last single released from the album, Gaga promoted Artpop with several television appearances and performances, including her second Thanksgiving Day special. She also embarked on the ArtRave, The Artpop Ball tour in support of the album, initial recording sessions for Artpop coincided with the Born This Way Ball, up to fifty songs were sketched out and considered for inclusion. By May 2012, the project was taking form, with co-manager Vincent Herbert promising insane. Gaga herself admitted that she yearned to make audiences have a good time with Artpop. When you listen to it, it really flows nicely and its really fun to pop in with your friends. I really wrote it for me and my friends to pop in from start to finish, meanwhile, the singer began presenting tracks to her record company and hoped to reveal the albums working title by September, a revelation that instead was announced one month in advance. Gaga recruited Jeff Koons into the project in early 2013, following hip surgery in February 2013, the singer was forced into a six-month hiatus, during which she studied literature and music with the Haus of Gaga in addition to sharing creative gifts. This stage allowed her to review and enhance her creative direction, I have to gaze into the work for long periods of time for it to be good, adding that upon analyzing her ideas, she received that wonderful feeling which told her thats the one. Relative Wave, the architects behind Björks multimedia app for Biophilia, some dismissed the project as an elaborate ploy to inflate album sales, under the assumption Billboard would count a downloaded track as a complete unit
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Bangerz
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Bangerz is the fourth studio album by American singer Miley Cyrus. It was released on October 4,2013, by RCA Records, opting to re-establish her music career instead of focusing on her film career as originally planned, Cyrus began planning the project in 2012. Work continued into 2013, at which time she left her previous label Hollywood Records, described by Cyrus as dirty south hip-hop, Bangerz represents a musical departure from her earlier work, which she has grown to feel disconnected from. As executive producers, Cyrus and Mike Will Made It collaborated with hip hop producers including Cirkut, Pharrell Williams and their efforts resulted in a primarily pop record, with lyrical themes that revolve largely around romance. It features guest vocals from several new partners, including pop singer Britney Spears and rappers French Montana, Future, Ludacris, Bangerz received mixed to positive reviews from contemporary music critics, who praised its overall production and originality, and complimented Cyrus public persona evolution. The record debuted at one on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 270,000 copies. In doing so, it became Cyrus fifth non-consecutive number-one album, the album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album, giving Cyrus her first Grammy nomination. We Cant Stop was released as the single from Bangerz on June 3,2013. The second single Wrecking Ball was released on August 25,2013, Adore You was serviced as the third single from the record on December 17,2013, it has peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100. A remix of the produced by Cedric Gervais was released on March 3,2014. Promotional efforts for Bangerz continued to associate Cyrus with a provocative image. She garnered widespread attention through a controversial performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. Furthermore, Cyrus promoted the album with her international Bangerz Tour, in 2012, Cyrus announced plans to focus on her film career, effectively putting her musical endeavors on hiatus. That year, she appeared in the films LOL and So Undercover and she was also confirmed as a primary voice actress in the feature film Hotel Transylvania, but dropped out of the project to coordinate a musical comeback. In January 2013, Cyrus signed a contract with RCA Records. In March, she confirmed that her studio album would be released by the end of 2013. Cyrus stated that she started over as an artist after terminating the services of her previous professional connections, in a later interview, she elaborated that she recognizes Bangerz to be her official debut record, deprecating her earlier projects released during the production of Hannah Montana. While recording the album, Cyrus intended to produce a very adult and sexy and believable final product
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Back to Black
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Back to Black is the second and final studio album by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse, released on 27 October 2006 by Island Records. The album spawned five singles, Rehab, You Know Im No Good, Back to Black, Tears Dry on Their Own, Back to Black was acclaimed by music critics, who praised Salaam Remi and Mark Ronsons production, as well as Winehouses songwriting and emotive singing style. At the 50th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, Back to Black won Best Pop Vocal Album and was nominated for Album of the Year. At the same ceremony, Winehouse won four additional awards meaning that she ties with five artists as the second-most awarded female in a single ceremony. The album was nominated at the 2007 Brit Awards for MasterCard British Album and was shortlisted for the 2007 Mercury Prize. Back to Black sold 3.58 million copies in the UK alone, by 2013, the album had sold over 12 million copies worldwide. A deluxe edition of Back to Black was released in November 2007, containing a disc of B-sides, rare. Winehouse released her album, Frank, on 20 October 2003. Produced mainly by Salaam Remi, many songs were influenced by jazz, the album received positive reviews with compliments over the cool, critical gaze in its lyrics and brought comparisons of her voice to Sarah Vaughan, Macy Gray and others. The album reached number 13 on the UK Albums Chart at the time of its release, in 2004, Winehouse was nominated for British Female Solo Artist and British Urban Act at the Brit Awards, while Frank made the shortlist for the Mercury Prize. That same year, the albums first single, Stronger Than Me, earned Winehouse, in contrast to her jazz-influenced debut album Frank, Winehouses focus shifted to the girl groups of the 1950s and 1960s. Winehouse hired New York singer Sharon Joness longtime band, the Dap-Kings, to back her up in the studio, in May 2006, Winehouses demo tracks such as You Know Im No Good and Rehab appeared on Mark Ronsons New York radio show on East Village Radio. These were some of the first new songs played on the radio after the release of Pumps, the 11-track album, completed in five months, was produced entirely by Salaam Remi and Ronson, with the production credits being split between them. Ronson said in a 2010 interview that he liked working with Winehouse because she was blunt when she did not like his work and she in turn thought that when they first met, he was a sound engineer and that she was expecting an older man with a beard. Tom Elmhirst, who remixed the single You Know Im No Good, was enlisted to help with the mixing of the album and he first received Ronsons original mix, which he described as being radical in terms of panning, kind of Beatlesque. The drums, for instance, were all panned to one side and he attempted to mix Love Is a Losing Game in the same manner he did with Rehab, but he felt it was not right. The majority of the produced by Ronson were done at the studio of the band the Dap-Kings, in Brooklyn. The drums, piano, guitar and bass were all together in one room, with the drums being recorded with one microphone
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Bedtime Stories (Madonna album)
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Bedtime Stories is the sixth studio album by American singer Madonna. It was released on October 25,1994, by Maverick, Madonna collaborated with Dallas Austin, Babyface, Dave Jam Hall, and Nellee Hooper in order to move into a more mainstream sound. The success of the soundtrack single Ill Remember in 1994 marked the beginning of this transformation, Bedtime Stories is a pop album which was inspired by contemporary R&B. Like its predecessor Erotica, the album explores themes of love, sorrow, and romance. Critics described the album as autobiographical, as the song Human Nature addresses the controversy surrounding her book Sex. Bedtime Stories received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised the albums candid lyrics and production. Commercially, the proved to be successful. Debuting and peaking at three on the Billboard 200, the album was certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. It also became her fifth album in Australia and peaked within the top five in other international territories. Bedtime Stories has sold more than seven million copies worldwide, other singles released, Bedtime Story and Human Nature, did not match the previous singles success. In order to further promote Bedtime Stories, Madonna performed songs from the album on the American Music Awards of 1995, a concert tour was also planned, but did not take place due to Madonna acquiring the title role in the 1996 musical film, Evita. In 1992, Madonna released her controversial Sex book and her studio album Erotica. She also starred in the erotic thriller Body of Evidence, during the same period, Madonnas appearance on David Lettermans talk show was noted for her controversial behavior. It included the singer using profanity that required censorship on television and this made the episode the most censored in American network television talk-show history, while at the same time garnering the show some of the highest ratings it ever received. All releases were panned by critics and fans alike, calling Madonna a sexual renegade and claiming that she had too far. A song titled Ill Remember was included in the soundtrack of the film With Honors in early 1994, regarding the controversial period of her career, Madonna said, I feel Ive been misunderstood. So I decided to leave it alone because thats what ended up concentrating on. Sex is such a subject and its such a distraction that Id rather not even offer it up
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Bounce (Bon Jovi album)
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Bounce is the eighth studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi, released on October 8,2002 through Island Records. Produced by Luke Ebbin, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, Bounce was heavily influenced by the September 11,2001 attacks, owing in part to Jon Bon Jovis proximity to New York. The title Bounce was a reference to New York Citys and the United States ability to back from the World Trade Center attacks as a nation. The cover image for the album includes an image of a radio telescope dish at the Very Large Array. The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200, making it Bon Jovis highest debut in the history at that time. Also, he confirmed that band is planning to release the boxset in 2003. in conjunction with the bands 20th anniversary, between June and October 2001. band members wrote 25 songs and demoed totally 12 of them. Many of those songs were written in September and they were influenced by September 11 attacks and those songs were Standing and Another Reason to Believe. At the end of July 2001, Bon Jovi finished world tour with two shows at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. Band took a break after which Jon and Richie Sambora started writing songs, first in Los Angeles. They have demoed some of new songs in New Jersey in November 2001. Songwriting and demoing process went on until March 2002. and between March and June 2002, All the songs that will end up on the album were mixed and by the late July of the same year they were mastered. In a perod of less than one year, band wrote approximately 40 songs,12 songs ended up on the album, during the songwriting process, band members also wrote some songs that were written as a cathartic exercise. Those songs were right after the September 11 attacks and they were very sad from lyrical standpoint because they were influenced by that tragedy. Jon said that songs were only written and will never be recorded. Lyrics in the song Undivided were influenced by the September 11 attacks and it simply states that No Man Is an Island and that all people are part of the greater world, that is humanity, that all people are stronger together, than being apart. The Distance is written in a cinematic style, the music serves as a score to the lyrics, which begins as an establishing shot and the camera draws closer into the story as the song progresses. The lyrics talk about the passion that person feels when there is a goal in sight, song Joey is influenced and inspired by Elton Johns song Levon and talks about about character who befriends with simple-minded young man. Misunderstood is a song about every guy whos said the thing or failed to say the right thing and had to face with the consecvences
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Brothers in Arms (album)
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Brothers in Arms is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on 13 May 1985 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album won two Grammy Awards in 1986, and also won Best British Album at the 1987 Brit Awards, Q magazine placed the album at number 51 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. Brothers in Arms would become Dire Straits final album until they reunited and recorded 1991s On Every Street, Brothers in Arms was recorded from November 1984 to March 1985 at AIR Studios on the island of Montserrat, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean. The album was produced by Mark Knopfler and Neil Dorfsman, Knopfler became aware of Dorfsman through his 1981 recording of the Wanderlust album by jazz vibraphonist Mike Mainieri. In 1982, Knopfler asked Dorfsman to work with him on the 1982 Dire Straits album, Love over Gold, Brothers in Arms was one of the first albums to be recorded on a Sony 24-track digital tape machine. The decision to move to digital recording came from Knopflers constant striving for better sound quality, one of the things that I totally respected about him, Dorfsman observed, was his interest in technology as a means of improving his music. He was always willing to spend on high-quality equipment, before arriving at Montserrat, Knopfler had written all the songs and rehearsed them with the band. The studio itself was small, with a 20-by-25-foot recording space that offered virtually no isolation and it was a good-sounding studio, Dorfsman later recalled, but the main room itself was nothing to write home about. The sound of that studio was the desk, referring to the Neve 8078 board and they placed the piano in a tight booth in the far right corner of the studio, miked with AKG C414s. The Hammond B3 was placed nearby, with its Leslie speaker crammed into a next to the control room. Illsleys bass amplifier was recorded inside a small booth with a Neumann FET47. Knopflers amplifiers were miked with 57s, 451s, and Neumann U67s, fletchers synths were placed in the control room. During the recording of Money for Nothing, the sound of Knopflers guitar may have been enhanced by a happy accident of microphone placement. Knopfler was using his Gibson Les Paul going through a Laney amplifier, what they heard was exactly what ended up on the record, no additional processing or effects were used during the mix. He was therefore replaced by one of the most popular jazz session drummers of the time, Omar Hakim. Terry Williams improvised crescendo at the beginning of Money for Nothing was used on the record, Williams would be back in the band for the music videos and the tour. Brothers in Arms was one of the first albums to be directed at the CD market and it was also released on vinyl and cassette. Brothers in Arms was the first album to one million copies in the CD format
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Enya (album)
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Enya is the first studio album by the Irish singer, songwriter and musician Enya, released in March 1987 by BBC Records in the United Kingdom and by Atlantic Records in the United States. It was renamed as The Celts for the 1992 international re-release of the album by Warner Music internationally, the album is a selection of music she recorded for the soundtrack to the BBC television series The Celts, aired in 1987. Four years into her largely unnoticed solo career, Enya landed her first major project in 1985 when producer Tony McAuley asked her to contribute a song to the soundtrack, Enya received mostly mixed reviews from critics when it was released in 1987. It was a commercial success, peaking at number eight in Ireland. The album continued to sell, it was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of one million copies, despite its commercial performance, the album helped Enya secure a recording contract with Warner after chairman Rob Dickins became a fan of its music. After the commercial success of Enyas next two albums, the album was reissued as The Celts which outperformed its original sales and it reached a new peak of number ten on the UK Albums Chart and sold a further one million copies in the United States. In 2009, The Celts was reissued in Japan with a bonus track, as a coincidence, Enya had recorded a track named March of the Celts before she was asked to be involved, and decided to submit it to the project. Initially, each episode of the series was to feature a different composer, Enya worked with her usual recording partners, arranger and producer Nicky Ryan and his wife, lyricist Roma Ryan. When they recorded at the BBC studio, Nicky had to teach the audio engineers how he, Nicky said he told them to forget everything learned and just bear with us for at least a week. One such example was Nickys use of reverb, which he set to 24 seconds instead of the more common placement of one-and-a-half seconds, a total of 72 minutes of music was recorded for the series. Roma recalled that Enya was given various pastiches that Richardson wished to incorporate into the episodes which Enya then used as a guide for to write music to complement them, Enya includes 39 minutes of selected pieces from the soundtrack. The albums front cover depicts Enya posing with stuffed wolves, several of the albums track titles are titled or based on various historical figures and stories. In writing about the song in 2002, Roma pointed out that Aldebaran is named after the brightest star in the constellation of Taurus, the track was recorded in its entirety at Aigle Studio as Nicky expressed the difficulty in having to recreate the recording process elsewhere. The Celts was used as the title theme for the television series. As a song about her was written, Richardson wished for a new track that depicted the idea of being spellbound by Boudica. In the liner notes of the albums 1992 reissue, I Want Tomorrow is described, simply, as thoughts of the present and March of the Celts echoes from the past. The Sun in the Stream was inspired by the legend of the Salmon of Knowledge, fairytale is a track based on a story of early Irish literature about love, jealousy, secrets and endurance between Midir, a fairy king, and his love for a princess, Étaín. In the story, Etain is banished and transformed into a pool of water, Epona is the name of the horse goddess Epona of the Gallo-Roman religion
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Circus (Britney Spears album)
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Circus is the sixth studio album by American singer Britney Spears. It was released on November 28,2008, by JIVE Records, looking to transition from her darker and more urban fifth studio album Blackout, Spears wanted to make her next project a little bit lighter. Spears recorded the record during the summer of 2008, after her personal struggles saw her placement under a temporary conservatorship earlier that year. As executive producers, Larry Rudolph and Teresa LaBarbera Whites enlisted collaborators including Spears longtime colleague Max Martin, upon its release, Circus received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who complimented its production but were ambivalent towards its lyrical content. It debuted at one on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of over 505,000 copies. The album topped charts in nine additional countries, the record eventually exceeded sales of 4.5 million copies and 15 million digital tracks, in doing so it became Spears best-selling album since her fourth studio album In the Zone. The project was promoted through a series of performances and Spears fifth concert tour The Circus Starring Britney Spears. Four singles were released from the album, two of which became international successes and its lead single Womanizer peaked atop the US Billboard Hot 100 and registered as the largest jump to the top of the chart after debuting at number ninety-six. It became Spearss best-selling song in the country since. Baby One More Time, the second and third singles Circus and If U Seek Amy peaked at numbers three and nineteen in the country, respectively. During the summer of 2008, it was confirmed that Spears was in the process of recording her studio album. With the albums announcement came the additional confirmation of the involvement of producers Sean Garrett, Guy Sigsworth, Danja, during its development, Garrett and vocal producer Jim Beanz complimented Spearss work ethic after her much-publicized personal struggles the previous year. Spears chose to write much of the material for the album, Max Martin, who produced Spearss first hit. Baby One More Time, produced If U Seek Amy for the album. The Outsyders, an Atlanta-based production team, produced the albums first single, while Fernando Garibay worked on two songs for Spears. Lil Jon, Rodney Jerkins, Sean Garrett, and Taio Cruz, announced they were working with Spears, Spears commented of the albums title, I like the fact that youre always on the edge of your seat when youre at a circus. Youre never bored Youre just really engulfed in whats going on around you, and you want to know whats going to happen next. The album shared a date with the similarly titled album The Circus by British group Take That. Circus was initially scheduled to be released worldwide on December 2,2008, however, after unauthorized online leaks, imeem began streaming the album from their website on November 25. Circus has been described as a sequel to Spearss fifth studio album Blackout and she described the album as lighter than Blackout, which was more urban sounding
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Come Taste the Band
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Come Taste The Band is the tenth studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, originally released in October 1975. The album was co-produced and engineered by the band and longtime associate Martin Birch, when Blackmore left the band in 1975, there was uncertainty over whether Deep Purple would continue, as they did when Ian Gillan and Roger Glover left in 1973. It was David Coverdale who asked Jon Lord to keep the band together, musically, the album is more commercial-sounding than the Deep Purple Mark III releases, leaning toward a conventional hard rock focus with overtones of soul and funk. Rehearsals for the album were recorded by Robert Simon, who was engineering the album. But after a dispute with the band over scheduling, the band left Simons Pirate Sound Studios in favour of Martin Birch, according to Glenn Hughes and Lord, at least two songs were written well in advance of the albums recording. You Keep on Moving had been written in 1973 by Hughes and Coverdale, so Coverdale rewrote much of the lyrics, and the song was included with Cooks blessing. The remainder of the album was written in Los Angeles, then recorded in Munich. The album was certified Silver on 1 November 1975 by the BPI, in recent years the album has received some critical reassessment, primarily due to Bolins contributions to the album. Ian Gillan, on the hand, has stated that he does not view the album as a real Deep Purple album. In 1990, the album was remastered and re-released in the US by Metal Blade Records and it was re-released again on the Friday Music label on 31 July 2007, along with Made in Europe and Stormbringer. The tour to support this album started strong, according to Lord in the documentary video Deep Purple – Getting Tighter, The Story of MK-IV, in Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand. However, according to Lord and Hughes on the documentary, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Specifically the two affirmed that Hughes and two others were framed for the death of the highly trained security worker, Patsy Collins. Hughes and the two others were placed in jail, the promoter also sold a second nights show, and forced the band to play for only the original fee for one night. Hughes was taken from jail at gunpoint to the second show, during this time, Bolin was given morphine by the promoter, which caused problems on the bands next stop in Japan. Their next stop was Japan, immediately afterwards, Tommy Bolin had taken the drugs given to him and fell asleep for an excess of 8 hours on his arm, causing him to be unable to play the guitar properly. According to Hughes, many of Bolins guitar parts were covered by Lord on his organ, Lord stated that to carry on with the concert, Bolin had several guitars tuned to open keys, minor and major, depending upon the song being played. He would make a bar position with his fingers, and play a rhythm while Lord played the melodies
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Dangerously in Love
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Dangerously in Love is the debut studio album by American singer Beyoncé. It was released on June 24,2003 by Columbia Records, during the recording of Destinys Childs third studio album, Survivor, the group announced that they would produce solo albums to be released. Recording sessions for the album took place from March 2002 to March 2003 at several studios, the tracks in the album are a mixture of uptempo songs and ballads, which are basically inspired by R&B and soul genres, it also features elements of hip hop and Arabic music. Dangerously in Love received positive reviews music critics upon its release. The album also received accolades, earning Beyoncé five Grammy Awards. Dangerously in Love, became a commercial success, earning multi-platinum certifications in Australia, the United Kingdom. The album debuted at one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 317,000 copies in its first week. Dangerously in Love has sold over 11 million copies worldwide and has produced two number one Billboard singles and multiple top tens, Beyoncé launched her career as lead singer to R&B group Destinys Child in the late 1990s. According to Corey Moss of MTV News, fans are eager to see how Beyoncé, after years with the group, the idea of individual releases emanated from the groups manager and Beyoncés father, Mathew. With different types of music for each member to produce, the albums were not intended to compete on the charts, Destinys Childs management strategically planned to stagger the release of each group members album to maximise sales. Michelle Williams was the first to release a solo album, Heart to Yours. Meanwhile, Beyoncé debuted on the big screen, starring in the comedy film Austin Powers in Goldmember, and recorded her single, Work It Out. Beyoncé also starred in The Fighting Temptations and recorded another solo single, in August 2002, she collaborated with boyfriend Jay-Z as featured vocalist on the song 03 Bonnie & Clyde. The single earned Beyoncé credibility and paved the way for the release of Dangerously in Love, before Beyoncé began recording for Dangerously in Love, she selected the producers with whom she would collaborate. For two days, she held meetings with producers from the West Coast across the East Coast. Beyoncé went to Miami, Florida to begin sessions with Canadian record producer Scott Storch, her first collaborator, as she wanted to concentrate on the album, Beyoncé took her time to avoid pressure build-up, significantly different from the hasty productions of Destinys Child. Although Beyoncé did not create beats, she came up with melodies, with 43 songs completed —15 of which made it to the album— Beyoncé is credited as co-writer and co-producer, as well as the albums executive producer alongside Matthew Knowles. Beyoncé felt that recording an album without her group mates was liberating and therapeutic, coming into the studio, the dependency she developed with Destinys Child, however, meant it was harder to be on own creatively
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A Day Without Rain
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While making the album, Enya started to question about her life and attempted to answered them in the material she was writing. In a musical departure from her previous albums, Enya incorporates a section which was not a conscious decision. As a result, Only Time climbed to number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and it became the fifth highest selling album of 2001 in the United States, and the best selling new age album of all time with an estimated 16 million copies sold worldwide. It remains Enyas highest selling album of her career, to promote the album, Enya made several interviews and televised performances, including the 2001 World Music Awards. In 2002, the album won Enya her third Grammy Award for Best New Age Album, recording took place at Aigle Studios, a studio installed at the Ryans home in Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland. The reduction in her work made her feel happier as a result. As with her previous albums, Enya produced A Day Without Rain in the same way and she first spends time alone developing melodies and outlines of songs on the piano. These would then be presented to the Ryans, Im quite anxious at this point, she said, while Roma starts to write lyrics to the melodies, Enya and Nicky will work in the studio to develop them into completed arrangements. Working without a deadline from her record label or a set timeline, Time for it to have its life out in the world. During the making of the album, Enya found she was questioning herself about her life and she compared the album to reading her own diary. Like in Pilgrim, she said, I was asking myself, and my answer is that I wouldnt change anything. Floras Secret is a song makes reference to Flora, the Roman mythological goddess of flowers. Enya and Roma incorporated some of Enyas experiences from her own life on Only Time. A Day Without Rain features a greater use of strings than previous albums, the three work by trying any possible idea with the music, and they stick with elements that give the greatest result, creatively. Most of the songs on the album were written in the key, Enya believed it helped to create a more positive. A Day Without Rain was titled to reference the amount of rain falls over Ireland throughout the year. After one particular stretch of consistent raining over a few days and it was then when Enya proceeded to write the track. She described its meaning as the mood of a peaceful day
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Eden (Sarah Brightman album)
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Eden is the sixth album by English soprano Sarah Brightman, released in 1998 under license by Nemo Studios to Angel Records. Similar to Brightmans later album La Luna, Eden juxtaposed English popular songs with Italian opera arias and this was a departure from her previous albums which were almost entirely sung in English, such as Fly. Eden retained elements of Timeless, which had strongest classical influences, Eden contains one classical rock ballad, Dust in the Wind. It was released as a single and experienced a big success in Brazil, the single Deliver Me also gained certain mainstream American success because of its inclusion on the soundtrack of the 1999 film Brokedown Palace. Subsequent to the release of Eden, Brightman performed her first world tour ever, One Night In Eden Tour, Eden Deliver Me So Many Things The Last Words You Said Dust in the Wind
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The Ego Has Landed
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The Ego Has Landed is a compilation album by English singer Robbie Williams. After the success of Williams around the world, especially in Europe, Williams was signed to Capitol Records in the United States, the album was released in May 1999 in the United States and Canada, and later issued worldwide. Williams embarked on a US Promotional Tour and when his first American single, Millennium was released, it peaked at No.72 in the Billboard Hot 100. The album The Ego Has Landed was released in May 1999 in the United States and peaked at No.63 in the Billboard albums chart, not having the success that he enjoyed in Europe. Despite this, Williams enjoyed good video airplay and received a nomination for the MTV Video Music Awards for Best Male Video, he did not win, but the exposure helped the sales of the album. Capitol Records, trying to make Williams a bigger star, released a single from the album. When it was released in the autumn of that year, the became a somewhat bigger hit than Millennium. However, this was not enough for Williams, so he concentrated on the rest of the world where he was already an established act, the album went on to sell 598,000 copies in the United States being certified Gold by the RIAA in November of that year. The compilation was released worldwide and was a success in New Zealand. It went on to sell 140,000 copies being certified 9× Platinum, in Australia, the album ensured platinum sales over 70,000 copies. The album was promoted in Latin America as well, Williams recorded a Spanish version of his hit Angels and it was included as a bonus track on the album and then released as a single. Despite this, the proved to be a medium success giving him Gold sales in Mexico. It has sold over 1 million copies worldwide, all the production done by Guy Chambers and Steve Power. One of Gods Better People runs 3,36, after 10 minutes of silence, Williams recites a poem called Hello Sir, addressed to an unknown man who apparently berated him for wanting to become a pop singer
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Empezar Desde Cero
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Empezar Desde Cero is the fifth studio album by Mexican pop group RBD, released simultaneously in Mexico and the United States on November 20,2007. The album contains two songs composed by two of RBDs band members, Alfonso Herrera and Christopher Uckermann, Empezar Desde Cero falls into the genres of Latin pop and pop rock. The album received a nomination for Best Pop Album by a Duo/Group with Vocals at the 9th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in 2008. In the United States, Empezar Desde Cero debuted at #1 on both the Billboard Top Latin Albums and Billboard Latin Pop Albums charts, while peaking at #60 on the main Billboard 200 chart. In Mexico, the album reached #4 on the Mexican Albums Chart and sold 320,000 copies there, the album was certified 2x Platinum in Venezuela for sales of 30,000 copies. As part of the promotion, the albums lead single, Inalcanzable, was released on October 8,2007. The single peaked at #6 on the US Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart, becoming the groups last top-ten hit on the ranking, on January 29,2008, the second single off the album, the title track Empezar Desde Cero, was released. The songs main vocals are performed solely by Maite Perroni, lastly, the third and final single from the album, Y No Puedo Olvidarte, was released on June 5,2008. The song was promoted by a performance at the 2008 Premios Juventud. In 2006, RBD released their studio album, Celestial, and immediately the group started a world tour to promote the album. Months after the tour had started, in 2007, the announced that the recording sessions for a new album could start after the end of the tour. The albums recording lasted a month and was held in studios in Mexico and Burbank. Different to RBDs previous studio albums, Empezar Desde Cero contained songwriting by some of the groups members, in addition to self-written songs by the groups members, the album contained more full solo tracks than the groups earlier albums. A demo version of the first leaked onto the Internet on May 2007, for the albums cover, a picture of RBD in front of a simple black backdrop was used. The typography used was very simple and used red highlighting in some words. On the albums cover, the six members of RBD are seen seated in wooden benches, Anahí appears reclining on a wooden bench wearing a leather jacket over a green dress, holding a strand of her hair. Behind her, Christian is seen wearing a sweater over a white T-shirt. The singer is seen holding Maites hand, who appears wearing a black dress, the groups famous redhead is sitting in a wooden bench besides Anahí, also wearing a black dress, but under a grey sweater
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En Vivo (Ana Gabriel album)
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En Vivo is the sixth album by Mexican pop singer, Ana Gabriel. This album reached No.1 in the Billboard Latin Pop Albums and it has sold 4,3 million worldwide, so far, this made her the first female singer in Spanish language in concert to accomplish that. This was her first live material and was nominated for Pop Album of the Year at the Lo Nuestro Awards of 1992,1 position in Billboard Latin Pop Albums, its her third album to top the chart, staying in the chart for 79 weeks. List of number-one Billboard Latin Pop Albums from the 1990s
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Europop (album)
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Europop is the debut album by Italian electronic group Eiffel 65. The album was released in 1999 as under Bliss Corporation and Universal Records, the album is most notable for the groups two biggest hits, Blue and Move Your Body, which topped the charts worldwide. Jey said about the title of Europop, The meaning of Euro pop actually, you can split this into Euro, with Euro, were meaning a gathering of different dance, European cultures. So were talking about trip hop coming from the U. K. techno from Germany, were talking about dance from Italy, in fact, the different tracks have a different kind of dance situation as a bottom arrangement. And pop means that theres always a song on it, so thats exactly what were saying, Euro pop and songs put onto a European dance situation. The album features pitch-corrected vocals and Euro disco beats throughout, despite hailing from Italy, Eiffel 65 perform all the songs on this album in English. The album peaked at four on the Billboard 200 in the United States. In February 2000, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of two million copies in the US. In a list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1990s by Channel 4, Blue Sugar by Flo Rida from the album R. O. O. T. S. com Eiffel 65s Europop in MSN music Eiffel 65s Europop in Napster Eiffel 65s Europop in Rhapsody
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Fabulosos Calavera
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Fabulosos Calavera Released in 1997 is the eleventh album by Argentine band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. This album has a darker theme than the previous album of the band talking about death. This fact, however, didnt stop it for getting gold disc and latter platinum on remastering, track 7, Hoy Lloré Canción, features famous salsa songwriter Rubén Blades. The Allmusic review by Victor W. the songwriting is superbly honed -- there seem to be no fat or extraneous parts in any of the albums 13 tracks, surfer Calavera mixes thrash, funk, reggae, and harmony vocals into the albums most infectious track. Rather than being distracting, however, such stylistic shifts enhance the energy, Fabulosos Calavera demonstrates that it is possible to have fun and give listeners plenty to chew on motionally. 12 years into their career, they made their most successful record yet
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Fever (Kylie Minogue album)
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Fever is the eighth studio album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue, released on 1 October 2001 internationally by Parlophone. The album was released in the United States on 26 February 2002 by Capitol Records and was Minogues first album release in the region since her second studio album Enjoy Yourself. Other musical influences of the range from synthpop to club music. Four singles were released from the album, the song, which is often recognised as Minogues signature song, is her highest selling single as of today and one of the best-selling singles of all time. Follow-up singles In Your Eyes and Love at First Sight also performed well on charts internationally, the last single Come into My World won Minogue a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording in 2004, and stands as her only Grammy Award-winning song to date. All four singles charted within the top 10 in Australia and the United Kingdom, in order to promote the album, Minogue embarked on the KylieFever2002 tour. Upon its release, Fever received generally positive reviews music critics, many of whom praised its production. Likewise, the album was a success, peaking at number one on the charts of countries like Australia, Austria, Germany, Ireland. In the United States, the peaked at number three on the US Billboard 200 chart, becoming Minogues biggest hit in the country. Fever won the Brit Award for Best International Album at the 2002 awards show ceremony, in Australia, Fever was the thirteenth best selling album of the decade. In 1998, Minogue was dropped from her label Deconstruction following the commercial performance of her sixth studio album Impossible Princess. She instead signed on to Parlophone and released her studio album Light Years. She promoted the album by embarking on the On a Night Like This tour, soon after, Minogue began work on her eighth studio album Fever. In the vein of Light Years, Fever is a disco and dance-pop album that contains elements of adult contemporary, the recording of the album took place at studios such as the Biffco Studios in Dublin, Hutch Studios in Chicago, Olympic Studios in London and Stella Studios. Fever is primarily an album, with prominent elements of 1970s-influenced disco. Jacqueline Hodges from BBC Music wrote that the album is not pure pop, NME critic Alex Needham identified a filter disco effect, described as the one that sounds like youve gone under water and then ecstatically come up for air, working on various songs on the album. Needham saw Fever as an update from the disco of Light Years. Songs like the opening track More More More and closing track Burning Up are examples of the production of the album
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Goodbye Lullaby
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Goodbye Lullaby is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter Avril Lavigne. It was released on 2 March 2011, by RCA Records, the album was her second and final studio album with the record company, following her previous album The Best Damn Thing. Recording sessions for the album began in November 2008, and took place over a period of almost two years, concluding in October 2010, Goodbye Lullaby is a more introspective effort from Lavigne, and consists of mainly stripped down instruments, such as the piano and acoustic guitar. Lavigne co-wrote every original track on the album, and took on duties for the first time. She also worked with producers Max Martin, Shellback, Butch Walker and her former husband Deryck Whibley. The album debuted inside the top five in over 15 countries such as the United States and Canada, topping the charts in eight countries, such as Australia, Greece, Hong Kong. To date, Goodbye Lullaby has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide, three singles were released from the album. The following singles, Smile and Wish You Were Here, had chart success worldwide. The album also includes a version of the soundtrack single for the 2010 film Alice in Wonderland. Lavigne promoted the album with a series of performances, including her The Black Star Tour. In September 2009, it was reported that Lavigne and husband Deryck Whibley were separating, the same day, MTV News reported that he was working with her on the follow-up album to The Best Damn Thing. They used their home studio to produce eight of the nine tracks she recorded for the album. I think this is taking the spirit of what she’s done on previous records so much further, It’s way more meaningful, has more of an impact, more emotional. It makes me feel something more than the other stuff, and I wanted to match that musically with the track. The album and lead singles release dates had been pushed back several times, the album was originally scheduled for release on 17 November 2009. Later, in January 2010, Lavigne stated that the cover had been photographed. In May, Lavigne said that she considered the album too serious and mellow and would return to the studio to balance the album out, With an album, I dont want to rush it out. I have a serious record, so I think I need to put a couple upbeat
