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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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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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Matthieu Chedid
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Matthieu Chedid, better known by his stage name ‑M-, is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player. Matthieu Chedid is the son of French singer Louis Chedid, and his sister is the music video and concert director Émilie Chedid. Chedid, a talented multi-instrumentalist, took an interest in early on. In 1978, at the age of six, Chedid lent his voice to the chorus of his fathers hit song Tas beau pas être beau alongside older sister and he has collaborated with a number of artists, both on stage and in the recording studio. Early into his career, Chedid was the opening act for Texas concerts. He has recorded with NTM, Sinclair, Billy Ze Kick, and more recently with Brigitte Fontaine, Sean Lennon, Vanessa Paradis, Chedid performs and records under the stage name ‑M-. Chedid created ‑M- as means of overcoming his shyness on stage, the pseudonym comes from Chedids first initial but also refers to the similar-sounding French word aime, meaning love. The character ‑M- is a superhero, noted for having a playful nature, in 1997, -M- released his first solo album Le Baptême. During this time, he played solo or with the cellist Vincent Ségal. The album received positive critical reception, but public recognition only came a few months later. In 1999, -M- published his album, Je dis aime a title that puns aime with M. A few months later, the album was 11th on the French Charts, with more than 500,000 albums sold, live, -M- played with Cyril Atef, Vincent Segal and DJ Shalom for the samples on some songs. He still works with his sister Emilie Chedid for the realisation of the clips and his live performance largely contributed to his success, playing on his character of -M- to transform every concert into a show. He won his first Victoire de la Musique awards for Male Artist of the Year, the song, with lyrics by Chomet and music by Benoit Charest, was nominated for a 2003 Academy Award. The music video for Belleville Rendez-vous uses both a live-action depiction of ‑M- and an animated depiction incorporated into footage from the film, in autumn 2003, he released his 3rd album Qui de nous deux with the singles Qui de nous deux, La bonne étoile, Mon ego. Softer, this saw the birth of his first daughter, Billie. A pink guitar can be seen in the video for Qui de nous deux, in 2007, he worked once again with Vanessa Paradis on her album Divinidylle, released in September 2007. Rumors circulated before the release of his 2009 studio album, Mister Mystère, the album, however, was released under the name ‑M- but included photographs of the singer without the wild costumes and hair associated with the ‑M- character
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Agent J (album)
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Agent J is the ninth studio album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It was released on September 21,2007, by Capitol Music Taiwan and it was renamed Love Mission in mainland China. Tsais last studio album, Dancing Diva, not only brought her to the top of the charts, expectations were naturally high for the new record, and Tsai was upping the ante with eleven new tracks and her first ever music movie. The album is set to be as successful as Dancing Diva, the album has sold more than 2.5 million copies in Asia, with more than 200,000 copies sold in Taiwan alone, and became the best-selling album of the year in Taiwan. The eleventh track, Sun Will Never Set, reached number 1 on the Hit FM Annual Top 100 Singles, the title track, Agent J, reached number 14 on the chart. The second track, Bravo Lover, reached number 41 on the chart, the album earned Tsai an MTV Asia Award nomination for Favorite Artist Taiwan. To further promote the album, Tsai released her debut film under the title on September 5,2007. The film is directed by Jeff Chang, Sheng Kuang, and Wei-kang Lai and starring Jolin Tsai, Kim Jaewon, Stephen Fung, and Carl Ng, the film can be divided into three parts. In the first part, Tsai played a girl who traveled in Paris, France and she was taken away by a secret organization and got brainwashed, and she was selected as a special agent due to her lithe physique to help the organization to assassinate people. At the last, she was instructed by the organization to kill her boyfriend, because she lost all her memory, she was confused about the last smile the man gave to her, and she went to his apartment and found the old photos bearing witness to their relationship. In the second part, Tsai played a people in prison and was selected by an organization to carry out an assassination in exchange for her freedom. Her target, Blue Beard, received intelligence and sent two killers to assassinate her in London, England and she met a photographer named Hsiao-tung Lu, and she fled under the cover of the man. They started a relationship, but one day she found her boyfriend was also an agent sent by Blue Beard. On the night she went to kill Blue Beard, Blue Beard shot her boyfriend from behind, in the third part, she played an undercover agent who was instructed to save a fellow agent named Vince who approached a gang boss in Bangkok, Thailand. However, she found the Vince was her ex-boyfriend who was supposed to be died a few years ago was working for the gang boss, one day both of their undercover identities exposed, and they started a gun battle with the gang member. Vince took a bullet in the chest and was died, and he left her alone again
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Billy Mann
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Over a 20-year period, Mann has built his career from street musician to recording artist to entrepreneur and music industry executive. Born in Philadelphia, PA as the youngest of three children, born to middle class parents, Mann lived with his mother in Philadelphia’s inner city after his parents’ divorce. From early childhood, he began experimenting with songwriting and taught guitar, piano, bass, harmonica, baritone horn. By age 12, Mann had put several bands with other young local musicians, including musicians such as Steven Wolf, Clayton Sears. Mann attended the Philadelphia High School for the Creative & Performing Arts for Vocal Music, alongside members of Boyz II Men, The Roots, Christian McBride, a college graduate by 20, Mann immediately began his professional career as a traveling musician. Wake then introduced Mann to then A&M Records label head, Al Cafaro, Mann was ultimately signed to Wake’s imprint DV8 Records, the deal led to two solo releases, 1996’s Billy Mann and 1998’s Earthbound. Following the release of Earthbound, Mann relocated to Europe, Mann has written songs for artists across a number of genres including pop, rock, dance, R&B, reggae, house and country. Self-publishing his own catalog, he also has publishing credits with Sony/ATV, Warner/Chappell, Verse, of particular note is Manns long-standing collaboration with P. nk, another Philadelphia native, who was introduced to Mann in 2002 by her then co-manager Craig Logan. They have twice been nominated for Grammys, for “Stupid Girls”, in addition to some of the artists listed above, he has worked in a production capacity with such Grammy-winning producer legends as Peter Asher, Walter Afanasieff, David Foster and James Stroud. Stealth was acquired as part of Manns later move to EMI, as a consultant, Mann has worked with Zomba Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television, Warner-Chappell, Lockerz, BMG Chrysalis, Bliss Legal and BMG International. He has also featured as a guest music commentator on The Today Show In November 2007, Mann joined EMI Music as creative advisor. Soon after, he was appointed chief officer, in 2008, he was made president of new music a&r international and president of global artist management. Additionally, he helped develop artist management initiatives in countries in order to expand the way EMI developed talent. Throughout his EMI tenure, Mann also acted as the chairman for Stealth Entertainment. During EMI’s most turbulent period, Mann worked under four CEOs in a three years, and carried on through each regime change. EMI’s final CEO Roger Faxon announced Mann’s departure from the company in a letter that reflected the impact on the organization. At the end of 2011, Mann founded Manncom Creative Partners, during its first year, Green & Bloom/Topline achieved multiple Top 10 album debuts around the world, as well as several Top 10 singles. In 2013, BMG extended its investment in Green & Bloom, in 2016, Manncom joined forces with the Los Angeles-based creative services and production house, The Shindig Studios to form The Colors You Like
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Orup
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Jolin Tsai
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Jolin Tsai is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and entrepreneur. Known for reinventing both her music and image, she is cited as a role of popularizing dance music as mainstream music in Greater China. Born and raised in Taiwan, Tsai began her career by winning the champion at an MTV singing competition at the age of 18. Her debut album, released in 1999 and titled 1019, was a huge success and her fifth album, Magic, is regarded as one of her biggest successes so far, right after her album, Dancing Diva, which reflected her mature artistic statement. After several successful albums and dozens of hits, she released her latest album, Play, having sold more than 25 million records in Asia, Tsai is recognized as one of the best-selling artists in Asia. Her work has earned her numerous awards and accolades, including six Golden Melody Awards, an MTV Asia Award and she has been acclaimed as an entrepreneur, particularly after she founded her own music production and management company Eternal in 2009. Forbes reported that she is one of the highest-paid Chinese celebrities, Tsai was born to parents Tsai Chu-chen and Huang Chun-mei in Hsinchuang, Taiwan, on September 15,1980. Her father is of Han Chinese descent, while her mother is half Han Chinese and her Papora maternal grandmother hails from Puli. Tsai was known for her grade, and frequently achieved top 3 in class since elementary school. Tsai was a 200-meter sprinter in school, but quit after she injured her ankle. Tsai later attended Hsinchuang Junior High School and Chingmei Girls High School where she and her friends formed a band Twister for which she sang, but the band quickly dissolved. In the second year of school, she made her performance debut on campus. In a different campus event, she sang Bette Midlers The Rose, in 1998, Tsai joined an MTV singing competition for a record of an extracurricular activity she performed in order to help her apply for colleges. However, she emerged champion at the competition where she sang a rendition of Whitney Houstons Greatest Love of All in the final round. It was a win that kickstarted her singing career and paved the way to her journey in becoming a teen idol. In 1999, she majored in English literature at Fu Jen Catholic University, after Tsai signed a recording deal with Universal, her debut single, Living with the World, was released in July 1999. She then started developing her album,1019, which was primarily recorded in Quad Studios in New York City. The album was released in September 1999, and she received positive feedback for the album, Tsai was named as the Teenage Boy Killer by media, and became an instant hit among teenagers in Taiwan
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Myself (album)
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Myself is the eleventh studio album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It was released on 13 August 2010, by Warner Music Taiwan, the album is considered among her most adventurous, with almost all tracks are dance music, which had never previously attempted by any singer in Greater China. The opening track, Honey Trap, reached number 1 on the Hit FM Annual Top 100 Singles, the eighth track, Nothing Left to Say, reached number 20 on the chart. The third track, Love Player, reached number 55 on the chart, the music video of the opening track, Honey Trap, earned Tsai a Golden Melody Award nomination for Best Music Video
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Hit FM (Taiwan)
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Hit FM is a pop music radio station in Taiwan. It broadcasts in Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung, Hit FM is owned by Music of Taipei Communications. It is one of the stations under Hitoradio. com. Hit FM is the highest-rated Top Ten radio station in Taiwan, the show, Fresh Release broadcast pop music. Hit Fm is one of the Chinese radio stations that broadcasts songs and their competitor, Kaohsiung-based Kiss Radio Taiwan, also broadcasts Mandopop as well as English top 40 songs. Each Weekend, two artists introduce music on air. Many Taiwanese/Mandarin Pop Music Artists, such as Jay Chou, Show Luo, A-Mei, Jolin Tsai, S. H. E, Leehom Wang, Stefanie Sun, everyday, Hit Fm introduces the No.1 song from different music charts throughout the world. This show broadcasts at 7,15,11,15,15,15,19,15,00,15, but now this feature has been abolished. Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart is a yearly compilation chart since 1998, by Hit Fm of the top 100 singles by online poll, weekly charts,2005 Hito Top 100 Singles 2004 Hito Top 100 Singles Remarks, Timetable is as of March 15,2010. Times stated above are at local times, the names of the DJ are in parenthesis. Official website Source, Pinyin translated by CozyChinese. Com
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Ace Wilder
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Alice Kristina Ingrid Gernandt better known by her stage name Ace Wilder, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She first received public attention while taking part in Melodifestivalen 2014, Wilder was born on July 23,1982 in Stockholm, Sweden. She grew up in places around the world, and for a long time she lived in Miami, Florida. She is the great-niece of radio personality Anders Gernandt, after several years of singing and dancing behind international singers on world tours, Wilder decided in 2012 to launch her solo career. She got a deal with EMI Records and Warner Music. She released the single Do It, which has since used in American television shows. In 2013 she released the single Bitches Like Fridays, in late 2013 Wilders debut album A Wilder was awarded Best Music Album of the Year at the Scandipop Awards. She made her breakthrough in the Swedish music industry after participating in Melodifestivalen 2014, Wilder qualified for the final on 8 March in Friends Arena, progressing from the third semifinal in Scandinavium with her song Busy Doin Nothin. She placed second in the two points behind the eventual winner Sanna Nielsen. The song went on to reach the position on the Swedish singles chart. In November 2015, it was revealed that Wilder would compete in the first semi-final of the Melodifestivalen 2016 with the song Dont Worry and she qualified directly for the final along with Robin Bengtsson. In the final she placed third with the juries, eighth with the Swedish public, on November 30,2016, Wilder was announced as one of the 28 acts to compete in Melodifestivalen 2017 with the song Wild Child. She qualified directly to final from first semi-final, along with Nano and she placed seventh in the final with a total of 67 points,35 from the jury and 32 from the televote. Media related to Ace Wilder at Wikimedia Commons
