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Rock in Rio
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Rock in Rio is a recurring music festival originating in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It later branched into other locations such as Lisbon, Madrid, the seventh Brazilian edition will happen from September 15 to 24,2017. In 2011, Rock in Rio returned to its location, Rio de Janeiro, with a new line-up of singers. The first edition of the festival was held from January 11–20,1985, Queen, George Benson, Rod Stewart, AC/DC and Yes were the headliners, each occupying top spot for two nights. About 1.4 million people attended the 10-day-long festival. Rock in Rio in numbers The City of Rock, which was built for the festival, covered an area of 250,000 m²1,600,000 liters of beverages were served, using 4 million plastic cups. McDonalds sold 58,000 hamburgers in a day, which was a Guinness World Record until the fourth edition in 2011. The full list of artists who performed at Rock in Rio, Both Queen shows were filmed and broadcast throughout Brazil by Globo. Each show was watched by nearly 200 million people in over 60 countries and in front of 350 and it was later broadcast in the United States on MTV as Queen, Live in Rio. Iron Maiden was the only act to play just one concert at the festival, due to other bookings. During the song Revelations, lead singer Bruce Dickinson hit himself accidentally with a guitar, Dickinson continued to sing in spite of heavy bleeding. They performed in front of a crowd of 350,000 people too, the Go-Gos broke up after their two Rock in Rio performances, though they would later reunite in the 1990s. The two Rock in Rio shows were the debut and swansong for short-tenured Go-Gos member Paula Jean Brown, chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, at the time Talking Heads drummer and bass player, respectively, took part at the B-52s concerts. They joined the band from the song on and played along with them for the remainder of the performance. The January 20 appearance of the B-52s would turn out to be their last with guitarist Ricky Wilson, initially, Def Leppard was scheduled to play at the festival. However, they dropped out two months before the event, due to delays on the recording process of the album Hysteria. Eleven days before the date Def Leppard would have played at the festival, the second edition was held from January 18–27,1991 at the Maracanã stadium. Headliners were Guns N Roses, Prince and George Michael, each being top billed for two of the nine nights
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Madrid
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Madrid is the capital city of the Kingdom of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole. The city has a population of almost 3.2 million with an area population of approximately 6.5 million. It is the third-largest city in the European Union after London and Berlin, the municipality itself covers an area of 604.3 km2. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the centre of both the country and the Community of Madrid, this community is bordered by the communities of Castile and León. As the capital city of Spain, seat of government, and residence of the Spanish monarch, Madrid is also the political, economic, the current mayor is Manuela Carmena from Ahora Madrid. Madrid is home to two football clubs, Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid. Madrid is the 17th most liveable city in the according to Monocle magazine. Madrid organises fairs such as FITUR, ARCO, SIMO TCI, while Madrid possesses modern infrastructure, it has preserved the look and feel of many of its historic neighbourhoods and streets. Cibeles Palace and Fountain have become one of the monument symbols of the city, the first documented reference of the city originates in Andalusan times as the Arabic مجريط Majrīṭ, which was retained in Medieval Spanish as Magerit. A wider number of theories have been formulated on possible earlier origins, according to legend, Madrid was founded by Ocno Bianor and was named Metragirta or Mantua Carpetana. The most ancient recorded name of the city Magerit comes from the name of a built on the Manzanares River in the 9th century AD. Nevertheless, it is speculated that the origin of the current name of the city comes from the 2nd century BC. The Roman Empire established a settlement on the banks of the Manzanares river, the name of this first village was Matrice. In the 8th century, the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula saw the changed to Mayrit, from the Arabic term ميرا Mayra. The modern Madrid evolved from the Mozarabic Matrit, which is still in the Madrilenian gentilic, after the disintegration of the Caliphate of Córdoba, Madrid was integrated in the Taifa of Toledo. With the surrender of Toledo to Alfonso VI of León and Castile, the city was conquered by Christians in 1085, Christians replaced Muslims in the occupation of the centre of the city, while Muslims and Jews settled in the suburbs. The city was thriving and was given the title of Villa, since 1188, Madrid won the right to be a city with representation in the courts of Castile. In 1202, King Alfonso VIII of Castile gave Madrid its first charter to regulate the municipal council, which was expanded in 1222 by Ferdinand III of Castile
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Dumfries
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Dumfries is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth, Dumfries was a civil parish and became the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire. Dumfries is nicknamed Queen of the South, people from Dumfries are known colloquially as Doonhamers. There are at least three theories on the etymology of the name, One is that the name Dumfries originates from the Scottish Gaelic name Dún Phris which means Fort of the Thicket. Another is that it comes from a Brythonic cognate of the alleged Gaelic derivation, No positive information has been obtained of the era and circumstances in which the town of Dumfries was founded. Some writers hold that Dumfries flourished as a place of distinction during the Roman occupation of North Great Britain. This is inferred from the etymology of the name, which, Dumfries was once within the borders of the Kingdom of Northumbria. The district around Dumfries was for centuries ruled over and deemed of much importance by the invading Romans. The Romanized natives received freedom as well as civilisation from their conquerors, late in the fourth century, the Romans bade farewell to the country. According to another theory, the name is a corruption of two words mean the Friars’ Hill, those who favour this idea allege that St. In the list of British towns given by the ancient historian Nennius, the name Caer Peris occurs, twelve of King Arthurs battles were recorded by Nennius in Historia Brittonum. The Battle of Tribruit, has suggested as having possibly been near Dumfries or near the mouth of the river Avon near Boness. It has been argued, the town thus characterised must have been Dumfries, however, against this argument is that the town is situated eight to nine miles distant from the sea, although the River Nith is tidal and navigable all the way into the town itself. Although at the time 1 mile upstream and on the bank of the Nith from Dumfries. The abbey ruins are on the site of the Bailey of the very early Lincluden Castle and this religious house was used for various purposes, until its abandonment around 1700. Lincluden Abbey and its grounds are now within the Dumfries urban conurbation boundary, William the Lion granted the charter to raise Dumfries to the rank of a Royal Burgh in 1186. Dumfries was very much on the frontier during its first 50 years as a burgh and it grew rapidly as a market town and port. Alexander III visited Dumfries in 1264 to plan an expedition against the Isle of Man, previously Scots, a royal castle, which no longer exists, was built in the 13th century on the site of the present Castledykes Park
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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Electronic dance music
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Electronic dance music is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals. EDM is generally produced for playback by disc jockeys who create seamless selections of tracks, called a mix, EDM producers also perform their music live in a concert or festival setting in what is sometimes called a live PA. In the United Kingdom and in continental Europe, EDM is more commonly called dance music or simply dance. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, following the emergence of raving, pirate radio, at this time a perceived association between EDM and drug culture led governments at state and city level to enact laws and policies intended to halt the spread of rave culture. By the early 2010s the term dance music and the initialism EDM was being pushed by the US music industry. Early examples of dance music include the disco music of Giorgio Moroder. During the early 1980s, the popularity of disco music declined in the United States, abandoned by major US record labels. European disco continued evolving within the mainstream pop music scene. European acts Silver Convention, Love and Kisses, Munich Machine, and American acts Donna Summer, in 1977, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte produced I Feel Love for Donna Summer. It became the first well-known disco hit to have a completely synthesised backing track, other disco producers, most famously American producer Tom Moulton, grabbed ideas and techniques from dub music to provide alternatives to the four on the floor style that dominated. The sound that originated from P-Funk the electronic side of disco, dub music. Much of the music produced during this time was, like disco, at this time creative control started shifting to independent record companies, less established producers, and club DJs. Other dance styles that began to become popular during the era include dance-pop, boogie, electro, Italo disco, house. In the early 1980s, electro emerged as a fusion of funk, also called electro-boogie, but later shortened to electro, cited pioneers include Zapp, D. Train, Sinnamon. Early hip hop and rap combined with German and Japanese electropop influences such as Kraftwerk, as the electronic sound developed, instruments such as the bass guitar and drums were replaced by synthesizers and most notably by iconic drum machines, particularly the Roland TR-808. Early uses of the TR-808 include several Yellow Magic Orchestra tracks in 1980-1981, the 1982 track Planet Rock by Afrikaa Bambaataa, and the 1982 song Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye. In 1982, producer Arthur Baker with Afrika Bambaataa released the seminal Planet Rock which was influenced by the Yellow Magic Orchestra using Kraftwerk samples, Planet Rock was followed later that year by another breakthrough electro record, Nunk by Warp 9. In 1983, Hashim created an electro funk sound which influenced Herbie Hancock, the early 1980s were electros mainstream peak
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Electro house
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Electro house is a form of house music. Electro house is characterized by a prominent bassline and/or kick drum and its origins were influenced by electro, electroclash, electropop, synthpop, and tech house. The term has been used to describe the music of many DJ Mag Top 100 DJs, including Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Hardwell, Skrillex, electro-house is typified by its heavy bass. This is often in the form of buzzing basslines, such as those created with sawtooth waves and it is also often in the form of large bass drum sounds in a four-on-the-floor pattern. The tempo of electro house is usually around 130 beats per minute, electro house sometimes resembles tech house, but it can contain melodic elements and electro-influenced samples and synths. The genre has been described as a genre of house and electro, either in its original form or as fused with electropop and techno in its late-1990s revival. The word electro is now used as an adjective, such as electro-house. Early songs that have been labelled retroactively as electro-house include Dark Invader by Arrivers in 1996, mr. Oizos 1999 hit Flat Beat has also been considered an early example of the genre. Benny Benassi, with his track Satisfaction released in 2002, is seen as the forerunner of electro-house who brought it to the mainstream, by the mid 2000s, electro-house saw an increase in popularity. Since then, electro-house producers such as Feed Me, Knife Party, The M Machine, Porter Robinson, in the early 2010s, a type of electro-house known as big room began to develop, particularly gaining popularity through EDM-oriented events and festivals such as Tomorrowland. Big room now is beginning to subside from the classification of a subgenre of electro house, big room songs resemble Dutch house, often incorporating drops, minimalist percussion, regular beats, sub-bass layered kicks, simple melodies, and synth-driven breakdowns. The layout of a big room track is similar to the layout of a typical electro-house song. Big room is thought of as a subgenre of electro-house, complextro is typified by glitchy, intricate basslines and textures created by sharply cutting between instruments in quick succession. The term, a portmanteau of the complex and electro, was coined by Porter Robinson to describe the sound of the music he was making in 2010. He has cited video game sounds, or chiptunes, as an influence on his style of music along with 1980s analog synth music and it is primarily defined by complex rhythms made from Latin-influenced drum kits, a lower emphasis on basslines, and squeaky, high-pitched lead synths. Influences on the subgenre include Detroit techno, hip hop and other styles of music. It contains influences from Chicago house, Detroit techno, Baltimore club, Kuduro, Pimba, bassline, bouncy techno, dubstep, techstep, hip hop easy listening and world music. Purveyors of the genre include The Bloody Beetroots, AC Slater, Danger, Hervé, Sinden, Jack Beats, the term fidget house was coined by DJs/producers Jesse Rose and Switch, as a joke, which has now gone a little too far
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Electropop
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Electropop is a variant of synth-pop that places more emphasis on a harder, electronic sound. The genre has seen a revival of popularity and influence since the 2000s, the media in 2009 ran articles proclaiming a new era of different electropop stars and indeed, saw a rise in popularity of several electropop artists. In the Sound of 2009 poll of 130 music experts conducted for the BBC, lady Gaga had major commercial success since 2008 with her debut album The Fame. Music writer Simon Reynolds noted that Everything about Gaga came from electroclash, except the music, the second album by British singer Lily Allen released in 2009 called Its Not Me, Its You is largely electropop as opposed to her first ska album. Other female electropop acts that emerged were Ladyhawke, Kesha, Demi Lovato, Britney Spears, Selena Gomez, Elly Jackson of La Roux and Perfume. The Korean pop music scene has become dominated and influenced by electropop, particularly with boy bands and girl groups such as Super Junior, SHINee, F. Male acts that have emerged included British writer and producer Taio Cruz, who charted well in the U. S. along with one-man act Owl City, who had a U. S. number-one single, DJ Kaskade, and LMFAO. Singer Michael Angelakos of the Passion Pit said in a 2009 interview that while playing electropop was not his intention, so everything weve been put on to is electronic in nature. Music Projects with Propellerhead Reason, Grooves, Beats and Styles from Trip Hop to Techno
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Dance-pop
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Dance-pop is a pop and dance subgenre that originated in the early 1980s. It is generally up-tempo music intended for nightclubs with the intention of being danceable, the genre, on the whole, tends to be producer-driven, despite some notable exceptions. Dance-pop borrowed influences from other genres, which varied by producer, artist, such include contemporary R&B, house, trance, techno, new jack swing, funk, synthpop, electropop and some forms of europop. Dance-pop is a mainstream style of music and there have been numerous pop artists. As the term started to go out of fashion by the late 1970s to early 1980s, other terms were commonly used to describe disco-based music, such as post-disco, club. Dance-pop music emerged in the 1980s as a combination of dance and pop, or post-disco, Dance-pop music was usually created, composed and produced by record producers who would then hire singers to perform the songs. In the beginning of the 80s disco was an anathema to the mainstream pop, according to prominent Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Madonna had a huge role in popularizing dance music as mainstream music, utilizing her charisma, chutzpah and sex appeal. Erlewine claimed that Madonna launched dance-pop and set the standard for the genre for the two decades. The staff of Vice magazine stated that her debut album drew the blueprint for future dance-pop, in the 1980s dance-pop was closely aligned to other up-tempo electronic genres, such as Hi-NRG. Prominent producers in the 1980s included Stock, Aitken and Waterman, during the decade, dance-pop borrowed influences from funk, new jack swing, and contemporary R&B. Other prominent dance-pop artists and groups of the 1980s included the Pet Shop Boys, Mel and Kim, Samantha Fox, Debbie Gibson, by the 1990s, dance-pop had become a major genre in popular music. Several dance-pop groups and artists emerged during the 1990s, such as the Spice Girls, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Backstreet Boys, during the early 1990s, dance-pop borrowed influences from house music, as well as contemporary R&B and new jack swing. Additionally, also in 1998, Cher released a song called Believe which made usage of a technological innovation of the time. An audio processor and a form of pitch modification software, Auto-Tune is commonly used as a way to correct pitch, since the late 1990s, the use of Auto-Tune processing has become a common feature of dance-pop music. Celine Dion also released a dance-pop song Thats the Way It Is by the end of 1999 and it has a moderately slow tempo but an up-beat song. At the beginning of the 2000s, dance-pop music was still prominent, nonetheless, as R&B and hip hop became extremely popular from the early part of the decade onwards, dance-pop often borrowed a lot of its influences from urban music. Dance-pop stars from the 1980s and 1990s such as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Janet Jackson, in Madonnas case, her album Music contained elements of Euro disco, especially the successful eponymous lead single. Britney Spears album Blackout contained influences of Euro disco, the mid-to-late 2000s saw the arrival of several new dance-pop artists, including Rihanna, Kesha, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry
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Digital audio workstation
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Regardless of configuration, modern DAWs have a central interface that allows the user to alter and mix multiple recordings and tracks into a final produced piece. DAWs are used for the production and recording of music, radio, television, podcasts, multimedia, early attempts at digital audio workstations in the 1970s and 1980s faced limitations such as the high price of storage, and the vastly slower processing and disk speeds of the time. In 1978, Soundstream built what could be considered the first digital audio workstation using some of the most current computer hardware of the time. Interface cards that plugged into the PDP-11s Unibus slots provided analog and digital input and output for interfacing to Soundstreams digital recorders. The DAP software could perform edits to the recorded on the systems hard disks. By the late 1980s, a number of consumer level computers such as the Apple Macintosh, Atari ST, soon, people began to use them for simple two-track audio editing and CD mastering. This combination of software and hardware was one of the earliest examples of a DAW. Many major recording studios finally went digital after Digidesign introduced its Pro Tools software, modeled after the traditional method, at this time, most DAWs were Apple Mac based. Around 1992, the first Windows based DAWs started to emerge from such as IQS Innovative Quality Software, Soundscape Digital Technology, SADiE, Echo Digital Audio. All the systems at this point used dedicated hardware for their audio processing, in 1993, German company Steinberg released Cubase Audio on Atari Falcon 030. This version brought DSP built-in effects with 8-track audio recording & playback using only native hardware, the first Windows based software-only product, introduced in 1993, was Samplitude Studio. In 1996, Steinberg introduced Cubase VST, which could record, Cubase not only modelled a tape-like interface for recording and editing, but also modelled the entire mixing desk and effects rack common in analog studios. This revolutionised the DAW world, both in features and price tag, and was imitated by most other contemporary DAW systems. An integrated DAW consists of a console, control surface, audio converter. Integrated DAWs were more popular before commonly available personal computers became powerful enough to run DAW software, as computer power and speed increased and price decreased, the popularity of costly integrated systems with console automation dropped. Systems such as the Orban Audicy became standard equipment at radio. This could be as simple as a mouse or as sophisticated as a piano-style MIDI controller keyboard or automated fader board for mixing track volumes, the computer acts as a host for the sound card/audio interface, while the software provides the interface and functionality for audio editing. The software controls all related components and provides a user interface to allow for recording, editing
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Electronic keyboard
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An electronic keyboard or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument, an electronic or digital derivative of keyboard instruments. Broadly speaking, in a popular context, the term electronic keyboard or just a keyboard mostly refers to any type of digital or electronic keyboard instrument. These include synthesizers, digital pianos, stage pianos, electronic organs, however, in true musical terminology, an electronic keyboard is an inexpensive synthesizer equipped with built-in power amplifier and small loudspeakers. Electronic keyboards are capable of recreating a wide range of instrument sounds with less complex sound synthesis, Electronic keyboards are usually dedicated for home users, beginners and other non-professional users. The least expensive models do not have velocity-sensitive keys, but mid- to high-priced models do have these feature, home keyboards typically have little if any sound editing capacity. The user typically selects from a range of voices or sounds. Home keyboards have a lower cost than professional synthesizers. Casio and Yamaha are among the manufacturers of home keyboards. An electronic keyboard may also called a digital keyboard, portable keyboard, or home keyboard, referring their digital-based sound generation and light-weight, portable build. In Russia, most kinds of keyboards were often referred to as a synthesizer. The term electronic keyboard may also be used to refer to synthesizer or digital piano on colloquial usage, Most keyboards use a keyboard matrix circuit to reduce the amount of wiring that is needed. Electronic hardware can also do this, Sound generator, A digital sound module typically contained within an integrated ROM, which is capable of accepting MIDI commands and producing sounds. Keyboard sound generators are mostly based on PCM synth, amplifier and speakers, an internal audio amplifier built to the sound generator chip and low-powered speakers that amplify the sounds so that the listener can hear them. Power supply, Keyboards may or may not have a power supply system built to the main circuit board. Flash memory, Most electronic keyboards have an amount of onboard memory for storing MIDI data and/or recorded songs. Floppy disks were obsolete by the early 2000s, with memory cards start to replace them shortly afterwards, USB storage were originally less common at the time, but was later popularized by Yamahas Tyros2 workstation keyboard in 2005 and has become a standard feature ever since. Most keyboards today uses USB storage, with the exception of some Casio, keyboard instruments can be found as far back as the hydraulis in the 3rd century BCE, which developed into the pipe organ, and small portable instruments such as the portative and positive organ. Additional keyboard instruments, the clavichord and harpsichord, were developed in the 14th century CE, as technology improved, more sophisticated keyboards were developed, including the 12-tone keyboard still in use today
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Synthesizers
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A synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones. Synthesizers may either imitate instruments like piano, Hammond organ, flute, vocals, natural sounds like ocean waves, etc. or generate new electronic timbres. Synthesizers without built-in controllers are called sound modules, and are controlled via USB, MIDI or CV/gate using a controller device. Synthesizers use various methods to generate electronic signals, synthesizers were first used in pop music in the 1960s. In the 1970s, synths were used in disco, especially in the late 1970s, in the 1980s, the invention of the relatively inexpensive, mass market Yamaha DX7 synth made synthesizers widely available. 1980s pop and dance music often made use of synthesizers. In the 2010s, synthesizers are used in genres of pop, rock. Contemporary classical music composers from the 20th and 21st century write compositions for synthesizer, the beginnings of the synthesizer are difficult to trace, as it is difficult to draw a distinction between synthesizers and some early electric or electronic musical instruments. One of the earliest electric musical instruments, the telegraph, was invented in 1876 by American electrical engineer Elisha Gray. He accidentally discovered the sound generation from a self-vibrating electromechanical circuit and this musical telegraph used steel reeds with oscillations created by electromagnets transmitted over a telegraph line. Gray also built a simple loudspeaker device into later models, consisting of a diaphragm in a magnetic field. This instrument was a remote electromechanical musical instrument that used telegraphy, though it lacked an arbitrary sound-synthesis function, some have erroneously called it the first synthesizer. In 1897, Thaddeus Cahill invented the Teleharmonium, which used dynamos, and was capable of additive synthesis like the Hammond organ, however, Cahills business was unsuccessful for various reasons, and similar but more compact instruments were subsequently developed, such as electronic and tonewheel organs. In 1906, American engineer, Lee De Forest ushered in the electronics age and he invented the first amplifying vacuum tube, called the Audion tube. This led to new entertainment technologies, including radio and sound films, ondes Martenot and Trautonium were continuously developed for several decades, finally developing qualities similar to later synthesizers. In the 1920s, Arseny Avraamov developed various systems of graphic sonic art, in 1938, USSR engineer Yevgeny Murzin designed a compositional tool called ANS, one of the earliest real-time additive synthesizers using optoelectronics. The earliest polyphonic synthesizers were developed in Germany and the United States, during the three years that Hammond manufactured this model,1,069 units were shipped, but production was discontinued at the start of World War II. Both instruments were the forerunners of the electronic organs and polyphonic synthesizers
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Sampler (musical instrument)
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The samples are loaded or recorded by the user or by a manufacturer. These sounds are played back by means of the sampler program itself. Because these samples are stored in digital memory, the information can be quickly accessed. A single sample may often be pitch-shifted to different pitches to produce musical scales, often samplers offer filters, effects units, modulation via low frequency oscillation and other synthesizer-like processes that allow the original sound to be modified in many different ways. Most samplers have polyphonic capabilities – they are able to more than one note at the same time. Many are also multitimbral – they can play back different sounds simultaneously, prior to computer memory-based samplers, musicians used tape replay keyboards, which store recordings on analog tape. When a key is pressed the tape head contacts the moving tape, to change sounds a new set of tapes had to be installed in the instrument. The emergence of the sampler made sampling far more practical. Bruce Haack built a digital sampler which he demonstrated on Mister Rogers Neighborhood in 1967, the home made synthesizer device included a built-in sampler which recorded, stored, played back and looped sounds controlled by switches, light sensors and human skin contact. EMS Musys system, developed by Peter Grogono, David Cockerell, the system ran on two mini-computers, Digital Equipment PDP-8s. These had 12,000 bytes of memory, backed up by a hard drive of 32k. EMS equipment was used to control the worlds first digital studio, the E-mu SP-1200 percussion sampler progressed Hip-Hop away from the drum machine sound upon its release in August 1987, ushering in the sample-based sound of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Akai pioneered many processing techniques, such as crossfade looping and time stretch to shorten or lengthen samples without affecting pitch, during the 1980s, hybrid synthesizers began to utilize short samples along with digital synthesis to create more realistic imitations of instruments than had previously been possible. Examples are the Korg M1, Roland U-110, Yamahas SY series, samplers, together with traditional Foley artists, are the mainstay of modern sound effects production. Using digital techniques various effects can be pitch-shifted and otherwise altered in ways that would have required many hours when done with tape, usually a sampler is controlled by an attached music keyboard or other external MIDI controller or source. Each note-message received by the sampler accesses a particular sample, often multiple samples are arranged across the keyboard, each assigned to a note or group of notes. Keyboard tracking allows samples to be shifted in pitch by an appropriate amount, each group of notes to which a single sample has been assigned is often called a keyzone, and the resultant set of zones is called a keymap. For example, in Fig 1, a keymap has been created four different samples
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Music sequencer
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This software also improved on the quality of the earlier sequencers which tended to be mechanical sounding and were only able to play back notes of exactly equal duration. Software-based sequencers allowed musicians to program performances that were more expressive and these new sequencers could also be used to control external synthesizers, especially rackmounted sound modules, and it was no longer necessary for each synthesizer to have its own devoted keyboard. As the technology matured, sequencers gained more features, such as the ability to record multitrack audio, Sequencers used for audio recording are called digital audio workstations. Many modern sequencers can be used to control virtual instruments implemented as software plug-ins and this allows musicians to replace expensive and cumbersome standalone synthesizers with their software equivalents. Today the term sequencer is used to describe software. Workstation keyboards have their own proprietary built-in MIDI sequencers, drum machines and some older synthesizers have their own step sequencer built in. There are still also standalone hardware MIDI sequencers, although the demand for those has diminished greatly due to the greater feature set of their software counterparts. Music sequencers are often categorized by handling data types, as following, or, the phrase samplers including Groove machines, etc. Also, music sequencer can be categorized by its construction and supporting modes, realtime sequencers record the musical notes in real-time as on audio recorders, and play back musical notes with designated tempo, quantizations, and pitch. For editing, usually punch in/punch out feature originated in the recording is provided. For detailed editing, possibly another visual editing modes under graphical user interface may be more suitable, anyway, this mode provides usability similar to the audio recorder already familiarized by musicians, and it is widely supported on software sequencer, DAW, and built-in hardware sequencers. Analog sequencers are typically implemented with analog electronics, and play the musical notes designated by a series of knobs or sliders corresponding to each musical note and it is designed for both composition and live performance, users can change the musical notes at any time without regarding recording mode. And also possibly, the time-interval between each note can be independently adjustable. Typically, analog sequencer is used to generate the repeated minimalistic phrases which is reminiscent of Tangerine Dream, on the bass machines, select a step note from a chromatic keypads, then select a step duration from a group of length-buttons, sequentially. In general, step mode, along with roughly quantized semi-realtime mode, is supported on the analog drum machines, bass machines. Software sequencer is a class of application software providing a functionality of music sequencer, the features provided as sequencers vary widely depending on the software, even an analog sequencer can be simulated. The user may control the software sequencer either by using the user interfaces or a specialized input devices. The early music sequencers were sound producing devices such as musical instruments, music boxes, mechanical organs, player pianos
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Columbia Records
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Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. the United States division of Sony Corporation. It was founded in 1887, evolving from an enterprise named the American Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the sound business. Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of singers, instrumentalists. It is one of Sony Musics three flagship record labels alongside RCA Records and Epic Records, rather, as above, it was connected to CBS, a broadcasting media company which had purchased the company in 1938, and had been co-founded in 1927 by Columbia Records itself. Though Arista Records was sold to Bertelsmann Music Group, it would become a sister label of Columbia Records through its mutual connection to Sony Music. The Columbia Phonograph Company was founded in 1887 by stenographer, lawyer and New Jersey native Edward Easton and it derived its name from the District of Columbia, where it was headquartered. At first it had a monopoly on sales and service of Edison phonographs and phonograph cylinders in Washington. As was the custom of some of the regional companies, Columbia produced many commercial cylinder recordings of its own. Columbias ties to Edison and the North American Phonograph Company were severed in 1894 with the North American Phonograph Companys breakup, thereafter it sold only records and phonographs of its own manufacture. In 1902, Columbia introduced the XP record, a brown wax record. According to Gracyk, the molded brown waxes may have sold to Sears for distribution. Columbia began selling records and phonographs in addition to the cylinder system in 1901, preceded only by their Toy Graphophone of 1899. For a decade, Columbia competed with both the Edison Phonograph Company cylinders and the Victor Talking Machine Company disc records as one of the top three names in American recorded sound. In order to add prestige to its catalog of artists. The firm also introduced the internal-horn Grafonola to compete with the extremely popular Victrola sold by the rival Victor Talking Machine Company, during this era, Columbia used the famous Magic Notes logo—a pair of sixteenth notes in a circle—both in the United States and overseas. Columbia was split into two companies, one to make records and one to make players, Columbia Phonograph was moved to Connecticut, and Ed Easton went with it. Eventually it was renamed the Dictaphone Corporation, in late 1923, Columbia went into receivership
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Ministry of Sound
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Ministry of Sound Group is a multimedia entertainment business based in London with a nightclub, worldwide events operation, music publishing business and fitness studio. James Palumbo is the co-founder and former Chairman and CEO of the Group, in 2008, he handed over the day-to-day running of the business to Lohan Presencer. 2016 saw Presencer become Chairman, handing over running of the group to former Clear Channel Executive. Ministry of Sound began as the idea of Justin Berkmann, inspired by New York’s Paradise Garage, Berkmann set out to create London’s first club devoted to the American house music scenes of 1980s New York City, Chicago and Detroit. As opposed to striking a balance between the typical hallmarks of a music venue, Ministry of Sound was conceived as an arena purely dedicated to sound. Berkmann stated, My concept for Ministry was purely this, 100% sound system first, lights second, design third, Berkmann was introduced to James Palumbo, who was working in property finance at the time, by Humphrey Waterhouse to realise the concept. The site, a bus garage, is located in Elephant & Castle in Southwark. The club opened on 21 September 1991 and has remained in this location since, with opening sets from American house DJs Larry Levan, David Morales, Roger Sanchez and Tony Humphries, Ministry of Sound grew as a clubbing venue. It now attracts around 300,000 clubbers per year and has hosted sets from popular DJs including, Adam Beyer, DJ Harvey, Dixon, Marshmello and it has won the IDMA ‘World’s Best Sound System’ award four years in a row - every year they ran the category. As a venue, Ministry of Sound in London operates 3 weekly club nights, fridays feature Lock n Load brand The Gallery which are primarily trance music, whilst Saturdays host a number of club nights which are primarily house music. In 2016, these included Defected, Glitterbox, Rinse FM, Hospitality, on Tuesday the club hosts a student session called Milkshake, established in 2002. Ministry of Sound’s existence has been threatened on a number of occasions by nearby redevelopment in Elephant & Castle, the most notable concerned the redevelopment of Eileen House, a tower block opposite the nightclub’s entrance. From 2009 to 2014, Ministry of Sound fought various campaigns to save the club from the threat of closure. These culminated in a hearing before then Mayor of London Boris Johnson at City Hall in November 2013, on 19 December 2013, a landmark legal deal was agreed between Ministry of Sound and the developer Oakmayne to enable Eileen House to be redeveloped without jeopardizing the club’s future. In 2016 Ministry of Sound partnered with Dolby Laboratories to bring surround sound Dolby Atmos to the nightclub, the Box, Ministry of Sound’s main room, now boasts a 64-speaker, 22-channel sound system, allowing the artists to control where certain sounds are sent across the space. Under its Ministry of Sound and Hed Kandi brands, the business hosts approximately 500 international events annually across the world, in 2017 the brand will feature as part of the stage line-up at festivals including, The Ark, Adria Summer Festival and Ultra Europe. Ministry does Fitness is the name of Ministry of Sound’s new high intensity interval training experience. Previously the club’s back-of-house vault where the alcohol was stored, The Arches studio opened in February 2017, the concept takes a club-style sound system and lighting rig and pairs it with a bespoke, instructor-led workout
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Ultra Music
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Ultra Music is a worldwide music entity, comprising Ultra Records, Ultra Music Publishing, and Empire Artist Management. Ultra Records was formed in New York City in 1995 by former Polygram and Virgin Records executive Patrick Moxey, as of December 23,2012, Ultra entered a global alliance with Sony Music, giving it’s artists’ access to Sony’s international marketing and promotional resources. Moxey also holds the title as President of Sony’s Worldwide Electronic Music efforts, Ultra Records has also won the title of International Dance Music Awards Best American Music Label 10 consecutive times. By 2017, Ultra Music has received Diamond, Platinum, oMIs “Cheerleader has received 1x Diamond, 20x Platinum, and 7x Gold certifications globally. Steve Aoki and former member of One Direction, Louis Tomlinson, released their collaboration “Just Hold On” which went Gold, “Don’t Be So Shy ” by French singer and model Imany went 2x Platinum. Producer and DJ Deorro’s Latin crossover ballad “Bailar, ” featuring Grammy Award-winning Merengue singer Elvis Crespo went Multi-Platinum, Deorro’s collaboration with Chris Brown “Five More Hours” earned 19x Platinum and 4x Gold certifications. “Paradise” a collaboration between Benny Benassi and Chris Brown went certified Gold in 2016, recent signings to the Ultra repertoire have acquired charted titles, Lost Frequencies’ “Are You With Me” with Multi-Platinum and Gold certifications across 14 countries. Pop singer Era Istrefi’s track “Bonbon” went Gold in 4 countries, sNBRN’s “Gangsta Walk” went 2x Platinum. French producer Klingande went Platinum with his song “Somewhere New”, recently Grammy-nominated duo Sofi Tukker went certified Gold with their record “Drinkee”. Ultra’s artist Kygo performed the Closing Ceremony of Rio’s 2016 Olympics, currently, Ultra Records is #53 on YouTube for Most Viewed Channels of all time. With the official YouTube channel garnering over 6 billion views and over 8 million subscribers. Elvis Crespo - Bailar - Just Dance 2017 Dyro & Dannic - Raddical - Just Dance 2017 Era Istrefi - Bonbon - Just Dance 2017 Flosstradamus, FKI 1st, - Madden NFL ‘17 Steve Aoki & Laidback Luke feat. Lil Jon - Turbulence - Madden NFL ‘17 Steve Aoki - How Else feat, rich The Kid and ILoveMakonennen - Madden NFL ‘17 Kygo feat. Kodaline - Raging - FIFA2017 Neil Ormandy - Shoulders Of Giants - Lucifer Promo Campaign Anderson. Paak feat. ScHoolboy Q - SONOS In-Store POS Campaign Daktyl - Stay - Samsung Come Together Ad Busy Signal - Watch Me Now - Smirnoff’s Diageo Ad Deorro - Move On - T-Mobile Ad Flosstradamus feat. Travis Porter - Drop Top - T-Mobile Ad Vic Mensa - U Mad - Apple Watch Ad Busy Signal - Everybody Move - LG Ad Deorro feat, Elvis Crespo - Bailar - Target Fall 2016 Ad Deorro feat. Elvis Crespo - Bailar - Target Halloween 2016 Ad Anderson. Paak feat, Ultra Music Festival and Ultra Music have partnered with one another to create a series of electronic music festivals worldwide
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Roc Nation
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Roc Nation, LLC is an American entertainment company founded by Jay Z & Jay Brown in 2008. The company has offices in New York City, London, Nashville, Austin, the company also has partnerships with global management companies Three Six Zero Urban Media Global Network Collective and Philymack. Rj Entertainment World Wide based in Austin, Texas In 2008, the firm has a multi-year partnership with live event company Live Nation. In June 2009, Roc Nation signed a 4-year distribution deal with Sony Music, in 2010, Roc Nation partnered with London-based entertainment company Three Six Zero Group. In February 2013, Roc Nation signed a music publishing administration deal with Warner/Chappell Music. In April 2013, Roc Nation formed a new sports management division, Roc Nation Sports, shortly thereafter, Roc Nation Sports also launched a boxing promotion division. After the Sony deal expired, in April 2013, Roc Nation signed a partnership with Universal Music. In February 2015, Roc Nation and Three Six Zero Group announced the formation of Three Six Zero Entertainment, a division representing clients in film, television and the literary arts. In November 2016, the administrator of Princes estate authorized a copyright lawsuit against Roc Nation for putting 15 Prince albums up on the streaming service Tidal. In beginning of March 2017, Roc Nation announced the formation of Arrive, jahlil Beats Lab Ox Ludwig Göransson L1 Stress Roc Nation albums discography Roc Nation singles discography RocNation. com
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Deconstruction Records
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Deconstruction Records is a British record label founded in 1987 by Pete Hadfield and Keith Blackhurst, together with Mike Pickering of M People. According to DJ Magazine it is best remembered for marrying underground credibility and diversity with an attitude towards pop. It initially specialised in house anthems such as K Klasss Rhythm Is A Mystery, as well as M Peoples output, but also had a record in promoting underground dance acts such as Dave Clarke. Hits included Robert Miless UK No.2 hit Children, Felixs twice UK Top Ten hit Dont You Want Me and Italian techno act U. S. U. R. A. s UK No.7 hit, Open Your Mind. It was home to Kylie Minogue in the mid-late 1990s, when working with Saint Etienne, Brothers in Rhythm, among the other artists to record for the company were Guru Josh, Black Box, M People, Way Out West, Sasha, and Republica. It also released recordings by Lionrock, Death in Vegas and Dub Pistols through its Concrete Records subsidiary, distribution was via label deals with Parlophone, for acts such as K-Klass and Bassheads, and RCA Records for everybody else. It was acquired by BMG in 1993, and its operations reduced in 1998, Sony Music then acquired BMGs stake in Sony BMG Music Entertainment in 2008, which led to the closure of both Deconstruction and Concrete. They relaunched some of its catalogue, and announced some new signings in late 2009, including Axwell, Diagram of the Heart, Retro/Grade. In May 2010, it was announced that Calvin Harris was signed the head of the A&R team at the newly relaunched Deconstruction label
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Dizzee Rascal
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Dylan Kwabena Mills, better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is an English hip hop recording artist and record producer. His music spans grime, UK garage, bassline, British hip hop, and R&B. Mills was born in London. His Nigerian father died when Rascal was young, and he was raised in Bow, London, in a single-parent family, by his Ghanaian mother Priscilla, about whom he says, I had issues as a kid. The way my mum helped was by finding me a different school every time I got kicked out and he attended a series of schools in East London and was expelled from four of them, including St Pauls Way Community School. He also went to Langdon Park School in East London, reportedly, it was around this time that a teacher was the first to call him Rascal. Cagey about exactly what Rascals youthful madnesses entailed, in interviews he mentioned fighting with teachers, stealing cars. In the fifth school, he was excluded from all classes except music and he also used to attend YATI. He was a friend of footballer Danny Shittu, whom he described as almost like a big brother. Unusually among his friends, he read the heavy metal magazine Kerrang. and was a fan of the grunge band Nirvana. Around the age of 14, Dizzee Rascal became a drum and bass DJ, also MCing over tracks as customary in sound system culture. Aged 16, he self-produced his first single, I Luv U, in 2002, he jointly formed the Roll Deep Crew, a 13-piece garage collective, with former school friends. He also signed a deal with the record label XL. During his early career, Dizzee worked with his mentor Wiley to create the still-unreleased song We Aint Having It and he made some instrumentals including Go and Ho and Streetfighter, which used some music from a video game. The set which features many seminal early grime artists was filmed, which was rare for the era, after winning a Sidewinder Award for Best Newcomer MC in 2002, Dizzee was a judge in the Sky1 show Must Be The Music. He also did a verse on the Roll Deep remix of Lets Push Things Forward on the 2002 Weak Become Heroes CD and 12 single by The Streets. Dizzees first solo album, Boy in da Corner, was released to critical acclaim in August 2003. The album would peak at #23, in the same week the album was released, while performing with Roll Deep Crew, the rapper was stabbed six times in Ayia Napa. Many tabloids suggested that this event was connected to an apparent feud between Dizzee and garage act So Solid Crew, and his pinching Lisa Maffias buttocks
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Rihanna
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Robyn Rihanna Fenty is a Barbadian singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Saint Michael and raised in Bridgetown, she first entered the industry by recording demo tapes under the direction of record producer Evan Rogers in 2003. She ultimately signed a contract with Def Jam Recordings after auditioning for its then-president. She assumed creative control for her studio album Good Girl Gone Bad. Its successful lead single Umbrella became a breakthrough in her career. After releasing four consecutive platinum albums, including the Grammy Award winner Unapologetic. Her eighth studio album Anti and its lead single Work reached number-one on the Billboard 200, with sales exceeding 230 million records worldwide, Rihanna is one of the best-selling artists of all time. Widely recognized for reinventing her style, she received the Fashion Icon lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2014. Forbes ranked Rihanna the fourth most powerful celebrity of 2012, and was named one of Times 100 Most Influential People in the World later that year, Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born on February 20,1988, in Saint Michael, Barbados. Her mother, Monica, is an accountant of African American background. Rihanna has two brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty, and two half-sisters and a half-brother from her fathers side, each born to different mothers from his previous relationships. She grew up in a bungalow in Bridgetown and sold clothes with her father in a stall on the street. Rihannas childhood was affected by her fathers addiction to crack cocaine. As a child, she went through a lot of CT scans for the excruciating headaches she suffered, even thought it was a tumor, by the time she was fourteen, Rihanna’s parents had divorced and her health began to improve. Rihanna grew up listening to music and began singing at around the age of seven. She attended Charles F. Broome Memorial Primary School and Combermere High School, Rihanna was an army cadet in a sub-military programme, the singer-songwriter Shontelle was her drill sergeant. Although she initially wanted to graduate high school, she chose to pursue a musical career instead. In 2003, Rihanna formed a trio with two of her classmates
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Ellie Goulding
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Elena Jane Ellie Goulding is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. Her career began when she met record producers Starsmith and Frankmusik, and she was spotted by Jamie Lillywhite. After signing to Polydor Records in July 2009, Goulding released her extended play, An Introduction to Ellie Goulding. In 2010, she became the second artist to top the BBCs annual Sound of, poll and win the Critics Choice Award at the Brit Awards in the same year. She released her studio album, Lights, in 2010. The albums title track, Lights, was released in the US in March 2011, Gouldings second studio album, Halcyon, was released in October 2012. Anything Could Happen preceded the album as the lead single, Halcyon debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart and after 65 weeks reached number one. Halcyon debuted at nine on the US Billboard 200. Halcyon Days, an edition of Halcyon, was released on 23 August 2013, it included new singles including Burn. At the 2014 Brit Awards, she received the award for British Female Solo Artist, Goulding released her third studio album, titled Delirium, on 6 November 2015, with On My Mind as the albums lead single. In December 2015, she received her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Solo Performance for her single Love Me like You Do. Elena Jane Goulding was born on 30 December 1986 in Hereford and raised in Lyonshall, a village near Kington, Herefordshire. Her father, Arthur Goulding, came from a family of undertakers, while her mother, Tracy, when she was 5, her parents separated, later she had a stepfather who was a lorry driver, whom she considered horrible. At 9, she playing the clarinet and at 14 began learning guitar. Goulding attended Lady Hawkins High School in Kington where she won the role of the Scarecrow in a production of The Wizard of Oz. At 15, she started songwriting and while at Hereford Sixth Form College entered a competition and won. After she successfully showcased for Turn First head Sarah Stennett, she was told to leave university and was set up in a house in West London, Lillywhite became her manager and introduced her to the producer Starsmith who would become her chief collaborator and the primary producer of Lights. The single peaked at number fifty-three on the UK Singles Chart following an appearance on Later
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Hurts
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Hurts are an English synthpop duo formed in 2009, consisting of synthesist Adam Anderson and singer Theo Hutchcraft. Their first two albums, Happiness and Exile, both reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Anderson and Hutchcraft met outside the 42nd Street nightclub in Manchester in November 2005, whilst their friends got involved in a fight. Too drunk to join in, they began discussing music instead, realising they had similar tastes, over the next few months, they exchanged music and lyrics via e-mail, before forming Bureau in March 2006. They performed their first gig as a quintet in May at The Music Box in Manchester and they released their first double A-side single After Midnight/Dollhouse in November, which was made Single of the Week on Xfm. In 2007, Bureau disbanded and soon after Hutchcraft and Anderson formed the band Daggers and they signed to Label Fandango and in October released another double A-side single, Money/Magazine, which, despite failing to chart, was nominated for the Popjustice £20 Music Prize. They recorded a ballad called Unspoken together and they immediately realised that this was the sound that they wanted to develop as a duo. After informing the rest of the band that it was finished, they went on a break to Verona in Italy. Daggers split on 30 January 2009, after uploading the video to their YouTube channel on 21 April 2009, it quickly went viral. The video has since had over 21 million views on YouTube, in July the band was signed to Sony subsidiary RCA Records as well as RCA imprint Major Label Records, run by their old friend Biff Stannard. On 7 January, Zane Lowe premiered the song Blood, Tears & Gold as his Hottest Record in the World and this was quickly followed by gigs at Wiltons Music Hall, London, and in Berlin and Cologne in Germany. In March, Wonderful Life was released to radio in various European territories, as manager Matt Vines explained to Music Week, were looking at tours across Europe to back up the work we are doing in the UK. The single became a hit in countries such as Denmark, Cyprus. On 10 March, their first UK single Better Than Love was premiered on Huw Stephens show on BBC Radio 1. After a nationwide tour with the NME Radar tour, the song was released on download, CD and vinyl formats on 24 May. Following success on Greek radio, Hurts were invited to perform at the MAD Video Music Awards ceremony in Athens in front of 11,000 people on 15 June. Also in June, Kylie Minogue recorded a verse and backing vocals for the song Devotion, Hurts recorded a performance of Kylies 1994 hit Confide In Me for newspaper The Suns website, and has since been a regular inclusion on their gig setlists. Kylie later returned the compliment by recording a performance of Wonderful Life in Radio 1s Live Lounge, throughout the summer, Hurts performed at several music festivals including V Festival and T in the Park in the UK, Pukkelpop in Belgium, and SWR3 New Pop Festival in Germany. Wonderful Life was released in Germany on 6 August and it debuted at two on the German Singles Chart
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Big Sean
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Sean Michael Leonard Anderson, known professionally as Big Sean, is an American rapper from Detroit, Michigan. Sean signed with Kanye Wests GOOD Music in 2007, Def Jam Recordings in 2008, after releasing a number of mixtapes, Sean released his debut studio album, Finally Famous, in 2011. He released his studio album, Hall of Fame, on August 27,2013. Seans third studio album Dark Sky Paradise was released in 2015, Sean Michael Leonard Anderson was born on March 25,1988 in Santa Monica, California to Myra and James Anderson. When he was 3 months old, he moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he was raised by his mother, a school teacher and he attended the Detroit Waldorf School and graduated from Cass Technical High School with a 3.7 GPA. Big Sean is often heard saying west side in his songs, he is referring to the west side of his hometown Detroit, in 2005, Kanye West was doing a radio interview at 102.7 FM. Hearing about this, Sean headed over to the station to meet West, initially West was reluctant to hear him, however he gave Sean 16 bars to rap for him. According to Big Sean, West enjoyed his freestyle, As we get to the entrance of the radio station and we stopped in the middle of the doorway. He starts looking at me and bobbing his head, after the freestyle, Sean left West his demo tape. Two years later, West signed Big Sean to GOOD Music, on September 30,2007, Big Sean released his first official mixtape Finally Famous, The Mixtape. His hit single, Getcha Some, produced by WrighTrax, attained media attention and led to articles in The Source and he also recorded a music video for Getcha Some, which was directed by Hype Williams. Sean released a mixtape hosted by Mick Boogie on April 16,2009. It featured the songs Million Dollars, Getcha Some and Supa Dupa, an unauthorized leak of his collaboration with Drake, called Made made its way onto the internet on April 30,2010. In an interview with TheHipHopUpdate. com on May 1, Big Sean expressed his disappointment over the leak, Big Seans official Facebook page confirmed that his debut album Finally Famous & Consequences Cons TV would be released on September 14,2010. On August 31, Big Sean tweeted that the album was not coming out on that day, the albums lead single, My Last, features vocals from Chris Brown and was produced by No I. D. According to Amazon. com, Big Seans Finally Famous was delayed by a week, Big Sean has revealed the cover art for his G. O. O. D. Music debut and explained that the one-week pushback was to be blamed on sample, the official track list was revealed on June 7. Finally Famous, Seans debut studio album, was released June 28,2011, and spawned three hit singles, My Last, Marvin & Chardonnay and Dance
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John Newman (singer)
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John William Peter Newman is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. In 2014, he featured in the Calvin Harris single Blame which topped the UK charts, at the 2014 Brit Awards, Newman was nominated for three Brit Awards, including for British Male Solo Artist. As of February 2014, Newman has sold over 1.3 million records in the UK alone, John William Peter Newman was born in Settle in the Yorkshire Dales and attended Settle College. When Newman was six, his left the family, leaving his mother Jackie, his older brother James. In his youth Newman was influenced by Motown and Stax that he heard via his mother and he was also influenced by the Northern soul sound, which also influenced his dance style. Many over 30s from Settle would leave on a weekend to go to Northern soul nights all over Yorkshire. He started playing guitar and writing his own songs at the age of 14 and soon learned how to record and produce himself, even making his own house tracks and DJing. At the age of sixteen, Newman moved to Leeds and it was here that he developed his voice and it was whilst he was in Leeds that two of his best friends died in a car crash. Newman said, In that first year of moving to Leeds, instead of being sat with books all over the desk and studying music. Because of what I was going through, and I was getting smashed every night and enjoying the student life but then sitting with a guitar, at the age of twenty, Newman moved to London, started a band, played live and was signed to Island Records. While working at The Silver Bullet bar, he made friends with Piers Agget and he released Cheating as a download song and plays an acoustic version of the track at gigs. In May 2012 John Newman featured on Rudimentals single Feel the Love, the single peaked to number one on the UK Singles Chart in early June 2012, the song was also a top 5 hit in Australia, Belgium, Netherlands and New Zealand. The song has since been certified 2x Platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association, the song was also featured in the 2012 video game Need for Speed, Most Wanted and is used in 2013 promotional advertising for Foxtel Australia. The song used the promo of MTV Latin Americas The Pauly D Project. In November 2012 he featured on Rudimentals follow-up single, Not Giving In, which peaked at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart and it came in at number 16 in the 2012 Triple J Hottest 100, announced on Australia Day 2013. It was featured in the first episode of season three of Teen Wolf, in June 2013 John Newman released his debut single Love Me Again as the lead single from his debut studio album. In an interview with Digital Spy, Newman was asked if he sensed that the song had something special about it in the studio, the guy I wrote it with, we turned around and had massive grins on our faces thinking, Theres something good here. But you just never know how good it is, you know, Newman was also asked if it was hard to write the lyrics about love and break-up, he responded, No, its the only place where I really open up to somebody, through my music
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Pharrell Williams
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Pharrell Lanscilo Williams is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and film producer. Williams and Chad Hugo make up the production duo The Neptunes, producing soul, hip hop. He is the lead vocalist and drummer of the rock-funk-hip hop band N*E*R*D and he released his first single, Frontin, in 2003 and followed up with his debut solo album, In My Mind in 2006. His second album, Girl, was released on March 3,2014 and this album was preceded by the commercially successful single, Happy. As part of the Neptunes, Williams has produced hit singles for various recording artists. Williams has earned ten Grammy Awards including two with the Neptunes and he is also a two-time Academy Award nominee, receiving a 2014 Best Original Song nomination from Happy and a 2017 Best Picture nomination as one of the producers of Hidden Figures. Williams was born on April 5,1973, in Virginia Beach, Virginia and his roots extend for generations in Virginia and North Carolina, and one of his ancestors journeyed to West Africa in 1831, prompting other relatives to emigrate from America to Liberia in 1832. He met Chad Hugo in a summer band camp where Williams played the keyboards and drums. They were also members of a marching band, Williams played the snare drum while Hugo was drum major. Williams and Hugo attended Princess Anne High School where he played in the school band, in the MTV show When I Was 17, Pharrell stated that he was a nerd and often did things that made him stand out from most of his peers. In the early 1990s, Hugo and Williams formed a four-piece R&B-type group and they later entered a high school talent show where they were discovered by Teddy Riley, whose studio was next to Princess Anne High School. After graduating from school, the group signed with Riley. Through working with Riley, Williams went on to write a verse and that same year, he also performed a small rap solo on SWVs second hit, Right Here. Williams and Hugo met rap duo Clipse in Virginia Beach in 1993, in 1994, Hugo and Williams had established themselves as a production duo under their old name The Neptunes, and assistant-produced Tonights The Night from Blackstreets self-titled album. Over the next three years continued to produce occasionally, and some of the results had little resemblance to the Neptunes sound later. In 1999, a friend introduced Williams to Kelis. At this point the Neptunes were gaining a fanbase and audience. In 2000, they produced the song I Just Wanna Love U for Jay Zs album The Dynasty, Roc La Familia, the songs sound and success sparked the interest of maturing pop artist Britney Spears
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I Created Disco
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I Created Disco is the debut studio album by Scottish musician Calvin Harris, released on 15 June 2007 by Columbia Records. It was preceded by the singles Acceptable in the 80s and The Girls, the album debuted at number eight on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 16,121 copies. On 23 May 2008, it was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry, I Created Disco had sold 223,845 copies in the United Kingdom by November 2014. Writing and recording for I Created Disco started in 2006 when Harris moved back to his hometown of Dumfries, Scotland, all recording and producing for the album took place on an Amiga computer with audio tracker OctaMED in Harriss home studio, called Calvinharrisbeats Studio. All 14 tracks on the album were written, produced and performed solely by Harris, the album cover was also used to promote the fourth generation iPod Nano in yellow. I Created Disco received mixed reviews from music critics, at Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 59, based on 17 reviews. All tracks written by Calvin Harris, credits adapted from the liner notes of I Created Disco. Calvin Harris – vocals, arrangement, instruments, production Guy Davie – mastering Joanne Morris – design
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Acceptable in the 80s
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Acceptable in the 80s is the debut single by Scottish recording artist Calvin Harris. It was released as the single from Harris debut studio album, I Created Disco. The song became Harris first hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at the number 10 position on the UK Singles Chart, the song is in the key of E minor, with a tempo of 128bpm. It samples the song Shake It by David Bowie, the music video, directed by Woof Wan-Bau, features many references to the 80s, including the stereotypical large hairstyles and bright dayglo colours. It also features scientists dissecting a sock puppet of what appears to be a genet, products of which are used by a hair stylist, a TV chef and this song is extensively used as the theme song for the Patreon funded video podcast OSW review. Acceptable in the 80s at Discogs Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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The Girls (song)
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The Girls is a song by Scottish recording artist Calvin Harris. It was released as the single from his debut studio album, I Created Disco. The Girls was Harris highest charting single on the UK Singles Chart, on 10 June 2007, a bootleg version of the song leaked on file, sharing a several months before I Created Disco was released. The song has been covered by electropop outfit Dragonette, who changed the lyric to The Boys. The video features a group of women in brightly coloured wigs, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Ready for the Weekend (album)
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Ready for the Weekend is the second studio album by Scottish musician Calvin Harris, released on 14 August 2009 by Columbia Records. The album debuted atop the UK Albums Chart and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry and it spawned the singles Im Not Alone, Ready for the Weekend, Flashback and You Used to Hold Me. Harris had been working on the album since the release of his album, I Created Disco. He later stated on the BBCs Glastonbury Festival 2008 coverage that he got his baggage back including the album within a few days, Yeah Yeah Yeah La La La was used in a Coca-Cola advertisement in the summer of 2009. Im Not Alone was released as the lead single on 6 April 2009. The song debuted at one on the UK Singles Chart. It spent two weeks atop the chart, before dropping to three in its third week. Ready for the Weekend was released as the second single on 9 August 2009. The song peaked at three on the UK Singles Chart. Flashback was released as the single from the album on 2 November 2009. The track reached number 18 on the UK Singles Chart, the albums fourth and final single, You Used to Hold Me, was released on 8 February 2010, peaking at number 27 on the UK chart. An extended version of Harriss 2008 chart-topping collaboration with Dizzee Rascal, Ready for the Weekend debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling 36,308 copies in its first week. The album was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry on 16 October 2009, the album was also successful in Ireland, where it peaked at number six on the Irish Albums Chart. In the United States, it reached number 12 on the Dance/Electronic Albums chart, Ready for the Weekend attained moderate success elsewhere, reaching number 39 in Australia, number 74 in Belgium and number 139 in France. All tracks written by Calvin Harris, except where noted, credits adapted from the liner notes of Ready for the Weekend
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UK Albums Chart
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The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts Company on Fridays and it is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and published in Music Week magazine, and on the OCC website. To qualify for the Official Albums Chart the album must be the correct length and it must be more than three tracks or 20 minutes long and not be classed as a budget album. A budget album costs between £0.50 and £3.75, additionally, various artist compilations – which until January 1989 were included in the main album listing – are now listed separately in a compilations chart. Full details of the rules can be found on the OCC website. In the 1970s the new chart was revealed at 12,45 pm on Thursdays on BBC Radio 1. Since October 1993 it has included in The Official Chart show from 4,00 –5,45 pm on Fridays. A weekly Album Chart show was licensed out to BBC Radio 2 and presented by Simon Mayo,2005 saw a record number of artist album sales with 126.2 million sold in the UK. In February 2015, it was announced that, due to the sales of albums and rise in popularity of audio streaming. Under the revised methodology, the Official Charts Company takes the 12 most streamed tracks from one album, the total of these streams is divided by 1000 and added to the pure sales of the album. This calculation was designed to ensure that the chart continues to reflect the popularity of the albums themselves. The final number one album on the UK Albums Chart to be based purely on sales alone was Smoke + Mirrors by Imagine Dragons, on 1 March 2015, In the Lonely Hour by Sam Smith became the first album to top the new streaming-incorporated Official Albums Chart. The most successful artists in the charts depends on the criteria used, as of February 2016, Queen albums have spent more time on the British album charts than any other musical act, followed by The Beatles, Elvis Presley, U2 and ABBA. By most weeks at one, however, The Beatles lead with a total of 174 weeks. The male solo artist with the most weeks at one is Presley with a total of 66 weeks. Presley also holds the record for the most number one albums by a solo artist and most top ten albums by any artist. Madonna has the most number one albums by a female artist in the UK, though this includes the Evita film soundtrack which was a cast recording, Adele is the female solo artist with the most weeks at number one, with a total of 37 weeks. Queens Greatest Hits is the album in UK chart history with 6 million copies sold as of February 2014
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British Phonographic Industry
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The BPI Limited, commonly known as the British Phonographic Industry or BPI, is the British recorded music industrys trade association. Its membership comprises hundreds of companies including all three major record companies in the UK, and hundreds of independent music labels and small to medium-sized music businesses. It has represented the interests of British record companies since being formally incorporated in 1973 when the aim was to promote British music. In 2007, the legal name was changed from British Phonographic Industry Limited. It founded the annual BRIT Awards for the British music industry in 1977, the organizing company, BRIT Awards Limited, is a fully owned subsidiary of the BPI. Proceeds from both shows go to the BRIT Trust, the arm of the BPI that has donated almost £15m to charitable causes nationwide since its foundation in 1989. In September 2013, the BPI presented the first ever BRITs Icon Award to Sir Elton John, the BPI also endorsed the launch of the Mercury Prize for the Album of the Year in 1992. In September 2008, the BPI became one of the members of UK Music. The BRIT Trust is the music charity actively supporting all types of education across the entire spectrum of music. Through the projects it supports, which include Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy and the BRIT School, proceeds from the BRIT Awards and the Classic BRITs shows go to the BRIT Trust, which has donated almost £15m to charitable causes nationwide since its foundation. Opened in September 1991, the BRIT School is a joint venture between The BRIT Trust and the Department for Education and Skills, based at Selhurst in Croydon, the school is the only non fee-paying performing arts school in the UK. It teaches up to 1,100 students each year aged from 14–19 years in music, dance, drama, musical theatre, production, media and art & design. Students are from diverse backgrounds and are not required to stick to their own discipline, dancers learn songwriting. Nor do students have to work/perform in the evening to pay for the tuition, the BPI administers the Platinum, Gold and Silver awards scheme for music releases in the United Kingdom. The level of the award varies depending on the format of the release, member companies do, however, still have the option to certify titles based on shipment levels if they choose to. Since July 2014, audio streaming has also included for singles at a ratio of 100 streams equivalent to 1 unit. From June 2015, audio streams were added to album certifications, according to BPI, they would take the 12 most-streamed tracks from the standard version of an album, with the top two songs down-weighted in line with the average of the rest. The total of these streams will be divided by 1,000, additionally, personnel are also seconded to the City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit top support anti-piracy operations
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I'm Not Alone (song)
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Im Not Alone is a song by Scottish recording artist Calvin Harris, released as the lead single from his second studio album, Ready for the Weekend. The track was first played by Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1 as his new tune on 23 January 2009 and has been described as a slice of euphoric dance. In 2010, Harris received a credit on Chris Browns hit single Yeah 3x. Harris said of song, The whole tracks a light and shade thing. I find it hard to write a happy-happy lyric now. I dont know why that is, to be honest with you, maybe its staying in a room for a huge amount of time on your own, and thats reflected in the lyrics. The song is written in the key of E minor, Im Not Alone debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart on 12 April 2009 ― for the week ending 18 April 2009 ― knocking Lady Gagas Poker Face off the top of the chart. It remained at the top position for two weeks, until it was dethroned by Tinchy Stryders Number 1 featuring N-Dubz, on 3 January 2010, Im Not Alone re-entered the chart at number ninety-nine. In the Republic of Ireland, the single debuted at fourteen on the Irish Singles Chart on 9 April 2009. When Chris Browns 2010 single Yeah 3x was released, Harris claimed that Yeah 3x plagiarised Im Not Alone and he tweeted, Choked on my cornflakes when I heard new Chris Brown single this morning. After receiving many abusive messages from Browns fans after posting the comment, he later tweeted, stealing is still stealing, doesnt matter who you are. Because Chris Brown is an international celebrity doesnt make it OK to rip off a guy from UK not many people have heard of. When asked in an interview with Australias Herald Sun if Brown knew him, Harris replied, Well, hes never heard of me, but the producer hes worked with, DJ Frank E, has definitely heard of me. Hes a respected producer, hes worked with Tiësto on a few tracks, Brown later spoke with Harris and upon hearing the similarities between the two songs, had Harris name added to the songwriting credits, with no legal action taken. The two artists reportedly have no hard feelings toward each other since the controversy, Harris even called Brown his best mate, the music video for Im Not Alone was filmed in Oslo, Norway on 6 February 2009. It was directed by Christian Holm-Glad, the clip begins with a small boy found in thick snow wandering the woods dragging a sledge with a toy bear on top. He then sets up camp and lights a fire to keep warm whilst cuddling his toy bear, the bear is then found on the sledge again and is then dropped. A. S Remix ☆Taku Takahashi Remix Tiësto Remix Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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18 Months
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18 Months is the third studio album by Scottish musician Calvin Harris, released on 26 October 2012 by Deconstruction Records, Fly Eye Records and Columbia Records. The album also shows a shift from Harris usual nu disco-style songs,18 Months debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, earning Harris his second consecutive number one album in the United Kingdom. It had sold over 815,636 copies in the UK as of November 2014, the songs Lets Go and Sweet Nothing were nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 55th and 56th Grammy Awards, respectively. Bounce was released as the lead single on 10 June 2011. The song peaked at two in the United Kingdom, number six in Ireland and number seven in Australia. The second single Feel So Close was released on 19 August 2011, the song also became Harriss first solo single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, reaching number 12. Lets Go was released as the third single on 30 March 2012. It peaked at two in the United Kingdom, number six in Ireland and number 17 in Australia and the US. Lets Go received a nomination for Best Dance Recording at the 55th Grammy Awards in 2013, the track was used in Pepsi Maxs Crowd Surfing TV advert. Well Be Coming Back, featuring English singer and rapper Example, was released on 27 July 2012 as the single from the album. It peaked at two in the United Kingdom and number eight in Australia, while becoming both Harriss and Examples first solo single to reach number one in Ireland. Sweet Nothing was released as the fifth single on 12 October 2012, featuring Florence Welch of English indie rock band Florence. The song topped the charts in the UK and Ireland, becoming Harris and Welchs second collaborative number-one single and it also became his highest-charting solo single in Australia and New Zealand, entering the charts at number two in both countries. In the US, the peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Sweet Nothing was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 56th Grammy Awards in 2014, drinking from the Bottle was released as the albums sixth official single on 27 January 2013, featuring English rapper Tinie Tempah. The song reached number five in the UK and number nine in Ireland, I Need Your Love, which features English singer Ellie Goulding, was released on 12 April 2013 as the seventh single from the album. The track reached number four in the UK and number six in Ireland, while charting inside the top five in countries such as Australia, Austria, Finland, thinking About You, featuring Ayah Marar, was released on 2 August 2013 as the albums eighth and final single. It reached number eight in the UK, number 11 in Ireland, number 28 in Australia, awooga was released on 21 March 2011 through Harriss label Fly Eye Records
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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart
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Bounce (Calvin Harris song)
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Bounce is a song by Scottish DJ Calvin Harris. The song features American singer Kelis and is an away from Harris singing, concentrating more on production. It was released on 12 June 2011 as the first single from Harris third studio album,18 Months, in November 2010, Harris claimed that he would no longer be singing on his tracks. He said, Ive stopped the live shows, Im going to focus more on production and DJing and zero per cent of my time will go on singing. Ill do tracks with people who can sing well – proper artists, I can focus on what Im much better at, which is making music. Im just not cut out for that role, I kind of fell into it a few years ago – the live show had to happen, I had to be the frontman because I was doing the vocals on the songs. I spent a few trying to get it really properly good. Ive taken the thing as far as I can. Bounce marked Harris first single on which he did not provide the vocals, the song premiered on Annie Macs show on BBC Radio 1 on 29 April 2011. After the release of Bounce, Harris released his single, Feel So Close. Bounce has received positive reviews from contemporary critics. Sarah Deen from Metro noted the chorus but added a marked improvement from his first single Merrymaking at My Place. The single marked Harris sixth top 10 single in the UK, Bounce also marks the tenth top 10 single, on the UK Singles Chart for Kelis. The official music video was directed by Vincent Haycock and it premiered on Harris Vevo channel in May 2011. The video features American model AJ English and was filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Feel So Close
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Feel So Close is a song by Scottish recording artist Calvin Harris, released as the second single from his third studio album,18 Months. Harris returns to singing on this song, after stating he had quit singing in concerts. The song debuted at two on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Harriss sixth solo top ten single. It also marked his second single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States—his first being Rihannas We Found Love, the song had sold over 2.17 million copies in the US by the end of 2012. The result is a wistful yet exhilarating club thumper—and as for those vocals, well, the music video for Feel So Close, directed by Vincent Haycock, premiered on Harriss official YouTube channel on 14 July 2011. As well as depicting Harris watching and sitting with a girl, it shows various groups of youths dancing. It also features the cowboy and his horse, who are featured on the single cover. It was filmed in and around Kern County, California, Feel So Close was featured on the series The Secret Circle and The Vampire Diaries, the video game Guitar Hero Live and the trailer to the film Parental Guidance. The song was used for montages on episodes of RTÉs League of Ireland highlight show Monday Night Soccer in the 2012 season, Feel So Close shows Schneider playing only Coca-Cola bottles, glasses and cans. In the version, he is accompanied by beatboxing cellist Kevin Olusola, commercial edits of the video aired on season 13 premiere of American Idol on 14 January 2014 on FOX. The song is featured in commercials for the Samsung Galaxy S5. It was also featured in the soundtrack to The Inbetweeners Movie, official website Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Let's Go (Calvin Harris song)
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Lets Go is a song by Scottish DJ Calvin Harris, featuring vocals from American singer Ne-Yo. The track was released in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2012 as the single from Harris third studio album,18 Months. On 29 April 2012, precisely a week after its release, as of July 2012, the song has sold 376,000 downloads in the United States. It also appeared on the version of Ne-Yos fifth studio album. The song received a nomination for Best Dance Recording at the 55th Grammy Awards held in February 2013. The song was used for a Pepsi and Pepsi Max advert that features Lionel Messi, Didier Drogba, Fernando Torres, Wojciech Szczęsny, Frank Lampard, Sergio Agüero and Jack Wilshere. Coincidentally, the result isnt too different from the fizzy beverage, its sparkling, addictive. The music video was released on 14 May 2012 on Vevo and it begins with the people all around the world doing something and also exciting things before one of them goes to the club where Harris is seen DJing the party. Ne-Yo appears in the seat in the car singing the song. Ne-Yo performed Lets Go at the 2013 NBA All-Star Game, also incorporating Janet Jacksons I Get Lonely into the song, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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We'll Be Coming Back
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Well Be Coming Back is a song by Scottish record producer Calvin Harris, featuring English singer Example. The song was released on 27 July 2012 as the single from Harris third studio album,18 Months. The song spent two weeks at number two on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Harris fourth consecutive single in the United Kingdom. In Ireland, the song debuted at one, becoming Examples first number-one single. It also featured as the track on Examples fourth studio album. Beginning with a melodic guitar-driven introduction, Well Be Coming Back transitions into a hard electro synth-fuelled chorus featuring Examples vocals. The repeated hook We didnt wanna call it too early / Now it seems a world away, contains similar notes as the chorus of Aerosmiths I Dont Want to Miss a Thing. Directed by Saman Kesh and filmed in the Hollywood Hills overlooking Los Angeles, California in June 2012, in addition to the robbery, the video features a series of high-speed car chases and police confrontations. The video ends with Calvin and Example pursuing the officer on the bike, with Example driving a 1973 Porsche 911 T and Harris driving a Ferrari 512 BB, several expensive cars were damaged during the filming of the video. The video for Well Be Coming Back premiered on 6 July 2012, the song has been called the soundtrack to the summer by Music News, and a summer anthem by the Westmeath Examiner. Digital Spy gave the track a mixed review, describing it as mildly enjoyable, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Sweet Nothing (Calvin Harris song)
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Sweet Nothing is a song by Scottish recording artist and record producer Calvin Harris from his third studio album,18 Months. It features vocals from Florence and the Machine singer Florence Welch, Harris previously worked with the band in a remix of their single, Spectrum. While recording 18 Months, Harris expressed interest in working with Welch and he mentioned that it was not easy and he had to chase her, due to schedule conflicts. Welch accepted his invitation and the two recorded Sweet Nothing, the track premiered on The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 on 28 August 2012 and was later released as the fifth single from the album on 12 October 2012. Sweet Nothing is a dance music song, with heartfelt vocals. Lyrically, it talks about a romance with no depth, where the protagonist is receiving sweet nothing, Sweet Nothing received favourable reviews, with many critics praising its production and Welchs vocals. The song debuted at one on the UK Singles Chart, marking Harris first number-one single as a main artist in the United Kingdom since his 2009 single. The song is also Welchs first top-ten hit in the United States, Sweet Nothing was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 56th Grammy Awards. The music video for the song, directed by Vincent Haycock, in the video, Welch works as a singer at a bar or club, pouring the pain and frustration of her unfulfilled life and abusive relationship into every revealing and explosive performance. However, after recognising the benefits of her environment, she plots to rid herself of her boyfriend. On 30 July 2012, Calvin Harris stated via his Twitter account that his studio album 18 Months would be released at the end of October 2012. In an interview with 4Music, Harris explained that the album would be like a compilation, while recording for the album,18 Months, Calvin wanted to collaborate with Florence Welch. He had previously worked with her band Florence and the Machine on a remix of their 2012 single Spectrum and it eventually peaked at number-one on the UK Singles Chart. He told MTV News that the thrill of the only made her vocal contribution that much more special. Harris history with Florence started far before the year and a half he dedicated to making the album, and I thought I like this girl. And in the years she just actually grew up, I wasnt expecting that, he said. I thought she was a kid, one of those people who come and go. He added, Now Florence is Florence, shes cool as fuck as well
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Drinking from the Bottle
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Drinking from the Bottle is a song by Scottish DJ and record producer Calvin Harris from his third studio album,18 Months. The song features English rapper Tinie Tempah, the song was released as a single on 27 January 2013. It has peaked at five on the UK Singles Chart. A lyric video to accompany the release of Drinking from the Bottle was first released onto YouTube on 2 December 2012 at a length of four minutes. The official video was uploaded to Harriss YouTubes account on 21 December, after being filmed in the first week of December 2012, the rest of the video features Harris and Tempah in a dark room with scantily-clad women, with Harris sitting inside a car and Tempah outside it. There are also scenes of drinking, drugs, violence, arson, sex, twerking and nudity, as well as Harris, the video was accompanied by a parental advisory explicit content sign for extremely sexually explicit content. I know this crazy life can be a bitter pill to swallow, he continues, prompting our weary response, Go on then, one last time wont hurt us. Lead vocals – Patrick Okogwu Guest vocals – Calvin Harris, Tinie Tempah Producers – Calvin Harris, James F. Reynolds, Mark Knight Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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I Need Your Love (Calvin Harris song)
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I Need Your Love is a song by Scottish producer and DJ Calvin Harris from his third studio album,18 Months. The song features English singer Ellie Goulding and was released on 12 April 2013 as the seventh single. I Need Your Love is also included as a track on Gouldings second studio album. The accompanying music video, directed by Emil Nava, depicts Harris, I Need Your Love received favourable reviews from critics. The song reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, making Harris the first artist in UK chart history to have eight top ten hits from one studio album. It also reached the top five in Australia, Austria, Finland and Sweden, the top ten in Belgium, Ireland and Switzerland, and the top twenty in the United States. The song was nominated for British Single of the Year at the 2014 BRIT Awards, musically, it is written in the key of C minor and follows a chord progression of Cm-Ab-Eb-Bb. The song has a tempo of 128 beats per minute, I Need Your Love received primarily positive reviews from music critics. Robert Copsey of Digital Spy rated the song four out of five stars, following the release of 18 Months, I Need Your Love debuted at number eighty-five on the UK Singles Chart and at number fifty-eight on the Irish Singles Chart in early November 2012. The song re-entered the UK chart at number seventy-five for the week ending 17 March 2013, in its fourth week, the track jumped from number forty-one to number twenty-five with 13,909 copies sold, becoming Harriss sixteenth top forty hit and Gouldings ninth. The single jumped to its position of number four the following week. As of August 2013, I Need Your Love had sold 395,462 copies in the United Kingdom, since its debut, I Need Your Love peaked at number six on the Irish chart. The song debuted at number forty-four on the ARIA Singles Chart for the week commencing 11 March 2013, in New Zealand, it entered the RIANZ Singles Chart at number twenty-six and peaked at number fifteen for two consecutive weeks. In the United States, the song debuted at seventy-six on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at sixteen, becoming Harriss fifth top forty single. I Need Your Love had sold one million downloads in the United States as of September 2013, the music video for I Need Your Love was directed by Emil Nava and premiered on 15 April 2013. It shortens the track by omitting some of the intro music, the video starts with Goulding in bed, singing the song. She is joined by Harris whom is depicted to be in a relationship with her. While the supposed camcorder is filming at a beach where Goulding and Harris once were, it picked up by individual who films himself skateboarding
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Thinking About You (Calvin Harris song)
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Thinking About You is a song by Scottish DJ and record producer Calvin Harris, featuring Jordanian singer Ayah Marar. It was released on 2 August 2013 as the eighth and final single from Harris third studio album,18 Months and his record was surpassed in 2017 by Ed Sheeran, whose third studio album ÷ includes ten top 10 hits. The official music video was uploaded to Harriss Vevo account on 15 July 2013 and it was directed by Vincent Haycock and filmed in Los Angeles off the coast of Santa Catalina Island. The video also features an appearance from Hurts member Theo Hutchcraft, on 11 August 2013, the song climbed to number 8 in the UK, giving Harris his ninth top-10 hit from 18 Months and breaking his own chart record in the process. On Billboards Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, the song became his fifth number one. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Michael Jackson
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Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, and philanthropist. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music, dance, the eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional debut in 1964 with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5. He began his career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music, the popularity of these videos helped bring the television channel MTV to fame. Jacksons 1987 album Bad spawned the U. S and he continued to innovate with videos such as Black or White and Scream throughout the 1990s, and forged a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and his distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous artists of various music genres. Thriller is the album of all time, with estimated sales of 65 million copies worldwide. Jacksons other albums, including Off the Wall, Bad, Dangerous and he is recognized as the Most Successful Entertainer of All Time by Guinness World Records. Jackson won hundreds of awards, making him the most awarded recording artist in the history of popular music. He became the first artist in history to have a top ten single in the Billboard Hot 100 in five different decades when Love Never Felt So Good reached number nine on May 21,2014. Jackson traveled the world attending events honoring his humanitarianism, and, in 2000, aspects of Jacksons personal life, including his changing appearance, personal relationships, and behavior, generated controversy. In 1993, he was accused of sexual abuse, but the civil case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted of child sexual abuse allegations. While preparing for his concert series, This Is It, Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication on June 25,2009. The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled his death a homicide, and his personal physician, Jacksons death triggered a global outpouring of grief, and a live broadcast of his public memorial service was viewed around the world. Forbes ranks Jackson as the dead celebrity with earnings of $825 million in 2016. Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29,1958 and his mother, Katherine Esther Scruse, was a devout Jehovahs Witness. She played clarinet and piano and once aspired to be a country-and-western performer, michaels father, Joseph Walter Joe Jackson, a former boxer, was a steelworker at U. S. Steel
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Motion (Calvin Harris album)
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Motion is the fourth studio album by Scottish DJ and record producer Calvin Harris, released on 31 October 2014 by Fly Eye Records and Columbia Records. The album received mixed responses from critics, Motion debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, with 37,325 copies sold in its first week. It debuted at five on the Billboard 200 in the United States. The albums first three singles—Under Control, Summer and Blame—all topped the UK Singles Chart, other singles released from the album include Outside, Open Wide and Pray to God. The albums title, artwork and release date were revealed on 25 September 2014. On 5 October, Harris took to Twitter to announce a list of collaborators on the album, including Ellie Goulding, Ummet Ozcan, Big Sean, R3hab, Gwen Stefani, Haim, Tinashe and All About She. Under Control, a track with Swedish DJ Alesso and English duo Hurts, was released on 7 October 2013 as the first single from Motion. The song debuted at one on the UK Singles Chart. Summer was released on 14 March 2014 as the second single. It reached number one in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and became a hit in countries such as Australia, Canada, Germany, Norway. It also became Harriss highest-charting solo single on the Billboard Hot 100 at the time, Blame features vocals from English singer John Newman and was released on 7 September 2014 as the albums third single. The song earned Harris his fifth single as a lead artist on the UK Singles Chart. Internationally, Blame peaked at one in Finland, Norway and Sweden. Outside was released on 20 October 2014 as the fourth single. The single reached number six on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at one in Germany and Finland, while charting inside the top five in Ireland, Norway and Sweden, the top 10 in Australia and New Zealand. Open Wide, which features Big Sean, was released as the second promotional single from the album on 27 October 2014. It is a mix of the instrumental track C. U. B. A
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Under Control (Calvin Harris and Alesso song)
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Under Control is a song recorded by Scottish DJ Calvin Harris and Swedish DJ Alesso, featuring vocals from English duo Hurts. The song was released on 7 October 2013 as the first single from Harriss fourth studio album, Motion and Alessos first studio album, Forever. Under Control debuted at one on the UK Singles Chart with first-week sales of 74,704 copies, becoming Harriss fifth number-one single. Under Control was premiered on 2 August 2013 during a DJ set by Alesso at Ushuaia, Ibiza, Harris performed the song at the end of his set at the V Festival on 20 August. On 18 September, Harris posted a preview of the song on SoundCloud, the cover was unveiled on Alessos Twitter page on 4 October. On 9 September 2013, Harris stated on Facebook that 1,000 fans would take a part in the video shoot. Later a message was reposted by Alesso and Theo Hutchcraft from Hurts in a blog on Twitter, the video was shot in Los Angeles on 10 and 11 September. On the second day of the shoot, already with the fans, filming was held at the 6th Street Bridge, the world didnt actually end in the video because the meteor failed to hit the Earth. The video was uploaded to Harriss Vevo account on 21 October 2013 and has over 180 million views, credits adapted from CD single liner notes
