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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Owl City
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Owl City is an American electronica project created in 2007 in Owatonna, Minnesota, it is one of several projects by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Adam Young. Young created the project while experimenting with music in his parents basement, after two independent releases, Owl City gained mainstream popularity with the 2009 major label debut album Ocean Eyes, which includes the six-time Platinum single Fireflies. The album was certified Platinum in the United States in April 2010, in June 2011, Owl City released its third studio album, All Things Bright and Beautiful, which was followed by The Midsummer Station in August 2012. Owl City has recorded songs for animated films, including Legend of the Guardians, The Owls of GaHoole, Wreck-It Ralph, The Croods. Owl City also has released several charting singles, most notably Good Time, suffering from insomnia while working loading Coca-Cola trucks in his hometown Owatonna, Minnesota, Adam Young began to compose music, recording with a C-1 Behringer Microphone. Among the software that he began with was Reason from Propellerhead and he began uploading songs recorded in his parents basement to Myspace. Through a deal with the digital aggregator CD Baby, he started making the songs available for sale through iTunes. In 2007, Owl City released an EP titled Of June, of June reached No.15 on the Billboard Electronic Albums chart, and Maybe Im Dreaming peaked on the same chart at No.13. The viral phenomenon that was building through Myspace caught the attention of Universal Republic presidents Avery, Republic recommended Young partner up with 27-year-old manager Steve Bursky of Foundations Artist Management and the two began working together in late 2008. When later asked by HitQuarters why the label chose him for a major label act given his relative inexperience, Bursky said, I think they saw Owl City as representing the future of our business. This idea of a kid in a town in rural U. S. being able to make songs in his basement that sound like Top 40 radio could never have happened ten years ago. Owl Citys label deal with Universal Republic was finally confirmed in February 2009, but we put our foot down and said, Look, the reason you signed this kid is because its working. To their credit, they listened and they got it. Ocean Eyes, Owl Citys major label debut, was released on iTunes on July 14,2009, the album debuted at No.27 on the Billboard 200. Owl City released three singles from album, Umbrella Beach, Vanilla Twilight and Fireflies. Fireflies topped the US and Canadian charts, Ocean Eyes reached the top ten on the US album charts, topped the US electronic charts, and also reached Amazon MP3s top 10 most downloaded album list. By April 2010, it was certified Platinum in the United States, on January 24,2010, Owl City reached the No.1 spot in the UK Top 40 Singles chart with Fireflies. The song Tidal Wave also received significant airplay on Christian music radio stations, on January 2,2011, it was revealed Fireflies was the 20th most downloaded song of all time in the UK
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Ocean Eyes
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Ocean Eyes, released on the iTunes Store on July 14,2009, and in stores on September 1,2009, is the second studio album by American electronica project Owl City. It features a photograph of the Burj Al Arab as its album artwork, a vinyl edition was released, followed by a deluxe edition available on January 26,2010. The deluxe edition incorporates four new tracks, including a remix of Hello Seattle, the album contains guest vocals by Relient K vocalist Matt Thiessen on the songs Fireflies, Cave In, The Bird and the Worm, and Tidal Wave. On July 14,2009, the song Fireflies was chosen as the Single of the Week by the iTunes Store. This led to a success as the song was downloaded over 650,000 times. This success also led to the record company pushing back the date of the physical copy of the album from July 28,2009. Adam Young, the founder of Owl City, told The Sun that Cave In was especially dear to his heart as that song captures in just a few words, all my hopes and dreams. The album sold approximately 18,000 copies digitally in its debut week and that same week, its lead single, Fireflies, topped the Billboard Hot 100. Eventually, Ocean Eyes climbed to No.1 on the iTunes Store after the price was lowered for a limited period of time. The album contains different versions of songs from previous albums, namely Hello Seattle from Of June and On the Wing. Young revealed the origin of the title when he said, Im from the middle of nowhere in Minnesota you see, so the ocean has always been a curiously dreamy, ethereal. Over the years I spent a deal of time with my eyes closed. Thus is the reasoning behind the title, Ocean Eyes has received mixed reviews from critics, based on an aggregate Metacritic score of 53/100, indicating Mixed or average reviews. The album gained positive reviews, including Entertainment Weekly which gave it a B+ and said that it was filled with memorable choruses. Jesus Freak Hideout also was favorable towards the album, the review highlighted the musical style, saying that it had dreamy lyrics. On the other hand, Rolling Stone claimed Ocean Eyes as disappointing, the magazine especially criticized the slower songs, saying that forgettable tracks like On the Wing were just mush. A handful of ballads add some sense of variety to the albums pace, Fireflies was released as the albums first single on July 14,2009, in the U. S. and on January 8,2010, in the U. K. It climbed the Billboard Hot 100 slowly until reaching No.7, Fireflies topped the Billboard Chart for two non-consecutive weeks, as well as topping the iTunes Top 100 Chart for several weeks
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A-side and B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record
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CD single
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This article is about the 12cm single. Not to be confused with 8cm single, the standard in the Red Book for the term CD single. A CD single is a single in the form of a standard size compact disc. It is not to be confused with the Mini CD single, the format was introduced in the mid-1980s but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s. With the rise in digital downloads in the early 2010s, sales of CD singles have decreased, commercially released CD singles can vary in length from two songs up to six songs like an EP. Some contain multiple mixes of one or more songs, in the tradition of 12 vinyl singles, depending on the nation, there may be limits on the number of songs and total length for sales to count in singles charts. Containing four tracks, it had a limited print run. CD singles were first made eligible for the UK Singles Chart in 1987, the Mini CD single format was originally created for use for singles in the late 1980s, but met with limited success, particularly in the US. The smaller CDs were more successful in Japan and have become more common in Europe. By 1989, the CD3 was in decline in the US and it was common in the 1990s for US record companies to release both a two-track CD and a multi-track maxi CD. In the UK, record companies would also release two CDs but, usually, these consisted of three tracks or more each. Pressure from record labels made singles charts in some countries become song charts, allowing album cuts to chart based only on airplay, without a single ever being released. At the end of the 1990s, the CD was the single format in the UK, but in the US. In Australia, the Herald Sun reported the CD single is set to become extinct, while CD singles no longer maintain their own section of the store, copies are still distributed but placed with the artists albums. That is predominantly the case for popular Australian artists such as Jessica Mauboy, Kylie Minogue and, most recently, Delta Goodrem, the ARIA Singles Chart are now predominantly compiled from legal downloads, and ARIA also stopped compiling their physical singles sales chart. On a Mission by Gabriella Cilmi was the last CD single to be stocked in Kmart, Target and Big W, sanity Entertainment, having resisted the decline for longer than the other major outlets, has also ceased selling CD singles. In Greece and Cyprus, the term CD single is used to describe a play in which there may be anywhere from three to six different tracks. These releases charted on the Greek Singles Chart with songs released as singles, in September 2003, there was talk of ringtones for mobile phones outstripping CD singles sales for the year 2004
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Synth-pop
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Synth-pop is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestras success opened the way for bands such as P-Model, Plastics. The development of polyphonic synthesizers, the definition of MIDI. This, its adoption by the acts from the New Romantic movement, together with the rise of MTV. Synth-pop is sometimes deployed interchangeably with electropop, but electropop may also denote a variant of synth-pop that places emphasis on a harder. In the late 1980s duos such as Erasure and Pet Shop Boys adopted a style that was successful on the US dance-charts. Some artists and bands were criticised for gender bending, Synth-pop was defined by its primary use of synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers, sometimes using them to replace all other instruments. Borthwick and Moy have described the genre as diverse but, many synth-pop musicians had limited musical skills, relying on the technology to produce or reproduce the music. The result was often minimalist, with grooves that were woven together from simple repeated riffs often with no harmonic progression to speak of. Early synth-pop has been described as eerie, sterile, and vaguely menacing, using droning electronics with little change in inflection, common lyrical themes of synth-pop songs were isolation, urban anomie, and feelings of being emotionally cold and hollow. Synthesizers were increasingly used to imitate the conventional and clichéd sound of orchestras, thin, treble-dominant, synthesized melodies and simple drum programmes gave way to thick, and compressed production, and a more conventional drum sound. Lyrics were generally optimistic, dealing with more traditional subject matter for pop music such as romance, escapism. According to music writer Simon Reynolds, the hallmark of 1980s synth-pop was its emotional, at times operatic singers such as Marc Almond, Alison Moyet and Annie Lennox. Because synthesizers removed the need for groups of musicians, these singers were often part of a duo where their partner played all the instrumentation. Later synth-pop saw a shift to a style influenced by other genres. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, the portable Minimoog, which allowed much easier use, particularly in live performance was widely adopted by progressive rock musicians such as Richard Wright of Pink Floyd and Rick Wakeman of Yes
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Universal Republic Records
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Universal Republic Records was an American record label, that operated as a division of Universal Music Group. It was based on the then-defunct Republic Records label founded by brothers Monte, in mid-2012, the label reverted to its original Republic Records name, making this label defunct. As of 2006, Universal Republic has adopted an A&R and partnership-based growth strategy, in an era of music industry transition they have proven effective, as Universal Republic has continued to grow in the industrys declining years. Universal Republic become a label after Universal Motown Republic Group was shut down in summer 2011. One year later, it was renamed back to Republic Records, in chronological order are current Republic artists,2006, Hinder. 2012, The Weeknd signed with Universal Republic in September 2012 in a joint venture with his own imprint label XO,2012, Austin Mahone 2012, Lisa Marie Presley Republic Nashvilles The Band Perry, and James Blake. Universal Republic Records discography at Discogs
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Matt Thiessen
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With Relient K, he has released eight full-length albums, including three that were certified Gold, and three that peaked in the top twenty on the Billboard 200. Outside of his work with Relient K, Thiessen maintains a low-profile side project called Matthew Thiessen, in 2009, he co-produced and collaborated on Owl Citys album Ocean Eyes. Thiessen founded Relient K in 1998, with guitarist Matt Hoopes, and bassist Brian Pittman, the recording attracted the interest of Toby McKeehan who signed the band to his label Gotee Records. Between the years 2000 and 2003, Gotee released three albums, one Christmas album, and four EPs with Relient K. In 2004, their fourth album Mmhmm was released on both Capitol Records and Gotee, and peaked at fifteen on the Billboard 200. After recording another EP in 2005, Mmhmm and Two Lefts Dont Make a Right. but Three Do, their 2003 album, were certified gold, followed by their 2001 album The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek in 2006. In 2007, Gotee, Capitol, and EMI released Relient Ks fifth studio album, Five Score and Seven Years Ago, Thiessen and the other members of Relient K have taken up A&R positions for the label as part of the record deal. For all of Relient Ks history, Thiessen has been the lead vocalist, frontman, guitarist, primary songwriter, because of this position of musical leader, he maintains the most creative and artistic control of the band members. He has also credited with piano in most releases, beginning with The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek in 2001. Since the release of Mmhmm in 2004, his piano playing started becoming more prominent, in addition to being in Relient K, Thiessen plays in his own solo piano project called Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes. In 2010, after the release and supporting tour of Forget and Not Slow Down, although he had previously expressed interest in recording a studio release, he had placed his priority on Relient K, and relegated his solo work to his free time. Thiessen has occasionally collaborated with Jon Foreman of Switchfoot, after initial interest in recording vocals for a Switchfoot song, it instead worked out for Foreman to contribute vocals for the Relient K song Deathbed from Five Score and Seven Years Ago. He later contributed songwriting and vocals to the Switchfoot release Rebuild in 2007, in conjunction for the Appetite for Construction Tour. In 2009, he contributed vocals, songwriting, and production to Owl Citys major-label debut Ocean Eyes, lead single Fireflies reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in late October. Thiessen continues to work with Owl Citys Adam Young and contributes vocals to Plant Life and he also co-wrote Good Time with Owl City and Brian Lee. Thiessen has also made guest contributions on a number of releases with other artists, including Blackbear, John Reuben, tobyMac, Thiessen has received piano lessons since he was seven years old, with early interests in ragtime and Scott Joplin, specifically the soundtrack from The Sting. He taught himself guitar at the age of fourteen by learning to play songs by bands like Silverchair. Thiessen does not use guitar picks while playing, he uses his thumb
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Vanilla Twilight
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Vanilla Twilight is a song by American electronica act Owl City. The song was released as the single from his second studio album Ocean Eyes. Vanilla Twilight attained chart placement prior to the date, following the success of Owl Citys previous single Fireflies. The music video for Vanilla Twilight premiered on March 22,2010, the video uses the album version of the song and features a cameo appearance by Shaquille ONeal. The video was directed by Steve Hoover and was filmed on location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the video shows various people and a dog witness in awe, staring at a swirling mammatus cloud formation associated with a squall line. It has a vortex which is lit by a veiled sun on an overcast day after a snowfall has blanketed the area. Midway through the video the storm and a lighthouse glimmer with aurora colors, towards the end of the video ONeal lifts his arms towards the cloud and mouths Take me with you. On the chart of November 7,2009, the same week Fireflies hit No,1, Vanilla Twilight debuted on No.95 in the Billboard Hot 100. It has since re-entered and peaked on the Hot 100 at No.72. Vanilla Twilight first entered the Australian Singles Chart at No.50 on the week ending January 11,2010, following the release of Ocean Eyes, Vanilla Twilight entered the UK Singles Chart at a current peak of No. 94, making it Owl Citys second consecutive single to enter the UK Top 100, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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Relient K
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The band is named after guitarist Hoopes automobile, a Plymouth Reliant K car, with the spelling intentionally altered to avoid trademark infringement over the Reliant name. The group is associated with the contemporary Christian music culture, most notably the Christian rock, the group has also performed alongside secular artists. The band has reached success with mainstream pop punk and alternative rock. The bands sound incorporates piano and acoustic elements, since its formation, Relient K has released nine studio albums, seven EPs, two Christmas albums, and one collection of rarities. The band has received awards including a Grammy Award nomination in 2004 for Best Rock Gospel Album. Relient K has found success with their studio albums, three of which peaked in the top 15 of the U. S. Billboard 200 chart, 2004s Mmhmm. 15, 2007s Five Score and Seven Years Ago, their fifth and most successful album,6, and 2009s Forget and Not Slow Down, which debuted at No.15. The band has sold over 2 million records, with three albums being given gold certification by the RIAA, the band is also highly successful throughout the Christian albums and contemporary Christian music charts. On October 4,2011 the band released a cover album Is for Karaoke, on July 2,2013, the bands seventh full-length album, Collapsible Lung, was released. On July 22,2016, the bands eighth full-length album, after Relient K was founded by Matt Thiessen, Matt Hoopes and Brian Pittman in 1998, Todd Frascone joined for a short time in 1998 as a drummer. However, Frascone left the band recording the demo All Work & No Play. The demo was recorded by Mark Lee Townsend, the live guitar player for dc Talk. Townsend had met the members because his daughter, Danielle, was friends with the band. Danielle eventually married guitarist Matt Hoopes, All Work & No Play caught the attention of dc Talks Toby McKeehan, who later signed the band to his label, Gotee Records. With the label Relient K released its debut EP,2000 A. D. D. in 2000, soon after, the band released Relient K, the groups first full-length CD. It was distinctly Christian rock and featured lyrics with a range of pop-culture references. Cushman left later that year to join the Christian metal band Narcissus, brett Schoneman of Christian rock band Philmore filled in temporarily, followed by Jared Byers, drummer of the Christian rock band Bleach, until Dave Douglas joined in December 2000. In an interview, Matt Thiessen said that when the band started, he was the one who sang
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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Good Time (Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen song)
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Good Time is a song by American electronica project Owl City and Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen. It was released as the single from Owl Citys album The Midsummer Station and was used as the second single from Jepsens second studio album. Good Time was written by Matt Thiessen, Brian Lee, the song received generally positive reviews from music critics, with critics describing it as a summer anthem. On June 14,2012, Adam Young announced via Twitter that he would be collaborating with Carly Rae Jepsen on a new song, claiming that it would be released on June 26,2012. On June 20,2012, he released the single Good Time via his SoundCloud account, the song was released on iTunes on June 26,2012. Good Time was written by Matt Thiessen, Brian Lee, on August 23,2012, the song became available in the United Kingdom before the official single release as a digital download on iTunes from Owl Citys album The Midsummer Station. An acoustic version of the song was released in 2013 on Owl Citys The Midsummer Station - Acoustic EP and it received generally positive reviews from critics, including Billboard, It only makes sense that hes joined by Jepsen. A track that could become a staple for the rest of the summer. Slates Forrest Wickman also called it a successor to Call Me Maybe. He pointed to how the song opens with a familiar story, like Kesha in TiK ToK, the singer begins the song waking up after a night of hard partying, in his clothes with a song by Prince inside his head. But in contrast, Wickman observes, hes on the side of the bed, not hung over. When a childrens choir is tossed in at the end, its a bit gratuitous, Good Time is a guilty pleasure, without the guilt. Rolling Stone called the song mediocre, in the US, the song debuted at No.32 on the US Pop Songs chart and No.18 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week dated July 4, reaching No.8 a few weeks after. It sold a million in the United States by August 29,2012 and it has sold 2,249,000 copies in the US in 2012. In Canada and New Zealand it peaked at No,1, becoming Owl Citys first number-one single and Jepsens second in both countries. The song debuted at No.17 on the UK Singles Chart on August 26,2012, the song charted before the single release due to the song being available from Owl Citys album, The Midsummer Station. It rose to No.5 the following week, becoming Owl Citys first top 5 UK hit since 2010s Fireflies, the music video was directed by Declan Whitebloom and premiered on Vevo, with Young tweeting a link to the video on July 24,2012. Most of the video was shot at Silver Mine Lake in Harriman State Park in New York, the video features product placement from Fiat, Casio and Beats Electronics
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Carly Rae Jepsen
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Carly Rae Jepsen is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actress. In 2007, she placed third in Canadian Idol season fives competition, Jepsen independently released her debut album, Tug of War, in 2008. In 2011, she released the single Call Me Maybe, which was followed in 2012 by her debut EP, Curiosity, Call Me Maybe reached number one in 18 countries during 2012 and was the years best-selling single worldwide. Jepsens third album, Emotion, was released in 2015, the album was heavily influenced by songs from the 1980s and received critical acclaim. Its lead single I Really Like You reached the top 5 in the United Kingdom, as of May 2015, Jepsen has sold over 20 million records worldwide. Jepsen was born in Mission, British Columbia, the daughter of Alexandra and Larry Jepsen and she attended Heritage Park Secondary School in Mission, where she pursued her early passion for musical theatre by appearing in student productions of Annie, Grease, and The Wiz. She studied musical theatre at the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria, after graduating from school, Jepsen held several minimum wage jobs, and worked as a barista and a bartender. She placed third in the show and was part of the Canadian Idol Top 3 concert tour, after the conclusion of the tour, Jepsen returned to British Columbia to focus on writing, recording and completing her band. Her demo recording attracted the attention of music manager Jonathan Simkin, Jepsen struck an independent record deal with MapleMusic Recordings and distribution via Fontana North. In June 2008, Jepsen released her single and another single. Jepsens debut album, Tug of War, was released in September 2008 through MapleCore/Fontana North, the album was produced in its entirety by Ryan Stewart and includes the song Sweet Talker, which Jepsen previously performed at her first Canadian Idol audition. Tug of War was re-released via Jonathan Simkins label 604 Records, with distribution from Universal Music Group, and has since sold 10,000 copies in Canada according to Nielsen SoundScan. The title track Tug of War was released the month as the album and received radio airplay in Canada, followed by the singles Bucket and Sour Candy. The former two singles reached the top 40 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart, in early 2009, Jepsen toured western Canada with Marianas Trench and Shiloh. She then went on a tour with Marianas Trench, The New Cities. Jepsen began recording material for her album in 2011 with Josh Ramsay, Ryan Stewart. The release of Jepsens second album was postponed to allow Call Me Maybe to spread in popularity, although 604 Records issued a six-track EP, Curiosity, Call Me Maybe peaked at number one on the Canadian Hot 100, making Jepsen the fourth Canadian artist to top the chart. In the United States, the single spent nine weeks at one on the Billboard Hot 100
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Christina Grimmie
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In June 2011, she released her debut EP, Find Me. Her studio album With Love was released in 2013, a second EP, Side A, was released in 2016. In 2014, Grimmie took part in season 6 of The Voice, Adam Levine, her coach on the show, announced in the finale that regardless of the results he would sign her to his label 222 Records. Lil Wayne also offered to sign her to his label, Young Money Entertainment and she was signed with Island Records for a short time before being dropped. She took a role in 2016, making her first. On June 10,2016, Grimmie died of wounds inflicted in a targeted attack that followed her concert performance in Orlando. Her attacker shot and killed himself moments later, Christina Grimmie was born to Tina and Albert Grimmie. Her mother worked as a receptionist until she was diagnosed with breast cancer and her older brother Marcus served as Christinas road manager during her performances. She was of Italian and Romanian descent, Grimmie grew up in Marlton, New Jersey, where she attended Bethel Baptist Christian School, Marlton Middle School, and Cherokee High School. Grimmie identified as a Christian, her family attended Fellowship Alliance Chapel in Medford before they moved to Los Angeles, Grimmie was homeschooled for her junior year in 2010. Her father noticed Grimmies talent for singing when she was six years old, despite having received piano lessons, Grimmie said she played by ear. Grimmie was a rights activist and participated in fundraising events for the Humane Society of the United States. The Christina Grimmie Animal Medical Fund was created in her honor, Grimmie began posting videos to her YouTube channel in 2009, at age 15. The first video she uploaded was a cover of Hannah Montanas Dont Wanna Be Torn and she first earned recognition for her cover of Miley Cyruss Party in the U. S. A. in August 2009. Her 2010 cover with fellow YouTuber Sam Tsui of Nellys Just a Dream has tallied more than 135 million views, in 2011, she placed No.2 in the MyYouTube competition, behind Selena Gomez. Her channel had more than 375 million views and over two million subscribers as of April 2013, as her popularity grew on YouTube, Grimmie was discovered by Gomezs mother, Mandy Teefey, Teefey and her husband Brian soon became Grimmies managers. Grimmie appeared on the Billboard Social 50, she opened for Selena Gomez & the Scene, Allstar Weekend. She toured for six weeks with Selena Gomez & the Scene opening for them in the We Own the Night Tour and she released an EP entitled Find Me, on June 14,2011
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Cheryl (entertainer)
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Cheryl Ann Fernandez-Versini is an English singer, dancer, and television personality. Born and raised in Tyneside, she rose to fame in late 2002 upon winning a place in girl group Girls Aloud after participating in ITVs Popstars, The Rivals. While still in the group, she began a career in April 2009, releasing her first solo studio album,3 Words. The album gave rise to three singles, including Fight for This Love, which entered at number one on the UK charts. In October 2010, Cheryl released her studio album, Messy Little Raindrops. She released her solo album, A Million Lights, in June 2012. Cheryl became a judge on the UK version of The X Factor in 2008 and she mentored two of the eventual winners of the competition, before resigning in 2011 and joining the panel of the American version. However, she left the show during the stage, fuelling rumours that she had been sacked. She would later return to judge series 11 and 12 of the UK version, Cheryl has become a recognised and photographed style icon, being referred to as a fashionista by the press. She has been photographed for the covers of British Vogue, Elle and Harpers Bazaar and her net worth was estimated at £20 million in October 2014. Cheryl was married to England footballer Ashley Cole from July 2006 to September 2010 and she married Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini in July 2014, and was granted a decree nisi from him in October 2016. She is currently in a relationship with One Direction singer Liam Payne, Cheryl Ann Tweedy was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 30 June 1983, and grew up on council estates in the suburbs of Walker and Heaton. She is the fourth of five children of Joan Callaghan, Callaghan and Tweedy were together for more than a decade but never married each other, they separated when Cheryl was eleven years old. As a young child circa 1990, she appeared in an advert for British Gas with her younger brother Garry Jr. Interested in dancing from an age, she began sequence dancing at the age of four. She occasionally appeared doing dance recitals on different television shows in the UK, such as Gimme 5 and she made appearances in British Gas adverts for a second time, an SCS furniture store advert, and an Eldon Square Christmas advert with her younger brother Garry. She sang Have You Ever in her audition, and was one of twenty contestants chosen as finalists by judges Pete Waterman, Louis Walsh, the finalists performed live on Saturday evenings, with one gender performing each week. Each week, the contestant polling the fewest phone votes was eliminated, Cheryl was in danger of elimination twice, surviving over Emma Beard and Aimee Kearsley in consecutive performing weeks
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EyePet
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EyePet is a game for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable, developed by London Studio and Playlogic Game Factory. The original PlayStation 3 version was released in Europe on 23 October 2009 and this version of EyePet was originally scheduled to be released in North America on 17 November 2009, but was held back. Instead, a version of EyePet adapted for the PlayStation Move motion control system was released in North America on 5 September 2010. In October 2010, the Move-adapted version was released in Japan and Europe, the game also supports 3D on 3D enabled TVs. The PSP version of EyePet was released on 2 November 2010, the game uses the camera to allow a virtual pet to interact with people and objects in the real world. Using augmented reality, the simian, gremlin-like creature appears to be aware of its environment and surroundings, the player can place objects in front of the animal and the game will interpret what the object is and respond to it. For example, if the player rolls a ball towards it, it will jump out of the way to avoid being hurt. It will also react to the actions and sound allowing the user to. A trailer shown at E32009 shows the pet being customized with outfits and colored fur and interacting with objects including a trampoline. The trailers also demonstrate users drawing custom objects which are scanned by the camera, the pet can also be fed, as in the trailers, it is shown eating cookies and a type of pet food. Eurogamer scored the original EyePet 6 out of 10, however, this illusion is often spoiled by clumsy gameplay mechanics. Whitehead also criticised the sometimes vague instructions and a lack of feedback provided when the player fails to carry out an instruction properly, IGN gave the game an 8.0 calling it a game that runs smoothly and has a look that cant be beat
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Guitar Hero 5
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Guitar Hero 5 is a music rhythm game and the fifth main entry in the Guitar Hero series. The game was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision, and released internationally in September 2009 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2,3 and Wii consoles. Similar to the title, Guitar Hero World Tour, Guitar Hero 5 is geared towards playing in a four-person band experience, including lead and bass guitar, drums. The game is available as a title, allowing players to use existing compatible instrument controllers. Players can also create their own character and instrument to play with, the game continues to support the user-created music studio introduced in World Tour through GHTunes, and additional downloadable content for the game was also made available. The game also sold well, however, it sold less than 50 percent of Guitar Hero, World Tours sales. Improvements to both the Career and competitive modes were also highlights of the game. However, the track list was considered to be too broad. Gameplay in Guitar Hero 5 is similar to games in the series. Using a special game controller, players attempt to match scrolling notes as they appear on screen along a track to mimic the playing of rock music. Hitting correct notes in time with the music increases the score and builds up the performance meter. Should the meter fall below a threshold, the song will end prematurely with the player booed off the stage by a virtual audience. Correctly hitting ten consecutive notes will add to the score multiplier by one. Specially marked sections of the song, if completed correctly, help to build up Star Power, as with Guitar Hero World Tour, Guitar Hero 5 supports the playing of lead and bass guitar through guitar controllers, drums through a drum controller, and vocals through a microphone. Players can also play in groups of up to four local or remote players to form a band, while playing in a band, Star Power is now tracked separately for each player, as opposed to collectively for the band as in World Tour. The Band Revival meter will appear when a player out of the song, requiring the other band members to play well as a group together in order to bring the failed player back into the game. Failing to do so will end the song prematurely, the game supports a Career mode, a Quickplay mode, where players can create a set list of numerous songs and play through them. All songs on disc and through downloadable content are available to play in this mode
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Rock Band 3
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Rock Band 3 is a 2010 music video game developed by Harmonix. The game was published and distributed by MTV Games and Electronic Arts, respectively. Mad Catz took over both roles and re-released the title on November 23,2011 and it is the third main game in the Rock Band series. Distinguishing it from all previous rhythm games, Rock Band 3 features Pro mode. Real instruments and original Basic controllers can be played simultaneously in various combinations within the game to simulate playing in a real band, before a song starts, the players choose which instrument they will represent within the song. If the right note is hit or played, it is heard in the audio, if notes are missed, they are not heard. The game includes a list of 83 songs, fully upgraded to Pro — many emphasize the keyboard instrument. Rock Band 3 is designed as a platform to take advantage of players existing libraries by providing user-created set lists and challenges and tools to easily search and select songs from the library. Rock Band 3 was initially released worldwide during the last week of October 2010 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and it was also the last Rock Band game to be distributed by Electronic Arts as Mad Catz signed on to produce future Rock Band games. Rock Band 3 allows for 1–7 players, either locally or through online game services, support for MIDI compatible electronic drum kits as well. As the band performs, they score points, each player can build up a multiplier by hitting consecutive notes correctly, which increases how many points each note is worth, but the multiplier is set back to 1× if a note is missed. After successfully completing a song, the performance of each player, players can also gain additional points by using Overdrive. Each instrument deploys overdrive differently, and some instruments have multiple methods of activating it, in point competitive mode, players who are doing poorly might be forced to drop out of the band, which silences their part temporarily while the rest of the players continue to play. In some game modes, an option is available to continue the song right from where the band failed at the cost of not being able to record a score for the rest of the songs playthrough. In such sections, players are rewarded for being exactly on cue, players have better tools to sort through songs to help manage a song library that was expected to be larger than 2,000 songs after the games release by the end of 2010. Players are able to rate songs from 1 to 5 lighters, the rating system also allows Harmonix to suggest new songs to players in the Rock Band store. Players are also able to create, save, name, Harmonix also creates custom setlists and battles. The official Rock Band website was updated to reflect these new features, the career mode includes over 700 career goals, similar to Xbox 360 Achievements or PlayStation 3 Trophies, which helps to drive players to progress in the game
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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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Recording Industry Association of America
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The Recording Industry Association of America is a continental North and South American trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors, which the RIAA says create, the RIAA headquarters is in Washington, D. C. The RIAA was formed in 1952 and its original mission was to administer recording copyright fees and problems, work with trade unions, and do research relating to the record industry and government regulations. Early RIAA standards included the RIAA equalization curve, the format of the record groove and the dimensions of 33 1/3 rpm,45 rpm. Since 2001, the RIAA has spent $2 to $6 million each year on lobbying in the United States, the RIAA also participates in the collective rights management of sound recordings, and it is responsible for certifying Gold and Platinum albums and singles in the United States. Cary Sherman has been the RIAAs chairman and CEO since 2011, Sherman joined the RIAA as its general counsel in 1997 and became president of the board of directors in 2001, serving in that position until being made chairman and CEO. Mitch Glazier has been the RIAAs senior executive vice president since 2011 and he served as executive vice president for public policy and industry relations from 2000 to 2011. The past RIAA chairman and CEO is Mitch Bainwol, who served from 2003 to 2011 and he left in 2011 to become president and CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. The board of directors consists of 26 members of the board, the RIAA operates an award program for albums that sell a large number of copies. The program originally began in 1958, with a Gold Award for singles, the criterion was changed in 1975 to the number of copies sold, with albums selling 500,000 copies awarded the Gold Award. In 1976, a Platinum Award was added for one million sales, the awards are open to both RIAA members and non-members. Since 2000, the RIAA also operates a program for Latin music sales. Currently, a Disco De Oro is awarded for 30,000 units, the RIAA defines Latin music as a type of release with 51% or more of its content recorded in Spanish. In 2006, digital ringtones were added to branch of certification. In the same year, the RIAA introduced the Latin Digital Award for digital recordings in Spanish and this release format includes DVD and VHS releases, and certain live albums and compilation albums. The certification criteria is different from other styles. Gold,50,000 Platinum,100,000 Multi-Platinum,200,000 copies The RIAA opposes unauthorized sharing of its music, studies conducted since the association began its campaign against peer-to-peer file-sharing have concluded that losses incurred per download range from negligible to moderate. The association has commenced high-profile lawsuits against file sharing service providers and it has also commenced a series of lawsuits against individuals suspected of file sharing, notably college students and parents of file sharing children
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ITunes
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ITunes is a media player, media library, online radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc. It is used to play, download, and organize digital downloads of music and video on personal computers running the macOS, the iTunes Store is also available on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Application software for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch can be downloaded from the App Store. ITunes 12.5 is the most recent major version of iTunes, available for Mac OS X v10.9.5 or later and Windows 7 or later, it was released on September 13,2016. ITunes 12.2 added Apple Music to the application, along with the Beats 1 radio station, soundJam MP, developed by Bill Kincaid and released by Casady & Greene in 1998, was renamed iTunes when Apple purchased it in 2000. Jeff Robbin, Kincaid, and Dave Heller moved to Apple as part of the acquisition and they simplified SoundJams user interface, added the ability to burn CDs, and removed its recording feature and skin support. On January 9,2001, iTunes 1.0 was released at Macworld San Francisco, originally a Mac OS 9-only application, iTunes began to support Mac OS X when version 2.0 was released nine months later, which also added support for the original iPod. Version 3 dropped Mac OS9 support but added smart playlists, in April 2003, version 4.0 introduced the iTunes Store, in October, version 4.1 added support for Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Introduced at Macworld 2005 with the new iPod Shuffle, Version 4.7, Version 7.0 introduced gapless playback and Cover Flow in September 2006. In March 2007, iTunes 7.1 added support for Windows Vista, iTunes lacked support for 64-bit versions of Windows until the 7.6 update on January 16,2008. ITunes is supported under any 64-bit version of Windows Vista, although the iTunes executable is still 32-bit, the 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are not supported by Apple, but a workaround has been devised for both operating systems. Version 8.0 added Genius playlists, grid view, iTunes 9 added Homeshare, enabling automatic updating of purchased items across other computers on the same subnet and offers a new iTunes Store UI. Genius Mixes were added, as well as improved app synchronization abilities and it also adds iTunes LPs to the store, which provides additional media with an album. Apple added iTunes Extras as well to the store, which adds content usually reserved for films on DVD, both iTunes LPs and Extras use web-standards HTML, JavaScript and CSS. iTunes acts as a front end for Apples QuickTime media framework. Officially, it is required in order to manage the data of an iPod, iPhone, or iPad. In addition, users are able to add PDF files to their library, the PDFs can be synchronized with and read on several devices except the regular iPod. iTunes 8.0 saw the removal of several options in the Preferences window. For example, iTunes once gave users the option to display arrows beside the selected songs title, artist, album and these arrows are no longer removable, except through the direct editing of a preferences file. ITunes keeps track of songs by creating a library, allowing users to access
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Replay (Iyaz song)
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Replay is the debut single from British Virgin Islands recording artist Iyaz. It is the first single released from his album of the same name. The single entered at the top of the UK Singles Chart, internationally, the single also topped the charts in Australia, Israel and Switzerland and peaked within the top ten of the charts in many countries, including Finland, France and the United States. The combined figure of the music video and prequel video on YouTube is currently around 150 million views. Beluga Heights label-mates Sean Kingston, Jason Derülo, and Iyaz himself all co-wrote the song together, along with label owner J. R. Rotem, Rotem also produced the track and credits himself at the beginning of the song via his signature J-J-J-J-J. R. The remix version with Flo Rida however, says, BELUGA HEIGHTS like in Jason Derülos second single, also, this is the second song that Jason Derülo, Kingston, and Rotem have co-written together, the first being Derülos own debut single, Whatcha Say. The official music video features Iyaz wearing headphones and listening to music on a beach, other various scenes feature Iyaz singing with a background of the US Virgin Islands flag, and partying on the beach during the night. The video was directed by Rock Jacobs, a prequel video was also filmed that features the full-length beach scenes with Iyaz and his love interest. It is also the first number-one single of the 2010s, after two weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart and six weeks at the top of the UK R&B Chart, Replay was succeeded by Owl Citys Fireflies and Rihannas Rude Boy, respectively. It was the first song released in 2010 in the UK to be certified Gold with sales in excess of 400,000, in June 2010, it was announced that Replay was the third highest selling single of the year in the UK at that point. In the US, Replay managed to reach the two spot on the Hot 100 for one week, behind only Keshas Tik Tok. As of December 2012, Replay has sold over 4 million digital copies
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VH1
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VH1 is an American cable television network based in New York City that is owned by the Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom Media Networks. The channel was first launched on January 1,1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting Systems short-lived Cable Music Channel and it was originally created by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and the original owner of MTV. As of February 2015, approximately 92.6 million US households receive VH1, also frequently featured in the networks early years were videos for Motown and other 60s oldies consisting of newsreel and concert footage. It was introduced on January 1,1985 with the performance of The Star-Spangled Banner by Marvin Gaye. From the start, Video Hits One was branded as a version of its sister/parent channel. It played more jazz and R&B artists than MTV and had a rotation of urban-contemporary performers. Its early on-camera personalities were New York radio veterans Don Imus, Frankie Crocker, Scott Shannon, Jon Bauman, Bobby Rivers, later VJs included Tim Byrd of WPIX-FM, a station whose eclectic ballad-and-R&B oriented format mirrored that of VH-1, and Alison Steele. Rosie ODonnell later joined the outlets veejay lineup, ODonnell would also host a comedy show featuring various comedians each episode. The format left room for occasional ad-libs by the VJ, a godsend for emcees such as Imus, in true Imus style, he used a 1985 segment of his VH-1 show to jokingly call smooth-jazz icon Sade Adu a grape for her oval-shaped head. At first many different musicians guest-hosted the program, but eventually musician/songwriter Ben Sidran became the permanent host, new-Age music videos continued to play on the channel into the 1990s. They would be seen on the Sunday morning 2-hour music video block titled Sunday Brunch, once VH1 established itself a few years later, they catered to Top 40, adult contemporary, classic rock, and 1980s mainstream pop. For a time, even music videos aired in a one-hour block during the afternoons. They started out using MTVs famous Kabel typeface font for their music video credit tags and it was later replaced in 1991 by a larger font, with the year the video was made added to the lower column that identified the label on which the album was released. In 1993, the name of the director was included at the bottom of the credits. Every week, the Top 21 Video Countdown usually had a different guest host, occasionally, they had themed countdowns as well, such as Elvira hosting scary videos for Halloween in 1991. Long blocks of videos by a particular artist or band, theme. One popular weekend program was called Video Rewind, in blocks of 1980s videos from one particular year would play for an hour. There was also a short-lived hour-long program called By Request in which viewers could call a 1–900 hotline number to request their videos, also in 1991, a popular morning program was introduced called Hits News & Weather that ran from 7 AM to 9 AM ET
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Lowrey organ
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The Lowrey organ is an electronic organ named for its developer, Frederick Lowrey, a Chicago-based industrialist and entrepreneur. During the 1960s and 1970s, Lowrey was the largest manufacturer of organs in the world. In 1989, the Lowrey Organ Company produced its 1,000, up until 2011, modern Lowrey organs were built in LaGrange Park, Illinois. In 2011, it was announced production of a few models was to be moved to Indonesia. Most notably, the Lowrey organ differs from the Hammond Organ in its incorporation of automatic accompaniment features, while originally intended for the home entertainment market, it was also used by some rock groups in the 1960s and 1970s. Garth Hudson, the keyboardist of the Band, played a Lowrey Festival organ on many of the groups most notable songs and its sound can be heard prominently on the 1968 recording of Chest Fever, which begins with a Bach-inspired prelude/intro. The Lowrey Organ is one of several organs on the Beatles 1967 song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite, furthermore, a Lowrey DSO Heritage organ was used to produce the classic opening for Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds. The Lowrey Organ and its build-in drum patterns are heard on the million-seller single. A rather surprising use of a Lowrey Organ, on a percussive marimba repeat setting, was the background noise on The Who song Baba ORiley. To prevent feedback in the silences between notes, Ratledge invented a style of his own avoiding the between-note gaps by soloing in legato, mike Oldfield made use of the instrument quite extensively on his Tubular Bells album, and on several later albums as well. From 1966 to 1971, Lowrey also produced combo organs for Gibson while the manufacturer was owned by parent company Chicago Musical Instruments. The most popular of these was first introduced in 1966 as the Kalamazoo K-101, the Gibson branded organs design and circuitry were similarly based on Lowreys own T-1 and T-2 models, as well as their TLO-R and Holiday spinet models. However, they had additional features that made their sound distinctive from other Lowrey models, including Repeat, Glide
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Speak & Spell (toy)
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The Speak & Spell was named an IEEE Milestone in 2009. The Speak & Spell was created by a team of engineers led by Paul Breedlove, himself an engineer. Development began in 1976 with an budget of $25,000. Additional purchased cartridges could be inserted through the receptacle to provide new solid-state libraries. This represented the first time an educational toy utilized speech that was not recorded on tape or phonograph record, the original Speak & Spell was the first of a three-part talking educational toy series that also included Speak & Read and Speak & Math. This series was a subset of TIs Learning Center product group and the Speak & Spell was released simultaneously with the Spelling B, the Speak & Spell was sold, with regional variations, in the United States, Canada, Australia, in Europe, and Japan. The toy was originally advertised as a tool for helping children ages 7 and up to learn to spell and it shipped without a cartridge, in this configuration called simply the Basic Unit. Between its release and 1983, the Speak & Spell was redesigned twice under the name Speak & Spell. It was completely recreated in 1982 as the Speak & Spell Compact, between 1989 and 1992 the Super Speak & Spell would see three redesigns as well. The 1992 Super Speak & Spell would mark the last release of the series, regional variations with different speech libraries and different games were released in at least 9 countries with seven language variations. In 1980, the original Speak & Spell was redesigned to give it a membrane keyboard in place of raised buttons. Outside of the United States, the 1980 release was marketed in the United Kingdom under the name, in German as the Buddy. In 1982, the Speak & Spell Compact was released at about half the size of the Speak & Spell, the Speak & Spell Compact was a dedicated console and only one other version, the Speak & Write, was released for English markets. Speak & Spell Compact sales were poor in the United States. UK Marketing Manager Martin Finn had the product retitled for the UK, in 1983, the Speak & Spell was again redesigned. The change was even more minute, however, representing nothing more substantial than a redesign of the faceplate graphics. This version was marketed first in Italian as Grillo Parlante, and then later in the United States and the United Kingdom as the Speak & Spell, the Super Speak & Spell was released in 1989 with a number of major changes. The display screen was changed to an LCD screen instead of the former VFD screen, the keyboard layout was also altered to match the standard QWERTY keyboard rather than the ABC keyboard
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Black and white
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Black and white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, and hyphenated black-and-white when used as an adjective, is any of several monochrome forms in visual arts. Black-and-white images are not usually starkly contrasted black and white and they combine black and white in a continuum producing a range of shades of gray. Even when most studios had the capability to make color films they were not heavily utilized as using the Technicolor process was expensive, for the years 1940–1966, a separate Academy Award for Best Art Direction was given for black-and-white movies along with one for color. Television, Television program was first transmitted in black-and-white, scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated the worlds first color television transmission on July 3,1928 using a mechanical process. Some color broadcasts in the US began in the 1950s, with color becoming common in industrialized nations during the late 1960s. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission settled on a color NTSC standard in 1953, color television became more widespread in the U. S. between 1963 and 1967, when the CBS and ABC networks joined NBC in broadcasting full color schedules. Canada began airing color television in 1966 while the United Kingdom began to use a different color system from July 1967 known as PAL. The Republic Of Ireland followed in 1970, in China, black and white television sets were the norm until as late as the 1990s, color TVs not outselling them until about 1989. While seldom used now, many consumer camcorders have the ability to record in black-and-white. Photography, Photographs were either black-and-white or shades of sepia, color photography was originally rare and expensive and again often containing inaccurate hues. Color photography became more common from the mid-20th century, Today, black-and-white is a niche market for photographers who use the medium for artistic purposes. This can take the form of film or digital conversion to grayscale. For amateur use certain companies such as Kodak manufactured black-and-white disposable cameras until 2009, also, certain films are produced today which give black-and-white images using the ubiquitous C41 color process. Printing press, Most American newspapers were black-and-white until the early 1980s, The New York Times, some claim that USA Today was the major impetus for the change to color. In the UK, color was only introduced from the mid-1980s. Even today, many newspapers restrict color photographs to the front, similarly, daily comic strips in newspapers were traditionally black-and-white with color reserved for Sunday strips. Sometimes color is reserved for the cover, magazines such as Jet magazine were either all or mostly black-and-white until the end of the 2000s when it became all-color. Manga are typically published in black-and-white although now it is part of its image, many school yearbooks are still entirely or mostly in black-and-white
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Phonograph
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The phonograph is a device invented in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound. In its later forms it is called a gramophone. To recreate the sound, the surface is rotated while a playback stylus traces the groove and is therefore vibrated by it. In later electric phonographs, the motions of the stylus are converted into an electrical signal by a transducer. The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison, while other inventors had produced devices that could record sounds, Edisons phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound. His phonograph originally recorded sound onto a sheet wrapped around a rotating cylinder. A stylus responding to sound vibrations produced an up and down or hill-and-dale groove in the foil, in the 1890s, Emile Berliner initiated the transition from phonograph cylinders to flat discs with a spiral groove running from the periphery to near the center. Later improvements through the years included modifications to the turntable and its system, the stylus or needle. The disc phonograph record was the dominant audio recording format throughout most of the 20th century, from the mid-1980s on, phonograph use on a standard record player declined sharply because of the rise of the cassette tape, compact disc and other digital recording formats. Records are still a favorite format for some audiophiles and DJs, vinyl records are still used by some DJs and musicians in their concert performances. Musicians continue to release their recordings on vinyl records, the original recordings of musicians are sometimes re-issued on vinyl. Usage of terminology is not uniform across the English-speaking world, in more modern usage, the playback device is often called a turntable, record player, or record changer. When used in conjunction with a mixer as part of a DJ setup, the term phonograph was derived from the Greek words φωνή and γραφή. The similar related terms gramophone and graphophone have similar root meanings, the roots were already familiar from existing 19th-century words such as photograph, telegraph, and telephone. In British English, gramophone may refer to any sound-reproducing machine using disc records, the term phonograph was usually restricted to machines that used cylinder records. Gramophone generally referred to a wind-up machine, after the introduction of the softer vinyl records, 33 1⁄3-rpm LPs and 45-rpm single or two-song records, and EPs, the common name became record player or turntable. Often the home record player was part of a system that included a radio and, later, from about 1960, such a system began to be described as a hi-fi or a stereo. In American English, phonograph, properly specific to machines made by Edison, was used in a generic sense as early as the 1890s to include cylinder-playing machines made by others
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Myspace
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Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, Myspace was acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million. From 2005 to 2009, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world, since then, the number of Myspace users has declined steadily in spite of several redesigns. As of March 2017, Myspace was ranked 3,178 by total Web traffic, Myspace had a significant influence on pop culture and music and created a gaming platform that launched the successes of Zynga and RockYou, among others. Despite an overall decline, in 2015 Myspace still had 50.6 million unique visitors and has a pool of nearly 1 billion active and inactive registered users. In June 2009, Myspace employed approximately 1,600 employees, in June 2011, Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake jointly purchased the company for approximately $35 million. In August 2003, several employees with Friendster accounts saw potential in its social networking features. The group decided to mimic the popular features of the website. Within 10 days, the first version of Myspace was ready for launch, a complete infrastructure of finance, human resources, technical expertise, bandwidth, and server capacity was available for the site. The project was overseen by Brad Greenspan, who managed Chris DeWolfe, Josh Berman, Tom Anderson, the first Myspace users were eUniverse employees. The company held contests to see who could sign up the most users, eUniverse used its 20 million users and e-mail subscribers to breathe life into Myspace, and move it to the head of the pack of social networking websites. A key architect was tech expert Toan Nguyen who helped stabilize the Myspace platform when Brad Greenspan asked him to join the team. Despite over ten times the number of developers, Friendster, which was developed in JavaServer Pages, could not keep up with the speed of development of Myspace and cfm. The MySpace. com domain was owned by YourZ. com, Inc. intended until 2002 for use as an online data storage. By 2004, it was transitioned from a storage service to a social networking site. A friend, who worked in the data storage business. DeWolfe suggested they charge a fee for the basic Myspace service, Brad Greenspan nixed the idea, believing that keeping Myspace free was necessary to make it a successful community. Myspace quickly gained popularity among teenage and young adult social groups, in February 2005, DeWolfe held talks with Mark Zuckerberg over acquiring Facebook but DeWolfe rejected Zuckerbergs $75 million asking price
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Dailymotion
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Dailymotion is a video-sharing website based in France on which users can upload, watch and share videos. It is one of the biggest video platforms in the world, offering a mix of content from users, independent creators, Dailymotion is available all around the world, in 18 different languages and 35 localized versions featuring local home pages and local content. In March 2005, Benjamin Bejbaum and Olivier Poitrey founded the Dailymotion website from the room of Poitreys apartment in Paris. Six individuals pooled together €6,000 to start the business, in September 2006, Dailymotion raised funds in collaboration with Atlas Ventures and Partech International. They raised 7 million euros which was considered to be the most funds raised in 2006 from the French Web 2.0, in October 2009, the French government invested in Dailymotion through the Strategic Investment Fund. On January 25,2011, Orange acquired a 49% stake in Dailymotion for €62 million, on 10 January 2013 Orange bought the remaining 51% for €61 million. On or about 2 May 2013, the French government blocked Yahoos acquisition of a majority stake in Dailymotion, on 25 February 2014, Orange revealed it was in discussions with Microsoft about a deal that could see Dailymotion extend into the U. S. market. In an interview with a television station in Barcelona Stéphane Richard, CEO of Orange. Any deal would see Orange retain majority ownership of Dailymotion, in 2015, Vivendi purchased 80% stake in Dailymotion from Orange S. A. In September 2015 Vivendi increased its ownership to 90%, Dailymotion allows users to browse and upload videos by searching tags, channels, or user-created groups. The search system also introduces results based on other users searches, the maximum size of a video file is 4 GB. The length of the files is also limited to 60 minutes, except for motionmakers. Dailymotion also optimized sharing options, with the player, users could integrate easily videos on their own sites or blogs. Video statistics were added, number of views being showcased on top of the video, Dailymotion developed advertising on the website. In 2007, a Fingerprinting program was launched with Audible Magic, the program scans the soundtracks of the videos and automatically recognizes copyrights. High Quality became available for all users and Dailymotion created different user status, motionmakers, in 2007 the first web app was also launched on iPhone and on wap SFR in France. Videos uploaded by users to Dailymotion used to be converted to the VP6 format at a resolution of 320×240, audio on Dailymotion videos used to be encoded as MP3 at 96 kbit/s in stereo. The partnership gave Dailymotion the financial backing it needed to upgrade its servers to handle High Definition video, Dailymotion started its international expansion in 2008
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"Weird Al" Yankovic
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Alfred Matthew Weird Al Yankovic is an American singer, songwriter, parodist, record producer, satirist, actor, voice actor, music video director, film producer, and author. Since his first-aired comedy song in 1976, he has more than 12 million albums, recorded more than 150 parody and original songs. His works have earned him four Grammy Awards and a further 11 nominations, four gold records, Weird Als first top ten Billboard album and single were both released in 2006, nearly three decades into his career. His latest album, Mandatory Fun, became his first number-one album during its debut week and he directed later videos himself and went on to direct for other artists including Ben Folds, Hanson, The Black Crowes, and The Presidents of the United States of America. Weird Al has stated that he may forgo traditional albums in favor of timely releases of singles, in addition to recording his albums, Weird Al wrote and starred in the film UHF and The Weird Al Show. He has also made guest appearances and voice acting roles on television shows and video web content. He has also written two books, When I Grow Up and My New Teacher and Me. Yankovic was born in Downey, California and raised in Lynwood. He is the child of Mary Elizabeth and Nick Yankovic. Mary, who was of Italian and English descent, had come to California from Kentucky, Als first accordion lesson, which sparked his career in music, was on the day before his sixth birthday. A door-to-door salesman traveling through Lynwood offered the Yankovic parents a choice of accordion or guitar lessons at a music school. Yankovic said that parents chose the accordion because they were convinced it would revolutionize rock and he continued lessons at the school for three years before continuing to learn on his own. Yankovics early accordion role models included Frankie Yankovic and Myron Floren, in the 1970s, Yankovic was a big fan of Elton John and claims Johns Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album was partly how I learned to play rock n roll on the accordion. Other sources of inspiration for his comedy come from Mad magazine, Monty Python, Yankovic began kindergarten a year earlier than most children, and he skipped second grade. My classmates seemed to think I was some kind of rocket scientist so I was labeled an early on. As his unusual schooling left him two years younger than most of his classmates, Yankovic was not interested in sports or social events at school and we started the club just to get an extra picture of ourselves in the yearbook. Weird Al graduated in 1975 and was valedictorian of his senior class, Yankovic attended California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo where he earned a bachelors degree in architecture. Yankovic received his first exposure via southern California and syndicated radio personality Dr. Dementos radio show, saying If there hadnt been a Dr. Demento. The tapes first song, Belvedere Cruisin - about his familys Plymouth Belvedere - was played on Dementos comedy radio show, launching Yankovics career
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Alpocalypse
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Alpocalypse is the thirteenth studio album by Weird Al Yankovic, released on June 21,2011. It was the studio album self-produced by Yankovic. The musical styles on the album are built around parodies and pastiches of pop and rock music of the late-2000s and early 2010s. The albums first single, Whatever You Like was released almost two and a years prior to the release of the album, and the single peaked at number 104 on the Billboard Hot 100. The albums final single, Perform This Way, was released digitally on April 25,2011, but failed to chart. Prior to the release of Alpocalypse, Yankovic released the EP Internet Leaks, all of the tracks released on Internet Leaks would later be re-released on Alpocalypse. The album was preceded by a controversy after Yankovic sought Lady Gagas permission to record a parody of her song Born This Way. Yankovic recorded the parody, but due to an error, was very nearly forced to leave it off the album. Yankovic produced a video for every song on the record. Most of these videos were animated, but an action video for Perform this Way was produced. A deluxe edition of the CD was later released that all of these music videos, sans the ones for Perform this Way. Yankovic later issued Alpocalypse HD, a Blu-ray release which features all 12 music videos from this album, Alpocalypse was met with mostly positive reviews, and was nominated for the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. The album peaked at number 9 on the Billboard 200, making it, at the time, Alpocalypse followed a five-year gap that succeeded the release of Straight Outta Lynwood. These five songs were packaged as an EP called Internet Leaks. Other tracks on the album were recorded in January, May and he was told by Gagas manager that Gaga wanted to read the lyrics before giving approval, then that she wanted to hear a recorded version. Yankovic was able to set the date of Alpocalypses release by the end of that day, the albums opening track, Perform This Way, is a parody of Born This Way by Lady Gaga. The lyrics are told from the point of view of Gaga and describe her performance style, CNR is a style parody of The White Stripes, in particular borrowing heavily from Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground. The songs lyrics are about superhuman feats that Charles Nelson Reilly could accomplish, the songs end is also very similar to the chorus of the song You Dont Mess Around with Jim
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Sam Tsui
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Samuel Sam Tsui is an American singer/songwriter and video producer. As of March 28,2017, Tsui had reached 2.7 million subscribers, Sam Lee Tsui was born on May 2,1989. His father has roots in Hong Kong and his mother is of European descent, Tsui has a brother, Kent Kevin. Tsui grew up in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, an away from Kurt Schneider, his producer and accompanist. He was active in school musicals, including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Urinetown, Titanic. Tsui attended Yale University, where he was a member of Davenport College and The Dukes Men of Yale and he also majored in classical Greek at Yale University. While studying at Yale University, Tsui continued to develop his skills as a paid soloist at Trinity Church Southport, Tsui made his television debut on ABC World News on October 28,2009, singing The Jackson 5s Ill Be There. Tsui also went on to perform on the The Bonnie Hunt Show in November of the same year and he also appeared on Its On with Alexa Chung, singing Journeys Dont Stop Believin for the cast of American television series Glee. Four episodes were released, with Tsui playing the role of Cooper. Following the popularity of the series, it was announced that a film, the episodes garnered millions of views on YouTube. In 2010, Tsui released his first cover album, The Covers, the album, released on February 9,2010, features covers of hits from Michael Jackson, Journey, Beyoncé, Jason Mraz, and Lady Gaga among other artists. On February 22,2010, Tsui appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show with his producer, the two were interviewed, and Tsui performed his medley of Michael Jackson songs. On December 2,2010, Tsui gave an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and performed a mashup of Katy Perrys Firework, in 2011, Tsui debuted his own YouTube channel, apart from his collaboration with Kurt Schneider. On February 3,2011, Tsui was featured on Britney Spears official website and his song Worth It was mentioned in the novel Summers & Winters by Heather Dowell, released in ebook format in February 2012. In November 2011, he made a mashup with It Will Rain by Bruno Mars, in 2011, Tsui was a behind-the-scenes host for the third season of NBCs a capella competition show, The Sing-Off. He recorded a Judges Medley that included Sara Bareilles Love Song, Ben Folds Gone, the video is free to view on both NBCs website and Tsuis independent YouTube channel, TheSamTsui. Tsui graduated from Yale magna cum laude with a major in classical Greek in 2011, Tsui is proficient in the C++ programming language. Tsui was mentioned three times by Tom Hanks when he addressed the class of Yale 2011, Tsui was also featured in the 2010 Yale Admissions video
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BBC Radio 1
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Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7,00 pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by radio stations. Recently, the BBC claimed that it targets the 15–29 age group. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991, Radio 1 was established in 1967 as a successor to the BBC Light Programme, which had broadcast popular music and other entertainment since 1945. Radio 1 was conceived as a response to the popularity of offshore pirate radio stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London. Radio 1 was launched at 7,00 am on Saturday 30 September 1967. The first words on Radio 1 – after a countdown by the Controller of Radios 1 and 2, Robin Scott, welcome to the exciting new sound of Radio 1. This was the first use of US-style jingles on BBC radio, the first complete record played on Radio 1 was Flowers in the Rain by The Move. The second single was Massachusetts by The Bee Gees, the breakfast show remains the most prized slot in the Radio 1 schedule, with every change of breakfast show presenter exciting considerable media interest. Despite this, it gained massive audiences, becoming the most listened to station in the world with audiences of over 10 million claimed for some of its shows, in the early-mid-1970s Radio 1 presenters were rarely out of the British tabloids, thanks to the Publicity Departments high-profile work. Alan Freemans Saturday Rock Show was voted Best Radio Show 5 years running by readers of a music publication. In his last few months as controller, Johnny Beerling commissioned a handful of new shows that in some set the tone for what was to come under Matthew Bannister. One of these Loudnproud was the UKs first national radio series aimed at a gay audience, far from being a parting quirk, the show was a surprise hit and led to the networks first coverage of the large outdoor Gay Pride event in 1994. Bannister took the reins fully in October 1993 and his aim was to rid the station of its Smashie and Nicey image and make it appeal to the under 25s. Although originally launched as a station, by the early 1990s. Many listeners rebelled as the first new DJs to be introduced represented a crossover from other parts of the BBC with Emma Freud, Evans was a popular but controversial presenter who was eventually sacked in 1997 after he demanded to present the breakfast show for only four days per week. Evans was replaced from 17 February 1997 by Mark and Lard – Mark Radcliffe and they were replaced by Zoë Ball and Kevin Greening eight months later in October 1997, with Greening moving on and leaving Ball as solo presenter. Documentaries like John Peels Lost in Music which looked at the influence that the use of drugs have had over popular musicians received critical acclaim but were slated inside Broadcasting House, later in the 1990s the Britpop boom declined, and manufactured chart pop came to dominate the charts
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Rebecca Ferguson (singer)
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Rebecca Caroline Ferguson is an English singer and songwriter. She came to prominence in 2010 when she became the runner-up of the series of The X Factor, losing to the winner that year. She subsequently signed a joint record deal with Syco Music and Epic Records in the UK and she later signed to Columbia Records in the US. Fergusons debut album, Heaven, was released in December 2011 to commercial and critical success. The album sold 128k in its first week and peaked at No.3 in the UK Official Charts, co-written by Ferguson, it was certified two times platinum in the UK and platinum in Ireland. The album yielded six singles including lead single Nothings Real but Love, a deluxe version of the album included the single Backtrack, which entered the charts in October 2012 at number 15, giving Ferguson her second Top 20 hit. Fergusons second studio album, Freedom, was released in December 2013 and it met with positive reviews from critics and commercial success in the UK where it charted at number 6 and has since been certified Gold by the BPI. The albums lead single, I Hope, peaked at number 15 in the UK, in 2012, she was nominated for two MOBO Awards and one MTV Europe Music Award. In 2015 Ferguson released her studio album Lady Sings the Blues covering a number of jazz classics made famous by Billie Holiday. The lead single Get Happy was added to BBC Radio 2s playlist, the following year, Ferguson released her fourth studio album Superwoman. The album reached number 7 on the UK charts, and gained Ferguson her fourth consecutive Top Ten album on the UK charts and she cites Aretha Franklin, Kings of Leon, Christina Aguilera and Amy Winehouse among her influences. She has endorsements with Nescafé and Walkers, Rebecca Ferguson was born on 21 July 1986, at Mill Road Hospital, Liverpool, to a father of Jamaican descent and white British mother. She spent the first two years of her life in Huyton and she has a younger brother, Sam. The family then moved to a house on an estate in Woolton Village when her parents separated, Ferguson received her primary education at Woolton Primary School and her secondary and sixth form college education at Gateacre Community Comprehensive School. As a teenager she moved to Anfield. That was when she pregnant with her first child Lillie May. Two years later she had her son, Karl, Ferguson has said her family supported her ambition to become a professional singer and helped her through two previous X Factor auditions. She also revealed that she was bullied as a kid because my family was poor, despite having a difficult start in life, the hopeful insisted she wanted people to focus solely on her talent
