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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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Jessie Ware
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Jessica Lois Jessie Ware is an English singer and songwriter. Her debut studio album Devotion peaked at five on the UK Albums Chart. Her follow-up record, Tough Love, reached number nine in the United Kingdom, Ware has sung vocals for Joker and SBTRKT, in concert and on their recordings. Ware was born in Queen Charlottes Hospital in Hammersmith, London and she is the daughter of Helena, a social worker, and John Ware, a BBC Panorama reporter, who divorced when she was 10, and she is the younger sister of British actress Hannah Ware. Wares mother is Jewish and she was raised in the faith, Ware was educated at Alleyns School, a co-educational independent school in Dulwich in South London, followed by the University of Sussex, where she took a degree in English literature. After her studies, Ware briefly worked as a journalist at The Jewish Chronicle, did sports journalism at The Daily Mirror, there, she was a colleague of Erika Leonard, otherwise known as E. L. James, the author of Fifty Shades of Grey. In the years prior to releasing her first solo album, Ware did backing vocals at live shows for Jack Peñate and it gave me a taste of what to expect, and it prepared me for what I’m doing now. It was one of Peñates bandmates, Tic, who first introduced Ware to SBTRKT, Ware and she consequently met Sampha, best known as SBTRKTs main collaborator and live member. They created Valentine together, which was released on a special edition, Valentine was partly inspired by James Blakes song The Wilhelm Scream and based on their own personal experiences in love. The music video for Valentine was directed by Marcus Söderlund, Nervous, Valentine and an additional collaboration with DJ Joker led Ware to a record deal with PMR Records. She also featured on Ceremonials, the 2011 album by Florence, on 14 October 2011, Ware released her debut solo single Strangest Feeling on limited 10 purple vinyl, although the song did not chart in the United Kingdom. She then released Running on 24 February 2012 as the single from her debut studio album. 110% was released as the second single on 13 April. Wildest Moments was released as the third single on 29 June. Ware reckons the proudest moment of her career was hearing Wildest Moments accompanying a montage of highlights from Andy Murrays dramatic third-round win at Wimbledon. On 20 August 2012, Ware released her debut album Devotion, night Light was released as the fourth single on 24 August. On 11 September, Devotion was announced as a nominee for the prestigious Mercury Prize, if Youre Never Gonna Move contains a similar-sounding sample instead. Ware toured in the United Kingdom in the part of March 2013, supported by Laura Mvula, starting with Cambridge, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Oxford, Bristol
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Devotion (Jessie Ware album)
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Devotion is the debut studio album by English recording artist Jessie Ware. It was released in the United Kingdom on 20 August 2012, production for the album came primarily from Dave Okumu of alternative rock band The Invisible, alongside Julio Bashmore and Kid Harpoon. On 15 April 2013, the album was re-released as Devotion - The Gold Edition and it includes a bonus disc with four tracks, two of which are previously unreleased, including a new single, Imagine It Was Us. One day later, this version of the album was released in the United States under its original title, the album was recognized as one of The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far by Pitchfork Media in August 2014. In the years prior to releasing her first solo album, Ware did backing vocals at live shows for Jack Peñate and it gave me a taste of what to expect, and it prepared me for what I’m doing now. It was one of Peñates bandmates, Tic, who first introduced Ware to SBTRKT, Ware and she consequently met Sampha, best known as SBTRKTs main collaborator and live member. They created Valentine together, which was released on a special edition, Valentine was partly inspired by James Blakes song The Wilhelm Scream and based on their own personal experiences in love. The music video for Valentine was directed by Marcus Söderlund, Nervous, Valentine and an additional collaboration with DJ Joker led Ware to a record deal with PMR Records. She also featured on Ceremonials, the 2011 album by Florence, Running was released as the albums lead single on February 24,2012. 110% was released as the single on April 13,2012. Wildest Moments was released as the single on June 29,2012. Night Light was released as the single on September 25,2012. Sweet Talk was released as the single on January 21,2013. Imagine It Was Us, the first single from The Gold Edition of the album, was released as the single overall on April 12,2013. Devotion received general acclaim from music critics, at Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 85, based on 27 reviews, which indicates universal acclaim. Mike Diver of BBC Music wrote, Devotion is the sort of sophisticated, soulful pop record that comes along all too rarely, down-tempo it may be, but no listener will come away downcast. Overlook the relatively low positions for Running and 110%, as theyre hardly indicative of the quality on display. Ware never stretches for a note, she never gives her songs over to hyperbole or bombast
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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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Contemporary R&B
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Contemporary R&B, also known as simply R&B, is a music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, soul, funk, pop, hip hop and dance. The genre features a record production style, drum machine-backed rhythms, an occasional saxophone-laced beat to give a jazz feel. Electronic influences are becoming a trend and the use of hip hop or dance-inspired beats are typical, although the roughness. Contemporary R&B vocalists are often known for their use of melisma, popularized by such as Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Craig David, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston. That same year, Teddy Riley began producing R&B recordings that included hip hop influences and this combination of R&B style and hip hop rhythms was termed new jack swing and was applied to artists such as Bobby Brown, Keith Sweat, Al B. Guy, Jodeci and Bell Biv DeVoe, the style became less popular by the end of the 1990s, but later experienced a resurgence. In 1990 Mariah Carey released Vision of Love as her debut single and it was immensely popular peaking at number 1 in many worldwide charts including the Billboard Hot 100, and it propelled Mariahs carrier. The song is said to have popularized the use of melisma. During the mid-1990s, Whitney Houstons The Bodyguard, Original Soundtrack Album sold over 40 million copies becoming the best-selling soundtrack of all time. Janet Jacksons self-titled fifth studio album janet. which came after her historic multimillion-dollar contract with Virgin Records, sold over twenty million copies worldwide. Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey recorded several Billboard Hot 100 No.1 hits, including One Sweet Day, Carey also released a remix of her 1995 single Fantasy, with Ol Dirty Bastard as a feature, a collaboration format that was unheard of at this point. Carey, Boyz II Men and TLC released albums in 1994 and 1995—Daydream, II and CrazySexyCool. In the late 1990s, neo soul, which added 1970s soul influences to the hip hop soul blend, arose, led by such as DAngelo, Erykah Badu. Hill and Missy Elliott further blurred the line between R&B and hip hop by recording both styles, beginning in 1995, the Grammy Awards enacted the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album, with II by Boyz II Men becoming the first recipient. The award was received by TLC for CrazySexyCool in 1996, Tony Rich for Words in 1997, Erykah Badu for Baduizm in 1998. At the end of 1999, Billboard magazine ranked Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson as the first, simultaneously, in the second half of the 1990s, The Neptunes and Timbaland set influential precedence on contemporary R&B and hip hop music. R&B acts such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Usher, in 2001, Alicia Keys released Fallin as her debut single. It peaking at one on the Billboard Hot 100, Mainstream Top 40
