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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
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Island Records
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Island Records is a major record label that operates as a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. It was founded by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall and Leslie Kong in Jamaica in 1959, Blackwell sold the label to PolyGram in 1989. Three Island labels exist in the world, Island UK, Island US, and Island Australia, current key people of Island Records include Island president Darcus Beese, OBE and MD Jon Turner. Partially due to the labels significant legacy, Island remains one of UMGs pre-eminent record labels, Island Records was founded in Jamaica on 4 July 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall and Leslie Kong, and partially financed by Stanley Borden from RKO. Its name was inspired by the Harry Belafonte song Island in the Sun. Blackwell explained in 2009, “I loved music so much, I just wanted to get into it, or be as close to it as I could. ”Tom Hayes, the labels sales manager between 1965 and 1967, referred to the early period of the label in the UK as “organized chaos”. “My Boy Lollipop”, sung by Millie Small, was the labels first success in the UK, Blackwell explained in a 50-year-anniversary documentary that he was only interested in building long-term careers at that stage in time, rather than short-term projects. Suzette Newman has been a colleague of Chris Blackwells since working together in the early days of Island Records. Suzette Newman and Chris Salewicz were the editors for the book “The Story of Island Records, Blackwell relocated to England in May 1962 to garner greater levels of attention after the local Jamaican sound systems proved to be overwhelmingly successful. The vast majority of the artists who had signed to Blackwells fledgling label while he was in Jamaica agreed to allow the entrepreneur to release their music in the UK. While in England, Blackwell travelled throughout the city carrying his stock with him and he did not provide any copies to radio stations, as they would not play any of the Island music, the music was also not reviewed by the press. Meanwhile, Goodall left to start the Doctor Bird record label in 1965, Blackwell signed the Spencer Davis Group to the label. The group became popular and Island started their own independent series to spotlight UK rock talent. They signed artists like John Martyn, Fairport Convention, Free, by the late 1960s and early 1970s, they were a major label in England with artists like Roxy Music, King Crimson, Traffic, The Wailers, and many others. Blackwell had signed Bob Marley, and now Toots and the Maytals, in November 2016, Jackie Jackson described the formation of the group in a radio interview for Kool 97 FM Jamaica. Accompanied by Paul Douglas and Radcliffe Dougie Bryan in studio, Jackson explained, Were all original members of Toots, first it was Toots and the Maytals, three guys, Toots, Raleigh, and Jerry. …And then they were signed to Island Records, Chris Blackwell, and we were their recording band. One day we were summoned to Chris house, and he says, Alright gentleman, I think its time
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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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Running (Jessie Ware song)
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Running is the debut single by English singer Jessie Ware from her debut studio album, Devotion. The song was released in the United Kingdom as a download on 24 February 2012. The drum loop used in the chorus of the song was based on Princes The Ballad of Dorothy Parker. The single features a popular remix of the song by Disclosure. The remix was featured in the Xbox 360 and Xbox One racing game Forza Horizon 2, a music video to accompany the release of Running was first released on YouTube on 13 February 2012 at a total length of four minutes and thirty-five seconds. The video was directed by Kate Moross, nashville duo Wild Cub did a cover of this song. Dale Lavine of Hootingandhowling. com said the following about it, Tasteful and rustic, piano melodies fall over a solid beat, all tossed together with that soulfully gruff voice that has made bands like Alabama Shakes and Imagine Dragons rise to relative infamy. The same could be said for Wild Cub, who are well on their way to becoming another big name and their cover of ‘Running’, along with so many of their other songs, presents an atmosphere of that classic romantic melancholy while retaining modern pop-esque rhythms. Elliott Batte of Stereoboard. com called it an atmospheric, piano based jam carried by the impressive vocal of Keegan DeWitt. The end result is a reworking of the track which pays homage to the original while featuring the attributes that have made Wild Cub one of the most exciting new bands in circulation currently. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Wildest Moments
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Wildest Moments is a song by British recording artist Jessie Ware from her debut studio album, Devotion. The song was released in the United Kingdom as a download on 29 June 2012 to positive responses. The song received positive reviews. Pitchfork Media gave the song its Best New Music accolade and it also featured in their Top 100 Tracks of 2012 at number 21. A music video to accompany the release of Wildest Moments was first released on YouTube on 2 July 2012 at a length of four minutes. The video consists of a shot of Ware sitting while singing the song. Wildest Moments features on the second-season episode—Re-Launch — of New Girl, playing in the background as characters Schmidt, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Big Pun
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Christopher Lee Rios, better known by his stage name Big Pun, was an American rapper. Emerging from the hip hop scene in The Bronx borough of New York City, in the early 1990s. He first appeared on tracks from Fat Joes second album Jealous Ones Envy in 1995, Puns lyrics are notable for technical efficiency, having minimal pauses to take a breath, heavy use of alliteration as well as internal and multi-syllabic rhyming schemes. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time, about. com ranked him #25 on its list of the 50 Greatest MCs of All Time, while MTV2 ranked him #11 on its list of the 22 Greatest MCs. In 2012, The Source ranked him #19 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time, Rios was born on November 10,1971 in The Bronx, New York City, United States, to parents of Puerto Rican descent. He grew up in the South Bronx neighborhood of the city, at the age of five, Rios broke his leg while playing in a park, which would later lead to a large settlement from the city. By all accounts from Puns family, his years were very difficult, including witnessing his mothers drug abuse. During the mid-1980s, he began writing rap lyrics and he later formed the underground rap group called Full-A-Clips which included rappers Lyrical Assassin, Joker Jamz and Toom. Rios made a number of recordings with the group in the early-1990s, at this point Rios was operating under the alias Big Moon Dawg. He also appeared on The Beatnuts song Off the Books Later, Im Not a Player was supported by a significant advertising campaign, in 1996 Big Pun began recording songs for his debut album Capital Punishment. In 1997 producer Knobodys production partner Sean C took advantage of his new role as A&R at Loud Records to play Knobodys tracks to Big Pun, suitably impressed the rapper hired Knobody to remix Im Not a Player. The remixed song, featuring Joe and titled Still Not a Player, became Big Puns first major mainstream hit, the full-length debut Capital Punishment followed in 1998, and became the first album by a solo Latino rapper to go platinum, peaking at #5 on the Billboard 200. Capital Punishment was also nominated for a Grammy, the album did not fare well commercially but it was well received critically and the album was meant to start the foundation for all other Terror Squad members to release their solo projects. Pun struggled with a problem for all of his adult life. His weight fluctuated in the early 1990s between obese and morbidly obese, Pun was pronounced dead at the hospital after paramedics could not revive him. Big Pun was at his highest weight at the time of his death,698 pounds and he was cremated a few days later. Big Pun is survived by his wife, Liza, and their three children, Amanda, Vanessa, and Christopher Jr and his second album, Yeeeah Baby, completed after his death, was released as originally intended in April 2000. It peaked at #3 on the Billboard charts and earned gold status within three months of its release
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NME
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New Musical Express is a British music journalism magazine published since 1952. It was the first British paper to include a singles chart, in the 1970s it became the best-selling British music newspaper. It started as a newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s and 1990s. An online version of NME, NME. com, was launched in 1996 and it became the worlds biggest standalone music site, with over seven million users per month. With newsstand sales falling across the UK magazine sector, the paid circulation in the first half of 2014 was 15,830. In 2013, the list of NMEs The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, NME magazine was relaunched in September 2015 as a nationally distributed free publication. NMEs headquarters are in Southwark, London, England, the brands editor-in-chief is Mike Williams, who replaced Krissi Murison in 2012. The paper was established in 1952, the Accordion Times and Musical Express was bought by London music promoter Maurice Kinn, for the sum of £1,000, just 15 minutes before it was due to be officially closed. It was relaunched as the New Musical Express, and was published in a non-glossy tabloid format on standard newsprint. On 14 November 1952, taking its cue from the US magazine Billboard, it created the first UK Singles Chart, the first of these was, in contrast to more recent charts, a top twelve sourced by the magazine itself from sales in regional stores around the UK. The first number one was Here in My Heart by Al Martino, during the 1960s the paper championed the new British groups emerging at the time. The NME circulation peaked under Andy Gray, Editor 1957–1972, with a figure of 306,881 for the period from January to June 1964, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were frequently featured on the front cover. These and other artists appeared at the NME Poll Winners Concert. The concert also featured a ceremony where the winners would collect their awards. The NME Poll Winners Concerts took place between 1959 and 1972, from 1964 onwards they were filmed, edited and transmitted on British television a few weeks after they had taken place. The latter part of the 1960s saw the chart the rise of psychedelia. During this period some sections of pop music began to be designated as rock, in early 1972 the paper found itself on the verge of closure by its owner IPC. Alan Smith was made editor and in 1972 was told by IPC to turn things around quickly or face closure, according to The Economist, the New Musical Express started to champion underground, up-and-coming music. NME became the gateway to a more rebellious world
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Pitchfork (website)
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Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast. The site generally concentrates on new music, but Pitchfork journalists have also reviewed reissues, in late 1995, Ryan Schreiber, a recent high school graduate, created the magazine in Minneapolis. Influenced by local fanzines and KUOM, Schreiber, who had no writing experience. At first being Turntable, the site was updated monthly with interviews and reviews, in May 1996, the site began publishing daily and was renamed Pitchfork, alluding to Tony Montanas tattoo in Scarface. In early 1999, Schreiber relocated Pitchfork to Chicago, Illinois, by then, the site had expanded to four full-length album reviews daily, as well as sporadic interviews, features, and columns. It had also begun garnering a following for its coverage of underground music and its writing style. In October, the added a daily music news section. Pitchfork has launched a variety of subsidiary websites, Pitchfork. tv, a website displaying videos related to many independent music acts, launched in April 2008. It features bands that are found on Pitchfork. In July 2010, Pitchfork announced Altered Zones, a blog devoted to underground. On 21 May 2011, Pitchfork announced a partnership with Kill Screen, Altered Zones was closed on November 30. On December 26,2012, Pitchfork launched Nothing Major, a website that covered visual arts such as fine art, Nothing Major closed in October 2013. On October 13,2015, Condé Nast announced that it had acquired Pitchfork, following the sale, Schreiber remained as editor-in-chief. On March 13,2016, Pitchfork was redesigned, some publications have cited Pitchfork in having played a part in breaking artists such as Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Interpol, The Go. Conversely, Pitchfork has also seen as being a negative influence on some indie artists. A dismissive 0.0 review of former Dismemberment Plan frontman Travis Morrisons Travistan album led to a sales drop. On the other hand, an endorsement from Pitchfork – which dispenses its approval one-tenth of a point at a time, up to a maximum of 10 points – is very valuable, indeed. Examples of Pitchforks impact include, Arcade Fire is among the bands most commonly cited to have benefited from a Pitchfork review
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Painshill
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Painshill, near Cobham, Surrey, England, is one of the finest remaining examples of an 18th-century English landscape park. It was designed and created between 1738 and 1773 by the Hon. Charles Hamilton, the original house built in the park by Hamilton has since been demolished. Painshill is owned by Elmbridge Borough Council and managed by the Painshill Trust, Painshill, which is open to the public, has been Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. In 1998 Painshill was awarded the Europa Nostra Medal for the Exemplary restoration from a state of neglect, of a most important 18th century landscape park. In May 2006 Painshill was awarded full collection status for its John Bartram Heritage Collection, by the National Council for the Conservation of Plants, Charles Hamilton was born in 1704 in Dublin, the 9th son and 14th child of the 6th Earl of Abercorn. He was educated at Westminster School and Oxford, and went on two Grand Tours, one in 1725 and a one in 1732. In 1738 Hamilton began to land at Painshill and, over the years. His creation was among the earliest to reflect the changing fashion in garden design prompted by the Landscape Movement and it represented the move away from geometric formality in garden design to a new naturalistic formula. Many of the trees and shrubs planted by Hamilton were sent to him from Philadelphia by the naturalist John Bartram, then as now there was a particular route round the park recommended, designed to bring the visitor upon the successive views with best effect. Views from Painshill were painted on plates for a Wedgwood service of porcelain commissioned by Catherine the Great of Russia, Hamilton eventually ran out of money and sold the estate in 1773 to Benjamin Bond Hopkins, who held the estate until his death in 1794. In 1778 Hopkins commissioned architect Richard Jupp to rebuild Painshill House in a different location within the park, the house was later extended in the 19th century by architect Decimus Burton and is now a grade II* listed building. Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton bought Painshill in 1807 from William Moffat, after his death in 1821, Luttrells wife Jane lived at Painshill until her death in 1831 when it was sold it to Sir William Cooper, High Sheriff of Surrey. Sir William Cooper and his wife, later his widow, lived there until 1863, and installed Joseph Bramahs suspension bridge and water wheel, and planted an arboretum designed by John Claudius Loudon. In 1873, the English poet, literary and social critic, Matthew Arnold, rented Pains Hill Cottage from Mr. Charles J. Leaf, in 1904 Charles Combe of Cobham Park purchased and lived in Painshill Park, his son having moved into Cobham Park. Until World War II Painshill Park was held by a succession of private owners, in 1948 the estate was split up and sold in separate lots for commercial uses. The Park, as such, soon disappeared and its features fell into decay, by 1980 the local authority, Elmbridge Borough Council, had bought 158 acres of Hamiltons original estate and the work of restoring the landscape garden and its many features could start. Fortunately there is a wealth of 18th-century images of the features of Painshill to help the process. The park now borders the A3 road, which is invisible and inaudible from nearly all parts
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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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Jessie Ware discography
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The discography of Jessie Ware, an English singer and songwriter, consists of two studio albums, nine singles and six extended plays. On 14 October 2011, Ware released her solo single Strangest Feeling on limited 10 purple vinyl. She then released Running on 24 February 2012 as the single from her debut studio album Devotion. 110% was released as the second single on 13 April. Wildest Moments was released as the third single on 29 June. On 20 August 2012, she released her debut album Devotion, night Light was released as the fourth single on 24 August. At the beginning of 2014, Ware returned to the studio to write her second album, ed Sheeran confirmed in an interview with Daily Star that they had written a song together for the new album. Tough Love is the first single to be taken from the new album, it peaked to number 34 on the UK Singles Chart, in September 2014 she released Say You Love Me as the second single from the album. On 6 October 2014, she released her studio album Tough Love. A ^ Originally peaked at 61 as 110%, repeaked in 2013 under the new title, If Youre Never Gonna Move. B ^ Wildest Moments is the only of Wares singles to have made the official Flanders Ultratop 50, where it peaked at number 3
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Tough Love (Jessie Ware album)
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Tough Love is the second studio album by English recording artist Jessie Ware. It was released on 13 October 2014 in the United Kingdom and 24 October 2014 in the United States, the album was supported by the singles Tough Love, Say You Love Me, You & I, and Champagne Kisses. At the beginning of 2014, Ware returned to the studio to write her second album, Ed Sheeran confirmed in an interview with Daily Star that they had written a song together for the new album. Tough Love is the first single to be taken from the new album, airing for the first time on BBC Radio 1 as Hottest Record during the Zane Lowes show and slated for a UK release on 3 August 2014. Tough Love was compared to Prince at his minimalist 80s best by Pitchfork and it has been confirmed that Kid Harpoon, Dave Okumu, Julio Bashmore, Miguel, James Ford, Nineteen85, Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran have also worked on the new album. Tough Love, produced by BenZel, was released as the single from the album on 23 June 2014. The song peaked to number 34 on the UK Singles Chart, Say You Love Me was released as the second single from the album on 28 September 2014 and became her second Top 40 hit, charting at number 22. You & I was released as the single from the album. The video for the song was released on 2 December 2014 and was directed by Adam Powell, london-born producer Shift K3Y and Kidnap Kid remixed the track. On January 17,2015, Ware confirmed on her Twitter account that the single to be released from the album would be Champagne Kisses. Chris Sweeney directed the video, which was published on Wares YouTube account on February 11,2015, upon its release, Tough Love received generally positive reviews from music critics. At AllMusic, Andy Kellman rated the album three out of five, claiming that Tough Love has the same high level of sophistication as Wares debut album Devotion. Club graded the album an A-, describing it as a more than worthy follow-up to Devotion, at The Guardian, Caroline Sullivan gave a positive review of the album, calling it sensual and intriguing, while describing the albums content as a boneless elegance with premium product. Credits for Tough Love adapted from AllMusic
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Night Light (song)
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Night Light is a song by British recording artist Jessie Ware from her debut studio album, Devotion. The song was released in the United Kingdom as a download on 25 September 2012. The song was written by Jessie Ware, Kid Harpoon and Dave Okumu, the song peaked at number 95 on the UK Singles Chart. A music video to accompany the release of Night Light was first released onto YouTube on 18 September 2012 at a length of four minutes. Lead vocals – Jessie Ware Producers – Dave Okumu Engineers – Dan Vinci Lyrics – Jessie Ware, Kid Harpoon, Dave Okumu Label – Island Records
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Tough Love (Jessie Ware song)
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Tough Love is a song by British recording artist Jessie Ware from her second studio album, Tough Love. It peaked at number 34 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Wares first domestic top 40 entry, critically acclaimed, Tough Love was included on Pitchforks list of the 100 best songs of 2014. A music video to accompany the release of Tough Love was directed by BRTHR and it was first released onto YouTube on 9 July 2014 at a total length of three minutes and thirty seconds
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Katy B
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Kathleen Anne Brien, better known as Katy B, is an English singer and songwriter. She released her studio album, On a Mission, in 2011. In 2014 she released her studio album, Little Red. She was nominated for the 2011 Mercury Prize, kathleen Anne Brien was born on 8 May 1989, in Peckham, London, where she attended at Lyndhurst Primary School, Haberdashers Askes Hatcham College, and the BRIT School. Katy also attended at the Glenlyn Academy in South London, where she took dance classes, Katys father was a member of the Les Humphries Singers, who represented Germany at Eurovision 1976, with the song Sing Sang Song. Katy B possesses a vocal range. Katy has guested on many tracks, both before and during her album release campaign, DJ NGs song Tell Me, on which she featured as Baby Katy, was initially released on a white label and then later signed to Ministry of Sound. She also provided vocals on the track Hold Me for The Count & Sindens debut album Mega Mega Mega, Katy B has also collaborated with Rinse FM DJ Geeneus to cover the Kevin Saunderson produced Good Life and the track As I. The single reached number five on the UK Singles Chart and number one on the UK Indie Chart and her third single Broken Record was released in March 2011, and peaked at number eight. The fourth single Easy Please Me was released on 3 June 2011 and her fifth single Witches Brew was released on 28 August 2011. Katys debut album On a Mission was released on 4 April 2011, Katy B supported Tinie Tempah on his tour during Spring of 2011, and on 30 April 2011 she embarked on her own debut concert tour throughout Europe until September, then the UK in October. On 1 October 2013, Katy announced that her studio album would be titled Little Red. Lead single 5 AM was released on 4 November 2013, charting at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart, Crying for No Reason was released on 10 February 2014, reaching the Top 5 of the singles chart. Little Red topped the UK Albums Chart on 19 February 2014, still was released as the third and final single from the album. On 18 February 2014, Katys video for the ongoing Rinse Sessions x Metropolis project was revealed, in February, she also appeared on the BBC One show The Voice as Ricky Wilsons team mentor. She performed at Birmingham Pride in May 2014, in October 2015, Katy provided vocals, along with Tinie Tempah on Turn the Music Louder, a re-worked version of British DJ KDAs track Rumble. It topped the UK charts becoming Katys first UK number one single, in December 2015, Katy confirmed in a backstage interview at Capital FMs Jingle Bell Ball that her third studio album would be called Honey and would be released sometime in 2016. It was also confirmed that a track of the name would feature
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SBTRKT
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SBTRKT is the musical project led by Aaron Jerome. SBTRKT has remixed songs by such as M. I. A, Radiohead, Modeselektor, Basement Jaxx, Mark Ronson, and Underworld, and has released singles, EPs. His music has been playlisted by BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 6 Music, SBTRKT also has performed live with frequent collaborator Sampha. The live show to 2012 consisted of Jerome utilizing electronic and acoustic drums, synthesisers, Jerome uses the projects title rather than his own name in order to support the concept of anonymity. Jerome has explained rather not talk about myself as a person, the name SBTRKT is me taking myself away from that whole process. Im not a person, so having to talk to DJs to make them play a record is not something I want to do. Its more about giving them a record as an anonymous person, if they play it, they play it. SBTRKT wears modern interpretations of native society ceremonial masks designed by A Hidden Place, in March 2016, SBTRKT announced a new project described as a non album. The collection of songs and project is designed to bring new tracks to fans sooner than album cycles and also be a continuous ongoing experience
