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Casa Grande, Arizona
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Casa Grande is a city in Pinal County, approximately halfway between Phoenix and Tucson in the U. S. state of Arizona. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 48,571 and it is named after the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, which is actually located in Coolidge. Casa Grande is Spanish for big house, Casa Grande was founded in 1879 during the Arizona mining boom, specifically due to the presence of the Southern Pacific Railroad. In January 1880, the community of Terminus, meaning end-of-the-line, was established consisting of just five residents. In September 1880, railroad executives renamed the settlement Casa Grande, Casa Grande grew slowly, and suffered several setbacks both in 1886 and 1893, when fires ravaged the town, destroying all wooden housing structures within it. When the mining boom slowed in the 1890s, the town was abandoned, but with the advent of agriculture, the town remained alive and well. One of the fathers of Casa Grande was Thompson Rodney Peart. Peart Road, Peart Park, and the Peart Center, all of which are notable fixtures of Casa Grande, are named after him, Casa Grande was home to a collective farm society which was part of the New Deal. According to historian David Leighton, during World War II, from 1942 to 1945, two notable people that were interned there were future actor Pat Morita and baseball player Kenichi Zenimura, who constructed a baseball field and set up a league in the relocation camp. Casa Grande is home to Francisco Grande Hotel & Golf Resort, then owner, Horace Stoneham, began developing the property in 1959. The first exhibition game was played in Casa Grande in 1961, the San Francisco Giants no longer play at Francisco Grande, but the pool remains in a baseball bat and ball shape in memory of the past ballgames. During the Cold War, Casa Grande was the location of the Corona Satellite Calibration Targets and these targets consisted of concrete arrows located in and to the south of the city, which calibrated satellites of the Corona spy program. Casa Grande has also played a prominent role in semi-pro and collegiate baseball and they are now members of the Pacific Southwest Baseball League. According to the United States Census Bureau, Casa Grande has an area of 48.2 square miles. Casa Grande is in a desert climate. In January, the high temperature is 64 with a normal low of 39. In July, the high temperature is 101 with a normal low of 77. Annual rainfall is around 10 inches, as of the census of 2010, there were 48,571 people,22,400 households, and 6,547 families residing in the city
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Historic Casa Grande Union High School which now serves as the Casa Grande City Hall.
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The historic Southern Pacific Railroad Depot was built in 1925 and is located at 201 W. Main St.
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Wyckoff, New Jersey
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Wyckoff is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 Census, Wyckoff ranked 55th in highest-income places in the United States with a population of at least 10,000 at $103,614 HHI. Statewide, Wyckoff ranked 41st among New Jersey locations by per capita income, with a per capita income of $49,375 as of 1999. Starting in the 1840s, several new municipalities were created from portions of Franklin Township, Wyckoff was formed as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on November 2,1926, replacing Franklin Township, based on the results of a referendum held that day. Portions of Wyckoff were ceded to Midland Park based on the results of a referendum held on June 9,1931, other sources ascribe the name to Wicaugh in Malpas, England. The first known inhabitants of the area were the Lenni Lenape Native Americans who lived north of the Raritan River. Most Native Americans had left by the 19th century, although a small group lived near Clinton Avenue until 1939, what is Wyckoff today was originally part of Saddle River Township, which included all of Bergen County west of the Saddle River. Saddle River Township was split in 1771, with the area containing Wyckoff becoming Franklin Township, by 1755, about 100 families lived in the Franklin Township area, of which no more than 20 were in what is now Wyckoff. Franklin Township consisted of what is today Ho-Ho-Kus, Ridgewood, Midland Park, Oakland, Franklin Lakes, the size of Franklin Township decreased as areas seceded and were incorporated into their own municipalities. After Franklin Lakes was established in 1922, Franklin Township consisted of only the known locally as Wyckoff. On November 2,1926, residents voted to change the name from Franklin Township to the Township of Wyckoff, the first recorded permanent settlers were John and William Van Voor Haze, who purchased 550 acres of land in the area in 1720. Other early settlers included the Van Horns, Terhunes, Ackermans, Quackenbushes, Pulises, in 1940 the population was just under 4,000 consisting of roughly 100 families with 30% of the land devoted to farming. By 1969 the number of farms had dropped to 13 covering 3 acres, by 2012, only two farms remain, Abmas Farm and Goffle Road Poultry Farm, which is Bergen Countys only remaining live market. Rail service by the New Jersey Midland Railway began in 1870 and that service was purchased by the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway, which abruptly ended passenger service in 1966. The Terhune House is an historic home listed on the National Register of Historic Places, located at 161 Godwin Avenue, in 1994, the Vander Plaat funeral home prepared the body of Richard Nixon for burial. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had an area of 6.607 square miles. Unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Sicomac, the climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Wyckoff has a subtropical climate
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The former station at Wyckoff for the
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway is visible to the left along with the lone active track and a rusted, unused siding
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Map highlighting Wyckoff's location within Bergen County. Inset: Bergen County's location within New Jersey.
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that the term "pop" refers to music performed by such artists as
the Rolling Stones (pictured here in a 2006 performance)
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According to several sources,
MTV helped give rise to
pop stars such as
Michael Jackson and
Madonna; and Jackson and Madonna helped make MTV.
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Power pop
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Power pop is a pop rock music subgenre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of devices such as strong melodies, clear vocals and crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum, and blues elements are largely downplayed, in the 1980s and 1990s, power pop continued as a commercially modest genre but by the mid-1990s through the 2000s, power pop was mainly in the underground. While its cultural impact has waxed and waned over the decades, Power pop is a more aggressive form of pop rock that is based on catchy, melodic hooks and energetic moods. The Small Faces are often cited as being among the progenitors of power pop, the Whos role in the creation of power pop has been cited by singer-songwriter Eric Carmen of the Raspberries, who has said, Pete Townshend coined the phrase to define what the Who did. For some reason, it didnt stick to the Who, but it did stick to these groups came out in the 70s that played kind of melodic songs with crunchy guitars. It just kind of stuck to us like glue, and that was okay with us because the Who were among our highest role models, other acts such as the Knickerbockers, the Easybeats and the Outsiders contributed iconic singles. Writer John Borack has noted, Its also quite easy to draw a line from garage rock to power pop. Although the formative influences on the genre were primarily British, the bands that developed and codified power pop in the 1970s were nearly all American. The Raspberries 1972 hit single Go All The Way is an almost perfect embodiment of the elements of power pop, the most influential group of the period may have been Big Star. The Replacements even recorded a song entitled Alex Chilton in honor of Big Stars frontman, spurred on by the emergence of punk rock and new wave, power pop enjoyed a prolific and commercially successful period in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Although coined in the 1960s, and used as early as 1973 in reference to Sweet, as the novelist Michael Chabon has written, Power pop in its essential form. Did not come into existence for a number of years after it was first identified, like so much of the greatest work turned out by popular artists of the 1970s, true power pop is quintessential second-generation stuff. The term was used in reference to critics favorites Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. Los Angeles-based Bomp. magazine championed power pop in its March 1978 issue, tying the genres roots to 1960s groups like the Who, like their punk brethren, late–1970s power pop groups favored a leaner and punchier sound than their early–1970s predecessors. Some occasionally incorporated synthesizers into their music, though not to the degree as did their new wave counterparts. Representative singles from the period include releases from the Bomp, records label by 20/20, Shoes and the Romantics. Major label groups like Cheap Trick, the Cars and Blondie merged power pop influences with other styles and achieved their first mainstream success with albums released in 1978
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Influential British rock band
the Kinks in 1965
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Alex Chilton, of
Big Star, seen in 2004
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Cheap Trick playing in 1978
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Doug Fieger of
the Knack performing
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Hollywood Records
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Hollywood Records, Inc. is an American record label of the Disney Music Group. The label focuses in pop, rock, alternative, hip hop, the label also releases Marvel Studioss soundtrack and compilation albums in conjunction with Marvel Music. At the time, the company was limited to the release of soundtracks from Touchstone, lawyer Peter Paterno was the first president of the label, until his resignation in 1993 because of the divisions lackluster sales. In 1997, Disney acquired Mammoth Records, in order to get a record label that could succeed. However, the acquisition of Mammoth was a failure and the label was closed and integrated to Hollywood in 2003. In 1998, the decided to form Buena Vista Music Group, integrating the operations of Walt Disney Records along with Hollywood, Lyric Street, Mammoth. Bob Cavallo, former manager of Earth, Wind & Fire and Prince was appointed as chairman of the group and this movement looked to organize the music operations of the company under a more integrated direction. The launch of Duffs career represents a new model for the record, utilising the synergies around the company, including important outlets like Disney Channel, Radio Disney. Duffs albums released under Hollywood proved to be successful including 2004s Hilary Duff. Their musical careers proved that the label had become a success, the label also continued to release soundtracks from films and TV shows, mainly those derived from Marvel Studios productions. In 2010, Hollywood absorbed the operations of country music label Lyric Street Records. In 2011, Queen left EMI for Universal-owned Island Records, with Hollywood continuing to remain the groups North American music distributor. In January 2012, after 14 years of a successful tenure, Bob Cavallo retired as chairman of the Group, since 2013, Hollywood Records also uses the brand name DMG Nashville to specialize in country music. The genre label was founded to provide music licensing for Bigger Picture Music Group, after Bigger Pictures closure in 2014, DMG Nashville released its first studio album, Lucy Hales Road Between. Hollywood Basic was Hollywood’s short-lived hip-hop subsidiary, run by Dave Funkenklein and it also released Shadows Legitimate Mix on the B-side of a single by the group Zimbabwe Legit in 1992. Although the BASIC Beats Sampler confirmed its release date for April 1992, other notable releases came from Organized Konfusion, its challenging second album, Stress, The Extinction Agenda, was widely acclaimed. The label was home of Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, although, following the shooting death of Charizma in 1993. This would later inspire Peanut Butter Wolf to found Stones Throw Records in order to make this music available, acts on Hollywood BASICs roster included Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, Lifers Group, Organized Konfusion, Raw Fusion, Hi-C, and Zimbabwe Legit
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Hollywood Records
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Jonas Records
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The Jonas Brothers were an American pop rock band. Formed in 2005, they gained popularity from their appearances on the Disney Channel television network and they consist of three brothers, Paul Kevin Jonas II, Joseph Adam Jonas, and Nicholas Jerry Jonas. Raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey, the Jonas Brothers moved to Little Falls, New Jersey in 2005, in the summer of 2008, they starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock and its sequel, Camp Rock 2, The Final Jam. They also starred as Kevin, Joe, and Nick Lucas, the band JONAS, in their own Disney Channel series JONAS, the show was eventually cancelled after two seasons. The band released four albums, Its About Time, Jonas Brothers, A Little Bit Longer, in 2008, the group was nominated for the Best New Artist award at the 51st Grammy Awards and won the award for Breakthrough Artist at the American Music Awards. As of May 2009, before the release of Lines, Vines and Trying Times, after a hiatus during 2010 and 2011 to pursue solo-projects, the group reconciled in 2012 to record a new album, which was cancelled following their break-up on October 29,2013. They have sold over 17 million albums worldwide, in 2005, Joe, Kevin and Nick recorded Please Be Mine, their first song recorded. Upon hearing the song, the Columbia Records president Steve Greenberg decided to sign the brothers as a group and they considered naming their group Sons of Jonas before settling on the name Jonas Brothers. While working on their studio album, the band toured throughout 2005 with artists such as Jump5, Kelly Clarkson, Jesse McCartney, the Backstreet Boys. They spent the latter portion of the year on an tour with Aly & AJ, additionally, they opened for The Veronicas in early 2006. For their first album, titled Its About Time, the band collaborated with writers, including Adam Schlesinger, Michael Mangini, Desmond Child, Billy Mann. For the album, the Jonas Brothers covered two hit songs by UK band Busted – Year 3000 and What I Go to School For, the Jonas Brothers first single, Mandy, was released on December 27,2005. Its music video was shown on MTVs Total Request Live on February 22,2006, another song, Time for Me to Fly, was released on the Aquamarine soundtrack, also in February. In March, Mandy was featured in the Nickelodeon television film Zoey 101, Spring Break-Up, the groups music was also featured on Cartoon Networks Friday night programming block Fridays. The band covered Yo Ho from Pirates of the Caribbean for the Disneymania 4 album and its About Time was finally released on August 8,2006. According to the manager, it was only a limited release of 50,000 copies. Because Sony was not interested in promoting the band, the Jonas Brothers considered switching labels. On October 3,2006, Nicks 2004 solo single, Joy to the World, was re-released on Joy to the World, the same month, the Jonas Brothers covered Poor Unfortunate Souls from The Little Mermaid
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From left to right:
Nick,
Joe and
Kevin Jonas at the
2012 MTV Europe Music Awards, November 2012
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Jonas Brothers performing in the
Kids' Inaugural: "We Are the Future" concert in 2009
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Jonas Brothers logo, 2012–2013
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Jonas Brothers
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The Jonas Brothers were an American pop rock band. Formed in 2005, they gained popularity from their appearances on the Disney Channel television network and they consist of three brothers, Paul Kevin Jonas II, Joseph Adam Jonas, and Nicholas Jerry Jonas. Raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey, the Jonas Brothers moved to Little Falls, New Jersey in 2005, in the summer of 2008, they starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock and its sequel, Camp Rock 2, The Final Jam. They also starred as Kevin, Joe, and Nick Lucas, the band JONAS, in their own Disney Channel series JONAS, the show was eventually cancelled after two seasons. The band released four albums, Its About Time, Jonas Brothers, A Little Bit Longer, in 2008, the group was nominated for the Best New Artist award at the 51st Grammy Awards and won the award for Breakthrough Artist at the American Music Awards. As of May 2009, before the release of Lines, Vines and Trying Times, after a hiatus during 2010 and 2011 to pursue solo-projects, the group reconciled in 2012 to record a new album, which was cancelled following their break-up on October 29,2013. They have sold over 17 million albums worldwide, in 2005, Joe, Kevin and Nick recorded Please Be Mine, their first song recorded. Upon hearing the song, the Columbia Records president Steve Greenberg decided to sign the brothers as a group and they considered naming their group Sons of Jonas before settling on the name Jonas Brothers. While working on their studio album, the band toured throughout 2005 with artists such as Jump5, Kelly Clarkson, Jesse McCartney, the Backstreet Boys. They spent the latter portion of the year on an tour with Aly & AJ, additionally, they opened for The Veronicas in early 2006. For their first album, titled Its About Time, the band collaborated with writers, including Adam Schlesinger, Michael Mangini, Desmond Child, Billy Mann. For the album, the Jonas Brothers covered two hit songs by UK band Busted – Year 3000 and What I Go to School For, the Jonas Brothers first single, Mandy, was released on December 27,2005. Its music video was shown on MTVs Total Request Live on February 22,2006, another song, Time for Me to Fly, was released on the Aquamarine soundtrack, also in February. In March, Mandy was featured in the Nickelodeon television film Zoey 101, Spring Break-Up, the groups music was also featured on Cartoon Networks Friday night programming block Fridays. The band covered Yo Ho from Pirates of the Caribbean for the Disneymania 4 album and its About Time was finally released on August 8,2006. According to the manager, it was only a limited release of 50,000 copies. Because Sony was not interested in promoting the band, the Jonas Brothers considered switching labels. On October 3,2006, Nicks 2004 solo single, Joy to the World, was re-released on Joy to the World, the same month, the Jonas Brothers covered Poor Unfortunate Souls from The Little Mermaid
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From left to right:
Nick,
Joe and
Kevin Jonas at the
2012 MTV Europe Music Awards, November 2012
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Jonas Brothers performing in the
Kids' Inaugural: "We Are the Future" concert in 2009
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Jonas Brothers logo, 2012–2013
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Kevin Jonas
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Paul Kevin Jonas II is an American musician and actor. He is the oldest member of the Jonas Brothers, a pop band created by the youngest brother Nick. In 2008, he appeared on People magazines list of the Sexiest Men Alive by being a member of the 21 club, on December 19,2009, he married Danielle Deleasa, whom he met in the Bahamas during the summer of 2007. Jonas and his wife starred in their own E. reality series, Married to Jonas. In early May 2014, he announced a small 5-month tour around the United States with younger brother Joe, Jonas was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, and grew up in Wyckoff. His mother, Denise Marie, is a sign language teacher and singer, and his father, Paul Kevin Jonas, Sr. is a songwriter, musician. He has three brothers, Joe, Nick, Frankie. In early 2005, Columbia Records new president, Steve Greenberg, while Greenberg did not like the album, he did like Nicks voice. After hearing the song Please Be Mine, written and performed by all the brothers, after being signed to Columbia, the brothers considered naming their group Sons of Jonas before settling on the name Jonas Brothers. Its About Time, the brothers first album, was released on August 8,2006, according to the bands manager, it was only a limited release of a little over 50,000 copies. Because Sony was not interested in promoting the band, the Jonas Brothers then considered switching labels. The band was dropped by Columbia Records in early 2007. After shortly being without a label, the Jonas Brothers signed with Hollywood Records in February 2007, around the same time, the brothers began appearing in GAP commercials for Baby Bottle Pops, singing the jingle. Their self-titled second album, Jonas Brothers, was released on August 7,2007 and it reached number five on the Billboard Hot 200 chart in its first week. The Jonas Brothers third studio album, A Little Bit Longer, was released in the United States on August 12,2008 and peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200. On June 16,2009, the fourth studio album, and third release under Hollywood Records, titled Lines, Vines. The album peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200 with 247,000 copies sold and it was announced on May 1,2012, that the Jonas Brothers parted ways with their record label Hollywood Records, and bought the rights to their music. On August 17,2007, Jonas and his brothers guest-starred in an episode of Hannah Montana, titled Me and Mr. Jonas and Mr. Jonas and Mr. Jonas
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Jonas in September 2008
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Nick Jonas
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Nicholas Jerry Nick Jonas is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. Jonas began acting in theater at the age of seven, and he released his eponymous debut album in 2004 to little success, though it did catch the attention of Columbia Records. Jonas opted to form a band with his brothers, Joe and Kevin. The group released their studio album Its About Time through Columbia Records. The record failed to achieve success, thus the group parted ways with their label. Their self-titled second studio album was released through Hollywood Records in 2007, the band became prominent figures on the Disney Channel during this time, gaining a large following through the network. The band starred in the successful film Camp Rock. The release of the third studio album, A Little Bit Longer, helped the band achieve further success. The release of their studio album saw a decline in sales for the band. Jonas and his brothers starred in the Disney Channel series JONAS in 2009 and 2010 and it was later confirmed that the Jonas Brothers would be taking a hiatus, with Nick forming a new band known as Nick Jonas & the Administration. The band released one album in 2010, though it failed to achieve much commercial success. Following the release, Jonas opted to focus on work in theater, the Jonas Brothers briefly reunited in 2013, though officially parted ways due to creative differences. Jonas decided to return to his music career following the bands disbandment. He signed with Island Records, releasing Nick Jonas through the label, the album entered the top ten of the Billboard 200, while both of the albums singles entered the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100. The project was re-released as Nick Jonas X2 in 2015, the release helped provide Jonas with a new public image, earning him the title of a sex symbol. Jonas later co-founded Safehouse Records, a label in conjunction with Island Records. Jonas released his studio album, Last Year Was Complicated. The project became his highest peaking entry as a solo artist on the Billboard 200, Jonas was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Denise and Paul Kevin Jonas
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Jonas at the premiere of Kingdom in October 2014
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Jonas performing in July 2009
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Jonas performing live as part of the Jonas Brothers in 2010.
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Jonas at the Drama League Benefit Gala in 2012
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Jonas Brothers (album)
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Jonas Brothers is the self-titled second studio album and the international debut album released by the Jonas Brothers and their first album to be released under Hollywood Records. The album was released on August 7,2007, Hold On was the albums second single, followed by SOS as the third single, and When You Look Me in the Eyes as the fourth single. The album was the first to be released using CDVU+ technology, Year 3000 was the first single from Jonas Brothers and is a cover of the Busted song. Hold On was the single from Jonas Brothers and was released on May 22,2007. It was featured in the Disney Channel Original Movie Johnny Kapahala, Back on Board, SOS was the third single from Jonas Brothers and was released on August 3,2007. S. It was their first single to chart in Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and it was their first top-twenty hit in the United States. When You Look Me in the Eyes was the fourth and final single from Jonas Brothers, released on January 25,2008 and it was a re-recording of the version that initially appeared on Nicks self-titled solo album. It marked their third performance in Australia, their second in Canada and the UK. Cross Rhythms praised the album saying, Jonas Brothers have delivered an album thats high-energy pop-punk overflowing with catchy hooks and muscular guitar licks. Bonus Jonas Edition DVD Jonas Brothers, The Bonus Jonas Edition includes a DVD containing, goodnight & Goodbye Hello Beautiful Australia Thats Just the Way We Roll Hollywood Inseparable Still in Love with You Hold On Year 3000 Music videos S. O. S. Hold On Kids of the Future Year 3000 Total running time, approximately 55 minutes Woolworths Exclusive DVD An exclusive DVD containing, Music videos S. O. S
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Bonus Jonas Edition
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Cover released in Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Australia, South America and New Zealand
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Disney Channel
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Disney Channels programming consists of original first-run television series, theatrically-released and original made-for-cable movies and select other third-party programming. Disney Channel – which formerly operated as a premium service – originally marketed its programs towards families during the 1980s, most of Disney Channels original programming is aimed at kids ages 9–16, while its Disney Junior programs are targeted at children 8 years and under. As of January 2016, Disney Channel is available to approximately 93.9 million pay television households in the United States. The Disney Sunday Movie, a version of the Walt Disney anthology television series, began on the channel in 1986 concurrent with ABCs version until 1988 and NBCs The Magical World of Disney. Disney Channel Original Movies series of made for television movies started on August 23,1997 with Northern Lights supplanting the previous Disney Channel Premiere Films banner.2 million viewers. The Cheetah Girls films were also successful in terms of merchiandise. The first film in 2003 was the first made-for-TV movie musical in Disney Channels history, and had a worldwide audience of over 84 million viewers. The second movie was the most successful of the series, bringing in 8.1 million viewers in the U. S. Disney Junior – Disney Junior is a block that features shows targeted at children aged 3–9. Which debuted on February 14,2011, it airs Monday through Fridays from 8,00 a. m. –2,00 p. m. and weekends from 6,00 to 9,00 a. m. Disney Junior carries one of the few programs on Disney Channel that feature classic Disney characters as of 2013, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Other programs currently seen in this block include Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Sheriff Callies Wild West, Sofia the First, Miles from Tomorrowland, The Lion Guard and Doc McStuffins. C. Saturdays from 8, 00-11,00 p. m. and Sundays from 7, Saturday nights feature repeats of recent episodes of the channels original series or an occasional film telecast. Encores of the respective nights programs typically air between 11,00 p. m. and 2,30 a. m, Eastern/Pacific each night during that weekend. Out of This World Weekend – a weekend of shows having space themed episodes, Weekend – a weekend of shows having mystery themed episodes. This was the first special weekend, Summer Adventure Weekend – a weekend of shows with vacation themed episodes. Flash Forward Weekend – a weekend of shows related to time travel, freaky Freakend – a weekend of shows featuring paranormal themed episodes. April Fuel Week – a week of shows featuring special episodes, Weekend – a weekend of shows featuring guest stars from other Disney Channel shows, occurs mostly in April. Programming seen during Disney Nighttime included older feature films, along with original concert specials, variety specials, mystery Night – ran each Tuesday evening starting at 9,00 p. m. Eastern/Pacific from 1990 to 1993, focused on mystery films from the 1930s to the 1960s
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Disney Channel's headquarters in
Burbank,
California as it appeared in the 2000s (the logo was later removed instead of being replaced with the 2002-era logo).
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Original logo used from April 18, 1983 to April 5, 1997; the wordmark (at bottom), based on The Walt Disney Company's 1986-2010 corporate logo, replaced a generic all-capital text logo in 1986. The "Mickey Mouse TV" served as the de facto primary logo, with the wordmark being used intermittently on-air.
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Camp Rock
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Camp Rock is a 2008 Disney Channel Original Movie starring the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato. The music is written by Julie Brown, Paul Brown, Regina Hicks, the film is directed by Matthew Diamond and produced by Alan Sacks. The film debuted on the American Disney Channel on June 20,2008, Camp Rock was filmed at YMCA Camp Wanakita in Haliburton, Ontario and Kilcoo Camp in Minden, Ontario. Mitchie Torres is a young musician who hopes to become a professional singer. Mitchie wants to go to a camp named Camp Rock. Since the family cannot afford the tuition, Mitchies mother, Connie, arranges to cater food for the camp, in return, Mitchie must help her mother out in the kitchen. Shane accidentally hears someone singing on the first day and falls in love with the voice, during Opening Jam, Mitchie learns that many of the campers have notable roots and is embarrassed that she was only able to come to the camp because of her mothers catering service. She convinces Tess Tyler, a known for her famous mother and her popularity. Tess, impressed, invites Mitchie to bunk with her group, Caitlyn warns Mitchie that becoming one of Tesss background girls will not be as she expects. When Mitchie overhears Shanes new song, she compliments him, Shane, doubtful that his record label and his fans would accept the song, begins to fall for Mitchie. In the cafeteria, Tess and Caitlyn begin to throw spaghetti at each other, Brown, the owner of the camp, breaks the fight up and Tess frames Caitlyn for the incident. Brown punishes Caitlyn by having her work in the kitchen and Mitchie, when Mitchie accidentally enters the kitchen while Caitlyn is working, Caitlyn learns about Mitchies secret. At Pajama Jam, Mitchie supports Caitlyn when Tess attempts to upstage her show, Shane spreads the word that he is searching for a girl with the voice. When Tess sees Mitchie and Shane rowing together, she becomes jealous and after finding out about Mitchies secret, Shane thinks that Mitchie deceived him just to use him and Mitchie is forced out of Tesss group. On the eve of Final Jam, Mitchie and Caitlyn are framed by Tess for stealing her charm bracelet, Final Jam arrives and everyone is ready for performances. Peggy and Ella confront Tess and leave her group, Ella performs with Barren and Sander in Hasta La Vista. After that, Tess performs 2 Stars and realizes her mom is attending, during the song, Mitchie and Caitlyn realize they can perform and run to the stage. Before the final song, Peggy performs Here I Am and reveals her name is actually Margaret Dupree, as Brown announces the final song, the spotlights turn on and he allows Mitchie to perform
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Extended Rock Star Edition DVD cover
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A Little Bit Longer
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A Little Bit Longer is the third studio album by the American pop rock band the Jonas Brothers and their second album released on Hollywood Records. It was released on August 12,2008, the album received generally favorable reviews, and four star reviews from Rolling Stone, AllMusic, and Blender. The album was preceded by three singles, Burnin Up, Lovebug and Tonight, the album was number 40 on Rolling Stones Best 50 Albums of 2008. One of the songs from the album, Video Girl was also number 49 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008. The title of the album, A Little Bit Longer, comes from their song of the same name, the album artwork was released by Team Jonas, the Jonas Brothers official fan club, to fan club members via an e-mail newsletter on June 20,2008. On August 5,2008, A Little Bit Longer was uploaded to MTVs The Leak, enabling the album to be streamed before it was released. The brothers performed their single, Lovebug at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards One of the extra tracks. Burnin Up, Burnin Up is the albums first single and was released on June 19,2008. The music video for Burnin Up premiered on Disney Channel, following the premiere of Camp Rock, Lovebug, The albums second single Lovebug was revealed at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards. It was officially released on September 30,2008, the official music video for Lovebug premiered on the Disney Channel on October 19,2008. Tonight, The albums third and final single Tonight, promotional singles Pushin Me Away was released as a promotional single. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 selling 525,402 copies in its opening week, the album also charted at #1 on the Billboard Comprehensive Albums, Top Digital Albums, Top Internet Albums, and Tastemakers charts. All 12 tracks from the standard edition CD charted on either the Billboard Hot 100, the four singles that were released on iTunes all charted on iTunes Top Songs Chart. The album is considered as the highest first week sales debut at number-one for a Hollywood Records artist in the U. S. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the remained at number-one in its second week on the Billboard 200 with about 147,000 copies sold. In its third week, it fell to four on the Billboard 200. It has sold 1.6 million copies in the U. S, Target Exclusive DVD The Target edition of A Little Bit Longer includes a DVD with the following, JB Rules Live videos from the Disney Channel Games 2008, S. O. S
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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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Lines, Vines and Trying Times
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Lines, Vines and Trying Times is the fourth and final studio album by the Jonas Brothers. It was released June 16,2009 in the US, the album received mixed reviews from critics and fans. In its first week, the album sold 247,000 copies and it is their third and last album released under Hollywood Records and their last album released before their split on October 29,2013. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Nick Jonas explained the title, Lines, Vines, on the meaning he stated, Lines are something that someone feeds you, whether its good or bad. He noted, this new album for us, I wouldn’t say it’s a big jump, but it definitely is a progression in our music and it has a lot more kinds of horns and a lot more strings. Added Joe Jonas, there’s more to the rather than just a typical kind of relationship song. In another interview, Nick Jonas explained that the album is our journal in songs, mostly about all things weve gone through and he also added that weve also been working on trying to use metaphors. to kind of mask a literal thing that happens to us. Musical influences for this album include Elvis Costello, The Zutons, Coldplay, the Jonas Brothers were promoting the album on their 2009 world tour which began on May 18,2009 in Lima, Peru. The track Fly with Me was featured during the end credits of Night at the Museum, theyve hosted three live web chats via Facebook to promote the album. The brothers performed songs off the album for a Wal-Mart Soundcheck concert which was released on June 9,2009 and they performed on Good Morning America on June 12,2009 as part of GMAs Summer Concert Series. Radio Disney premiered all the songs from the album over a period of four days between June 11 and June 14, the entire album premiered on June 16,2009. On June 21,2009, they co-hosted and performed at the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards, the Jonas Brothers appeared on various television programs to promote the album which included, Live with Regis & Kelly, Late Show with David Letterman, Good Morning America, Jimmy Kimmel Live. Larry King Live, The Today Show, Ellen and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, on August 9,2009, they hosted the 2009 Teen Choice Awards along with performing Much Better. Reviews for the album were mixed, both critics and fans saying that it was premature. According to review aggregator Metacritic, the album has received mixed or average reviews, greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune claimed, The rush to maturity is, well, premature, and added that the strings and horns only bog things down. The New York Daily News criticized World War III, saying, Paranoid was released as the albums lead single on May 12,2009. Hollywood Records confirmed on April 29,2009 that the track Paranoid would be the official single. On May 7,2009 the song debuted on Radio Disney and it was released as an official radio single on May 8,2009 and as a digital download on May 12
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Jonas (TV series)
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Jonas, also known as Jonas L. A. is a Disney Channel Original Series created by Michael Curtis and Roger S. H. Schulman, starring the Jonas Brothers. The pilot was filmed in September 2008, the series premiered on Disney Channel on May 2,2009, and became available on demand starting on April 25,2009. Jonas is the first Disney Channel Original Series since Phil of the Future not to be shot on videotape in a multi-camera format, be filmed before a live studio audience or use a laugh track. The series was the first on the network to premiere on a Saturday night, on November 9,2009, it was announced that Jonas was being picked up for a second season. The second season premiered on June 20,2010 and ended on October 3,2010, in November 2010, Disney Channel announced the series was cancelled after two seasons. The original concept for the TV series was about the band playing concerts as a cover while working as government secret agents to save the world and was entitled J. O. N. A. S. At the same time, they tried to hide their double lives from their mother, meanwhile, Stella, ignorant of the Jonas double lives, dated each of the famous brothers without informing the others and reported the details in her teen magazine column. Said Staub, So pretty much the show, its all of us lying to each other, and kind of everything backfiring. She described the concept as, like The Monkees and a little of bit of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, theres going to be fun action sequences and still be a sitcom. Pilot was shot in 2007, but the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike impeded progress, however, Disney Channel Asia aired it during the Sneak Peak 2008. A few weeks later on June 20,2008, the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock, in which the brothers starred as the fictional, non-fraternal band Connect 3, the Jonas Brothers also released Jonas Brothers, The 3D Concert Experience, a Disney Digital 3-D concert film. After this rush of releases, the Jonas Brothers became too popular to imagine them as anything but more dramatic versions of themselves, the spy concept was very big and very ambitious and it started to not feel quite right. “It is now about us being a band and balancing a normal life, the title of the series changed from J. O. N. A. S. to JONAS, dropping the acronym but remaining in all capitals. Producers have drawn connections between Jonas and productions by earlier bands, show creator and producer Roger S. H. as very much a template for the series. Producers and critics have compared the series to The Monkees. The Chicago Sun-Times remarks that Joe Jonas parallels goofy Micky Dolenz, Kevin Jonas quirky Michael Nesmith, the Jonas Brothers reportedly watched episodes of The Partridge Family and The Monkees for literally three days straight for inspiration. Joseph Joe Lucas – Joe is known as the teen heartthrob of the group and he performs lead vocals, as well as keyboards and the rhythm guitar for the brothers band, JONAS. Girl crazy and flirtatious, Joe will go to any length to get a girl to like him and he is shown to be the most superficial and appearance oriented member of the band, and is obsessed with his hair
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Cast of Jonas L.A.
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Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
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Camp Rock 2, The Final Jam is a 2010 Disney Channel Original Movie and the sequel to the 2008 film Camp Rock. The film premiered on Disney Channel on September 3,2010, a year after the events of the previous film, Mitchie Torres returns to Camp Rock, along with her friends and her boyfriend Shane Gray. On the way to Camp Rock, she and her mother Connie notice that a new camp, Camp Star, has opened across the lake, Mitchie and her friends also notice that there are fewer campers than last year, and attempt to lift everyones spirits at Opening Jam. Mitchie and the rest of the campers arrive at Camp Star, the bonfire starts and Luke from Camp Star performs with several backup dancers. As the song ends, Dana Turners bracelet flies from her hand, Nate returns it after the bonfire and the two instantly feel a connection. Axel then offers the Camp Rock counselors jobs at Camp Star, doubling their salary, very few campers switch, including Tess, but many counselors move to Camp Star. Left with no staff, Brown decides to close Camp Rock, but Mitchie persuades everyone to not give up, although things are tough at first, Mitchie and the rest of the counselors settle into their roles, and become determined to save the camp. They revisit Camp Star, and the two face off. However, Brown is angry, and tells Connie that he thinks that the competition is a trap in order for Axel to get back at him. Overhearing their conversation, Mitchie pours herself into making sure that they win the competition, which frustrates Shane, the next day, Mitchie wakes up to find everyone rehearsing for the competition, thanks to Shane. He and his brothers motivate everyone to work harder, Mitchie and Shane then spend the day together, but Nate has trouble trying to tell Dana how he feels. He decides to sing instead and goes to Camp Star to serenade her, gaining her affection, before being caught by Axel, later that night, Jason and the junior campers sneak into Camp Star, and spy on Luke and Tess performing. The night of the competition arrives, and Camp Star deliver a slick, stylish performance, all the members of Camp Rock then perform together, accompanied by a video montage of their summer, but Camp Star ends up winning the competition. NOTE, The films extended edition features two performances that were not shown in Disney Channels original airing of the film, first, before Lukes performance at the bonfire, Axel asks for volunteers to start the bonfire, and Mitchie and her friends perform Different Summers. Also, when Jason and the junior campers sneak into Camp Star, Tess and Lukes full performance of Walkin in My Shoes is shown, the film was received 40% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, higher than the predecessors. Some critics said that the film is the version of High School Musical. However, Jennifer Armstrong from Entertainment Weekly enjoyed the film and the performance of Demi Lovato, said. The film garnered 7.9 million viewers on its premiere night, however, it became the most watched cable television of the week, as well as the number 1 scripted cable television
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US Extended Edition DVD cover
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Fastlife
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Fastlife is the debut studio album by American recording artist Joe Jonas. The album was first released in the Netherlands on October 7,2011 through Hollywood Records, Fastlife serves as Jonas first album outside of his band Jonas Brothers, which announced an indefinite hiatus one year prior to its release. Jonas hoped to create a mature and electric sound for the album. To achieve this goal, Jonas worked with a range of producers such as Danja and Chris Brown. Fastlife lyrically speaks of such as love, sex. Jonas received co-writer credits for seven songs on the album, Fastlife received a generally mixed reception from music critics, with the records production and lyrical themes receiving praise. Along with the mixed reviews, the project failed to achieve the commercial success Jonas had seen with his band. Fastlife sold a total of 18,000 copies in its first week of release, the album quickly fell off the chart, going on to sell 45,000 copies in the United States by 2015. The album fared similarly worldwide, reaching the end of various charts. Following the release of Fastlife, both Jonas and his band parted ways with Hollywood Records, purchasing the rights to their musical releases, the album is Jonas first to include a Parental Advisory sticker. The album was preceded by the release of two singles, See No More was released as the lead single from the project in June 2011. The song failed to have success, only reaching number ninety-two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Just in Love was released as the second single in September. The song was remixed to feature rapper Lil Wayne, which was released in October 2011, Love Slayer was released as a promotional single for the album, reaching the top ten of the Dance Club Songs chart. Jonas promoted the album through live performances and interviews. Joe Jonas first rose to fame as a member of the pop-rock band Jonas Brothers, the group signed with Hollywood Records in 2007, and released their multi-platinum second studio album that same year. The band became a teen sensation, having a large teenage fan-base, the brothers participated in many projects with the Disney Channel, including a number of television shows and television films. Jonas had his first solo release with the song This Is Me alongside Demi Lovato, the duet entered the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 chart and sold over 900,000 copies in the United States alone
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See No More
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See No More is a song by American singer Joe Jonas. The song was released on June 13,2011, as the first single from his debut album, the mid-tempo pop and R&B song contains usage of synths, has prominent pop rock characteristics and lyrically explains a bad relationship. Most critics complimented See No More as a start to a solo career. Jonas co-wrote the song with American R&B singer Chris Brown, who provides backing vocals through the songs chorus. It sounds like a sad song, but it carries a cool beat to it, the song came together last year one day when Joe was working in the studio with Chris Brown. Kennedy stopped by the studio, and Brown asked him what new beats he’d had stored on his laptop, Kennedy whipped out the “See No More” track, which he’d built from scratch while working in Nashville. Jonas and Brown went for it instantly, “It was just electric, ” Jonas told E. When asked Kennedy to sum up Joe’s connection with “See No More, ”, he told us and it has this confident kind of vibe that’s perfect for him — a guy coming into a man. He’s actually coming into that new sound, it’s natural and he struggles with moving on, crooning “All I keep seeing is your picture / I don’t wanna see no more. ”We’ve all been there and can relate. Joe sings over scattered beeps, cinematic strings and a raspy R&B drumbeat - neatly side-stepping the feather-light pop-rock sound synonymous with his siblings. The first taste of solo album Fast Life may lack depth. Amy Sciarretto from Pop Crunch rated it four out of five stars, Sciarretto also praised the song more mature R&B sound, while saying that he is showing off his chops. Jamie Peck wrote for MTV Buzzworthy that its a more mature sound than we are used to hearing from him or any of the Jonases. This R&B-inflected track expresses Joes frustration at having to wait for his beloved to catch up with him, See No More was nominated under the title Choice Music, Break-up Song in the 2011 Teen Choice Awards. The official music video for the song premiered on June 29,2011 on E. News, in the video, he is looking upset over the betrayal he faces at the hands of his object of affection. Joe walks the earth, braves the elements and moves on from a broken heart, the See No More video begins with a shot of a depressed Joe. Amidst a broken dishes on the floor, Joe skulks about in his empty house, the only remaining piece of furniture is a lone chair, which later supports Joe, as he stops to take a seat and look out the window while presumably fantasizing about happier times. Suddenly, the one who broke his heart is swirling outside in the dark in front of Joes house wearing a lavender frock
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Joe Jonas in the music video for 'See No More'.
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Just in Love
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Just in Love is a song performed by the American singer Joe Jonas. The song was released on September 13,2011 by Hollywood Records, as the second and final single from his debut album, the song was written by Jonas and James Fauntleroy and produced by Rob Knox, taken from his debut solo album Fastlife. The song garnered mixed reception from music critics, the song was written by Joe Jonas and James Fauntleroy, with production by Rob Knox. Just in Love is a Latin-tinged dance track with a beat behind a synthy sound. In the song, Joe professes his love for a girl who may not be clear about his intentions. On the chorus, he sings, Just running from the truth/ That Im scared of losing you/ You are worth too much to lose/ Baby, even if youre still confused/ Girl Im just in love with you. Jonas explained the origin, telling Ryan Seacrest, This is a song I wrote when I was going through a relationship with somebody. She arguing with me, and all I could do was say ‘Listen, I love you, scott Shetler from Pop Crunch rated it 4.5 out of five stars and says that a seductive song that impresses in just about every way. The track has a lot of energy, with guitars and synths accentuating a powerful beat, the official music video for the song premiered on September 12,2011 on E. News. It was directed by Jaci Judelson, however, all good things must come to an end and Joe leaves his French lady love behind. The video closes out with Joe looking back as he walks away in the dark of the night. VH1 says of Joe’s new vid, it’s a smart play, as he toes the line of ‘adult’ representation regarding sex, and for our money, it works. MTV adds, the retro-tinged, very sexy clip is set in Paris, the two run around in their designer duds, making out in cafés, catching the metro, driving around in cars, hanging out in a bathtub and kissing in bed. The Improper makes this quip about Jonas and his gal pal, no purity rings are in sight as Joe climbs into the tub with her, the Huffington Post notes, Paris has always been the city of transformations. It was true for Audrey Hepburn, it was true for Ernest Hemingway and now the city of light can be proud of initiating another young soul, on October 3,2011, the official remix was released on On Air with Ryan Seacrest. It featured a new verse from rapper Lil Wayne, replacing the second verse, the song was made available on iTunes on October 4,2011. The remix is featured on the Fastlife CD, however, it is censored at two spots during Lil Waynes rap
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Joe Jonas in the music video for 'Just in Love'.
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Assemblies of God
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As an international fellowship, the member denominations are entirely independent and autonomous, however, they are united by shared beliefs and history. The Assemblies originated from the Pentecostal revival of the early 20th century and this revival led to the founding of the Assemblies of God in the United States in 1914. Through foreign missionary work and establishing relationships with other Pentecostal churches and it was not until 1988, however, that the world fellowship was formed. As a Pentecostal fellowship, the Assemblies of God believes in the Pentecostal distinctive of baptism with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues, the World Assemblies of God Fellowship is structured as a loose alliance of independent national and regional Pentecostal denominations. The AG is Trinitarian and holds the Bible as divinely inspired, baptism by immersion is practiced as an ordinance instituted by Christ for those who have been saved. Baptism is understood as an sign of an inward change. As an ordinance, Communion is also practiced, the Assemblies of God also places a strong emphasis on the fulfillment of the Great Commission and believes that this is the calling of the church. As classical Pentecostals, the Assemblies of God believes all Christians are entitled to, the AG teaches that this experience is distinct from and subsequent to the experience of salvation. The baptism in the Holy Spirit empowers the believer for Christian life, the initial evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. In addition, it believes in the present day use of other spiritual gifts. The Assemblies of God USA, for example, adheres to the Statement of Fundamental Truths, the Assemblies of God has its roots in the Pentecostal revival of the early 20th century. The Pentecostal aspects of the revival were not generally welcomed by established churches and these people sought out their own places of worship and founded hundreds of distinctly Pentecostal congregations. By 1914, many ministers and laymen began to realize just how far-reaching the spread of the revival. Concerned leaders felt the desire to protect and preserve the results of the revival by uniting through cooperative fellowship, a remaining fellowship emerged from the meeting and was incorporated under the name General Council of the Assemblies of God in the United States of America. In 1919, Pentecostals in Canada united to form the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada which formally affiliated with the Assemblies of God USA the next year. The Assemblies of God in Great Britain was formed in 1924 and would have an influence on the Assemblies of God in Australia. The Australian Assemblies of God was formed in 1937 by a merger of the Pentecostal Church of Australia, the Queensland AG had formed in 1929, though, it was never formally affiliated with the AG in America. The Assemblies of God of South Africa was founded in 1925, prior to 1967, the Assemblies of God, along with the majority of other Pentecostal denominations, officially opposed Christian participation in war and considered itself a peace church
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An AG church in
Fiji, conveniently located to serve passengers entering the country via
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Samoan Assemblies of God church in the village of Lotopa,
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Frankie Jonas
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Frankie Jonas is an American actor who was a voice actor in the film Ponyo and a recurring character in the television series Jonas. Frankie is the son of Denise and Paul Kevin Jonas Sr. Jonas is sometimes referred to as the Bonus Jonas and Biff. He is of Italian, German, Cherokee, English, Irish, Scottish, in 2009, Jonas voice acted in Hayao Miyazakis animated film Ponyo, released in American theaters on August 14,2009. He played Sōsuke, a character who is befriended by a fish named Ponyo. They also both sing the song of the movie. He appeared as a character in the Disney Channel Original Series. His first on-screen movie role was in Camp Rock 2, The Final Jam and he also appeared in the E. reality show, Married to Jonas, following Kevin Jonas and his wife Danielle in their married life, including the comeback of the Jonas Brothers in late 2013. Frankie Jonas at the Internet Movie Database
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Frankie Jonas at his brothers'
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Baz Luhrmann
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His 2008 film Australia is an epic historical romantic drama film starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. His 2013 drama The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel of the name, stars Leonardo DiCaprio. His mother, Barbara Carmel, was a dance teacher and dress shop owner, and his father, Leonard Luhrmann, ran a petrol station. He was raised in Herons Creek, a rural settlement in northern New South Wales. Luhrmann received the nickname Baz from his father Leonard and he officially changed his given name from Mark to Baz sometime around 1979. In 1983, he commenced a course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. He graduated in 1985 alongside Sonia Todd, Catherine McClements and Justin Monjo, on 26 January 1997, he married Catherine Martin, a production designer, the couple have two children. Luhrmann supports the Melbourne Demons in the Australian Football League, Australia The Great Gatsby The modern film interpretation Romeo + Juliet, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, defeated Titanic at the BAFTAs for best direction, music and screenplay. The film was celebrated at the Berlin Film Festival, where it was recognised with the Gold Bear award for direction, Luhrmann also produced the soundtrack albums for the film. Was named one of the AFIs top ten films of 2001, the film also gave birth to a successful soundtrack album, selling more than seven million copies, led by the Grammy-winning number one hit single Lady Marmalade. Luhrmanns 2008 romantic epic Australia starred Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman and it is the second-highest grossing Australian film of all time, next to Crocodile Dundee and ahead of Happy Feet. In 2016, Luhrmann collaborated with award-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis on the Netflix series The Get Down about the birth of hip-hop in the 1970s. 1981, A young Luhrmann can be seen in an acting role in the film Winter of Our Dreams. Luhrmann has a part playing opposite Judy Davis. 1992, Luhrmann directed a video for John Paul Youngs Love Is in the Air,1993, Luhrmann staged his interpretation of Benjamin Brittens version of A Midsummer Nights Dream, set in colonial India, for the Australian Opera. After successful seasons in Sydney and Melbourne, the production went on to win the Critics Prize at the Edinburgh Festival, music extracts can be heard on his album Something for Everybody. 1993, Luhrmann assisted in the campaign of former Australian prime minister Paul Keating. 1997, The CD of Something for Everybody was released, featuring music from Luhrmanns films, moreover, Luhrmann created his own company with his wife Catherine Martin, Bazmark
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Luhrmann at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
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Columbia Records
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Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. the United States division of Sony Corporation. It was founded in 1887, evolving from an enterprise named the American Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the sound business. Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of singers, instrumentalists. It is one of Sony Musics three flagship record labels alongside RCA Records and Epic Records, rather, as above, it was connected to CBS, a broadcasting media company which had purchased the company in 1938, and had been co-founded in 1927 by Columbia Records itself. Though Arista Records was sold to Bertelsmann Music Group, it would become a sister label of Columbia Records through its mutual connection to Sony Music. The Columbia Phonograph Company was founded in 1887 by stenographer, lawyer and New Jersey native Edward Easton and it derived its name from the District of Columbia, where it was headquartered. At first it had a monopoly on sales and service of Edison phonographs and phonograph cylinders in Washington. As was the custom of some of the regional companies, Columbia produced many commercial cylinder recordings of its own. Columbias ties to Edison and the North American Phonograph Company were severed in 1894 with the North American Phonograph Companys breakup, thereafter it sold only records and phonographs of its own manufacture. In 1902, Columbia introduced the XP record, a brown wax record. According to Gracyk, the molded brown waxes may have sold to Sears for distribution. Columbia began selling records and phonographs in addition to the cylinder system in 1901, preceded only by their Toy Graphophone of 1899. For a decade, Columbia competed with both the Edison Phonograph Company cylinders and the Victor Talking Machine Company disc records as one of the top three names in American recorded sound. In order to add prestige to its catalog of artists. The firm also introduced the internal-horn Grafonola to compete with the extremely popular Victrola sold by the rival Victor Talking Machine Company, during this era, Columbia used the famous Magic Notes logo—a pair of sixteenth notes in a circle—both in the United States and overseas. Columbia was split into two companies, one to make records and one to make players, Columbia Phonograph was moved to Connecticut, and Ed Easton went with it. Eventually it was renamed the Dictaphone Corporation, in late 1923, Columbia went into receivership
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Original home of Columbia in Washington, D.C., in 1889
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A Columbia type AT cylinder
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This article is about the American record label active worldwide except in Japan. For the Columbia label which was a unit of EMI, see
Columbia Graphophone Company. For the Columbia label in Japan, see
Nippon Columbia.
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Steve Greenberg (record producer)
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Steve Greenberg is an American record producer currently heading the S-Curve Records label. He also manages the pop band AJR and he is noted for discovering popular musical acts such as Hanson, Baha Men, Jonas Brothers, Joss Stone and AJR. He received a 2000 Grammy Award in the Best Dance Recording category as a producer of Who Let the Dogs Out. by Baha Men, in 2005-2006 he was President of Columbia Records, where he produced the debut album by Jonas Brothers. Together with Betty Wright and Michael Mangini, he produced Joss Stones The Soul Sessions and Mind Body & Soul albums and this same production troika produced the 2009 debut album by Diane Birch, Bible Belt. Greenberg also co-produced with Wright and Mangini two tracks on Tom Joness 2008 album 24 Hours and he was co-Executive Producer of Betty Wright, The Movie by Betty Wright and The Roots, which was nominated for a 2011 Grammy in the Best Traditional R&B Performance category. In 2012, he co-produced and executive produced Joss Stones The Soul Sessions, Vol. II, the Soul Sessions, Vol. II reached the Top 10 on both the U. S. and U. K album charts. He co-produced Care Bears On Fires single Everybody Else with S*A*M, in 2013, he produced several tracks on Diane Birchs Speak a Little Louder album. He also traveled to Jerusalem to co-produce, with Steve Earle and he appears in the documentary film on the making of East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem. That year, he began managing the band AJR whose debut single Im Ready, was certified Platinum in the U. S. He has co-written songs for Joss Stone, Jonas Brothers, Boyzone, Baha Men, in 2014, he published his first book, called How the Beatles Went Viral In 64, about the Beatles rise to U. S stardom. The book was excerpted as a story in Billboard magazine in January,2014. In the early 1980s, he was a DJ on the Voice of Peace radio station off the coast of Israel and was a correspondent for Israel Radio. He holds an M. A. in Applied Communication Research from Stanford University, mendelsohn, Jennifer Young, Rich and Hanson, USA Weekend, August 22-24,1997 retrieved December 4
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Steve Greenberg (center) speaks at
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Jump5
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Jump5 was an American dance-pop/contemporary Christian music group from 1999-2007. The group was made up of five youths from Nashville, Brandon and Brittany Hargest, Chris Fedun, Lesley Moore, the group was nationally acclaimed, with several songs on Radio Disney, and toured with musicians such as Aaron Carter, Baha Men and ZOEgirl. After Libby Hodges left in 2004, Natasha Noack joined the group on a temporary basis, in December 2007, the group separated. The band released five studio albums and two Christmas albums, in addition to numerous compilations, remixes, and singles. Their top charting single on the US Christian table was Wonderful in 2004, siblings Brandon Hargest and Brittany Hargest had competed on the same dance team as Lesley Moore, and were familiar with Chris Fedun and Libby Hodges through the competitive dance circuit. The mother of Hodges held a casting call to find additional members to form a new pop group with her daughter. The group was known as Jump Start, but the name was changed to Jump5 due to trademark conflicts. Norman Miller, the groups manager, went to see the group perform. Jump5 released their debut album on August 14,2001. The album was re-released twice, first with a bonus track. Over the following two years released three more albums, All the Time in the World, a Christmas album, All the Joy in the World. They toured with Aaron Carter, Play, A-Teens, Baha Men, ZOEgirl, No Secrets, Nobodys Angel, Dream Street, ATC, Youngstown, and Radio Disney Live, and had a string of popular hits on Radio Disney. In January 2004, Hodges decided to leave the group as she wanted to take a deep breath, in April, the group released the remix album Mix It Up. That quarter, Natasha Noack joined the group and she participated in the Radio Disney Spring Thing Tour, and took part in recording a cover of the J. Geils Bands Freeze Frame for the Sleepover soundtrack. In June, it was revealed that Noack was only in the group on a trial basis, on September 21,2004, the group released Dreaming in Color, their first release as a quartet. In 2005, a new album with the working title of Radio The World was set to be released. Instead, a greatest hits album titled The Very Best of Jump5 was released on March 15,2005. The group subsequently parted ways with Sparrow Records and released their album, Rock This Christmas, independently
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Jump5 poses before their final concert, at a special VIP meet-and-greet.
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Kelly Clarkson
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Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to fame in 2002 after winning the first season of American Idol, Clarksons debut single, A Moment Like This, topped the Billboard Hot 100 and became the best-selling single of 2002 in the U. S. It was followed with her studio album, Thankful, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Trying to reinvent her own image, Clarkson decided to part ways with American Idol management and developed a pop sound for her second album. It sold over 15 million copies worldwide and earned Clarkson two Grammy Awards and she took further creative control for her third album, My December, by becoming the executive producer and co-writing the entire material. However, it caused feud with her label, that was dissatisfied with her darker, less commercial rock music, Clarkson returned to the top of the charts with her more mainstream-oriented fourth album, All I Ever Wanted. Its lead single, My Life Would Suck Without You, holds the record for the biggest jump to one on the Billboard Hot 100. She scored another Hot 100 number-one single with Stronger from her studio album. Clarkson also became the first act to win the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album twice. Her sixth studio album and first Christmas record, Wrapped in Red, ended up as the holiday album of the year. Her seventh and final album under RCA, Piece by Piece, was her album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. Its title track became her eleventh single on the Hot 100. She signed with Atlantic Records in 2016 and has prepared a soul-influenced album for a 2017 release, Clarkson has sold over 70 million records worldwide and scored a total of 100 number ones on the Billboard charts. Her accolades include three Grammy Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards, four American Music Awards, and two Academy of Country Music Awards. Often called one of the best vocalists in the industry, Clarkson is known for her powerhouse voice and she became the first artist in history to top each of Billboards pop, adult contemporary, country and dance charts. She was ranked nineteenth on VH1s list of 100 Greatest Women in Music, Clarkson has also ventured into television and film, as well as writing childrens book. Clarkson was born in Fort Worth, Texas, to Jeanne Ann, a first-grade English teacher, and Stephen Michael Clarkson and she is the youngest of three children with a brother named Jason and a sister named Alyssa. Clarkson also has two half brothers from her fathers second marriage
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Clarkson at the
57th Presidential Inauguration, January 21, 2013
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Clarkson performed at the
Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2002, following her win on American Idol
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Clarkson performing during her Hazel Eyes concert tour on November 15, 2005,
Canberra, Australia
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Clarkson and
Reba McEntire performing during the
2 Worlds 2 Voices Tour
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Jesse McCartney
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Jesse McCartney is an American actor, singer and songwriter. McCartney achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama All My Children as JR Chandler and he later joined boy band Dream Street, and eventually branched out into a solo musical career. Additionally, McCartney has appeared on such as Law & Order, SVU, Summerland. McCartney was born on April 9,1987, in Ardsley, Westchester, New York, the son of Ginger and Scott McCartney. He began performing in local community musicals at the age of seven, before joining the tour of The King. There he played the character of Louis, in 1998, he sang with the group Sugar Beats and can be heard on their 1998,1999, and 2000 CD releases. In 1999, McCartney joined the American pop boy band Dream Street and he has described the experience as a good stepping stone for his solo career. The group earned a record with their debut CD. McCartney released his first solo EP in July 2003, the album featured three songs, Beautiful Soul, Dont You, Why Dont You Kiss Her. In 2004, he performed a duet with Anne Hathaway, Dont Go Breaking My Heart, which is featured on the Ella Enchanted soundtrack. McCartneys debut solo album, Beautiful Soul, which was two years in the making, was released on September 28,2004, in the United States and he categorized it as a pop record with twists of urban. The album featured four songs that he co-wrote, Beautiful Soul reached number 15 on the Billboard 200. By mid-2006, the album had more than 1.5 million copies. The albums lead single of the same reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. McCartney was one of the artists to win awards at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, including Choice Crossover Artist, Choice Male Artist and Choice Breakout. The following year, he won Favorite Male Singer at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and his first headlining tour, also named Beautiful Soul, began on May 2,2005 at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento, California. The United States portion of the tour spanned 56 stops, ending on September 10,2005 at the Madera District County Fair in Madera, in the fall of 2005, McCartney toured Australia, and opened for the Backstreet Boys in Europe in the summer of 2005. His July 9 performance at Californias Great America in Santa Clara, California was recorded, released as Live, after the filming of Keith wrapped, McCartney began working on his second album, Right Where You Want Me, co-writing all but one of the songs featured in it
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McCartney performing live at The Citadel Outlets' 12th Annual Tree Lighting Concert in Commerce CA on November 9th, 2013.
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McCartney at a
Bryant Park performance, June 23, 2005
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McCartney performing in
Metairie, Louisiana on February 15, 2009
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McCartney at the 2010
Tribeca Film Festival.
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Backstreet Boys
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The Backstreet Boys are an American vocal group, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993. The group consists of AJ McLean, Howie D, Nick Carter, Kevin Richardson, and Brian Littrell. The group rose to fame with their international album, Backstreet Boys. In the following year released their second international album Backstreets Back. They rose to superstardom with their studio album Millennium and its follow-up album. After a two-year hiatus, they regrouped and released a comeback album Never Gone, after the conclusion of the Never Gone Tour in 2006, Richardson left the group to pursue other interests. The group then released two albums as a quartet, Unbreakable and This Is Us, in 2012, the group announced that Richardson had rejoined them permanently. In the following year they celebrated their 20th anniversary and released their first independent album, the group also released their first documentary movie, titled Backstreet Boys, Show Em What Youre Made Of in January 2015. The Backstreet Boys have sold over 130 million records worldwide, making them the boy band in history. They are the first group since Sade to have their first nine albums reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200, and they also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 22,2013. Howie Dorough and AJ McLean were natives of Orlando, Florida, the three, realizing that they could harmonize together, decided to form a trio. Cousins Kevin Richardson and Brian Littrell, both from Lexington, Kentucky, sang in church choirs and festivals when they were children. Richardson moved to Orlando in 1990, where he worked at Walt Disney World, eventually, he met Dorough, Carter, and McLean through a co-worker, and the four decided to form a group. In the course of all this, Lou Pearlman in 1992 placed an ad in the Orlando Sentinel to compose a vocal group, McLean, who was the first to audition for Pearlman in his living room, became the groups first member. In January 1993, Pearlman held a casting call and hundreds of young performers auditioned at his blimp hangar in Kissimmee. Eventually, Carter, Dorough, and Richardson were selected after meeting Pearlmans expectations, Littrell flew from Kentucky to Orlando to formally join the group on April 20,1993, a day after receiving a phone call from Richardson about it. Thus, April 20 became their anniversary date, Pearlman decided to call them Backstreet Boys, after Orlandos Backstreet Market, an outdoor flea market near International Drive which was also a teen hangout. The Backstreet Boys had their very first performance at SeaWorld Orlando on May 8,1993, the group then continued to perform in various venues during summer 1993, from shopping malls, restaurants, to a high-profile charity gala in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Backstreet Boys, September 14, 2012. L to R: Nick Carter, Kevin Richardson, Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough and A.J. McLean
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Backstreet Boys at KISS FM Jingle Bell Bash 8.
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Backstreet Boys performing without Richardson on Unbreakable Tour.
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The Click Five
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The Click Five was an American rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. The original members, most of students at Berklee College of Music, started on January 1,2004. They then quickly got the attention of talent scout Wayne Sharp, the Click Five made their first recording, a two-song demo session, in early 2004 after successful local touring. They released their debut album Greetings from Imrie House in 2005, after vocalist Eric Dill left the group, he was replaced by Kyle Patrick who debuted on their second album Modern Minds and Pastimes in 2007. Their third album, TCV, was released in Asia in 2010 and they prefer to classify their music as new school power pop. However, they have also classified as pop punk and teen pop. They achieved significant commercial success with their first album in the US and their second release met with popularity in Asian countries such as Cambodia. In total, the band has two million albums worldwide and have created eight number one singles in seven different nations. The band starred in the 2007 film Taking Five with Alona Tal and Daniella Monet, Ben Romans studied songwriting, Ethan Mentzer studied production and engineering, and Joey Zehr double majored in production/engineering and business at the Berklee College of Music. Roommates and close-friends Mentzer and Zehr moved to a place on Imrie Road in the neighborhood of Allston when they were both sophomores, Calling their place Imrie House, they met with Romans and Joe Guese and formed a kind of pseudo-fraternity. The four played in local bands, none of which had any success. However, they drew the attention of Wayne Sharp, a talent agent who had mostly worked in jazz although he had also worked with the mid-1980s power pop group Candy. Early iterations of the band also included studio musician Jude Jones until Dills departure in 2007. Romans went to work for a company in Nashville. Jeff Dorenfeld, former manager of the band Boston, saw Guese and Mentzer performing in May 2003, Sharp liked their playing, but he had a low regard for their songs and their appearance. The first words Sharp ever said to them were This isnt going to work unless you listen to me, the four soon took in Eric Dill, a high-school friend of Zehr from when they both lived in Indianapolis. They were all in their very early-20s, according to Zehr, the group would play several shows a week that were booked under different band names to get around local clubs rules preventing artists from playing that close to each other. Their playing then got the attention of Mike Denneen, Boston-based producer of Fountains of Wayne, Denneen also introduced them to Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley, who was strongly supportive
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Click Five photographed in studio in late 2005
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The band performing for
MTV EXIT, photographed in December 2008
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Click Five interviewed in April 2006, wearing their then-trademark outfits
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Click Five poses at a May 2008 press conference
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Mandy (Jonas Brothers song)
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Its About Time is the debut studio album from the Jonas Brothers. It was released on August 8,2006 on Columbia Records, the album was successful in the Christian genre and was released in Christian bookstores through INO Records. Later an amended version of the album was released through Daylight Records with three songs removed and replaced by three others, a DualDisc of this version of the album was also released. The album is out of print, so copies of it are rare and expensive. One of the songs on the album, Time for Me to Fly, was featured in the film Aquamarine in 2006, after Columbia Records dropped the group from their roster list, they signed with Hollywood. Hollywood received the rights to distribute the single Year 3000 which was released on the groups first Hollywood Records album. The album also managed to sell 67,000 copies in the US, in August 2012, the Jonas Brothers announced the vinyl re-release of the album exclusively in the 2012 gift for premium members of Team Jonas along with a digital download with each vinyl album. The songs What I Go to School For and Year 3000 are covers originally by English pop rock band Busted, Mandy was released on December 27,2005 as the first single from the album. Year 3000 was released on March 16,2006 as the single from the album. On November 5,2005, Jonas Brothers began their first promo tour in support of the album and their second tour, Jonas Brothers American Club Tour, promoted abstinence from illegal drugs. The tour consisted of gigs in clubs, and with small crowds, the tour started on January 28,2006 and ended on March 3,2006 with a total of 28 shows. On August 2012, news broke out from the Jonas Brothers about the vinyl edition re-release of Its About Time exclusively for Team Jonas members. The vinyl re-release of the album was available as an exclusive gift for renewing or new premium members of Team Jonas upon payment in 2012. The vinyl album includes a digital download of the album. Select copies were autographed by the brothers and mailed out randomly along with one of three Jonas Brothers turntables by Crossley Turntables, like the CD release, copies of the vinyl re-release are also rare to find as well as expensive if sold on eBay. The song was released on December 27,2005, as the first single from their studio album. The song is written about a friend named Mandy and featured on Zoey 101, Music Mix, the soundtrack for the show, Zoey 101, Mandy was filmed into three music videos, all directed by Ondi Timoner. Episode 1, Filmed at Pasadena High School in Pasadena, California, the school bell rings and everyone leaves
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It's About Time
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Sony
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Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation that is headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo. Its diversified business includes consumer and professional electronics, gaming, entertainment, the company is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic products for the consumer and professional markets. Sony was ranked 116th on the 2015 list of Fortune Global 500 and these make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. The group consists of Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Financial Holdings and others. Sony is among the Semiconductor sales leaders by year and as of 2013, the companys current slogan is BE MOVED. Their former slogans were make. believe, like. no. other, Sony has a weak tie to the SMFG keiretsu, the successor to the Mitsui keiretsu. Sony began in the wake of World War II, in 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in a department store building in Tokyo. The company had $530 in capital and a total of eight employees, in the following year he was joined by his colleague, Akio Morita, and they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo 東京通信工業. The company built Japans first tape recorder, called the Type-G, in 1958 the company changed its name to Sony. When Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was looking for a name to use to market themselves, they strongly considered using their initials. The primary reason they did not is that the railway company Tokyo Kyuko was known as TTK, the company occasionally used the acronym Totsuko in Japan, but during his visit to the United States, Morita discovered that Americans had trouble pronouncing that name. Another early name that was tried out for a while was Tokyo Teletech until Akio Morita discovered that there was an American company already using Teletech as a brand name, the name Sony was chosen for the brand as a mix of two words. One was the Latin word sonus, which is the root of sonic and sound, and the other was sonny, a common slang term used in 1950s America to call a boy. In the 1950s Japan sonny boys, was a word into Japanese which connoted smart and presentable young men. The first Sony-branded product, the TR-55 transistor radio, appeared in 1955, at the time of the change, it was extremely unusual for a Japanese company to use Roman letters to spell its name instead of writing it in kanji. The move was not without opposition, TTKs principal bank at the time and they pushed for a name such as Sony Electronic Industries, or Sony Teletech. Akio Morita was firm, however, as he did not want the company tied to any particular industry. Eventually, both Ibuka and Mitsui Banks chairman gave their approval, according to Schiffer, Sonys TR-63 radio cracked open the U. S. market and launched the new industry of consumer microelectronics
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Sony Headquarters at
Sony City in
Minato, Tokyo
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Sony Store in
Markville Shopping Centre in 2014
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Sony at
Westfield Riccarton shopping centre in
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Sony Pictures Plaza, next to the main studio lot of
Sony Pictures Entertainment in
Culver City
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Year 3000
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Year 3000 is a song performed by English pop punk band Busted. It was released as the single from their debut studio album Busted. The song was written by Busted members Ryan Knapton, James Bourne, Matt Willis and Charlie Simpson, along with Steve Robson and Graham Jay. The song makes references to the Back to the Future trilogy, including lines about the flux capacitor, Year 3000 reached number two on the UK Singles Chart and became the 34th biggest seller of the year with 165,000 units. The single was also a success in Europe, reaching two on the Irish Singles Chart, while reaching the Top 10 in Belgium and the Netherlands. Year 3000 was written by Busted, Graham Jay and Steve Robson and it was inspired by James Bournes obsession with Back to the Future, hence the references to the flux capacitor and the fact that the time machine mentioned is like the one in a film Ive seen. Year 3000 debuted at two on the UK Singles Chart, one place higher than previous single What I Go to School For. It was kept off one by Stop Living the Lie by Fame Academy winner David Sneddon. The music video for the song begins with Matt Willis playing a game called Stay Alive. When he loses, the video zooms out to view the playing the songs intro in a bedroom. After Charlie Simpson starts singing, they hear a sound outside. They get in the car and Peter takes them to the future, the song continues as they go through a time vortex, and arrive in the year 3000. They see lots of changes, such as aliens, flying cars. They also see three triple-breasted women, one of whom throws her bra at them and the three fight over it. As the song continues, Busted look at a billboard and see very much older. James and Matt react embarrassed with their future selves, but Charlie nods in appreciation, at the songs bridge, Busted come across a concert hall with a sign saying Busted, Live Tonight. They sneak in, lock their older selves inside a room and jump onto the stage. At the closing of the song, the setting switches back and forth from the concert to the bedroom from the videos intro, also, the line Everybody bought our seventh album, it had outsold Michael Jackson is changed to it had outsold Kelly Clarkson
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"Year 3000"
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CD 2 cover
Year 3000
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Hannah Montana
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Hannah Montana, also known as Hannah Montana Forever in its fourth and final season, is an American musical comedy television series created by Michael Poryes, Rich Correll, and Barry OBrien. It focuses on Miley Stewart, who is a teenager living a life as an average schoolgirl by day. The story follows the life of Stewart, her brother. The soundtrack albums Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana 2, Meet Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana 3, in 2007, the success of the series led to the Best of Both Worlds Tour, which visited North America. The following year, it was adapted into the 3D film Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus, Best of Both Worlds Concert and its accompanying soundtrack. In 2009, the first feature film of the series, titled Hannah Montana, The Movie was released to commercial success, all seasons of the show have been distributed on DVD. The series received favorable reviews from critics, and has been recognized as a guilty pleasure by several media outlets. The shows instant success is credited with the launch of Cyruss career and her establishment as a teen idol. However, as she continued to develop an increasingly provocative image as the series progressed, in its series premiere, Hannah Montana who is first introduced as Miley Stewart, lives a double life as an average schoolgirl by day and a famous recording artist Hannah Montana by night. Mileys best friend Lilly Truscott discovered her secret while attending a Hannah Montana concert, later in the first season, Miley herself revealed her secret to their close friend Oliver Oken with the intention of ending his romantic interest in Hannah Montana. Lilly and Oliver assumed the aliases Lola Luftnagle and Mike Standley III when appearing with Hannah in order to protect Mileys secret, meanwhile, Jackson is employed at Ricos Surf Shop, where his child-aged boss Rico Suave often assigns him to complete embarrassing tasks. Miley, Lilly, and Oliver begin high school in the second season, Rico, who begins high school after skipping several grades, nearly discovers Mileys secret on several occasions. Later in the season, Miley admits to Jake Ryan, whom she disliked and later dated in the first season. However, their rekindled relationship ends after he struggles to adopt a normal, non-celebrity lifestyle. Meanwhile, Jackson continues to find himself in conflict with Rico, while Miley is off shooting a movie, Lilly and Oliver begin dating in the third season. Though Miley initially feels uncomfortable with the dynamic of their friendship. Miley herself begins dating Jake again, but develops feelings for her band mate Jesse, Jackson moves into his own apartment while attending college, while Lilly moves in with the Stewart family after her mother finds work in Atlanta, Georgia. In the two-part season finale, Robby buys a ranch in Malibu to bring Mileys horse Blue Jeans from Tennessee, while Jackson leaves his apartment, Oliver also embarks on a tour with the band that lived above Jacksons former apartment
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Miley Cyrus (pictured) served as the series' central focus during its four-season run.
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Hannah Montana
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Lilly Truscott (Emily Osment, left) and Oliver Oken (Mitchel Musso, right) portrayed Stewart's best friends throughout the series.
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Miley Cyrus
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Miley Ray Cyrus is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her father Billy Ray Cyrus also starred in the show and she released her second album Breakout and launched her film career as a voice actress in the animated film Bolt in 2008. Cyrus starred in the feature film Hannah Montana, The Movie, in 2010, she released her third album Cant Be Tamed, which stands as the lowest-selling record of her career, and starred in the coming-of-age film The Last Song. Cyrus focused on her career with several television and film appearances in 2011 and 2012. Her sexually explicit behavior generated widespread controversy while promoting her fourth album Bangerz, Cyrus independently-released fifth studio album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz deviated from her traditional pop style for more psychedelic experimentation. In 2016, she was a coach for the season of the singing competition series The Voice. With Bangerz, Cyrus achieved her third album on the U. S. Billboard 200. She has logged seven top 10 entries on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 with, See You Again,7 Things, The Climb, Cant Be Tamed, We Cant Stop and the chart-topping Wrecking Ball. Cyrus has earned awards and nominations, as Billboard ranked her as the fourth best-selling female artist of 2009. She was ranked number thirteen on Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2010 and she has been included on the Time 100 list of most influential people in 2008 and 2014. Destiny Hope Cyrus was born November 23,1992, in Franklin, Tennessee, to Leticia Jean Tish Cyrus, Cyrus was born with supraventricular tachycardia, a condition which causes an abnormal resting heart rate. She changed her name to Miley Ray Cyrus, her middle name honors her grandfather, against the advice of her fathers record company, Cyruss parents secretly married on December 28,1993, a year after her birth. They had two children together, son Braison and daughter Noah. From previous relationships, her mother has two children, Trace and Brandi, while her father has a son named Christopher. Cyrus godmother is entertainer Dolly Parton, Cyrus grew up on a 500-acre farm in Franklin, and attended Heritage Elementary School. While working on Hannah Montana, she enrolled at Options for Youth Charter Schools, raised a Christian, she was baptized in a Southern Baptist church before moving to Hollywood in 2005. She attended church regularly while growing up and wore a purity ring, in 2001, when Cyrus was eight, she and her family moved to Toronto, Canada while her father filmed the television series Doc. After Billy Ray took her to see a 2001 Mirvish production of Mamma Mia. at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Cyrus grabbed his arm and told him, This is what I want to do and she began taking singing and acting classes at the Armstrong Acting Studio in Toronto
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Cyrus performing at the 93.3 FLZ Jingle Ball, December 2013
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Cyrus in 2007
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Cyrus performing on the
Best of Both Worlds Tour
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Cyrus at the
2008 MTV Video Music Awards
36.
S.O.S (Jonas Brothers song)
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S. O. S is a song by American pop band Jonas Brothers. The song was released as the second single from Jonas Brothers, their second studio album. It was also their debut single in Europe in May 2008, in an interview with Elvis Costello, Nick said that S. O. S was one of the songs that came to him in the middle of the night. He wrote the song in ten minutes. In August 2007, S. O. S debuted at number 65 on the Billboard Hot 100, in the week following its debut, the song rose to number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the bands first single to reach the top 20. The single sold well digitally, having peaked at number four on Billboards Hot Digital Songs chart for two consecutive weeks in September 2007. It has sold 1.5 million copies in the US, in Australia, S. O. S debuted inside the top 50 at number 48 on the ARIA Charts on April 13,2008. It has thus far peaked at number 47, on January 3,2008, the single gained a dramatic rise from number 85 to number 40 increasing album sales in the past few weeks. The video was premiered on Disney Channel Asia on February 13,2008. S. O. S premiered on the German charts for the week of June 17,2008 and it was the number 38 song in Germany. In the UK, S. O. S was a success, entering the UK Singles Chart at number 16. However, despite large amounts of airplay, it fell 11 places to number 24 the following week. In the fourth week on the UK Singles Chart, the single dropped another eight places to number 32, the song sold 2,000,000 copies worldwide becoming one of the best-selling songs of 2007. The song was used as the B-side to When You Look Me in the Eyes. The video was filmed in June 2007 on the RMS Queen Mary a superliner believed by some to be haunted, located in Long Beach and it premiered in early August on the Disney Channel. It also features a cameo by Moises Arias, the Jonas Brothers have said that the boat was kind of creepy and that they liked to try to scare each other while aboard it. The song is about having troubled relationships with girlfriends, in the video, Moises Arias appears and waves to Joes ex-girlfriend. He then joins her and they walk off, the band and crew said the ship was peaceful and calm during the day shots, but when it came time for the performance shots at night, things got eerie
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"S.O.S"
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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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The Billboard logo
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The Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009 was the sixth concert tour and third headlining tour by the Jonas Brothers. It began on May 18,2009 in Lima, Peru and ended on December 13,2009 in San Juan, the Jonas Brothers played on multiple continents around the world. Honor Society served as an act, with Jordin Sparks as a special guest. The tour coincided with the release of their studio album Lines, Vines. The tour won the Eventful Fans Choice Award at the 2009 Billboard Touring Awards and became the 6th highest selling tour in 2009 after The Circus Tour, Tour, the Sticky & Sweet Tour, the U2 360° Tour and the Wonder World Tour. The stage was set up as an in-the-round at the center of the venue measuring 144-feet-wide to allow for better audience viewing and it was designed similar to Britney Spears Circus Tour. The tour used this stage for all of its legs except for the Caribbean and the South America legs of the tour, demi Lovato supported them in Europe and also in all their Latin America tour dates. British girl group Girls Cant Catch performed in United Kingdom tour dates, the Wonder Girls, a South Korean girl group, joined the Jonas Brothers in various North American tour dates. Although, on July 1, it was announced that the Jonas Brothers, also new pop singer Jessie James was added as a guest on tour. She served as a host for the concerts in June introducing each act and she performed in all of the shows in June,2009. She however did not perform at the Portland, Oregon concert, Jordin Sparks did not appear at the San Antonio or Nashville shows because of throat problems, which couldnt let her sing. She did not appear at the New Orleans show because she was attending her boyfriends funeral
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This Is Me (Demi Lovato song)
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This Is Me, is a song by Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas from the Disney Channel original movie Camp Rock and was featured on the films soundtrack as the fourth and final single. It premiered on Radio Disney on June 6,2008 and was released by Walt Disney Records onto the iTunes Store on June 17,2008, a live version is also included on Jonas Brothers, The 3D Concert Experience. The single has sold 901,000 digital copies to date, the song was written, produced and mixed by Adam Watts and Andy Dodd. This Is Me is the first song that Demi Lovatos character, Mitchie Torres, sang in Camp Rock with Joe Jonass character, Shane Gray. Mitchie wrote the song in the beginning of the film, and was heard, but not seen, by Shane. After most people performed already in the Final Jam session, Mitchie sang the song and Shane saw her and sang part of the song he wrote, the two songs are combined to make the original version, as featured on the Camp Rock soundtrack CD. Lovato performed the song for the first time with the Jonas Brothers, Lovato also performed with Beaker from The Muppets in Studio DC, Almost Live
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Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
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Jonas Brothers, The 3D Concert Experience is a 2009 concert film released in Disney Digital 3-D and RealD 3D. It was released in the United States and Canada on February 27,2009 with the release in other later on. The film stars the American Pop trio Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas, also known as the Jonas Brothers, the film intercuts to concert performances off their self-titled second studio album and third studio album, filmed during their tour on July 13–14,2008 in Anaheim. Performing alongside the Jonas Brothers are guest stars Demi Lovato on This Is Me, Taylor Swift on Shouldve Said No, live to Party Burnin Up Tonight Shelf The films soundtrack was released on February 24,2009, three days before the films release. It debuted at number #3 on the Billboard 200, the film received mostly negative reviews from critics, it holds a 25% Rotten rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 68 critics reviews. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 45 out of 100 based on 14 reviews, in general, critics panned the film for lacking appeal to any people outside the groups fan base. The film was nominated for a Teen Choice Award in 2009 for Choice Movie, Music/Dance and Choice Music Album, the film was also nominated for two Razzie Awards including Worst Screen Couple for the Jonas Brothers but they ended up winning Worst Actor. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 30,2009, in the US, the Blu-ray edition of the film includes the anagyph 3D version, with both one and two-disc DVD editions including only the 2D version of the film. However, for the UK and Australia DVD releases, Disney chose to release the film with the 3D version on DVD, as there was no Blu-ray release in either country
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American Idol (season 9)
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The ninth season of American Idol premiered on January 12,2010 and concluded on May 26,2010 on Fox. Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi returned to the judging panel, ellen DeGeneres joined the panel as a replacement for Paula Abdul after guest judges filled in during the auditions. Idol Gives Back also returned for the season and was held on April 21,2010, the top 24 semi-finals format used in the fourth through seventh seasons also returned this season. Cowell, DioGuardi and DeGeneres all left the show after this season ended and this was the second season where neither of the final 2 contestants had been in the bottom 2 or 3 prior to the finale, with the first being the seventh season. This was also the third season a male contestant had won. Lee DeWyze, a rocker from Mount Prospect, Illinois won the competition. Eight contestants from this season were signed to record labels, the signed artists are Lee DeWyze, Crystal Bowersox, Casey James, Michael Lynche, Siobhan Magnus, Tim Urban, Didi Benami, and Lacey Brown. After the season began, Paula Abdul did not return to the judging panel, having announced in the beginning of August 2009 that she was leaving the show due to unresolved contract negotiations. Victoria Beckham, Mary J. Blige, Shania Twain, Katy Perry, Avril Lavigne, Joe Jonas, Neil Patrick Harris, there was no guest judge on day two of the Orlando auditions because day one guest judge Chenoweth was called back to New York City. Therefore, Simon Cowell, Kara DioGuardi and Randy Jackson appeared with three judges on the audition panel similar to the main panel from the first to the seventh season. In addition, Simon Cowell announced shortly before the season began that it would be his last season on American Idol. Cowell left the show to begin preparations for an American version of his talent show The X-Factor, also, DeGeneres announced on July 29,2010 that she would not return to the judging panel because it was not the right fit for her. DioGuardi would also not return as a judge for the season as announced on September 3,2010. After her departure, DioGuardi helped and nominated Steven Tyler for a role as a judge on season ten to shows producers, auditions had begun on June 14 of the previous year, less than a month after previous seasons finale. Auditions were held in the cities, During this stage guest judges filled in the fourth judging seat. Beckham was the first guest judge, appearing for the Denver, Blige served as a guest judge for the Atlanta auditions. Jonas filled the guest judging role on the first day of the Dallas auditions, Chenoweth served as a guest judge on the first day of the Orlando auditions and Twain judged in Chicago. Perry judged on the first day of the Los Angeles and was replaced by Lavigne the following day, during the Atlanta auditions, 62-year-old activist Larry Platt appeared and performed his original song Pants on the Ground
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American Idol
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It began airing on Fox on June 11,2002, and ended on April 7,2016. It started off as an addition to the Idols format based on the British series Pop Idol, the concept of the series involves discovering recording stars from unsigned singing talents, with the winner determined by the viewers in America through telephones, Internet, and SMS text voting. American Idol employed a panel of judges who critiqued the contestants performances, the original judges were record producer and music manager Randy Jackson, pop singer and choreographer Paula Abdul and music executive and manager Simon Cowell. The judging panel for the final consisted of country singer Keith Urban, singer and actress Jennifer Lopez. The first season was hosted by radio personality Ryan Seacrest and comedian Brian Dunkleman, the success of American Idol has been described as unparalleled in broadcasting history. The series was said by a rival TV executive to be the most impactful show in the history of television. It became a springboard for launching the career of many artists as bona fide stars. The series concluded after 15 seasons, American Idol was based on the British show Pop Idol created by Simon Fuller, which was in turn inspired by the New Zealand television singing competition Popstars. Television producer Nigel Lythgoe saw a version in Australia and helped bring it over to Britain, Fuller was inspired by the idea from Popstars of employing a panel of judges to select singers in audition. He then added elements, such as telephone voting by the viewing public. The show debuted in Britain in 2001 with Lythgoe as showrunner—the executive producer and production leader—and Simon Cowell as one of the judges, it was quite successful with the viewing public. In 2001, Fuller, Cowell, and TV producer Simon Jones attempted to sell the Pop Idol format to the United States, but the idea was initially met with poor responses from the Fox television network. However, Rupert Murdoch, head of Foxs parent company, was persuaded to buy the series by his daughter, Elisabeth. The show was renamed American Idol, The Search for a Superstar, Cowell was initially offered the job as showrunner but later turned down the offer, Lythgoe then took over that position. Much to Cowells surprise, it one of the biggest shows of the summer. The show grew into a phenomenon largely due to its personal engagement of the contestants, thereby prompting viewers to vote, by 2004, it had become the most-watched show on U. S. television, a position it then held for seven consecutive seasons. However, after a few years of declining ratings, the network announced that the fifteenth season would be its last. A fourth judge, radio DJ Stryker, was originally chosen, the show decided to continue with the three judges format until season eight
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Vampire Weekend
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Vampire Weekend is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 2006. They are currently signed to XL Recordings, the band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Ezra Koenig, drummer and percussionist Chris Tomson and bassist and backing vocalist Chris Baio. Their following album, Contra, was acclaimed and garnered strong commercial success. Their third studio album, Modern Vampires of the City, won the group a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2014, the band members met while enrolled at Columbia University, beginning with a rap collaboration between Koenig and Tomson named LHomme Run. They bonded over a love of punk rock and African music. Koenig toured with The Dirty Projectors during a period of experimentation with African music, the band chose the name Vampire Weekend from the title of a short film project Koenig worked on during the summer between freshman and sophomore years in college. Koenig abandoned the project after two days, the band began playing shows around Columbia University, starting with a battle of the bands at Lerner Hall in 2006. After graduating from college, the band self-produced their debut album while simultaneously working full-time jobs, Tomson as a music archivist, in 2007, Vampire Weekends song Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa was ranked 67th on Rolling Stones list of the 100 Best Songs of the Year. In November 2007, they toured the UK with The Shins and they were declared The Years Best New Band by Spin magazine in the March 2008 issue, and were the first band to be shot for the cover of the magazine before releasing their debut album. Four songs from the bands first album made the Triple J Hottest 100,2008. The internet hype had its backlash, however, as critics reacted against a perceived image of Vampire Weekend as privileged, upper-class Ivy League graduates stealing from foreign musicians. One critic went so far as to call Vampire Weekend the whitest band in the world, to which they took exception, Koenig responded in a November 2009 interview by saying, Nobody in our band is a WASP. The bands first album Vampire Weekend was released January 29,2008, a success in the US and UK, it peaked at number 15 on the UK Albums Chart and number 17 on the Billboard 200. Four singles were released from the album, while A-Punk peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Modern rock chart and number 55 on the UK Singles Chart, A-Punk was ranked the 4th on Rolling Stones Readers Rock List, Best Songs of 2008. A-Punk was also used to open the Will Ferrell/John C, reilly feature Step Brothers, and featured in the UK television show The Inbetweeners and the video games Guitar Hero 5, Just Dance 2 and Lego Rock Band. The bands second album, Contra, was released on January 11,2010 in the UK, the albums first single, Horchata, was released on October 5,2009. The albums second single, Cousins, was released as a single on November 17,2009, initial copies of the CD and LP sold at independent records stores in the US include a 3-track bonus CD containing two melts, which featured bits of album tracks and a remix. Contra was the bands first album to debut at No.1 on the Billboard 200, on January 9,2010, the band did an acoustic show for MTV Unplugged
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Jake Gyllenhaal
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Jacob Benjamin Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor. He subsequently appeared in indie film, The Good Girl. In 2005, Gyllenhaal portrayed Anthony Swoff Swofford in Jarhead, Gwyneth Paltrows love interest in Proof, Gyllenhaal was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of film producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner and film director Stephen Gyllenhaal. Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, his sister, appeared with him in the film Donnie Darko. Gyllenhaals father, who was raised as a Swedenborgian, is of Swedish and English descent, jakes last ancestor to be born in Sweden was his great-great-grandfather, Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal. Jakes mother is Jewish, she was born in New York City, to a family from Russia, Gyllenhaal has said that he considers himself Jewish. His parents insisted that he have summer jobs to support himself and he worked as a lifeguard. Gyllenhaal said his parents encouraged artistic expression, I do have parents who supported me in certain ways. In other ways, they were lacking, definitely, its in expression and creativity where my family has always been best at. As a child, Gyllenhaal was regularly exposed to filmmaking due to his familys ties to the industry. He made his debut as Billy Crystals son in the 1991 comedy film City Slickers. His parents did not allow him to appear in the 1992 film The Mighty Ducks because it would have required his leaving home for two months, in subsequent years, his parents allowed him to audition for roles but regularly forbade him to take them if he were chosen. He was allowed to appear in his fathers films several times, Gyllenhaal appeared in the 1993 film A Dangerous Woman, in Bop Gun, a 1994 episode of Homicide, Life on the Street, and in the 1998 comedy Homegrown. Along with their mother, Jake and Maggie appeared in two episodes of Molto Mario, an Italian cooking show on the Food Network. Prior to his year in high school, the only other film not directed by his father, in which Gyllenhaal was allowed to perform, was the 1993 film Josh. Gyllenhaal dropped out two years to concentrate on acting but has expressed intentions to eventually finish his degree. The film earned $32 million and was described in the Sacramento News, Donnie Darko, Gyllenhaals second film, was not a box office success upon its initial 2001 release but eventually became a cult favorite. After the critical success of Donnie Darko, Gyllenhaals next role was as Pilot Kelston in 2002s Highway alongside Jared Leto and his performance was described by one critic as silly, cliched and straight to video
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Lil Jon
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Jonathan Smith, better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American record producer, rapper, songwriter, entrepreneur, DJ and actor from Atlanta, Georgia. He was the frontman of the group Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz, which he formed in 1997, after going solo, he released a new album in 2010 titled Crunk Rock. He was featured on Celebrity Apprentice during its 11th and 13th seasons, born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Smith graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta. After working as a DJ for Atlanta night clubs, he worked for So So Def Recordings between 1993 and 2000, Smith took the stage name Lil Jon and formed musical group Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, with rappers Big Sam and Lil Bo. The group signed to the Atlanta-based Mirror Image Records and were distributed by Ichiban Records, in 1997, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz debuted with Get Crunk, Who U Wit, Da Album. It included singles Who U Wit. and Shawty Freak a Lil Sumthin, both singles charted on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at No.70 and No. In 2000, Jon started up his own label, BME Recordings and he released his breakthrough album titled We Still Crunk. Among the tracks on that project was the hit single I Like Those Girls, Lil Jon was talked about as the new guy by street team people in the markets where he was attracting his biggest audiences – namely Atlanta, St. Louis, Memphis and Dallas. Bryan Leach, A&R at TVT, went to one of Lil Jons Atlanta shows and was blown away by its immense energy. Leach told HitQuarters, It was like early Beastie Boys, when they had the energy of a group but they were rapping. Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz signed to TVT Records in 2001 and debuted there with Put Yo Hood Up, the groups first nationally played single was Bia Bia, which featured rappers Ludacris, Too Short, Big Kapp, and Chyna Whyte. Bia Bia peaked at No.97 on the Billboard Hot 100, in 2002, the group released Kings of Crunk. I Dont Give A. was its first single, it featured Mystikal and Krayzie Bone and peaked at No.50 on the R&B chart. What U Gon Do peaked at No.22 on the Hot 100, No.13 on the R&B chart, Lil Jon has also produced many hit urban singles. From 2003 to 2005, while still with The East Side Boyz, Lil Jon produced hits such as Salt Shaker by Ying Yang Twins, Yeah. By Usher, Freek-a-Leek by Petey Pablo, Shorty Wanna Ride by Young Buck, Shake That Monkey by Too Short, Girlfight by Brooke Valentine, during that same year he produced a song called Go to Church for Ice Cube. In 2006, Lil Jon severed his negotiation with record label TVT and he vowed never to record for TVT Records again, alleging that TVT owner Steve Gottlieb was shortchanging him. He also began recording a music album, Crunk Rock
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RZA
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Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, better known by his stage name RZA, is an American rapper, record producer, musician, actor, filmmaker and author. A prominent figure in hip hop, RZA is the de facto leader of the Wu-Tang Clan and he has produced almost all of Wu-Tang Clans albums as well as many Wu-Tang solo and affiliate projects. He is a cousin of the late group-mate Ol Dirty Bastard and he has also released solo albums under the alter-ego Bobby Digital, along with executive producing credits for side projects. In addition to the Wu-Tang Clan and his releases, RZA was also a founding member of the horrorcore group Gravediggaz where he used the name The RZArector. Furthermore, he has acted in movies, including Coffee and Cigarettes, American Gangster, Gospel Hill, Life Is Hot in Cracktown, Ghost Dog, Funny People, Derailed, Due Date. He also appeared in the Showtime TV series Californication and his directorial debut is for the film he co-wrote and in which he plays the title role, The Man with the Iron Fists, also starring Russell Crowe. The magazine The Source placed him on its list of the 20 greatest producers in the magazines twenty-year history and he also made the Elite 8 in the search for The Greatest Hip-Hop Producer of All Time by Vibe. NME placed him on their list of the 50 Greatest Producers Ever, RZA was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn. He lived in North Carolina with his uncle from age three to seven, who encouraged him to read and study, RZA was introduced to hip hop music at the age of nine, and by eleven, was competing in rap battles. He relocated to Steubenville, Ohio in 1990, to live with his mother and he spent weekends in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his father ran a convenience store in the citys Hill District. RZA got involved with petty crime and drug-dealing, and was charged with attempted murder while in Steubenville and he was acquitted of the charge, giving him what he stated was a second chance. He is named after Robert Kennedy and John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his mother greatly admired the Kennedys, the RZA has called his given name an honorable name, given the legacy of both brothers Robert and John. Robert Diggs formed a rap group with his cousins Russell Jones and they enjoyed local success but never signed a record deal. Diggs later debuted on Tommy Boy Records in 1991 as a solo artist under the name Prince Rakeem, after a shoot-out in Ohio in 1992, he faced eight years in jail. When they said not guilty, my face stuck in a smile for three days, he recalled, I was just walking around town, thinking about my daughter and my wife. Right then I said goodbye to anything that would put me in that situation again, I was up on trial on an attempted murder charge. I was a fool, with all that knowledge in my head. Diggs formed a new group with his cousins and five other childhood friends and this group would be named Wu-Tang Clan, releasing their debut album Enter the Wu-Tang,36 Chambers in 1993
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RZA in New York City to discuss
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RZA performing with Wu-Tang at the Virgin Music Festival.
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Hot In Cleveland
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Hot in Cleveland is an American sitcom on TV Land starring Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Betty White. The series, which was TV Lands first original scripted series, premiered on June 16,2010, the series was picked up for ten episodes. On May 1,2014, TV Land renewed Hot in Cleveland for a sixth season, the series ran for 128 episodes, with the hour-long final episode airing on June 3,2015. The concept behind the show is based on an idea by Lynda Obst. The series was recorded in front of a studio audience at CBSs Studio Center in Studio City. The series centers on three aging entertainment industry veterans from Los Angeles, Melanie, Joy, and Victoria. The three women find a more welcoming and less shallow and youth-obsessed community in Cleveland, Ohio and they decide to stay and lease a home where a sassy caretaker Elka still lives in the guest house. Valerie Bertinelli as Melanie Hope Moretti, a writer and mother of college-age kids Will, depressed by her divorce, she boards a plane to Paris in the pilot episode to find love. However, when the plane makes a landing in Cleveland, Melanie loves the city. Melanie discovers she is pregnant at the end of season 4 with Alecs baby, however, it out that she has a brain tumor. Jane Leeves as Rejoyla Joy Scroggs, a beautician, known as the Eyebrow Queen of Beverly Hills. Joys mother, who lives in England, is critical of her. She had a son, Owen, when she was 15, in the first season finale, Joy receives a message from her son, but a tornado prevents her from contacting him. Her son finally comes to visit her in Season 2, with disastrous results, at the end of season 3 a baby is left on the womens doorstep. This baby is revealed in season 4 as Joys grandson Wilbur, at the end of season 4, Joys Baby-Daddy Simon shows up and wants to get back together. Joy eventually marries her boss, Bob, in the series finale. With the show recently canceled, Victoria laments that her career opportunities are playing Megan Foxs grandmother and Melanie Griffiths mother. She has also appeared in numerous Lifetime movies, the titles of which she brings up throughout the series and her jobs in Cleveland have included high school drama teacher and reporter for Oh Hi, Ohio, a local news magazine program
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Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick, Jane Leeves, and Betty White in August 2012
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Valerie Bertinelli
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Valerie Anne Bertinelli is an American actress. Bertinelli was born in Wilmington, Delaware, to Nancy and Andrew Bertinelli and her father is of Italian descent and her mother is of English descent. She has three brothers, David, Patrick and Drew and she had an elder brother, Mark, who died at 17 months from an accidental poisoning before Valerie was born. Because of the career, the family frequently moved. She attended Granada Hills High School, the show debuted in late 1975. For the shows first season, Bertinelli was 15 years old, Bertinelli appeared in 208 out of the 209 episodes before the show left the airwaves on May 28,1984. They talked about actors who had left the show as well as Phillips drug problem, after One Day at a Time, Bertinelli continued to act. In 2001, she joined the cast of Touched by an Angel, opposite Roma Downey and Della Reese, Bertinelli, who had some struggles with being overweight, lost a total of 50 lb as of March 2009, and became a spokesperson for the Jenny Craig weight-loss program. She appeared in several Jenny Craig commercials, although Bertinelli is compensated for her Jenny Craig appearances, she considers herself a health and weight-loss activist rather than a hired weight-loss spokesperson. In 2008 she released the autobiography, Losing It, And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time, in 2009 she wrote a follow-up book Finding It, And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge. On March 4,2010, Bertinelli appeared as guest co-host on ABCs The View in the absence of Whoopi Goldberg, as of 2010 she stars in the TV Land series Hot in Cleveland, a situation comedy which debuted in June 2010. The shows second season aired in January 2011, and in February 2011 it was renewed for a third season, after a successful, six-season run, the final episode aired on June 3,2015. Bertinelli is also the host of the hit show Kids Baking Championship on Food Network, the show follows young children as they bake pastries and other desserts. Bertinelli hosts alongside Duff Goldman, punny cake artist, and the show is currently in its third season, on August 22,2012, Bertinelli received the 2, 476th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bertinelli married Eddie Van Halen on April 11,1981 and they divorced on Dec.20,2007. In May 2010, Bertinelli announced her engagement to financial planner Tom Vitale and they were married on January 1,2011, in Malibu, California. She wore a dress made especially for her by the designer David Meister, Bertinelli ran in the April 2010 Boston Marathon to benefit the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute there, completing it in a time of 5,14,37. In 2014 she appeared on Who Do You Think You Are. commercials Production companies Tuxedo Limited Bertinelli, Inc
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Bertinelli receiving a star on the
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Funk
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Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid- 1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues. Like much of African-inspired music, funk typically consists of a groove with rhythm instruments playing interlocking grooves. Funk uses the same richly-colored extended chords found in jazz, such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths. Other musical groups, including Sly and the Family Stone and Parliament-Funkadelic, soon began to adopt, Funk samples have been used extensively in genres including hip hop, house music, and drum and bass. It is also the influence of go-go, a subgenre associated with funk. The word funk initially referred to a strong odor and it is originally derived from Latin fumigare via Old French fungiere and, in this sense, it was first documented in English in 1620. In 1784 funky meaning musty was first documented, which, in turn, in early jam sessions, musicians would encourage one another to get down by telling one another, Now, put some stank on it. At least as early as 1907, jazz songs carried titles such as Funky, as late as the 1950s and early 1960s, when funk and funky were used increasingly in the context of jazz music, the terms still were considered indelicate and inappropriate for use in polite company. According to one source, New Orleans-born drummer Earl Palmer was the first to use the word funky to explain to other musicians that their music should be made more syncopated, the style later evolved into a rather hard-driving, insistent rhythm, implying a more carnal quality. This early form of the set the pattern for later musicians. The music was identified as slow, sexy, loose, riff-oriented, a great deal of funk is rhythmically based on a two-celled onbeat/offbeat structure, which originated in sub-Saharan African music traditions. New Orleans appropriated the bifurcated structure from the Afro-Cuban mambo and conga in the late 1940s, New Orleans funk, as it was called, gained international acclaim largely because James Browns rhythm section used it to great effect. Funk creates an intense groove by using strong guitar riffs and bass lines, like Motown recordings, funk songs used bass lines as the centerpiece of songs. Slap basss mixture of thumb-slapped low notes and finger popped high notes allowed the bass to have a rhythmic role. In funk bands, guitarists typically play in a style, often using the wah-wah sound effect. Guitarist Ernie Isley of The Isley Brothers and Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic were notably influenced by Jimi Hendrixs improvised solos, Eddie Hazel, who worked with George Clinton, is one of the most notable guitar soloists in funk. Ernie Isley was tutored at an age by Jimi Hendrix himself. Jimmy Nolen and Phelps Collins are famous funk rhythm guitarists who both worked with James Brown, on Browns Give It Up or Turnit a Loose, Jimmy Nolens guitar part has a bare bones tonal structure
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Simple kick and snare funk motif. The kick first sounds two onbeats, which are then answered by two offbeats. The snare sounds the backbeat.
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James Brown, one of the founding fathers of funk
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Justin Timberlake
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Justin Randall Timberlake is an American singer-songwriter, actor and record producer. Born and raised in Tennessee, he appeared on the television shows Star Search, in the late 1990s, Timberlake rose to prominence as one of the two lead vocalists and youngest member of NSYNC, which eventually became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. With his first two albums exceeding sales of 10 million copies worldwide, he was established as one of the most commercially successful singers of the decade, furthermore, he produced records and collaborated with other artists. For his live performances, including the concert tour for the albums, he began performing with his band The Tennessee Kids, composed by instrumentalists. Timberlake voiced the character in DreamWorks Animations Trolls, which soundtrack includes his fifth Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping single. Among numerous awards and accolades, Timberlake has won ten Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2007 and 2013. His other ventures include record label Tennman Records, fashion label William Rast, Timberlake was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Lynn Harless and Charles Randall Timberlake, a Baptist church choir director. Timberlake grew up in Shelby Forest, a community between Memphis and Millington. He has two half-brothers, Jonathan and Stephen, from Charles second marriage to Lisa Perry and his half-sister Laura Katherine died shortly after birth on May 12,1997, and is mentioned in his acknowledgments in the album NSYNC as My Angel in Heaven. He was inspired to become a performer by Janet Jackson, saying She didnt just stand there and sing her song, fascinated by her energy, at the age of 11, Timberlake appeared on the television show Star Search, performing country music songs as Justin Randall. Timberlake then recruited Chasez to be in a singing group, organized by boy band manager Lou Pearlman. The boy band NSYNC formed in 1995, and began their career in 1996 in Europe, Timberlake and Chasez served as its two lead singers. In 1998, the rose to prominence in the United States with the release of their self-titled debut studio album. Their second album No Strings Attached sold 2.4 million copies in the first week, nSYNCs third album Celebrity was also financially successful. Upon the completion of the Celebrity Tour, the group went into hiatus in 2002, in late 1999, Timberlake appeared in the Disney Channel movie Model Behavior. He played Jason Sharpe, a model who falls in love with a waitress after mistaking her for another model and it was released on March 12,2000. The rise of his own stardom and the decline in the popularity of boy bands led to the dissolution of NSYNC. Band member Lance Bass was openly critical of Timberlakes actions in his memoir Out of Sync and his debut solo studio album Justified was released in November and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 439,000 copies, fewer than previous N Sync releases
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Timberlake at the
Cannes Film Festival, May 2013
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Timberlake in London on his
Justified World Tour, December 2003
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Timberlake performing at a concert in
St. Paul, Minnesota in January 2007 during the
FutureSex/LoveShow
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Timberlake (left) with
Andrew Garfield (right) at an event for
The Social Network in Madrid, October 2010
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Hot in Cleveland
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Hot in Cleveland is an American sitcom on TV Land starring Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Betty White. The series, which was TV Lands first original scripted series, premiered on June 16,2010, the series was picked up for ten episodes. On May 1,2014, TV Land renewed Hot in Cleveland for a sixth season, the series ran for 128 episodes, with the hour-long final episode airing on June 3,2015. The concept behind the show is based on an idea by Lynda Obst. The series was recorded in front of a studio audience at CBSs Studio Center in Studio City. The series centers on three aging entertainment industry veterans from Los Angeles, Melanie, Joy, and Victoria. The three women find a more welcoming and less shallow and youth-obsessed community in Cleveland, Ohio and they decide to stay and lease a home where a sassy caretaker Elka still lives in the guest house. Valerie Bertinelli as Melanie Hope Moretti, a writer and mother of college-age kids Will, depressed by her divorce, she boards a plane to Paris in the pilot episode to find love. However, when the plane makes a landing in Cleveland, Melanie loves the city. Melanie discovers she is pregnant at the end of season 4 with Alecs baby, however, it out that she has a brain tumor. Jane Leeves as Rejoyla Joy Scroggs, a beautician, known as the Eyebrow Queen of Beverly Hills. Joys mother, who lives in England, is critical of her. She had a son, Owen, when she was 15, in the first season finale, Joy receives a message from her son, but a tornado prevents her from contacting him. Her son finally comes to visit her in Season 2, with disastrous results, at the end of season 3 a baby is left on the womens doorstep. This baby is revealed in season 4 as Joys grandson Wilbur, at the end of season 4, Joys Baby-Daddy Simon shows up and wants to get back together. Joy eventually marries her boss, Bob, in the series finale. With the show recently canceled, Victoria laments that her career opportunities are playing Megan Foxs grandmother and Melanie Griffiths mother. She has also appeared in numerous Lifetime movies, the titles of which she brings up throughout the series and her jobs in Cleveland have included high school drama teacher and reporter for Oh Hi, Ohio, a local news magazine program
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Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick, Jane Leeves, and Betty White in August 2012
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