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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Pink (singer)
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Alecia Beth Moore, known professionally as Pink, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. She was signed to her first record label with original R&B girl group Choice in 1995, the label, LaFace Records saw potential in only Pink, offering her a solo deal. Pink rose as an artist with her solo album, Cant Take Me Home. It was certified double-platinum in the United States and spawned two Billboard Hot 100 top-ten hits, There You Go and Most Girls and she gained further recognition with the Moulin Rouge. Soundtrack Lady Marmalade, which gave Pink her first Grammy Award as well as her first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, Pink took control in early 2001 insisting she wanted to work with her childhood hero, Linda Perry. Pink took more control and pursued a pop direction for her second album. It sold more than 15 million copies worldwide and yielded three United States top-ten singles, Get the Party Started, Dont Let Me Get Me, Pinks third album, Try This, generated considerably lower sales, but earned her the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Pink revived her popularity with her fourth and fifth albums, Im Not Dead and Funhouse, with the latter containing her second United States number-one hit. Pink concluded the first decade of her career with the compilation album Greatest Hits, so Far. which featured Fuckin Perfect and the chart-topping single Raise Your Glass. In 2014 Pink recorded an album, Rose Ave. with Canadian musician Dallas Green under a folk music duo named You+Me. Recognized for her signature vocals and acrobatic performances, Pink has sold over 60 million albums worldwide. Her career accolades include three Grammy Awards, a Brit Award, a Daytime Emmy Award and six MTV Video Music Awards, in 2009, Billboard named Pink the Pop Songs Artist of the Decade. Pink was also the second most-played female solo artist in the United Kingdom during the 2000s decade, vH1 ranked her number 10 on their list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music, while Billboard awarded her the Woman of the Year award in 2013. At the 63rd annual BMI Pop Awards, she received the BMI Presidents Award for her achievement in songwriting and global impact on pop culture. Alecia Beth Moore was born on September 8,1979, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, to nurse Judy and insurance salesman Jim Moore and she has described her background as Irish-German-Lithuanian-Jew. Although a healthy baby at birth, she developed asthma that plagued her through her early years. Pink attended Central Bucks High School West, when Moore was a toddler, her parents began having marital problems, and before she was 10 her parents had divorced. Pink developed her voice early in life, in high school, Pink joined her first band, Middleground, but it disbanded upon losing a battle of the bands competition
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Nate Ruess
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Nathaniel Joseph Nate Ruess is an American singer and songwriter. He is the singer of the indie pop band fun. As of 2015, he performs as a solo musician. Ruess was born on February 26,1982, in Iowa City and he is the younger of two children, having one sister named Elizabeth. His uncle, John Ruess, was a performer on Broadway, in 1986, his family moved to a farm in Glendale, Arizona, due to repeated bouts of pneumonia Ruess faced as a child. Ruess remained in Arizona throughout his childhood and attended Deer Valley High School, during his time in school, Ruess played in punk bands and upon graduation chose to pursue music professionally. He took a job in a law firm as a way to support himself while he pursued his musical ambitions, in 2002, at the age of 19, he launched the band the Format with his longtime best friend, Sam Means. The Format was his first musical endeavor to gain widespread attention, after forming in 2002, the Format released a five song EP, titled EP, which generated local interest and led to the band being signed to Elektra Records in 2002. They released their first studio album, Interventions + Lullabies, on October 21,2003, the bands fanbase began to grow, and the Format released their second EP, Snails, with Atlantic Records in April 2005. However, while working on their album, Dog Problems. They eventually created their own label, The Vanity Label, on February 4,2008, Ruess announced through the bands blog that the Format would not be making another album. We have just put out word that we not be making a new Format album. Please understand this was a decision and were both upset about it. We also want to thank everyone with and within the Format, particularly Mike, Don, and Marko and we both suggest you support their musical talents and whatever they decide to do. And lastly we want to thank the fans who made this the best 5 years of our lives, immediately after the split of the Format, Ruess contacted Jack Antonoff of Steel Train and Andrew Dost, formerly of Anathallo, to form a new band called Fun. They released their first demo, Benson Hedges, through Spins September 20,2009, four months after releasing their first single, At Least Im Not as Sad, through Myspace on April 6,2009, Fun released their first studio album, entitled Aim and Ignite. The album received positive reviews and peaked at 71 on the Billboard 200. The bands first tour happened in 2008 supporting Jacks Mannequin and gained exposure opening for them as well as Paramore in 2010, on August 4,2010, Fun announced that they had been signed to the Fueled by Ramen label
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The Truth About Love (Pink album)
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The Truth About Love is the sixth studio album by American singer Pink. It was released on September 18,2012, by RCA Records and it features guest artists Eminem, Lily Allen, and Nate Ruess of American band Fun. The album also debuted at number-one in Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, the Truth About Love was announced as Australias biggest selling album of the year. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, it was the seventh global best-selling album of 2012 with sales of 2.6 million copies. As of July 2014, the album has sold 2 million copies in the US, as of July 2013, Just Give Me a Reason is the second best selling song of 2013 in the US. To support the album, Pink began her Truth About Love Tour in February 2013, the tour continued through 2013 and included American, Australian and European legs and ended on January 31,2014. On October 7,2011, RCA Music Group announced that it would be disbanding Jive Records, along with Arista, with the shutdown, Pink and all other artists previously signed to the labels would release any future material through RCA Records. In 2011, Joe Riccitelli, an executive with the label, announced that Pink was preparing to enter the studio to work on her sixth studio album. On February 29,2012, Pink took to her Twitter account, on June 19,2012, Pink announced via video on Twitter that the first single from her upcoming album would be called Blow Me and that it would be released on July 9,2012. She added, I think youre going to like it, because I really like it, however, the demo version of the song leaked on July 1,2012, a week before its scheduled release. The next day, it was released via Pinks official page, on July 4,2012, Pink announced that her sixth studio album would be titled The Truth About Love. On September 6,2012, Pink performed Blow Me for the first time with Get the Party Started at the 2012 MTV Music Video Awards, on September 10,2012, Pink performed Blow Me and Who Knew on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Pink also released videos for all the albums tracks all on her official VEVO account. On September 14,2012, Pink appeared on Alan Carrs show Chatty Man, performing her first single Blow Me, on November 18,2012, Pink performed Try at the American Music Awards of 2012. Blow Me was released as the single from the album in July 2012. The song first appeared on the Australian Singles Chart on the week ending 16 July 2012, the song debuted at #8 on the New Zealand Top 40 chart. It also debuted at #13 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart, in Ireland, the song debuted at #23 on the Irish Singles Chart. In the United States, the song charted at #58 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on the week ending 21 July 2012, the following week, it rose to #9 and eventually peaked at #5
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A-side and B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record
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CD single
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This article is about the 12cm single. Not to be confused with 8cm single, the standard in the Red Book for the term CD single. A CD single is a single in the form of a standard size compact disc. It is not to be confused with the Mini CD single, the format was introduced in the mid-1980s but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s. With the rise in digital downloads in the early 2010s, sales of CD singles have decreased, commercially released CD singles can vary in length from two songs up to six songs like an EP. Some contain multiple mixes of one or more songs, in the tradition of 12 vinyl singles, depending on the nation, there may be limits on the number of songs and total length for sales to count in singles charts. Containing four tracks, it had a limited print run. CD singles were first made eligible for the UK Singles Chart in 1987, the Mini CD single format was originally created for use for singles in the late 1980s, but met with limited success, particularly in the US. The smaller CDs were more successful in Japan and have become more common in Europe. By 1989, the CD3 was in decline in the US and it was common in the 1990s for US record companies to release both a two-track CD and a multi-track maxi CD. In the UK, record companies would also release two CDs but, usually, these consisted of three tracks or more each. Pressure from record labels made singles charts in some countries become song charts, allowing album cuts to chart based only on airplay, without a single ever being released. At the end of the 1990s, the CD was the single format in the UK, but in the US. In Australia, the Herald Sun reported the CD single is set to become extinct, while CD singles no longer maintain their own section of the store, copies are still distributed but placed with the artists albums. That is predominantly the case for popular Australian artists such as Jessica Mauboy, Kylie Minogue and, most recently, Delta Goodrem, the ARIA Singles Chart are now predominantly compiled from legal downloads, and ARIA also stopped compiling their physical singles sales chart. On a Mission by Gabriella Cilmi was the last CD single to be stocked in Kmart, Target and Big W, sanity Entertainment, having resisted the decline for longer than the other major outlets, has also ceased selling CD singles. In Greece and Cyprus, the term CD single is used to describe a play in which there may be anywhere from three to six different tracks. These releases charted on the Greek Singles Chart with songs released as singles, in September 2003, there was talk of ringtones for mobile phones outstripping CD singles sales for the year 2004
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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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RCA Records
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RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. It is one of SMEs three flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, blues, jazz, the companys name is derived from the initials of the labels former parent company, the Radio Corporation of America. It is the second oldest recording company in US history, after sister label Columbia Records, RCAs Canadian unit is Sonys oldest label in Canada. It was one of only two Canadian record companies to survive the Great Depression, kelly, Enrique Iglesias, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Kesha, Miley Cyrus, Giorgio Moroder, Jennifer Hudson, DAngelo, Pink, Tinashe, G-Eazy, Pitbull, Zayn and Wizkid. In 1929, the Radio Corporation of America purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the worlds largest manufacturer of phonographs and phonograph records. The company then became RCA Victor but retained use of the Victor Records name on their labels until the beginning of 1946 when the labels were finally switched over to RCA Victor. With Victor, RCA acquired New World rights to the famous Nipper His Masters Voice trademark, in Shanghai, China, in 1931, RCA Victors British affiliate the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company to form EMI. This gave RCA head David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board, in September 1931, RCA Victor introduced the first 33⅓ rpm records sold to the public, calling them Program Transcriptions. In the depths of the Great Depression, the format was a commercial failure, during the early part of the depression, RCA made a number of attempts to produce a successful cheap label to compete with the dime store labels. The first was the short-lived Timely Tunes label in 1931 sold at Montgomery Ward, in 1932, Bluebird Records was created as a sub-label of RCA Victor. It was originally an 8-inch record with a blue label. In 1933, RCA reintroduced Bluebird and Electradisk as a standard 10-inch label, another cheap label, Sunrise, was produced. The same musical couplings were issued on all three labels and Bluebird Records still survives eight decades after Electradisk and Sunrise were discontinued, RCA also produced records for Montgomery Ward label during the 1930s. Besides manufacturing records for themselves, RCA Victor operated RCA Custom which was the leading record manufacturer for independent record labels, RCA Custom also pressed record compilations for The Readers Digest Association. RCA sold its interest in EMI in 1935, but EMI continued to distribute RCA recordings in the UK, RCA also manufactured and distributed HMV classical recordings on the RCA and HMV labels in North America. During World War II, ties between RCA and its Japanese affiliate JVC were severed, the Japanese record company is today called Victor Entertainment and is still a JVC subsidiary. From 1942 to 1944, RCA Victor was seriously impacted by the American Federation of Musicians recording ban, virtually all union musicians could not make recordings during that period
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Try (Pink song)
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Try is a song recorded by American singer Pink, which she released as the second single from her sixth album, The Truth About Love. Written and composed by Busbee and Ben West, and produced by Greg Kurstin, it is a pop ballad about taking risks with love. Try received positive reviews music critics who noted that it is one of the standout tracks on the album. The Floria Sigismondi-directed video features shots of a paint-covered Pink and her male counterpart expressing their frustrations through contemporary dance, Pink confirmed she was writing lyrics and composing music for her then untitled sixth album, which she titled The Truth About Love eventually released, in September 2012. An early version of the lead single, a song called Blow Me, was leaked online on July 1,2012. Rachel Raczka from The Boston Globe noted that Try, the single from The Truth About Love. The song was sung by GoNorthToGoSouth, a band fronted by Ben West. Originally they thought about giving the song to Kelly Clarkson then Daughtry, the song was then eventually pitched to Pink. Pinks version of the song premiered on radio on September 6,2012, Try was amongst one of five lyrics videos that Pink uploaded on September 12, along with album tracks Slut Like You, Just Give Me a Reason featuring Nate Ruess from fun. How Come Youre Not Here, and Are We All We Are, Try was written and composed by Ben West and Busbee, while production was handled by Greg Kurstin, who also produced her previous single, Blow Me. It is a pop ballad, modelled on 1980s FM Rock, built around two-volume arrangement, whereby the verses are quiet. Lyrically, it is an ode to taking risks with love and it also talks about hanging onto ones dreams and aspirations even if it means taking risks. Where there is there is gonna be a flame, sings Pink on the chorus. Where there is a flame someones bound to get burned, but just because it burns doesnt mean youre gonna die. You gotta get up and try, the song received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who praised its production. Andrew Hampp of Billboard commented With a melody reminiscent of ‘Whataya Want from Me, ’ the 2009 hit she penned for Adam Lambert, josh Langhoff of PopMatters called it an ode to romantic persistence over crisp ‘Hysteria’ guitars. John Murphy of musicOMH wrote that ‘Try’ demonstrates that she has a voice that not enough people give her credit for. For want of a phrase, its a full-on power ballad, with yet more references to love going wrong
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True Love (Pink song)
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True Love is a song written and recorded by American recording artist Pink from her sixth studio album, The Truth About Love. It was written by Pink, Lily Allen and Greg Kurstin, the song was released as the albums second promotional single, following Are We All We Are, in early 2013. It was released exclusively to Hungarian and Dutch radio, on April 29,2013, it was announced that the song would be released as the fourth single. It officially impacted Italian radio stations on June 28,2013, in the US, it impacted Hot/Modern/AC radio on July 15,2013, before impacting Top 40/Mainstream radio one week later on July 23,2013. The song was released in the UK on July 22,2013, in late February 2012, Pink tweeted that she was currently in the studio, working on an upcoming studio album. In early June, she released a video saying that her first single from the album was to be called Blow Me and her new album was named The Truth About Love and was released in September. Since then, she has released two singles from the album, Try, and Just Give Me a Reason. Pink says that the song is about her relationship with Carey Hart, True Love was the third song from The Truth About Love to be leaked onto the internet, as Here Comes the Weekend was leaked the day before. The song received positive reviews from critics and was compared to the albums title track due to both songs revealing the positive and negative sides of love. In its review of The Truth About Love, Billboard called the song the albums brightest moment, again, a dysfunctional relationship, which is sung about over a resonant rhythm, makes the misery of love sound like a delight in Pink’s capable hands, er, voice. MSN Music also reacted positively to the song, calling it feisty, the New York Times complimented the song, as well as the albums title track, for recognizing some nonstorybook sides of romance, and further praised True Love for being bouncy and upbeat. The Chicago Tribune gave a critical review of the song, calling Allens vocals strangely subdued and added that Allen was tamping down Pinks strident. They also wrote that the collaboration shouldve been a dream pairing, according to Pinks official Facebook page, the music video for True Love was planned to premiere on July 1,2013. The video was leaked online on June 30, on the website Direct Lyrics, however, a few hours later the video was released to her official VEVO account, the video directed by Sophie Muller features Pink, her husband Carey Hart and her 2-year-old daughter Willow. It is the music video that Hart appears alongside P. nk. The video is a melody of flashing and swirling colors, Pink stated that she has no time for a dramatic music video, due to her being on her sold-out worldwide tour, backstage footage of which is featured in the video. Lily Allen was filmed separately, and during her part in the song she is shown cutting vegetables
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Headlights (Eminem song)
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Headlights is a song by American rapper Eminem, featuring Funs lead singer Nate Ruess. It features production from Emile Haynie, Jeff Bhasker, and Eminem himself, in the song, Eminem apologizes to his mother, Debbie Mathers, for criticizing her in his earlier songs and for showing scorn and resentment towards her in the past. It was released on February 5,2014 as the albums fifth and it peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100. Eminem has had a relationship with his mother since childhood. Headlights is an apology to his mother for the years of insults, the title Headlights is a reference to their last meeting. As she drove away, he became fixated on the headlights of her car as he coped with feelings of overwhelming sadness and he also expresses regret that he has never let his mother be involved in his childrens lives. In the song he acknowledges that his mother wrongfully endured the brunt of the blame for his tough upbringing, Eminem admits that he remains estranged from his mother to this day. He also states that he cringes when he hears Cleanin Out My Closet on the radio and he also told Zane Lowe that It was one of those things that’s bothered me for a little bit. It was one of things that I needed to get off my chest. So I don’t really have anything to elaborate or expand on that other than everything that I needed to say. Headlights was produced by Emile and Jeff Bhasker, with production by Eminem. The song was written by Eminem, Nate Ruess, Emile Haynie, Jeff Bhasker, recording for the song was done at Effigy Studios in Ferndale, Michigan by Mike Strange, Joe Strange and Tony Campana. The songs refrain is sung by Fun. s lead singer Nate Ruess, Headlights was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. Julie Leconte of Now said, The tracks genius partially lies in the tension it creates in the listener. Em loves to set us up with faux sentimentality, then laugh when we’re duped, but on Headlights the shoe never drops, leaving us with really sad insight into their non-relationship. Colin McGuire of PopMatters said that the song gives us quite possibly the most touching moment Em has ever put on wax, andy Gill of The Independent also praised the track, calling it an almost shockingly apologetic love-letter to the mother he once denigrated so viciously. Edna Gundersen of USA Today stated that its an admirable confession, the music video was filmed in Detroit, Michigan on April 5,2014, and directed by famed film director Spike Lee. It was released on May 11,2014, Mothers Day in the United States, the video takes a non-chronological look at the turbulent relationship from his mothers perspective
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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Fun (band)
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Fun is an American indie pop band based in New York City. It was formed by Nate Ruess, former singer of The Format, with Andrew Dost of Anathallo. Fun has released two albums, Aim and Ignite in August 2009 and Some Nights in February 2012, the band is best known for three hit singles from Some Nights, Grammy Award-winning We Are Young, Some Nights, and Carry On. We Are Young reached number one on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 and it also peaked at number one in the United Kingdom. On February 10,2013, Fun won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, additionally, Fun was a nominee for four other Grammy Awards, Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo or Group Performance along with Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. In February 2008, Nate Ruesss former band The Format split up, immediately afterwards, Nate Ruess asked Andrew Dost and Jack Antonoff to join his new project. Dost had toured with The Format and provided instrumentation. The three began working together in New Jersey within a week, Ruess sang melodies while the other two provided music for them. The first demo song the band recorded was Benson Hedges, which was available free in Spins August 20,2008 article on the band. In November of 2008, fun embarked on their first tour opening for Jacks Mannequin and their first show was played in Denver, Colorado on November 5th,2008. A couple of demos and covers from other bands were performed. Fun then approached Steven McDonald, who produced The Formats album Dog Problems with Ruess, McDonald was enthusiastic about the project and stated, I can’t believe what we’re working on here. This crushes anything I’ve ever done, recording took place in the fall of 2008. The bands first single, At Least Im Not as Sad As I Used to Be was made available as a download on the bands Myspace page on April 6,2009. Aim and Ignite was released on August 25,2009 and received positive reviews, absolutePunk. nets Drew Beringer praised the album, stating it was what a pop album should sound like and the most essential pop album of 2009. Estella Hung of PopMatters was less impressed with the album and she praised songs Be Calm and The Gambler, but criticized the lyrics and production of the albums early tracks. Hung concluded that while Aim and Ignite is pretty original to say the least, popdoses Ken Shane called the album an interesting and unusual listen. Shane applauded the albums songwriting and said many of the songs are really good and he ended his review with, I have a similar problem with Dr. Dog, a band that was recommended to me by a number of people
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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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So What (Pink song)
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So What is a song recorded by American singer Pink for her fifth studio album, Funhouse. The song was written by Pink, Max Martin, and Shellback, selected as the albums debut single, So What was first released to mainstream radios on August 25,2008, through LaFace and Zomba Label Group. The song consists of a beat and synth backing. The lyrics are based on her separation from motocross racer Carey Hart, so What received generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics, many praised it for its aggressive and empowering nature while others deemed it childish and bratty. The song was successful commercially, topping the charts in several countries across Europe and Oceania. In the United States, the reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. So What also became her highest selling single in the United States, the music video for So What was directed by longtime collaborator Dave Meyers. It shows Pink drinking while riding a lawnmower, sawing down a tree, streaking on a red carpet appearance, the video also features a cameo appearance from Hart. Pink performed So What on MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 on November 6,2008, the song was nominated for several awards, eventually winning the MTV Europe Music Award for the Most Addictive Track. So What was written by Pink, Shellback and Max Martin, Martin also handled the production and recording, which took place at Maratone Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. Al Clay also recorded the song at the House of Blues Studio - a recording studio in Los Angeles, the song was mixed at MixStar Studios in Virginia Beach, Virginia by Serban Ghenea. John Hanes edited the song using ProTools technology with assistance provided by Tim Roberts, the song was finally mastered by Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound in New York City, New York. The songs lyrical content was based on her separation from her husband, so What carries an energetic vibe. The song consists of a powerful charging beat, a chorus. The song is in the key of F# minor, the initial riff is closely familiar to Deep Purples Black Night. Lyrically, the chronicles the protagonists adventures following her separation from her husband. So What was released as the first single from Pinks fifth studio album Funhouse and it was first released on August 11,2008 via digital download to certain countries including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. LaFace and Jive Records solicited the song to hit radio on August 25,2008
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Raise Your Glass
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Raise Your Glass is a song by American singer Pink, released as the lead single of her first compilation album, Greatest Hits. The song celebrates the first decade since Pinks debut in 2000 and is dedicated to her fans who have been supporting her over the years. The song is featured in a commercial for the 2011 film Bridesmaids and in the trailers for Whats Your Number. In 2011, Raise Your Glass was ranked at thirteen on the Top 40 Year End Chart based on Mediabase. Raise Your Glass was announced as the single from Pinks then-upcoming greatest hits compilation on October 1,2010. The song follows a pop style, in much similar fashion to her previous work with producer Max Martin. Pink describes the song as a celebration for people who left out from the popular crowd. In an interview for MTV, Pink comments on the song, I dont know if its going to be huge, I had been on the road for two years and I hadnt written anything and I wanted to write a song about underdogs. Instead of going and becoming a cover girl, I kind of just hit the road and pounded the pavement. and you dont have to be popular when youre a touring artist, you just have to be good, and this is a thank you for the fans. The song received acclaim from music critics. After ten years of sterling service to all things pop, the champagnes on us, becky Bain from Idolator said that Pink lifts her glass to toast all the dirty little freaks in her new party track. Fraser McAlpine from BBC blog rated it 4/5 stars, saying that it has to SOUND like wild and it should probably rock, or at least claim to rock. There must be a big chorus, something which brings everyone together in a glorious celebration of Brand Pink. There should be a few silly one-liners, rampant abuse of the English language, a few extravagant claims, a strutting self-regard mixed with a giggling self-depreciation, a sneer and a smile. In the United States, Raise Your Glass recharged Pinks chart performance, becoming her tenth Top 10 hit and her third number one hit. It put Pink third on the list of artists with most Top 10 hits in the 2000s, behind Rihanna. It took the eight weeks to hit the Hot 100s apex. So What, Pinks only previous 3-million seller, reached that level in 26 weeks, as of August 2013, the single has sold 4,162,000 copies
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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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Motocross
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Motocross is a form of off-road motorcycle racing held on enclosed off-road circuits. The sport evolved from motorcycle trials competitions held in the United Kingdom, Motocross was first evolved in the U. K. from motorcycle trials competitions, such as the Auto-Cycle Clubss first quarterly trial in 1909 and the Scottish Six Days Trial that began in 1912. The first known scramble race took place at Camberley, Surrey in 1924, during the 1930s, the sport grew in popularity, especially in Britain where teams from the Birmingham Small Arms Company, Norton, Matchless, Rudge, and AJS competed in the events. Off-road bikes from that era differed little from those used on the street, the intense competition over rugged terrain led to technical improvements in motorcycles. The period after World War II was dominated by BSA which had become the largest motorcycle company in the world, BSA riders dominated international competitions throughout the 1940s. In 1952, the FIM, motorcyclings international governing body, created an individual European Championship using a 500 cc engine displacement formula, in 1957 it was upgraded to World Championship status. In 1962, a 250 cc world championship was created and it was in the smaller 250 cc category that companies with two-stroke motorcycles came into their own. Companies such as Husqvarna from Sweden, CZ from the former Czechoslovakia and Greeves from England, became popular due to their lightness, stars of the day included BSA works riders Jeff Smith and Arthur Lampkin, with Dave Bickers, Joe Johnson and Norman Brown on Greeves. By the 1960s, advancements in engine technology meant that the heavier. Riders from Belgium and Sweden began to dominate the sport during this period, the following year Hallman was joined by other motocross stars including Roger DeCoster, Joël Robert, and Dave Bickers. They dominated the event placing their lightweight two-strokes into the top six finishing positions, Motocross began to grow in popularity in the United States during this period, which fueled an explosive growth in the sport. By the late 1960s, Japanese motorcycle companies began challenging the European factories for supremacy in the motocross world, Suzuki claimed the first world championship for a Japanese factory when Joël Robert won the 1970250 cc crown. The first stadium motocross event was held in 1972 at the Los Angeles Coliseum, in 1975, a 125 cc world championship was introduced. European riders continued to dominate throughout the 1970s but, by the 1980s, American riders had caught up. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Japanese motorcycle manufacturers presided over a period in motocross technology. The typical two-stroke air-cooled, twin-shock rear suspension gave way to machines that were water-cooled and fitted with single-shock absorber rear suspension. By 2003, increasingly stringent environmental laws in California forced some manufacturers to develop environmentally friendly four-stroke technology, by 2004, all the major manufacturers have begun competing with four-stroke machines. European firms also experienced a resurgence with Husqvarna, Husaberg, the sport evolved with sub-disciplines such as stadium events known as supercross and arenacross held in indoor arenas
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Carey Hart
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Carey Jason Phillip Hart is an American former professional freestyle motocross competitor, motorcycle racer and current off-road truck racer. He is known for being the first motorcyclist to perform a flip on a 250cc motorcycle during a competition. He and singer Pink have been married since 2006, Hart was given his first motorcycle by his father at age 4 in hope of creating a father-son pastime. Riding quickly became Harts passion and he began competing in races at 6 years old in 1981, turning professional, Hart was among the first riders to begin competing in freestyle motocross in 1996. Hart was the first rider to publicly perform BMX trick the superman seat grab at IFMA events in 1998–99 and he was also the first person to perform the invert superman seat grab at the 1999 Gravity Games in Providence, Rhode Island. This trick is now known as the Hart Attack, in 1999 Hart took home the Bronze medal at the Summer Gravity Games and Gold at the Australian X Games. During the 2000 Gravity Games in Providence, Rhode Island, Hart attempted the first back flip on a 250 cc motorcycle in competition, Hart is credited with the first attempt of a back-flip as he over-rotated his flip and suffered a hard landing, displacing him off the seat. 2000 saw Hart win several FMX competitions and honors including the Silver at the Las Vegas LXD Freeride MotoX and Toyotas Trick of the Week. At the 2001 X-Games in Philadelphia, Hart attempted the backflip again for the best trick competition and his injuries included several broken bones and ribs along with a bruised tailbone. It was there he met his wife, singer Pink. In 2002, Hart again picked up the Gold medal at the Australian X-Games as well as gaining the Silver medal in the MotoX Best Trick at the Summer X Games in Los Angeles, the same year, Hart participated in the Tony Hawks Boom Boom HuckJam Tour. At the 2003 X-Games in Los Angeles, Hart successfully completed the backflip in the best trick competition picking up the Silver medal behind Mike Metzger, who landed a no-footed backflip. The same year, Hart participated in the Gumball 3000, an annual British 3, 2003s route was from San Francisco to Miami. He is also featured in the film Gumball 3000, The Movie, the biographical documentary Goodtimes With Carey Hart was also released in 2003. Hart broke both his arms and legs as well as suffering severe blood clotting during surgery, the crash took him out of competition for three years. In 2004, Hart and John Huntington opened Hart & Huntington Tattoo Company in Las Vegas, the A&E network followed Hart and the workings of the shop on the reality show Inked. Hart and Huntington Tattoo Company also launched a line based on the designs of the artists at the store. With H&Hs expansion, the line is now based on the tattoo/action sports lifestyle
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2013 MTV Video Music Awards
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The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards were held on August 25,2013 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Marking the 30th installment of the show, they were the first to be held in New York City not to use a venue within the borough of Manhattan. Nominations were announced on July 17,2013, leading the nominees were Justin Timberlake and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with six, followed by Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, and Robin Thicke with four. Justin Timberlake was the big winner on the night with four awards, including Video of the Year for Mirrors, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift were also among the winners of the night. The ceremony drew a total of 10.1 million viewers, winners were announced on August 25,2013. The performance began with Cyrus performing We Cant Stop in bear-themed attire, following this, Thicke entered the stage and Cyrus stripped down to a skin-colored two-piece latex outfit while they performed Blurred Lines in a duet. Cyrus subsequently touched Thickes crotch area with a giant pedicured foam finger, an article published in The Hollywood Reporter described the performance as crass and reminiscent of a bad acid trip. The performance was described by XXL critic B. J, for lack of a better term, it was a hot mess. This amounted to a total 112% increase in Cyrus social media activity, the performance topped Twitter during the East Coast telecast, with Timberlake behind with 219,800 tweets per minute at its peak. The most-mentioned performers on Twitter were Cyrus, Timberlake and Lady Gaga
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Some Nights (album)
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Some Nights is the second studio album by American indie pop band fun. It was released on February 21,2012 through Fueled by Ramen and it was recorded in 2011 and produced by Jeff Bhasker. After signing to a new label, the band began to work on Some Nights for over nine months throughout 2011, in some countries, the album received a Parental Advisory sticker due to the usage of the word fuck in the albums title track and Some Nights. In the United States, it was added after the album was released and we Are Young was released as the lead single from the album and bolstered the band to mainstream success with the aid of television and advertising. It topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and Alternative Songs for two weeks, with six million digital downloads. The title track was commissioned as the single and has reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album has received mixed reviews according to Metacritic, the band later won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and We Are Young won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. Fun received four other Grammy nominations, two for We Are Young and two for the album itself, Fun. signed to Fueled by Ramen in late 2010. The transition was in the works with the label for almost nine months, Ruess was flattered that employed workers for the label would buy their own tickets to Fun. shows and talk about us with the passion youd generally reserve for an artist youre working with. After lengthy discussions within the band, the decided to give the label a try. Ruess recalls that he was listening to so much hip-hop during the production that it became a big influence for him, the band felt inspired and gradually began working on new songs, each carrying an obvious hip-hop influence. Consciously, the band working in the hip-hop factor and realized they wanted a hip-hop producer. After scanning the liner notes of his other records, Ruess noticed that Jeff Bhasker was one of the most common names. Bhasker was preoccupied at the working with Beyoncé but Ruess was persistent in meeting with him. The most common process in the recording of Some Nights began with Ruess. Ruess would come in with lyrics and a melody, leading Andrew Dost and guitarist Jack Antonoff to build chord structure and instrumentation from there, or support that melody. The dynamic between Bhasker and the band in the studio was inspired, as Bhasker had never worked with a rock band before. Bhasker particularly enjoyed recording guitars with guitarist Jack Antonoff as he wasnt used to it, the emphasis for Ruess on Some Nights was to make the songs more cohesive, as he felt his writing was all over the place
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G major
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G major is a major scale based on G, with the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and F♯. Its key signature has one sharp, F♯, G majors relative minor is E minor, and its parallel minor is G minor. For orchestral works in G major, the timpani are typically set to G and D, in the Baroque era, G major was regarded as the key of benediction. Of Domenico Scarlattis 555 keyboard sonatas, G major is the key for 69. Pianist Jeremy Denk observes that the Goldberg Variations are 80 minutes in G major, twelve of Joseph Haydns 104 Symphonies are in G major. See also, List of symphonies in G major, likewise one of Haydns most famous piano trios, No. 39, and one of his last two complete published string quartets, are in G major, G major is the home key of Mozarts Eine kleine Nachtmusik, serving as the tonic for three of its four movements. However, almost none of his works such as his symphonies or concertos are in this key. 17, Flute Concerto No.1 and his String Quartet No,14, along with some examples among his juvenilia. G sometimes called the key, is one of the most frequently-employed keys across classical. It is the key stipulated by Queen Elizabeth II to be used for God Save the Queen in Canada, the music to the American national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, was originally written in G major. God Defend New Zealand was originally composed by John Joseph Woods in A-flat, key Major and minor Chord Chord names and symbols Media related to G major at Wikimedia Commons
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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Yin and yang
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Many tangible dualities are thought of as physical manifestations of the duality symbolized by yin and yang. Duality is found in many systems, but Yin and Yang are parts of a Oneness that is also equated with the Tao. A term has been coined dualistic-monism or dialectical monism, Yin and yang can be thought of as complementary forces that interact to form a dynamic system in which the whole is greater than the assembled parts. Everything has both yin and yang aspects, either of the two major aspects may manifest more strongly in a particular object, depending on the criterion of the observation. The yin yang shows a balance between two opposites with a portion of the element in each section. In Taoist metaphysics, distinctions between good and bad, along with other dichotomous moral judgments, are perceptual, not real, so, the duality of yin and yang is an indivisible whole. In the ethics of Confucianism on the hand, most notably in the philosophy of Dong Zhongshu. The Chinese terms yīn 陰 or 阴 shady side and yáng 陽 or 阳 sunny side are linguistically analyzable in terms of Chinese characters, pronunciations and etymology, meanings, topography, and loanwords. The first phonetic yīn 侌 cloudy ideographically combines jīn 今 now, present and yún 云 cloud, the second phonetic yáng 昜 bright originally pictured 日 the sun with 勿 rays coming down. This phonetic is expanded with the sun radical into yáng 暘 rising sun, the mound, hill radical 阝full forms semantically specify yīn 陰 shady/dark side of a hill and yáng 陽 sunny/light side of a hill. Compare the Classical Chinese names for these two bodies, Tàiyīn 太陰 moon and Tàiyáng 太陽 sun. Reconstructions of Old Chinese have illuminated the etymology of modern Chinese words, Yin and yang are semantically complex words. A reliable Chinese-English dictionary gives the translation equivalents. Many Chinese place names or toponyms contain the word yang sunny side, similarly, yin refers to north side of a hill in Huayin 華陰, which is north of Mount Hua 華山 in Shaanxi province. English yin, yang, and yin-yang are familiar loanwords of Chinese origin, the Oxford English Dictionary defines, yin Also Yin, Yn. a. Also attrib. or as adj. and transf, comb. as yin-yang, the combination or fusion of the two cosmic forces, freq. attrib. Esp. as yin-yang symbol, a divided by an S-shaped line into a dark. Comb. yang-yin = yin-yang s. v. yin b, for the earliest recorded yin and yang usages, the OED cites 1671 for yin and yang,1850 for yin-yang, and 1959 for yang-yin
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Dotdash
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About. com is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its topic sites, of which there are nearly 1,000. It is operated by About, Inc, the website competes with other online resource sites and encyclopedias. By March 2014,61,428,000 unique visitors were registered by comScore for About. com, making it the 16th-most-visited online property during that month. As of August 2012, About. com is the property of IAC, owner of Ask. com and numerous other online brands, and its revenue is generated by advertising. Founded in 1996 as The Mining Company, the site was launched on April 21,1997 by Scott Kurnit, owner of General Internet, Bill Day, and a group of other entrepreneurs in New York City. The original goal was to maintain 1,800 topic areas, but after five years of operation, the company changed its name to About Inc. and the website address from miningco. com to about. com in May 1999. The company was acquired by Primedia, Inc. in 2000 through a deal valued at US$690 million, whereby Primedia swapped 45.2 million shares for About, at the time of the acquisition announcement, About Inc. Following the purchase, which was finalized in the first quarter of 2001, in February 2005, The New York Times Company announced it was buying About. com, a purchase that was completed in the first half of the year for US$410 million. Google and Yahoo were reportedly among the other bidders, following the Times Co. acquisition, Peter C. Horan was appointed as About Inc. s president and CEO, in March 2007, About. coms patronage was measured at 33.5 million unique visitors. On May 7,2007, About Inc. acquired ConsumerSearch. com, initially conceived of in January 2007, About. coms first fully owned foreign venture, the China-based Abang. com, debuted in December 2007. At the time of the launch, the company had a Japan-based online entity, Allabout. co. jp, the About Group generated US$102.7 million in 2007, which represented a 135-percent increase from the time of the Times Co. acquisition. Meyer stepped down from the executive role in March 2008 and was replaced by Cella Irvine. Martin Nisenholtz, SVP of digital operations, temporarily replaced Irvine following her departure in May 2011, in July 2011, Darline Jean was named CEO of the About Group, after the companys second-quarter revenues totaled US$27.8 million. Jean previously served as Abouts chief financial officer and her new appointment became effective on September 1,2011, a media report published in August 2012 indicated that Answers. com had reached a preliminary agreement to acquire About. com for US$270 million. However, on August 26, Barry Dillers IAC announced that it would acquire About. com instead for US$300 million in cash. A source for the TechCrunch publication later confirmed that Answers. coms offer was valued at US$270 million. In the corresponding press release, IAC explained that the acquisition will help bolster and accompany its existing properties, Jean fulfilled her role as chief executive during the transition period, while ownership was transferred to IAC, and then left About shortly after the sale was finalized
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Digital Spy
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Digital Spy is a British entertainment and media news website launched in 1999. The site focuses on reporting breaking entertainment news related to movies, music, television, in addition to news articles there are regular reviews posted on popular films, theatre, and concerts. On 9 April 2008 it was announced that the website had been purchased by magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK, on 1 August 2011, ownership of Hachette UK was sold to Hearst Magazines UK. As well as articles, the site also features forums, which went live in March 2000, representatives of several major companies, including Top Up TV, Joost, BSkyB, Goodmans, and Amstrad CEO Lord Alan Sugar are registered members who have posted on the forums. Iain Chapman launched the website, providing news, rumours. At the same time, Chris Butcher launched the ONfaq website, offering similar news, both sites proved to be popular, attracting a lot of attention from visitors eager for more news about these rapidly developing TV platforms. Very quickly, Iain and Chris discussed the idea of a merger of the two sites, to create the digiNEWS Network, on 28 February 1999 digiNEWS and ONfaq merged and were rebranded as sites of the new digiNEWS network. Both sites were redesigned with common branding, and new header graphics identifying the digiNEWS network, more sites continued to join the network - Chris Norriss cablenews, uk, Mark Hughes DVDNews and Neil Wilkes TV, uk. The network was growing, but technically it was disjointed, served from personal webspace from ISPs such as Freeserve. Discussions with website guru Jose Cardoso began, and work started on integrating the multitude of sites into a single portal. It was important for the new site to be accessible, so a. COM address was preferable, unfortunately the diginews. com address was already taken. After many many emails back and forth, the name Digital Spy was chosen, the new Digital Spy forums went live on 1 March 2000. They were built on the UBB forum platform, the new Digital Spy news portal went live on 19 May 2001, running on a custom-built content management system developed by Jose and called RAMS. In November 2015, Digital Spy hired ex editor of Heat Julian Linley in the role of editor-in-chief as the attempts to challenge BuzzFeed
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Common Sense Media
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Common Sense Media is a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that provides education and advocacy to families to promote safe technology and media for children. Common Sense Media has also developed a set of ratings that are intended to gauge the educational value of videos, games, the nonprofits Learning Ratings attempt to assess different types of learning qualities within various forms of media. The new rating system was funded in part by SCEFDNs $10 million learning initiative program, donations from foundations and individuals and fees from media partners finance Common Sense Media. Today, the organization distributes its content to more than 100 million US homes via partnerships with a variety of traditional, Common Sense Media describes itself as the nation’s largest membership organization dedicated to improving kids’ media lives. By 2016, the organization had over 65 million unique users, in 2016, Charlie Rose reported that Common Sense Media was the United States largest non-profit dedicated to childrens issues. In addition to its English language services, Common Sense Media also offers resources in Spanish, after founding JP Kids, an educational media company for children, and Children Now, a national child advocacy and media group, Jim Steyer founded Common Sense Media in 2003. In an interview with the New York Times, Steyer said he intended to “create a huge constituency for parents, the group received $500,000 in seed money from a group of donors including Charles Schwab, George Roberts, and James Coulter. It said that 81 percent expressed concern that the media in general were encouraging violent or antisocial behavior in children. ”Common Sense Media reviews thousands of movies, TV shows, music, video games, apps, web sites and books. For each title, Common Sense Media indicates the age for which a title is appropriate or most relevant. An overall five-star quality rating is included, as are discussion questions to help families talk about their entertainment. In addition to Common Sense Medias traditional rating system, they offer a set of learning based ratings. Common Sense Media partners with a number of companies that distribute the organization’s free content to more than 100 million homes in the United States. According to Common Sense Media’s website, the organization has content distribution contracts with Road Runner, TiVo, the organization’s current rating system differs from the system used by the Motion Picture Association of America and the Entertainment Software Rating Board. It has received support from parents, and was singled out by US President Barack Obama as a model for using technology to empower parents. Common Sense Media began allowing studios to use their ratings and endorsements in order to promote family-friendly movies in 2014, the first film to use the endorsement was Disney’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Common Sense Media has played a role in influencing billions of dollars in government spending on education-related technologies including classroom broadband access and various learning apps. In April 2015, they launched the national effort, Common Sense Kids Action, to push for certain state. As of 2016, the Common Sense Education program had grown to include over 300,000 member teachers in approximately 100,000 schools
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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HitFix
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In mid-2010 HitFix crossed the 1,000,000 unique users per month milestone. As of April 2013, HitFix was ranked 17th among all entertainment news websites by Alexa, HitFix has been cited as a source by such publications as Time, Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, E. Online, and The Daily Herald. In April 2016, it became a brand of Woven Digital, HitFix was founded by ex-Reed Business Information Development executive, Jen Sargent, and former L. A. Times and MSN. com film editor, Gregory Ellwood, HitFix received its first funding from Golden Seeds, the fourth largest angel investment group in the United States, in 2009. Since then, HitFix has twice benefited from investment from the Tech Coast Angels, the first such investment came in February 2009 in the amount of $850,000. In June 2010, the Angels added to their commitment investing an additional $1,600,000, in addition to Golden Seeds and Tech Coast Angels, HitFix investors include HBS Angels, Liquid Capital, and Gordon Crawford. In addition to being one of its co-founders, Ellwood reports on movies, formerly known as “Moriarty”, McWeeny previously wrote for Aint It Cool News. In addition to being a screenwriter and movie critic, McWeeny now covers the industry for HitFix. McWeeny announced his move to HitFix in 2008 in a review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, on September 20,2016, McWeeny announced via Twitter that he would no longer be working for Hitfix. After 14 years at the New Jersey Star-Ledger, Sepinwall—also known for his blog, last spring, NBC executives went so far as to credit Sepinwall by name for his role in earning a renewal for Chuck. Slate Magazine credited Sepinwall with having changed the nature of television criticism
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Digital Songs
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The Digital Songs chart ranks the best-selling digital songs in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published by Billboard. It debuted in the issue dated January 22,2005, and its data was incorporated in the Hot 100 three weeks later. Since October 2004, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboards music singles charts, the decision was based on the dramatic increase of the digital market while commercial single sales in a physical format were becoming negligible. The charts current number one as of the issue dated April 15,2017 is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran. I. Fun featuring Janelle Monáe – We Are Young Taylor Swift – Blank Space Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth – See You Again Adele – Hello 1. Adele – Hello November 14,20152, Flo Rida – Right Round February 28,20093. Adele – Hello November 21,20154, Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together September 1,20125. Kesha – Tik Tok January 9,20106, Taylor Swift – I Knew You Were Trouble January 12,20137. Bruno Mars – Grenade January 8,20118, Katy Perry – Roar August 31,20139. Taylor Swift – Shake It Off September 6,201410, Gotye featuring Kimbra – Somebody That I Used to Know April 28,20121. Adele – Hello November 14,20152, Flo Rida — Right Round February 28,20093. Taylor Swift — We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together September 1,20124, Katy Perry — Roar August 31,20135. Taylor Swift — Shake It Off September 6,20146, Justin Bieber — Boyfriend April 4,20127. Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa — Payphone May 5,20128, the Black Eyed Peas — Boom Boom Pow April 18,20099. Lady Gaga — Born This Way February 26,201110. S, Digital sales of over 8,000,000 copies sold. The song was also the first to pass the 6,7 and 8 million of downloads Low by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain was the first song to pass the 4 and 5 million of downloads and it was also named the Top Digital Song of the 2000s decade. Soulja Boys Crank That was the first song to pass the 3 million of downloads, daniel Powters Bad Day was the first song to pass the 2 million of downloads. Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani was the first song in history to one million downloads. Right Round by Flo Rida holds the record for the largest debut/overall sales week for a male for a song with 636,000 downloads
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Bruno Mars
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Peter Gene Hernandez, known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and choreographer. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, by a family of musicians, Mars began making music at a young age and he graduated from high school and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a musical career. After being dropped by Motown Records, Mars signed a contract with Atlantic Records in 2009. In 2009, he co-founded the production team The Smeezingtons, responsible for the singles Nothin on You by B. o. B and he featured on the hooks for both singles, becoming recognized as a solo artist. His debut studio album Doo-Wops & Hooligans included the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles Just the Way You Are and Grenade and his second album, Unorthodox Jukebox, peaked at number one in the United States. The album spawned the international singles Locked Out of Heaven, When I Was Your Man, in 2014, Mars lent his vocals to Mark Ronsons Uptown Funk. In 2016, he released his studio album 24K Magic with the lead single of the same title released on October 7,2016. To date, he has sold over 100 million singles and albums combined worldwide, Mars has landed six number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 since his career launched in 2010, attaining his first five faster than any male artist since Elvis Presley. Mars has received awards and nominations, including five Grammy Awards. In December 2013, he ranked number one on the Forbes 30 under 30 list, Mars is known for his stage performances and retro showmanship. He is accompanied by his band, The Hooligans, who play a variety of such as electric guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, drums and horns. Mars performs in a range of musical styles. Peter Gene Hernandez was born on October 8,1985, in Honolulu, Hawaii to Peter Hernandez and Bernadette San Pedro Bayot and his father is of half Puerto Rican and half Ashkenazi Jewish descent, and is originally from Brooklyn, New York. His mother emigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii as a child, and was of Filipino and his parents met while performing in a show in which his mother was a hula dancer and his father played percussion. At the age of two, he was nicknamed Bruno by his father, because of his resemblance to professional wrestler Bruno Sammartino. Mars is one of six children and came from a family which exposed him to a diverse mix of genres including, reggae, rock, hip hop. His mother was both a singer and a dancer, and his father performed Little Richard rock and roll music, Mars uncle was an Elvis impersonator, and also encouraged three-year-old Mars to perform on stage. Mars performed songs by such as Michael Jackson, The Isley Brothers
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When I Was Your Man
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When I Was Your Man is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Bruno Mars for his second studio album, Unorthodox Jukebox. Atlantic Records released the song as the promotional single and as the second official single, taken from the album. When I Was Your Man was written by Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine and Andrew Wyatt, with Mars, Lawrence and it features Mars singing and a piano accompaniment as the sole instrumentation. When I Was Your Man received mostly positive reviews music critics. The song won Favorite Hit at the 2013 Premios Juventud and was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards and it was certified quadruple-platinum in Australia and in the US, while in Canada, it was certified six times platinum. When I Was Your Man was the eighth best selling digital single of 2013, with sales of 8.3 million copies. Cameron Duddy and Mars directed the accompanying music video. It portrays Mars as a lonely balladeer who sits at his piano donned in a pair of sunglasses while setting a half-full glass of whiskey atop it, critics resoundingly complimented the simplicity of the videos production. The song has been covered by artists, including Mike Ward, wards cover peaked at number 60 in the UK Singles Chart. When I Was Your Man was also added to the soundtrack of the Brazilian soap opera Amor à Vida, Mars performed the song on the Moonshine Jungle Tour. While working on the album, Mars said, Im never singing another ballad again, when there are no safe bets, thats when I feel my blood move. He also shared how important the lyrics to this song are for him when he posted a photograph of Unorthodox Jukeboxs artwork via his Twitter account, soon you guys will hear a song I wrote called When I Was Your Man. Philip Lawrence explained the inspiration of the song, I think Bruno and we always loved those moments where you can sit at the piano and emote. Those intimate moments when an artist is so naked and vulnerable, you can’t help and we always wanted to find a stripped down song like that, which is how that song came to be. The subject matter was real life, Bruno had experienced that, when I Was Your Man was mixed at Larrabee Sound Studios in Hollywood by Manny Marroquin. Bruno Mars played the piano, while the recording was done by Ari Levine, charlez Moniz was responsible for engineering the song, and David Kutch with mastering it. When I Was Your Man was written by Andrew Wyatt, Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine, while production was handled by the latter three production-team The Smeezingtons. Having chord progressions Am-C-Dm-G-G7-C and F-G-C, the song is written in the key of C Major, the pop piano ballad finds Mars singing about a pre-fame heartbreak as he regrets letting his woman get away
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Missundaztood
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Missundaztood is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Pink. The albums singles received positive reviews critics and fans alike. They include the global chart-topper Get the Party Started and hit singles Dont Let Me Get Me, the albums final single was Family Portrait, a vulnerable R&B anthem that Pink wrote about her parents separation. That song became a worldwide Top 20 hit, peaking at #18 on the Hot 100, the album became Pinks biggest to date and became one of the most successful albums of the 2000s with over 15 million in worldwide sales. This album is different from Cant Take Me Home as it leads toward pop and she recruited 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry to help her with writing a new album. According to Pink in VH1s Driven she left a message on Perrys answering machine after finding her number in make-up artist Billy Bs phone book, saying she wanted to write with her. She stated that the reason she wanted to work with Perry was that 4 Non Blondes album, Bigger, Better, Faster, Pink worked with Perry on most of the songs of the album, who also contributed guest vocals on Lonely Girl. Other guest vocals are provided by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi on Misery, other writers that worked on the album are Scott Storch and Dallas Austin. Different subjects are touched upon on Missundaztood, in Dont Let Me Get Me she tackles teenage angst and Just like a Pill she describes her drug abuse as a teenager. Pinks father was sent to serve in the Vietnam war which made such an impression on her that she used the stories of her father in the song My Vietnam, towards the end of the song is a sonic interpolation of Jimi Hendrixs Star Spangled Banner. Family Portrait tackles divorce and its effects, according to VH1s Driven, Antonio LA Reid of LaFace Records wasnt initially content with the new music Pink was making, because she had made a name for herself with her successful R&B debut. At the 2003 Grammy Awards Missundaztood was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, Get the Party Started won in the categories Best Female Video and Best Dance Video. Many of the songs on the album contain strong language, however, the album was censored in order to avoid a Parental Advisory sticker. No uncensored studio versions of 18 Wheeler exist, but Pink performs the song uncensored while on tour, the second version released was the main album reissued, but without the enhanced CD portion. A third version, which was an edition that included a bonus DVD was released for a limited time in 2002. Both the limited edition with the bonus DVD and the enhanced CD versions have gone out of print. It was released outside the US with a track, Catch 22. Also, on current pressings of the album, the track Misery is slightly different, on current pressings, Steven Tyler sings an entire verse as opposed to a providing only few lines and background vocals
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We Are Young
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We Are Young is a song recorded by American band Fun featuring Janelle Monáe, for their second studio album, Some Nights. It was released on September 20,2011, as the single from Some Nights. The song received positive reviews from music critics, with many noting the song as a breakthrough for the indie genre. We Are Young has attained commercial success worldwide, reaching one in several countries. The track initially only gained attention from media, although it did receive its first commercial radio airplay on Tampa Bay alternative radio station, 97X. However, it was covered by the television show Glee. With the Glee version having success on the charts, the song was licensed for use in a Chevrolet Sonic commercial that aired during Super Bowl XLVI. It is also the first song to log seven weeks of 300,000 or more in digital sales, the song also topped the Hot 100 Airplay chart with 120 million impressions in seven weeks, becoming the first group since Destinys Childs Survivor to do so. The song was named 99th on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of All-time, an accompanying music video was directed by Marc Klasfeld at David Sukonick Concert Hall in Los Angeles. It features the group performing on a stage at a bar where a riot breaks out, the song is featured in the music video game, Rock Band Blitz. The song won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 55th Grammy Awards, after the poor commercial performance of their debut album, Aim and Ignite, Fun decided to put Jeff Bhasker as producer for their second studio effort. The bands frontman, Nate Ruess, met with Bhasker at his hotel in New York City in February 2011. Ruess was anxious about meeting Bhasker, so he arrived early at the bar in the Bowery Hotel on the Lower East Side and had a little to drink just to make sure I was loosened up. According to Bhasker, he wasnt really wanting to meet the band, as he was working with Beyoncé, and also with Alicia, Kanye and Jay-Z, I had no intention of being distracted. Bhasker had just finished a day in the studio with Beyoncé. He had previously already canceled two meetings with him, slightly tipsy and feeling inspired, Ruess belted out the chorus for We Are Young, which at that time was an unfinished composition. Bhasker was taken aback and automatically freaked out, demanding he see the band for studio time in the few days. The next day, Bhasker and Ruess booked a New York studio, on the first day of recording at Jungle City, Bhasker programmed the drums on his Akai MPC3000 machine, a moog bass and maybe using my little Juno 106, and we added vocals and piano
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Katy Perry
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Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer and songwriter. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in music as a teenager. Perry signed with Red Hill Records and released her studio album Katy Hudson under her birth name in 2001. She moved to Los Angeles the following year to venture into music after Red Hill ceased operations and she subsequently began working with producers Glen Ballard, Dr. Luke. After adopting the stage name Katy Perry and being dropped by The Island Def Jam Music Group and Columbia Records, the album became the first by a female artist to produce five number-one songs in the U. S. and the second overall after Michael Jacksons album Bad. In March 2012, she re-issued the album as Teenage Dream, The Complete Confection and her fourth album, Prism, was released in 2013, and is influenced by pop and dance. She became the first artist with multiple videos to one billion views on Vevo with the videos for its songs Roar. Perry has received awards, including four Guinness World Records, a Brit Award, and a Juno Award. Her estimated net worth as of 2016 is $125 million and she is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time, having sold 100 million records globally throughout her career. In film, she released a documentary titled Katy Perry, Part of Me in 2012. Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born in Santa Barbara, California, to Pentecostal pastors Mary Christine and her parents are born again Christians, each having turned to religion after a wild youth. Perry has English, German, Irish, and Portuguese ancestry, through her mother, she is a niece of film director Frank Perry. She has a brother named David, who is a singer. From ages 3 to 11, Perry often moved across the country as her parents set up churches before settling again in Santa Barbara. Growing up, she attended schools and camps, including Paradise Valley Christian School in Arizona. Her family struggled financially, sometimes using food stamps and eating from the bank intended to feed the congregation at her parents church. Growing up, Perry and her siblings were not allowed to eat Lucky Charms as the term luck reminded their mother of Lucifer, Perry primarily listened to gospel music, as secular music was generally discouraged in the familys home. She discovered popular music through CDs she sneaked from her friends, while not strictly identifying as religious, Perry has stated, I pray all the time – for self-control, for humility
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Maroon 5
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Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band that originated in Los Angeles, California. The band, which self-released an album called We Like Digging, then signed to Reprise Records and released the album The Fourth World in 1997. After the album garnered a tepid response, the band parted ways with the record label, in 2001, the band changed its image by adding guitarist James Valentine and pursuing a different direction under the name Maroon 5. At this point, Carmichael switched to playing keyboards, which has become his main instrument in the band. After these changes, Maroon 5 signed with a subsidiary of J Records, Octone Records, the albums lead single, Harder to Breathe, received heavy airplay, which helped the album to debut at number six on the Billboard 200 chart. In 2004, the album went platinum and has dubbed the sleeper hit of the millennium. The band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2005, for the next few years, Maroon 5 toured extensively worldwide in support of Songs About Jane and produced two live recordings, 2004s 1.22.03. Acoustic and 2005s Live – Friday the 13th. In 2006, Dusick officially left Maroon 5 after suffering from serious wrist, the band then recorded their second album, It Wont Be Soon Before Long and released it in May 2007. The album reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, in September 2010, Maroon 5 released their third studio album Hands All Over, which was re-released in 2011 to include the single Moves like Jagger featuring Christina Aguilera. While the original version of the album received mixed reviews, Moves like Jagger reached the one position on the Billboard Hot 100. The band released their album, Overexposed, on June 26,2012. All four singles of the album were successful on the Billboard Hot 100, including second single One More Night. Keyboardist PJ Morton became a member of the band in 2012. The addition of PJ Morton meant that for the first time, in 2014, the band signed with Interscope Records and released their fifth studio album, V. Maroon 5 has sold more than 20 million albums and 70 million singles worldwide, Adam Levine was introduced to Ryan Dusick by a mutual friend and guitarist, Adam Salzman. Levine was 15 years old and Dusick was 16, three of the five members of the band started playing together at age 12. The four original members of the band met while attending Brentwood EMH School in Los Angeles, while attending Brentwood EMH School, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael joined up with Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick to form Karas Flowers, a rock band. The name was taken from a girl went to their high school that the band had a collective crush on
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Mainstream Top 40
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Mainstream Top 40 is a 40-song music chart published weekly by Billboard Magazine which ranks the most popular songs being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States. The rankings are based on radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, arbitron refers to the format as contemporary hit radio. The chart debuted in Billboard Magazine in its issued date October 3,1992, both Top 40 charts measured actual monitored airplay from data compiled by Broadcast Data Systems. Both charts were born of then-new BDS electronic monitoring technology as a more objective and this data was also used as the airplay component for Hot 100 tabulations. They returned to the print edition in the August 2,2003, songs on the chart are ranked by the total number of spins detected per week. Songs which gain plays or remain flat from the week will receive a bullet. A song will also receive a bullet if its loss in plays does not exceed the percentage of monitored station downtime for the format. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the increase in plays is placed first. Since the introduction of the chart until 2005, songs below No.20 were moved to recurrent after 26 weeks on the chart, in the chart week of December 3,2005, songs below No.20 were moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Since the issue dated December 4,2010, songs older than 20 weeks on the chart are moved to recurrent after they drop below No.15 and this chart was often mistaken for and confused with the now discontinued Pop 100 Airplay chart. 12, Mariah Carey - Dreamlover, Taylor Swift - Shake It Off No,13, Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar - Bad Blood No. 14, Lady Gaga - Born This Way, Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z - Suit & Tie No,16, Madonna - Frozen, Britney Spears - Hold It Against Me No. I. The panel is regularly updated, with stations being added or removed sometimes even weekly, as of 2011, Britney Spears holds the record for the longest span between No. 1s at 12 years, seven months and four days between her first No.1 and her latest, katy Perrys Teenage Dream is the first and only album to have 6 singles top the chart. JoJo at age 13, became the youngest solo artist to have a single on the chart with Leave. Three acts have replaced themselves at No,1, Mariah Carey, OutKast and Iggy Azalea - with Azalea being the only one to do so with her first two chart entries. com BDS Top 40/CHR chart
