Corporate title
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Corporate titles or business titles are given to company and organization officials to show what duties and responsibilities they have in the organization. Such titles are used in publicly and privately held for-profit corporations, in addition, many non-profit organizations, educational institutions, partnerships, and sole proprietorships also confer corporate titles. There are considerable variations in the composition and responsibilities of corporate titles, typically, senior managers are higher than vice presidents, although many times a senior officer may also hold a vice president title, such as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The board of directors is not part of management itself. A corporation often consists of different businesses, whose senior executives report directly to the CEO or COO, if organized as a division then the top manager is often known as an Executive Vice President. If that business is a subsidiary which has more independence, then the
Brian Robertson
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Brian David Robbo Robertson is a Scottish rock guitarist, best known as a member of Thin Lizzy and Motörhead. Robertson was born in Clarkston, Renfrewshire, where he was educated, attending Eastwood High School and he studied cello and classical piano for eight years before switching to the guitar and drums. He played in gigs around his local area with bands like Dream Police, in June 1974, Thin Lizzy were auditioning for two new guitarists and a try-out for Robertson was arranged. Aged 18, Robertson was taken on along with Scott Gorham on the lead guitar. The two lead guitarists provided a critical part of Thin Lizzys signature sound, referred to by critics as their twin guitar attack, nightlife and Bad Reputation were the only records that did not feature his songwriting and he performed only on selected tracks from the latter album. Robertsons pioneering, unconventional use of the pedal as an extension of the instrument during soloing rather than as a purely rhythmic effect provided
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Robertson performing in 2011
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Robertson playing at an annual tribute concert for Lynott; the 25th annual "Vibe for Philo"
Big Four record labels
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The modern Western music industry emerged between the 1930s and 1950s, when records replaced sheet music as the most important product in the music business. In the commercial world, the recording industry–a reference to recording performances of songs and pieces, labels outside of these three major labels are referred to as independent labels. The largest portion of the music market for concerts and tours is controlled by Live Nation. Live Nation is a subsidiary of iHeartMedia Inc, which is the largest owner of radio stations in the United States. In the first decades of the 2000s, the industry underwent drastic changes with the advent of widespread digital distribution of music via the Internet. A conspicuous indicator of changes is total music sales, since 2000. In 2011, the largest recorded music retailer in the world was now a digital, Internet-based platform operated by a computer company, printed music in Europe, Music publishing using machine-printed sheet music developed durin
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The online iTunes "Store" has become a popular way for listeners to find and buy music.
RIAA
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The Recording Industry Association of America is a continental North and South American trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors, which the RIAA says create, the RIAA headquarters is in Washington, D. C. The RIAA was formed in 1952 and its original mission was to administer recording copyright fees and problems, work with trade unions, and do research relating to the record industry and government regulations. Early RIAA standards included the RIAA equalization curve, the format of the record groove and the dimensions of 33 1/3 rpm,45 rpm. Since 2001, the RIAA has spent $2 to $6 million each year on lobbying in the United States, the RIAA also participates in the collective rights management of sound recordings, and it is responsible for certifying Gold and Platinum albums and singles in the United States. Cary Sherman has been the RIAAs chairman and CEO since 2011, Sherman joined the RIAA as i
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Recording Industry Association of America
Nettwerk
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Nettwerk Music Group is the umbrella company for Nettwerk Records, Nettwerk Management, and Nettwerk One Publishing. Today, Nettwerk continues to achieve critical and commercial success with label, management and publishing rosters, including Andy Kong, passenger, Christina Perri, Guster, Family of the Year, Ólafur Arnalds, and Perfume Genius. Once out of college, McBride managed a band called Moev. McBride had previously started a label, Noetix, and though it never quite got off the ground, he, the company officially opened its doors in 1985. Their first release was The Grapes of Wraths self-titled EP followed by their full-length and it piqued the attention of Capitol Records, and not only paved the way for a distribution deal for the band but for Nettwerk as a label. Fueled by this and Skinny Puppys success, Nettwerk began to grow, at a show in Halifax, McBride ran into a nineteen-year-old singer-songwriter named Sarah McLachlan – hed been introduced to her music through Jowett, and
EMI Music Canada
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EMI was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 and was based in London. At the time of its break-up in 2012, it was the fourth-largest business group and its EMI Records Ltd. group of record labels included EMI Records, Parlophone, Virgin Records and Capitol Records. EMI also had a publishing arm, EMI Music Publishing—also based in London with offices globally. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE100 Index, other members of the Sony consortium include the Estate of Michael Jackson, The Blackstone Group, and Abu Dhabi–owned investment fund Mubadala Development Company. The new vertically integrated company produced sound recordings as well as recording, the companys gramophone manufacturing led to forty years of success with larger-scale electronics and electrical engineering. He was killed in 1942 whilst conducting flight trials on an experimental H2S radar set, post-war, the company resumed its involvement in making broadcasting equipment, notably providi
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EMI's former building in London. The building is now owned by
Warner Music UK.
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EMI Group logo used from 1990 to 2012
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Trade ad of congratulations to the Beatles for their 1964 Grammys.
Sony BMG Music Entertainment
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a record music company, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann AG. The ventures successor, the again-active Sony Music Entertainment, is 100% owned by the Sony Corporation of America, Sony BMG Music Entertainment began in Skem as the result of a 50–50 joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment and Bertelsmann Music Group completed on March 4,2004. The merger affected all Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group companies worldwide except for Japan, financial analysts covering the merger anticipated that up to 2,000 jobs would be cut as a result, saving Sony BMG approximately $350 million annually. The companys chief executive officer is Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, who succeeded Andrew Lack on February 10,2006, in the first half of 2005, the companys share of new releases in the United States declined from 33% to 26% according to Nielsen SoundScan. This, and Lacks negotiation of what called a ill-conceived deal
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Primary businesses
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Warner Music Canada
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Warner Music Canada is the Canadian division of Warner Music Group. The label previously operated as WEA Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of WEA International and it was founded in 1967 as Warner Reprise Canada Ltd. This list is for artists signed directly to Warner Music Canada
Private copying levy
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A private copying levy is a government-mandated scheme in which a special tax or levy is charged on purchases of recordable media. Such taxes are in place in countries and the income is typically allocated to the developers of content. Levy system may operate in principle as a system of collectivisation, such levies were first introduced in Germany in the 1960s. With the advent of the cassette, legislators were persuaded that cassette recorders would decimate sales of records as friend after friend would then make copies of only one purchased album. Levies today are assessed on recordable compact discs, a form of media that did not exist when levies were first conceived, although the bulk of unrecorded compact discs are actually used in the computing industry, they are still taxed to provide a revenue stream to the recording industry. Levies are often considered a compensation for illegal file sharing, a notable exception in Europe is the UK, that does not allow private copies. On 2015
Internet service provider
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An Internet service provider is an organization that provides services for accessing and using the Internet. Internet service providers may be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, Internet services typically provided by ISPs include Internet access, Internet transit, domain name registration, web hosting, Usenet service, and colocation. The Internet was developed as a network between government research laboratories and participating departments of universities, by the late 1980s, a process was set in place towards public, commercial use of the Internet. The remaining restrictions were removed by 1995,4 years after the introduction of the World Wide Web, in 1989, the first ISPs were established in Australia and the United States. In Brookline, Massachusetts, The World became the first commercial ISP in the US and its first customer was served in November 1989. On 23 April 2014, the U. S, a possible solution to net neutrality concerns may be munic
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Local ISP in Manhattan installing fiber for provisioning Internet access
Shaw Communications
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Shaw Communications Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications company that provides telephone, Internet, television, and mobile services all backed by a fibre optic network. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Shaw provides services mostly in British Columbia and Alberta, with systems in Saskatchewan, Manitoba. Through its subsidiary Freedom Mobile, Shaw provides mobile services in areas of British Columbia, Alberta. The companys chief competitor is Telus Communications, Shaw was founded as Capital Cable Television Company, Ltd. in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1966. The company changed its name to Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. and went public on the TSX in 1983, however, two swaps, in 1994 and 2001, with Rogers Cable have resulted in its assets being restricted to Western Canada and a few areas of Northern Ontario. In 1999, Shaw spun out its media properties into a second publicly-traded company, in February 2003, the Florida systems would be sold to Time Warner Cable, while the Texas systems were sold t
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Shaw Communications Inc.
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Shaw Technician Van, with the previous logo
Telus
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The company is based in the Vancouver, British Columbia area, it was originally based in Edmonton, Alberta, before its merger with BCTel in 1999. Teluss wireless division, Telus Mobility, offers HSPA+, and LTE-based mobile phone networks, Telus is the incumbent local exchange carrier in British Columbia and Alberta. Teluss primary competitors are Shaw Communications in the Western provinces, and Bell Canada, Telus is a member of the British Columbia Technology Industry Association. In 1995, it acquired Edmonton Telephones Corporation from the City of Edmonton making Telus the sole provider of service in Alberta. In 1996, Telus was introduced to the public as the consumer brand, in 1998, Telus and BCTel announced a proposed merger. The merger was completed in 1999, with the name slightly modified to Telus Corporation. While the merged company chose to retain the Telus name, it moved its headquarters from Edmonton to Vancouver, the merger created Canadas second largest telcom, with 22% o
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Telus building ("The Boot") in Burnaby, BC.
Rogers Communications
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Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company. It operates particularly in the field of communications, cable television, telephone. The present enterprise dates to 1960, when Rogers son, Ted Rogers and that company acquired CHFI that year, as well as Aldred-Rogers Broadcasting, a partnership with Joel Aldred which helped launch CFTO in 1961. Rogers later bought out Aldred and started the current cable and wireless operations, however, the company also competes nationally with Telus for wireless services, and primarily indirectly with Shaw Communications for television service. This was a breakthrough in the technology and became a key factor in popularizing radio reception, after this invention radios became far more commonplace in the world. No power transformers were needed in these radios In 1931, Rogers Sr. was awarded an experimental television licence in Canada and he was working on radar when, on May 6,1939 he died suddenly due to complications of a
Bell Canada
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Bell Canada is a Canadian telecommunications and media company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. Its subsidiary Bell Mobility is one of Canadas big three mobile telecommunications providers, while Bell TV provides direct-to-home satellite TV service, Bell Canadas principal competitors are Rogers Communications Canada in Ontario and Vidéotron General Partnership and Telus in Quebec. The company serves over 13 million phone lines and is headquartered at the Campus Bell complex in Montreal, Bell Canada is one of the main assets of the conglomerate BCE Inc. formerly known as Bell Canada Enterprises, Inc. BCE ranked number 262 on the 2011 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list, Bell Canada operated as the Canadian subsidiary of the Bell System from 1880 to 1975. However, unlike the other regional Bell operating companies, Bell Canada had its own research, in March 1876 he successfully patented his invention in the United States under the title of Improvement In Telegraphy. His device later
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The Bell Telephone Company of Canada logo with maple leaves, 1922–1940
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Bell Inc. Bell Canada Enterprises
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Bell Canada's headquarters located on
Nuns' Island in Montreal, Quebec.
Bell Sympatico
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Bell Internet, originally and frequently still called Sympatico, is the residential Internet service provider division of BCE Inc. As of May 3,2012, Bell Internet has over 3 million subscribers in Ontario and Quebec, Bell Fibe Internet is offered at the following speeds, 15/10 Mbit/s, 25/10 Mbit/s, 50/10 Mbit/s, 150/50 Mbit/s, 300/100 Mbit/s, and 1 Gbit/s/100 Mbit/s. Sympatico was launched on November 29,1995, starting in Summer 2003, Sympatico tried to differentiate its service from its competitors by adding value-added services. This meant the launch of Radial Points suite of antivirus, firewall, although a fee was originally required, this is no longer the case, as Bell now provides the service at no extra charge for DSL customers. In 2004, Sympatico added a wireless modem-router hardware upgrade and Microsofts MSN Premium software to its portfolio, in Summer 2007, Sympatico packaged its Security suite and wireless home networking modem together with its high speed offering as Sympa
Copyright infringement
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The copyright holder is typically the works creator, or a publisher or other business to whom copyright has been assigned. Copyright holders routinely invoke legal and technological measures to prevent and penalize copyright infringement, Copyright infringement disputes are usually resolved through direct negotiation, a notice and take down process, or litigation in civil court. Egregious or large-scale commercial infringement, especially when it involves counterfeiting, is sometimes prosecuted via the criminal justice system, estimates of the actual economic impact of copyright infringement vary widely and depend on many factors. The terms piracy and theft are often associated with copyright infringement, the original meaning of piracy is robbery or illegal violence at sea, but the term has been in use for centuries as a synonym for acts of copyright infringement. Theft, meanwhile, emphasizes the potential harm of infringement to copyright holders. However, copyright is a type of prop
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Pirated edition of German philosopher
Alfred Schmidt (Amsterdam, ca. 1970)
Peer-to-peer file sharing
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Peer-to-peer file sharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer networking technology. The nodes of such networks are end-user computers and distribution servers, several factors contributed to the widespread adoption and facilitation of peer-to-peer file sharing. These included increasing Internet bandwidth, the digitization of physical media. Users were able to either one or more files from one computer to another across the Internet through various file transfer systems. The central index server indexed the users and their shared content, when someone searched for a file, the server searched all available copies of that file and presented them to the user. The files would be transferred directly between the two private computers, a limitation was that only music files could be shared. Because this process occurred on a server, however, Napster was held liable for copyright infringement. It later reopened as a pay service, after Napster was shut down, th
Internet
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The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite to link devices worldwide. The origins of the Internet date back to research commissioned by the United States federal government in the 1960s to build robust, the primary precursor network, the ARPANET, initially served as a backbone for interconnection of regional academic and military networks in the 1980s. Although the Internet was widely used by academia since the 1980s, Internet use grew rapidly in the West from the mid-1990s and from the late 1990s in the developing world. In the two decades since then, Internet use has grown 100-times, measured for the period of one year, newspaper, book, and other print publishing are adapting to website technology, or are reshaped into blogging, web feeds and online news aggregators. The entertainment industry was initially the fastest growing segment on the Internet, the Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of personal interac
Peer-to-peer filesharing
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Peer-to-peer file sharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer networking technology. The nodes of such networks are end-user computers and distribution servers, several factors contributed to the widespread adoption and facilitation of peer-to-peer file sharing. These included increasing Internet bandwidth, the digitization of physical media. Users were able to either one or more files from one computer to another across the Internet through various file transfer systems. The central index server indexed the users and their shared content, when someone searched for a file, the server searched all available copies of that file and presented them to the user. The files would be transferred directly between the two private computers, a limitation was that only music files could be shared. Because this process occurred on a server, however, Napster was held liable for copyright infringement. It later reopened as a pay service, after Napster was shut down, th
Private copying
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A private copying levy is a government-mandated scheme in which a special tax or levy is charged on purchases of recordable media. Such taxes are in place in countries and the income is typically allocated to the developers of content. Levy system may operate in principle as a system of collectivisation, such levies were first introduced in Germany in the 1960s. With the advent of the cassette, legislators were persuaded that cassette recorders would decimate sales of records as friend after friend would then make copies of only one purchased album. Levies today are assessed on recordable compact discs, a form of media that did not exist when levies were first conceived, although the bulk of unrecorded compact discs are actually used in the computing industry, they are still taxed to provide a revenue stream to the recording industry. Levies are often considered a compensation for illegal file sharing, a notable exception in Europe is the UK, that does not allow private copies. On 2015
Tariffs
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A tariff is a tax on imports or exports. In other languages and very occasionally in English, tariff or its equivalent may also be used to any list of prices. A customs duty or due is the tax levied on the import or export of goods in international trade. In economic sense, a duty is also a kind of consumption tax, a duty levied on goods being imported is referred to as an import duty. Similarly, a duty levied on exports is called an export duty, a tariff, which is actually a list of commodities along with the leviable rate of customs duty, is popularly referred to as a customs duty. This is no longer the case, Customs duty is calculated on the determination of the assessable value in case of those items for which the duty is levied ad valorem. This is often the transaction value unless a customs officer determines assessable value in accordance with the Harmonized System, However, for certain items like petroleum and alcohol, customs duty is realized at a specific rate applied to the
IsoHunt
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IsoHunt is an online torrent files index and repository, where visitors can browse, search, download or upload torrents of various digital content of mostly entertainment nature. It originated in 2003 as isohunt. com website for IRC files search, with 7.4 million unique visitors as of May 2006, isoHunt was one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines. Thousands of torrents were added to and deleted from it every day, users of isoHunt performed over 40 million unique searches per month. On October 19,2008, isoHunt passed the 1 petabyte mark for torrents indexed globally, the site was the third most popular BitTorrent site as of 2008. According to isoHunt, the amount of shared content was more than 14.11 petabytes as of June 13,2012. The site came to an end when the battles that isoHunts founder had been in for years with conglomerates of IP rights holders over allegations of copyright infringing came to a head. A settlement with the MPAA was reached in 2013, stipulating a $110 mill
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isoHunt logo and screenshot of homepage
Supreme Court of British Columbia
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The Supreme Court of British Columbia is the superior trial court for the province of British Columbia, Canada. The BCSC hears civil and criminal law cases as well as appeals from the Provincial Court of British Columbia, including supernumerary judges, there are presently 108 judges. There are also 13 Supreme Court masters who hear and dispose of a variety of applications in chambers. The court was established in 1869 as the The Supreme Court of the Mainland of British Columbia to distinguish it from the Supreme Court of Vancouver Island, the two courts merged in 1870 under the present name. The BCSC is a court of record, having jurisdiction in all cases, civil and criminal. The BCSC has inherent jurisdiction under the Constitution of Canada in addition to any jurisdiction granted to it by federal or provincial statute. The BCSC has jurisdiction in any dispute, including those matters where the dollar amount involved is within the jurisdiction of the Small Claims division of the Provi
Chet Baker
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Chesney Henry Chet Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, and vocalist. Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1950s, particularly for albums featuring his vocals, Jazz historian Dave Gelly described the promise of Bakers early career as James Dean, Sinatra, and Bix, rolled into one. His well-publicized drug habit also drove his notoriety and fame, Baker was in and his maternal grandmother, Randi Moser, was Norwegian. Baker notes that due to the Great Depression, his father, though talented, had to quit as a musician, Baker began his musical career singing in a church choir. His father introduced him to brass instruments with a trombone, which was replaced with a trumpet when the trombone proved too large, peers later described Baker as a natural musician, and that playing came effortlessly to him. Baker received some education at Glendale Junior High School. He was posted to Berlin, where he joined the 298th Army band, after leaving the army in
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Plaque at the Hotel Prins Hendrik, in
Amsterdam
The Last Waltz (1978 album)
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The Last Waltz is a triple album by the Band, released on Warner Bros. Records in 1978, catalogue 3WS3146. It is the soundtrack to the 1978 film of the name. It peaked at #16 on the Billboard 200, the triple-album documents the Bands farewell concert which took place at Bill Grahams Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving Day 1976. The event included an actual Thanksgiving dinner for 5000 attendees, with ballroom dancing, the concert featured songs by the Band interspersed with the group backing up a variety of musical guests. These included many with whom they had worked in the past, notably their previous employers Ronnie Hawkins, van Morrison, a Woodstock neighbor, had co-written and sung on the track 4% Pantomime for the Cahoots album. Sides one through five of the album consisted of songs taken from the concert, Side six comprised The Last Waltz Suite, new numbers composed by Robertson and performed by the Band on an MGM soundstage. The suite featured Emmylou Harris and, on a remake o
Right Round
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Right Round is a song performed by American singer/rapper Flo Rida. It was released as the single from his second studio album. The song features guest vocals from American singer Kesha and it was released to radio on 27 January 2009 and was digitally released on 10 February by Poe Boy Entertainment and Atlantic Records. The song heavily samples the chorus of the 1984 Dead or Alive song You Spin Me Round in its hook, according to one of the songs writers, the chorus refers to oral sex. Kesha contributed guest vocals to the song, but was uncredited in the United States, the singles accompanying music video was directed by Malcolm Jones and nominated for an MTV Video Music Award. The song has been used in movies, such as The Hangover, The Ugly Truth. In the movie Pitch Perfect, the song is performed by the a group the Treblemakers. This song is the track on the UK compilation Now 72. The song is one of the singles in the digital era, with over 12 million certified downloads, making it, F
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"Right Round"
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The inclusion of Kesha (pictured) was the suggestion of producer Dr. Luke, as Flo Rida wanted a female voice in the song.
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Flo Rida performing "Right Round" at the Circus Club in Finland on 9 July 2009.
Flo Rida
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Tramar Lacel Dillard, known professionally as Flo Rida, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter from Carol City, Florida. His 2008 breakout single Low was number one for 10 weeks in the United States, Flo Ridas debut studio album, 2008s Mail on Sunday, reached number four in the US. The album was succeeded by R. O. O. T. S and his subsequent albums, 2010s Only One Flo and 2012s Wild Ones, also charted on the US Billboard 200 chart. Flo Rida has sold over 80 million digital downloads, making him one of the music artists. His catalog includes the international singles Right Round, Club Cant Handle Me, Good Feeling, Wild Ones, Whistle, I Cry, G. D. F. R. and My House. Flo Rida was born as Tramar Lacel Dillard in Carol City, Florida and his parents raised him and his seven sisters together, some of whom sang in a local gospel group. His brother-in-law was a man for local rap group 2 Live Crew. The GroundHoggz had been a group, with members who lived in the same apartment complex as F
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Flo Rida at the 2012 Logie Awards in Melbourne, Australia
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Flo Rida on the set of the music video for "
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Flo Rida performing live in 2012
Kesha
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Kesha Rose Sebert is an American singer, songwriter, and rapper. In 2005, at age 18, Kesha was signed to producer Dr. Lukes label Kemosabe Records and her breakthrough came in early 2009 after appearing on American rapper Flo Ridas number-one single Right Round. Her debut album, Animal, and her first extended play, Keshas music and image propelled her to immediate commercial success, with Animal debuting as the number-one album in the United States. She also achieved two number-one singles, Tik Tok and We R Who We R, and a string of singles from the album. At the same time, she continued to write songs for other artists, Warrior, her second studio album, was released in 2012, spawning Keshas eighth top-ten single with Die Young, and her ninth and tenth Top 40 hits with CMon and Crazy Kids. Tik Tok is among the digital singles in history, selling over 14 million units internationally. Influenced by various genres and artists, Kesha primarily draws inspiration from music of the 1980s, Ma
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Kesha performing live during the
Get Sleazy Tour, her first headlining tour, in 2011
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Kesha
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Kesha performing on
Today in November 2012
A Moment Like This
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A Moment Like This is the debut single by American singer Kelly Clarkson, the winner of the first season of American Idol. It was released as a side with Before Your Love. The song was included on her debut album, Thankful. It is her song from American Idol. In 2006, the song was recorded and released by British singer Leona Lewis and her version gained the Christmas number one, outselling the rest of the top 40 combined. Lewis version has sold 914,000 copies as of 2015, the song was co-written by Jörgen Elofsson and John Reid and produced by Stephen Ferrera and Steve Mac. It was written to be the first single for the winner of the first season of American Idol. As a result, the four remaining finalists, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini, Nikki McKibbin, the song was first revealed to the public when Guarini and Clarkson competed in a final showdown while singing this song, along with another track, Before Your Love. After the American public had voted, Guarini performed the song at the s
Kelly Clarkson
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Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to fame in 2002 after winning the first season of American Idol, Clarksons debut single, A Moment Like This, topped the Billboard Hot 100 and became the best-selling single of 2002 in the U. S. It was followed with her studio album, Thankful, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Trying to reinvent her own image, Clarkson decided to part ways with American Idol management and developed a pop sound for her second album. It sold over 15 million copies worldwide and earned Clarkson two Grammy Awards and she took further creative control for her third album, My December, by becoming the executive producer and co-writing the entire material. However, it caused feud with her label, that was dissatisfied with her darker, less commercial rock music, Clarkson returned to the top of the charts with her more mainstream-oriented fourth album, All I Ever Wanted. Its lead single, My Life Would Suck Without You, holds t
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Clarkson performing during her Hazel Eyes concert tour on November 15, 2005,
Canberra, Australia
Paralyzer
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Paralyzer is the first single from the Canadian rock band Finger Elevens fifth album, Them vs. It was released in March 2007, Finger Elevens frontman Scott Anderson has said that the single has a feel distinct from the rest of Finger Elevens music, possessing more of a funk rock or dance-rock sound. However, the song has also characterized as alternative rock. The song has surpassed One Thing to be Finger Elevens most successful single, One is the original CD version, while the other two are radio edit versions, in which the line containing the word shitty is either censored or replaced with shady. The song alludes to the bands prior hit One Thing with the lyric I should just stay home, if one thing really means one, in addition, the style of the song has been compared to Take Me Out, a 2004 single by indie rock band Franz Ferdinand. The song is played during the New York Islanders warm-ups at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and it has been featured on the television series Gossi
Finger Eleven
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Finger Eleven is a Canadian rock band from Burlington, Ontario, formed in 1990. They have released seven studio albums, with their album The Greyest of Blue Skies bringing them into the mainstream. They won the Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year in 2008 and it was later certified gold status in the US and multi platinum in Canada. They released their studio album, Life Turns Electric, on October 5,2010. They released their first single, Living in a Dream, adding a bit of more of funk rock and dance rock. Five Crooked Lines, their 7th studio album, was released July 31,2015, with Wolves, Finger Eleven first formed in their high school, Lester B. Pearson High School in Burlington, Ontario as Rainbow Butt Monkeys. They achieved a following in Canada throughout their time as a band. One of their first shows was at a school Christmas concert in 1990 and they released their first full album Letters from Chutney with money won from a rock band search contest on 97.7 CHTZ HTZ FMs Rocksearch
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Scott Anderson of Finger Eleven performing in
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OMG (Usher song)
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For other songs titled OMG, see OMG OMG is a song by American recording artist Usher and American rapper will. i. am, who also wrote and produced the song. It uses the effect in several lines, as well as Jock Jams-esque sports arena chanting. The song was met with a reception from critics, who criticized the use of auto-tune. The song marks the time that Usher has collaborated with will. i. am, following the single Whats Your Name. OMG topped the charts in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the song became his ninth number-one hit in the United States, making him the first 2010s artist to collect number-one singles in three consecutive decades. He became only the fourth artist of all-time to achieve that feat, Usher also became the third artist to have at least one number-one song from five consecutive studio albums. The songs choreography and dance-heavy accompanying music video has been compared by critics to that of Yeah, Usher performed the song live several times
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"OMG"
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A still from the video, showing the first scene with Usher on a flickering television, paying homage to
Max Headroom
Usher (entertainer)
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Usher Raymond IV is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. Born in Dallas, Texas but raised and lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee until moving to Atlanta, at the age of 12, his mother put him in local singing competitions, before catching the attention of a music A&R from LaFace Records. In 1994 he released his debut album, Usher. 8701 produced the number-one singles U Remind Me and U Got It Bad and it sold 8 million copies worldwide and won his first two Grammy Awards as Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 2002 and 2003. Confessions established him as one of the musical artists of the 2000s decade. Bolstered by its four consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number one singles, Burn, Confessions Part II, and My Boo, it has been certified Diamond by the RIAA. Here I Stand and Raymond v. Raymond, debuted atop of the Billboard 200, the EP, Versus, also produced the Hot 100 top-five single DJ Got Us Fallin in Love. Looking 4 Myself, also debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, Raymond v. Ra
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Usher during the Division 1 launch party, 2010
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Usher performing in 2010
International Standard Serial Number
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An International Standard Serial Number is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication. The ISSN is especially helpful in distinguishing between serials with the same title, ISSN are used in ordering, cataloging, interlibrary loans, and other practices in connection with serial literature. The ISSN system was first drafted as an International Organization for Standardization international standard in 1971, ISO subcommittee TC 46/SC9 is responsible for maintaining the standard. When a serial with the content is published in more than one media type. For example, many serials are published both in print and electronic media, the ISSN system refers to these types as print ISSN and electronic ISSN, respectively. The format of the ISSN is an eight digit code, divided by a hyphen into two four-digit numbers, as an integer number, it can be represented by the first seven digits. The last code digit, which may be 0-9 or an X, is a check digit. Formally, the form
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ISSN encoded in an EAN-13 barcode with sequence variant 0 and issue number 5
CBC.ca
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CBC. ca is the English-language online service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Under its previous names, the CBCs online service first went live in 1993, the Web-based service of the CBC is one of Canadas most visited web sites. It currently contains over one million pages of information, CBC also runs the French-language website Ici. Radio-Canada. ca. In 1993, CBC launched a web service, followed by a small site supporting CBC Radio. By 1995, the CBC had consolidated its English radio and TV sites into a single website, around 1996, CBC began offering 24-hour live streaming of its radio services using RealAudio. The next year, CBC launched CBC Kids and covered its first federal election online, CBC launched its news site the following year. In 2000, the CBC launched a service and CBC Radio 3. Radio 3 provides streaming audio devoted to culture and independent music and is operated by CBC Radio. In 2001, cbc. ca finished a redesign that modernized the news portal. In 2005, pr
The Hollywood Reporter
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Headquartered in Los Angeles, THR is part of the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a group of properties that includes Billboard and SpinMedia. It is owned by Eldridge Industries, a company owned by an executive of its previous owner. Under Janice Min, a faltering THR was relaunched in 2010 as a weekly print magazine with a revamped, continuously updated website, as well as mobile. THR was founded in 1930 by William R, billy Wilkerson as Hollywoods first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3,1930, and featured Wilkersons front-page Tradeviews column, the newspaper appeared Monday to Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday to Friday from 1940. Wilkerson ran the THR until his death in September 1962, although his final column appeared 18 months prior, from the late 1930s, Wilkerson used THR to push the view that the industry was a communist stronghold. In particular, he opposed the screenplay writers trade u
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
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CRIA
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A cria also known as alpaclettes is the name for a baby camelid such as a llama, alpaca, vicuña, or guanaco. It comes from the Spanish word cría, meaning baby, in alpacas, pregnancies last 12 to 14 months, and usually result in a single cria. Twins are rare, approximately 1⁄1000, slightly rarer than the proportion of twins in human births, twin alpaclette births are not only rare, but dangerous. A twin birth can kill both the mother and alpaclettes, male alpaclettes are taken out when the mother weans him. Female alpaclettes are weaned by the mother but not taken out, llama crias or llamalettes as they are more commonly known are typically born with the whole herd gathering around in an attempt to protect against potential predators. Llamas give birth standing, and the process is relatively quick and problem-free. Most births take place between 8 am and noon, during the warmer daylight hours. This may increase survival by reducing fatalities due to hypothermia during cold Andean night
Amazon.com
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Amazon. com, also called Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company that was founded on July 5,1994, by Jeff Bezos and is based in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales, the company also produces consumer electronics—notably, Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo—and is the worlds largest provider of cloud infrastructure services. Amazon also sells certain low-end products like USB cables under its in-house brand AmazonBasics. Amazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, and Mexico. Amazon also offers international shipping to other countries for some of its products. In 2016, Dutch, Polish, and Turkish language versions of the German Amazon website were launched. In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States by market capi
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