1.
Single (music)
–
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
2.
Naughty Boy
–
Shahid Khan, known by his stage name Naughty Boy, is an English DJ, record producer, songwriter and musician. In 2012, Khan signed a publishing deal with Sony ATV. Khan launched himself as a producer under the moniker Naughty Boy. Naughty Boy has produced two records for UK rappers Chipmunk and Wiley, both featuring Emeli Sandé. Naughty Boy and Sandé later formed a writing and production partnership, leading to Sandé landing her own deal with Virgin. Sandé went on to be named the Critics Choice for the 2012 BRIT Awards, and release her debut album Our Version of Events, a record co-written/produced with Naughty Boy. Khan spent 2011 and 2012 working on records for Leona Lewis, JLS, Cheryl Cole, Jennifer Hudson, Alesha Dixon and Tinie Tempah, in 2013, Naughty Boy released his debut album Hotel Cabana. The set features prominent collaborator Sandé, as well as Ed Sheeran, Gabrielle and it was preceded by the release of the top-ten single Wonder, the number one hit La La La, featuring Sam Smith and Lifted, another collaboration with Sandé. His debut album peaked at two in the UK. On 19 October 2013, Naughty Boys La La La was awarded Best Song, shahid Khan was born 1 January 1985 in Watford, Hertfordshire. His parents being originally from Pakistan, Khan is of Pakistani descent and he decided to follow his ambition to write and produce his own music, under the name Naughty Boy Recordings. In the background, Khan was recording songs in his parents shed in Charlock Way in Watford. The finances allowed Khan to upscale production from the shed to a studio in Ealing. Eventually he got a contract with Sony ATV, and a one-album record deal with Virgin Records. Khan applied to The Princes Trust in 2005, where he was awarded a grant of £5,000 to help start up his business. Speaking to the Watford Observer in 2009 about the opportunity, Khan said The Princes Trust has a scheme where they want to help people who they feel can set up their own business, I wanted to make music but I didnt have any equipment. They said they wanted to help me and that same year, Khan appeared on Channel 4s hit day-time gameshow Deal or No Deal, where he won £44,000, further enabling him to purchase equipment and begin recording. The producer now bases his recordings at his studio in Ealing, the producer burst on to the music scene in 2009, by co-writing and producing Chipmunks hit single Diamond Rings, featuring Emeli Sandé
3.
Wiley (musician)
–
He first tasted success as a member of UK garage crew Pay As U Go, with whom he had a top 40 hit, Champagne Dance in 2001. Wiley has continued to make music while also releasing mainstream singles, such as the UK Singles Chart top 10 hits Wearing My Rolex, Never Be Your Woman. As a teenager, Wiley featured on radio stations such as Rinse FM and drum. In 2000, Wiley went from SS Crew to join The Ladies Hit Squad, Gods Gift from Deck Collecters Crew, Flow Dan and Riko Dan joined soon after. In 2002, the collective achieved a top 20 hit with Champagne Dance, Wiley also received wide recognition in 2000 for his UK garage record Nicoles Groove which he produced under the stage name, Phaze One. After Pay As U Go disbanded, Wiley went on to form the Roll Deep entourage and they moved away from a traditional UK garage sound, and eventually found themselves creating music that would be termed grime. From 2001 onwards, Wiley began producing instrumental singles on his Wiley Kat Recordings label, the most famous ones are the Eskimo, Avalanche, Ice Rink and Snowman. These led to a record deal with XL Recordings. In 2004, Wiley released his album, Treddin on Thin Ice on XL. Singles from the album include Wot Do U Call It, a record questioning what name should be given to his music, and Pies. Many reviews, including that by Pitchfork Media, made comparisons between Wiley and his previous labelmate Dizzee Rascal, who had achieved success with Boy in Da Corner the previous year. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian noted the comically polarised fanbase Wiley had accrued, At one extreme, lengthy essays are posted on issues as the differentiation between Humean and Kantian views of motivation in the lyrics of Bonnie Prince Billy. At the other extreme, it is favoured by inner-city teens who appear to communicate entirely in a mix of street slang. During this period, Wiley occasionally referred to his music as eski, also, Wiley released mixtapes under the name Eskiboy. Wiley was quoted in conjunction with his theme, Sometimes I just feel cold hearted. I felt cold at that time, towards my family, towards everyone, thats why I used those names Many of Wileys early vinyl releases, such as Eskimo, were released under the alias Wiley Kat, this name was derived from a character in the cartoon Thundercats. However, the Kat is never used by Wiley anymore. In 2006, Wiley released his second album Da 2nd Phaze on the Boy Better Know label and this was followed in by Wileys third album Playtime is Over on Big Dada Records, an album which followed his eskibeat roots
4.
CD single
–
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
5.
Relentless Records
–
Relentless Records is a record label currently headed by co-founder Shabs Jobanputra. Originally known for such as Artful Dodgers Re-Rewind and B15 Projects Girls Like This, Relentless has also published albums by Joss Stone, KT Tunstall, So Solid Crew. Relentless Records was formally registered as a company on 1 December 1999, after first working with Virgin Records in 2003, the label was sold to it in 2009. Affected by the November 2011 dissolution of EMI Group, Virgins recorded music business was sold to Universal Music UK, propitiously, Jobanputra had departed EMI in April 2011, with a deal returning control of the Relentless name to him whilst leaving the labels roster signed to the major. In this interim period, Relentless released music from Ms. Dynamite and Cage the Elephant and signed artists Rude Kid, in January 2012 Relentless became part of Sony Music in the UK, reuniting Jobanputra with his former EMI/Virgin colleague Nick Gatfield. Recent signings include Bondax, Misha B, Misty Miller, The Other Tribe, Mausi, Roll Deep, Martin Solveig, Chris Malinchak, Relentless works closely with in-house company Media Village for its PR and A&R
6.
Virgin Records
–
Virgin Records is a British-founded record label originally founded by English entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972. It was later sold to Thorn EMI in 1992, today, the operations of Virgin Records America, Inc. are still active and headquartered in Hollywood, California, as it operates exclusively under the Capitol Music Group since 2007. US artists include Knox Hamilton, LTric and Rise Against, in fact the first real store was above a shoe shop at the Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street. After making the shop into a success, they turned their business into a fully fledged record label, the name Virgin, according to Branson, arose from Tessa Watts, a colleague of his, when they were brainstorming business ideas. She suggested Virgin – as they were all new to business – like virgins, the original Virgin logo was designed by English artist and illustrator Roger Dean, a young naked woman in mirror image with a large long-tailed serpent and the word Virgin in Deans familiar script. A variation on the logo was used for the spin-off Caroline Records label and this was soon followed by some notable krautrock releases, including electronic breakthrough album Phaedra by Tangerine Dream, and The Faust Tapes and Faust IV by Faust. The Faust Tapes album retailed for 49p and as a result allowed this relatively unknown band to reach number 12 in the album charts, other early albums include Gongs Flying Teapot, which Daevid Allen has been quoted as having never been paid for. Under the guidance of Tessa Watts, Virgins Head of Publicity, shortly afterwards, the Notting Hill record shop was raided by police for having a window display of the Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Heres the Sex Pistols in the window. After modified versions of the label came the red, white and blue design introduced in 1975. The current Virgin logo was created in 1978, commissioned by Simon Draper, brian Cooke of Cooke Key Associates commissioned a graphic designer to produce a stylised signature. In 1983 Virgin purchased Charisma Records, renaming it Charisma/Virgin, then later Virgin/Charisma, before folding the label in 1986, in the process they acquired Genesis and comedy group Monty Python. The Charisma label was reactivated in the US in 1990 and enjoyed success with such as Maxi Priest, Right Said Fred,38 Special. When this Charisma label was retired in 1992, all of its artists were, as before, in 1987, Venture Records was created for new age and modern classical artists including Klaus Schulze, who had been associated with Virgin since the early 1970s. 10 Records Immortal Records Delabel Caroline Records was a label used from 1973 to 1977. The name and logo were used for some American editions of Virgin records in the 1980s and 1990s. Caroline was primarily used for independent distribution until the label was reactivated in 2013, today, Caroline Records acts as an independent label taking the place of EMI Label Services, after Virgins former parent company EMI was purchased by Universal Music Group. Front Line Records was a label for issuing Jamaican and English reggae music from 1978 to approximately 1987, a short-lived associated label, Dindisc, had Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and The Monochrome Set during its brief existence, after which its recordings became part of Virgins catalogue. Noo Trybe Records was a hip hop label that existed from 1994 to 1999
7.
Songwriter
–
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
8.
Bing Crosby
–
Harry Lillis Bing Crosby, Jr. was an American singer and actor. The first multimedia star, from 1931 to 1954 Crosby was a leader in sales, radio ratings. His early career coincided with technical recording innovations such as the microphone and this allowed him to develop a laid-back, intimate singing style that influenced many of the popular male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, and Dean Martin. Also in 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music, in 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. He is one of only 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry. He became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. In addition to his work with early tape recording, he helped to finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, Crosby died at the age of 74 on October 14,1977, from a sudden heart attack in Alcobendas, Spain. Crosby was born on May 2,1903 in Tacoma, Washington, in 1906, Crosbys family moved to Spokane, and in 1913, Crosbys father built a house at 508 E. Sharp Avenue. The house now sits on the campus of Crosbys alma mater Gonzaga University and he was the fourth of seven children, brothers Larry, Everett, Ted, and Bob, and two sisters, Catherine and Mary Rose. His parents were Harry Lowe Crosby, Sr. a bookkeeper, Crosbys mother was a second generation Irish-American. In 1910, seven-year-old Harry Crosby Jr. was forever renamed, the Sunday edition of the Spokesman-Review published a feature called The Bingville Bugle. Written by humorist Newton Newkirk, The Bingville Bugle was a parody of a hillbilly newsletter filled with gossipy tidbits, minstrel quips, creative spelling, and mock ads. A neighbor, 15-year-old Valentine Hobart, shared Crosbys enthusiasm for The Bugle, and noting Crosbys laugh, took a liking to him, eventually, the last vowel was dropped and the nickname stuck. Crosby later described Jolsons delivery as electric, Crosby graduated from Gonzaga High School in 1920 and enrolled at Gonzaga University. He attended Gonzaga for three years, but did not earn a bachelors degree, as a freshman, he played on the universitys baseball team. The university granted him a doctorate in 1937. In 1923, Crosby was invited to join a new band composed of school students a few years younger than himself. Al Rinker, Miles Rinker, James Heaton, Claire Pritchard and Robert Pritchard, along with drummer Crosby, formed the Musicaladers, the group performed on Spokane radio station KHQ, but disbanded after two years
9.
Record producer
–
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
10.
Diamond Rings (song)
–
Diamond Rings is the third single released British rapper Chipmunks debut studio album, I Am Chipmunk. The song was released digitally on 5 July 2009 and physically a day later and it features Scottish recording artist Emeli Sandé performing the chorus. Chipmunk told Rewind RWD magazine about the lyrics, It’s not about being flash and spending money though, It’s about feeling good out there. The song samples Miss Ska-Culation by Roland Al and the Soul Brothers and it helps that he is a dapper dresser too, and good at the rhyming. And if youre going to be inspired by anyone, why not pick the best, there again, its quite hard to take Chipmunk seriously as the hard-bragging, hard-to-beat, rhyme hardnut he is in his lyrics, when hes at such a tender age. All you really want to do is pat his pretty head and say awww and he will grow into his own boasts, though, you watch. Now all he has to do is finish his BA degree, the music video does not feature Emeli Sandé, who provides the actual vocals for the chorus on the recording. She is replaced by a woman who appears throughout the video miming along to the pre-recorded vocals. The video shows Chipmunk and a woman in a restaurant, the woman is on stage singing while Chipmunk is shown rapping in front of his backing dancers Flawless. At the end, two policemen enter looking for Chipmunk and the woman, both sneak out when the policemen arent looking. A newspaper article reveals that they are diamond thieves and have escaped again. CD single Diamond Rings -3,06 Diamond Rings -3,06 Digital download Diamond Rings -3,06 Diamond Rings -3,06 Diamond Rings -4,38 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
11.
Sidetracked (song)
–
Sidetracked is a single by English grime artist Jme, from his second studio album Blam. It was released on 21 February 2010 and has peaked to number 147 on the UK Singles Chart, the song features vocals from British grime artist Wiley and was produced by D Solz. A music video to accompany the release of Sidetracked was first released onto YouTube on 25 January 2010 at a length of three minutes and thirty-seven seconds
12.
Now or Never (Jodie Connor song)
–
Now Or Never is the debut single by Barbadian British singer-songwriter Jodie Connor, which features vocals from British grime artist Wiley. It was released by download on 13 January 2011 on Polydor Records. The track was produced by Takeover Entertainment producer David Dawood, the Producer behind Roll Deeps number 1 smash Good Times. Now or Never debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number 14 on 23 January 2011 as the fifth highest entry. The single also managed to debut at number 6 on the R&B chart, on its second week in the chart, the single fell 16 places to number 30, being hailed the weeks Biggest Faller. It then fell 18 places to number 48 and in its fourth week dropped to #100
13.
Your Woman
–
Your Woman is a song by British one-man band White Town. It was released on 13 January 1997 as the single from the album Women in Technology. It features a trumpet line taken from My Woman by Al Bowlly. The song peaked at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and your Woman was White Towns only hit. The song was named the 158th best track of the 1990s by Pitchfork Media, White Towns sole band member and writer of Your Woman, Jyoti Prakash Mishra, has stated that the lyrics could stem from or be related to multiple situations. He says When I wrote it, I was trying to write a pop song that had more than one perspective, although it’s written in the first person the character behind that viewpoint isn’t necessarily what the casual listener would expect. Mishra writes that the themes of the include, Being a member of an orthodox Trotskyist / Marxist movement. Being a straight guy in love with a lesbian, being a gay guy in love with a straight man. Being a straight girl in love with a lying, two-timing, the hypocrisy that results when love and lust get mixed up with highbrow ideals. The song was mixed on a Atari ST computer, the music video was produced in black-and-white silent film style. Most of the scenes were filmed in Derby. In the video there are elements of acting, cinematography. The exaggerated gestures of the woman, helpless and fearful. The use of masks, as to emphasize focal points or for a mere elegant look. At the point where the woman first enters the bedroom and in the final rope scene. Mishra can be seen for brief moments on television screens in the background, there is also a scene where the woman closes the door on the mans arm, as she tries to escape from his advances. This is a reference to a very similar scene from Salvador Dalí. British singer–songwriter Tyler James released a cover of the song and it was released as the third and final single from his debut studio album The Unlikely Lad
14.
Trumpet
–
A trumpet is a musical instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family, trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through almost-closed lips, producing a sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, there are many distinct types of trumpet, with the most common being pitched in B♭, having a tubing length of about 1.48 m. Early trumpets did not provide means to change the length of tubing, most trumpets have valves of the piston type, while some have the rotary type. The use of rotary-valved trumpets is more common in orchestral settings, each valve, when engaged, increases the length of tubing, lowering the pitch of the instrument. A musician who plays the trumpet is called a trumpet player or trumpeter, the earliest trumpets date back to 1500 BC and earlier. The bronze and silver trumpets from Tutankhamuns grave in Egypt, bronze lurs from Scandinavia, trumpets from the Oxus civilization of Central Asia have decorated swellings in the middle, yet are made out of one sheet of metal, which is considered a technical wonder. The Shofar, made from a ram horn and the Hatzotzeroth and they were played in Solomons Temple around 3000 years ago. They were said to be used to blow down the walls of Jericho and they are still used on certain religious days. The Salpinx was a straight trumpet 62 inches long, made of bone or bronze, Salpinx contests were a part of the original Olympic Games. The Moche people of ancient Peru depicted trumpets in their art going back to AD300, the earliest trumpets were signaling instruments used for military or religious purposes, rather than music in the modern sense, and the modern bugle continues this signaling tradition. Improvements to instrument design and metal making in the late Middle Ages, the natural trumpets of this era consisted of a single coiled tube without valves and therefore could only produce the notes of a single overtone series. Changing keys required the player to change crooks of the instrument, the development of the upper, clarino register by specialist trumpeters—notably Cesare Bendinelli—would lend itself well to the Baroque era, also known as the Golden Age of the natural trumpet. During this period, a vast body of music was written for virtuoso trumpeters, the art was revived in the mid-20th century and natural trumpet playing is again a thriving art around the world. The melody-dominated homophony of the classical and romantic periods relegated the trumpet to a role by most major composers owing to the limitations of the natural trumpet. Berlioz wrote in 1844, Notwithstanding the real loftiness and distinguished nature of its quality of tone, there are few instruments that have been more degraded. The attempt to give the trumpet more chromatic freedom in its range saw the development of the keyed trumpet, the symphonies of Mozart, Beethoven, and as late as Brahms, were still played on natural trumpets
15.
Al Bowlly
–
He recorded more than 1,000 records between 1927 and 1941. Bowlly was born in Lourenço Marques, in the then Portuguese colony of Mozambique, to Greek and Lebanese parents who met en route to Australia, Bowlly was brought up in Johannesburg. However, he fell out with Adeler and was fired from the band in Surabaya, after a spell with a Filipino band in Surabaya he was then employed by Jimmy Liquime in India. Bowlly worked his passage back home by busking and that year, If I Had You became one of the first popular songs by an English jazz band to become well known in America as well, and Bowlly had gone out on his own by the beginning of the 1930s. First, however, the onset of the Great Depression in 1929 resulted in Bowlly being made redundant, during the next four years, he recorded over 500 songs. By 1933 Lew Stone had ousted Fox as bandleader, and Bowlly was singing Stones arrangements with Stones band, with him and Marjie separated and his band dissolved, that year he was once again down on his luck. He was forced to borrow money from friends for a trip to New York for the surgery of which he was so in need. In 1938, he returned to the United States to undergo successful major throat surgery for the removal of his vocal wart. His absence from the UK in the early 1930s damaged his popularity with British audiences, despite his association with the gifted pianist, Monia Liter and his career began to suffer as a result of problems with his voice from around 1936, which affected the frequency of his recordings. He played a few parts in films around this time. The parts he did play were cut, and scenes that were shown were brief. Noble was offered a role in Hollywood although the offer did not, unfortunately, include Bowlly, Bowlly moved back to London with his wife Marjie in January 1937. He underwent a revival from 1940, as part of an act with Jimmy Messene, with an act called Radio Stars with Two Guitars. It was his last venture before his death in April 1941 and his last recorded song, made two weeks before his death, was a duet with Messene of Irving Berlins satirical song on Hitler, When That Man is Dead and Gone. In December 1931, Bowlly married Constance Freda Roberts in St Martins District, London, the couple separated after a fortnight, and sought a rapid divorce. He remarried in December 1934, this time to Marjie Fairless, on 17 April 1941, Bowlly and Messene had just given a performance at the Rex Cinema in Oxford Street, High Wycombe, now demolished. Both were offered the opportunity of a stay in the town. His decision proved to be fatal, as he was killed by a Luftwaffe parachute mine that detonated outside his flat later that evening
16.
Hotel Cabana
–
Hotel Cabana is the debut studio album by British record producer Shahid Naughty Boy Khan, released from 23 August 2013 through Naughty Boy Recordings and Virgin EMI. Khan set up his Naughty Boy Productions record and production company and he would find his break by producing Chipmunks 2009 top-ten single Diamond Rings, featuring a then unknown Emeli Sandé. Naughty Boy released his own debut single as a signed artist in 2010, the collaboration marked the start of a partnership between Naughty Boy and Sandé which is seen throughout Hotel Cabana and Sandés debut set, Our Version of Events. Hotel Cabana is R&B, soul, garage, pop and hip hop music record, with influences from orchestral. Naughty Boy describes it as an experience and a concept album based on a luxury hotel where musicians come to perform. Ava Stokes, Tanika, Thabo and RØMANS make additional appearances on the US version of the album which was released by Virgin Records on 6 May 2014, prior to release, Hotel Cabana was promoted with several video trailers which included the collaborating artists arriving at the fictional hotel. It was also preceded by the release of three singles, including the two top-ten Sandé collaborations, Wonder and Lifted, as well as the UK Singles Chart-topper La La La. Upon release, the album received favourable reviews from music critics, who praised the production. Hotel Cabana made its chart debuts at two in the UK, number five in Scotland and twenty-five in Ireland. In 2014, Hotel Cabana Track 11 No Ones Here To Sleep featuring Bastille was featured in Episode 4 of Season One of the American Drama TV Series How To Get Away with Murder. Hotel Cabana is a pop, R&B, soul and hip hop record, containing orchestral flourishes. Naughty Boy called Hotel Cabana more than an album, it was an audio-visual concept, I want it to be an album for our time, it has a concept to it, so its more like a film in some respects. Speaking about putting together the album, he said I view it like Im not just a producer – Im a director too, during an interview with the Watford Observer, Naughty Boy said It’s a very diverse, musically organic album. There’s a lot of dance-future music that’s going on now, explaining the hotel concept, he said the album is like a hotel, and just like guests coming to stay, musicians appear on the album. Each song does stand alone, but all together, the album tells a story, it’s one guy’s journey and you can visit, but you can never leave, you can listen to the album, but you won’t be able to stop. The entire album was produced using Logic Pro and Reason, the album centres predominately around the themes of fame, involving debates about the tenuous nature of virtue and fidelity. Speaking on how the album was composed, Naughty Boy used piano and live instruments, what they would have had in the 70s. While making the album, Naughty Boy was influenced by M. I. A, tracy Chapman, Joe Goddard, Woodkid and Major Lazer
17.
BBC
–
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, the BBC is the worlds oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total,16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting, the total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed contract staff are included. The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and used to fund the BBCs radio, TV, britains first live public broadcast from the Marconi factory in Chelmsford took place in June 1920. It was sponsored by the Daily Mails Lord Northcliffe and featured the famous Australian Soprano Dame Nellie Melba, the Melba broadcast caught the peoples imagination and marked a turning point in the British publics attitude to radio. However, this public enthusiasm was not shared in official circles where such broadcasts were held to interfere with important military and civil communications. By late 1920, pressure from these quarters and uneasiness among the staff of the licensing authority, the General Post Office, was sufficient to lead to a ban on further Chelmsford broadcasts. But by 1922, the GPO had received nearly 100 broadcast licence requests, John Reith, a Scottish Calvinist, was appointed its General Manager in December 1922 a few weeks after the company made its first official broadcast. The company was to be financed by a royalty on the sale of BBC wireless receiving sets from approved manufacturers, to this day, the BBC aims to follow the Reithian directive to inform, educate and entertain. The financial arrangements soon proved inadequate, set sales were disappointing as amateurs made their own receivers and listeners bought rival unlicensed sets. By mid-1923, discussions between the GPO and the BBC had become deadlocked and the Postmaster-General commissioned a review of broadcasting by the Sykes Committee and this was to be followed by a simple 10 shillings licence fee with no royalty once the wireless manufactures protection expired. The BBCs broadcasting monopoly was made explicit for the duration of its current broadcast licence, the BBC was also banned from presenting news bulletins before 19.00, and required to source all news from external wire services. Mid-1925 found the future of broadcasting under further consideration, this time by the Crawford committee, by now the BBC under Reiths leadership had forged a consensus favouring a continuation of the unified broadcasting service, but more money was still required to finance rapid expansion. Wireless manufacturers were anxious to exit the loss making consortium with Reith keen that the BBC be seen as a service rather than a commercial enterprise. The recommendations of the Crawford Committee were published in March the following year and were still under consideration by the GPO when the 1926 general strike broke out in May. The strike temporarily interrupted newspaper production and with restrictions on news bulletins waived the BBC suddenly became the source of news for the duration of the crisis. The crisis placed the BBC in a delicate position, the Government was divided on how to handle the BBC but ended up trusting Reith, whose opposition to the strike mirrored the PMs own
18.
Wearing My Rolex
–
Wearing My Rolex is a 2008 single from British grime artist Wiley who is a founding member of the Roll Deep crew. Described as grime-meets-electro on BBC Radio 1Xtra, the song samples DSKs song What Would We Do and was released on 5 May 2008 by Asylum/Atlantic Records, the track was produced by Bow producer called Bless Beats. Wearing My Rolex peaked at two on the UK Singles Chart. An a cappella version of Wearing My Rolex, performed by the main cast, the song was ranked at number 284 in Pitchfork Medias list of The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s. The video features a group of women dressed as and behaving like foxes, in total the song remained in the Top 100 for 22 weeks. The song is used as the tune for The Kevin Bishop Show
19.
Shy FX
–
Shy FX is the pseudonym of Andre Williams, an English DJ and producer from London. He specialises in drum and bass and jungle music, Shy FXs debut record was Jungle Love, released in 1992 on the Permission to Dance label. Released on EMI subsidiary Positiva, it gained support from both club and commercial radio DJs and helped to further popularise drum & bass as a mainstream music genre. The success of Shake Ur Body was followed by the duos album Set It Off, several EPs and single releases followed, by 2005, Shy FX had made the decision to consolidate his releases onto his own label and founded Digital Soundboy Recordings. In collaboration with T Power, they released the album Diary of a Digital Sound Boy on 17 October 2005, featuring the songs Feelings, On The Run. Shy FX and T Power also released Dont Wanna Know featuring Di, the song was notably used on the UK television programme Soccer AM as part of the Skills Skool feature. Shy FX produced Da Feelin for Dizzee Rascals 2007 album, Maths + English and he also produced Cant Tek No More on Dizzee Rascals 2009 album, Tongue N Cheek. His remix of Naughty Boy, Wiley and Emeli Sandés song Never Be Your Woman was released as the rather than the original mix. Shys remix charted at eight on the UK Singles Chart. He remixed She Said, a number 3 UK chart single by Plan B and his remix was released on both the She Said single and on the deluxe edition of Plan Bs The Defamation of Strickland Banks. More recently, he produced Raver featuring Kano, Donaeo and Roses Gabor, plus the UK artist Yasmins first single, On My Own. He announced that his album, Larger Than Life, was scheduled for a 2011 release but has since been renamed Cornerstone. Williams also produced Yasmins third single Light Up, which features Ms. Dynamite and it peaked at No.50 in the UK Singles Chart. DJ Freshs single Gold Dust was re-released, with the Shy FX Re-Edit as a single, the extended play includes multiple new remixes. In 2013, he released a single called Soon Come featuring Liam Bailey, the song reached number 55 in the UK Singles Chart. He also released the single Cloud 9 in 2013, a collaboration with Ms. Dynamite, in August 2014 Shy FX remixed the title track from London Grammars debut album If You Wait. For 2014s Red Bull Culture Clash, Shy FX joined forces with Chase & Status, David Rodigan and they went on to win the clash, defeating fellow crews Stone Love, Boy Better Know and A$AP Mob. Williams and T Power started the Digital Soundboy label in 2005, initially releasing their own material but quickly expanding to include the artists Visionary, Benny Page and Breakage
20.
Official Charts Company
–
The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association. Since 1 July 1997, CIN and then the OCC have compiled the official charts, prior to this date, the charts were produced by a succession of market research companies, beginning with the British Market Research Bureau in 1969, and later by Gallup. All of the OCCs charts are published weekly on Friday nights, from 3 August 1969 until 5 July 2015, the chart week ran from Sunday to Saturday. Genre-specific charts include UK Dance Chart, UK Indie Chart, UK R&B Chart, UK Rock Chart, the Scottish Singles and Albums Charts ― and the former Welsh Singles and Albums Chart ― appears in listings within the Official Charts Company. It is a regional listing reflecting how sales towards the UK Singles Chart, the Welsh Singles and Album Chart served the same purpose in Wales. It also charts the UK DVD Chart and UK Budget Album Chart, while their music charts are now Friday to Thursday, their video charts remain Sunday to Saturday. On 5 September 2008, the Official UK Charts Company rebranded itself as the Official Charts Company and it later dropped the word Company and became just Official Charts. From May 2012, a new chart was launched – the Official Streaming Chart and this counts audio streams from streaming services Spotify, Deezer, Blinkbox Music, Napster, amongst others. In April 2015, the UKs first vinyl record chart was launched by the Official Charts Company due to the surge of interest in the sector. The chart was launched following the growth of the sector in the UK for the year in a row. Beginning in 2017 the Official Charts Company changed its methodology for calculating the Top 40, prior to January 2017,100 streams counted as one sale of a song. From January onward, the ratio became 150,1, UK Albums Chart UK Singles Chart UK Video Charts UK Singles Downloads Chart UK Album Downloads Chart British Phonographic Industry Official Charts Company website
21.
Wonder (Naughty Boy song)
–
Wonder is the debut single released by British record producer Naughty Boy, featuring vocals from Scottish singer and songwriter Emeli Sandé. It was released on 21 October 2012, originally slated as the single from Naughty Boys debut album. Wonder is also included on the American version of Sandés debut album, the track has been used as the back in intro music to Sky Sports 2013 Ashes Cricket Coverage. The music video to accompany the release of Wonder was first released onto YouTube on 20 September 2012 at a length of three minutes and twenty-seven seconds. The video was directed by British music video director Chris Mehling, Sandé performed the song throughout the year on her Our Version of Events tour. She also performed the song on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 22 August 2012, recording Recorded at Cabana Studios in Ealing, West London, UK. Mixed at Ninja Beat Club in Atlanta, Georgia, mastered at Metropolis Mastering in London, UK
22.
La La La (Naughty Boy song)
–
La La La is a single by British record producer Naughty Boy, featuring vocals from Sam Smith. It was released on 18 May 2013 as the single from Naughty Boys debut album Hotel Cabana. The track reached number one in 26 countries, including on the UK Singles Chart, at its time of release it was confirmed by the Official Charts Company as the fastest selling single of 2013 in the UK. By the end of 2013, La La La was the sixth fastest-selling single of the year in the UK and this song is used as the theme song for the film The Internship. According to Naughty Boy, La La La was conceived from experiences similar to the song Dont Speak by No Doubt and he states that, It was just before everything popped up and she was somebody I neglected while I was trying to find me. When I found me, she found it best to neglect me, covering my ears like a kid and saying, La. La La La was written by Khan, Jonny Coffer, Al-Hakam El Kaubaisy, Frobisher Mbabazi, James Murray, Jimmy Napes, Mustafa Omer, and Sam Smith. Although Naughty Boy originally intended to write the song with Emeli Sandé, she was on tour at the time, and he wrote it with Sam Smith instead. Naughty Boy said It just had to be Sam because where it went from there is perfect. ”Naughty Boy and Komi produced the track, the song was produced using Logic Pro, FL Studio 11 and Reason. It was recorded and mixed at Cabana Studios in Ealing, West London, the song was finished in three hours, and was the last done for Hotel Cabana. La La La plays for three minutes and 40 seconds. The piece is performed in F♯ minor, with the progression of F♯m—C♯m—Bm followed for most of the song. The song performs in common time at a tempo of 126 beats per minute, the track has tones of liquid drum & bass and old-school garage, and a hook layered with a Hindi/Bollywood vocal sample. La La La premiered on BBC Radio 1Xtra in May 2013, Smith and Naughty Boy performed La La La at the 2013 Jingle Bell Ball held by Global Radio. The tracks producer/co-writer Komi also released a remix which has received considerable airplay, a music video to accompany the release of La La La was first released on YouTube on 18 April 2013 at a total length of four minutes and three seconds. The video is directed by Ian Pons Jewell and shot in 4 days in La Paz, Salar de Uyuni and Potosí, Ian Pons Jewell was commissioned by Virgin EMI to create the concept for the video, which focuses on a childs magical journey. Jewell said that compared the video to the Wizard of Oz and a local legend of the demon El Tio. In the music video, a boy is being verbally abused by a man who is presumably his father
23.
Lifted (Naughty Boy song)
–
Lifted is a single released by British record producer Naughty Boy, featuring vocals from Scottish singer and songwriter Emeli Sandé. It was released on 18 August 2013 as the single from Naughty Boys debut album. The full track was uploaded to Naughty Boys SoundCloud account on 4 July 2013, an alternate version of the song, featuring a rap from Professor Green is included on the album as well as the original song. A music video to accompany the release of Lifted was first released onto YouTube on 29 July 2013 at a length of three minutes and twenty-six seconds. The video shows two guys stumble upon a deserted hotel, which plays host to a number of lone figures dancing. The video was shot in the Shawangunk Mountains in the Hudson Valley Region of New York, Emeli Sandé and Naughty Boy have a very brief cameo in the video, with the pair appearing in framed pictures at the mysterious hotel. Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song a review stating, Imagine if Naughty Boy and Emeli Sandé decided to form as an official. While neither of their names combine to form a decent portmanteau, on second thoughts, scratch that idea. And judging by her dominance on his forthcoming Hotel Cabana album, theyre going to milk it for all its worth
24.
Think About It (Naughty Boy song)
–
Think About It is a song by British record producer Naughty Boy, featuring vocals from American rapper Wiz Khalifa and English singer Ella Eyre. It was released on 17 November 2013 as the single from Naughty Boys debut album. The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 80 and climbed to number 78 on the second week and it premiered on MistaJams BBC Radio 1Xtra show on 14 August 2013. A remix by Wilkinson was given the title of Zane Lowes Hottest Record in the World and it is featured in the soundtrack to the 2014 film Vampire Academy
25.
Home (Naughty Boy song)
–
Home is a 2014 song by Naughty Boy from his album Hotel Cabana. It features RØMANS, who is signed to Roc Nation, the song was released as a digital download on 27 July 2014. The song has peaked at number 45 on the UK Singles Chart, a music video was created for the song which features life in the eyes of a dog. 4Music said reassuring and feelgood, this soulful tune
26.
Runnin' (Lose It All)
–
Runnin is a song by British record producer Naughty Boy, featuring American recording artist Beyoncé and English singer Arrow Benjamin. It was released online on 18 September 2015 as the first single from Naughty Boys second studio album, upon its release, the song received positive reviews from music critics, mostly praising the songs arrangements and Beyoncés vocals. A music video was directed by Charlie Robins and it depicted a woman, on 16 September 2015, Naughty Boy announced that he would release a song titled Runnin featuring Beyoncé and Arrow Benjamin. On the same date he shared the artwork for the single, its lyrics, the video consisted of two humans floating alone, submerged underwater. The following day, on 17 September 2015, Runnin premiered online and it was available for digital download on the iTunes Store on 18 September 2015. According to Digital Spy, a version of the song lacking Beyoncés vocals leaked online in August 2015, Runnin is a power ballad featuring elements of drum and bass. It was noted by Elle Hunt of The Guardian to be established in the genre of British dance music, the songs composition consists of melancholy piano keys. It opens with Beyoncé singing the first verse over a track with lyrics such as Nothing else matters now. Ive been calling you, missing you, following the hook, the songs tempo increases and Runnin continues with a garage break afterwards. During the chorus, Beyoncé sings about how she will stop running from herself as she repeats the lines Aint running from myself no more, the second verse is sung by Arrow Benjamin and the last chorus is sung as a duet between both singers. Eric Renner Brown from Entertainment Weekly further found typically soulful Beyoncé lyrics, Elle Hunt of The Guardian compared the song with Beyoncés own Halo and Haunted as well as Naughty Boys previous collaborations with singer Emeli Sandé. Elle Hunt from The Guardian praised Runnin as a club classic. CBS News writer Andrea Park dubbed Beyoncés vocals as unmistakeable, exclaim. s Alex Hudson also described the singers voice as powerful. Laura Bradley of Slate magazine noted that Beyoncé opened the song with the kind of force few other singers can muster and she further compared it with the singers own XO, due to their reminiscent triumphant, love-conquers-all spirit. The song is featured in the trailer to the upcoming 2017 film Everything, Everything, Runnin peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart and number one on the Scottish Singles Chart on 16 October 2015. It was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for sales of 600,000 copies and it also reached number one the UK airplay chart. In the United States, the peaked at number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart issue dated 10 October 2015. The music video for the song was directed by Charlie Robins and it was released on Naughty Boys official Vevo account on 18 September 2015
27.
Should've Been Me
–
Shouldve Been Me is a song by British record producer Naughty Boy featuring vocals from Kyla and Popcaan. It was released as a download in the United Kingdom on 18 November 2016. The song has peaked at number 97 on the UK Singles Chart, the artists co-wrote the song with James Murray, Mustafa Omer, Emily Warren, and Scott Harris. A music video to accompany the release of Shouldve Been Me was first released onto YouTube on 1 December 2016 at a length of four minutes
28.
Treddin' on Thin Ice
–
Treddin on Thin Ice is the debut album by UK Grime artist Wiley released on XL Recordings. It was released on 26 April 2004, the album is seen as a critical success in grime music with an enduring and influential forward facing sound. However, commercially the album did not do as well, with one making the top 40 in the UK music charts. The album along with Dizzee Rascals Boy in da Corner are seen as the blueprint of the grime genre
29.
Playtime Is Over (Wiley album)
–
Playtime Is Over is the third studio album by English grime artist Wiley. It was released on Big Dada Recordings and was recorded in Bow, the album was released on 4 June 2007, the same day as former protégée Dizzee Rascals Maths + English, and reached 71 in the UK Album Chart. Playtime Is Over was the album on MySpace the week before its release. It was apparently planned for release in the U. S. on 11 September 2007, on this album, Wiley also addresses a feud between himself and Dizzee Rascal with the song Letter 2 Dizzee. Dizzee later replied with the song Pussyole, which featured on his album Maths + English, no Qualms, which samples Jmes 2006 song Poomplex, is a response to Nasty Jacks Pimp on Flows diss track. The tracks Gangsters, Johnny Was a Bad Boy and Eski-Boy were taken from previous album Da 2nd Phaze. Playtime is Over at UK record shop
30.
See Clear Now
–
See Clear Now is the fifth studio album by English grime artist Wiley. The album was released on 10 November 2008 and it was originally set to be released as I See Clear on 13 October 2008. The album features collaborations with electropop group Hot Chip, and DJ/producer Mark Ronson in Cash in My Pocket, the albums first single, Wearing My Rolex was succeeded by the single Summertime on 22 September and Cash in My Pocket. Wiley describes See Clear Now as first pop album, explaining that he wants to push boundaries while also stay in the charts by making tunes that connect with people and its pop all the way from here. He also expressed a desire to be the equivalent of Missy Elliott in relation to blending pop appeal with musical innovation. Subsequently, Wiley has also disowned this album and he was very angry about the production on Cash in My Pocket and Summertime. He says that it is not his music and he didnt have control on the album. He adds that people should listen to Race Against Time instead because it isnt commercial and he would have more artistic control
31.
100% Publishing
–
100% Publishing is the seventh studio album by English grime artist Wiley. Its named 100% Publishing because the album was written, produced and mastered in its entirety by Wiley while working independently of a label, big Dada re-signed Wiley to release the album and was released on 20 June 2011. The first single, Numbers in Action, was released on 5 April 2011, all songs written and produced by Wiley
32.
Evolve or Be Extinct
–
Evolve or Be Extinct is the eighth studio album by English grime artist Wiley. The album was released on 19 January 2012 as a double-disc album, two singles were released from the album, Link Up and Boom Blast. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number 97 on 22 January 2012, then climbed up to number 86 in the UK Charts in its second week. Upon discussing the album, Wiley said, I came to a point in my life where I realized that to actually evolve and I was just trying to put myself to the test, I used to do things and not finish them. This time around I actually did concentration from the start, if something wasnt right, I went back and I said, Wiley, this isn’t right. Not to say on the other I didn’t work hard, but it’s just that this time I actually did concentrate, upon release, Evolve Or Be Extinct has received fairly positive feedback from the public and critics. Ash Houghton of SB. TV rounded up his review with, All in all, Evolve Or Be Extinct is another piece of work from one of the most prolific. Noel Gardner of BBC gave a review, saying, A haphazard, sometimes ridiculous. In fact, this feels like an album by, for, most lyrics unapologetically address the life of Wiley, two baffling skits, in which he quarrels with a taxi driver and customs officer respectively, seem to play up to his hothead reputation. Evolve or Be Extinct will appeal largely to people already well aware of it, and this should go some way to satisfying them. His work wasn’t fully accepted or appreciated till a decade later, is this album ahead of its time. All tracks written by Richard Kylea Cowie
33.
The Ascent (Wiley album)
–
The Ascent is the ninth studio album by English grime artist Wiley. The album was released on 1 April 2013, via Warner Music Group and Boy Better Know, after originally being slated to be released on 4 February and 11 March, the Ascent succeeds Evolve or Be Extinct which was released in January 2012. The album features a variety of genres, varying from dance pop to grime. The lead single Heatwave, featuring Ms D, peaking at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and this was followed by Can You Hear Me. featuring Skepta, JME and Ms D, Reload featuring Chip and Ms D, all of which peaked in the top 10. The album has spawned four top ten hits in the UK Singles Chart including the one single Heatwave which also charted in Australia. The name of the album was first confirmed by Wiley on 27 September 2012, the albums track list was later revealed on 11 October 2012, detailing sixteen tracks - however, in January 2013, the track list was revised. The album was due to be released on 4 February 2013. The album was again delayed until 1 April 2013, to allow for final edits to be made on the album. Ninja was previously released as a free download. On 19 March 2013, Wiley leaked the album for free temporarily via Twitter after a dispute with iTunes, can You Hear Me. featuring Skepta, JME & Ms D, was released as the albums second single on 28 October 2012. It peaked at #3 on the UK Singles Chart, selling 75,000 copies, Reload, featuring Chip & Ms D, was released as the albums third single on 24 February 2013. It entered the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on the week ending 3 March 2013 at #9, lights On, featuring Angel & Tinchy Stryder, was released as the albums fourth single on 7 June 2013. It also entered the UK Singles Chart at #9
.[1]
