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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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Epic Records
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Epic Records is an American record company owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. Epic was founded predominantly as a jazz and classical music label in 1953 and it later expanded its scope to include a more diverse range of musical genres, including pop, R&B, rock and hip hop. Historically, the label has housed popular acts such as Boston, ABBA, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Dave Clark Five, Gloria Estefan, Pearl Jam, Shakira, Anastacia, and Sly & the Family Stone. Along with Columbia and RCA Records, Epic is one of Sony Music Entertainments three main record labels, L. A. Reid has served as chairman and CEO of Epic since July 2011. Sylvia Rhone was appointed president in March 2014, Epic Records was launched in 1953 by Columbia Records for the purpose of marketing jazz, pop and classical music that did not fit the theme of its more mainstream Columbia Records label. Initial classical music releases were from Philips Records which distributed Columbia product in Europe, pop talent on co-owned Okeh Records were transferred to Epic which made Okeh a rhythm and blues label. Epics bright-yellow, black, and blue became a familiar trademark for many jazz. By 1960, the musical base had been expanded to include all genres. This was done in part to prevent the roster of Columbia Records from being overstuffed with newer artists, subsequently, Epic became better known for its signing of newer, fledgling acts. By the end of the 1960s, Epic earned its first gold records and had evolved into a formidable hit-making force in rock and roll, R&B and country music. Among its many acts, it included Roy Hamilton, Bobby Vinton, The Dave Clark Five, The Hollies, Tammy Wynette, Donovan, The Yardbirds, Lulu, July, Helen Shapiro and Jeff Beck. Also during the 1960s, Epic oversaw the smaller subsidiary CBS labels including Okeh Records, in 1968, Epic recordings began being distributed in the UK by CBS after the distribution deal with EMI expired that year, Epic itself launched in England around 1971. Epic was involved in a trade of artists. Graham Nash was signed to Epic because of his membership in The Hollies, when the newly formed Crosby, Stills & Nash wanted to sign with Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegün worked out a deal with Clive Davis whereby Richie Furays new band Poco would sign with Epic. Also contributing to the success was its distribution of Philadelphia International Records. Sony bought CBS Records in 1987, and the company was renamed Sony Music in 1991. In 2004, Sony merged with another powerhouse music distributor, BMG, bringing labels such as RCA, Arista, Columbia, Epic, Jive, in February 2009, singer and songwriter Amanda Ghost was appointed president of Epic Records. Later in the year, Sony BMG Music merged Epic and Columbias operations, Sony BMGs Legacy Recordings reissues the companys classic and catalog titles
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Afrojack
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Nick van de Wall, professionally known as Afrojack, is a Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer. In 2014, he released his debut album Forget the World, Afrojack regularly features in the top 10 of DJ Mag Top 100 DJs. Van de Wall was born and raised in Spijkenisse, Netherlands and is of Dutch and he developed an interest in music at an early age and learned to play the piano at the age of five. From a single-parent household, his mother Debbie owned a local gym, after leaving school, Van de Wall studied graphic design for a year before embarking on a career as a DJ/producer. At the age of 14, Van de Wall started DJing at local pubs and clubs, in 2007, he released In Your Face, the first recording under the Afrojack name. He received international success with the song Take Over Control featuring Eva Simons and he took part in Episode 2 of Behind The Speedo, which is a comedy series by Redfoo. His 2010 entry into the poll at number 19 was the highest new entry of that years list, Afrojack was listed as number 7 on the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs of 2011. He ranked at number 9 on DJ Mags Top 100 DJs of 2012, in 2013, he ranked at number 9 again. In July 2010, Afrojack created an Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1 and he released the Lost & Found EP in December 22,2010. In 2011, he was featured on Pitbulls number 1 hit single Give Me Everything along with Ne-Yo and he also contributed to the single Run the World by Beyoncé. In January 2012 Afrojack received a European Border Breakers Award, afrojacks newest single The Spark featuring Spree Wilson has so far hit number 3 in Australia and New Zealand, and top 10 in over 7 more countries. In 2013, Afrojack was the 7th highest-earning DJ in the world, in 2011, Afrojack co-produced music with many artists including David Guetta, Mike Brown and Madonna. In 2012, he was a headliner at a number of dance music festivals, including Tomorrowland, Ultra Music Festival. His debut album, Forget the World, was released May 19,2014 to mixed reviews, on March 17,2015, Afrojack was featured in David Guettas single Hey Mama in which he co-produced with Guetta. The song featured him along with Nicki Minaj, and Bebe Rexha, in 2016, one of his songs, Braver, was featured on the game Final Fantasy XV. Afrojack runs his own label, Wall Recordings, which represents producers including KIIDA, Apster, D-Wayne, D. O. D, Amil Smeets, Afrojack and Paris Hilton dated for 6 months while he was producing her second album. He has a daughter, Vegas, from a relationship to Dutch model Amanda Balk. Albums Forget the World Official website Afrojack discography, forum, and marketplace at Discogs Afrojack at the Internet Movie Database
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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, Madonna, Queen, after experimenting with country, pop rock, and electronic music, Kesha stuck with the latter. Thematically, her music generally revolves around escapism, partying, individuality, supernatural moments, rebellion, Kesha has been involved with animal rights and LGBT activism. She has received awards and nominations, including her win for MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act in 2010. As of November 2013, she has sold over 33 million records in the United States and 60 million records worldwide. Her recorded output has been curtailed since 2013 due to a dispute with her former producer Dr. Luke. Kesha alleged physical and emotional abuse and employment discrimination against Dr. Luke, while Dr. Luke claims breach of contract, Kesha was born in Los Angeles, California. Pebe, a mother, struggled financially while supporting herself, Kesha. When Kesha was an infant, Pebe would often have to look after her onstage while performing, Kesha says she has no knowledge of her fathers identity, though she has speculated that he may be Mick Jagger. Her mother is of German and Hungarian descent, one of Keshas great-grandfathers was Polish. Pebe moved the family to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1991 after securing a new publishing deal for her songwriting, Pebe frequently brought Kesha and her brothers along to recording studios and encouraged Kesha to sing when she noticed Keshas vocal talent. Kesha attended Franklin High School and Brentwood High School, but claimed that she did not fit in and she played the trumpet and later the saxophone in the marching band in school, and described herself in an interview with NPR as being a diligent student. After attaining a score on her SATs, she was offered a full scholarship at Barnard College
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Kygo
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Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll, commonly known by his stage name Kygo, is a Norwegian DJ, record producer, songwriter and musician. Kygo has accumulated over 300 million views on his music on SoundCloud, Kygo has since released several singles, such as ID, Stole the Show, Here for You, and Stay, which have debuted on several international charts. Kygos debut studio album, Cloud Nine, was released on 13 May 2016, Kygo made history on 21 August 2016 at the 2016 Rio Olympics, when he became the first house music producer to perform at an Olympics closing ceremony. Kygo was born 11 September 1991 in Singapore, the son of Kjersti Gjerde a dentist and he has an older stepbrother Mads, two older sisters Johanne and Jenny, and a younger half-brother Sondre. During his younger years, he liv travel with his family in Brazil, Japan, Kenya, Kygo started getting piano lessons at the age of 6. He stopped when he was 15 or 16 and started producing music with Logic Studio, when he decided to pursue music full-time he was halfway through a degree in business and finance at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. On 1 December 2014, he released the single Firestone, featuring vocals from Conrad, after receiving over 80 million views on YouTube and SoundCloud, Kygo was contacted by both Avicii and Chris Martin of Coldplay to create an official remix of the song Midnight. He has also supported Avicii at Findings Festival in Oslo, Norway, on 19 September 2014, it was confirmed that Kygo was to replace Avicii at mainstage in TomorrowWorld, due to Aviciis health concerns. In July 2014, Kygo partnered with EDM lifestyle brand Electric Family to produce a collaboration bracelet for which 100% of the proceeds are donated to Médecins Sans Frontières, in that same month, he signed a record label deal with Sony International and Ultra Music. In February 2015, Kygos song ID was featured in the trailer for Ultra Music Festival. The same track is featured on FIFA16, a popular video game by EA Sports. In August 2015, Kygo was a headliner at Lollapalooza in Chicago. He made his U. S. television debut on The Late Late Show with James Corden in October 2015. On 21 March 2015, he released his single, titled Stole the Show, featuring Parson James. On 31 July 2015, he released his single, Nothing Left. Nothing Left reached number one on the Norwegian Singles Chart, three months later, his fifth single, Stay, produced with fellow Norwegian record producer William Larsen and featuring vocals by Maty Noyes, was released on 4 December 2015. After the release of the single, Kygo announced that he was embarking on a tour to promote his debut studio album. Soon after, he revealed that his studio album was going to be released on 19 February 2016
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The Kinkaid School
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The Kinkaid School is a PK-12 non-sectarian school in Piney Point Village, Texas, United States in Greater Houston. The Kinkaid School is the oldest independent coeducational school in Greater Houston, the student body is divided into the Lower School, the Middle School and the Upper School. The school motto is, Lux per Scientiam meaning, Light through Knowledge, the School colors are purple and gold, and the school mascot is the falcon. The school is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest, the current headmaster is Andrew D. Martire, who succeeded Donald C. The current chairman of the Board of Trustees is Dr. Linda B, a feature of Kinkaids Upper School is its Interim Term, which provides three weeks in January for teacher-designed and student-selected curricula. Students may also go on international trips sponsored by the school, such as tours of China, Italy and Greece, homestays in Mexico and France are also possibilities. Finally, the School provides connections with companies throughout the greater Houston area and, if the students prefer, throughout the world, Kinkaid sports teams compete in the Southwest Preparatory Conference of the Independent Schools Association in the Southwest. A big alumni event is the Kinkaid vs. St. Johns School football game played each year at Rice Stadium, Kinkaid offers multiple sports per each sports season. In the fall they offer football, cross country, volleyball, cheerleading, in the winter they offer soccer, basketball, wrestling and swimming. In the spring they offer lacrosse, baseball, softball, track & field, tennis, the School was founded in 1906 by Margaret Hunter Kinkaid. When the school was first established, it was located in the room of Kinkaids house. Tuition at the school ranged from $90.00 per year for first, tuition for the 2016-2017 will be $20,500 for Pre-K through Grade 4, $23,720 for Grades 5 through 8 and $25,000 for Grades 9 through 12. Books, lunch and a one-time $1000 new student fee are not included, Kinkaids current school song, Kinkaid, My Own Kinkaid, was written by Charlotte Williams Darby and Elizabeth Law, sixth-grade Kinkaid students, and was adopted by Mrs. Kinkaid for the school in 1921. It is set to the melody of O Tannenbaum, the Schools second location was at the intersection of Richmond and Graustark in the Neartown neighborhood. The School moved to location in the fall of 1924. The School had its first Open House that year to celebrate the new facility, Kinkaid also added its upper school program beginning in the late 1920s. After more than thirty years, the school outgrew its campus and was forced to look for a new location. After considering locations in Afton Oaks and other areas, the decided to buy a parcel of land in Piney Point Village
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Berklee College of Music
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Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Since 2012, Berklee College of Music has also operated a campus in Valencia, in December 2015, Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory agreed to a merger. The combined institution will be known as Berklee, with the conservatory becoming The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Berklee College of Music is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. NEASC is the accreditation agency for schools and colleges located in the New England region of the United States. In 1945 pianist, composer, arranger and MIT graduate Lawrence Berk founded Schillinger House, located at 284 Newbury St. in Bostons Back Bay, the school specialized in the Schillinger System of harmony and composition developed by Joseph Schillinger. Instrumental lessons and a few classes in theory, harmony. At first, most students were working professional musicians, many students were former World War II service members who attended under the G. I. Initial enrollment was fewer than 50 students, but by 1949 there were more than 500 students, Lawrence Berk placed great emphasis on learning from practitioners, as opposed to academics, and generally hired working musicians as faculty members. Several of the schools best-known musician-educators arrived after the name change. In 1956, trumpeter Herb Pomeroy joined the faculty and remained until his retirement in 1996, drummer Alan Dawson and saxophonist Charlie Mariano became faculty members in 1957. Reed player John LaPorta began teaching in 1962, like many of Berks ideas, this practice continues into the present. Another trend in the schools history also began the mid-1950s, during this period, the school began to attract international students in greater numbers. For example, Japanese pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi arrived in 1956, multiple Grammy-winning producer Arif Mardin came from Turkey to study at the school in 1958. In 1957, Berklee initiated the first of many applications of technology to music education with Jazz in the Classroom. The series, which continued until 1980, was a precursor to subsequent Berklee-affiliated recording labels, Berklee awarded its first bachelor of music degrees in 1966. Members of the first graduating class to receive degrees included Alf Clausen, Stephen Gould, Gould taught film scoring at Berklee and is currently the Program Director for the Educational Leadership PhD program at Lesley University. During the 1960s, the Berklee curriculum began to reflect new developments in music, such the rise of rock and roll, soul and funk. In 1962, Berklee offered the first college-level instrumental major for guitar, the guitar department initially had nine students, and today it is the largest single instrumental major at the college
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Minute to Win It
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Minute to Win It is an international game show franchise where contestants take part in a series of 60-second challenges that use objects that are commonly available around the house. The first version of Minute to Win It to air was the American primetime game show and it was revived in 2013 on GSN with host Apolo Ohno. The second network to air a version of the concept was Brazils SBT and this series was called Nada Além de um Minuto and was played as part of the pre-existing program Programa Silvio Santos, hosted by Silvio Santos. Then on April 30,2010 Germanys Sat.1 aired Die perfekte Minute, currently over fifty countries worldwide have produced a version of Minute to Win It. The first two episodes of the American version played back-to-back at 7,00 pm Eastern and Pacific, on October 6,2010, Minute to Win It was awarded the C21/Frapa Award for Best studio based game show format at the MIPCOM Television Festival in France. A card game, board game, and video versions for the Wii, Kinect. The U. S. season two aired on September 7,2011. On May 13,2012, NBC announced that the English version of the show would not be renewed for a third season, Minute to Win It aired new episodes on GSN Tuesday nights at 8/7c. The first season of GSN shows began in June 2013 and ended in October 2013, the second season premiered in February 2014 and ended in April 2014. An American, Spanish language, nightly version of the show, titled Minuto para Ganar, debuted on MundoFox on the networks formal launch date of August 13,2012. The contestant is presented with the blueprint for the first game and must successfully complete the game within 60 seconds to win the first level and advance to the next level. After successfully completing the first, fifth, seventh, eighth, and recently ninth level games, if the contestant can complete the final game, the contestant will earn $1,000,000. The contestant is given three lives at the beginning of the game, the difficulty of the games progressively increase throughout the show. If time expires or the conditions of the game cannot be fulfilled, if the contestant loses all three of their lives, the game ends and the contestants winnings drop to the previous milestone they passed. After successfully completing a game, the contestant can leave with the amount of money already won before seeing the blueprint for the next game. However, once the contestant elects for the game, the contestant cannot leave the show until that game is complete or they have exhausted all three of their lives. In the first part of one in the English version, $50,000 was the only milestone. The milestones at $1,000 and $250,000 were added in the part of that season
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Island Records
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Island Records is a major record label that operates as a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. It was founded by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall and Leslie Kong in Jamaica in 1959, Blackwell sold the label to PolyGram in 1989. Three Island labels exist in the world, Island UK, Island US, and Island Australia, current key people of Island Records include Island president Darcus Beese, OBE and MD Jon Turner. Partially due to the labels significant legacy, Island remains one of UMGs pre-eminent record labels, Island Records was founded in Jamaica on 4 July 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall and Leslie Kong, and partially financed by Stanley Borden from RKO. Its name was inspired by the Harry Belafonte song Island in the Sun. Blackwell explained in 2009, “I loved music so much, I just wanted to get into it, or be as close to it as I could. ”Tom Hayes, the labels sales manager between 1965 and 1967, referred to the early period of the label in the UK as “organized chaos”. “My Boy Lollipop”, sung by Millie Small, was the labels first success in the UK, Blackwell explained in a 50-year-anniversary documentary that he was only interested in building long-term careers at that stage in time, rather than short-term projects. Suzette Newman has been a colleague of Chris Blackwells since working together in the early days of Island Records. Suzette Newman and Chris Salewicz were the editors for the book “The Story of Island Records, Blackwell relocated to England in May 1962 to garner greater levels of attention after the local Jamaican sound systems proved to be overwhelmingly successful. The vast majority of the artists who had signed to Blackwells fledgling label while he was in Jamaica agreed to allow the entrepreneur to release their music in the UK. While in England, Blackwell travelled throughout the city carrying his stock with him and he did not provide any copies to radio stations, as they would not play any of the Island music, the music was also not reviewed by the press. Meanwhile, Goodall left to start the Doctor Bird record label in 1965, Blackwell signed the Spencer Davis Group to the label. The group became popular and Island started their own independent series to spotlight UK rock talent. They signed artists like John Martyn, Fairport Convention, Free, by the late 1960s and early 1970s, they were a major label in England with artists like Roxy Music, King Crimson, Traffic, The Wailers, and many others. Blackwell had signed Bob Marley, and now Toots and the Maytals, in November 2016, Jackie Jackson described the formation of the group in a radio interview for Kool 97 FM Jamaica. Accompanied by Paul Douglas and Radcliffe Dougie Bryan in studio, Jackson explained, Were all original members of Toots, first it was Toots and the Maytals, three guys, Toots, Raleigh, and Jerry. …And then they were signed to Island Records, Chris Blackwell, and we were their recording band. One day we were summoned to Chris house, and he says, Alright gentleman, I think its time
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The Island Def Jam Music Group
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The Island Def Jam Music Group was an American record label group formed in 1998 by combining the operations of 14+ record labels including Island Records, Def Jam Recordings, and Mercury Records. In 2011, Motown Records was split from The Universal/Motown Records Group, on April 1,2014, Universal Music announced that Island Def Jams operations would be split between three entities, Island Records, Motown Records, and Def Jam Recordings. Despite being a new organization, Island Def Jam quickly made a name for itself in the music industry, the label gained notoriety for its untraditional and innovative approach when it came to breaking new artists, creating joint ventures, acquisitions, internet marketing, etc. IDJ had a great A&R team that oversaw chart-topping talent such as Jay-Z, Bon Jovi, DMX, Elton John and these savvy business moves are the reason IDJ prospered. In 2000, IDJMG announced that they would be launching Def Jam Germany and this move expanded urban music into a global phenomenon. In 2001, Island Def Jam created a label, Lost Highway Records. The label operated as an imprint of IDJs Mercury Records division, in Summer 2001, Island Def Jam acquired a controlling interest in the legendary rock label, Roadrunner Records. In December 2004, Island Def Jam acquired the remaining 50% interest in Roc-A-Fella Records, in 2011, Motown Records became an imprint of The Island Def Jam Music Group. In April 2014, UMG announced that Island Def Jam would cease to exist, IDJs operations were split up/separated between its flagship labels, Island Records, Def Jam Recordings, and Motown Records. Today, The Island Def Jam Music Group continues to one of the most impressive music catalogues in history. Chocolate City Records Artium Recordings Desert Storm Records Disturbing Tha Peace GOOD Music Radio Killa Records The Inc
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Super Bowl XLVIII
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The Seahawks defeated the Broncos 43–8, the largest margin of victory for an underdog and tied for the third largest point differential overall in Super Bowl history with Super Bowl XXVII. It was the first time the team scored over 40 points. This became the first Super Bowl victory for the Seahawks and the fifth Super Bowl loss for the Broncos, for the first time since Super Bowl XLIV, and just the second time since Super Bowl XXVIII, the number one seed from each conference met in the league championship. The Seahawks posted a 13–3 record and were making their second Super Bowl appearance in 8 years, the Broncos were making their seventh Super Bowl appearance after also posting a 13–3 record. The game also featured the top offense against the leagues top defense. Seattle built a 22–0 halftime lead, and then a 36–0 advantage before allowing Denvers first, the Seahawks defense scored a safety on the first play from scrimmage, the quickest score in Super Bowl history. They also became the first team in a Super Bowl to score on a safety, a return for a touchdown. The Broncos were held to almost 30 points below their scoring average, Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, a five-time NFL Most Valuable Player award winner, threw two interceptions in the first half. Seahawks linebacker Malcolm Smith, who returned one of those interceptions 69-yards for a touchdown, recovered a fumble, the games inaugural Spanish-language telecast on Fox Deportes was also the highest rated Spanish-language cable telecast outside of soccer. South Florida / Miami has hosted ten Super Bowls, the game was awarded on May 26,2010 at the NFL owners meetings in Irving, Texas. Super Bowl XLVIII was the first Super Bowl held at a stadium in a cold-weather city. However, the temperature at kickoff was a mild 49 °F, ironically enough, a major snow storm hit the area the very next day. According to Weather. com, the high and low temperatures for East Rutherford on February 2 were 39 °F and 20 °F. The coldest outdoor Super Bowl of the first 47 games was Super Bowl VI, held at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans on January 16,1972, with a kickoff temperature of 39 °F. Since Super Bowl X in 1976, all but one outdoor Super Bowl has been played in either California or Florida, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell indicated that if Super Bowl XLVIII was successful, additional cold-weather Super Bowls would be considered. Since then, two other major pro football leagues have held title games in the area,1968 AFL Championship Game at Shea Stadium, December 29,1968, New York Jets 27, Oakland Raiders 23. The Jets went on to Super Bowl III, where they upset the Baltimore Colts,1985 USFL Championship Game at Giants Stadium, July 14,1985, Baltimore Stars 28, Oakland Invaders 24. This game would turn out to be the final contest in the leagues three-year history, New York City was scheduled to host Super Bowl XLIV upon the completion of the proposed West Side Stadium
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Anheuser-Busch brands
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Anheuser-Busch, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, is the largest brewing company in the United States, with a market share of 45 percent in 2016. The company operates 12 breweries in the United States and nearly 20 in other countries, and that increased recently since Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV acquired SABMiller. Brands include Budweiser, Busch, Michelob, Bud Light, Budweiser is a 5. 0% ABV Adjunct pale lager introduced in 1876 by Adolphus Busch and has become one of the best selling beers in the United States. It is made with up to 30% rice in addition to hops, Budweiser is produced in various breweries located around the United States and the rest of the world. It is a filtered beer available in draught and packaged forms, lower strength versions are distributed in regions with restrictive alcohol laws. Introduced in 1982 as Budweiser Light, Budweisers flagship light beer with 4. 2% ABV and 110 calories per 12 US fl oz serving, from 1993 to 1998, Bud Light aired 30-second commercials featuring Rob and Laura from the CBS series The Dick Van Dyke Show. Has a total of Ten Gold Medals in the World Beer cup, a slightly sweeter, higher alcohol version of Bud Light launched in early 2012, with 6% ABV. This product is noted for being packaged in a new translucent blue glass bottle, Bud Light Platinum has 137 calories per 12 ounce serving,8 fewer than a regular Budweiser. Bud Light with apple flavor added and it has 151 calories per 355 ml serving. Released in 2015 with 4% alcohol content by volume, Bud Light with lime flavor added. It has 116 calories per 12 US fl oz serving, released in May 2008 with 4. 2% alcohol content, the same alcohol content as Bud Light. Since April 2012, AB has released a line of 8% alcohol by volume flavored malt beverages titled Bud Light Lime Ritas, with its flagship flavor being the Lime-a-Rita, the drinks are available in a twenty-five ounce can, as well as a twelve-pack of eight ounce cans. Since then, AB has released the strawberry-flavored Straw-Ber-Rita, the mango flavored Mang-o-Rita, for the winter 2013 season, AB released the cranberry-flavored Cran-Brrr-Rita as well, and wound up extending it through January and February 2014 due to strong sales. After the release of the Mang-o-Rita and Raz-Ber-Rita, A-B released a case containing six Lime-a-Ritas, four Straw-Ber-Ritas, four Mang-o-Ritas. In August 2014, A-B released a new fall seasonal extension for their Rita line, Apple-Ahhh-Rita, in February 2015, A-B released a new summer seasonal extension for their Rita line, Lemon-Ade-Rita, a lemonade flavored margarita. In summer 2016, A-B released the newest rita flavor of their line named Water-melon-rita, in fall 2016, A-B released the new Cherry-Ahh-Rita, a cherry-flavored margarita. Budweiser Select, or Bud Select is a pale lager that contains 4. 3% ABV and 99 calories per 12 US fl oz serving. Anheuser-Busch has aggressively promoted Budweiser Select and its slogan was The Real Deal
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BuzzFeed
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BuzzFeed is an American internet media company based in New York City. BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 as a lab, focusing on tracking viral content, by Jonah Peretti. Kenneth Lerer, co-founder and chairman of The Huffington Post, started as a co-founder, the company has grown into a global media and technology company providing coverage on a variety of topics including politics, DIY, animals and business. In late 2011, Ben Smith of Politico was hired as editor-in-chief to expand the site into serious journalism, long-form journalism, the website has met criticism over accusations of plagiarism. While working at the Huffington Post, Peretti started BuzzFeed as a project, in 2006. In the beginning, BuzzFeed employed no writers or editors, just an algorithm to cull stories from around the web that were showing stirrings of virality, perettis first hire was Peggy Wang, whom hed taught as a student at a private high school in New Orleans. The site initially launched an instant messaging client, BuzzBot, which messaged users a link to popular content, the messages were sent based on algorithms which examined the links that were being quickly disseminated, scouring through the feeds of hundreds of blogs that were aggregating them. Later, the site began spotlighting the most popular links that BuzzBot found, Peretti hired curators to help describe the content that was popular around the web. In 2011, Peretti hired Politicos Ben Smith, who earlier had achieved attention as a political blogger. In August 2014, BuzzFeed raised $50 million from the capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. The site was valued at around $850 million by Andreessen Horowitz. BuzzFeed generates its revenue through native advertising that matches its own editorial content. Buzzfeed also uses its familiarity with media to target conventional advertising through other channels. In December 2014, growth equity firm General Atlantic acquired $50M in secondary stock of the company, in August 2015, NBCUniversal made a $200 million equity investment in Buzzfeed. In October 2016, BuzzFeed raised $200 million from Comcast’s TV and movie arm NBCUniversal, BuzzFeeds first acquisition was in 2012 when the company purchased Kingfish Labs, a startup founded by Rob Fishman, initially focused on optimizing Facebook ads. On October 28,2014, BuzzFeed announced its next acquisition, the Torando team was to become BuzzFeeds first data engineering team. BuzzFeed produces daily content, in which the work of staff reporters, contributors, syndicated cartoon artists, popular formats on the website include lists, videos, and quizzes. In that year, BuzzFeed deleted over 4000 early posts, apparently because, as passed, they looked stupider and stupider
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Donald Trump
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Donald John Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States. Prior to entering politics he was a businessman and television personality, Trump was born and raised in Queens, New York City, and earned an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He then took charge of The Trump Organization, the estate and construction firm founded by his paternal grandmother, which he ran for four. During his real career, Trump has built, renovated, and managed numerous office towers, hotels, casinos. Besides real estate, he started several ventures and has lent the use of his name for the branding of various products. He owned the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants from 1996 to 2015, and he hosted The Apprentice, as of 2017, Forbes listed him as the 544th wealthiest person in the world with a net worth of $3.5 billion. Trump first publicly expressed interest in running for office in 1987. He won two Reform Party presidential primaries in 2000, but withdrew his candidacy early on, in June 2015, he launched his campaign for the 2016 presidential election and quickly emerged as the front-runner among 17 candidates in the Republican primaries. His final opponents suspended their campaigns in May 2016, and in July he was nominated at the Republican National Convention along with Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate. His campaign received unprecedented media coverage and international attention, many of the statements he made at rallies, in interviews, or on social media were controversial or false. Trump won the election on November 8,2016, in a surprise victory against Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. His political positions have been described by scholars and commentators as populist, protectionist, Trump was born on June 14,1946 at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Queens, New York City. He was the fourth of five born to Frederick Christ Fred Trump. His siblings are Maryanne, Fred Jr. Elizabeth, and Robert, Trumps ancestors originated from the village of Kallstadt, Palatinate, Germany on his fathers side, and from the Outer Hebrides isles of Scotland on his mothers side. All his grandparents, and his mother, were born in Europe and his mothers grandfather was also christened Donald. On a visit to his village, he met Elisabeth Christ. He died from the flu pandemic of 1918 and Elizabeth incorporated the family real estate business, Elizabeth Trump and Son, which would later become The Trump Organization. Trumps father Fred was born in the Bronx, and worked with his mother since he was 15 as a real estate developer, primarily in the New York boroughs of Queens and he eventually built and sold thousands of houses, barracks and apartments
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HuffPost
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On February 7,2011, AOL acquired the mass market Huffington Post for US$315 million, making Arianna Huffington editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group. In July 2012, The Huffington Post was ranked #1 on the 15 Most Popular Political Sites list by eBizMBA Rank, Traffic Rank from both Compete and Quantcast. In 2012, The Huffington Post became the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize, the Huffington Post was founded by Arianna Huffington on May 9,2005. It has a community, with over one million comments made on the site each month. Prior to The Huffington Post, Huffington hosted a website called Ariannaonline. com and her first foray into the Internet was a website called Resignation. com, which called for the resignation of President Bill Clinton and was a rallying place for conservatives opposing Clinton. In August 2013, the website banned anonymous comments, in approximately June 2007, the site launched its first local version, HuffPost Chicago. In June 2009, HuffPost New York was launched, followed shortly by HuffPost Denver which launched on September 15,2009, and HuffPost Los Angeles which launched on December 2,2009. In 2011, three new editions were launched, HuffPost San Francisco on July 12, HuffPost Detroit, on November 17. HuffPost Hawaii was launched in collaboration with the investigative reporting. The Huffington Post launched its first international edition, HuffPost Canada, on July 6 of the same year, the Huffington Post UK launched its UK edition. On February 8, another French language edition was launched in the Canadian province of Quebec, on May Day, a U. S. -based Spanish-language edition was launched under the name HuffPost Voces, replacing AOLs Hispanic news platform, AOL Latino. The following month an edition for Spain was announced, as was one for Germany, on September 24, an Italian edition, LHuffington Post, was launched, directed by journalist Lucia Annunziata in collaboration with the media company Gruppo Editoriale LEspresso. On May 6,2013, an edition for Japan was launched with the collaboration of The Asahi Shimbun, with the launch of Al Huffington Post, there is a third francophone edition, this time for the Maghreb area. On October 10, Munich-based Huffington Post Deutschland has been put online in cooperation with the liberal-conservative magazine Focus, in January 2014, Arianna Huffington and Nicolas Berggruen announced the launch of the WorldPost, created in partnership with the Berggruen Institute. Its contributors have included former British prime minister Tony Blair, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, novelist Jonathan Franzen, on January 29,2014, the Brazilian version was launched as Brasil Post, in partnership with Abril Group, the first in Latin America. In September 2014, Huffington Post announced they will launch in Greece, India, and introduce HuffPost Arabi, on August 18,2015, HuffPost Australia was launched. The Huffington Post planned to launch a Chinese version in 2015, due to strict media controls, the content of Chinese version would not include serious news report, only entertainment and lifestyle. In 2011, after its purchase by AOL, The Huffington Post subsumed many of AOLs Voices properties, the Voices brand was expanded in September 2011 with the launch of Gay Voices, a vertical dedicated to LGBT-relevant articles
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Nylon (magazine)
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Nylon is an American multi-platform media company and magazine that focus on pop culture and fashion. Its coverage includes art, beauty, music, design, celebrities, technology and its name references New York and London. Jamie Elden is the President and Chief Revenue Officer and Marc Luzzatto is the chairman, Nylon was co-founded in 1999 by Madonna Badger, Mark Blackwell, supermodel Helena Christensen, and husband and wife Marvin and Jaclynn Jarrett, with investment from Sam Waksal. According to Publisher Jaclynn Jarrett, the name was chosen because her husband Marvin just liked the sound of Nylon. After picking it, they realized the New York/London tie-in, which was congruous to Nylons editorial focus on these two cities, the first two letters are the initials for New York and the last three letters are the first three letters of London. The design of the magazine was intended to be hyper-legible, in answer to criticism of Ray-Guns chaotic layouts, the first issue was published on April 6,1999. In 2005, Nylon was bought by Pennsylvania businessman Don Hellinger, the following spring, Nylon and MySpace collaborated on their first International Music issue, making it freely available online for a time. Nylon TV was launched in 2006 with the creation of its own YouTube channel, Nylon partnered with MySpace in 2006 for its annual June/July music issue. Nine months later the magazine became available online in digital form in March 2007. Nylon released their June/July International Music and MySpace issue online for free viewing, Nylon teamed up with Live Nation Entertainment in 2008 to produce its first Nylon Music Tour, headlined by electro rockers She Wants Revenge. On their 10-year anniversary in 2009, Nylon made the April 1999 inaugural issue freely available online, including all articles, later that year, Nylon partnered with iTunes for its annual music issue, which included a free summer playlist download of 22 tracks. Nylon came together with YouTube in 2010 for its Young Hollywood issue, the partnership extended for the 2011 Young Hollywood issue as well. 2010 also brought the launch of Nylon Dailies, emails written by local writers every day in ten key American cities, in 2011, then-President Don Hellinger and then-CFO Jami Pearlman were charged with operating an illegal money transmission business, unrelated to Nylon. They subsequently pleaded guilty to a reduced charge, Nylon joined with Facebook in 2012 for its June/July music issue. 2012 also brought a Summer Music Tour, featuring Neon Trees, americas Next Top Model announced that Nylon would be its media partner for the shows 19th cycle. Nylon has established a social media presence. By early 2014, Nylon was active on Instagram, had over 700,000 Twitter followers, in May 2014, Nylon was acquired by Nylon Media, Inc. an affiliate of LA-based investor Marc Luzzatto through his team at Diversis Capital, LLC. The new venture also acquired FashionIndie, with FashionIndies founders, Beca Alexander and Daniel Saynt, maintaining their titles of editor-in-chief and creative director, Nylon is published in five Asian markets
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MNDR
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Amanda Lucille Warner, better known by her stage name MNDR, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. She rose to prominence after being featured on Mark Ronson & The Business Intls 2010 single Bang Bang Bang, Warner was born and raised on a farm in Fargo, North Dakota. Her father built a four-track reel-to-reel in the basement of their farmhouse, Warner graduated from Macalester College in 2001 with a minor in chemistry and a major in double bass. In 2006, Triangle released their album, Decimal Places. Warner relocated from Oakland, California, to New York City in mid-2009 to work as a songwriter for hire and she soon met producer Peter Wade, and after months of writing with him, he suggested that she release an album under her own name. At the time, Warner designed a touring keyboard rig and played bass for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs while they were making the Its Blitz, Warner and Wade uploaded four tracks to Myspace in 2009, which eventually became MNDRs debut EP, E. P. E. Released on April 6,2010 on Wades WonderSound Records, the EP was preceded by MNDRs debut single, C. L. U. B. Warner has performed under the moniker MNDR since 2005, around the time she performed in the Bay Area, the name was given to her by a Fargo friend, who called her Mandar while she was still in high school. The spelling and design were inspired by early Detroit techno, early Chicago house, Warner explained, MNDR is a group with Peter Wade in the sense that we make and write all of the music. However, I perform as a solo artist and all comes with that. After hearing some of MNDRs music, English producer Mark Ronson invited Warner on his East Village Radio show in 2010, written by Warner, Wade, Ronson, and Q-Tip, the song was released on July 9,2010, reaching number six on the UK Singles Chart. Daniel Kreps of Rolling Stone wrote that MNDR provides the songs indelible French-laden hook while a debonair Q-Tip absolutely slays on his verses. MNDR performed Bang Bang Bang with Mark Ronson & The Business Intl and Q-Tip on several shows, including Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on July 2,2010. With Jools Holland on September 17, Late Show with David Letterman on October 11 and she later joined Mark Ronson & The Business Intl and toured the US, Europe, and Australia for a year, while also touring as MNDR in her free time. It was announced in October 2011 that MNDR had officially signed to Ultra Records, on January 17,2012, she released the single #1 in Heaven on Ultra Records. The accompanying music video was directed by Ssion lead singer Cody Critcheloe and takes inspiration from strong iconic women such as Jane Fonda, Wendy O. Williams, faster Horses was released on July 17,2012 as the second single from Feed Me Diamonds. The song is inspired by the Henry Ford quote, If I had asked people what they wanted, the album was released on August 14,2012 by Ultra Records, and was streamed in full on the Spin website the previous day. The title track was released on December 17,2012 as the third single
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Vice (magazine)
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Vice is a print magazine and website focused on arts, culture, and news topics. As of February 2015, the magazines Chief Creative Officer was Eddy Moretti, Andrew Creighton is President, as of October 2014, there were 29 Vice offices on every continent except Africa and Antarctica. The monthly publication is frequently focused on a single theme, when the editors later sought to dissolve their commitments with the original publisher Alix Laurent, they bought him out and changed the name to Vice in 1996. Richard Szalwinski, a Canadian software millionaire, acquired the magazine and relocated the operation to New York City, following the relocation, the magazine quickly developed a reputation for provocative and politically incorrect content. Under Szalwinskis ownership, a few stores were opened in New York City. However, due to the end of the bubble, the three founders eventually regained ownership of the Vice brand, followed by the closure of the stores. The British edition of Vice was launched in 2002 and Andy Capper was its first editor. The media company was based in New York City, but the magazine began featuring articles on topics that were considered more serious, such as armed conflict in Iraq. Alvi explained to The New York Times in November 2007, The world is bigger than the Lower East Side. McInnes left the publication in 2008, citing creative differences as the primary issue, in an email communication dated 23 January, McInnes explained, I no longer have anything to do with Vice or VBS or DOs & DONTs or any of that. Its a long story but weve all agreed to leave it at creative differences, at the commencement of 2012, an article in Forbes magazine referred to the Vice company as Vice Media, but the precise time when this title development occurred is not public knowledge. Vice acquired the fashion magazine i-D in December 2012 and, by February 2013, Vice produced 24 global editions of the magazine, by this stage, Alex Miller had replaced Capper as the editor-in-chief of the UK edition. Furthermore, Vice consisted of 800 worldwide employees, including 100 in London, Vice magazine includes the work of journalists, columnists, fiction writers, graphic artists and cartoonists, and photographers. Both Vices online and magazine content has shifted from dealing mostly with independent arts, articles on the site feature a range of subjects, often things not covered as by mainstream media. Entire issues of the magazine have also dedicated to the concerns of Iraqi people, Native Americans, Russian people, people with mental disorders. Vice also publishes a guide for students in the United Kingdom. In 2007, a Vice announcement was published on the Internet, After umpteen years of putting out what amounted to a book every month. Besides, too many other magazines have ripped it and started doing their own take on themes
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Ellie Goulding
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Elena Jane Ellie Goulding is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. Her career began when she met record producers Starsmith and Frankmusik, and she was spotted by Jamie Lillywhite. After signing to Polydor Records in July 2009, Goulding released her extended play, An Introduction to Ellie Goulding. In 2010, she became the second artist to top the BBCs annual Sound of, poll and win the Critics Choice Award at the Brit Awards in the same year. She released her studio album, Lights, in 2010. The albums title track, Lights, was released in the US in March 2011, Gouldings second studio album, Halcyon, was released in October 2012. Anything Could Happen preceded the album as the lead single, Halcyon debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart and after 65 weeks reached number one. Halcyon debuted at nine on the US Billboard 200. Halcyon Days, an edition of Halcyon, was released on 23 August 2013, it included new singles including Burn. At the 2014 Brit Awards, she received the award for British Female Solo Artist, Goulding released her third studio album, titled Delirium, on 6 November 2015, with On My Mind as the albums lead single. In December 2015, she received her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Solo Performance for her single Love Me like You Do. Elena Jane Goulding was born on 30 December 1986 in Hereford and raised in Lyonshall, a village near Kington, Herefordshire. Her father, Arthur Goulding, came from a family of undertakers, while her mother, Tracy, when she was 5, her parents separated, later she had a stepfather who was a lorry driver, whom she considered horrible. At 9, she playing the clarinet and at 14 began learning guitar. Goulding attended Lady Hawkins High School in Kington where she won the role of the Scarecrow in a production of The Wizard of Oz. At 15, she started songwriting and while at Hereford Sixth Form College entered a competition and won. After she successfully showcased for Turn First head Sarah Stennett, she was told to leave university and was set up in a house in West London, Lillywhite became her manager and introduced her to the producer Starsmith who would become her chief collaborator and the primary producer of Lights. The single peaked at number fifty-three on the UK Singles Chart following an appearance on Later
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Will Young
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His double A-sided debut single Anything Is Possible / Evergreen was released two weeks after the shows finale and became the fastest-selling debut single in the UK. Young also came in place in World Idol performing his single Light My Fire. As a teenager, Young studied politics at the University of Exeter before moving to London, Young put his studies on hold in late 2001 to become a contestant on Pop Idol. After winning the competition the year, he released his debut album From Now On which went straight to number one. Fridays Child followed and enjoyed success, eventually going platinum five times in the UK. His following albums Keep On and Let It Go and Echoes also went multi-platinum and his albums have spawned many songs that have accomplished top ten positions in the UK, four of which went to the number one spot. Young has also undertaken numerous concert tours and he has also accumulated multiple honours, including two BRIT Awards from 12 nominations, and the estimated worldwide sale of over eight million albums. Youngs net worth was estimated at £13.5 million in April 2012, alongside his music career, Young has acted in film, on stage and in television. For his performance in the 2013 London revival of the musical Cabaret and he has also participated in philanthropy and released books Anything is Possible, On Camera, Off Duty and his autobiography Funny Peculiar. Will Young was born on 20 January 1979 in Wokingham, and is the second-oldest child of Robin Young, a director of an engineering firm, and Annabel Young. Born six weeks prematurely, he is ten minutes older than his twin brother and he also has an older sister, Emma. Young was born into an affluent, middle-class family, whose ancestry has strong ties to the British government. Aretas was later stationed in Trinidad and eventually took charge of the Trinidadian government, aretas became the sixth Governor of Prince Edward Island in 1831, and three years later was knighted by King William IV. His first appearance on stage was at the age of four when he played a fir tree in a production and had one line to speak. At Horris Hill, Young was head chorister in the school choir, at thirteen, Young and his brother were enrolled in Wellington College, Crowthorne, a public boarding school. Young appeared in school productions and often gave speeches in assembly. He became captain of the basketball and athletics teams, and also represented the school in the triple jump, long jump, football. The only sport he says he felt uncomfortable playing was cricket, Young left school with ten GCSEs, but achieved disappointing A-Level results and had to enroll in DOverbroecks College, Oxford, to re-sit his exams
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Prince Royce
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Geoffrey Royce Rojas, known by his stage name Prince Royce, is an American singer and songwriter from The Bronx. At an early age, Royce took an interest in music, by age nineteen, Royce met Andrés Hidalgo, who became his manager. Hidalgo later introduced Royce to Sergio George, who signed him to his label after hearing three of his demos. In March 2010, he released his eponymous studio album. Both songs reached number-one on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart while Corazón Sin Cara reached number-one on the US Hot Latin Songs chart, the album itself reached number-one on the US Billboard Latin Albums and Tropical Albums charts. Royce received three awards at the Billboard Latin Music Awards in 2011, which included Tropical Album of the Year, on April 10,2012, Royce released his second studio album, Phase II, which reached number-one on both the US Latin Albums and Tropical Albums charts. The album featured the singles Las Cosas Pequeñas and Incondicional and was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Fusion Album and his third studio album, Soy el Mismo, was released on October 8,2013, preceded by the single Darte un Beso. The album earned Royce his second nomination for the Latin Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Tropical Album, on July 24,2015, Royce released his fourth studio album, Double Vision, his first primarily in the English language. The album included the singles Stuck on a Feeling featuring Snoop Dogg and Back It Up featuring Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull, geoffrey Royce Rojas was born and raised in The Bronx, a borough of New York City. He is the second oldest of four children, born to Dominican parents and his father drove a taxicab and his mother worked at a beauty salon. When he was young, he participated in choir in elementary school, competed in talent shows and, at the age of thirteen, recalling his first time performing before a crowd, he said, elementary school, I was singing a Christmas song. I felt really comfortable on stage, at age fifteen, Royce had begun making music with a partner named Jose Chusan better known as Jino. The duo was known as Jino and Royce, El Duo Real. At the age of sixteen, Royce started making music with friend and producer Donzell Rodriguez. The duo eventually had a meeting with Atlantic Records in early 2007, with the decline of the reggaeton music, Royce made the ultimate decision to focus more on the bachata industry. At age nineteen, Royce met Andrés Hidalgo, who after hearing his previous demo instantly became his manager, Hidalgo began helping Royce work hands-on with bachata music. That was the point which helped Royce decide that pursuing a musical career is what he wanted to do. Hidalgo later introduced Royce to Sergio George, who signed the former to his label, Top Stop Music
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Phillip Phillips
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Phillip LaDon Phillips Jr. is an American singer, songwriter and musician who won the eleventh season of American Idol on May 23,2012. His coronation song, Home, released after his win, became the best selling of all coronation songs and his debut album The World from the Side of the Moon was released on November 19,2012. His second album, Behind the Light, was released on May 19,2014, Phillips was born in Albany, Georgia, to Sheryl and Phillip LaDon Donnie Phillips, Sr. and moved to Leesburg, Georgia when he was 12. He has two sisters, LaDonna, the eldest, and Lacey. Phillips grew up in Sasser and Leesburg, and attended Lee County High School and he graduated from Albany Technical College with a major in Industrial Systems Technology, but missed the graduation ceremony due to his obligations to American Idol. Prior to appearing on American Idol, he worked at his familys pawn shop, Phillips started playing music, particularly the guitar, when he was 14. He was mentored by his friend and brother-in-law, Benjamin Neil. In 2009, he formed the Phillip Phillips Band with Neil and another brother-in-law, Todd Urick and he won a local singing competition, Albany Star, in 2010. Phillips favorite singer is Jonny Lang, and other favorites include John Butler, Dave Matthews and Damien Rice and he has described his music as jazz and rock alternative sound. Prior to trying out for American Idol, he auditioned on the second season of Americas Got Talent. He sang Superstition by Stevie Wonder, the judges then asked him to perform a second song with his guitar, and he performed Michael Jacksons Thriller. He advanced to the Hollywood rounds, and later to the Las Vegas round, on February 23,2012, Phillips was chosen as one of the Top 25 semi-finalists, and was then voted into the Top 13. His performance style on the show has been compared to Dave Matthews, and he covered one of his songs, The Stone, in the competition. When asked about Phillips imitation of his style, Dave Matthews said, More power to him, I dont mind, after the Top 13 performance night, Phillips was taken to a doctor for possible kidney stones. He had eight procedures while he was on Idol, and considered quitting the show due to the pain, for his Top 3 performance, Phillips sang Bob Segers Weve Got Tonight. His coronation song, Home, was released after his performance, ^Note 1 Due to the judges using their one save on Jessica Sanchez, the Top 7 remained intact for another week. After winning American Idol, Phillips went on the American Idol LIVE Tour from July to September with the rest of the Top 10 finishers of season 11 and he performed the National Anthem at the opening game of the 2012 World Series on October 24,2012. On November 15, he joined forces with the PS22 chorus of Staten Island for a concert to raise money for those affected by Hurricane Sandy and he also performed at the National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony on December 6,2012
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Adam Lambert
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Adam Mitchel Lambert is an American singer, songwriter and stage actor. Since 2009, he has sold over 3 million albums and 5 million singles worldwide, Lambert rose to fame in 2009 after finishing as runner-up on the eighth season of American Idol. Later that year, he released his album, For Your Entertainment. The album spawned hit singles, including Whataya Want from Me. In 2012, Lambert released his studio album, Trespassing. The album premiered at one on the U. S. Billboard 200. In 2015, Lambert released his album, The Original High. Alongside his solo career, Lambert has collaborated with rock band Queen as lead vocalist for Queen + Adam Lambert since 2011, culminating in a successful world-wide tour from 2014 to 2016. Lambert was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on January 29,1982, to mother Leila, a dental hygienist, and father Eber Lambert and his father is of partial Norwegian descent and his mother is Jewish. Lambert was raised in his mothers religion and he has a younger brother, Neil. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to San Diego, Lambert began performing with Metropolitan Educational Theatre network from the age of nine. There, he became involved with theater and choir, performed vocals with the schools jazz band. He also appeared in professional productions such as Hello, Dolly. Camelot, The Music Man, Grease, Chess and Peter Pan, at such as The Starlight, The Lyceum. Life is all about taking risks to get what you want, at 19, Lambert landed his first professional job, performing on a cruise ship for ten months with Anita Mann Productions. Afterwards, he performed in opera in Orange County, California. By 21, he was signed with a manager and cast in a European tour of Hair and he finished performances with the musical in 2008. During this same period, Lambert briefly fronted underground rock band The Citizen Vein with Steve Sidelnyk, Tommy Victor and Monte Pittman
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Pentatonix
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Pentatonix is a five-member American a cappella group from Arlington, Texas, with vocalists Avi Kaplan, Scott Hoying, Kirstin Maldonado, Kevin Olusola, and Mitch Grassi. Pentatonix formed in 2011 and subsequently won the season of NBCs The Sing-Off, receiving $200,000. When Sonys Epic Records dropped the group after The Sing-Off, the group formed its YouTube channel, distributing its music through Madison Gate Records, with over 11.5 million subscribers and 1.80 billion views, Pentatonixs YouTube channel is currently the 13th most-subscribed music video channel. The groups video tribute to Daft Punk had received over 210 million views as of late 2014, Pentatonix began with Kirstin Kirstie Maldonado, Mitchell Mitch Grassi, and Scott Hoying who grew up together and were schoolmates at Martin High School in Arlington, Texas. For a local radio show competition to meet the cast of Glee, despite losing the competition, their singing sparked attention at their school and began performing. Their version of Telephone by Lady Gaga subsequently gained attention on YouTube, Hoying and Maldonado both graduated from Martin High School in 2010, Grassi in 2011. Hoying went off to the University of Southern California to pursue a degree in Popular Music. While at USC, Scott Hoying joined an a cappella group called SoCal VoCals and he found out about The Sing-Off from another member of the group, Ben Bram and was encouraged to audition for the show. Then the trio found Kevin Olusola on YouTube, where one of his videos in which he was simultaneously beatboxing and playing the cello had gone viral, Olusola was born in Owensboro, Kentucky and graduated pre-med from Yale University. He speaks fluent Mandarin after spending a year studying in China, the group met the day before the auditions for the third season of The Sing-Off began. The group successfully auditioned for the show and eventually went on to win the title for 2011, Pentatonix, as suggested by Scott Hoying, is named after the pentatonic scale, a musical scale or mode with five notes per octave, representing the five members of the group. They replaced the last letter with an x to make it more appealing, the quintet derives its influences from pop, dubstep, electro, reggae, hip hop, and classical music. Pentatonix performed the songs on The Sing Off. The group did not perform in Episode 1 or 3, Scott Hoying and Kirstie Maldonado dropped out of college in the hopes of winning The Sing-Off, while Mitch Grassi skipped his high school graduation to audition for the show. After they won, all of the relocated to Los Angeles in order to pursue a career as recording artists. The main goal of the group was to become the first mainstream a cappella group in recent times, in January 2012, having signed with Sony Pictures-owned label Madison Gate Records, the group began working on their first album with producer Ben Bram. During that six-month period of picking covers and writing originals, Pentatonix released covers of popular and classic songs on YouTube. In interviews, the mention that it was a way to stay relevant to their audience that enjoyed their work on The Sing-Off
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Katharine McPhee
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Katharine Hope McPhee is an American actress, singer and songwriter. She gained fame in May 2006 as the runner-up on the season of American Idol. Her self-titled debut album was released on RCA Records on January 30,2007, the albums first single, Over It, was a Pop Top 30 hit and was certified gold in 2008. Her second album, Unbroken, was released on Verve Forecast Records on January 5,2010, the album featured the single Had It All, which peaked at No.22 on the AC chart. It has sold 45,000 copies as of January 2011 and her third album, the holiday-themed Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You, was released on October 12,2010. The album debuted at eleven on the Billboard Top Holiday Albums chart while the single Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas peaked at number sixteen on the Billboard AC chart. As of January 2011, this album has sold 23,000 copies, McPhee released her fourth album, Hysteria, on September 18,2015. McPhee has also established a career, co-starring in The House Bunny. She has played Karen Cartwright, one of the roles on Smash. Since September 2014, she has starred in Scorpion as Paige Dineen, McPhee was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father, Daniel McPhee, is a television producer and her mother, Peisha McPhee, has been a vocal coach on American Idol since 2011. The family moved to the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles when she was 12 years old, Peisha McPhee recognized her daughters musical talent and decided to train her. McPhees older sister, Adriana, has been a coach on American Idol since 2012. McPhee is of Irish, Scottish, and German descent, McPhee attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, where she performed in school plays and musicals. She attended Boston Conservatory for three semesters, majoring in Musical Theatre and she left college before graduation on the advice of her manager and returned to Los Angeles to try out for television pilots. McPhee was cast in a mall-based MTV soap opera pilot, You Are Here, MTV never aired the pilot and did not pick up the series. In March 2005, McPhee starred as Annie Oakley in a Cabrillo Music Theater production of the musical Annie Get Your Gun, McPhee was nominated for a Los Angeles Stage Ovation Award in the category of Lead Actress in a Musical. McPhee had a role as Paramount Girl in the 2007 musical film Crazy
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Lea Michele
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Lea Michele Sarfati is an American actress, singer and author. She began her career as an actress on Broadway, appearing in productions of Les Misérables, Ragtime, Fiddler on the Roof. She is best known for her role as Rachel Berry on the Fox television series Glee, for which she received a Satellite Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, from 2015 to 2016, Michele starred as Hester Ulrich on the Fox television series Scream Queens. Michele made her film debut in New Years Eve, and was signed to Columbia Records in 2012. She released her single the following year, Cannonball, followed by her debut studio album, Louder. Her second studio album, Places, is scheduled for release in April 2017, Michele has also published two novels, Brunette Ambition and You First, Journal Your Way To Your Best Life. Lea Michele Sarfati was born in the Bronx, New York, the child of Edith Thomasina, a retired nurse, and Mark David Sarfati. Her mother is Italian American and Catholic, while her father is a Sephardic Jew with ancestors from Thessaloniki, Michele was raised Catholic, and has stated that her father gladly attended church with her and her mother. Michele spent the first four years of her living in the Bronx, until she and her parents moved to the more suburban area of Tenafly. The family also rented an apartment in Manhattan, where they would live when Michele was performing on Broadway, Michele was educated at Rockland Country Day School for elementary school in Congers, New York. Michele started using her name at an early age. When she went on her first audition, for the role of Young Cosette in Les Misérables, she gave her name as Lea Michele, Michele stated that she intentionally left off her surname because she was teased about its pronunciation. During the audition, she sang Angel of Music from The Phantom of the Opera – the only musical she knew at the time, Michele went along to support a friend, but ended up landing the part herself. In 1997, Michele was homeschooled while living and working in Toronto, for her high school education, Michele attended Tenafly High School. During her time there, she was on the team, the debate team. In her teens, when she wasnt working on the stage and she also worked at her fathers deli. Michele refrained from auditioning for Broadway roles during her freshman, sophomore, in the summers from 2000 to 2002, Michele attended Stagedoor Manor in the Catskills, a center for performing arts training. At Stagedoor, she was part of the touring troupe Our Time Cabaret, and performed in productions of Side by Side by Sondheim and The Whos Tommy
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Quantico (TV series)
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Quantico is an American drama thriller series that premiered on ABC on September 27,2015. The series was created by Joshua Safran and was produced by ABC Studios, mark Gordon and Safran serve as executive producers. In season two, Russell Tovey, Pearl Thusi, Aarón Díaz and Blair Underwood were added to the main cast following the CIA plot elements. ABC originally ordered 13 episodes for the first season, and picked up the show for a season with subsequent orders in October and November to a total of 22 episodes. On March 3,2016, ABC renewed Quantico for a second season, Alex Parrish, a promising FBI recruit, becomes a prime suspect following a terrorist attack on Grand Central Terminal. Alex is then taken into custody, where she finds out that she had been charged with the terrorist attack on Grand Central and her initial escape is orchestrated by Deputy Director Miranda Shaw, her primary instructor at Quantico, who refuses to believe that she is guilty. Flashbacks show her and fellow agents training at the Quantico Academy, Alex met Ryan Booth on her way to the Academy. Ryan was later revealed to have ordered by Liam OConnor. While living at the Academy, she learned of her fathers double-agent identity and she became friends with Shelby Wyatt and other recruits. Liam is eventually revealed to be the responsible and is killed by both Alex and Ryan. Alex is fired from the FBI as a result of the events of the bombing, two months later, Alex is approached by the CIA director Matthew Keyes, who offers her a position at the organization. Even after clearing her name, saving millions of lives, and discovering the mastermind behind the Grand Central bombing, Alex has been fired from the FBI but still works undercover. Six months after the events in the season one finale, Alex is working as an analyst at the CIA, after waiting for months, Alex finds herself at The Farm, the CIAs mysterious training facility, where she must go undercover with Ryan for the FBI. The real aim of the group is to generate public fear, two weeks after the end of the hostage crisis, President Claire Haas and CIA director Matthew Keyes put forth a covert joint task force between the FBI and CIA. Alex is hired to be a member of the force along with Ryan Booth, Nimah Amin, Shelby Wyatt. The leader of the group is Clay Haas, a political advisory strategist. Prior to the formation of the task-force, Alex is re-instated to work again as an FBI agent, Priyanka Chopra as Alexandra Alex Parrish, a promising FBI agent who becomes a prime suspect of the Grand Central bombing case. Framed, she goes into hiding to track down those responsible, at the end of season one, Alex is fired by the FBI and is given the chance to work for the CIA
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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ARIA Charts
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The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia, ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report which had been Australias national charts since 1974. The Go-Set charts were Australias first national singles and albums charts published from 5 October 1966 until 24 August 1974, succeeding Go-Set, the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler, David Kent, also published Australias national charts from 1940–1974 in a retrospective fashion using state based data, in mid 1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart. The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, ARIA began compiling its own charts in-house from the chart dated week ending 26 June 1988. Various artists compilation albums were included in the albums chart, as they had been on the Kent Report chart, until 2 July 1989. The ARIA Report, detailing the top 100 singles and albums charts, was first available via subscription in January 1990, the printed top 50 chart ceased publication in June 1998, but resumed publication later in the year. The printed top 50 chart again ceased publication at the end of 2000, the ARIA charts are based on data collected from physical and digital retailers in Australia. Data of physical sales come from such as Sanity and JB Hi-Fi, while data of digital sales come from online retailers such as iTunes, Bandit FM, GetMusic. Since 17 February 1997, all physical sales data contributing towards the chart has been recorded electronically at point of sale. In March 1991, Do the Bartman by The Simpsons was the first single to reach #1 in Australia that was not available on 7 inch vinyl, but cassingle only. Starting from 8 October 2006, due to low physical single sales at the time, in 2006, it was announced that the Brazin retailing group, comprising major retailers HMV, Sanity and Virgin music/DVD stores would no longer contribute sales data to the ARIA charts. However, after an absence, Brazin reportedly re-commenced contributing sales figures to the ARIA Charts on 26 November 2006. The ARIA website publishes the top 50 singles and albums charts, top 40 digital tracks chart, the ARIA Report lists all charts in full and is available via paid e-mail subscription each week. These reports are uploaded to the Pandora Archive periodically, on 5 February 2006, the ARIA Chart Show was a radio program launched on the Nova network and broadcast throughout Australia, playing the official ARIA top 50 singles. The live music program was hosted by Jabba each Sunday afternoon at 3, the show was aired before the top 50 chart, dated for the following Monday, is published on the ARIA website at 6,00 pm. The charts were published online at 6,00 pm each Sunday. The diamond certification was created for albums in November 2015 to mark 500,000 sales/shipments, for music DVDs, a gold accreditation originally represented 7,500 copies shipped, with a platinum accreditation representing 15,000 units shipped. co. uk
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Gaon Music Chart
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The Gaon Music Chart tabulates the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in South Korea. It started tracking sales since the beginning of 2010 and it was officially launched in February 2010 with a launching ceremony held on 23 February 2010 at the Westin Chosun hotel in Seoul. The launch also included a small awarding ceremony, which awarded girl group Girls Generation with top artist of January, meanwhile, Hit single We Fell In Love, performed by Jo Kwon of 2AM and Ga-in of Brown Eyed Girls, took the title of best weekly mobile ringtone. There are two charts, Gaon Album Chart and Gaon Digital Chart. The charts lists domestic artists sales, international sales and a combined overall sales in weekly, monthly. The Gaon Album Chart ranks physical album sales, including mini, the Gaon Digital Chart ranks best-selling non-physical, digital music sales, and is an aggregate of downloads, streaming and background music. It excludes radio airplay, and different versions of a song are listed as separate entries and it is compiled from online data provided by web-based music providers such as Olleh Music, genie, Melon, Mnet, Soribada, Naver Music, KakaoMusic and Bugs. There is no digital album chart because each song is a digital download. All charts rank the top 100, before mid-2014, the digital, streaming, download, and noraebang charts ranked the top 200. The Gaon Social Chart is a chart that ranks the top 100 songs according to their popularity on YouTube, Twitter, Weibo. The Gaon Weibo Chart is a chart that ranks the top 10 most popular K-pop groups. This chart started the week of June 29,2014, Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards Gaon chart official homepage KMCIA official homepage
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Forget the World (Afrojack album)
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Forget the World is the debut studio album by Dutch music producer and DJ Afrojack. It was released on 16 May 2014, as Your Friend featuring Chris Brown was released on 13 February 2013. It reached number 21 on the UK Singles Chart, the song appears on the album as a bonus track on the deluxe version. The Spark featuring Spree Wilson was released as the lead single on 11 October 2013. The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 17, ten Feet Tall featuring Wrabel was released on 3 February 2014, as the albums second single. It is due to be released in the UK on 18 May 2014, dynamite featuring Snoop Dogg was released on 17 April 2014, as the albums third single. At Rolling Stone, Christopher R. Weingarten rated the album three out of five, stating that anything thats not glowing with Afrojacks trademark explosions. David Jeffries of AllMusic rated the album three out of five, writing that Forget the World plays more like a collection of 12s than a well-tempered album. At USA Today, Elysa Gardner rated the album three out of five, saying that these new tracks represent EDM at its most breezily accessible. Paul McInnes of The Guardian rated the album one out of five. In the United States, the album debuted at number 32 on the Billboard 200 and it also debuted at number two on Billboards Dance/Electronic Albums chart. Notes ^ signifies a co-producer ^ signifies a remixer Freedom features a sample from Hero by Nas. = deluxe version Credits adapted from AllMusic
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Marshmello discography
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L・O・V・E U is the third single by J-pop singer Leah Dizon. The title song was described as a summer song in initial press statements. It was released on August 8,2007 and came in two versions, a limited edition CD+DVD version and a CD only version, the song was used as the commercial song for the Shueisha magazine Pinky. L・O・V・E U Brand New Day L・O・V・E U Making-of Footage
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Galantis
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Galantis is a Swedish electronic dance music production, songwriting and DJ duo consisting of Christian Karlsson and Linus Eklöw. Karlsson is also known as Bloodshy as part of two musical groups, a duo and a trio. Eklöw is known as Style of Eye and they are best known for their 2014 single Runaway and 2016 single No Money. They have worked with The Sea Fox for many of their music videos, the Sea Fox has also been featured on many of their album and EP covers. Grammy winning Christian Karlsson has worked with the producing team Bloodshy & Avant, Karlsson has co-written and co-produced tracks for artists such as Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Kylie Minogue and Madonna. Specifically, Karlsson co-wrote the Britney Spears single Toxic, which earned an Ivor Novello award. Karlsson is also a member of Swedish artist collective and record label INGRID. Otherwise known as established electronic music producer Style of Eye, he also co-wrote, Style of Eye, a Stockholm-born and based DJ and producer, resides in the techno genre and comes from the underground scene. He explores a range of styles, from techno to house via distinct percussion and minimal. DJing upbeat drum and bass followed at 16, and Linus moved into production with releases and remixes on such labels as Classic Recordings, Tiny Sticks. The duo initially met by chance at Karlssons Robotberget studios in Stockholm, in 2009, Karlssons band asked Eklöw, who produces and DJs as Style of Eye, to remix their song Animal. After that, the two Swedes started hanging out in the studio together, playing each other songs and scraps of ideas, explaining what drew him to Eklöw, Karlsson says, Hes an amazing programmer and designer of soundscapes. The duo figured out their own approach—once they create a foundation with an arrangement, they build it up with stirring keyboards, monumental drums, imploring vocals. We keep the song naked, and when we feel like we have the one, we put some clothes on it and see how it feels. We realized, this is Galantis, this is our band, the duo signed to Atlantic Records dance imprint Big Beat Records in mid-2013. Recording in a studio in the Swedish archipelago in the Baltic Sea and they opt to combine the excitement and big energy of electronic music with meaningful songwriting. The first composition they agreed upon was Smile, after that, their direction became clear. We felt the urge to fill the world up with songs and with songwriting that created our sound
