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The Lead (EP)
''The Lead'' is the debut extended play by English girl group Flo (group), Flo, released on July 8, 2022 through Island Records. The EP features with three singles: "Cardboard Box (song), Cardboard Box", "Immature" and "Summertime". The debut extended play was produced by MNEK, except "Another Guy (Acoustic)". On 14 September 2022, the English trio re-released the extended play which served as a deluxe, with a promotional single: "Not My Job". Background "Cardboard Box (song), Cardboard Box" was first released on 24 March 2022, by the English trio and acted as the trio's debut single. Later on, this single also acted as the lead single for their extended play. The debut song was produced by English producer, MNEK. An accompanying music video was published to YouTube on 1 April 2022, which surpassed 900 thousand views within days. Many established artists, such as SZA and Missy Elliott praised the song on social media. The trio described the song as "getting yourself together afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flo (group)
Flo (stylised in uppercase) are a British girl group from London consisting of members Jorja Douglas, Stella Quaresma, and Renée Downer. The group formed in 2019 and signed to Island Records, where they released their breakthrough single " Cardboard Box", which preceded their debut extended play, '' The Lead'' (2022). Flo later topped the BBC's Sound of 2023 poll, and won the 2023 Brit Award for Rising Star. Members Stella Quaresma was born in Kingston upon Thames, and at four weeks old, she moved to Mozambique. She moved back to the British countryside at the age of five, before returning to London, where she began attending the Sylvia Young Theatre School, where she met bandmate Renée Downer. Quaresma was a year above Downer. She grew up listening to African musical artists and her mother later introduced her to Etta James and British artists like Amy Winehouse. Prior to being in the group, she worked as a waitress. Jorja Douglas was born in Eastern Germany, before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hype (magazine)
''Hype SA'' is a hip hop magazine in South Africa. The magazine was started in 2004. It is part of Panorama Media Corp and is published on a quarterly basis. ''Hype SA'' is the only magazine in South Africa which covers the hip-hop culture Hip hop or hip-hop is a culture and art movement that was created by African Americans, Latino Americans and Caribbean Americans in the Bronx, New York City. Hip hop culture is characterized by four key elements: rapping, DJing and turntabli .... References Quarterly magazines Hip hop magazines Magazines published in South Africa {{music-mag-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. Online music store Paid downloads are sometimes encoded wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Producer
A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure. Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music'' (Cambridge, MA & London, UK: MIT Press, 2005). Richard James Burgess, ''The History of Music Production'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)pp 12–13Allan Watson, ''Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio'' (New York: Routledge, 2015)pp 25–27 The record producer, or simply the producer, is likened to film director and art director. The executive producer Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights o ..., on the other hand, enables the recording project through entrep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tre Jean-Marie
Tre Jean-Marie (born 13 April 1993) is a British songwriter and record producer. His writing and production credits include AJ Tracey, Anne-Marie, Burna Boy, Craig David, Jacob Banks, Joy Crookes, Kaytranada, Labrinth, Little Mix, Mabel, Nathan Dawe, Paloma Faith, and Tom Grennan amongst many others. Early life Jean-Marie was born in Hackney, London and is of Trinidadian and St. Lucian descent. He is the son of singer-songwriters Lincoln Jean-Marie and Valerie-Suzette Jean-Marie. Career In 2016, Jean-Marie became a frequent collaborator of the British artist Craig David, for whom he co-wrote and produced 15 tracks across Following My Intuition and The Time Is Now which peaked at number 1 and 2 respectively on the UK album chart. In 2020, he co-wrote, produced, and mixed “Lighter” by Nathan Dawe featuring KSI which peaked at number 3 on the UK singles chart, was named one of the biggest selling songs of 2020, and went on to be nominated for Best British Single at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dyo (singer)
Dayo Olatunji, known professionally as Dyo (formerly Ms D), is an English singer-songwriter. Early life Dyo grew up in East Ham, East London. Her mother was born in the United Kingdom, and her father was born in Lagos, Nigeria. Having started to sing at the age of 4, at age 10 she started to take part in talent shows, competitions and performing in school assemblies. Career 2009–2016: Ms D Under her previous stage name 'Ms D', she was credited as the featured artist and co-writer for all three of rapper Wiley's hit singles from his 2013 album '' The Ascent'' including UK Chart #1 Single "Heatwave". In December 2012, she was featured on "Dependency", the debut single by English singer Charlie Brown. She is also known for her vocals on rapper Chipmunk's 2009 UK Chart #1 single " Oopsy Daisy". Ms D was credited as a songwriter and backing vocalist for Iggy Azalea's 2013 single " Bounce". 2016–present: Dyo In June 2016, unveiling her new stage name 'Dyo', she was credited a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talay Riley
Talay Riley is a British singer-songwriter. Career At the age of 18, Talay Riley signed his first major publishing deal with Global Publishing. His first appearance was in 2009, when he appeared on rapper Chipmunk's single which peaked at number 7 on the UK Singles Chart. He then went on to sign with Major Label Jive/Sony Records. Talay has toured with many UK/US artists including Skepta, Usher Usher may refer to: Several jobs which originally involved directing people and ensuring people are in the correct place: * Usher (occupation) ** Church usher ** Wedding usher, one of the male attendants to the groom in a wedding ceremony ** Fiel ...'s Arena tour, and Trey Songz. Discography Mixtapes * ''Going to California'' (2011) Singles As lead artist As featured artist Writing discography References {{DEFAULTSORT:Riley, Talay English songwriters English pop singers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Musicians from London 21st-century Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apple Music Up Next
''Apple Music: Up Next'' is a monthly program published by Apple Music aimed at identifying, showcasing and elevating rising star talent. Each month, Apple Music's editorial team selects an artist to promote in order to raise global awareness of the artist and further to grow the artist's audience. In August 2017, Apple Music premiered a monthly mini-documentary series chronicling the artists' journey, inspiration and influences. Each season of the Apple Music-exclusive ends with interviews and live performances called ''Up Next Sessions''. Each selected artist will receive a performance slot on either ''The Late Late Show with James Corden'', or ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'', in addition to an Apple Music-exclusive extended play of their Up Next live performances. Artists who have previously been given the title are Billie Eilish, Khalid, Jessie Reyez, Bad Bunny, Sigrid, Clairo, and Daniel Caesar. The platform also succeeds and is closely related to iTunes New Artist Spotlight i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KABBA (singer)
Aminata Kabba (born 13 December 1994), better known by her stage name KABBA, formerly known as A*M*E, is a British singer and songwriter. KABBA was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on 13 December 1994. In 2011, Amy was scouted and signed by Take That frontman Gary Barlow to his label, Future Records. On 9 December 2012, the BBC announced that KABBA - then A*M*E - had been nominated for the Sound of 2013 poll. In January 2013, Amy signed to Sony Music's Epic Records after Barlow closed Future Records to focus on his own career commitments. The Duke Dumont single " Need U (100%)", featuring A*M*E and MNEK, topped the UK Singles Chart on 7 April 2013. Biography 1994–2011: Early life At the age of eight, Amy moved to the United Kingdom after her mother's hair salon was burned to the ground and life in Sierra Leone became too dangerous. Growing up in the Catford area of south-east London, Amy was introduced to fellow teenage prodigy MNEK. The pair bonded over a mutual love of ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genius (website)
Genius is an American digital media company founded on August 27, 2009, by Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory, and Mahbod Moghadam. The site allows users to provide annotations and interpretation to song lyrics, news stories, sources, poetry, and documents. Originally launched as Rap Genius with a focus on hip-hop music, the company attracted the attention and support of celebrities, and venture capital enabling further growth. The site expanded in 2014 to cover other forms of media, such as pop, literature, R&B, and added an annotation-embedded platform. That same year, an iPhone app was released. To reflect these new goals, the site re-launched as Genius in July 2014. An Android version was released in August 2015, and in 2016 and 2017, the company began producing music-focused original video content and hosting live events and concerts. In December 2013, Google penalized Rap Genius for violating their backlinks guidelines—particularly involvement with blog networks—by removin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tidal (service)
Tidal (stylized in all caps) is a Norwegian-American subscription-based music, podcast and video streaming service that offers audio and music videos. Tidal was launched in 2014 by Swedish public company Aspiro which is now majority-owned by Block, Inc., an American payment processing company. With distribution agreements with all three major record labels and many independent labels, Tidal claims to provide access to more than 80 million tracks and 350,000 music videos. It offers two levels of service: Tidal HiFi (up to CD quality – FLAC-based 16-bit/44.1 kHz) and Tidal HiFi Plus (up to MQA – 24-bit/96 kHz). Tidal claims to pay the highest percentage of royalties to music artists and songwriters within the music streaming market. In March 2015, Aspiro was acquired by Project Panther Bidco Ltd., which relaunched the service with a mass-marketing campaign, promoting it as the first artist-owned streaming service. In January 2017, Sprint Corporation bought 33% of Tida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul Bounce
''Soul Bounce'' is an American daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on R&B and soul. However, the range of musical genres covered extends to gospel, hip hop and hip hop soul. The site, which was established in 2007, promotes independent artists and underground artists. The site also publishes "Hot 16" year-end lists as annual features detailing the best albums and songs of each year. History and content The website was created in August 2007, by American entertainment journalist Kimberly Hines, who had previously worked as an editor for Vibe magazine. The website's senior editor is Donte Gibson who writes under the pseudonym D-Money. ''Soul Bounce'' was created with the purpose to "expand the conversation of urban music beyond the over-exposed and the obvious" and preferably likes to focus on giving attention to underground artists. In October 2007, the website began "Bounce-Worthy", a serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
