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Hollow (Dons Song)
"Hollow" is a song by Latvian singer-songwriter Dons. Originally released in Latvian under the title "" on 11 September 2023, its English version was released on 2 January 2024 by Universal. The song was written by Dons, Kate Northrop, and Liam Geddes, and represented Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, where it placed 16 with 64 points. In the process, the song became the first Latvian entry to qualify for the grand final since 2016. On 16 October, 2024, the Latvian Music Producers Association presented Dons with a platinum certificate for "Hollow"; the platinum award is given to songs that have been streamed 4 million times or more. Background and composition "Hollow" was written and composed by Dons, Kate Northrop, and Liam Geddes during a songwriting camp in Spain. It was first released in Latvian as "" on 11 September 2023. In interviews with ''Wiwibloggs''' William Lee Adams, Dons says that the song explores how one's "insecurities can hold us hostage", with ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dons (singer)
Artūrs Šingirejs (born 10 April 1984), better known as Dons, is a Latvia, Latvian singer and songwriter. He is one of the most popular singers in Latvia, having won the Annual Latvian Music Recording Awards, Latvian Music Recording Awards' Top Radio Hit award eight times for most played song. He represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with "Hollow (Dons song), Hollow". He has released nine solo albums and has won numerous awards including Latvijas Radio's Muzikālās Banka () Song of the Year five times. At the Latvian Music Recording Awards, he has won Best Pop Album twice from five nominations for ''Varanasi'' (2014) and ''Tūrists'' (2020). He has won Best Rock Album once from two nominations with ''Lelle'' (2008) and has been nominated once for Best Pop-Rock Album with ''Signāls'' (2013). In 2024, he won the ''Supernova (Latvian TV series), Supernova'' song competition with his English-language single "Hollow" to represent Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malmö
Malmö is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, sixth-largest city in Nordic countries, the Nordic region. Located on the Øresund, Öresund Øresund, strait on the southwestern coast of Sweden, it is the largest city in Scania, with a municipal population of 365,644 in 2024, and is the Governors of Skåne County, gubernatorial seat of Skåne County. Malmö received its city privileges in 1353, and today Metropolitan Malmö, Malmö's metropolitan region is home to over 700,000 people. Malmö is the site of Sweden's only Fixed link, fixed direct link to continental Europe, the Öresund Bridge, completed in 2000. The bridge connects Sweden to Denmark, and carries both road and rail traffic. The Öresund Region, which includes Malmö and Copenhagen, is home to four million people. The city was one of the earliest and most-Industrial Revolution, industri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music 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. 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. 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. According to the RIAA, music downloads peaked at 43% of industry revenue in the US in 2012, and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AGATA (organization)
Lithuanian Neighbouring Rights Association (), known as AGATA, is a non-profit organization, non-profit performance rights organization established in 1999 that deals with the licensing and rights of music publishers and performers in Lithuania. In 2011, it became the country's designated body for the collection of compensation for writers, performers, actors and producers. AGATA is an associated member of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Since September 2018, AGATA publishes weekly top 100 charts of the most popular albums and singles in Lithuania. The charts are based on sales and Streaming media, streams from Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, iTunes, Google Play and Shazam (music app), Shazam. Certifications In 2023, AGATA reinstated the Gold, Platinum, and Diamond awards for album sales, with the certifications based on both album sales and downloads. The required thresholds were set at 2.5 million listens for Gold, 4 million for Platinum, and 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sped-up Song
A nightcore (also known as sped-up song, sped-up version, sped-up remix, or sped-up edit) is a version of a music track that increases the pitch and speeds up its source material by approximately 35%. This gives an effect identical to playing a 33⅓-RPM vinyl record at 45 RPM. The name is derived from the Norwegian musical duo "Nightcore" (), who released pitch-shifted versions of trance and Eurodance songs. Nightcore is also almost always associated and accompanied with anime and otaku culture, with many YouTube thumbnails, and similar formats, of nightcore remixes containing anime characters and art. Nightcore saw a general resurgence in popularity in the early 2020s due to TikTok, causing major recording labels to officially release "sped-up" versions of their songs. History 2000s: Origins The term "nightcore" was first used in 2001 as the name for a school project by Norwegian DJ duo Thomas S. Nilsen and Steffen Ojala Søderholm, known by their stage names DJ TNT and DJ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Satti
Marina Satti (; born 26 December 1986) is a Greek singer, composer, music producer and actress. Her music combines Greek traditional music, traditional Greek, Arabic music, Arab and Balkan music, Balkan sounds with Urban music, urban elements, rhythm and production. Early life and studies Satti was born in Athens and lived there up to the age of 6. After that, she was raised on the island of Crete in Greece. Her father, Ali Osman Satti, was an Sudanese Arabs, Arab doctor-anesthesiologist from Sudan and former deputy professor of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; her mother, Chariclia Filoxenidi, is a chemical engineer from Heraklion, Crete, with ancestry from the Anatolian Greeks, Greek population of Asia Minor. Her parents met at the Faculty of Medicine in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens where they studied. Satti spent her childhood in Heraklion and as a child, she visited Sudan during the summers. She graduated from school as a top stude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bambie Thug
Bambie Ray Robinson (born 6 March 1993), known by their stage name Bambie Thug, is an Irish singer-songwriter. They are known to mix numerous genres in their music, coining their own term, "ouija-pop", out of disdain for being put into one genre. Robinson's music has been inspired by various subjects, including breakups, witchcraft, and drug addiction. Robinson is the first openly non-binary artist to represent in the Eurovision Song Contest, doing so in with the song " Doomsday Blue". They finished in sixth place, becoming Ireland's highest scoring entrant and scoring the country its best placement in the contest since . Early life Robinson was born and raised in Macroom, County Cork, on 6 March 1993, to a Swedish father from Stockholm and a mother from Cork, and has three sisters. Attending St Mary's Secondary School in Macroom, they were a member of the school's choir club, helping win the school the All-Ireland Schools Choir competition. Initially training to become a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diena
''Diena'' (''The Day'') is a Latvian language national daily newspaper in Latvia, published since 23 November 1990. It is one of Latvia's largest daily periodicals and used to be considered as a paper of record. History The newspaper was initially founded as the official paper of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia. Since privatisation in 1993, Diena was owned by Swedish media group Bonnier. Diena had 18,277 subscribers in December 2009, down from 26,866 in February 2009, and 41,471 in April 2000. It shifted from berliner to compact format in 2007. The newspaper's Russian language edition was discontinued in 2000. Controversies In 2002, the publisher was fined for articles published in 1998 and criticizing then-minister for economy Laimonis Strujevičs. In 2007, the European Court of Human Rights held the fine to be in violation of freedom of expression. In 2009, AS Diena together with its sister business daily Dienas Bizness was sold to an ambiguous invest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dons Eurovision Song Contest 2024 Final Malmö Dress Rehearsal Semi 2 02
Dons or The Dons may refer to: Association football * Aberdeen F.C., a Scottish professional football club * Hendon F.C., an English semi-professional football club * Wimbledon F.C., a former English professional football club from London which relocated to Milton Keynes in 2003, and the two clubs that emerged from the surrounding controversy: ** AFC Wimbledon, founded by disaffected Wimbledon F.C. supporters in 2002 ** Milton Keynes Dons F.C., as Wimbledon F.C. was renamed in 2004 Other sports * Doncaster R.L.F.C., an English rugby league club from Doncaster, South Yorkshire * Dorton Dons, a tug-of-war team based in Dorton, Buckinghamshire * Essendon Football Club, an Australian rules football club * The Los Angeles Dons, an American football team that played in the defunct All-America Football Conference in 1946–49 * The athletic teams of Loyola Blakefield school in Maryland * San Francisco Dons, the athletic teams of the University of San Francisco, California * Wimbledon Don ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megara (band)
Megara () is a Spanish rock band formed in Madrid in 2015, currently consisting of Kenzy Loevett, Vitti Crocutta, Tio Rober Bueno, and Raphaela Tache. They represented San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song " 11:11". They failed to qualify in the second semi-final, getting 14th place. It was the third time in a row that the country failed to qualify for the final. During Eurovision Song Contest 2024, Kat Almagro joined the band as a drummer. History Megara was formed in Madrid in 2015 by guitarist Rober and vocalist Kenzy. That same year, the band released their debut EP ''Muérase quien pueda.'' In 2016, they released ''Siete'', their first studio album. After the publication of their second studio album ''Aquí estamos todos locos'' in 2018, the band began rising in popularity, making their debut appearances at Download Festival and Resurrection Fest in 2019. Benidorm Fest 2023 In 2023, the band participated in Benidorm Fest 2023, the Spanish presel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Marino In The Eurovision Song Contest 2024
San Marino was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song " 11:11", performed by the Spanish band Megara. The song was written by Isra Dante Ramos Solomando, Roberto la Lueta Ruiz, and Sara Jiménez Moral. The nation's participating broadcaster, (SMRTV), organised the national final format in collaboration with Media Evolution S.r.l. to select its entry. Over 700 candidate entries from 31 countries were submitted for consideration to the event, which consisted of five semi-final rounds, a second chance round and a final round, all airing in February 2024. Promotion of the entry consisted of a tour of a selection of nations participating in the contest, including Denmark, England, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands. San Marino was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the contest, which took place on 9 May 2024. Performing during the show at position 10 in the running order, "11:11" did not qualify to compete in the final. It placed 14th out of the 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladaniva
Ladaniva (; stylized in all caps, named in reference to the off-road SUV Lada Niva) is a French-Armenian world music group originally from Lille. The duo, founded in 2019, consists of Armenian singer Jaklin Baghdasaryan and French multi-instrumentalist Louis Thomas. Their musical style is inspired by music from around the world, particularly traditional Balkan music, maloya and Armenian folklore. They represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "Jako". History Ladaniva was formed in 2019 in Lille as a result of the collaboration between singer Jaklin Baghdasaryan and multi-instrumentalist Louis Thomas. Baghdasaryan, born in 1997 in Yeghegnadzor, Armenia, grew up in Minsk, Belarus, before emigrating to France with her mother in 2014. She has been singing since her early childhood and, based in Tourcoing, enrolled at the Conservatoire de Lille. Thomas, born in 1987 in Lille and an accomplished jazz musician from a family of musicians, also attended the conservat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
