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In It To Win It (Charlie Wilson Album)
''In It to Win It'' is the eighth studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter Charlie Wilson. It was released on February 17, 2017, by RCA Records. The album includes collaborations with Snoop Dogg, Lalah Hathaway, Wiz Khalifa, T.I., Robin Thicke and Pitbull. Critical reception AllMusic editor Andy Kellman rated the album three out of five stars. He found that "the material on ''In It to Win It'' mostly sticks to an "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach that has brought the singer commercial and Grammy-nominated success for well over a decade. Wilson continues to offer traditional, uplifting R&B that sounds modern and mature without pandering to younger or older audiences. He simply stocks the album with affectionate, gracious love songs and breaks them up with the occasional upbeat funk track or contemporary gospel number – nothing fancy." Melody Charles, writing for ''SoulTracks'' wrote: "Gap-Band-recalling up-tempos, rapper cameos, and inspirational bits of testim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Wilson (singer)
Charles Kent Wilson (born January 29, 1953), also known as Uncle Charlie, is an American Singer, Songwriter, and Record Producer who served as lead vocalist for the Gap Band from its 1967 formation until its 2010 disbandment. As a solo act, Wilson has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards and 11 NAACP Image Awards (including two wins), received a 2009 Soul Train Icon Award, and was a recipient of a BMI Icon Award in 2005. In 2009 and 2020, he was named ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' magazine's No. 1 Adult R&B Artist, and his song "There Goes My Baby (Charlie Wilson song), There Goes My Baby" was named the No. 1 Urban Adult Song for 2009 in ''Billboard''. On June 30, 2013, BET honored Wilson with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Wilson is the national spokesman of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, where there is a Creativity Award in his name. The organization donates hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to cancer research across the United States. Early life Charles Kent Wils ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard 200
The ''Billboard'' 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Sometimes, a recording act is remembered for its " number ones" that outperformed all other albums during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 list in May 1967, acquiring its existing name in March 1992. Its previous names include the ''Billboard'' Top LPs (1961–1972), ''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape (1972–1984), ''Billboard'' Top 200 Albums (1984–1985), ''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums (1985–1991), and ''Billboard'' 200 Top Albums (1991–1992). The chart is based mostly on sales—both at retail and digital – of albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, the tracking week begins on Friday (to coincide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Wilson (singer) Albums
Charles, Charlie, Charley, or Chuck Wilson may refer to: Academics * Charles Edward Wilson (educationalist) (1815–1888), Scottish teacher and educationalist * Charles Robert Wilson (1863–1904), English academic and historian of British India * Charles Wilson (political scientist) (1909–2002), Scottish political scientist and university administrator * Charles Wilson (historian) (1914–1991), English business historian and Cambridge University professor * Charles Wilson (economist), American economist and academic administrator Arts and entertainment * Charles Heath Wilson (1809–1882), Anglo-Scottish painter, art teacher and author * Charles Wilson (Scottish architect) (1810–1861), Scottish architect * Charles C. Wilson (architect) (1864–1933), American architect * Charles J. A. Wilson (1880-1965), Scottish-born American artist, painter, etcher, and illustrator * * Charles C. Wilson (1894–1948), American film actor * Charles Morrow Wilson (1905–1977), Ameri ... [...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] |
John Newman (singer)
John William Peter Newman (born 16 June 1990) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, DJ, composer and record producer. He first gained prominence for his single " Love Me Again" (2013), which peaked at number one on the UK singles chart, and entered the top ten in over twenty countries. The song also made an appearance in '' FIFA 14.'' His debut album ''Tribute (2013)'', reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and is certified platinum by the BPI. Newman's other notable singles include " Feel the Love" featuring Rudimental (2012), "Cheating" (2013), "Blame" with Calvin Harris (2014), " Come and Get It" (2015), and " Give Me Your Love" with Sigala and Nile Rodgers (2016). As of March 2015, he has achieved four number one UK singles while his second studio album ''Revolve (2015)'', reached number three in his home country. Newman's accolades includes four Brit Awards nominations, including for British Male Solo Artist in 2014, and an Ivor Novello Award nomination. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Hudson
Eric Lee Hudson (born October 15, 1986) is an American record producer. He has won three Grammy Awards, and contributed to sales of over 60 million units in the United States. He is perhaps best known for his co-production on Kanye West's 2007 single " Flashing Lights", which peaked within the top 30 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Early life and career His father, Curtis, is a music producer and songwriter best known for having co-written Madonna's 1983 song "Holiday". His mother, Phyllis Bivins-Hudson, is an educator for Rutgers University. Eric attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and graduated in 2004. He is a multi-instrumentalist (including piano, drums, bass, guitar, and organ), and honed much of his early music development playing in church and conducting his own jazz band, the Jazz Funk Project. His early introduction into the industry began by working alongside hip hop producers Buckwild and DJ Kay Gee of Naughty by Nature. Hudson was an instrument ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Hetrick
Keith Justin Hetrick is a Grammy-nominated American songwriter and record producer based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has worked with notable artists such as Jennifer Lopez, Boyz II Men, Snoop Dogg, Charlie Wilson, Shaggy, T.I., Pitbull, Now United, Fifth Harmony, GOT7, NCT, Cher Lloyd, Roy Wang, Nine Percent, Wanna One, Aston Merrygold, Silentó, The Jacksons, Ray Parker Jr., Teddy Riley, Paulina Rubio, Sophia Grace, and Inna. Career In 2016, Hetrick was nominated for a Grammy Award for his writing and production work on the Charlie Wilson album '' Forever Charlie'', which included the songs "Unforgettable" (featuring Shaggy), "Infectious" (featuring Snoop Dogg), and the opening track "Somebody Loves You." '' Forever Charlie'' also gartered an NAACP nomination for “ Outstanding Album." In August 2016, ISINA artist New District released the single "Ain't Got Money," which Hetrick wrote and co-produced alongside industry heavyweight Randy Jackson. In December of that same y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apple Inc
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Company by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, the company was incorporated by Jobs and Wozniak as Apple Computer, Inc. the following year. It was renamed Apple Inc. in 2007 as the company had expanded its focus from computers to consumer electronics. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue, with billion in the 2024 fiscal year. The company was founded to produce and market Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. Its second computer, the Apple II, became a best seller as one of the first mass-produced microcomputers. Apple introduced the Lisa in 1983 and the Macintosh in 1984, as some of the first computers to use a graphical user interface and a mouse. By 1985, internal company problems led to Jobs leavin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized in letter case, lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its Billboard charts, music charts include the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100, the Billboard 200, 200, and the Billboard Global 200, Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album-equivalent Unit
The album-equivalent unit, or album equivalent, often shortened to just unit, is a sales metric in the music industry that defines the number of streaming media, songs streamed and music download, songs downloaded equal to one Record sales, traditional album sale. The album-equivalent unit was introduced in the mid-2010s as an answer to the drop of album sales in the 21st century. Album sales more than halved from 1999 to 2009, declining from a $14.6 to $6.3 billion industry, partly due to cheap digitally downloaded Single (music), singles. For instance, the only albums that Music recording certification, went platinum in the United States in 2014 were the Frozen (soundtrack), ''Frozen'' soundtrack and Taylor Swift's ''1989 (album), 1989'', whereas several albums had gone platinum in 2013. The use of album-equivalent units transformed the Record chart, music charts from a ranking of best-selling albums into a ranking of most popular albums. The International Federation of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SoulTracks
''SoulTracks'' is an American online magazine An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to an online only magazine was the comput ... that publishes music reviews, biographies and news. The website was founded in 2003 by Chris Rizik, and draws 250,000 visitors a month from 100 countries. References External links * American music websites Internet properties established in 2003 Music review websites {{music-mag-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
