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JP Saxe
Jonathan Percy Starker "JP" Saxe (born March 23, 1993) is a Canadian singer and musician. He is best known for his collaboration with American singer Julia Michaels titled " If the World Was Ending" which was released in 2019. The song was nominated for a 2021 Grammy. His "hero" grandfather, noted cellist János Starker, was a multiple nominee and Grammy winner. Career 2017–2018: ''Both Can Be True: Part 1'' Between April 2017 and March 2018, Saxe released the singles, "Changed", "Anybody Else" and "The Few Things". In November 2018, he released "25 in Barcelona" as the lead single from his debut EP. He released his debut EP, ''Both Can Be True: Part 1'', on November 8, 2018. 2019–2021: ''Hold It Together'' and ''Dangerous Levels of Introspection'' Saxe released the singles "Same Room" and "Women Who Look Like You" between June and August 2019. He released " If the World Was Ending" featuring Julia Michaels as the lead single from his second EP. He released "Sad Corny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tidal (service)
Tidal (stylized TIDAL) is a Norwegian-American music streaming service, launched in 2014 by the Norwegian-Swedish public company Aspiro. Tidal is now majority-owned by Block, Inc., the owner of the point-of-sale system Square. With distribution agreements with all three major record labels and many independent labels, Tidal claims to provide access to more than 100 million tracks and 650,000 music videos. On April 10, 2024, Tidal merged its two subscription plans to become one simply named Tidal, which offers the same quality as the former HiFi Plus plan (FLAC HiRes 24-bit/192KHz and MQA – 24-bit/352.8 kHz). However, on July 24, 2024, Tidal removed the feature to listen in MQA. 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-ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finneas O'Connell
Finneas Baird O'Connell (born July 30, 1997), also known mononymously by his first name (sometimes stylized in all caps), is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. The recipient of numerous accolades, he has written and produced music for various artists, most notably for his younger sister, Billie Eilish, and is credited on all of her projects. For his work with Billie Eilish, he has won 10 Grammy Awards among 21 total nominations, including nominations for the Big Four (Grammy Awards), Big Four categories. He made history as the youngest act to win the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, Producer of the Year, Non-Classical category. He has won Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Record of the Year twice in a row, Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Song of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Audio
ABC Audio is a radio syndicator, radio network and digital audio network in the United States. It is under the ownership of The Walt Disney Company, parent company of American Broadcasting Company (ABC), with satellite distribution being handled by Linkup Communications. It launched on January 1, 2015, as ABC Radio; it was renamed ABC Audio in 2019. Background ABC Radio originally began after the split of NBC Red and NBC Blue (later Blue Network) networks with ABC taking over operations of the latter from RCA in 1943 before adopting its name 2 years later. ABC Radio was known to broadcast the first nationwide report of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was shot in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, at 18:30 UTC on November 22, 1963, and ABC Radio's Don Gardiner anchored the network's initial bulletin at 18:36:50 UTC, minutes before any other radio or television network followed suit. The networks associated with ABC included Watermark Inc. (which ABC bought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heatseekers Albums
The Heatseekers charts were "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine. The Heatseekers Albums and the Heatseekers Songs charts were introduced by ''Billboard'' in 1991 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical recording artists. Albums and songs appearing on Top Heatseekers would also concurrently appear on the ''Billboard'' 200 or ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Although the ''Billboard'' Heatseekers charts were discontinued in December 2014, some regional editions (such as ''Billboard Japan'') still host their own Heatseekers Songs charts. Albums chart The Heatseekers Albums chart contains 25 positions that are ranked by Nielsen SoundScan sales data, and charts album titles from "new or developing acts" as determined by the acts' historical chart performance (the chart occasionally expanded to 50 positions throughout the years as well). Once an artist/act has had an album place in the top 100 of the ''Billboard'' Top 200 ... [...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] |
John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer ( ; born October 16, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, but he left for Atlanta in 1997 with fellow guitarist Clay Cook, with whom he formed the short-lived rock duo Lo-Fi Masters. After their split, Mayer continued to play at local clubs, refining his skills and gaining a minor following. He performed at the 2000 South by Southwest festival, and was subsequently signed by Aware Records, an imprint of Columbia Records through which he released his debut extended play (EP), ''Inside Wants Out'' (1999). His first two studio albums—''Room for Squares'' (2001) and ''Heavier Things'' (2003)—were both met with critical and commercial success; the former spawned the single "Your Body Is a Wonderland", which won Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards, while the latter peaked atop the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200. By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertainment Tonight Canada
''Entertainment Tonight Canada'' (commonly shortened to ''ET Canada'') is a Canadian entertainment news television series that aired on the Global Television Network from 2005 to 2023. Its branding and format were based on the American entertainment newsmagazine ''Entertainment Tonight'', and ''ET Canada'' was usually aired back-to-back with the American version on most Global stations. ''ET Canada'' was hosted by longtime Global Toronto entertainment host Cheryl Hickey and Sangita Patel, while presented alongside reporters Carlos Bustamante and Keshia Chanté. The program's original founding producer was Zev Shalev. ''ETC Live'' was an online show in connection with ''ET Canada'', that aired weekdays via Facebook and YouTube, shot live with expanded coverage of entertainment news. It was an interactive show, allowing viewers to submit commentary as Weston, Chanté and Graeme O'Neil debate topics. Global launched a weekend edition of ''ET Canada'' hosted by Sangita Patel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kids Help Phone
Kids Help Phone () is a Canadian charitable organization that provides online and telephone counselling and volunteer-led, text-based support in English and French to youth across Canada. Kids Help Phone also provides information on how to access community support services for youth. Organization and activities Kids Help Phone was launched in 1989 and its website was launched in 1996.Daw, J., Cone, C. (2010). Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding: Seven Principles to Power Extraordinary Results. Germany: Wiley. The organization expanded its mandate in 2002 from providing counselling to more types of support, including bullying and abuse. Kids Help Phone provides free and confidential mental health support to Canadian youth. Services were originally telephone based with the more recent provision of text message and internet based text message support. In 2016, Kids Help Line launched ''BroTalk'' website and internet based chat services to address the specific mental health needs o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What I Wouldn't Do
"What I Wouldn't Do" is a song performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Serena Ryder, which was released as a single in November 2012. The song was written by Ryder and Jerrod Bettis for Ryder's fifth studio album, ''Harmony (Serena Ryder album), Harmony''. The song was released as the second single from the album in Canada. The song was featured in a 2013 episode of ''Grey's Anatomy'' and ''Rookie Blue'', however, release of the single in the United States was delayed due to the success of Serena's previous single "Stompa (song), Stompa". Lyrics and composition Lyrically, the track is a love song in which Ryder claims there is nothing she wouldn't do for her lover. Critical reception "What I Wouldn't Do" received mixed to favorable reviews, with Ben Rayner of the ''Toronto Star'' praising the track's "crossover appeal", while Aaron Swanbergson of the National Music Center claimed the "catchy pop" song was "destined for radio fame". In contrast, music blog Snob's Music called the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serena Ryder
Serena Lauren Ryder (born December 8, 1982) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Born in Toronto, she grew up in Millbrook, Ontario. Ryder first gained national recognition with her ballad "Weak in the Knees" in 2007 and has released eight studio albums. Early life and musical interest Serena Lauren Ryder is the daughter of Barbara Ryder and Glen Sorzano and was born into a musical family. Her biological father was a Trinidadian musician who immigrated to Canada in the early sixties. Her uncle, part-Ojibwe (Temagami First Nation) singer-songwriter Bob Carpenter, worked with producer Brian Ahern and singer Emmylou Harris and recorded the unreleased ''Silent Passage'' (1974), which has since become a folk- rock cult classic. Ryder, youngest of three children, was raised by Barbara and her second husband, Andrew McKibbon, just outside Peterborough, in Millbrook, Ontario, and grew up listening to old records by the Beatles and Leonard Cohen from her parents' collection. At age eight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exclaim!
''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly ''Exclaim!'' print magazine publishes seven issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. In addition to music, the magazine also covers film and comedy. History ''Exclaim!'' began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at Ryerson's CKLN-FM in 1991. It was started by then-CKLN programmer Ian Danzig, together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded. The group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since. Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start. The magazine had no official name for its first year of operations, with only th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SOCAN Songwriting Prize
The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, SOCAN Songwriting Prize, formerly known as the ECHO Songwriting Prize, was an annual competition recognizing the best in Canadian emerging music, both anglophone and francophone, from 2006 to 2023. Established in 2006, the competition was designed to recognize some of the most innovative, creative and artistic songs created in the year preceding the award by emerging songwriters in Canada. Songs were selected by a competition panel composed of 10 music experts from the Canadian music scene, who each nominated two songs based on a set of criteria they believed to be the best songs by emerging artists from the past year. The songs were narrowed down to a set of 10 finalists and announced publicly. Fans then voted for the winner over the course of two weeks in June. Once the winners (one anglophone and one francophone) were determined after the voting period, they each were awarded a $10,000 cash prize from SOCAN and an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
