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Time For A Change (album)
''Time for a Change'' is the third studio album by R&B singer Cupid. The album is known for its single, " Cupid Shuffle", which peaked at #66 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #19 on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart. The album peaked at #9 on the R&B chart and #58 on the Billboard 200.''Charts and Awards'' at Allmusic/ref> Track listing #"Work" (Produced by K. Shelton aka Severe Garcia & S. Turner aka Black Vegah for Family Biz Ent.) - 3:21 #"Closer" - 3:30 #"Do Yo Dance" (Prod. By P-NO The Matrikks)(featuring Cristal) - 3:30 #"The Let Out" (featuring Tay Dizm) - 3:33 #" Cupid Shuffle" - 3:51 #"3-6-9" (featuring B.o.B) - 3:32 #"Spin The Bottle" (featuring Shorty Da Kid) - 4:05 #"Someone Like You" - 3:33 #"Say Yes" - 3:30 #"Don't Love Her to Death" - 4:58 #"Cupid Shot You" Written by Andre Merritt (produced by Stereotypes) - 3:45 #"I Love Me" (featuring Foxx Foxx is a surname. People with the surname Notable people with the surname include: * Foxx (rapper) (born 1984), American rap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cupid (singer)
Bryson Bernard (born December 22, 1979), better known by his stage name Cupid, is an American singer and songwriter from Lafayette, Louisiana. He is best known for the 2007 line dance single " Cupid Shuffle", which peaked at number 68 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. History Bernard started singing in his church's choir, encouraged by his pastor father. He initially enrolled at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a full athletic scholarship in track and field. He left the track team to form a singing group known as Fasho, which later changed its name to Fifth Element. After Fifth Element was dissolved, Bernard pursued a solo career. He sang at venues such as talent shows, weddings and funerals. With a five-octave vocal range, Bernard earned the nickname "Cupid" for an impressive performance of the late-'90s 112 hit single "Cupid". Music career 2001–2005: Independent Roots and the Birth of Swingout Cupid’s music career began with the release of ''Are You Rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music Music genre, genre, originating from African Americans, African-American musicians in the 1980s that combines rhythm and blues with elements of Pop music, pop, Soul music, soul, funk, Hip-hop, hip hop, and electronic music. The genre features a distinctive Record producer, record production style and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement. Electronic music, Electronic influences and the use of hip hop or electronic dance music, dance-inspired beat (music), beats are typical, although the roughness and grit inherent in hip hop may be reduced and smoothed out. Contemporary R&B vocalists often use melisma, and since the mid-1980s, R&B rhythms have been combined with elements of hip hop culture and music, pop culture and pop music. Precursors According to Geoffrey Himes speaking in 1989, the progressive soul movement of the early 1970s "expanded the musical and lyrical boundaries of [R&B] in ways that haven't been equaled since" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over the course of its first two decades, starting from the release of its first recordings in January 1948, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most important American labels, specializing in jazz, R&B, and soul by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Ruth Brown and Otis Redding. Its position was greatly improved by its distribution deal with Stax. In 1967, Atlantic became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, now the Warner Music Group, and expanded into rock and pop music with releases by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Led Zeppelin, and Yes. In 2004, Atlantic and its sister label Elektra were merged into the Atlantic Records Group. Craig Kallman is the chairman of Atlantic. Ahmet Ertegun served as founding chairman until his death on December 14, 2006, at age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King Of Down South R&B
Bryson Bernard (born December 22, 1979), better known by his stage name Cupid, is an American singer and songwriter from Lafayette, Louisiana. He is best known for the 2007 line dance single " Cupid Shuffle", which peaked at number 68 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. History Bernard started singing in his church's choir, encouraged by his pastor father. He initially enrolled at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a full athletic scholarship in track and field. He left the track team to form a singing group known as Fasho, which later changed its name to Fifth Element. After Fifth Element was dissolved, Bernard pursued a solo career. He sang at venues such as talent shows, weddings and funerals. With a five-octave vocal range, Bernard earned the nickname "Cupid" for an impressive performance of the late-'90s 112 hit single "Cupid". Music career 2001–2005: Independent Roots and the Birth of Swingout Cupid’s music career began with the release of ''Are You Rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cupid Shuffle
"Cupid Shuffle" is a song by Cupid from his 2007 studio album '' Time for a Change''. It has spawned a popular line dance and has drawn comparisons to DJ Casper's "Cha Cha Slide". In the United States, the song peaked at number 66 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number 19 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs the chart, both in the August 18, 2007 issue. ''The Voice'' In 2012, Cupid chose the song for his audition to the third season of the American music competition show '' The Voice'', broadcast on NBC. Although he gave a different version of the hit, none of the four judges pressed their "I Want You" button and he was automatically eliminated from further competition in the show. But after turning their chairs, judge CeeLo Green recognized Cupid and asked him to perform another song to prove that "he can sing". In popular culture *The song and dance are featured in a scene at the end of the film ''Jumping the Broom''. *In Week 5 of the 2008 NFL season, three Miami Dolphins, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Hot 100
The ''Billboard'' Hot 100, also known as simply the Hot 100, is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital), online streaming, and radio airplay in the U.S. A new chart is compiled and released online to the public by ''Billboard''s website on Tuesdays but post-dated to the following Saturday, when the printed magazine first reaches newsstands. The weekly tracking period for sales is currently Friday–Thursday, after being changed in July 2015. It was initially Monday–Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991. This tracking period also applies to compiling online streaming data. Radio airplay is readily available on a real-time basis, unlike sales figures and streaming, but is also tracked on the same Friday–Thursday cycle, effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021. Previously, radio was tracked Monday–Sunday and, before Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs
The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by ''Billboard''. Rankings are based on a measure of radio airplay, sales data, and streaming activity. The chart had 100 positions but was shortened to 50 positions in October 2012. The chart is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African-American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, rock and roll, soul, and funk, it is today dominated by contemporary R&B and hip hop. Since its inception, the chart has changed its name many times in order to accurately reflect the industry at the time. History Beginning in 1942, ''Billboard'' published a chart of bestselling African-American music, first as the Harlem Hit Parade, then as Race Records. Then in 1949, ''Billboard'' began publishing a Rhythm and Blues chart, which entered "R&B" into mainstream lexicon. These three charts were c ... [...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] |
Tay Dizm
Artavious Courtez Smith (born May 3, 1980), known professionally as Tay Dizm, is an American rapper and hype man best known for being signed to T-Pain's Nappy Boy Entertainment record label. Biography Smith spent his entire childhood raised in foster homes before finding his biological family in Miami, Florida. His two brothers taught him how to rap and recorded mixtapes with him. He moved to Tallahassee, Florida, where he met singer T-Pain, for whom Smith would become a hypeman. Under stage name Tay Dizm, Smith did guest performances on tracks from T-Pain's first three albums. Dizm is the first artist to release an album under T-Pain's Nappy Boy Digital label.T-Pain's Digital Label Unveils Signings ''Billboard''. Retrieved August 30, 2009. He has appeared on the si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stereotypes (producers)
The Stereotypes are an American music production team, formed in 2003 and composed of Jonathan Yip, Ray Romulus, Jeremy Reeves and Ray Charles McCullough II. In June 2010, they were listed among the "Top 10 Songwriters and Producers to Watch" in ''Billboard'' magazine. The Stereotypes has been created on commercially successful singles such as Justin Bieber's " Somebody to Love", Cardi B and Bruno Mars " Please Me", Destiny Rogers' "Tomboy", Ne-Yo's " Year of the Gentleman", Mary J. Blige's "Good Love", Chris Brown's "Beg for It", Fifth Harmony's " Deliver", Lil Yachty's " Better" and Iggy Azalea's " Mo Bounce". The Stereotypes won two Grammy Awards in 2018, Song of the Year and Best R&B Song, for their contributions to Bruno Mars's ''Billboard'' Hot 100-number one single " That's What I Like". The Stereotypes took over the charts in 2017 with several credits on Mars' album '' 24K Magic'', which swept the Grammys, winning Album of the Year, Best R&B Album and Best Engineered A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxx (rapper)
Jonathan Reed (born June 6, 1983), better known by his stage name Foxx, is an American rapper. His debut album, '' Street Gossip'', was released in 2007. Discography Studio albums Collaboration albums Mixtapes Singles * " Wipe Me Down" (with Lil Boosie & Webbie) * "Not Myself" * "She Said" (featuring Trey Songz) * "Bounce" (featuring T-Pain) * "Coogi Down" Guest appearances * "U Got Cake" Webbie feat. Big Head & Foxx off Trill Entertainment's debut compilation album '' Trill Entertainment Presents: Survival of the Fittest'' * "Bout Dat" Webbie feat. Foxx off Trill Entertainment's debut compilation album '' Trill Entertainment Presents: Survival of the Fittest'' * "Leave the Tags On" Big Head feat. Lil Boosie & Foxx off Trill Entertainment's debut compilation album '' Trill Entertainment Presents: Survival of the Fittest'' * "Got Me Bent" Webbie featuring Lil Boosie & Foxx off Trill Entertainment's debut compilation album '' Trill Entertainment Presents: Survival of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
