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UK Official Download Chart
The UK Singles Downloads Chart is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the music industry. Since July 2015, the chart week runs from Friday to Thursday, with the chart date given as the following Thursday. The main chart contains the Top 200 downloads (which are published in ''UKChartsPlus''), with the top 100 published on the OCC website. The chart only uses sales of ''permanent digital downloads'', that is single-download tracks on non-subscription online music stores. Some downloading services offer a monthly fee plan where generally an unlimited number of tracks can be downloaded within a month for a certain price. Tracks downloaded in those instances do not qualify. An album equivalent, the UK Album Downloads Chart, was launched in April 2006. History Before the inauguration of the download chart, only sales of physical formats—such as CD, vinyl and cassette tape—contributed towards a single's position on the UK music charts. From the late 1990s o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2009 Westlife2
Nobel often refers to: *Nobel Prize, awarded annually since 1901, from the bequest of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel *The Nobel family, a prominent Swedish and Russian family; see there for the list of people with the surname Nobel may also refer to: Places *Nobel (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon. *Nobel, Ontario, a village located in Ontario, Canada. *Nobel Square, public square in Cape Town, South Africa * ,Ukraine * , village in Ukraine Other uses *6032 Nobel, a main-belt asteroid *Nobel (automobile) a licence-built version of the German Fuldamobil, manufactured in the UK and Chile *Nobel (TV series), ''Nobel'' (TV series), a Norwegian television series about the country's military involvement in Afghanistan *Nobel (typeface), a geometric, sans-serif typeface. *The Nobel School, a secondary school in Stevenage, England. *Nobel (crater), Moon *Nobel Vega, Cuban actor See also * *Nobel Peace Prize *Noble (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bam Thwok
"Bam Thwok" is a download-only single by the American alternative rock band the Pixies. Written and sung by bassist Kim Deal, the song was released exclusively through the iTunes Store on June 15, 2004. Upon its release, "Bam Thwok" was a commercial success, debuting at number one on the first release of the UK Download Chart. The song was the band's first recording since ''Trompe le Monde'' (1991). Originally composed for the film ''Shrek 2'', "Bam Thwok" was not selected for the final soundtrack. The song's lyrics display a surrealistic and nonsensical nature typical of the band; Deal's inspiration was a discarded child's art book she found on a New York City street. The song's central theme is "showing goodwill to everyone." Background Following their 2004 reunion, the Pixies felt that recording a new song would "break the ice" between band members after their acrimonious split in 1993. As the band was announcing dates for their reunion world tour, DreamWorks contacted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killing In The Name
"Killing in the Name" is a song by the American rock band Rage Against the Machine, and appears on their 1992 Rage Against the Machine (album), self-titled debut album. It features heavy drop-D guitar riffs. The lyrics protest Police brutality in the United States, police brutality, inspired by the beating of Rodney King and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. "Killing in the Name" was released as the lead single from ''Rage Against the Machine'' in November 1992. It reached number 25 on the UK singles chart. In 2009, following a public campaign protesting the British talent show ''The X Factor (UK), The X Factor'', "Killing in the Name" became the UK List of UK Singles Chart Christmas number ones, Christmas number one. In January 2025, "Killing in the Name" became the first song by the band to surpass one billion streams on Spotify. Writing The guitarist Tom Morello wrote the riffs while teaching a student drop D tuning; he briefly paused the lesson to record the riff. The band work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gnarls Barkley
Gnarls Barkley is an American soul music, soul duo composed of singer-songwriter CeeLo Green and producer Danger Mouse (musician), Danger Mouse. They released their debut studio album, ''St. Elsewhere (album), St. Elsewhere'', in 2006. It contained their hit single "Crazy (Gnarls Barkley song), Crazy", which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, US Hot 100 and topped the UK Singles Chart. It was nominated at the 2007 Grammy Awards for Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Record of the Year, and was platinum certified for shipping over 1,000,000 records. ''St. Elsewhere'' also received a nomination for Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Album of the Year. Their second studio album'', The Odd Couple (album), The Odd Couple'', was scheduled for release in April 2008, but due to a leak of the album over the internet, they decided to release it early. The album in its entirety received similarly positive reviews. History Background CeeLo Green first entered the scene as part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Song)
"Crazy" is the debut single of American soul duo Gnarls Barkley, taken from their 2006 debut album, ''St. Elsewhere (album), St. Elsewhere''. It peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and several other countries. The song was music leak, leaked in late 2005, months before its regular release: it received airplay on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom, and radio DJ Zane Lowe also used the song in television commercials for his show. When it was officially released in March 2006, it became the first single to top the UK Singles Chart on download sales alone. The song remained at the top of the British charts for nine weeks, the longest number-one spell for more than ten years. The band and their record company then decided to Deletion (music industry), remove the physical single from music stores in the country (while keeping the download available) so people would "remember the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embrace (English Band)
Embrace are an English rock music, rock band formed in Bailiff Bridge, West Yorkshire, in 1990. The band consists of brothers singer Danny McNamara and guitarist Richard McNamara, bassist Steve Firth, keyboardist Mickey Dale, and drummer Mike Heaton. The group have released eight studio albums: ''The Good Will Out'' (1998), ''Drawn from Memory'' (2000), ''If You've Never Been'' (2001), ''Out of Nothing'' (2004), ''This New Day'' (2006), ''Embrace (English band Embrace album), Embrace'' (2014), ''Love Is a Basic Need'' (2018), and ''How to Be a Person Like Other People'' (2022). History Origins and formation: 1990–1995 The small band began in a small outbuilding at the bottom of a garden in Bailiff Bridge in 1990. The McNamara brothers, with Richard playing guitar and Danny, started creating songs with the aid of a cassette recorder and, soon, a drum machine was added. An initial set of songs was written and dropped, then a second set of songs written. Mickey Dale soon joined t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s with the likes of the grunge subgenre in the United States, and the Britpop and shoegaze subgenres in the United Kingdom and Ireland. During this period, many record labels were looking for "alternatives", as many Arena rock, corporate rock, hard rock, and glam metal acts from the 1980s were beginning to grow stale throughout the music industry. The emergence of Generation X as a Culture, cultural force in the 1990s also contributed greatly to the rise of alternative music. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or arena rock, commercial rock or pop. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This New Day
''This New Day'' is the fifth studio album by English rock band Embrace. It was released on 27 March 2006, being preceded by the release of the single, " Nature's Law", and went straight to number one on the UK Albums Chart. The single and album were enough to earn the band the distinction of performing "World at Your Feet", England's official 2006 FIFA World Cup song. The album was then reissued on 5 June 2006, with the song included on it. The album is also notable for being the first album ever to top the UK Album Downloads Chart. "Nature's Law" had become the band's most successful single, having debuted at number two on the UK Singles Chart. Their second single was "World at Your Feet". The third single from the album was "Target" released on 11 September 2006, and charted at No. 29 after being number 9 in the midweek charts. The fourth single "I Can't Come Down" was released on 4 December 2006 and reached No. 54. Notably, "Exploding Machines" was originally planned to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LAUNCHcast
Yahoo! Music Radio (formerly known as LAUNCHcast) was an Internet radio service. The service, which featured both an advertising supported free version and a subscription fee-based premium version, allowed users to create personalized Internet radio stations by rating songs selected by a recommender system. Users were also able to listen to music from 150 preset Internet radio stations. History The service was developed by Todd Beaupré and Jeff Boulter of LAUNCH Media and debuted on November 11, 1999. In June 2001, after the bursting of the dot-com bubble, the company faced financial difficulty and was acquired by Yahoo! for $12 million, after which it was integrated into Yahoo! Music. At that time, the service had 7.4 million users. In December 2008, the service was integrated into CBS Radio due to a Internet radio#US royalty controversy, rise in royalty rates, with CBS taking full control of the service, including advertising and sales and adding compatibility with Fire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Masterton
James Masterton (born 2 September 1973) is a British music critic and columnist, his work focusing on the UK Singles Chart having been an online fixture on various sites since the 1990s. Masterton is also a producer for talkSPORT, and has worked on air as a presenter at the Bradford independent local radio station the Pulse. Music writing Masterton began posting his weekly comments about the latest singles chart on Usenet in 1992, while a student at Lancaster University, whence he graduated in 1994. In 1995 he became an important element of BT's Dotmusic website, an online hub for the UK music scene and one of the few sites that posted the entire UK top 75 every week. When Dotmusic was purchased from BT by Yahoo! on 28 October 2003, Masterton's commentary moved to Yahoo! Launch with it, remaining with the site as it transformed into Yahoo! Music UK and Ireland until the site's closure in September 2011. His chart column moved to About.com, where it remained until the summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flying Without Wings
"Flying Without Wings" is a song by Irish boy band Westlife, released on 18 October 1999 as the third single from their self-titled debut studio album (1999). It is the band's fourth-best-selling single on both paid-for and combined sales in the United Kingdom as of January 2019. Background The song was written by Wayne Hector and Steve Mac. In an interview with HitQuarters, Hector said the basic idea for the song came to him while on a break from working on a hip hop session with Ezi Cut in Los Angeles: I came up with a couple of lines for the first verse and then phoned my mama's house, left it on the answering machine, and said, "Don't get rid of this!""Interview With Wayne Hector" '' |
Westlife
Westlife are an Irish pop group formed in Dublin in 1998. The group consists of members Nicky Byrne, Shane Filan, Kian Egan and Mark Feehily. Brian McFadden was a member before leaving in March 2004. The group disbanded in 2012 and later reunited in 2018. In Ireland, the group has 11 number-one albums, 16 number-one singles, and 34 Top 50 singles. They have sold over 55 million records and are holders of four ''Guinness World Records''. Westlife has received numerous List of awards and nominations received by Westlife, accolades including one World Music Award, two Brit Awards, four MTV Awards, and four The Record of the Year, Record of the Year Awards. The group has released twelve studio albums: four as a five-piece and eight as a four-piece. They rose to fame with their debut international self-titled studio album, ''Westlife (album), Westlife'' (1999). It was followed by ''Coast to Coast (Westlife album), Coast to Coast'' (2000), ''World of Our Own'' (2001), and ''Turnar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
