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Yll Limani
Yll Limani (; born 24 September 1994) is a Kosovo-Albanian singer and songwriter. Life and career 1994–2020: Early life and career beginnings Yll Limani was born on 24 September 1994 into an Kosovo Albanians, Albanian family in the city of Pristina, then part of the FR Yugoslavia, present-day Kosovo. His father, Mufail Limani, was a member of the Albanian band Minatori. The singer's public singing debut was at the :sq:The Voice of Albania (sezoni i parë), first season of ''The Voice of Albania'' in 2011, followed by an appearance on the 9th edition of the Albanian music contest Top Fest in 2012. Upon a three-year hiatus, Limani's first single as a lead artist, "Single" featuring Kosovo-Albanian rapper Gent Fatali, was released in January 2015. The singer made his first appearance on Albania's Top 100 chart with "" in July 2016, which debuted and peaked within the top three. Following this, the Albanian broadcaster, (RTSH), reported in November 2016 that Limani was selecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosovo
Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the north and east, and North Macedonia to the southeast. It covers an area of and has a population of approximately 1.6 million. Kosovo has a varied terrain, with high plains along with rolling hills and List of mountains in Kosovo, mountains, some of which have an altitude over . Its climate is mainly Continental climate, continental with some Mediterranean climate, Mediterranean and Alpine climate, alpine influences. Kosovo's capital and List of cities and towns in Kosovo#List, most populous city is Pristina; other major cities and urban areas include Prizren, Ferizaj, Gjilan and Peja. Kosovo formed the core territory of the Dardani, an ancient Paleo-Balkanic languages, Paleo-Balkanic people attested in classical sources from the 4th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dua Lipa
Dua Lipa ( ; born22 August 1995) is an English and Albanian singer, songwriter and actress. List of awards and nominations received by Dua Lipa, Her accolades include seven Brit Awards and three Grammy Awards. Lipa worked as a model before venturing into music and signing with Warner Records, Warner Bros. in 2014. She released her Dua Lipa (album), eponymous debut album in 2017, which peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart and spawned the singles "Be the One (Dua Lipa song), Be the One", "IDGAF (Dua Lipa song), IDGAF", and the UK number-one single "New Rules". She was honoured with the Brit Awards for Brit Award for British Female Solo Artist, British Female Solo Artist and Brit Award for Best New Artist, British Breakthrough Act in 2018. Her second UK number-one single, "One Kiss" with Calvin Harris, was the List of best-selling singles by year in the United Kingdom, best-selling song of 2018 in the UK and won the Brit Award for Song of the Year. She later won the Gram ... [...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] |
Swiss Hitparade
The Swiss Hitparade () is Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland. The Swiss charts include: * Singles Top 75 (released since 1968) * Singles Top 100 * Albums Top 100 (released since late 1983) * Compilations Top 25 * Airplay Top 30 Since 2010, Hitparade's compiler Media Control has also set up ''Les charts'', a record chart of the highest-selling singles and albums in Romandie, the Francophone The Francophonie or Francophone world is the whole body of people and organisations around the world who use the French language regularly for private or public purposes. The term was coined by Onésime Reclus in 1880 and became important a ... region of Switzerland: * Romandie Singles Top 20 (discontinued) * Romandie Albums Top 50 The charts are updated weekly on Sundays, and are posted publicly on the preceding Wednesday mornings. See also * List of number-one singles in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiwibloggs
Wiwibloggs is a fansite and YouTube channel focusing on the Eurovision Song Contest, launched in 2009 by journalist William Lee Adams. History In April 2015, Wiwibloggs won the Arts & Culture category at the UK Blog Awards. Adams has judged at national selections for a number of countries, among them Armenia (in 2017), Belarus (in 2020), Finland (every year between 2017 and 2021), Germany (as a member of the 100-member fan jury panel in 2019), Norway (in 2017 and 2018), Romania (in 2019, alongside fellow Wiwibloggs correspondent Deban Aderemi), Slovenia (in 2025) and Spain. Wiwibloggs staffers have also been among the jurors for selections in Latvia and Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share .... In some cases, their role as jurors in national selection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andromache (singer)
Andromache Dimitropoulou (, ; born 12 October 1994), known professionally as Andromache and sometimes Andromachi, is a Greek singer who represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song " Ela". Career Andromache was born to Greek parents in Siegen, Germany where she lived before moving to Greece at the age of 10. While studying German philology in Athens, she started singing in music scenes at Lechaina, Elis and Gazi, Athens. In 2015, she participated in the second season of ''The Voice of Greece'', where she was eliminated at the second live show. In 2017, she released her first single, titled "" (; "The Moon"), written by Giorgos Papadopoulos. On 9 March, it was announced that she would represent Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 was the 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Turin, Italy, following the country's victory at the with the song "" by Måneskin. Organised by the Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ela (Andromache Song)
"" (; ) is a song recorded and released as a single by Greek singer Andromache. The song represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy after being internally selected by CyBC, the Cypriot national broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest. Background and composition "" was composed by a mix of Greek, Kosovo-Albanian, Dutch, Swedish and Spanish songwriters, namely Alex P, Arash, Eyelar Mirzazadeh, Fatjon Miftaraj, Filloreta Raci, Geraldo Sandell, Giorgos Papadopoulos, Robert Uhlmann, Viktor Svensson and Yll Limani. "Ela" was described as an "ethnic-pop" song with "modern European" production incorporating Balkan instrumentation, which includes Greek bouzouki and Albanian fyell brezi. Release The song was first released on CyBC on Cypriot TV program on 9 March 2022. The music video for the song was released on 10 March 2022, while it was released on digital platforms on 11 March 2022. Eurovision Song Contest Selection In September 2021, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RTV21
Radiotelevision 21 (), abbreviated as RTV21, is a broadcaster and media company based in Pristina, Kosovo, which includes a radio (est. May 11, 1998), a television station (est. September 22, 2000), and six sister stations. Its launch in online radio made it the first Albanian station to air over the internet. History Founding Founded as Radio 21 by Afërdita Saraçini and her husband, Florin Kelmendi, this transmission was a 30-minute news program about the events in Kosovo during the 1998-1999 war. Radio 21 reported from Skopje temporarily during the NATO bombing (March–June 1999). After the war began the revival of this broadcaster and with the help of donations from abroad the company also launched the national TV channel RTV21. In 2000 the station was licensed nationally and broadcast two hours of programming daily, which was increased to 18 hours in 2001. Since 2002, the transmitter airs a round-the-clock programming, consisting of 70% in-house productions. RTV21 br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arilena Ara
Arilena Ara (; born 17 July 1998) is an Albanian singer. Ara rose to national recognition in Albania, upon her victory at X Factor Albania in 2013. After her participation in the 18th edition of the music contest , her song "" found significant success in Romania and Eastern Europe, peaking at number-one in the Romanian Airplay chart. Following her forthcoming success at the 58th edition of the music contest in 2019, she was designated as the Albanian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, before the contest's cancellation. Life and career 1998–2018: Early life and career beginnings Arilena Ara was born on 17 July 1998 into an Albanian family in the city of Shkodër, Albania. Ara performed in various dancing and singing competitions as a child, including at the children's talent show finishing in third place. She won the second series of the talent show '' X Factor Albania'' on 31 March 2013. Her first single, "", was released in February 2014. Finish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucerne
Lucerne ( ) or Luzern ()Other languages: ; ; ; . is a city in central Switzerland, in the Languages of Switzerland, German-speaking portion of the country. Lucerne is the capital of the canton of Lucerne and part of the Lucerne (district), district of the same name. With a population of approximately 82,000 people, Lucerne is List of cities in Switzerland, the most populous city in Central Switzerland, and a nexus of economics, transport, culture, and media in the region. The city's urban area consists of 19 municipalities and towns with an overall population of about 220,000 people. Owing to its location on the shores of Lake Lucerne () and its outflow, the river Reuss (river), Reuss, within sight of the mounts Pilatus (mountain), Pilatus and Rigi in the Swiss Alps, Lucerne has long been a destination for tourists. One of the city's landmarks is the Chapel Bridge (), a wooden bridge first erected in the 14th century. The official language of Lucerne is German language, Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Bull
Red Bull is a brand of energy drinks created and owned by the Austrian company Red Bull GmbH. With a market share of 43%, it is the most popular energy drink brand as of 2020, and the third most valuable soft drink brand, behind Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Since its launch in 1987, more than 100 billion cans of Red Bull have been sold worldwide, including over 12.6 billion in 2024. Originally available only in a single nondescript flavour sold in a tall and slim silver and blue can, called Red Bull Energy Drink, the drink added #Variants, numerous variants over time. Its slogan, "Red Bull Gives You Wings", is considered one of the most popular and memorable advertising slogans in the world. Rather than following a traditional marketing approach, Red Bull has generated awareness and created a "brand myth" through proprietary extreme sport event series such as Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, Red Bull Air Race, Crashed Ice, Red Bull Crashed Ice and standout stunts such as the Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loredana Zefi
Loredana Zefi (; born 1 September 1995), often known as simply Loredana, is a Swiss rapper and singer. Her debut single, "", became a commercial success in Albania and German-speaking Europe, and received two gold certifications in Austria and Germany. In September 2018, Loredana signed with German subsidiary of Sony Music and released the commercially successful single " Bonnie & Clyde" with husband Mozzik. Her debut studio album, '' King Lori'', followed in September 2019 and reached the top three in the latter countries and Switzerland. It featured several successful singles, including "", "", "", as well as the rapper's first number-one single in Germany, "". Loredana released four subsequent number-one single's, "", "", "" and "", in 2020. Her second studio album, ''Medusa'' (2020), reached the top 20 in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Following a brief hiatus, Loredana and Mozzik released their first collaborative album, ''No Rich Parents'', in 2021, which featured the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
