Review Connor Maynard- Take Off

 

Rating- 9.5/10

Review-  This song is straight up amazing.  The beat is amazing, and the lyrics are great, and the delivery is great too.  My favorite parts are when he says the countdown is about to start then you actually hear a countdown starting.  No other song that I know about actually do that.  then once again the ad libs at the end are really really great.  The only reason I haven't given it a 10/10 is because i don't know how it's going to sound when I workout or listen to it in my car.  I remember having is amazing song that sounded amazing on my computer but when I listening to at the gym/car it was somewhat disappointing.
MH



Justin Timberlake Making New Music

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‏@jtimberlake
Thursday, January 10th, 2013 at 9:01 am PST...

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Charlamagne tweeted this too. @cthagod: @LowKeyUHTN Justin, Jay Z Timberland. New record Monday

This could mean that he's in the studio right now working on a track? Many people are speculating that.
Charlamagne is verified on Twitter. Not sure if he's maybe a producer?

Holy Britney News

Britney has been a very busy womans lately. 

She split up with Jason

Britney Spears and Jason Trawick have broken up ... TMZ has learned. The couple got engaged back in 2011. Trawick started out as Britney's agent, the duo started dating and he eventually became her co-conservator along with her dad, Jamie Spears. Multiple sources connected to the couple tell TMZ ... Jason didn't want to make the announcement until he was taken off the conservatorship. Interestingly, lawyers for the conservatorship are in court right now, along with Britney's dad, Jamie Spears, so it's possible Jason will be removed today. Sources say it was a "friendly breakup" and Britney and Jason will remain friends. As for why they split, we're told they just "grew apart." The timing's pretty interesting considering Brit recently changed agencies, heading to CAA ... an indication Trawick was no longer involved in managing her career.

UPDATE:

Unwritten wrote:

Jason Trawick has just been removed as Britney's co-conservator. Jamie Spears is now her sole conservator.

UPDATE #2:

PEOPLE.com wrote:

"Jason and I have decided to call off our engagement. I'll always adore him and we will remain great friends." - Britney Spears "As this chapter ends for us a new one begins. I love and cherish her and her boys and we will be close forever." - Jason Trawick She is NOT returning to The X Factor Britney Spears wrote: “I’ve made the very difficult decision not to return for another season. I had an incredible time doing the show and I love the other judges and I am so proud of my teens, but it’s time for me to get back in the studio. Watching them all do their thing up on that stage every week made me miss performing so much! I can’t wait to get back out there and do what I love most.” She is working on her 8th album RUMOURED PRODUCERS - Elijah Blake SOURCE PRODUCTION CREDITS - Darkchild SOURCE PRODUCTION CREDITS - Andre Lindal SOURCE PRODUCTION CREDITS - Hit-Boy SOURCE PRODUCTION CREDITS - will.i.am SOURCE PRODUCTION CREDITS - Danja SOURCE PRODUCTION CREDITS RUMOURED SONGWRITERS - Ina Wroldsen SOURCE WRITING CREDITS - Jeff Dandurand SOURCE BIO - Ester Dean SOURCE WRITING CREDITS WHO HAS DEFITNELY BEEN WITH BRITNEY IN THE RECORDING STUDIO? - Darkchild SOURCE - Hit-Boy SOURCE - Elijah Blake SOURCE Thanks to BMK for the album info. When it rains it pours in britney land. MH

REVIEW Juliet Simms- Wild Child

Today i will be reviewing Juliet Simms- Wild Child



Rating- 9/10

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I really really love this.  The beat is fresh and more organic than some other songs and that is something that is currently missing from the market.  The lyrics are fun and her delivery is insane on the song espically when it hits the breakdown.  Also, the adlibs that the end are amazing (I am a sucker for great adlibs).  The only thing that was annoying to is the million million thousand gazillion parts.  Other than that is song is pop perfection.

More reviews coming later today/this week.

E3 Gets signed to Columbia records

Drew Chadwick of Emblem 3 reveals in an interview at Supercross that the boys record deal with Columbia will be announced soon. Record label talk begins at the 3:15 mark.

“Our record company,Columbia records, they’re announcing the signing on Monday,” said Drew, “They’ve moved us into a nice apartment in Burbank. We should be recording every day until we get out first single done. We should be doing a mini-tour –it’s not finalized yet–but we’ve been talking doing the mini tour in South America and Brazil. We’ve got a lot of fans out there.”

“Basically, after the show was over, you have a window of time where people are still interested,” said Drew, “We gotta hit it hard.”

The group is already making some dough. Emblem3 tweeted yesterday, “We just made our first ten grand on Itunes! Thank you so much to everyone who bought our songs when they werr up! I cant wait to hangout!”

Congrats to them but in honesty they are a little bit douche but their is good and I think they will go far.  They irk me a little bit.
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Nicki Minaj Extends Lead As Fastest Selling Female Rapper

Nicki Minaj Breaks UK Chart Record / Extends Lead As Fastest Selling Female Rapper Sometimes, in the confused ‘hoo ha’ that is her handling, it’s easy to overlook what Nicki Minaj has achieved since the release of her debut album ‘Pink Friday‘, now three years ago. Now, in the event the world had forgotten her standing as the commercial Queen of Female Rap, she’s broken a chart record that sees her surpass feats scored by each and every Female Rapper alive. After breaking the record for being the highest charting Femcee in UK history in March, she now extends that record by becoming the highest selling Female Rapper by way of her sophomore album ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’ and its lead single ‘Starships‘. All this, while breaking a record that sees her surpass chart contributions made by any performer, of any genre last year. So how did she do it? Well, with 864,000 units sold in the country, ‘Starships’ is the now best selling song to not peak at #1, after enjoying a peak position of #2- selling enough units to land her spot in the nation’s Highest Selling Singles Of The Year tally, as seen here. Helped in part by its Anthony Mandler directed video, the single’s success now makes the ‘American Idol’ judge the only Femcee in chart history to have two or more singles in the country’s Year-End singles chart and an album in the album’s tally, with ‘Reloaded‘ selling 242,000 units in the nation. A cool feat, considering the size of the UK market and her lack of promo presence in the nation, where her dance anthem ‘Pound The Alarm‘ peaked at #8 and her Dr. Luke produced ‘Va Va Voom‘ hit #3. At present, ‘Roman Reloaded’ now boasts global units of 1.4 million copies shifted since April, peaking at #1 in Canada, the UK, Scotland, #3 in New Zealand and #9 in Norway. Catch Nicki on ‘American Idol’ when it airs January 16th, on Rupert Murdoch’s FOX Network.

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MH

Rihanna's Actual New single is

STAY

Even though last week it listed Right Now, All Access has since replaced Right Now with Stay under Cool New Music. Thank God her team came to their senses.

Source: http://www.allaccess.com/top40-mainstream/cool-new-music

 

I still perfer Right Now but regardless it will do well.

MH

 

Aubrey O'Day - Between Two Evils (Official News)

Aubrey O'Day's new EP/Album: 'Between Two Evils'
Release date: Unconfirmed/"early 2013"
Tracklist: Unconfirmed

Rumoured/potential tracks:

-Hitch Hiker
-Goodbye Heartbreak
-Automatic
-Wrecking Ball
-Somebody That I Used To Know (Remix)
-Devil & Me

New songs likely to be included:

-Love Me When I Go (rumoured title)
-Let Me Lay
-Before I Drown ("new single")


Performance at Krave Massive - Las Vegas (31/12/12):

She is really really talented and I hope she does gets success.
MH

Paramore is coming back

After surviving two years of turmoil and turnover, Paramore will return on April 9 with their self-titled fourth album, and, from the sound of things, they've got something to prove: "Making this album was a rediscovering of ourselves," they recently wrote. "It was a process that allowed us to liberate ourselves as musicians, singers, and people." The liberation begins with first single "Now," which heads to radio this month.

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I legit can't wait for this I have been a fan of Paramore for years and they never disappoint.
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Nelly Furtado doesn't want to make pop music anymore.

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As Nelly Furtado prepares to hit the snow-covered road for the Canadian leg of her "Spirit Indestructible" tour beginning Jan. 8, the B.C.-born singer says she's taking a detour from the North American pop scene to head in a more mature direction. The 34-year-old mother had been away from the spotlight for the much of the past six years — a not inconsequential time away considering her first hit "I'm Like A Bird" came out in 2000 — but her hands haven't been idle. Furtado released a Spanish album in 2009 and has kept herself busy supporting various global causes that are near and dear to her, including Free The Children's initiatives to improve the state of education for girls around the world. In September, Furtado released her fifth studio album The Spirit Indestructible. The record explores themes of nostalgia, personal growth, and even the Arab Spring in a song titled "Believers," displaying a clear lyrical departure from her 10-million-selling 2006 album Loose's rowdier club jams like "Promiscuous Girl" and "Maneater." In an exclusive interview with HuffPost Canada Music, Furtado talks about why her songs don't sound the same as they once did and what she hopes to give her fans moving forward. Shame but I still wish success towards her new music style (whatever that maybe). MH

Bridigt Mendler's Next Single Is..

"Hurricane"

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“Hurricane” will be released as the second single from the American singer/songwriter’s debut album, “Hello My Name Is…,” which is now available via Disney Music Group / Hollywood Records.

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This is one of my new favorite songs.  I really really hope this does well.

MH

Brian McFadden to release new album

Brian McFadden has today announced he will release his first UK album in almost eight years, titled the 'The Irish Connection', to be released through BMF Records/EMI on March 11th. 'The Irish Connection' features Brian’s interpretations of some of the very best in Irish songwriting and showcases the strength and versatility of Brian’s voice. Each track was personally chosen by Brian and range from artists such as Snow Patrol, The Cranberries and Damien Rice to Enya and Van Morrison. Ronan Keating and Brian team up to duet on U2’s epic 'All I Want Is You' – the album's focus track. Brian will also be joining Ronan on his ‘Fires’ tour, which begins on January 16th in Bristol and includes a landmark date at London’s O2 Arena. The album features phenomenal Irish talent Sinead O’Connor as she joins Brian for the Irish classic ‘Black Is The Colour’ to create their own hauntingly beautiful version. Classic rocker Christy Dignam completes the line-up on Aslan’s own ‘Crazy World’. Produced by both Brian and his long time co-producer Robert Conley, the album was recorded in Dublin and Sydney. Brian says: "This album is something I have wanted to do for a long time. Ireland has produced some of the greatest songs in history and I decided I would put my own twist on a collection of my favourite ever Irish songs." 'The Irish Connection' tracklisting is as follows: 1. Black Is The Colour (feat. Sinead O’Connor) 2. All I Want Is You (feat. Ronan Keating) 3. 9 Crimes 4. Dreams 5. Crazy World (feat. Christy Dignam from Aslan) 6. No Frontiers 7. Only Time 8. Chocolate 9. Moondance 10. Nothing Compares 2 U Source: http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/176714/9#ixzz2HIYYRxZ3 Should be interesting. I really loved his last album so hopefully this will good too. Music Heaven

Rihanna's New Single will be...

One of the best songs on the album.  Can't wait for this to take off.

Mediabase update

1. BRUNO MARS – Locked Out Of Heaven: 198.236 (+ 0.670)
2. RIHANNA – Diamonds: 187.513 (- 0.793)
3. LUMINEERS – Ho Hey: 150.570 (+ 0.166)
4. MAROON 5 – One More Night: 137.859 (+ 1.481)
5. FLO RIDA – I Cry: 123.511 (- 0.386)
6. NE-YO – Let Me Love You: 111.146 (+ 0.599)
7. PHILLIP PHILLIPS – Home: 107.982 (+ 0.889)
8. JUSTIN BIEBER – Beauty And A Beat f/N. Minaj: 101.857 (+ 1.191)
9. KE$HA – Die Young: 98.488 (- 0.126)
10. PINK – Try: 97.746 (+ 0.246)
11. FUN. – Some Nights: 93.915 (+ 0.268)
12. TAYLOR SWIFT – I Knew You Were Trouble: 91.960 (+ 0.037)
13. ED SHEERAN – The A Team: 87.503 (+ 0.506)
14. MIGUEL – Adorn: 78.276 (- 0.131)
15. SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA – Don't You Worry Child: 75.690 (- 0.241)
16. ALICIA KEYS – Girl On Fire: 75.298 (- 0.153)
17. ALEX CLARE – Too Close: 67.450 (+ 0.299)
18. PINK – Blow Me (One Last Kiss): 58.230 (+ 2.033) ▲
19. IMAGINE DRAGONS – It's Time: 57.420 (- 0.035)
20. KENDRICK LAMAR – Swimming Pools (Drank): 56.989 (- 0.475) ▼

OTHERS:

PITBULL – Don't Stop The Party: 54.185 (- 0.454)
ZAC BROWN BAND – Goodbye In Her Eyes: 52.626 (- 0.476)
JUSTIN MOORE – 'Til My Last Day: 52.211 (- 0.601)
KELLY CLARKSON – Catch My Breath: 51.219 (+ 1.254)
WILL.I.AM & BRITNEY SPEARS – Scream And Shout: 50.629 (+ 0.186)
GOTYE – Somebody That I Used To Know: 50.160 (+ 3.990)
CALVIN HARRIS – Sweet Nothing f/Florence Welch: 48.682 (+ 0.374)
ELLIE GOULDING – Lights: 46.299 (+ 0.966)
MAROON 5 – Daylight: 42.238 (- 0.088)
MUMFORD & SONS – I Will Wait: 38.651 (+ 0.198)
CARLY RAE JEPSEN – Call Me Maybe: 38.345 (+ 2.744)
KATY PERRY – Wide Awake: 36.732
OF MONSTERS AND MEN – Little Talks: 35.300 (+ 0.109)
MAROON 5 – Payphone f/Wiz Khalifa: 35.019 (+ 2.327)
THE SCRIPT – Hall Of Fame f/will.i.am: 33.914 (+ 0.395)
ONE DIRECTION – What Makes You Beautiful: 32.651 (+ 1.760)
THE WANTED – Glad You Came: 30.826 (+ 1.212)
KELLY CLARKSON – Stronger (What Doesn't Kill …: 30.567 (+ 2.288)
FUN. – We Are Young f/Janelle Monae: 30.332 (+ 1.970)
ONE DIRECTION – Little Things: 30.286 (- 0.041)
CARRIE UNDERWOOD – Two Black Cadillacs: 26.693 (- 0.008)
RIHANNA – We Found Love f/Calvin Harris: 26.148 (+ 0.935)
MUSE – Madness: 23.468 (+ 0.244)
KE$HA – C'mon: 21.734 (+ 0.684)
ADELE – Set Fire To The Rain: 18.501 (+ 1.553)
RIHANNA – Pour It Up: 12.888 (+ 0.101)
C. AGUILERA & B. SHELTON – Just A Fool: 4.647 (+ 0.211)

Thanks to ColdAsFire_Baby at BMK

Th Wanted may release two albums in 2013

http://www.billboard.com/news#/news/the-wanted-may-release-two-albums-in-2013-1008063562.story

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After One Direction released two albums, "Up All Night" and "Take Me Home," in 2012 and guided both releases to the top spot of the Billboard 200 chart, fellow British boy band The Wanted has revealed that next year could yield a pair of new full-lengths of their own. In an interview with Billboard about their upcoming "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" performance, the group's Tom Parker says, "I think we're going to do two albums, one in April and one towards the end of the year, because we've written quite a lot of songs this year. We didn't get to release one at this end of this year so it's probably going to squeeze to next year, hopefully." The group, whose 2012 hits included "Glad You Came" and "Chasing The Sun," was expected to release a full-length album this fall after their self-titled EP was released in the U.S. last April. An album has yet to surface, and earlier this month, Jay McGuiness told Billboard of the album, "It was meant to be this Christmas, but it wasn't ready yet so… we're thinking around April, we'll have something ready." The new LP would include the single "I Found You," which the Wanted performed at the 2012 American Music Awards last month and will bust out again at "Rockin' Eve" on Monday night. Along with the possibility of a pair of new albums, the vocal group is eyeing a world tour for 2013, although details have yet to be announced. I for one highly doubt it. I Found You has been bombing on the radio and itunes.  But who knows maybe it will take off. MH

Bieber Adds 2 NEW tracks to acoustic album

Biebs reveals he's written and recorded new material for Believe Accoustic...
Justin Bieber's new Believe Acoustic album will feature two new songs from the star, it has been revealed.

Scheduled for release on 29 January, the new album will have a total of 10 tracks - including two new efforts written and recorded by the Biebster especially for the unplugged LP.

He tweeted: "8 wasnt enough. had to write some more new ones. now im putting out 10 SONGS on#BELIEVEacoustic. Im telling u. PREORDER it now "

And his manager Scooter Braun confirmed the news, tweeting: "For those asking yes @justinbieber played guitar on the acoustic album. and yes there r now 10 song not 8 because he wrote 2 new ones 2nite.

"No BS when i say we are all really happy with how #BELIEVEacoustic turned out. It all sounds new and organic. Think u will all love it."

Biebs was recently reported to have been working with British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran after the pair of them were pictured in the recording studio together.

Hurray Hurray...

I am not even confident that I spelled that right haha. Anyway I am done with school for a whole three monthes and you know what that means MORE posts, reviews, etc.  I officially passed all of my classes. I am going to start posting stuff tomorrow.  I already got some things lined and ready to go.

The Wanted 3rd Strike Tracklisting

1. Chasing the Sun
2. Loverboy (feat. Chris Brown)
3. She Don’t Like to Party
4. Everybody Knows
5. Mastermind (feat. RITA ORA)
6. I Found You
7. Lady Lady
8. Push
9. Coming Back Strong
10. Let Me Save You
11. The Club’s on Fire (feat. LMFAO)
12. In Over My Head
13. Forever


Deluxe Version:
14. Bring It Home (Dappy feat. The Wanted)
15. Mad Man
16. Satellite
17. Have Some Fun (Pitbull feat. The Wanted)
18. I Found You (DC Breaks Remix)

SOURCE (credible web)

No Doubt to get back in studio and tour in 2013

No Doubt get asked what they have planned for 2013 and Gwen says touring in the summer and that they are making new music and that Gwen is going back in the studio tomorrow.

AHHHH, more ND!!

Video here: http://kroq.cbslocal.com/2012/12/09/no-doubt-interview-23rd-annual-almost-acoustic-christmas/

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Beyonce Get 50 Million Dollar Pepsi Deal

Limited edition Pepsi can

For its campaign with Beyoncé next year, Pepsi doesn’t just want to sign up the telegenic pop star for another TV commercial. It also wants to get into the Beyoncé business.

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A limited edition Pepsi can developed in partnership between the beverage company and Beyoncé will first be seen in Europe in March 2013.
In an expansion of the recent marketing experiments that have brought PepsiCo ever closer to the music industry, the company has embarked on a hybrid project with Beyoncé that will include standard advertising like commercials as well as a multimillion-dollar fund to support the singer’s chosen creative projects.

“Pepsi embraces creativity and understands that artists evolve,” Beyoncé said in a statement. “As a businesswoman, this allows me to work with a lifestyle brand with no compromise and without sacrificing my creativity.”

The campaign will coincide with a blitz of promotion for her next album, which has no title or release date so far but is expected in 2013. Sometime after she performs at the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 3 (also sponsored by Pepsi), Beyoncé will appear in a new TV ad — her fifth for the soft drink since 2002 — and her face will be on a limited-edition line of soda cans.

The less conventional aspects of the deal are meant as collaborative projects that indulge Beyoncé’s creative whims, and might well have no explicit connection to Pepsi products. They are still at the brainstorm stage, but could include live events, videos, “a cool photo shoot” or almost anything else, said Lee Anne Callahan-Longo, the general manager of Parkwood Entertainment, Beyoncé’s company.

For Pepsi, the goal is to enhance its reputation with consumers by acting as something of an artistic patron instead of simply paying for celebrity endorsements.

“Consumers are seeking a much greater authenticity in marketing from the brands they love,” said Brad Jakeman, president of PepsiCo’s global beverage group. “It’s caused a shift in the way we think about deals with artists, from a transactional deal to a mutually beneficial collaboration.”

The multiyear campaign is estimated at $50 million, the bulk of it for media placements and promotions around the world, and the remainder split roughly equally between Beyoncé’s fee and what Pepsi calls a creative content development fund.

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According to the tracking firm Kantar Media, PepsiCo and its archrival the Coca-Cola Company each spent about $148 million in the United States to advertise their soft drink brands in the first six months of 2012, across all measured forms of media, like television, print, digital and radio.

Over the last decade many consumer brands have been taking more active roles with artists, particularly in pop music. Converse, Red Bull and Toyota’s Scion line, for example, have become as familiar in the music business as any label or concert promoter by paying to help create and promulgate music.

Bands always risk fan disapproval when shaking hands with big corporations. But with record company budgets diminished, Madison Avenue money is often seen as essential. PepsiCo has been part of this trend through Green Label Sound, a label financed through its Mountain Dew drink, which over the last four years has paid to release free music by under-the-radar groups like Matt & Kim and the Cool Kids.

“We recognize that there have been massive disruptions in music industry: lower investment in artist development, fewer points of distribution, financial constraints,” said Frank Cooper, a top marketing executive in PepsiCo’s beverage division who has been a force for such projects. “We look at those disruptions as opportunities for Pepsi.”

These deals are not limited to music. In 2010, Jay-Z (Beyoncé’s husband) teamed with Microsoft to promote his memoir, “Decoded.” According to a case study led by Anita Elberse, a Harvard Business School professor, the publisher could contribute only $50,000 for marketing, but Microsoft paid $2 million for an elaborate scavenger hunt that promoted the book as well as its new search engine, Bing.

For Jay-Z, the campaign was a success. But the effect of such deals on corporate partners like Microsoft is hard to measure, Professor Elberse said in an interview last week. “Even if they see an increase in market share,” she said, “it’s hard to attribute that to this one thing they did with a star at one point in time.”
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Mr. Cooper, however, was confident that its music projects, like “Tonight Is the Night” by the little-known rapper and singer Outasight — which sold 1.1 million copies after a push in 2010, when the song was featured in a commercial and Outasight appeared on the Pepsi-sponsored show “The X Factor” — bring a return on investment. “We believe all that transfers into brand equity for Pepsi, and, ultimately, sales,” he said.

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Pepsi’s deal with Beyoncé is an outgrowth of ventures like Green Label Sound, but on a scale befitting her superstar stature.

In addition to the commercial — a collaborative effort between 180 LA, TBWA/Chiat/Day Los Angeles and Organic, all part of the Omnicom Group — and the soda can, the deal will involve sponsorship of Beyoncé’s world tour next year.

All the standard sponsorship elements will be present on the tour, like prominent Pepsi logos. That kind of marketing, Mr. Jakeman said, is “still important, but insufficient” to reach savvy young consumers. So Pepsi will also play a role in selecting local talent as opening acts at various points around the world.

And who knows — a concert stage would seem a perfect spot for some fund-supported video or social-media experiment.

“It’s wise for a brand like Pepsi to give an artist the ability to truly express herself,” said Ms. Callahan-Longo, of Beyoncé’s company, “instead of just the old-school way of, ‘Do you want to be in an advertisement?’ ”

“This is much bigger,” she added. “This is, ‘How can we create something together that it truly unique?’ ”