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Taylor Swift’s Reputation Is The US’s Biggest Album Of 2017

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Taylor Swift’s Reputation tops Nielsen Music’s year-end best-selling albums list, with 1.9 million sold. This is the third time Swift has claimed the year’s top-selling album. She did it previously with her last studio effort, 1989 (2014’s best seller, with 3.66 million sold that calendar year), and Fearless (2009’s leader, with 3.22 million sold that year). 1989 and Fearless have sold a total of 6.11 million and 7.13 million copies, respectively, since their release.

Notably, in the last nine years (2009 through 2017), seven of the year-end best-sellers have been an album by either Swift or Adele.

TOP 10 SELLING ALBUMS OF 2017 IN U.S.
Rank Artist, Title Sales
1 Taylor Swift, Reputation 1,903,000
2 Ed Sheeran, ÷ (Divide) 1,102,000
3 Kendrick Lamar, DAMN. 910,000
4 Bruno Mars, 24K Magic 710,000
5 Soundtrack, Moana 709,000
6 Chris Stapleton, From A Room: Volume 1 658,000
7 P!nk, Beautiful Trauma 628,000
8 Soundtrack, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 600,000
9 Metallica, Hardwired… To Self-Destruct 585,000
10 Soundtrack, Trolls 522,000
Source: Nielsen Music, for the tracking period Dec. 30, 2016 through Dec. 28, 2017.

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Music Is Up 12.5% In The US In 2017

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Total music consumption in 2017 in the US climbed 12.5 percent to 636.65 million units (up from 566.1 million). That figure adds together traditional album sales, track equivalent album units, and on-demand streaming equivalent album units from both video and audio streams. One track equivalent album unit is equal to 10 tracks sold. One streaming equivalent album unit is equal to 1,500 on-demand streams.

In terms of audio-only consumption (removing on-demand video streams from the equation), the gain was 10.2 percent, rising to 491.55 million units (from 446.12 million).

The R&B/hip-hop genre represented 24.5% of all music consumption in the U.S. in 2017 — the largest share of any genre and the first time R&B/hip-hop has led this measurement for a calendar year.

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Ed Sheeran’s Ă· Is 2017’s Biggest Album In The US

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TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2017 IN U.S., BY TOTAL EQUIVALENT ALBUM UNITS 
Rank Artist, Title Total Units Album Sales TEA Units SEA Units
1 Ed Sheeran, ÷ (Divide) 2,764,000 1,102,000 581,000 1,081,000
2 Kendrick Lamar, DAMN. 2,747,000 910,000 217,000 1,620,000
3 Taylor Swift, Reputation 2,336,000 1,903,000 153,000 280,000
4 Drake, More Life 2,227,000 363,000 149,000 1,715,000
5 Bruno Mars, 24K Magic 1,626,000 710,000 320,000 597,000
6 Post Malone, Stoney 1,564,000 128,000 174,000 1,262,000
7 Migos, Culture 1,438,000 134,000 156,000 1,149,000
8 The Weeknd, Starboy 1,408,000 275,000 189,000 945,000
9 Soundtrack, Moana 1,254,000 709,000 197,000 348,000
10 Khalid, American Teen 1,220,000 147,000 124,000 950,000
Source: Nielsen Music, for the tracking period Dec. 30, 2016 through Dec. 28, 2017.

 

Here’s Sir Ian McKellen jamming with The Fleshtones on Andy Warhol’s MTV show

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Ian McKellen reciting Shakespeare over The Fleshtones on Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes – a show that ran on MTV in 1987.

Spotify Shares Top 10 New Year’s Eve Songs Of 2017

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A LOT of you played Post Malone’s rockstar on New Year’s Eve, one of the busiest days for streaming music. Spotify has shared the most popular songs used to celebrate the new year in the US and around the world. Post Malone’s “rockstar,” which has over 617 million streams on Spotify, was the most popular song played on December 31, 2017.

Top 10 tracks streamed on New Year’s Eve 2017/2018 globally
Post Malone – rockstar
Camila Cabello – Havana
Dua Lipa – New Rules
Ed Sheeran – Shape of You
Selena Gomez, Marshmello – Wolves
Eminem – River (feat. Ed Sheeran)
Maroon 5 – What Lovers Do (feat. SZA)
Daddy Yankee, Luis Fonsi – Despacito (Remix)
Demi Lovato, Luis Fonsi – Échame La Culpa
Ed Sheeran – Perfect

Top 10 tracks streamed on New Year’s Eve 2017/2018 in the US
Post Malone – rockstar
G-Eazy – No Limit
Post Malone – I Fall Apart
21 Savage, Cardi B – Bartier Cardi (feat. 21 Savage)
Lil Pump – Gucci Gang
G-Eazy, Halsey – Him & I (with Halsey)
Camila Cabello – Havana
Metro Boomin, Offset – Ric Flair Drip (& Metro Boomin)
Lil Uzi Vert – XO TOUR Llif3
Post Malone – Candy Paint

A Father Covers R.E.M. Together With His Kids And It’s Amazing

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Oh, life, it’s bigger, bigger than you. The self-proclaimed musicfamily on YouTube created this fab cover version of R.E.M.’s Losing My Religion based on, “Losing faith lately in everything, world, economy, governments, people in the place where I live and people I work with etc. Kids got interested in this song after watching it done on Glee. No Mandolin but the Ukulele played by 10 year old Sinead actually substituted quite well. 8 year old Sean on drums.”

Nice one, fam.

Former Beach Boys Musician Robert O. Williams Releases New Book “Love Is the Power”

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What happens when we live all emotions, thoughts and body feelings as love as opposed to just searching for love? We are free to give to others without need or fear. That love is the power and pure heart consciousness.

In Love Is the Power, Robert O. Williams leads readers into the intimate journey of his life through the vivid memories of his unique childhood, an inspiring account of his talent and perseverance as a saxophone player, his introduction to Transcendental Meditation (TM), his magical time performing and recording with The Beach Boys, and the extraordinary journey through multiple near-death experiences and visits with other dimensions which culminated in three decades of research and invention of Quantum Code Technology and the One08 Heart+ App.

The One08 Heart+ App significantly reduces stress by more than 30% and opens the heart chakra, helping move humanity from fear to love. Peace Troubadour James Twyman is the ambassador of the One08 Heart+ App.

Williams said, “The fact that we were able to develop a proven technology to strengthen our physical hearts as well as serve in the awakening of our spiritual hearts is, for me, an indication that we truly can raise consciousness through technology.”

Readers will be transfixed as they learn of Williams’ numerous near-death and out-of-body experiences, which showed him the answer to the purpose of humanity: to realize love. Love Is the Power is not about the search for love, romantic or otherwise; rather, it is about being love.

At a young age, Williams had the ability to see auras and the capacity for clairvoyance. He tuned into the natural world the way not many others have. In Love is the Power, he shares a valuable message, simple yet necessarily vast to its core. The unfolding of his story is stirring and uplifting in its ability to relate to the reader in a way that finds beauty, depth and insight in even what seems the most trivial, or the most challenging life experiences.

The natural world was Williams’ muse as a young child, connecting with nature spirits and a close spirit friend. With the onset of adolescence came the vanishing of these beings, resulting in Williams’ anger, frustration and serious and mysterious physical ailments. Music became an unexpected replacement, as playing the saxophone was now an obsession. While in college he was deeply touched by a photo of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi that would forever change the course of his life. He decided to attend Maharishi International University in Iowa.

Williams’ extraordinary talent playing the saxophone eventually landed him his dream job of touring with The Beach Boys. Williams’ search for spirituality reached a pivotal moment when he learned that despite years of dedication to the saxophone, a physical disability would prevent him from playing the instrument he loved for extended periods of time. It was his search for the rekindling of the spirituality of his childhood and his love of music, the “carrier waves of pure heart love,” that led him to discover TM. This discovery was crucial to the events that would happen next: nearly dying multiple times, clear vision and communication with his guru, revelations of sacred geometry, and travels through the dimensions. Uncovering the ultimate Law-Love, Devotion, Surrender-is icing on the cake. Williams’ tenacity and wisdom of the scientific relation between the physical and metaphysical worlds resulted in QCT to move humanity from fear to love-making the world a better place.

You can get the book at Amazon.

Beyoncé, The Weeknd and Eminem Headline Coachella 2018

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The Coachella 2018 lineup has arrived, with Beyoncé, The Weeknd and Eminem are announced as headliners. The 2018 festival kicks off on April 13 and then wraps up weekend two on April 22.