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Reggae hits that have crossed over to the Billboard’s Hot 100’s top spot

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Reggae hits that have crossed over to the Billboard’s Hot 100’s top spot

OMI’s “Cheerleader” crowns the Billboard Hot 100, rising 2-1. The buoyant reggae/pop song replaces Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again,” featuring Charlie Puth, after 12 weeks, leaving the latter song tied for the longest run at No. 1 ever for a rap single.

“Cheerleader” joins the elite club of reggae hits that have crossed over to the Hot 100’s top spot. Notable others:

Johnny Nash, “I Can See Clearly Now” (No. 1, four weeks, 1972)
Eric Clapton, “I Shot the Sheriff” (one week, 1974) (written by Bob Marley)
Two by UB40: “Red Red Wine” (one week, 1988) and “Can’t Help Falling in Love” (seven weeks, 1993)
Ini Kamoze,” Here Comes the Hotstepper,” (two weeks, 1994)
Two by Shaggy: “It Wasn’t Me” (two weeks) and “Angel” (one week), both in 2001
Sean Paul, “Get Busy” (three weeks, 2003)
Sean Kingston, “Beautiful Girls” (four weeks, 2007)
And, MAGIC!, “Rude” (six weeks, 2014) … making it back-to-back summers that a reggae hit has splashed its way to the top of the Hot 100

Via Billboard

Video: If People Said Happy Birthday Like They Do On Facebook

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Video: If People Said Happy Birthday Like They Do On Facebook

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Documentary Profiling Looney Toons Director And Animator Chuck Jones Will Make You Run Back To The Cartoons

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Documentary Profiling Looney Toons Director And Animator Chuck Jones Will Make You Run Back To The Cartoons

If you grew up watching Looney Tunes, then you know Chuck Jones, one of all-time masters of visual comedy. In “Chuck Jones – The Evolution of an Artist”, filmmaker Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting profiles the legendary director and animator of those still-hilarious Looney Toons and Merry Melodies cartoons.

Star Wars Throwback: Mark Hamill’s family visits him at work in 1982

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Star Wars Throwback: Mark Hamill’s family visits him at work in 1982

In 1982, Mark Hamill’s wife Marilou and son Nathan visited the set of Return of the Jedi. Lovely. See more at StarWars.com.

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The Beatles Isolated Vocals From Getting Better, When I’m 64, Being For the Benefit of Mr Kite, Sgt Peppers Reprise

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The Beatles Isolated Vocals From Getting Better, When I’m 64, Being For the Benefit of Mr Kite, Sgt Peppers Reprise

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by The Beatles. Released on June 1, 1967, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending 27 weeks at the top of the albums chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one in the United States. Time magazine declared it “a historic departure in the progress of music” and the New Statesman praised its elevation of pop to the level of fine art. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour.

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Toronto’s Sonic Boom Will Create 7-Inch Picture Disc Of Anything You Want

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Toronto’s Sonic Boom Will Create 7-Inch Picture Disc Of Anything You Want

Toronto record store Sonic Boom and Andy March of Monotype Audio Disk Cutting (and also cassette label Craft Singles and local band Crosss) has set up a lathe record cutter in store and will create a 7-inch picture disc of absolutely anything you want.

The mono discs can hold up to seven minutes of audio per side and turn at 33 rpm. March is even able to add any image you want right onto the record. Single cuttings go for a measly $14.99 (about $12 USD), and March is willing to go up to orders of 50, with pricing varying by order size. The audio reportedly sounds great, and as you can see above, they look fantastic.

The cuttings occur live on the Sonic Boom floor from 10 a.m. to midnight Friday through Sunday. You can walk right in and place an order, or email monotypeaudio@gmail.com.

Via CoS

The Teletubbies, Stripped of Color, Frolic to Their Favorite Joy Division Tune

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The Teletubbies, Stripped of Color, Frolic to Their Favorite Joy Division Tune

This is obviously what we can call a natural progression in The Teletubbies, from their classic scenes of the baby in the sun to dancing around with Joy Division.

Pandora, Spotify, I HeartRadio Dominate As Online Listening Grows

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Webcast Metrics has released its monthly digital audio Top 20 Ranker for March 2015. The Ranker is a listing of the top-performing digital audio stations and networks measured by the Webcast Metrics audience measurement platform.

Webcast Metrics uses a proprietary platform to track audience data and convert it to audience metrics that can be easily understood by stations, publishers and advertisers. Audience rankings are done on the basis of “Average Active Sessions”, with “Session Starts” and “Average Time Spent Listening” also displayed. Average Active Sessions (AAS) is defined as “Total Listening Hours (TLH) divided by hours in the reported time period.” TLH is defined as the total number of hours that the station/publisher has streamed during sessions with duration of at least one minute in total within the reported time period. Session Starts (SS) is defined as “the number of different requests for streams (i.e., stream requests) with a duration of at least one minute in total within the reported time period.” Average Time Spent Listening (ATSL) is defined as “the average number of hours for each session with a duration of at least one minute in total within the reported time period. Calculated as total time spent listening divided by active sessions.”

Rankers are divided into “Domestic” and “All Streams.” The “Domestic” Ranker quantifies listening done inside the U.S. based on log-based information provided by the station, this report is not MRC accredited. The “All Streams” Ranker merely verifies the quantity of streams without qualifying where they are being consumed, and is MRC accredited.

 

Via Triton Digital

Tori Amos On Ageism: “There isn’t a role in the music business where you play the grandma”

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Tori Amos On Ageism: “There isn’t a role in the music business where you play the grandma”

Have you encountered the ageism that’s doled out to a lot of older female musicians?

When an actress is over 60, the public will accept that she’s a grand dame. But when you’re still singing and writing songs, there isn’t a role in the music business where you play the grandma. We don’t go to see Tom Petty or Bruce Springsteen to see a granddad singing granddad songs or to revisit only his past. Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, the Chili Peppers – they aren’t far from me in age, but these guys are still putting out work that’s considered relevant, but there’s an attitude that the women have had their day, so they should give room to the younger ones. But that doesn’t apply to men. It was Tash, my daughter, who came to me and said: “Mom, you go out there and play alone and you kick ass. But some of those [younger female artists] are stealing your moves and it matters to me. You go and remind the children, because they think these twentysomething girls came up with this crap.” And she said: “Go out there!”

There seems to be a vilification of older women – Madonna took a lot of flak when she fell at the Brits.

Let me ask you: was there a lot of meanness about her?

There were a lot of unpleasant comments on Twitter.

Madonna is an entertainer. There are very few people who could’ve gotten up off that floor. It wasn’t because of her that she fell, but it was because of her that the performance carried on. Some of the vilification comes from women as much as men. She’s making choices and she’s able to do things physically that a lot of people 25 years younger can’t; she got up and refused to allow that to shame her. I think people want her to be shamed into a role that they find acceptable for her age. It makes me sad that we can’t embrace Madonna and say, Wow, this is an artist who’s expressing herself in a certain way.

Via The Guardian

SiriusXM Canada to broadcast from Pemberton Music Festival

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SiriusXM Canada to broadcast from Pemberton Music Festival

SiriusXM Canada, the country’s leading audio entertainment company, today announced it will return to British Columbia’s hottest summer event, Pemberton Music Festival, to bring subscribers and fans access to the best Canadian and international music talent from July 16 – 19 in Pemberton, B.C. Interviews, special performances and more can be heard throughout the weekend on Iceberg (Sirius channel 161) and The Verge (XM channel 173).

This year’s lineup includes major acts such as The Black Keys, Weezer, Broken Social Scene, J. Cole, Sam Roberts Band, Tiësto, Jane’s Addiction, Kendrick Lamar, and many more. In addition, some of the biggest Canadian talent on the scene right now will play the Whistler Stage Presented by SiriusXM, including Chromeo, JPNSGRILS, Dakota Pearl, and more.

Behind the scenes, SiriusXM will offer subscribers and festival-goers exclusive access to the SiriusXM Backstage Stage, featuring artist interviews and intimate, stripped-down performances throughout the weekend. Sam Roberts Band, July Talk and Dan Mangan + Backsmith will all perform in support of the Music Heals Charitable Foundation, which helps raise awareness of the healing powers of music and fundraises for music therapy and related services across Canada. Festival attendees can tweet using #SXMBackstage for their chance to win access to performances. SiriusXM subscribers also got the chance to win tickets to the festival, including an Ultimate Fan Experience with private tours, stage access and more.

“This is our second year at Pemberton Music Festival and we can’t wait to get back into the mountains and be a part of this amazing event,” said Jeff Leake, Director, Music Programming, SiriusXM Canada. “We get to hang out with some of our favourite artists and bring listeners across North America access to some great highlights from the festival.”

Those satellite radio subscribers who add SiriusXM Internet Radio access to their subscription can also catchPemberton programming throughout the weekend, including exclusive broadcasts of the SiriusXM Backstage Stageperformances on the SiriusXM Internet Radio App and online.

SiriusXM is a proud sponsor of Pemberton Music Festival and has a legacy of supporting and furthering the best emerging Canadian music. Through Canadian indie music channels Iceberg (Sirius 161) and The Verge (XM 173), francophone channels Attitude Franco (Sirius 164) Influence Franco (XM 174), plus many more, SiriusXM continues to offer a leading platform for Canadian artists.

For more information, visit www.siriusxm.ca/pembertonfestival

For more information about Music Heals, visit www.musicheals.ca

For more information about Pemberton Music Festival, visit www.pembertonmusicfestival.com

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