Although musicians within Iran's borders probably have to be at least as careful as other Persians these days, artists and bands around the world can lend their support for the protesters via their websites and concerts. Feel free to post any news of groups and solo recording artists supporting socially progressive movements and events.
Iranian musicians, Persian music history
Iranian Music and Persian Musical Instruments
AryaLive.com Farsi Music online
Persian Nights Dance Mix by Best Pop From Iran
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
BP Artists Blog; New focus on Social Protest and Activist Music
Watch this blog in coming weeks as we will be posting news of political protests featuring conscious music.
Also keep an eye on my new Original Joe College Punk Rock and Ecology Blog
Things are about to heat up on this rolling ball of blue, green and brown fun in the sky!!!
Also keep an eye on my new Original Joe College Punk Rock and Ecology Blog
Things are about to heat up on this rolling ball of blue, green and brown fun in the sky!!!
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Springsteen performs for 80,000 at Cleveland Ohio Barack Obama for President rally
With just 48 hours until the first polls close in the USA Presidential election, Bruce Springsteen performed Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" in a singalong with eighty thousand fans in support of Barack Obama. The he performed his classic song The Rising, and was joined onstage by Barack and Michelle Obama and their children.
Two days to go until the world can breathe a sigh of relief, with Obama's pending victory returning the United States to normalcy after eight years of incompetence and self-interest on behalf of the Texan mafia.
Springsteen performs at Cleveland, Ohio rally for Barack Obama
Springsteen Serenades USA Voters at Ohio Barack Obama Rally
Obama and Springsteen Rally Ohio Crowd Despite the Rain
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Teenage Head's Frankie Venom remembered by fans around the globe
The late great Frankie Venom was a powerful force in Canadian punk rock music, and his band Teenage Head was considered a Canuck version of The Ramones. Here are some tributes to Frankie from his home in Hamilton, Ontario and around the world:
Teenage Head's Frank Kerr dead at 51 - Winnipeg Sun
Teenage Head's Gord Lewis speaks about death of Frankie Venom - PunkNews.org
Tributes pour in for Frankie Venom - Hamilton Spectator
Canadian punk band lead singer dies of cancer - Globe and Mail
Frankie Venom - Canadian Punk Legend - Pulmyears Music Blog
Francis Hannah Kerr, a.k.a. Frankie Venom, 1957 - 2008 - The Last Pogo
Film The Last Pogo shows the late Frankie Venom at heart of Toronto's early punk scene
Teenage Head's Frankie Venom dies - Toronto Sun
Official website of Teenage Head www.TeenageHead.ca
Monday, September 01, 2008
Sarah Palin's 17 year old daughter Bristol to have 2nd child
USA news media were asking all the wrong questions today as only the first shoe has dropped in the saga of young Bristol Palin. Any family can experience a teenage pregnancy, but it often takes a hypocritical socialite to hide one.
For those just catching up, all of the circumstances surrounding the birth of Sarah Palin's son / grandson Trig indicate the baby was actually conceived, carried and delivered by Bristol, who experienced a 5 month bout of "mono" at the time. You can Google the details ...
So what is Rove up to here? One would think he knew of both matters before picking her as McCain's VP, so the drama will likely continue to unfold. Look for them to evade the bigger story until after her speech Wednesday, by which time the media will have had more time to research and will begin to ask harder questions. Sarah Palin's confession and asking of forgiveness will likely come next weekend.
For those just catching up, all of the circumstances surrounding the birth of Sarah Palin's son / grandson Trig indicate the baby was actually conceived, carried and delivered by Bristol, who experienced a 5 month bout of "mono" at the time. You can Google the details ...
So what is Rove up to here? One would think he knew of both matters before picking her as McCain's VP, so the drama will likely continue to unfold. Look for them to evade the bigger story until after her speech Wednesday, by which time the media will have had more time to research and will begin to ask harder questions. Sarah Palin's confession and asking of forgiveness will likely come next weekend.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Music Stars line up to endorse Barack Obama for USA President
Here's a small list of some of Barack's supporters from the music industry:
Bruce Springsteen
Toby Keith
Nelly
Moby
Bono
Kanye West
Chris Daughtrey
Death Cab For Cutie
Rage Against The Machine
Here's a New York Times article on musicians performing at the Democratic National Convention in Denver:
August 23, 2008
Pop Stars to Descend on Democratic Convention to Party and Politic
By BEN SISARIO
The first big circled date on the national concert calendar this year was in March, for the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Tex. Then came Coachella in April, Bonnaroo in June and Lollapalooza in early August, each drawing tens of thousands to varied, overflowing lineups.
And the next festival highlight is ... the Democratic National Convention?
A certain amount of celebrity glow has long been a part of both political parties’ gatherings. But thanks in part to the youthful charisma of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive nominee, the Democratic convention, which begins on Monday in Denver, is shaping up as an unlikely hot spot for the music world, with multiplatinum rappers, indie-rock scenesters, D.J.’s and Jennifer Lopez arriving by the van- and private planeload to perform, rally or schmooze with the political elite.
“It’s the Sundance Film Festival for politicos,” said Laura Dawn, the cultural director of MoveOn.org, who also happens to sing with Moby. “It’s a really intense festival atmosphere with a lot of parties.”
Kanye West will be there on Wednesday for a party sponsored by the Recording Industry Association of America and One, the antipoverty campaign founded by Bono. That night the Black Eyed Peas will perform for the Creative Coalition. Fall Out Boy will play for Rock the Vote on Monday, and the reunited Rage Against the Machine will do a free show at the Denver Coliseum on Wednesday.
Those are just the big shows. Members of the band Death Cab for Cutie are booked for acoustic performances, Moby will be spinning records at late-night parties, and various outdoor shows will align rock and hip-hop acts with on-the-ground activists.
“People feel comfortable expressing themselves in an artistic way at this convention more than they ever have,” said Kimball Stroud, a founder of the Impact Film Festival, which will screen documentaries at both conventions. “I don’t recall another convention where hip-hop artists were embraced like they are.”
For all but the most connected fans, however, getting into the shows will be a challenge. Many are at private parties given by lobbyists and charities; even at the events that do not explicitly bar the general public, any spots not occupied by political insiders will probably be scooped up by the 15,000 expected members of the news media.
The music industry also knows how to take advantage of a big moment for promotional purposes. In an e-mail message to music journalists, a publicist for the rapper Murs noted his client’s coming album and convention schedule, adding, “If you will be at the Democratic National Convention in Denver and would like to do something with Warner Brothers Recording artist Murs, please e-mail me back.”
Chris Daughtry, the “American Idol” rock singer, is playing both conventions with his band and taking a strictly nonpartisan stance. “We’re not trying to tell someone who to vote for,” he said, “as much as we are saying, ‘Hey, just get out there and have your voice heard.’ ”
Just who will hear Mr. Daughtry’s message is hard to say. On Tuesday at the Democratic convention, he is playing a private fund-raising event for the Grammy Foundation. (His performance at the Republican convention, on Sept. 3, is presented by the Recording Industry Association and One. It is also private.)
Plenty about the music and entertainment at the conventions remains unclear to performers and local businesspeople, from attendance numbers to the events’ political efficacy.
One of the biggest musical events in Denver will be the Rage Against the Machine concert, part of an antiwar rally by Iraq Veterans Against the War and Tent State, a group of student protesters. Eight thousand tickets will be given away by lottery, and a spokeswoman for the concert said that she was planning for as many as 40,000 to apply.
But not everyone in Denver is expecting large numbers of young people to come through town for the festivities. “I don’t think a lot of kids are going to come in for the music,” said Chuck Morris, a veteran concert promoter and the president of the local branch of the national music company AEG Live.
Nathan Willett, lead singer of Cold War Kids, an indie-rock band from Long Beach, Calif., that is playing a public outdoor show on Wednesday for MoveOn, said he supported Senator Obama and was particularly interested in his education policy. But he also said he questioned the influence rock bands can have on voters.
“I wonder how many people who were going to vote for McCain are now going to vote for Obama because they know that Death Cab likes him,” Mr. Willett said. “A lot of these bands are preaching to the choir.”
Politics aside, the musical and other artistic attractions at the convention are likely to make it simply an important pop-culture pit stop.
Greg Lucas, who works with ArcheDream, an experimental dance group from Philadelphia, said that his group was shuttling between the convention and Burning Man, the freewheeling arts festival in the Nevada desert. Before appearing there, ArcheDream will perform in Denver on Tuesday at a party for the Impact Film Festival, as part of a lineup that screams strange bedfellows: it also features Nelly, the St. Louis rapper who has won three Grammy Awards and sold 20 million albums.
“Nothing will surprise me coming directly from Burning Man,” Mr. Lucas said. “But I think that this will be just as surreal and psychedelic.”
Recent stories in the news:
Barack Obama's VP candidate Joe Biden is progressive on energy policy
Google invests in geothermal power technology
T. Boone Pickens Plan promotes wind energy and natural gas
Bruce Springsteen
Toby Keith
Nelly
Moby
Bono
Kanye West
Chris Daughtrey
Death Cab For Cutie
Rage Against The Machine
Here's a New York Times article on musicians performing at the Democratic National Convention in Denver:
August 23, 2008
Pop Stars to Descend on Democratic Convention to Party and Politic
By BEN SISARIO
The first big circled date on the national concert calendar this year was in March, for the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Tex. Then came Coachella in April, Bonnaroo in June and Lollapalooza in early August, each drawing tens of thousands to varied, overflowing lineups.
And the next festival highlight is ... the Democratic National Convention?
A certain amount of celebrity glow has long been a part of both political parties’ gatherings. But thanks in part to the youthful charisma of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive nominee, the Democratic convention, which begins on Monday in Denver, is shaping up as an unlikely hot spot for the music world, with multiplatinum rappers, indie-rock scenesters, D.J.’s and Jennifer Lopez arriving by the van- and private planeload to perform, rally or schmooze with the political elite.
“It’s the Sundance Film Festival for politicos,” said Laura Dawn, the cultural director of MoveOn.org, who also happens to sing with Moby. “It’s a really intense festival atmosphere with a lot of parties.”
Kanye West will be there on Wednesday for a party sponsored by the Recording Industry Association of America and One, the antipoverty campaign founded by Bono. That night the Black Eyed Peas will perform for the Creative Coalition. Fall Out Boy will play for Rock the Vote on Monday, and the reunited Rage Against the Machine will do a free show at the Denver Coliseum on Wednesday.
Those are just the big shows. Members of the band Death Cab for Cutie are booked for acoustic performances, Moby will be spinning records at late-night parties, and various outdoor shows will align rock and hip-hop acts with on-the-ground activists.
“People feel comfortable expressing themselves in an artistic way at this convention more than they ever have,” said Kimball Stroud, a founder of the Impact Film Festival, which will screen documentaries at both conventions. “I don’t recall another convention where hip-hop artists were embraced like they are.”
For all but the most connected fans, however, getting into the shows will be a challenge. Many are at private parties given by lobbyists and charities; even at the events that do not explicitly bar the general public, any spots not occupied by political insiders will probably be scooped up by the 15,000 expected members of the news media.
The music industry also knows how to take advantage of a big moment for promotional purposes. In an e-mail message to music journalists, a publicist for the rapper Murs noted his client’s coming album and convention schedule, adding, “If you will be at the Democratic National Convention in Denver and would like to do something with Warner Brothers Recording artist Murs, please e-mail me back.”
Chris Daughtry, the “American Idol” rock singer, is playing both conventions with his band and taking a strictly nonpartisan stance. “We’re not trying to tell someone who to vote for,” he said, “as much as we are saying, ‘Hey, just get out there and have your voice heard.’ ”
Just who will hear Mr. Daughtry’s message is hard to say. On Tuesday at the Democratic convention, he is playing a private fund-raising event for the Grammy Foundation. (His performance at the Republican convention, on Sept. 3, is presented by the Recording Industry Association and One. It is also private.)
Plenty about the music and entertainment at the conventions remains unclear to performers and local businesspeople, from attendance numbers to the events’ political efficacy.
One of the biggest musical events in Denver will be the Rage Against the Machine concert, part of an antiwar rally by Iraq Veterans Against the War and Tent State, a group of student protesters. Eight thousand tickets will be given away by lottery, and a spokeswoman for the concert said that she was planning for as many as 40,000 to apply.
But not everyone in Denver is expecting large numbers of young people to come through town for the festivities. “I don’t think a lot of kids are going to come in for the music,” said Chuck Morris, a veteran concert promoter and the president of the local branch of the national music company AEG Live.
Nathan Willett, lead singer of Cold War Kids, an indie-rock band from Long Beach, Calif., that is playing a public outdoor show on Wednesday for MoveOn, said he supported Senator Obama and was particularly interested in his education policy. But he also said he questioned the influence rock bands can have on voters.
“I wonder how many people who were going to vote for McCain are now going to vote for Obama because they know that Death Cab likes him,” Mr. Willett said. “A lot of these bands are preaching to the choir.”
Politics aside, the musical and other artistic attractions at the convention are likely to make it simply an important pop-culture pit stop.
Greg Lucas, who works with ArcheDream, an experimental dance group from Philadelphia, said that his group was shuttling between the convention and Burning Man, the freewheeling arts festival in the Nevada desert. Before appearing there, ArcheDream will perform in Denver on Tuesday at a party for the Impact Film Festival, as part of a lineup that screams strange bedfellows: it also features Nelly, the St. Louis rapper who has won three Grammy Awards and sold 20 million albums.
“Nothing will surprise me coming directly from Burning Man,” Mr. Lucas said. “But I think that this will be just as surreal and psychedelic.”
Recent stories in the news:
Barack Obama's VP candidate Joe Biden is progressive on energy policy
Google invests in geothermal power technology
T. Boone Pickens Plan promotes wind energy and natural gas
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Oscar Peterson Memorial Tribute featured Herbie Hancock, Nancy Wilson, and Quincy Jones
Well, we tried to get in, but there were twice as many people there as people who got in, so we had to pick up some food from Nicey's and head home.
Here's a review of the Oscar Peterson Memorial Concert:
Stars say goodbye to jazz legend Oscar Peterson
By Scott Anderson Sun Jan 13, 12:34 AM ET
TORONTO (Reuters) - Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones and Nancy Wilson were among a star-studded group of performers who gathered on Saturday for a musical farewell to jazz piano great Oscar Peterson.
"He's on his second journey. The first is birth and the second is death," Hancock said as he swiveled in his piano chair to face a giant portrait of Peterson hanging over the stage at a Toronto concert hall. "So enjoy your journey, Oscar. I wish you well."
Peterson died at his home near Toronto on December 23 of kidney failure. He was 82.
One of jazz's most recorded musicians, Peterson rose from working-class beginnings in Montreal to become a major influence on generations of musicians. His honors included a 1997 Grammy for lifetime achievement and an International Jazz Hall of Fame Award.
Peterson was remembered for his love of life, people and music at the free show, attended by more than 2,500 people who started lining up 12 hours before it began.
"He is leaving a legacy of a very, very, very strong commitment to the jazz world. What he has done is set the path for so many of us. We will have other great jazz artists coming up, but there won't ever be another Oscar Peterson," jazz pianist Oliver Jones, Peterson's friend and protege, told Reuters.
"I owe him everything. He's irreplaceable," pianist and jazz composer Hancock said before playing a somber, solo piano piece.
"I am truly thankful to God that I was able to meet someone that I admired all my life," singer and composer Stevie Wonder said in a taped message played during the ceremony. "The man played the piano so well that you could hear it sing, dance and feel every single note and chord."
Wilson was brought to tears as she sang a goodbye song to Peterson.
"Nobody who I have ever loved has left," the Grammy-winning jazz singer said. "They are always here."
Here's a review of the Oscar Peterson Memorial Concert:
Stars say goodbye to jazz legend Oscar Peterson
By Scott Anderson Sun Jan 13, 12:34 AM ET
TORONTO (Reuters) - Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones and Nancy Wilson were among a star-studded group of performers who gathered on Saturday for a musical farewell to jazz piano great Oscar Peterson.
"He's on his second journey. The first is birth and the second is death," Hancock said as he swiveled in his piano chair to face a giant portrait of Peterson hanging over the stage at a Toronto concert hall. "So enjoy your journey, Oscar. I wish you well."
Peterson died at his home near Toronto on December 23 of kidney failure. He was 82.
One of jazz's most recorded musicians, Peterson rose from working-class beginnings in Montreal to become a major influence on generations of musicians. His honors included a 1997 Grammy for lifetime achievement and an International Jazz Hall of Fame Award.
Peterson was remembered for his love of life, people and music at the free show, attended by more than 2,500 people who started lining up 12 hours before it began.
"He is leaving a legacy of a very, very, very strong commitment to the jazz world. What he has done is set the path for so many of us. We will have other great jazz artists coming up, but there won't ever be another Oscar Peterson," jazz pianist Oliver Jones, Peterson's friend and protege, told Reuters.
"I owe him everything. He's irreplaceable," pianist and jazz composer Hancock said before playing a somber, solo piano piece.
"I am truly thankful to God that I was able to meet someone that I admired all my life," singer and composer Stevie Wonder said in a taped message played during the ceremony. "The man played the piano so well that you could hear it sing, dance and feel every single note and chord."
Wilson was brought to tears as she sang a goodbye song to Peterson.
"Nobody who I have ever loved has left," the Grammy-winning jazz singer said. "They are always here."
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Indie Music ruled in 2007!!!
The year in music: Indie sounds ruled ’07
By Sarah Nason
George Washington High School
article from: http://sundaygazettemail.com/section/News/FlipSide/2008010415
There were plenty of big music moments in 2007. The year was off to an exciting start with the reunion of The Police, who opened the Grammy Awards in February and announced their reunion tour, which started in May.
The Police were not the only band to return to the music scene, either. Smashing Pumpkins, Spice Girls, Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols, The Verve, and Rage Against the Machine all reunited in some form over the year, whether for tours, new albums or recordings for “Guitar Hero.”
Topping the charts in 2007 were Amy Winehouse’s Motown-esque album “Back to Black” and its hit single “Rehab,” Rihanna and Jay-Z’s “Umbrella,” Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” the “High School Musical 2” soundtrack, Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend” and Nelly Furtado’s album “Loose,” among others. Despite the fact that most of what sat atop the music charts was of no particular musical merit, a lot of great material was released over the 12-month course.
This year also featured the much-anticipated return of former pop princess Britney Spears, whose career has been overshadowed by her personal life in recent years. Though her disastrous performance of “Blackout’s” first single, “Gimme More,” during the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards (in which she wore a too-small, too-revealing outfit and delivered a lackluster rendition of what was supposed to be her comeback routine), she and her team managed to deliver an exciting dance-worthy album full of decent songs of great production.
In another return of sorts, “New Moon,” a posthumous double CD by Elliott Smith, was released, containing material recorded during the production of his albums “Elliott Smith” and “Either/Or.” Much of the album’s profits were given to a social service agency for low-income adults and homeless youth in Portland, Ore.
In July, the Live Earth concerts, founded by Al Gore and Kevin Wall, were held in 12 locations across the globe. These benefit concerts to raise awareness of global warming featured more than 150 musical acts including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Madonna, Shakira, Bloc Party, Keith Urban, The Police, Smashing Pumpkins, Bon Jovi, John Legend and Joss Stone.
October saw the release of Radiohead’s seventh studio album, “In Rainbows,” which was critically acclaimed not only for the music itself but also for the “pay what you want” digital format in which the album was originally released.
Full article continues at:
2007 Indie Music Year in Review
By Sarah Nason
George Washington High School
article from: http://sundaygazettemail.com/section/News/FlipSide/2008010415
There were plenty of big music moments in 2007. The year was off to an exciting start with the reunion of The Police, who opened the Grammy Awards in February and announced their reunion tour, which started in May.
The Police were not the only band to return to the music scene, either. Smashing Pumpkins, Spice Girls, Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols, The Verve, and Rage Against the Machine all reunited in some form over the year, whether for tours, new albums or recordings for “Guitar Hero.”
Topping the charts in 2007 were Amy Winehouse’s Motown-esque album “Back to Black” and its hit single “Rehab,” Rihanna and Jay-Z’s “Umbrella,” Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” the “High School Musical 2” soundtrack, Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend” and Nelly Furtado’s album “Loose,” among others. Despite the fact that most of what sat atop the music charts was of no particular musical merit, a lot of great material was released over the 12-month course.
This year also featured the much-anticipated return of former pop princess Britney Spears, whose career has been overshadowed by her personal life in recent years. Though her disastrous performance of “Blackout’s” first single, “Gimme More,” during the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards (in which she wore a too-small, too-revealing outfit and delivered a lackluster rendition of what was supposed to be her comeback routine), she and her team managed to deliver an exciting dance-worthy album full of decent songs of great production.
In another return of sorts, “New Moon,” a posthumous double CD by Elliott Smith, was released, containing material recorded during the production of his albums “Elliott Smith” and “Either/Or.” Much of the album’s profits were given to a social service agency for low-income adults and homeless youth in Portland, Ore.
In July, the Live Earth concerts, founded by Al Gore and Kevin Wall, were held in 12 locations across the globe. These benefit concerts to raise awareness of global warming featured more than 150 musical acts including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Madonna, Shakira, Bloc Party, Keith Urban, The Police, Smashing Pumpkins, Bon Jovi, John Legend and Joss Stone.
October saw the release of Radiohead’s seventh studio album, “In Rainbows,” which was critically acclaimed not only for the music itself but also for the “pay what you want” digital format in which the album was originally released.
Full article continues at:
2007 Indie Music Year in Review
Sunday, December 23, 2007
BLUE PIE IS BACK!!! Bigger and Better than ever!!!
Music fans, check out the new Blue Pie Music website, you'll find some amazingly inspired artists that'll provide you with new original music like you've never heard before.
It's been a year since I've been posting here, but it is a difficult job for just one man. Any fan of any artist on Blue Pie, and all the artists themselves, are invited to post here anytime. Please utilize the comments area and if you'd like to post a few articles, feel free to email me for a password.
peace,
Yuya Joe
PS - Check out my other blogs:
Solar Intelligence Blog; Clean Energy as a Path to Peace
Songs and Stories of Yuya Joe
It's been a year since I've been posting here, but it is a difficult job for just one man. Any fan of any artist on Blue Pie, and all the artists themselves, are invited to post here anytime. Please utilize the comments area and if you'd like to post a few articles, feel free to email me for a password.
peace,
Yuya Joe
PS - Check out my other blogs:
Solar Intelligence Blog; Clean Energy as a Path to Peace
Songs and Stories of Yuya Joe
Monday, November 06, 2006
Blue Pie Recording Artists available at major music download websites
Music fans, R U lookin for tunes for Zunes, rockin songs for your ipod? Blue Pie acts like Erik Simins, Gone By Ten, Yuya, Michael St. Clair, Slimey Things, Trevor Jones and many more are all avaiable at these and other leading online music retailers:
iTUNES:
www.itunes.com
DAIKI - JAPAN
www.daiki-sound.jp
BURN LOUNGE
www.burnlounge.com
SONY CONNECT:
www.connect.com/
Audio Lunch Box:
www.audiolunchbox.com
RCN - USA
www.rcninteraction.com
MUSIC MATCH:
www.musicmatch.com
MUSICLOAD - GERMANY:
www.musicload.de
MSN
www.msn.com
NAPSTER
www.napster.com
RHAPSODY
www.rhapsody.com
Music Now - AOL
www.musicnow.com
iTUNES:
www.itunes.com
Martian Music
www.martianmusic.com
BIG POND MUSIC:
www.bigpondmusic.com
HEAVENLYBLUE:
www.heavnelyblue.com
BLUE PIE
www.bluepie.com.au
eMUSIC
www.emusic.com
iTUNES:
www.itunes.com
DAIKI - JAPAN
www.daiki-sound.jp
BURN LOUNGE
www.burnlounge.com
SONY CONNECT:
www.connect.com/
Audio Lunch Box:
www.audiolunchbox.com
RCN - USA
www.rcninteraction.com
MUSIC MATCH:
www.musicmatch.com
MUSICLOAD - GERMANY:
www.musicload.de
MSN
www.msn.com
NAPSTER
www.napster.com
RHAPSODY
www.rhapsody.com
Music Now - AOL
www.musicnow.com
iTUNES:
www.itunes.com
Martian Music
www.martianmusic.com
BIG POND MUSIC:
www.bigpondmusic.com
HEAVENLYBLUE:
www.heavnelyblue.com
BLUE PIE
www.bluepie.com.au
eMUSIC
www.emusic.com
Sunday, November 05, 2006
10 New Songs crack digital downloads TAD Top 40 Songs chart
Exciting times in the world of downloadable songs for ipods, music for computers, Microsoft portable music player Zune.Find great songs to download, tunes for Zunes, hit tracks for ipods. Check out the ten new songs added to the TAD Top 40 Downloadable Songs, and note that the track "The Sun Will Rise Again by Yuya is available as a FREE SONG DOWNLOAD from now until Thanksgiving Day at www.MySpace.com/Yuya
Here is the November top forty songs chart:
TAD Top 40 Song Downloads Chart – November 2006
This Month / Last Month - Months On Chart - Song - Artist
1/1 3 The Way I See It - Erik Simins
2/6 3 Burning Man - Yuya
3/2 3 Hat Trick - Marvel
4/8 2 When You Were Young - Killers
5/17 3 Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
6/12 3 Breaker Breaker - Slimey Things
7/4 3 Thunder On The Mountain - Bob Dylan
8/7 3 Welcome To Jamrock - Damian Marley
9/3 3 London Bridge - Fergie
10/11 3 Yeah People - Ooh La La
11/14 3 Brand New Star - Sunroom
12/5 3 You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
13/10 3 Beirut - Burning The Day
14/9 3 Baby I Love Your Way - Billy Lofton
15/18 2 There's A Pub Now In My School - Gone By Ten
16/19 3 Who Taught You To Live Like That - Sloan
17/21 3 Karolina - Sheela Langenberg
18/15 3 She's A Mod - Dino Jag
19/25 2 Waiting On The World to Change - John Mayer
20/27 3 Things To Keep - Trevor Jones
21/NEW 1 Fergalicious - Fergie
22/35 3 Fake Tales Of San Francisco - Arctic Monkeys
23/NEW 1 Champagne To Beer - Tara Sales
24/NEW 1 Vamp Samba - Michael St. Clair
25/16 3 Smack That - Akon and Eminem
26/36 2 Save Your Scizzors - City and Colour
27/13 3 Unfaithful - Rihanna
28/33 2 Want To - Sugarland
29/40 2 Maneater - Nelly Furtado
30/NEW 1 Nausea - Beck
31/NEW 1 Show Me What You Got - Jay-Z
32/NEW 1 Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
33/28 2 When The Night Feels My Song - Bedouin Soundclash
34/23 3 Parent's House - Erik Simins
35/NEW 1 Irreplacable - Beyonce
36/NEW 1 Say Goodbye - Chris Brown
37/30 3 Blues Of The World - Michael St. Clair
38/NEW 1 The Sun Will Rise Again - Yuya
39/29 3 Lips Of An Angel - Hinder
40/NEW 1 Hurt - Christina Aguilera
Here is the November top forty songs chart:
TAD Top 40 Song Downloads Chart – November 2006
This Month / Last Month - Months On Chart - Song - Artist
1/1 3 The Way I See It - Erik Simins
2/6 3 Burning Man - Yuya
3/2 3 Hat Trick - Marvel
4/8 2 When You Were Young - Killers
5/17 3 Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
6/12 3 Breaker Breaker - Slimey Things
7/4 3 Thunder On The Mountain - Bob Dylan
8/7 3 Welcome To Jamrock - Damian Marley
9/3 3 London Bridge - Fergie
10/11 3 Yeah People - Ooh La La
11/14 3 Brand New Star - Sunroom
12/5 3 You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
13/10 3 Beirut - Burning The Day
14/9 3 Baby I Love Your Way - Billy Lofton
15/18 2 There's A Pub Now In My School - Gone By Ten
16/19 3 Who Taught You To Live Like That - Sloan
17/21 3 Karolina - Sheela Langenberg
18/15 3 She's A Mod - Dino Jag
19/25 2 Waiting On The World to Change - John Mayer
20/27 3 Things To Keep - Trevor Jones
21/NEW 1 Fergalicious - Fergie
22/35 3 Fake Tales Of San Francisco - Arctic Monkeys
23/NEW 1 Champagne To Beer - Tara Sales
24/NEW 1 Vamp Samba - Michael St. Clair
25/16 3 Smack That - Akon and Eminem
26/36 2 Save Your Scizzors - City and Colour
27/13 3 Unfaithful - Rihanna
28/33 2 Want To - Sugarland
29/40 2 Maneater - Nelly Furtado
30/NEW 1 Nausea - Beck
31/NEW 1 Show Me What You Got - Jay-Z
32/NEW 1 Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
33/28 2 When The Night Feels My Song - Bedouin Soundclash
34/23 3 Parent's House - Erik Simins
35/NEW 1 Irreplacable - Beyonce
36/NEW 1 Say Goodbye - Chris Brown
37/30 3 Blues Of The World - Michael St. Clair
38/NEW 1 The Sun Will Rise Again - Yuya
39/29 3 Lips Of An Angel - Hinder
40/NEW 1 Hurt - Christina Aguilera
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Australia sings, "Where are all the protest songs?"
by Gabriella Coslovich, TheAge.com.au
November 4, 2006
IF YOU ever doubted the market power of the fame factory that is Australian Idol, take a look at the ARIA charts: for the past three years, the country's top-selling singles have been spun by an Idol graduate. Last year, it was Anthony Callea's The Prayer, in 2004 it was Shannon Noll's What About Me (a cover of the old Moving Pictures song), and in 2003 it was Guy Sebastian's Angels Brought Me Here.
Soapie stars and Idol alumni dominate the Australian music charts — and it hasn't entirely been the intervention of angels that brought them here. The influence of prime-time television, the might of marketing, the support of profit-driven record companies and high rotation on commercial radio might have had something to do with their celestial success.
"What about you indeed?" came the rejoinder at the ARIA awards on Sunday night, as one of Australia's music legends, erstwhile Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst, took to the stage to accept the band's induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame. Using the ultra-mainstream pulpit for more than a gushing thank-you speech, Hirst beat on his political drum as forcefully as he ever did when he played with the Oils.
"Vietnam inspired some of the greatest protest songs ever written. Not so now, surprisingly, even when hundreds of thousands of Australians crowded our streets to demonstrate their opposition to another senseless war," Hirst told the audience and legions of television viewers.
"It may be that complaint rock is still being written but (is) ignored by an industry hypnotised by get-famous-fast TV shows. Bless you John Butler, but you should not have to do it all by yourself," Hirst said, referring to the popular roots musician, environmental activist and staunch independent who has broken into the mainstream.
Hirst added, in a not-so-veiled reference to the policies of the Howard Government: "Of course, everything eventually turns around, as Bush's predecessor of two centuries past, Thomas Jefferson, observed. He said: 'A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over. Their spells dissolve and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles."'
Hirst's speech was an incantation in itself, a provocation, a challenge to the industry and musicians to produce songs that matter, as Midnight Oil did in their heyday, with thumping political anthems such as Beds are Burning, Power and the Passion and Blue Sky Mining — which they famously played on a flat-bed truck outside the headquarters of the Exxon corporation in protest against the handling of the Valdez oil spill.
But how fair were Hirst's comments? Has the Australian music industry all but stopped nurturing talented, original and socially engaged songwriters to walk the get-rich-quick path presented by Australian Idol?
Are Australian musicians avoiding the fraught subjects of our times— the Iraq war, global warming, the erosion of civil liberties in the name of freedom and democracy, racism fuelled by the politics of fear and "nation building", spurious "Australian values" and the sidelining of indigenous issues? Yes, there's plenty to shout about, so where are the smouldering protest songs?
"I suspect they are being written, but they are not being promoted," Hirst told The Age this week, on his way to Newcastle to run songwriting workshops.
Richard Kingsmill, the music director of Triple J radio, confirms those suspicions, saying independent bands are out there, recording on self-funded labels that allow them artistic freedom — but their music is largely ignored by the commercial networks.
"If you were a general music lover, you might think there are no political songs being written," Kingsmill says.
"If Australian Idol is all you watch, and the Austereo and DMG networks are all you listen to, then you're never going to hear anything remotely political … it's all feelgood pop or retro rock.
"But trust me, political songs are being written, recorded and released all the time in this country. We have boxes of anti-Bush, anti-Howard, anti-Iraq war, anti-racism, pro-choice, pro-environment CDs, all from contemporary local acts."
The hip-hop scene is particularly rich with protest songs and alternative voices, says Kingsmill, pointing to groups such as the Herd, Def Wish Cast, Hilltop Hoods, Bliss N Eso and Muph & Plutonic. In the folk-roots scene, bands such as Blue King Brown are reflecting on the times, and even in the oft-dismissed mainstream rock arena you'll find incursions into politics.
"Powderfinger write political songs, always have," says Kingsmill. " Like a Dog and The Day You Come are both good examples. Powderfinger just do it in a more subtle way than the Oils did, I guess. You have to read between the lines a bit more with Bernard Fanning and his lyrics."
No need to read between the lines of Sydney hip-hop outfit the Herd's 77%, a seething, indignant rap in broad Australian accents about the dire state of the nation, which points out, among other things, that "Captain Cook was the very first queue-jumper/and it was immigrant labour that made Australia plumper".
With hip-hop beats as stirring as the Oils' trademark drumfire, the song's chorus sums it up: "Wake up, this country needs a f--king shake up."
Yet Herd manager and band member Tim Levison would be the last to compel artists to be political. "Lord knows we have experienced enough of a backlash for being political," he says. "However, you would hope that in any healthy society there would be artists speaking honestly about the political situation of the day."
Triple J continued to champion 77% despite the furore it provoked and the single was voted onto the station's Hottest 100 for 2003. The only Herd song ever to be picked up by commercial radio was its cover of the classic Redgum anti-war song I Was Only Nineteen, but it's not much of gamble, really, to play a song that has already made it onto the country's hit list, about a war that is over.
"Midnight Oil being inducted into the Hall of Fame is a reminder to people that you don't have to toe the line and make safe music to further your career," Levison says.
But even Midnight Oil was an exception. No other Australian band before or since has had such prolonged success with such explicitly political songs and actions. The great anti-war anthems of the Vietnam era hailed not from Australia but America — songs such as Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising and Who'll Stop the Rain and Bob Dylan's Masters of War, Blowin' in the Wind and A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall. Perhaps the best known peace chant came from John Lennon and his Japanese muse, Yoko Ono, who recorded Give Peace a Chance in Montreal in 1969 during the second of their bed-ins for peace.
In Australia, the first anti-Vietnam song didn't appear until 1969. Written by Johnny Young, Smiley was inspired by the conscription of teen star Normie Rowe. As documented by ABC television's Long Way to the Top music series, Australian pop stars were drafted by the music industry not to sing protest songs but to entertain the troops.
"Australian music is about rock'n'roll and let's party. It's anti-intellectual," says Shane Howard, who wrote 1982's land rights anthem Solid Rock, which became a huge hit for his former band, Goanna.
Politically charged music that has broken into the mainstream has been all too scarce, Howard says.
"Yothu Yindi (with Treaty), Midnight Oil, Goanna, Redgum — that's pretty slim pickings over 30 years," he says. "I think Rob's pretty close to the truth when he talks about John Butler being the lone voice of dissent in Australian popular music, and popular is the key word.
"Given that we are entering an era of even greater concentration of media ownership, it will become even harder to hear dissenting voices."
But Michael Parisi, president of artists and repertoire at Warner Music Australia, says that just because musicians aren't making songs with an explicitly political edge doesn't mean they don't have opinions or care about social issues. Even so, for him, politics is not rock'n'roll.
"I have always come from the romantic school of rock. I have always felt that music is meant to be an escape, where rock's meant to be fun," Parisi says.
Warner Music, is apolitical, he says, but the company has also consciously eschewed the fast-track Idol phenomenon.
"We don't see it having long-term value for our business," he says.
Warner does fund artist development, but commercial success is the bottom line — if a band doesn't cut it, it's dropped.
John Butler, who is now in Los Angeles mixing a new John Butler Trio album, doesn't have a problem with Idol. Record companies have long constructed bands, he says.
"Weren't the Temptations and a lot of those soul-singing all girl and boy groups constructed by Motown and the like? Hell, some of them were pretty good and a lot of them didn't even write their own songs," he says in an email.
However, he does object to the prefab-style bands and artists clogging the airways.
"They have a place, but it's a bummer to think that so much great original Australian music won't really be realised by the Australian mainstream just because the industry won't take a risk," he says.
There are always the exceptions that break through, the Butlers and Midnight Oils. In the end, what matters most is the song. Music appeals to different people for different reasons — melody, rhythm, lyrics, message, humanity. Midnight Oil's throbbing pub-rock style appealed to young men in the 1980s in much the same way as Wolfmother's apolitical retro-rock appeals to a new generation. One can be fairly sure that there were Oil fans around who weren't primarily attuned to the politics.
"A good song crosses all boundaries, no matter what the topic," says Butler.
"Take Beds are Burning. Yes, it was about the state of Aboriginal Australia, our racist history, past and present, and reconciliation, but it didn't get too specific. Instead, it asked a simple question of all of us: how can we sleep when our beds are burning? Well, how can we?"
He names a couple more — When the River Runs Dry, by Hunters and Collectors, and the beautiful, poetic From Little Things Big Things Grow, by Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody. "Without a good song, really, ya got nothing. Political, love song or otherwise."
Gabriella Coslovich is The Age's senior arts writer.
November 4, 2006
IF YOU ever doubted the market power of the fame factory that is Australian Idol, take a look at the ARIA charts: for the past three years, the country's top-selling singles have been spun by an Idol graduate. Last year, it was Anthony Callea's The Prayer, in 2004 it was Shannon Noll's What About Me (a cover of the old Moving Pictures song), and in 2003 it was Guy Sebastian's Angels Brought Me Here.
Soapie stars and Idol alumni dominate the Australian music charts — and it hasn't entirely been the intervention of angels that brought them here. The influence of prime-time television, the might of marketing, the support of profit-driven record companies and high rotation on commercial radio might have had something to do with their celestial success.
"What about you indeed?" came the rejoinder at the ARIA awards on Sunday night, as one of Australia's music legends, erstwhile Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst, took to the stage to accept the band's induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame. Using the ultra-mainstream pulpit for more than a gushing thank-you speech, Hirst beat on his political drum as forcefully as he ever did when he played with the Oils.
"Vietnam inspired some of the greatest protest songs ever written. Not so now, surprisingly, even when hundreds of thousands of Australians crowded our streets to demonstrate their opposition to another senseless war," Hirst told the audience and legions of television viewers.
"It may be that complaint rock is still being written but (is) ignored by an industry hypnotised by get-famous-fast TV shows. Bless you John Butler, but you should not have to do it all by yourself," Hirst said, referring to the popular roots musician, environmental activist and staunch independent who has broken into the mainstream.
Hirst added, in a not-so-veiled reference to the policies of the Howard Government: "Of course, everything eventually turns around, as Bush's predecessor of two centuries past, Thomas Jefferson, observed. He said: 'A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over. Their spells dissolve and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles."'
Hirst's speech was an incantation in itself, a provocation, a challenge to the industry and musicians to produce songs that matter, as Midnight Oil did in their heyday, with thumping political anthems such as Beds are Burning, Power and the Passion and Blue Sky Mining — which they famously played on a flat-bed truck outside the headquarters of the Exxon corporation in protest against the handling of the Valdez oil spill.
But how fair were Hirst's comments? Has the Australian music industry all but stopped nurturing talented, original and socially engaged songwriters to walk the get-rich-quick path presented by Australian Idol?
Are Australian musicians avoiding the fraught subjects of our times— the Iraq war, global warming, the erosion of civil liberties in the name of freedom and democracy, racism fuelled by the politics of fear and "nation building", spurious "Australian values" and the sidelining of indigenous issues? Yes, there's plenty to shout about, so where are the smouldering protest songs?
"I suspect they are being written, but they are not being promoted," Hirst told The Age this week, on his way to Newcastle to run songwriting workshops.
Richard Kingsmill, the music director of Triple J radio, confirms those suspicions, saying independent bands are out there, recording on self-funded labels that allow them artistic freedom — but their music is largely ignored by the commercial networks.
"If you were a general music lover, you might think there are no political songs being written," Kingsmill says.
"If Australian Idol is all you watch, and the Austereo and DMG networks are all you listen to, then you're never going to hear anything remotely political … it's all feelgood pop or retro rock.
"But trust me, political songs are being written, recorded and released all the time in this country. We have boxes of anti-Bush, anti-Howard, anti-Iraq war, anti-racism, pro-choice, pro-environment CDs, all from contemporary local acts."
The hip-hop scene is particularly rich with protest songs and alternative voices, says Kingsmill, pointing to groups such as the Herd, Def Wish Cast, Hilltop Hoods, Bliss N Eso and Muph & Plutonic. In the folk-roots scene, bands such as Blue King Brown are reflecting on the times, and even in the oft-dismissed mainstream rock arena you'll find incursions into politics.
"Powderfinger write political songs, always have," says Kingsmill. " Like a Dog and The Day You Come are both good examples. Powderfinger just do it in a more subtle way than the Oils did, I guess. You have to read between the lines a bit more with Bernard Fanning and his lyrics."
No need to read between the lines of Sydney hip-hop outfit the Herd's 77%, a seething, indignant rap in broad Australian accents about the dire state of the nation, which points out, among other things, that "Captain Cook was the very first queue-jumper/and it was immigrant labour that made Australia plumper".
With hip-hop beats as stirring as the Oils' trademark drumfire, the song's chorus sums it up: "Wake up, this country needs a f--king shake up."
Yet Herd manager and band member Tim Levison would be the last to compel artists to be political. "Lord knows we have experienced enough of a backlash for being political," he says. "However, you would hope that in any healthy society there would be artists speaking honestly about the political situation of the day."
Triple J continued to champion 77% despite the furore it provoked and the single was voted onto the station's Hottest 100 for 2003. The only Herd song ever to be picked up by commercial radio was its cover of the classic Redgum anti-war song I Was Only Nineteen, but it's not much of gamble, really, to play a song that has already made it onto the country's hit list, about a war that is over.
"Midnight Oil being inducted into the Hall of Fame is a reminder to people that you don't have to toe the line and make safe music to further your career," Levison says.
But even Midnight Oil was an exception. No other Australian band before or since has had such prolonged success with such explicitly political songs and actions. The great anti-war anthems of the Vietnam era hailed not from Australia but America — songs such as Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising and Who'll Stop the Rain and Bob Dylan's Masters of War, Blowin' in the Wind and A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall. Perhaps the best known peace chant came from John Lennon and his Japanese muse, Yoko Ono, who recorded Give Peace a Chance in Montreal in 1969 during the second of their bed-ins for peace.
In Australia, the first anti-Vietnam song didn't appear until 1969. Written by Johnny Young, Smiley was inspired by the conscription of teen star Normie Rowe. As documented by ABC television's Long Way to the Top music series, Australian pop stars were drafted by the music industry not to sing protest songs but to entertain the troops.
"Australian music is about rock'n'roll and let's party. It's anti-intellectual," says Shane Howard, who wrote 1982's land rights anthem Solid Rock, which became a huge hit for his former band, Goanna.
Politically charged music that has broken into the mainstream has been all too scarce, Howard says.
"Yothu Yindi (with Treaty), Midnight Oil, Goanna, Redgum — that's pretty slim pickings over 30 years," he says. "I think Rob's pretty close to the truth when he talks about John Butler being the lone voice of dissent in Australian popular music, and popular is the key word.
"Given that we are entering an era of even greater concentration of media ownership, it will become even harder to hear dissenting voices."
But Michael Parisi, president of artists and repertoire at Warner Music Australia, says that just because musicians aren't making songs with an explicitly political edge doesn't mean they don't have opinions or care about social issues. Even so, for him, politics is not rock'n'roll.
"I have always come from the romantic school of rock. I have always felt that music is meant to be an escape, where rock's meant to be fun," Parisi says.
Warner Music, is apolitical, he says, but the company has also consciously eschewed the fast-track Idol phenomenon.
"We don't see it having long-term value for our business," he says.
Warner does fund artist development, but commercial success is the bottom line — if a band doesn't cut it, it's dropped.
John Butler, who is now in Los Angeles mixing a new John Butler Trio album, doesn't have a problem with Idol. Record companies have long constructed bands, he says.
"Weren't the Temptations and a lot of those soul-singing all girl and boy groups constructed by Motown and the like? Hell, some of them were pretty good and a lot of them didn't even write their own songs," he says in an email.
However, he does object to the prefab-style bands and artists clogging the airways.
"They have a place, but it's a bummer to think that so much great original Australian music won't really be realised by the Australian mainstream just because the industry won't take a risk," he says.
There are always the exceptions that break through, the Butlers and Midnight Oils. In the end, what matters most is the song. Music appeals to different people for different reasons — melody, rhythm, lyrics, message, humanity. Midnight Oil's throbbing pub-rock style appealed to young men in the 1980s in much the same way as Wolfmother's apolitical retro-rock appeals to a new generation. One can be fairly sure that there were Oil fans around who weren't primarily attuned to the politics.
"A good song crosses all boundaries, no matter what the topic," says Butler.
"Take Beds are Burning. Yes, it was about the state of Aboriginal Australia, our racist history, past and present, and reconciliation, but it didn't get too specific. Instead, it asked a simple question of all of us: how can we sleep when our beds are burning? Well, how can we?"
He names a couple more — When the River Runs Dry, by Hunters and Collectors, and the beautiful, poetic From Little Things Big Things Grow, by Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody. "Without a good song, really, ya got nothing. Political, love song or otherwise."
Gabriella Coslovich is The Age's senior arts writer.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Ozzy's wife Sharon takes the piss out of Madonna, unjustly
Anybody read the stories about Sharon Osbourne (Ozzy's wife, in case u don't know rock or do not have a TV) criticizing Madonna for adopting baby David from Malawi, Africa? The crabby old gal compared the adoption to buying a Louis Vitton designer handbag, and also made a terrible analogy about an African Chief coming to Canada and wanting to adopt a Canadian kid. Well Sharon, it seems by your comments that you don't know jackshit about Canada or Canadians ...
Regarding the scenario where an African Chief would come to my country and adopt an unwanted baby, she says "How would Canada react in that situation?"
I'll tell you what would Canadians do; we would love and appreciate that this orphan child now had a family, and we would wish him the best for his new royal life in Africa ... seriously, we are a trusting group and believe that if this baby now had a family that loved him, that would be better than living in an institution.
As far as breaking Malawian laws, well, that's what rich people do, and if any of you don't realize that, please give your head a shake. There is a law for the poor and there are lawyers for the rich, and in this case a presidential decree could perhaps make an excpetion for the rock goddess from Detroit.
Peace and Blessings to Madonna and David and everyone who adopts children, and also to those who build schools and medical clinics for the impoverished of our world.
that's all for now, and Sharon, please lead by example, not with your mouth ... your critisms seem petty and with all your money you could be doing the things you are telling Madonna to do.
peace and justice for all,
Yuya Joe
Regarding the scenario where an African Chief would come to my country and adopt an unwanted baby, she says "How would Canada react in that situation?"
I'll tell you what would Canadians do; we would love and appreciate that this orphan child now had a family, and we would wish him the best for his new royal life in Africa ... seriously, we are a trusting group and believe that if this baby now had a family that loved him, that would be better than living in an institution.
As far as breaking Malawian laws, well, that's what rich people do, and if any of you don't realize that, please give your head a shake. There is a law for the poor and there are lawyers for the rich, and in this case a presidential decree could perhaps make an excpetion for the rock goddess from Detroit.
Peace and Blessings to Madonna and David and everyone who adopts children, and also to those who build schools and medical clinics for the impoverished of our world.
that's all for now, and Sharon, please lead by example, not with your mouth ... your critisms seem petty and with all your money you could be doing the things you are telling Madonna to do.
peace and justice for all,
Yuya Joe
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Online community Second Life offers virtual real estate at $20 per acre per month
A Virtual World but Real Money
By RICHARD SIKLOS, New York Times
It has a population of a million. The “people” there make friends, build homes and run businesses. They also play sports, watch movies and do a lot of other familiar things. They even have their own currency, convertible into American dollars.
But residents also fly around, walk underwater and make themselves look beautiful, or like furry animals, dragons, or practically anything — or anyone — they wish.
This parallel universe, an online service called Second Life that allows computer users to create a new and improved digital version of themselves, began in 1999 as a kind of online video game.
But now, the budding fake world is not only attracting a lot more people, it is taking on a real world twist: big business interests are intruding on digital utopia. The Second Life online service is fast becoming a three-dimensional test bed for corporate marketers, including Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sun Microsystems, Nissan, Adidas/Reebok, Toyota and Starwood Hotels.
The sudden rush of real companies into so-called virtual worlds mirrors the evolution of the Internet itself, which moved beyond an educational and research network in the 1990’s to become a commercial proposition — but not without complaints from some quarters that the medium’s purity would be lost.
Already, the Internet is the fastest-growing advertising medium, as traditional forms of marketing like television commercials and print advertising slow. For businesses, these early forays into virtual worlds could be the next frontier in the blurring of advertising and entertainment.
Unlike other popular online video games like World of Warcraft that are competitive fantasy games, these sites meld elements of the most popular forms of new media: chat rooms, video games, online stores, user-generated content sites like YouTube.com and social networking sites like MySpace.com.
Philip Rosedale, the chief executive of Linden Labs, the San Francisco company that operates Second Life, said that until a few months ago only one or two real world companies had dipped their toes in the synthetic water. Now, more than 30 companies are working on projects there, and dozens more are considering them. “It’s taken off in a way that is kind of surreal,” Mr. Rosedale said, with no trace of irony.
Beginning a promotional venture in a virtual world is still a relatively inexpensive proposition compared with the millions spent on other media. In Second Life, a company like Nissan or its advertising agency could buy an “island” for a one-time fee of $1,250 and a monthly rate of $195 a month. For its new campaign built around its Sentra car, the company then needed to hire some computer programmers to create a gigantic driving course and design digital cars that people “in world” could actually drive, as well as some billboards and other promotional spots throughout the virtual world that would encourage people to visit Nissan Island.
Virtual world proponents — including a roster of Linden Labs investors that includes Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com; Mitchell D. Kapor, the software pioneer; and Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder — say that the entire Internet is moving toward being a three-dimensional experience that will become more realistic as computing technology advances.
Entering Second Life, people’s digital alter-egos — known as avatars — are able to move around and do everything they do in the physical world, but without such bothers as the laws of physics. “When you are at Amazon.com you are actually there with 10,000 concurrent other people, but you cannot see them or talk to them,” Mr. Rosedale said. “At Second Life, everything you experience is inherently experienced with others.”
Second Life is the largest and best known of several virtual worlds created to attract a crowd. The cable TV network MTV, for example, just began Virtual Laguna Beach, where fans of its show, “Laguna Beach: The Real O.C.,” can fashion themselves after the show’s characters and hang out in their faux settings.
Unlike Second Life, which emphasizes a hands-off approach and has little say over who sets up shop inside its simulated world, MTV’s approach is to bring in advertisers as partners.
In Second Life, retailers like Reebok, Nike, Amazon and American Apparel have all set up shops to sell digital as well as real world versions of their products. Last week, Sun Microsystems unveiled a new pavilion promoting its products, and I.B.M. alumni held a virtual world reunion.
This week, the performer Ben Folds is to promote a new album with two virtual appearances. At one, he will play the opening party for Aloft, an elaborate digital prototype for a new chain of hotels planned by Starwood Hotels and Resorts. The same day, Mr. Folds will also “appear” at a new facility his music label’s parent company, Sony BMG, is opening at a complex called Media Island.
Meanwhile, Nissan is introducing its Nissan promotion, featuring a gigantic vending machine dispensing cars people can “drive” around.
And some of this is likely to be covered for the outside world by such business news outlets as CNet and Reuters, which now have reporters embedded full-time in the virtual realm.
All this attention has some Second Lifers concerned that their digital paradise will never be the same, like a Wal-Mart coming to town or a Starbucks opening in the neighborhood. “The phase it is in now is just using it as a hype and marketing thing,” said Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, 50, a member of Second Life who in the real world is a Russian translator in Manhattan.
In her second life, Ms. Fitzpatrick’s digital alter-ego is a figure well-known to other participants called Prokofy Neva, who runs a business renting “real estate” to other players. “The next phase,” she said, “will be they try to compete with other domestic products — the people who made sneakers in the world are now in danger of being crushed by Adidas.”
Mr. Rosedale says such concerns are overstated, because there are no advantages from economies of scale for big corporations in Second Life, and people can avoid places like Nissan Island as easily as they can avoid going to Nissan’s Web site. There is no limit to what can be built in Second Life, just as there is no limit to how many Web sites populate the Internet.
Linden Labs makes most of its money leasing “land” to tenants, Mr. Rosedale said, at an average of roughly $20 per month per “acre” or $195 a month for a private “island.” The land mass of Second Life is growing about 8 percent a month, a spokeswoman said, and now totals “60,000 acres,” the equivalent of about 95 square miles in the physical world. Linden Labs, a private company, does not disclose its revenue.
Despite the surge of outside business activity in Second Life, Linden Labs said corporate interests still owned less than 5 percent of the virtual world’s real estate.
As many as 10,000 people are in the virtual world at a time, and they are engaged in a gamut of ventures: everything from holding charity fund-raisers to selling virtual helicopters to operating sex clubs. Linden also makes money on exchanging United States dollars for what it calls Linden dollars for around 400 Linden dollars for $1 (people can load up on them with a credit card). A typical article of clothing — say a shirt — would cost around 200 Linden dollars, or 50 cents. As evidence of the growth of its “economy,” Second Life’s Web site tracks how much money changes hands each day. It recently reached as much as $500,000 a day and is growing as much as 15 percent a month.
On Tuesday, a Congressional committee said it was investigating whether virtual assets and incomes should be taxed.
But many inhabitants simply hang out for free. For advertisers worried about the effectiveness of the 30-second TV spot and the clutter of real world billboards and Internet pop-up ads, Second Life is appealing because it is a place where people literally immerse themselves in their products.
Steve F. Kerho, director of interactive marketing and media for Nissan USA, said the Second Life campaign was part of a growing interest in online video games. “We’re just trying to follow our consumer, that’s where they’re spending their time,” Mr. Kerho said. “But there has to be something in it for them — it’s got to be fun; it’s got to be playful.”
Projects like the Aloft hotel, an offshoot of Starwood’s W Hotels brand, are designed to promote the venture but also to give its designers feedback from prospective guests before the first real hotel opens in 2008.
The new Sony BMG building has rooms devoted to popular musicians like Justin Timberlake and DMX, allowing fans to mingle, listen to tunes or watch videos. Sony BMG is also toying with renting residences in the complex, as well as selling music downloads that people can listen to throughout the simulated world.
Sibley Verbeck, chief executive of the Electric Sheep Company, a consultancy that designed the Aloft and Sony BMG projects, said the flurry of corporate interest stemmed from the 10 to 20 percent growth in the number of people who had gone into virtual worlds each month for the last three years. Though exact numbers are difficult to come by, the figure should top a few million by next year, he said.
The spread of these worlds, however, is limited by access to high-speed Internet connections and, in Second Life’s case, software that is challenging to master and only runs on certain models of computers.
“If it doesn’t crash and burn then it will become real,” he said. “So now’s the time to start experimenting and learning ahead of your competition.”
As part of that process, businesses are learning that different rules apply when they venture into an arena where audiences are in control. “Users are the content — that’s the thing that everybody has a hard time getting over,” said Michael Wilson, the chief executive of Makena Technologies, which operates the virtual world There.com and helped build Virtual Laguna Beach.
For example, Sun Microsystems kicked off the opening of its Second Life venue with a press conference online hosted by executives and Mr. Rosedale of Linden Labs. But by the time the event was in full swing, several members of the audience had either walked or flown onto the stage, where they were running roughshod over the proceedings.
Even Mr. Rosedale got in on the act: he conjured a pair of sunglasses that he superimposed on a video image of a Sun representative talking on a screen behind the stage. (In virtual world lingo, such high jinks are known as “griefing.”)
Some corporate events have been met with protests by placard-waving avatars. And there is even a group called the Second Life Liberation Army that has staged faux “attacks” on Reebok and American Apparel stores. (The S.L.L.A. says it is fighting for voting rights for avatars — as well as stock in Linden Labs.)
Companies in this new environment have to get used to the idea that they may never know exactly who they are dealing with. Most of those in Second Life have chosen their names from a whimsical menu of supplied surnames, resulting in monikers like Snoopybrown Zamboni and Bitmason Pimpernel; males posing as female avatars and vice versa are not uncommon.
Another issue companies have to contend with is that their brands may already be in these virtual worlds, but illegally. Henry Jenkins, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, said one Second Life habitué created a virtual reproduction of the Ikea catalog to help people decorate their digital pads.
Mr. Verbeck of Electric Sheep said copyright infringement was rampant. His company runs an online boutique where Second Life residents sell each other pixelized creations of everything from body parts to home furnishings to roller skates — many of them unauthorized knockoffs.
So far, the boutique has not had many requests to stop selling fake products. But “we did have a request from the Salvador Dali Museum — which was great,” Mr. Verbeck said. “Second Life is so surreal that it was perfect.”
By RICHARD SIKLOS, New York Times
It has a population of a million. The “people” there make friends, build homes and run businesses. They also play sports, watch movies and do a lot of other familiar things. They even have their own currency, convertible into American dollars.
But residents also fly around, walk underwater and make themselves look beautiful, or like furry animals, dragons, or practically anything — or anyone — they wish.
This parallel universe, an online service called Second Life that allows computer users to create a new and improved digital version of themselves, began in 1999 as a kind of online video game.
But now, the budding fake world is not only attracting a lot more people, it is taking on a real world twist: big business interests are intruding on digital utopia. The Second Life online service is fast becoming a three-dimensional test bed for corporate marketers, including Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sun Microsystems, Nissan, Adidas/Reebok, Toyota and Starwood Hotels.
The sudden rush of real companies into so-called virtual worlds mirrors the evolution of the Internet itself, which moved beyond an educational and research network in the 1990’s to become a commercial proposition — but not without complaints from some quarters that the medium’s purity would be lost.
Already, the Internet is the fastest-growing advertising medium, as traditional forms of marketing like television commercials and print advertising slow. For businesses, these early forays into virtual worlds could be the next frontier in the blurring of advertising and entertainment.
Unlike other popular online video games like World of Warcraft that are competitive fantasy games, these sites meld elements of the most popular forms of new media: chat rooms, video games, online stores, user-generated content sites like YouTube.com and social networking sites like MySpace.com.
Philip Rosedale, the chief executive of Linden Labs, the San Francisco company that operates Second Life, said that until a few months ago only one or two real world companies had dipped their toes in the synthetic water. Now, more than 30 companies are working on projects there, and dozens more are considering them. “It’s taken off in a way that is kind of surreal,” Mr. Rosedale said, with no trace of irony.
Beginning a promotional venture in a virtual world is still a relatively inexpensive proposition compared with the millions spent on other media. In Second Life, a company like Nissan or its advertising agency could buy an “island” for a one-time fee of $1,250 and a monthly rate of $195 a month. For its new campaign built around its Sentra car, the company then needed to hire some computer programmers to create a gigantic driving course and design digital cars that people “in world” could actually drive, as well as some billboards and other promotional spots throughout the virtual world that would encourage people to visit Nissan Island.
Virtual world proponents — including a roster of Linden Labs investors that includes Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com; Mitchell D. Kapor, the software pioneer; and Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder — say that the entire Internet is moving toward being a three-dimensional experience that will become more realistic as computing technology advances.
Entering Second Life, people’s digital alter-egos — known as avatars — are able to move around and do everything they do in the physical world, but without such bothers as the laws of physics. “When you are at Amazon.com you are actually there with 10,000 concurrent other people, but you cannot see them or talk to them,” Mr. Rosedale said. “At Second Life, everything you experience is inherently experienced with others.”
Second Life is the largest and best known of several virtual worlds created to attract a crowd. The cable TV network MTV, for example, just began Virtual Laguna Beach, where fans of its show, “Laguna Beach: The Real O.C.,” can fashion themselves after the show’s characters and hang out in their faux settings.
Unlike Second Life, which emphasizes a hands-off approach and has little say over who sets up shop inside its simulated world, MTV’s approach is to bring in advertisers as partners.
In Second Life, retailers like Reebok, Nike, Amazon and American Apparel have all set up shops to sell digital as well as real world versions of their products. Last week, Sun Microsystems unveiled a new pavilion promoting its products, and I.B.M. alumni held a virtual world reunion.
This week, the performer Ben Folds is to promote a new album with two virtual appearances. At one, he will play the opening party for Aloft, an elaborate digital prototype for a new chain of hotels planned by Starwood Hotels and Resorts. The same day, Mr. Folds will also “appear” at a new facility his music label’s parent company, Sony BMG, is opening at a complex called Media Island.
Meanwhile, Nissan is introducing its Nissan promotion, featuring a gigantic vending machine dispensing cars people can “drive” around.
And some of this is likely to be covered for the outside world by such business news outlets as CNet and Reuters, which now have reporters embedded full-time in the virtual realm.
All this attention has some Second Lifers concerned that their digital paradise will never be the same, like a Wal-Mart coming to town or a Starbucks opening in the neighborhood. “The phase it is in now is just using it as a hype and marketing thing,” said Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, 50, a member of Second Life who in the real world is a Russian translator in Manhattan.
In her second life, Ms. Fitzpatrick’s digital alter-ego is a figure well-known to other participants called Prokofy Neva, who runs a business renting “real estate” to other players. “The next phase,” she said, “will be they try to compete with other domestic products — the people who made sneakers in the world are now in danger of being crushed by Adidas.”
Mr. Rosedale says such concerns are overstated, because there are no advantages from economies of scale for big corporations in Second Life, and people can avoid places like Nissan Island as easily as they can avoid going to Nissan’s Web site. There is no limit to what can be built in Second Life, just as there is no limit to how many Web sites populate the Internet.
Linden Labs makes most of its money leasing “land” to tenants, Mr. Rosedale said, at an average of roughly $20 per month per “acre” or $195 a month for a private “island.” The land mass of Second Life is growing about 8 percent a month, a spokeswoman said, and now totals “60,000 acres,” the equivalent of about 95 square miles in the physical world. Linden Labs, a private company, does not disclose its revenue.
Despite the surge of outside business activity in Second Life, Linden Labs said corporate interests still owned less than 5 percent of the virtual world’s real estate.
As many as 10,000 people are in the virtual world at a time, and they are engaged in a gamut of ventures: everything from holding charity fund-raisers to selling virtual helicopters to operating sex clubs. Linden also makes money on exchanging United States dollars for what it calls Linden dollars for around 400 Linden dollars for $1 (people can load up on them with a credit card). A typical article of clothing — say a shirt — would cost around 200 Linden dollars, or 50 cents. As evidence of the growth of its “economy,” Second Life’s Web site tracks how much money changes hands each day. It recently reached as much as $500,000 a day and is growing as much as 15 percent a month.
On Tuesday, a Congressional committee said it was investigating whether virtual assets and incomes should be taxed.
But many inhabitants simply hang out for free. For advertisers worried about the effectiveness of the 30-second TV spot and the clutter of real world billboards and Internet pop-up ads, Second Life is appealing because it is a place where people literally immerse themselves in their products.
Steve F. Kerho, director of interactive marketing and media for Nissan USA, said the Second Life campaign was part of a growing interest in online video games. “We’re just trying to follow our consumer, that’s where they’re spending their time,” Mr. Kerho said. “But there has to be something in it for them — it’s got to be fun; it’s got to be playful.”
Projects like the Aloft hotel, an offshoot of Starwood’s W Hotels brand, are designed to promote the venture but also to give its designers feedback from prospective guests before the first real hotel opens in 2008.
The new Sony BMG building has rooms devoted to popular musicians like Justin Timberlake and DMX, allowing fans to mingle, listen to tunes or watch videos. Sony BMG is also toying with renting residences in the complex, as well as selling music downloads that people can listen to throughout the simulated world.
Sibley Verbeck, chief executive of the Electric Sheep Company, a consultancy that designed the Aloft and Sony BMG projects, said the flurry of corporate interest stemmed from the 10 to 20 percent growth in the number of people who had gone into virtual worlds each month for the last three years. Though exact numbers are difficult to come by, the figure should top a few million by next year, he said.
The spread of these worlds, however, is limited by access to high-speed Internet connections and, in Second Life’s case, software that is challenging to master and only runs on certain models of computers.
“If it doesn’t crash and burn then it will become real,” he said. “So now’s the time to start experimenting and learning ahead of your competition.”
As part of that process, businesses are learning that different rules apply when they venture into an arena where audiences are in control. “Users are the content — that’s the thing that everybody has a hard time getting over,” said Michael Wilson, the chief executive of Makena Technologies, which operates the virtual world There.com and helped build Virtual Laguna Beach.
For example, Sun Microsystems kicked off the opening of its Second Life venue with a press conference online hosted by executives and Mr. Rosedale of Linden Labs. But by the time the event was in full swing, several members of the audience had either walked or flown onto the stage, where they were running roughshod over the proceedings.
Even Mr. Rosedale got in on the act: he conjured a pair of sunglasses that he superimposed on a video image of a Sun representative talking on a screen behind the stage. (In virtual world lingo, such high jinks are known as “griefing.”)
Some corporate events have been met with protests by placard-waving avatars. And there is even a group called the Second Life Liberation Army that has staged faux “attacks” on Reebok and American Apparel stores. (The S.L.L.A. says it is fighting for voting rights for avatars — as well as stock in Linden Labs.)
Companies in this new environment have to get used to the idea that they may never know exactly who they are dealing with. Most of those in Second Life have chosen their names from a whimsical menu of supplied surnames, resulting in monikers like Snoopybrown Zamboni and Bitmason Pimpernel; males posing as female avatars and vice versa are not uncommon.
Another issue companies have to contend with is that their brands may already be in these virtual worlds, but illegally. Henry Jenkins, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, said one Second Life habitué created a virtual reproduction of the Ikea catalog to help people decorate their digital pads.
Mr. Verbeck of Electric Sheep said copyright infringement was rampant. His company runs an online boutique where Second Life residents sell each other pixelized creations of everything from body parts to home furnishings to roller skates — many of them unauthorized knockoffs.
So far, the boutique has not had many requests to stop selling fake products. But “we did have a request from the Salvador Dali Museum — which was great,” Mr. Verbeck said. “Second Life is so surreal that it was perfect.”
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Erik Simins an R&B Hit on YouTube
Blue Pie Productions / Emporium Music recording artist Erik Simin's video Parent's House on YouTube.com
Monday, October 09, 2006
New Music Singles Chart combines download and store sales
For the ARIA Singles chart, where you can seel the full 50:
http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display.asp?chart=1U50
I WISH I WAS A PUNK ROCKER (WITH FLOWERS IN MY HAIR) Sandi Thom
SEXYBACK Justin Timberlake
http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display.asp?chart=1U50
I WISH I WAS A PUNK ROCKER (WITH FLOWERS IN MY HAIR) Sandi Thom
SEXYBACK Justin Timberlake
I DON'T FEEL LIKE DANCIN' Scissor Sisters PDR/UMA
MANEATER Nelly Furtado GEF/UMA
LONDON BRIDGE Fergie A&M/UMA
U + UR HAND P!nk LAF/SBME
CALL ME WHEN YOU'RE SOBER Evanescence EPI/SBME
TALLER, STRONGER, BETTER Guy Sebastian SBME
BUTTONS The Pussycat Dolls Feat. Snoop Dogg
WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG The Killers IUS/UMA
Story from The Australian / The Nation:
Pop charts get in tune with online sales
Iain Shedden, Music writer
October 09, 2006
PUNK rock ushered in the future of Australian music yesterday when the first ARIA singles chart combining online and conventional sales was released.
Scottish singer Sandi Thom's I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair), which has been No1 on the established ARIA singles chart for the past six weeks, came out on top of the new chart, which also recognises sales of songs bought online at websites such as iTunes and BigPond Music.
The combined chart signals a trend away from CD sales in shops towards the purchase, storage and playing of music through digital technology. Sales in the digital market have increased 30per cent since ARIA introduced a Digital Track chart in April and digital sales account for about 5.5 per cent of the overall music market in Australia.
That was an increase of four percentage points on the whole of last year.
ARIA chart and marketing committee chairman John Parker said combining both sets of retail figures was healthy for the local industry.
"The charts are a promotion tool for music," he said. "With the explosion of MP3 players, I think that digital sales will continue to grow at a rapid rate."
Twice as many digital tracks a week are bought in Australia than CD singles, although at the top end of the charts the No1 physical single outsells the top digital track by three to one.
The top of the new chart bears a striking resemblance to lastweek's conventional chart, with Thom, Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado and Fergie in the top five.
Further down the ladder, however, the combined chart benefited one Australian band, Perth's Eskimo Joe.
Their song Black Fingernails, Red Wine dropped out of the conventional chart last week, but re-entered the combined chart atNo23.
New Zealand trio Evermore also re-entered the singles chart with their song Running.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Canada's R&B sensation Erik Simins poised for big success down under
Australia's Blue Pie Productions and Emporium Music team up to promote new music star
Watch for the release of Erik's cd "Do Not Disturb" this autumn, followed by an Australian tour winter 2007.
See www.BluePie.com.au and www.ErikSimins.com and MySpace.com/ErikSimins for news and updates.
TAD Top 40 Digital Song Downloads - Global Music Chart
TW LW Song Artist
1 5 The Way I See It - Erik Simins
2 4 Hat Trick - Marvel
3 15 London Bridge - Fergie
4 2 Thunder On The Mountain - Bob Dylan
5 1 You Look Good On
The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
6 8 Burning Man - Yuya
7 10 Welcome To Jamrock - Damian Marley
8 New When You Were Young - Killers
9 3 Baby I Love Your Way - Billy Lofton
10 6 Beirut - Burning The Day
11 11 Yeah People - Ooh La La
12 13 Breaker Breaker - Slimey Things
13 16 Unfaithful - Rihanna
14 17 Brand New Star - Sunroom
15 14 She's A Mod - Dino Jag
16 7 Smack That - Akon w/ Eminem
17 24 Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
18 New There's A Pub Now In
My School - Gone By Ten
19 26 Who Taught You To
Live Like That - Sloan
20 9 Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
21 36 Karolina - Sheela Langenberg
22 12 Gut Bucket - James Brown
23 19 Parent's House - Erik Simins
24 18 Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado
25 New Waiting On The
World to Change - John Mayer
26 21 Mute - Burning The Day
27 29 Things To Keep - Trevor Jones
28 New When The Night Feels
My Song - Bedouin Soundclash
29 22 Lips Of An Angel - Hinder
30 27 Blues Of The World - Michael St. Clair
31 23 What Went Wrong,
What Went Right - Yuya
32 25 Don't Say Goodbye - Katie Michaelson
33 New Want To - Sugarland
34 33 Tell Me Baby - Red Hot Chili Peppers
35 39 Fake Tales Of
San Francisco - Arctic Monkeys
36 New Save Your Scizzors - City and Colour
37 31 Laqiya - Seydina
38 35 Be Yourself - Supernova
39 32 Somewhere Out There - Our Lady Peace
40 New Maneater - Nelly Furtado
1 5 The Way I See It - Erik Simins
2 4 Hat Trick - Marvel
3 15 London Bridge - Fergie
4 2 Thunder On The Mountain - Bob Dylan
5 1 You Look Good On
The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
6 8 Burning Man - Yuya
7 10 Welcome To Jamrock - Damian Marley
8 New When You Were Young - Killers
9 3 Baby I Love Your Way - Billy Lofton
10 6 Beirut - Burning The Day
11 11 Yeah People - Ooh La La
12 13 Breaker Breaker - Slimey Things
13 16 Unfaithful - Rihanna
14 17 Brand New Star - Sunroom
15 14 She's A Mod - Dino Jag
16 7 Smack That - Akon w/ Eminem
17 24 Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
18 New There's A Pub Now In
My School - Gone By Ten
19 26 Who Taught You To
Live Like That - Sloan
20 9 Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
21 36 Karolina - Sheela Langenberg
22 12 Gut Bucket - James Brown
23 19 Parent's House - Erik Simins
24 18 Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado
25 New Waiting On The
World to Change - John Mayer
26 21 Mute - Burning The Day
27 29 Things To Keep - Trevor Jones
28 New When The Night Feels
My Song - Bedouin Soundclash
29 22 Lips Of An Angel - Hinder
30 27 Blues Of The World - Michael St. Clair
31 23 What Went Wrong,
What Went Right - Yuya
32 25 Don't Say Goodbye - Katie Michaelson
33 New Want To - Sugarland
34 33 Tell Me Baby - Red Hot Chili Peppers
35 39 Fake Tales Of
San Francisco - Arctic Monkeys
36 New Save Your Scizzors - City and Colour
37 31 Laqiya - Seydina
38 35 Be Yourself - Supernova
39 32 Somewhere Out There - Our Lady Peace
40 New Maneater - Nelly Furtado
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Top 40 UK Single Songs Downloads
The Official UK Download Chart : 27.09.2006
from www.BBC.co.uk/radio1/chart/downloads.shtml
TW LW Wks ARTIST TITLE (LABEL)
1 1 (7) Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
(Universal Music)
2 2 (2) Killers - When You Were Young
(Universal Music)
3 3 (8) Justin Timberlake - Sexyback
(Sony BMG Music)
4 4 (12) Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
(Universal Music)
5 5 (7) Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous
(Universal Music)
6 6 (5) The Feeling - Never Be Lonely
(Universal Music)
7 7 (2) Fergie - London Bridge
(Universal Music)
8 8 (5) Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
(Universal Music)
9 28 (2) Lil' Chris - Checking It Out
(Sony BMG Music)
10 11 (5) Pink - U & Ur Hand
(Sony BMG Music)
11 13 (7) Cascada - Everytime We Touch
(All Around The World)
12 26 (2) Pussycat Dolls - I Don't Need A Man
(Universal Music)
13 15 (2) P Diddy - Come To Me
(Warner Music)
14 9 (15) Shakira - Hips Don't Lie
(Sony BMG Music)
15 38 (2) My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade
(Warner Music)
16 12 (5) David Guetta Vs The Egg - Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away)
(Gut)
17 16 (7) Chamillionaire - Ridin'
(Universal Music)
18 17 (3) Lemar - It's Not That Easy
(Sony BMG Music)
19 18 (3) Lily Allen - Ldn
(EMI Music)
20 23 (3) Jamelia - Something About You
(EMI Music)
21 10 (3) Robbie Williams - Rudebox
(EMI Music)
22 20 (10) James Morrison - You Give Me Something
(Universal Music)
23 24 (8) Cassie - Me & U
(Warner Music)
24 19 (3) Muse - Starlight
(Warner Music)
25 31 (4) Bedouin Soundclash - When The Night Feels My Song
(Universal Music)
26 14 (4) Beyonce Feat. Jay-z - Deja Vu
(Sony BMG Music)
27 21 (2) Evanescence - Call Me When Youre Sober
(Sony BMG Music)
28 22 (8) Kasabian - Empire
(Sony BMG Music)
29 25 (14) Kooks - She Moves In Her Own Way
(EMI Music)
30 32 (16) Automatic - Monster
(Universal Music)
31 NEW (-) Paolo Nutini - Jenny Don't Be Hasty
(Warner Music)
32 27 (11) Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child
(Sony BMG Music)
33 30 (16) Nelly Furtado - Maneater
(Universal Music)
34 29 (13) Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man
(Sony BMG Music)
35 NEW (-) Gabriella Troy - Breaking Free
(EMI Music)
36 33 (15) Rihanna - Unfaithful
(Universal Music)
37 39 (12) Razorlight - In The Morning
(Universal Music)
38 36 (2) Lupe Fiasco Feat Jill Scott - Daydreamin'
(Warner Music)
39 NEW (-) Lostprophets - A Town Called Hypocrisy
(Visible Noise)
40 40 (13) Paolo Nutini - Last Request
(Warner Music)
The Official UK Download Chart is
from www.BBC.co.uk/radio1/chart/downloads.shtml
TW LW Wks ARTIST TITLE (LABEL)
1 1 (7) Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
(Universal Music)
2 2 (2) Killers - When You Were Young
(Universal Music)
3 3 (8) Justin Timberlake - Sexyback
(Sony BMG Music)
4 4 (12) Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
(Universal Music)
5 5 (7) Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous
(Universal Music)
6 6 (5) The Feeling - Never Be Lonely
(Universal Music)
7 7 (2) Fergie - London Bridge
(Universal Music)
8 8 (5) Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
(Universal Music)
9 28 (2) Lil' Chris - Checking It Out
(Sony BMG Music)
10 11 (5) Pink - U & Ur Hand
(Sony BMG Music)
11 13 (7) Cascada - Everytime We Touch
(All Around The World)
12 26 (2) Pussycat Dolls - I Don't Need A Man
(Universal Music)
13 15 (2) P Diddy - Come To Me
(Warner Music)
14 9 (15) Shakira - Hips Don't Lie
(Sony BMG Music)
15 38 (2) My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade
(Warner Music)
16 12 (5) David Guetta Vs The Egg - Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away)
(Gut)
17 16 (7) Chamillionaire - Ridin'
(Universal Music)
18 17 (3) Lemar - It's Not That Easy
(Sony BMG Music)
19 18 (3) Lily Allen - Ldn
(EMI Music)
20 23 (3) Jamelia - Something About You
(EMI Music)
21 10 (3) Robbie Williams - Rudebox
(EMI Music)
22 20 (10) James Morrison - You Give Me Something
(Universal Music)
23 24 (8) Cassie - Me & U
(Warner Music)
24 19 (3) Muse - Starlight
(Warner Music)
25 31 (4) Bedouin Soundclash - When The Night Feels My Song
(Universal Music)
26 14 (4) Beyonce Feat. Jay-z - Deja Vu
(Sony BMG Music)
27 21 (2) Evanescence - Call Me When Youre Sober
(Sony BMG Music)
28 22 (8) Kasabian - Empire
(Sony BMG Music)
29 25 (14) Kooks - She Moves In Her Own Way
(EMI Music)
30 32 (16) Automatic - Monster
(Universal Music)
31 NEW (-) Paolo Nutini - Jenny Don't Be Hasty
(Warner Music)
32 27 (11) Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child
(Sony BMG Music)
33 30 (16) Nelly Furtado - Maneater
(Universal Music)
34 29 (13) Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man
(Sony BMG Music)
35 NEW (-) Gabriella Troy - Breaking Free
(EMI Music)
36 33 (15) Rihanna - Unfaithful
(Universal Music)
37 39 (12) Razorlight - In The Morning
(Universal Music)
38 36 (2) Lupe Fiasco Feat Jill Scott - Daydreamin'
(Warner Music)
39 NEW (-) Lostprophets - A Town Called Hypocrisy
(Visible Noise)
40 40 (13) Paolo Nutini - Last Request
(Warner Music)
The Official UK Download Chart is
Monday, September 18, 2006
TAD Top 40 Digital Song Downloads
Music Chart of Popular Songs Downloaded - September 2007
1. You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
2. Thunder On The Mountain - Bob Dylan
3. Baby I Love Your Way - Billy Lofton
4. Hat Trick - Marvel
5. The Way I See It - Erik Simins
6. Beirut - Burning The Day
7. Smack That - Akon featuring Eminem
8. Burning Man - Yuya
9. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
10. Welcome to Jamrock - Damian Marley
11. Yeah People - Ooh La La
12. Gut Bucket - James Brown
13. Breaker Breaker - Slimey Things
14. She's A Mod - Dino Jag
15. London Bridge - Fergie
16. Unfaithful - Rihanna
17. Brand New Start - Sunroom
18. Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado
19. Parent's House - Erik Simins
20. Far Away - Nickelback
21. Mute - Burning The Day
22. Lips Of An Angel - Hinder
23. What Went Wrong, What Went Right - Yuya
24. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
25. Don't Say Goodbye - Katie Michaelson
26. Who Taught You To Live Like That? - Sloan
27. Blues Of The World - Michael St.Clair
28. Sexyback - Justin Timberlake
29. Things To Keep - Trevor Jones
30. Fix You - Coldplay
31. Laqiya - Seydina
32. Somewhere Out There - Our Lady Peace
33. Ding My Gong - Bob E. Ruglass
34. Tell Me Baby - Red Hot Chili Peppers
35. Be Yourself - Supernova (or Nova Heart or ??)
36. Karolina - Sheela Langeberg
37. Take A Look - Michael St. Clair
38. Bulan (Moon) - Tommee
39. Fake Tales Of San Francisco - Arctic Monkeys
40. Paranoid In The City - Trevor Jones
The TAD Top 40 Downloaded songs is a representative sampling with input from Yahoo Music sales, iTunes, Blue Pie, and other online music vendors. This Totally Arbitrary Digital Top 40 Online songs chart is not based primarily on sales, but rather is a reflection of a variety of music styles and bands currently popular for iPods, zoons and other portable music players.
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