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Ant Whiting
Anthony Whiting better known as Ant Whiting is a British songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer signed to Sony/ATV Music Publishing. He has worked as a producer and songwriter with artists such as John Newman (singer), John Newman and Rizzle Kicks. Biography Whiting began his production and writing career with two tracks on M.I.A. (artist), MIA's debut album ''Arular'', including the singles "Fire Fire" & "Bingo (M.I.A. song), Bingo." Since then Whiting has co-written & produced for a number of established artists, his biggest success to date has been with Rizzle Kicks as the main co-writer and producer on the platinum selling UK No. 5 album ''Stereo Typical'', where he delivered six tracks including two singles "Traveller's Chant" and "Dreamer's." Whiting worked with Rizzle Kicks writing for their follow up album (''Roaring 20s (album), Roaring 20s'') out September 2013, where he wrote & produced the majority of their album alongside producer Norman Cook. Further relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Sony Music Publishing (formerly Sony/ATV Music Publishing) is the largest music publisher in the world, with over five million songs owned or administered as of end March 2021. US-based, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is itself owned by Sony Entertainment. The company was formed as Sony/ATV in 1995 by the merger of the original incarnation of Sony Music Publishing and ATV Music, which was owned by entertainer Michael Jackson. Jackson had purchased ATV Music, which included the Lennon–McCartney song catalog, in 1985. In 2012, an investor consortium led by Sony/ATV Music Publishing acquired EMI Music Publishing to become the largest music publishing administrator in the world, with a library of over three million songs. In April 2019, Jon Platt became CEO/Chairman of Sony/ATV Music Publishing after the contract of longtime CEO/Chairman Martin Bandier expired. In August 2019, management of Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Sony Music Entertainment were merged under the ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling Single (music), singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and music streaming, streaming. The Official Chart, broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and MTV (Official UK Top 40), is the UK music industry's recognised official measure of singles and albums popularity because it is the most comprehensive research panel of its kind, today surveying over 15,000 retailers and digital services daily, capturing 99.9% of all singles consumed in Britain across the week, and over 98% of albums. To be eligible for the chart, a Single (music), single is currently defined by the Official Charts Company (OCC) as either a 'single bundle' having no more than four tracks and not lasting longer than 25 minutes or one digital audio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. In the United States, it is operated through Republic Records; in the United Kingdom and Japan (as Mercury Tokyo in the latter country), it is distributed by EMI Records. Since the separation of Island Records, Motown, Mercury Records, and Def Jam Recordings combining the Island Def Jam Music Group, Mercury Records has been placed under Island Records, although its back catalogue is still owned by the Island Def Jam Music Group (now Island Records). Background Mercury Records was started in Chicago in 1945 and over several decades, saw great success. The success of Mercury has been attributed to the use of alternative marketing techniques to promote records. The conventional method of record promotion used by major labels such as RCA Victor, Decca Records, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SoundGirl
SoundGirl were a British girl group that consisted of Izzy Bizu, Izzy Beardshaw, Olivia Redmond, and Little Nikki, Nicole Shortland. Beardshaw and Shortland were friends and school classmates in London that sang together before another girl from their neighbourhood, Redmond, joined them to form SoundGirl. A management company, Angelic Union, held auditions for a girl band project in a dance studio. The three girls went, wrote a song in ten minutes, and sang it for Angelic Union, who reportedly signed them on the spot. Their debut single, "I'm the Fool", featured UK rapper Twizzle. They opened for Justin Bieber, The Wanted, Scouting for Girls and Pixie Lott on tour. The band split up in April 2012 after only one charting single, "Don't Know Why", which peaked at number 45 in the UK Singles Chart. They released a sampler for their debut album, ''Something to Dream About'', which was never released. The sampler includes the tracks "Don't Know Why", "I'm the Fool" (feat. Twizzle), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wonder (Lisa Mitchell Album)
''Wonder'' is the first studio album by Australian singer Lisa Mitchell. It was released on 31 July 2009 in Australia by Scorpio Music. The album has yielded three singles; " Coin Laundry", "Clean White Love" and " Oh! Hark!". Writing for the album began in 2007 where she collaborated with artists such as Ben Lee, Kevin Mitchell, Clare Bowditch and Katy Steele. At the end of 2007, she moved to London to continue writing for the album and collaborating with Ant Whiting, Ed Harcourt, Dann Hume and Sacha Skarbek. Retrieved 21 September 2008 She returned to Australia in 2008 and re-recorded most of the album with Evermore member |
Warner Music Australasia
Warner Music Group's labels include the following. Flagship labels *Atlantic Records * Elektra Records *Parlophone Records *Warner Records Atlantic Records Group * 1st & 15th Entertainment * All Money In * Artist Partners Group * Asylum Records * Atlantic Records * * Atco Records * Avang Music * Big Beat Records * Big Tree Records * Boulevard Boyz * Canvasback Music * Cat Records * Guwop Enterprises * 808 Mafia Records (joint venture with 808 Music Group & Boominati Worldwide * CBE * Chop Shop Records * Taylor Gang Entertainment (joint with EMPIRE, for JR Donarto & Berner respectfully) * Tha Mvmnt * Sniper Gang Records * Chopper City Records * Cotillion Records * CTE World * Custard Records * Eardrum Records * Esperanza Records * First Priority Music * Fort Knocks Entertainment * Full Surface Records * F-Stop Music * Grind Or Die Label * Human Re Sources * LaSalle Records * Little David Records * Luke Records * Maybach Music Group * Owsla * Nest * Photo Finish Reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domino Recording Company
Domino Recording Company or simply Domino is a British independent record label based in London. There is also a wing of the label based in Brooklyn, New York that handles releases in the United States, as well as a German division called Domino Deutschland and a French division called Domino France. In addition, Stephen Pastel presides over the subsidiary label Geographic Music, which releases more 'unusual' music from Britain and outside of the Western world. In 2011, the company announced that it was beginning a book publishing division, The Domino Press. History Founded in 1993, by Laurence Bell and Jacqui Rice, the label's first release was the Sebadoh EP '' Rocking the Forest'', licensed from Sub Pop records for release in the UK. Many of the early releases were by American artists who in the US were signed to Drag City (Smog, Will Oldham, Royal Trux), a relationship which continues to this day. Success was not immediate, as labels such as Domino, who were releasing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene McGuinness
Eugene Michael McGuinness (born 11 August 1985 in Leytonstone, London) is an English singer-songwriter and frontman of Eugene + the Lizards. Music career McGuinness's first release, ''The Early Learnings of Eugene McGuinness'', was released on 6 August 2007 on Domino Records' sublabel Double Six Records. Although the extended play was less than half an hour long, it received praise from critics. BBC reviewer Chris White called it "brimful with ideas" and stated that McGuinness's voice on the record "soars euphorically and coos playfully with equal aplomb". '' Drowned in Sound'' gave the EP a rating of 9/10, saying "McGuinness has a way with words that's quite remarkable". However, despite gaining the backing of its critics, it failed to chart in the United Kingdom. Following the good response of ''Learnings'', he went on to release his eponymous debut album, '' Eugene McGuinness'', on the Domino label on 13 October 2008. Unlike the last release, ''Eugene McGuinness'' is a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene McGuinness (album)
''Eugene McGuinness'' is the eponymous debut studio album by British singer-songwriter Eugene McGuinness. It was released on 12 October 2008 in the United Kingdom, and on 23 June 2009 in North America, through Domino Recording Company Domino Recording Company or simply Domino is a British independent record label based in London. There is also a wing of the label based in Brooklyn, New York that handles releases in the United States, as well as a German division called Dom .... Track listing #"Rings Around Rosa" – 2:36 #"Fonz" – 2:20 #"Wendy Wonders" – 3:58 #"Moscow State Circus" – 4:36 #"Those Old Black and White Movies Were True" – 2:49 #"Nightshift" – 1:38 #"Atlas" – 2:55 #"Knock Down Ginger" – 3:10 #"Crown the Clown" – 2:58 #"Not So Academic" – 3:38 #"Disneyfied" – 2:31 #"God In Space" – 3:52 References 2008 debut albums Domino Recording Company albums Albums produced by Ant Whiting {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Walters (singer-songwriter)
Richard Walters is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Oxford. Career Walters fronted a number of bands in his teens before signing to Warner Chappell Music Publishing as frontman of Theremin in 2001. The band released one double A-side single—"In the Barn/Minor Planets"—through Oxford 'singles club' label Shifty Disco in 2001, before disbanding in late 2002. Walters was then taken on as a solo artist by both Warner Chappell Music and Radiohead's Courtyard Management in 2003, recording the ''Umbrella Songs'' EP at the companies' Oxfordshire studios in 2004. The EP gained critical support on both sides of the Atlantic, catching the ear of KCRW presenter Nic Harcourt, who repeatedly played tracks from the EP on his ''Morning Becomes Eclectic'' show. "All at Sea", a short 2-minute piano-led track from the EP, was used in a closing scene of American television show ''CSI: Miami'' in 2005. Walters was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2005 and took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Music
Warner Music Group Corp. ( d.b.a. Warner Music Group, commonly abbreviated as WMG) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the " big three" recording companies and the third-largest in the global music industry, after Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Entertainment (SME). Formerly part of Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery), WMG was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange from 2005 until 2011, when it announced its privatization and sale to Access Industries. It later had its second IPO on Nasdaq in 2020, once again becoming a public company. With a multibillion-dollar annual turnover, WMG employs more than 3,500 people and has operations in more than 50 countries throughout the world. The company owns and operates some of the largest and most successful labels in the world, including Elektra Records, Reprise Records, Warner Records, Parlophone Records (formerly owned by EMI), an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Mitchell
Lisa Helen Mitchell (born 22 March 1990) is an Australian singer-songwriter who grew up in Albury, New South Wales. Mitchell currently lives in Melbourne and is working on her fourth studio album. Mitchell finished sixth in the 2006 season of ''Australian Idol''. Her debut extended play, '' Said One to the Other'' (4 August 2007), topped iTunes in Australia and she signed with London-based publisher, Little Victories, a subsidiary of Sony/ATV. By 2008 Mitchell had relocated to the UK where she recorded her debut studio album, ''Wonder'' (31 July 2009), which peaked at No. 6 on the ARIA Albums Chart. She won the 2009 Australian Music Prize of $30,000 for the album. Mitchell returned to Australia to live in Melbourne. Her second album, '' Bless This Mess'' (12 October 2012) reached No. 7. In March 2015, Mitchell's last single "Wah Ha" was remixed by electronic trio Seekae. Her third album ''Warriors'' was released on 16 October 2016 and debuted Top 10 on the ARIA Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
