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How Many Words
"How Many Words" is the official second single by the singer-songwriter Blake Lewis, from his debut album ''A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream)''. The song was expected to be followed by "Know My Name", and then "Without You". However, due to being dropped by Arista Records Arista Records () is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. The label was previously handled by BMG Entertainmen ..., "How Many Words" is the final single from his debut album. He is expected to release a single from his second album at the end of 2009. The single was released to mainstream radio format on March 10, 2008.Radio release Retrieved March 3, 2008. Also, an EP featuring remixes of the song was released onto iTunes on May 13, 2008. Lewis p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Lewis
Blake Colin Lewis (born July 21, 1981) is an American musician, singer and actor who was the runner-up on the sixth season of ''American Idol''. His major label debut album ''A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream)'' was released on December 4, 2007, through 19 Recordings and Arista Records. On October 30, 2007, his first single " Break Anotha" was released. The album landed on number ten on the U.S. '' Billboard'' 200 as its highest peak position with 97,500 copies sold in its debut, and has sold over 350,000 copies. After the release of his second single "How Many Words", which peaked at number eight on the U.S. '' Billboard'' Dance/Club Play Songs, Lewis was dropped by Arista Records. Lewis eventually signed with Tommy Boy Records. His second album, ''Heartbreak on Vinyl'', was released on October 6, 2009. The first single " Sad Song" was released on July 21, 2009. The album charted at number 135 on the U.S. '' Billboard'' ''Billboard'' 200, number twenty on the '' Billboard'' Independe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the mid-20th century. It de-emphasizes melody and chord progressions and focuses on a strong rhythmic groove of a bassline played by an electric bassist and a drum part played by a percussionist, often at slower tempos than other popular music. Funk typically consists of a complex percussive groove with rhythm instruments playing interlocking grooves that create a "hypnotic" and "danceable" feel. Funk uses the same richly colored extended chords found in bebop jazz, such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths, or dominant seventh chords with altered ninths and thirteenths. Funk originated in the mid-1960s, with James Brown's development of a signature groove that emphasized the downbeat—with a heavy emphasis on the first bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arista Records
Arista Records () is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. The label was previously handled by BMG Entertainment, the North American division of German conglomerate Bertelsmann. Though the label was founded in November 1974 by Clive Davis, Arista in its current form was re-established in 2018. Along with Epic Records, RCA Records, and Columbia Records, Arista is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels. History Background After being fired from CBS Records, Clive Davis was recruited by Alan Hirschfield, CEO of Columbia Pictures, in June 1974 to be a consultant for the company's record and music operations. Shortly after his hiring by CPI, Davis became president of Bell Records, replacing the departing Larry Uttal. Davis's real goal was to reorganize and revitalize Columbia Pictures' music division. With a $10 million investme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Hollander
Sam Hollander is an American songwriter. He has collaborated with the likes of Panic! at the Disco, One Direction, Fitz and the Tantrums, Train, Weezer, Blink-182, Ringo Starr, Def Leppard, Katy Perry, Carole King, Jewel, Pentatonix, Daughtry, Good Charlotte, Gym Class Heroes, James TW, BANNERS, The O'Jays, Billy Idol, Tom Morello, Goo Goo Dolls, The Fray, Macklemore, Andy Grammer, Sugar Ray, Michael Franti, Blues Traveler, Uncle Kracker, Walk The Moon, Neon Trees, Metro Station, We The Kings, Boys Like Girls, All Time Low, Big Time Rush and Kelly Rowland among others. Current Sam Hollander has written and/or produced 22 US Top 40 Pop Hits, as well as numerous worldwide smashes, including Panic! at the Disco's worldwide #1 "High Hopes". In 2019, he held the #1 position on the Billboard Rock Songwriters chart for nine weeks, a year-end record. He was previously named ''Rolling Stone'' Hot List Producer of the Year, alongside Dave "Sluggo" Katz. His songs have been streamed ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
S*A*M & Sluggo
S*A*M and Sluggo was the American record production and songwriting team, composed of Sam Hollander and Dave "Sluggo" Katz. Formed in 2005, the duo first collaborated on the popular theme song "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)" by Cobra Starship, from the 2006 film ''Snakes on a Plane''. Based in Manhattan, the duo played an important role in the history of emo, helping to transform the musical genre from its underground roots to a polished, mainstream sound in the mid-2000s.Leahey, Andrew. " _Overview.html" ;"title="S*A*M & Sluggo > Overview">S*A*M & Sluggo > Overview. Allmusic. Retrieved on November 14, 2009. They were known for their collaborations with Metro Station, Boys Like Girls, We the Kings, Good Charlotte Good Charlotte is an American rock band from Waldorf, Maryland that formed in 1996. Since 2005, the band's lineup has consisted of twin brothers Joel Madden (lead vocals) and Benji Madden (guitar and vocals), Paul Thomas (bass), Billy Martin (g ..., Train (band), Tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Break Anotha
"Break Anotha" is the official debut single of Blake Lewis, the runner-up on the sixth season of ''American Idol''. Being the leadoff single from ''A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream)'', it was first leaked on October 29, 2007 via phone to fans who had signed up at the artist's web site. The single began to impact the radio on October 30 and was premiered on 106.1 KISS FM in Seattle. It was released on iTunes Store on November 13 and officially went for adds on November 20. Background The song was cowritten by Lewis, Louis Biancaniello, Ryan Tedder (OneRepublic), Sam Watters and produced by Lewis and Tedder. Lewis described the song as "funk/soul-inspired" and is influenced by certain musicians: His friends have also involved in the production of the song: Music video The video of "Break Anotha", which was directed by Sanji, premiered on December 6 on Yahoo! Music. Nonetheless, during an interview of Lewis with Jared Cotter on '' The Sauce'' of Fuse TV on December 5, a sneak peek of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sad Song (Blake Lewis Song)
"Sad Song" is the lead single by singer-songwriter Blake Lewis from his second studio album Heartbreak on Vinyl, released on October 6, 2009 and has reached the number eleven spots on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart in 2009. Music video "Sad Song" directed by Ana Veselic, has a very stylized look that blends a couple of different eras. Blake says: ''"The video is very film noir with an '80s feel to it, like we have the Maxell shot in there."'' The video is shot as a 1940s film-noir style story about the end of a couple’s relationship, highlighted with some 40s-meets-80s style fashion and video editing. The female lead is played by Casey Carlson who was also an American Idol contestant in the recent season 8. Blake says: ''"I was, like, Wow, this girl has the most beautiful face. It's very classic. So I reached out to her, and she said yes. We got the video done a couple weeks ago, and it turned out really, really well. I'm very proud of it"'' The Video was released on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Idol (season 7)
The seventh season of ''American Idol'', the annual reality show and singing competition, began on January 15, 2008, and concluded on May 21, 2008. Ryan Seacrest continued to host the show with Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson returning as judges. David Cook was announced the winner of the competition on May 21, 2008, defeating runner-up David Archuleta by a margin of roughly 12 million votes out of over 97 million, which was at that time the highest recorded vote total in the show's history. The split was 56 to 44%. The seventh season was the first season during which neither the winner nor the runner-up was ever in the bottom group during any week before the finale on May 21, 2008. It was also the second season during which both the winner and the runner-up were male contestants, with the second season being the first. Changes from past seasons Prior to the start of the seventh season, Executive Producer Nigel Lythgoe admitted that the sixth season had placed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Songs
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Singles
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Lewis Songs
Blake is a surname which originated from Old English. Its derivation is uncertain; it could come from "blac", a nickname for someone who had dark hair or skin, or from "blaac", a nickname for someone with pale hair or skin. Another theory, presumably in the belief it is a Welsh patronymic in origin, for which there is no evidence, was that it is a corruption of "Ap Lake", meaning "Son of Lake". Blake was the name of one of the 14 Tribes of Galway in Ireland. These Blakes were descendants of Richard Caddell, alias Blake, who was involved in the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169. As such a long present foreign name, it became known as de Bláca in Irish. The origins of the name Blake are also considered to be Old Norse, first appearing in Yorkshire, England, possibly derived from the word Blaker, referring to a village and a former municipality of Akershus county, Norway (east of Oslo). Blake often refers to the British poet, painter and printmaker William Blake (1757–1827). No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
