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Leave It Beautiful
''Leave It Beautiful'' is the debut studio album by Norwegian singer Astrid S, released on 16 October 2020 by Universal Music A/S and Virgin EMI. It followed a string of five extended plays and several singles and collaborations. It was announced on 15 September 2020 and was preceded by the three singles, "Dance Dance Dance", "Marilyn Monroe", and "It's Ok If You Forget Me". Background and development Astrid's first release of 2020 was a collaboration with American country singer Brett Young titled "I Do"; the song reached at number three in Norway. On 27 May 2020, Astrid announced the lead single "Dance Dance Dance" from her debut studio album would be released the following week on 5 June. The music video premiered a day later on 6 June. The second single, "Marilyn Monroe" was announced on 19 August 2020 and was released two days later. On 15 September 2020, Astrid announced her debut studio album would be titled ''Leave It Beautiful'' and would be released on 16 October 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astrid S
Astrid Smeplass (born 29 October 1996) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. In 2013, she placed fifth in the Norwegian version of '' Pop Idol'', entitled '' Idol – Jakten på en superstjerne''. In 2020, she released her debut studio album, ''Leave It Beautiful'', through Universal. Career 16-year-old Smeplass released her first single "Shattered", which was co-written by American singer-songwriter Melanie Fontana, after participating in '' Idol - Jakten på en superstjerne'' in 2013. She signed a publishing deal with Sony ATV Music Publishing shortly after. Her first single under her new artist image, "2AM", was released through Universal Music in 2014, releasing in the US the following year. She also released a cover of the single "FourFiveSeconds" by Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney. In 2016, she released the song "Hurts So Good", which was included on her debut self-titled extended play, ''Astrid S''. She also supported Troye Sivan on his European tour. The foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Wadge
Amy Victoria Wadge (born ) is an English singer and songwriter. She has co-written tracks with Ed Sheeran, including "Thinking Out Loud" for which she won the 2016 Grammy Award for Song of the Year. Early life Wadge was born and brought up in Backwell, a small village just outside Bristol, England. Her father's passion for music influenced her enormously, and on the subject of her paternal influences she has said that she "grew up listening to early Elton John, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. That was the stuff I cut my teeth on and now I listen to everything you can possibly imagine from hip hop to country". She began to write her own songs at the age of 9 on the family piano. When she was 11, her parents bought her her first guitar from a junk shop. It was when Wadge taught herself to play along to Tracy Chapman's debut album that she discovered her affinity for the guitar. While still at school, Wadge regularly gigged around Bristol. At the age of 14, she signed her first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mastering (audio)
Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication). In recent years digital masters have become usual, although analog masters—such as audio tapes—are still being used by the manufacturing industry, particularly by a few engineers who specialize in analog mastering. Mastering requires critical listening; however, software tools exist to facilitate the process. Results depend upon the intent of the engineer, the skills of the engineer, the accuracy of the speaker monitors, and the listening environment. Mastering engineers often apply equalization and dynamic range compression in order to optimize sound translation on all playback systems. It is standard practice to make a copy of a master recording—known as a safety copy—in case ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sören Von Malmborg
Sören von Malmborg is a Swedish mixing and mastering engineer. He has worked with artists and songwriters such as Avicii, Alan Walker, Kygo, NONONO, Seeb, Vargas & Lagola, Tove Lo, A$AP Rocky, Noonie Bao, and Dagny. Von Malmborg worked with Alan Walker on his multi-platinum selling hit single " Faded", which currently has over one billion streams on Spotify and more than 2.3 billion views on YouTube YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by .... Discography Mixing and mastering credits Albums Songs References {{DEFAULTSORT:Von Malmborg, Soren Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Swedish audio engineers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Programming (music)
Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices and computer software, such as sequencers and workstations or hardware synthesizers, sampler and sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments. These musical sounds are created through the use of music coding languages. There are many music coding languages of varying complexity. Music programming is also frequently used in modern pop and rock music from various regions of the world, and sometimes in jazz and contemporary classical music. It gained popularity in the 1950s and has been emerging ever since. Music programming is the process in which a musician produces a sound or "patch" (be it from scratch or with the aid of a synthesizer/ sampler), or uses a sequencer to arrange a song. Coding languages Music coding languages are used to program the electronic devices to produce the instrumental sounds they make. Each coding language has its own level of difficulty and function. Alda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NOTD
NOTD (pronounced "noted") is a Swedish musical production duo composed of Tobias Danielsson and Samuel Brandt. They are best known for their songs " I Wanna Know" featuring Bea Miller and " So Close" with Felix Jaehn featuring Captain Cuts and Georgia Ku. Background The duo met on SoundCloud and began creating remixes together before they found out they would be attending the same high school. The duo chose the name NOTD by combining the last two letters of each of their last names and reversing them. Their remix of "Scars to Your Beautiful" by Alessia Cara was released in 2016. A remix of " Dark Side" by Phoebe Ryan was released in 2017. Their remix of STANAJ's "Romantic", which peaked at #91 in Australia (as "The Preview EP") was released on 27 January 2017. Their remix of "There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back" by Shawn Mendes was released in May 2017. Their remix of "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran received a nomination for an Electronic Music Award for Remix of the Year. Also in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Harris (songwriter)
Scott Harris Friedman is an American songwriter, producer and musician best known for his work with Shawn Mendes and co-writing the song " Don't Let Me Down" by the Chainsmokers featuring Daya, which reached No. 1 on the US Mainstream Top 40 chart in 2016. Career Harris most recently executive produced Camila Cabello's album ''Familia'' (on which he co-wrote 10 songs), and co-wrote Role Model's single "Cross Your Mind," Shawn Mendes' single " When You're Gone," Shawn Mendes & Tainy's single "Summer Of Love," "As I Am (feat. Khalid)" for Justin Bieber and Dua Lipa's " We're Good." Harris co-wrote 12 songs on Shawn Mendes' fourth studio album, ''Wonder'', 13 songs on Shawn's self-titled third studio album, ''Shawn Mendes'', which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and 10 songs on Shawn Mendes' second album ''Illuminate'' including the lead single " Treat You Better" which reached the top 3 at the US Mainstream Top 40 chart, and "There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison Love
Madison Emiko Love is an American singer and songwriter. She is signed to Artist Publishing Group. Early life Madison Emiko Love was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her father, Roger Love, is a vocal coach. Love moved to New York and started her career writing songs while attending the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where she later graduated. In 2014, Love was featured in the ''Teen Vogue'' series, Bryanboy Goes to College. Career Writing credits Love co-wrote the 2016 song "Bad Things" by Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello, while she was a student at New York University (NYU). Love also co-wrote the 2017 song " Him & I", by G-Eazy and Halsey. "Him & I" peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' Pop Songs Airplay Chart in 2018. Love's first executive produced song was Ava Max's 2018 song " Sweet but Psycho", the latter artist coincidentally collaborated with Love during their time in college and were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Michaels
Julia is usually a feminine given name. It is a Latinate feminine form of the name Julio and Julius. (For further details on etymology, see the Wiktionary entry "Julius".) The given name ''Julia'' had been in use throughout Late Antiquity (e.g. Julia of Corsica) but became rare during the Middle Ages, and was revived only with the Italian Renaissance. It became common in the English-speaking world only in the 18th century. Today, it is frequently used throughout the world. Statistics Julia was the 10th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007 and the 88th most popular name for women in the 1990 census there. It has been among the top 150 names given to girls in the United States for the past 100 years. It was the 89th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2007; the 94th most popular name for girls born in Scotland in 2007; the 13th most popular name for girls born in Spain in 2006; the 5th most popular name for girls born in Swede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindy Robbins
Lindy Robbins is an American songwriter from Los Angeles, whose songs include Demi Lovato's "Skyscraper", Jason Derulo's " Want to Want Me", David Guetta's "Dangerous" featuring Sam Martin, MKTO's " Classic", Hot Chelle Rae's " Tonight, Tonight", Jason Derulo's " It Girl" and Astrid S' " Hurts So Good", as well as songs recorded by Dua Lipa, Jennifer Hudson, and One Direction. Background Robbins grew up in the San Fernando Valley, California. She started singing with her musician father Wally when she was three years old, and was a performer in New York City and Los Angeles before becoming a full-time songwriter in 1997. Robbins now resides in Los Angeles. Career Robbins was written songs for many artists in the music industry. Recent number-one radio hits include: " Want to Want Me" by Jason Derulo, "Dangerous" by David Guetta (feat. Sam Martin), " Tonight, Tonight" by Hot Chelle Rae, and "Day Drunk" by Morgan Evans. Other chart-toppers include: "Skyscraper" by D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurts So Good (Astrid S Song)
"Hurts So Good" is a song by Norwegian singer Astrid S, released as the second single from her self-titled debut EP. The song was written by Lindy Robbins, Julia Michaels, Tom Meredith, and Marco Borrero. It was released on 6 May 2016.Although it received moderate success as a radio single, it later became a viral sleeper hit in 2021, after gaining popularity on the social media platform TikTok. In response to this newfound popularity, the song was re-released in 2021 on the complete edition of her debut studio album '' Leave It Beautiful''. In March 2021, a collaboration version of the song was released, which featured Danish artist Maximillian and music producer Kina. As of June 2021, it remains her most streamed song on Spotify, garnering over 300 million listens. Music video The music video was directed by Andreas Öhman and filmed in Sweden, with snippets of panoramic shots from Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
