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Leah Haywood
Leah Jacqueline Cooney, known professionally as Haywood (formerly Leah Haywood), is an Australian record producer, songwriter and singer. Born in New Zealand, she grew up in Perth, Western Australia, and recorded a top 40 album, ''Leah'', released in 2001 on Epic Records, which contained her Top 10 single, "We Think It's Love". Two more Top 40 hits followed with "Crazy" in 2000 and "Takin' Back What's Mine" in 2001. She also performed backing vocals for Celine Dion on "That's the Way It Is", the 1999 hit single from Dion's album '' All the Way… A Decade of Song''. Haywood's song "Summer of Love" was the theme for Channel Ten Australia at the Start of 2002. She opened for Ricky Martin on the Australian leg of his International tour. Haywood was nominated as Best Female Artist at the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Music Awards of 2001. "We Think It's Love" was nominated for Most Performed Australian Work at the 2001 Australian Performing Rights Association ...
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We Think It's Love
"We Think It's Love" is a song by Australian singer Leah Haywood, released as her debut single in early 2000. It is Haywood's biggest hit off her debut album, ''Leah'', peaking at number seven on the Australian Singles Chart and spending 18 weeks in the top 50. Co-written by Haywood and Jorgen Elofsson, the song deals with a lover confronting his or her partner about their relationship that they cannot "get it right" and that maybe it has "been going on far too long". The song has also been featured a few times on the popular Australian soap drama '' Neighbours'' and also on the soundtrack of the film ''What Women Want'', and in the film itself. Chart performance On 5 March 2000, the song debuted at number 41 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, falling off the listing the next week. However, it reappeared at number 42 the following week and began to climb the chart, reaching its peak of number seven on 30 April. It stayed on the chart for 10 more weeks, dropping out of the to ...
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Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of the metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River, upon which the city's central business district and port of Fremantle are situated. Perth is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people, where Aboriginal Australians have lived for at least 45,000 years. Captain James Stirling founded Perth in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. It was named after the city of Perth in Scotland, due to the influence of Stirling's patron Sir George Murray, who had connections with the area. It gained city stat ...
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Ricky Martin
Enrique Martín Morales (born December 24, 1971), known professionally as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, and actor. He is known for his musical versatility, with his Ricky Martin albums discography, discography spanning Latin pop, Pop music, pop, Dance music, dance, reggaeton, and Salsa music, salsa genres. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music#M, King of Latin Pop", the "King of Latin Music", and the "Latin Pop God", he is regarded as one of the most influential artists in the world. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Martin began appearing in television commercials at age nine and began his musical career at twelve, as a member of Puerto Rican boy band Menudo (group), Menudo. He began his solo career in 1991 while in Sony Music Mexico, gaining recognition in Latin America with the release of his first two studio albums, ''Ricky Martin (1991 album), Ricky Martin'' (1991) and ''Me Amaras (album), Me Amaras'' (1993), both of which were focu ...
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Aly And AJ
Aly & AJ are an American pop rock duo that consists of sisters Alyson (Aly) and Amanda Joy Michalka (AJ) and signed a recording contract with Hollywood Records in 2004. Their debut album, ''Into the Rush'', debuted at number 36 on the US ''Billboard'' 200, and was later certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It has sold 839,000 copies domestically and one million copies worldwide. Their third album, ''Insomniatic'', peaked at number 15 on the ''Billboard'' 200, selling over 39,000 copies in its first week and becoming Aly & AJ's highest debut to date.Katie Hasty"T.I. Holds Off Pumpkins, Interpol To Remain No. 1" Billboard.com, July 18, 2007. In 2009, Aly & AJ renamed themselves 78violet (pronounced "seventy-eight violet") and announced their departure from Hollywood Records the following year. In 2013, the sisters released their first single in five years, " Hothouse". The duo had planned to release a full-length album in 2014, which was later l ...
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Leah (album)
''Leah'' is the debut album by Australian pop singer Leah Haywood. It was released on 23 July 2001. Originally, it was meant to be titled off one of the tracks, "My Own Thing", but was changed close to the release date. A track, "One Word", was used on the second Australian soundtrack release of the American TV show ''Dawson's Creek''. ''Leah'' peaked at No. 40 on the ARIA album charts and received positive reviews from music critics. All of the tracks, except of "Take a Chance" (which was solely written by Haywood herself), were co-written by Haywood and other songwriters and producers including, Paul Begaud and Jorgen Eloffson. The run times for the tracks "Just to Make You", "One Word", "Missing You" and "Take a Chance" are slightly below what is printed in the track listing. Particularly the track "Just to Make You" runs only for 3 minutes and 40 seconds instead 4 minutes and 10 seconds as stated in the list. Despite the track "Takin Back What's Mine" being stated as th ...
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ARIA Charts
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report, which had been Australia's national music sales charts since 1974. History The ''Go-Set'' charts were Australia's first national singles and albums charts, published from 5 October 1966 until 24 August 1974. Succeeding ''Go-Set'', the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler, David Kent, also published Australia's national charts from 1940 to 1974 in a retrospective fashion using state-based data. In mid-1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart. The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, branded the ''Countdown'' chart, was ...
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Dreamlab (production Team)
Dreamlab is an Australian record producing and songwriting team, composed of Daniel James and Leah Haywood, based in Los Angeles. The team's genres range from pop and dance to hip hop. Career James and Haywood initially began as a collaboration, releasing their self-titled EP ''Dreamlab''. Dreamlab later became their production and songwriting team name."Daniel James and Leah Haywood (Dreamlab)"
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Before moving into Dreamlab productions, Haywood received success in mainstream music as a Singer-songwriter with her debut album . In 2001 Haywood was nominated for Best Female Artist as well as Most Performed Australian Work for he ...
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Daniel James (music Producer)
Daniel James (born 21 July 1975) is an Australian record producer and songwriter. His genres include pop, dance, electropop, as well as pop rock. Life and career Early life James was born in Sydney, but grew up briefly in New Zealand until the age of five, when he relocated back to Sydney. Around age 12 he began singing and performing in church, which inspired him to begin a career in music. He started writing songs at the age of 17 and became involved with various touring bands, as well as his solo project Eden. Eden received airplay on 2Day FM, Sydney's top pop station as part of a song competition. Career In 2002 James and wife Leah Haywood met and began writing together on a duet electronic project "Dreamlab"; they went on to write "Top of the World" performed by Mandy Moore featured on the '' Stuart Little 2'' soundtrack."Stuart L ...
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Australasian Performing Right Association
APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in Australia and New Zealand. The two organisations work together to license public performances and administer performance, communication and reproduction rights on behalf of their members, who are creators of musical works, aiming to ensure fair payments to members and to defend their rights under the '' Australian Copyright Act (1968)''. APRA, which formed in 1926, represents songwriters, composers, and music publishers, providing businesses with a range of licences to use copyrighted music. This covers music that is communicated or performed publicly including on radio, television, online, live gigs in pubs and clubs etc. APRA distributes the royalties from these licence fees back to their compose ...
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APRA Awards (Australia)
The APRA Music Awards in Australia are annual awards to celebrate excellence in contemporary music, which honour the skills of member composers, songwriters, and publishers who have achieved outstanding success in sales and airplay performance. Several award ceremonies are run in Australia by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). In addition to the APRA Music Awards, APRA AMCOS, in association with the Australian Music Centre, presents awards for classical music, jazz and improvised music, experimental music and sound art, known as the Art Music Awards. It also runs, in association with the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC), the Screen Music Awards, to acknowledge excellence in the field of screen composition. APRA Music Awards (Australia) The APRA Music Awards were established in 1982 to honour songwriters and music composers for their efforts. The award categories are: Gold Award ...
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Australian Performing Rights Association
APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwriters, composers and music publisher (popular music), music publishers in Australia and New Zealand. The two organisations work together to license public performances and administer performance, communication and reproduction rights on behalf of their members, who are creators of musical works, aiming to ensure fair payments to members and to defend their rights under the ''Copyright law of Australia#Copyright Act 1968, Australian Copyright Act (1968)''. APRA, which formed in 1926, represents songwriters, composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. ...
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