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Rich Girl (album)
''Rich Girl'' is the sixth studio album by American singer Angie Stone. It was released on September 25, 2012, by Saguaro Road Rhythm, selling 4,000 units in the US in its first week of release. The lead single, '" Do What U Gotta Do" was released on June 5, 2012, and the music video premiered on July 21, 2012. Critical reception ''Washington Post'' critic Bill Friskics-Warren found that on ''Rich Girl'' Stone "sounds as assured as ever with a groove-steeped mix of ballads and mid-tempo testimonials to self-possession and resilience ..Without a misstep among the pressing beats and handclaps that animate these 15 tracks, the redoubtable Stone proves herself to be in complete command of the smart, sexy neo-soul she's been perfecting ever since the release of her signature 1999 single, " No More Rain (In This Cloud)"." Biana Roach from Associated Press called the album a "triumphant return" and described it as a "a collection of positive, in-your-face, fresh funky tunes" as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angie Stone
Angela Laverne Brown (born December 18, 1961) known professionally as Angie Stone, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. She rose to fame in the late 1970s as member of the hip hop trio The Sequence. In the early 1990s, she became a member of the R&B trio Vertical Hold. Stone would later release her solo debut '' Black Diamond'' (1999) on Arista Records, which was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and spawned the single " No More Rain (In This Cloud)". After transitioning to J Records, she released her second album, ''Mahogany Soul'' (2001), which included the hit single " Wish I Didn't Miss You"; followed by the albums '' Stone Love'' (2004) and '' The Art of Love & War'' (2007), her first number-one album on the US ''Billboard'' Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Stone ventured into acting in the 2000s, making her film debut in the 2002 comedy film ''The Hot Chick'', and her stage debut in 2003, in the role of Big Mama Mort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard
A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Billboards present large advertisements to passing pedestrians and drivers. Typically brands use billboards to build their brands or to push for their new products. The largest ordinary-sized billboards are located primarily on major highways, expressways or principal arterials, and command high-density consumer exposure (mostly to vehicular traffic). These afford greatest visibility due not only to their size, but because they allow creative "customizing" through extensions and embellishments. Posters are the other common form of billboard advertising, located mostly along primary and secondary arterial roads. Posters are a smaller format and are viewed principally by residents and commuter traffic, with some pedestrian exposure. Advertising style Billboard advertisemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spotify
Spotify (; ) is a proprietary Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is one of the largest music streaming service providers, with over 456 million monthly active users, including 195 million paying subscribers, as of September 2022. Spotify is listed (through a Luxembourg City-domiciled holding company, Spotify Technology S.A.) on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American depositary receipts. Spotify offers digital copyright restricted recorded music and podcasts, including more than 82 million songs, from record labels and media companies. As a freemium service, basic features are free with advertisements and limited control, while additional features, such as offline listening and commercial-free listening, are offered via paid subscriptions. Users can search for music based on artist, album, or genre, and can create, edit, and share playlists. Spotify is available in most of Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streaming
Streaming media is multimedia that is delivered and consumed in a continuous manner from a source, with little or no intermediate storage in network elements. ''Streaming'' refers to the delivery method of content, rather than the content itself. Distinguishing delivery method from the media applies specifically to telecommunications networks, as most of the traditional media delivery systems are either inherently ''streaming'' (e.g. radio, television) or inherently ''non-streaming'' (e.g. books, videotape, audio CDs). There are challenges with streaming content on the Internet. For example, users whose Internet connection lacks sufficient bandwidth may experience stops, lags, or poor buffering of the content, and users lacking compatible hardware or software systems may be unable to stream certain content. With the use of buffering of the content for just a few seconds in advance of playback, the quality can be much improved. Livestreaming is the real-time delivery of co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. Online music store Paid downloads are sometimes encoded with d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danetra Moore
Danetra Shari Moore (born September 15, 1986) is an American urban contemporary gospel artist and musician. She started her music career, in 2012, by performing on ''Sunday Best'' on BET. Her first studio album, ''Light in the Dark'', was released on September 11, 2015, by Tyscot Records. This album was her breakthrough release upon the ''Billboard'' magazine charts. Early life Moore was born, Danetra Shari Moore, on September 15, 1986, in Stockton, California, while she resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She was a singer ever since the age of two and started recording her music at ten years old. Music career Her music career started in 2012, with the appearance on BET's reality television signing competition, ''Sunday Best'', where she finished in third place. She released, ''Light in the Dark'', her first studio album, on September 11, 2015, with Tyscot Records. This album was her breakthrough release upon the ''Billboard'' magazine charts, where it placed on the Top Gospel Album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tweet (singer)
Charlene Keys (born January 21, 1971), better known by the stage name Tweet, is an American singer-songwriter.Birchmeier, JasonTweet Biography, Allmusic, retrieved 2010-12-18 Career Early career In the early nineties, Tweet joined the female trio Sugah, leaving her daughter with her parents in Panama City, Florida. Sugah was composed of Tweet, Susan Weems, and Rolita White, and was a part of Devante Swing's Swing Mob collective. While there, she met Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, with whom she formed a close friendship. Around 1999, Tweet returned to her parents' home in Panama City. In 2001, Tweet was featured on Timbaland's solo album, '' Tim's Bio: Life from da Bassment''. The same year, Elliott released her platinum-selling third album, ''Miss E... So Addictive'', with Tweet featuring on one track and providing background vocals to another four. Tweet also contributed background vocals to Ja Rule's ''Pain Is Love'', Bubba Sparxxx's ''Dark Days, Bright Nights'', Timbaland and M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Y'Anna Crawley
Y'Anna Monique Crawley (born April 11, 1977) is an American urban contemporary gospel artist and musician. She began her music career in 2009, performing on the Sunday Best (American TV series), ''Sunday Best'' on BET. Her first studio album, ''The Promise'', was released in 2012, by Imago Dei Music Group. This album was her breakthrough release upon the Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' magazine charts. Early life Crawley was born Y'Anna Monique Crawley, Work ID No. 883710938 ISWC No. T9148038997 IPI No. 429710357 (CRAWLEY YANNA MONIQUE), on April 11, 1977, in Maryland, and she resides in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Eastern High School (Washington, D.C.), Eastern High School in NE Washington, D.C., where she sang in the schools choir. Crawley comes from a long line of musicians, and is related to Julius Cheeks. She became pregnant when she was 17, and this caused her to do backup vocal duties for Jennifer Lopez and gospel musician Stephen Hurd. Music career Crawley's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Malcolm-Jamal Warner (born August 18, 1970) is an American actor. He rose to prominence for his role as Theodore Huxtable on the NBC sitcom ''The Cosby Show'', which earned him a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the 38th Primetime Emmy Awards. He is also known for his roles as Malcolm McGee on the UPN sitcom ''Malcolm & Eddie'', and Dr. Alex Reed in the sitcom ''Reed Between the Lines''. Warner also became an executive producer for the PBS Kids series ''The Magic School Bus'', which is also produced by Nelvana, Scholastic, and South Carolina Educational Television. In 2015, he received a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance for the song "Jesus Children" alongside Robert Glasper Experiment and Lalah Hathaway. He later appeared as Al Cowlings on the FX limited series '' The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story''. Warner currently plays Dr. AJ Austin on the FOX medical drama '' The Resident''. Early life Warner was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JRDN
Ralph Jordon Croucher (born November 14, 1978), better known by his stage name JRDN, is a Canadian R&B recording artist. Early life Ralph Jordon Croucher was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and moved to Toronto, Ontario at nine months old, where he was raised until the age of 10, when his family returned to Nova Scotia. While he was in Toronto, he lived in Jane and Finch, in the same building as King Lou of the Dream Warriors. The jazz rap pioneer introduced Croucher to hip hop culture at this time. Croucher attended St. Francis Xavier University where he played on the basketball team. After graduation, he played professionally for one year in France. Career Jordon gained music experience by competing in ''Canadian Idol''. This gave him an opportunity to perform with Canadian talent, while gaining television exposure. He also worked with Halifax producer Trobiz and recorded mixtapes with the groups N.E.P and Triple Threat. In 2007, Croucher he began to work with producer Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrested Development (group)
Arrested Development is an American hip hop group that formed in Atlanta in 1988. It was founded by Speech and Headliner as a positive, Afrocentric alternative to the gangsta rap popular in the late 1980s. Baba Oje and frontman Speech met at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee when they were both students. Baba Oje was 57 years old at the time. History Arrested Development was formed in 1988 by rapper and producer Todd Thomas (" Speech") and turntablist Timothy Barnwell (known as Headliner). The group's debut album '' 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of...'' was the number-one album in the ''Village Voice''s 1992 Pazz and Jop Critic's Poll and in ''The Wire''s 1992 Critic's choice. The group won two Grammy Awards in 1993: for Best New Artist, making them the first hip hop artist to win this award, and for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. They were also named Band of the Year by ''Rolling Stone''. The debut album sold over 6 million copies worldwide. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a music chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The chart debuted as Hot R&B LPs in the issue dated January 30, 1965 in an effort by the magazine to further expand into the field of rhythm and blues music. It then went through several name changes, being known as Soul LPs in the 1970s and Top Black Albums in the 1980s, before returning to the R&B identification in 1990 and affixing a hip hop designation in 1999 to reflect the latter's growing sales and relationship to R&B during the decade. From 1965 through 2009, the chart was compiled based on reported sales at a core panel of stores with a "higher-than-average volume" of R&B and/or hip-hop album sales to monitor buying trends of the African-American community. This panel included more independent and smaller chain stores compared to the high percentage of mass merchants that account fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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