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The Altar
''The Altar'' is the second studio album by American singer and songwriter Banks, released on September 30, 2016, by Harvest Records. Banks collaborated with several producers on the album, including Tim Anderson, Sohn, and Al Shux, with whom she worked on her debut studio album, '' Goddess''. The album received generally positive reviews from critics and became her second top 20 in the United States, peaking at number 17 on the ''Billboard'' 200. It spawned four singles: " Fuck with Myself", " Gemini Feed", "Mind Games", and " To the Hilt". Background On November 4, 2015, Banks released the single " Better", along with its accompanying music video. Banks toured with The Weeknd for a second time, opening for him on his The Madness Fall Tour across North America from November to December 2015. She announced on June 8, 2016, that she had finished work on her second album. On July 29, Banks revealed that the album would be titled ''The Altar'', along with its cover art and relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banks (singer)
Jillian Rose Banks (born June 16, 1988), known mononymously as Banks (often stylized in all caps), is an American singer and songwriter. Following the release of two extended plays, ''Fall Over'' and ''London'', in 2013, Banks released her debut album, '' Goddess'', in 2014 to positive reviews from contemporary music critics. It reached number 12 on the US ''Billboard'' 200, while its most successful single, "Beggin for Thread", was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Her second studio album, ''The Altar'', was released in September 2016 to a similar positive reception, becoming her second top 20 album in the United States. Her third album, '' III'', was released in 2019. It became her most critically acclaimed release to date and peaked at number 21 on the ''Billboard'' 200, as well as number 3 on the Top Albums Sales chart. Life and career Early life and education Jillian Rose Banks was born on June 16, 1988, in Orange County, Californ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goddess (Banks Album)
''Goddess'' is the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Banks, released on September 5, 2014, by Harvest Records. The album includes songs from her previous extended plays ''Fall Over'' and ''London''. The album spawned four singles: "Warm Water", "Brain", "Drowning", and "Beggin for Thread". A companion remix album, ''Goddess Remixes'', was released digitally on March 23, 2015. Background In February 2014, Banks mentioned that her then-untitled debut studio album was nearing completion; she commented, "I feel like I still have a few more things to let out so that I'll feel really comfortable and happy with my first album being released." In April, Banks announced that the album would be titled ''Goddess'', and confirmed that it would be released on September 9, 2014 in the United States. Singles "Warm Water" was released as the lead single from ''Goddess'' on May 27, 2013. "Brain" was released as the second single from the album on January 29, 2014. The album's t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zane Lowe
Alexander Zane Reid Lowe (born 7 August 1973) is a New Zealand radio DJ, live DJ, record producer, and television presenter. After an early career in music creation, production and DJing, he moved to the UK in 1997. He came to prominence through presenting on XFM and MTV Europe (MTV Two), developing a DJ career by opening sets for bands and eventually landing a slot on prime-time radio on BBC Radio 1 from 2003–2015, with the trademark 'Zane Lowe's World Record', airing the UK's best and hottest in music. In 2015, he was head-hunted by Apple to be the Creative Director of their new world-wide music station, Apple Music 1. Early career Born in Auckland, Lowe attended Auckland Grammar School and was a presenter on local music station Max TV. Zane was a member of Urban Disturbance, an early 90s hip hop group whose standout hit was "No Flint No Flame" and Breaks Co-Op, alongside Andy Lovegrove and Hamish Clark. Lowe and Clark formed Breaks Co-Op in Auckland, releasing the elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music. As of April 2020, iTunes offered 60 million songs, 2.2 million apps, 25,000 TV shows, and 65,000 films. When it opened, it was the only legal digital catalog of music to offer songs from all five major record labels. The iTunes Store is available on most Apple devices, including the Mac (inside the Music app), the iPhone, the iPad, the iPod touch, and the Apple TV, as well as on Windows (inside iTunes). Video purchases from the iTunes Store are viewable on the Apple TV app on Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices and certain smart televisions. While initially a dominant player in digital media, by the mid-2010s, streaming media services were generating more revenue than the buy-to-own model used by the iTunes Store. Apple now operates its own subscription-based streaming music service, Apple Music alongside the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idolator (website)
MRC II Distribution Company L.P., doing business as MRC (formerly Media Rights Capital), is an American film and television studio. Founded by Mordecai (Modi) Wiczyk and Asif Satchu, the company funds and produces film and television programming. The company's divisions include MRC Film, MRC Non-Fiction, and MRC Television. In 2018, the company merged with Todd Boehly's media assets under Valence Media, with the company as a whole taking on the MRC name in 2020; this included Dick Clark Productions (briefly known as MRC Live & Alternative), audience data firm Luminate,, and the entertainment industry publications '' Billboard'' and ''The Hollywood Reporter''. Boehly (through Eldridge Industries) re-acquired most of these assets in August 2022. The company's most notable productions have included the Netflix series ''House of Cards'' and ''Ozark,'' and the films '' Baby Driver'', ''Knives Out'', and ''Ted''. History Early history MRC's investors include Guggenheim Partner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Madness Fall Tour
The Madness Fall Tour was the fourth concert tour and first arena tour by Canadian singer the Weeknd, in support of his second studio album ''Beauty Behind the Madness'' (2015). The tour was announced on August 20, 2015 with 20 dates, and began on November 3, 2015, in Toronto at the Air Canada Centre and concluded on December 19, 2015, in Miami at the American Airlines Arena. Commercial reception In January 2016, the tour placed at number 43 on ''Pollstars "2015 Year-End Top 200 North American Tours" list, grossing $24.3 million from 23 shows with a total attendance of 318,104. Set list This set list is representative of the show on November 16, 2015, in New York City. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour. # "Real Life" # "Losers" # "Acquainted" # "Often" # "High for This" # "The Party" # "King of the Fall" # "Crew Love" # " Or Nah" # "Professional" # " The Morning" # "House of Balloons" / "Glass Table Girls" # " Tell Your Friends" # "The Bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTV News
MTV News is the news production division of MTV. The service is available in the US with localized versions on MTV's global network. In February 2016, MTV Networks confirmed it would refresh the MTV News brand in 2016, to compete with the likes of BuzzFeed and Vice (magazine), ''Vice'', however by mid-2017 MTV News was significantly downsized due to cutbacks. MTV News content is available from respective MTV websites, Mobile apps, Apps, YouTube and on-air. In November 2018, MTV News began producing daily updates on Twitter titled ''MTV News: You Need To Know''. Now titled ''MTV News'' ''Need To Know,'' the show has evolved to a digital series that covers trending topics from pop culture to social justice issues to electoral politics and beyond. History MTV News began in the late 1980s with the program ''The Week in Rock'', hosted by Kurt Loder, the first official MTV News correspondent. Since 1990, the opening riff to Megadeth's "Peace Sells" has been the main opening theme fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Better (Banks Song)
"Better" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Banks. It was released as single on November 4, 2015. The song was written by Banks, Peder Losnegård, and produced by the latter two. Background In the song, Banks portrays a woman who tries to convince her potential partner that she can love him better than his actual girlfriend, with the lines "I can love you better than she can". The singer said that the song is "like me unleashing a growl." Sydney Gore from ''Nylon'' commented, "even though she’s singing from a place of heartbreak, she makes it sound so seductive ..it’s like being the witness of something tragic, but you can’t bring yourself to look away because there’s an unspoken element of beauty about it." Music video The music video for "Better" was directed by James Mountford. It was released on Banks's Vevo Vevo ( , an abbreviation for "Video Evolution", stylized as VEVO until 2013) is an American multinational video hosting service, best kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard 200
The ''Billboard'' 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine and is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its " number ones", those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 list in May 1967, and acquired its current name in March 1992. Its previous names include the ''Billboard'' Top LPs (1961–1972), ''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape (1972–1984), ''Billboard'' Top 200 Albums (1984–1985) and ''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums (1985–1992). The chart is based mostly on sales – both at retail and digital – of albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday (to coinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To The Hilt (song)
"To the Hilt" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Banks for her second studio album, ''The Altar'' (2016). It was released as the album's fourth single on September 16, 2016. The song was written by Banks and Sohn and produced by Sohn. Composition "To the Hilt" was written by Banks and Sohn and produced by Sohn. The song is a ballad lasts for a duration of 4:36. The song's instrumentation comes from piano and strings. ''Sputnikmusic'' labeled it as "the mirrored reflection of the way she opened the album". Lyrically, "To the Hilt" talks about a former lover and a devastating reflection on love lost. Karen Gwee of Consequence of Sound thought that its lyrical content "is a little more transparent and clumsily". The song begins with a "somber orchestral" piano opening, followed by the lines "Oh, it seems a long time ago/ Oh, we didn't know/ Before we had seen anything/ We believed in everything" sung by Banks. During the chorus, she sings, "Hated you for leavin' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mind Games (Banks Song)
"Mind Games" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Banks for her second studio album, ''The Altar'' (2016). It was released as the album's third single on August 19, 2016. The song was written by Banks, Christopher Taylor, Tim Anderson and produced by the last two. Background Lyrically, the song is about singer’s love affair with manipulation, with the line "cause my addiction to these contradictions make it confusing." In the song's chorus Banks sings repetitively "Do you see me now?", matching the dysfunctional romance of the song. Gabriel Aikins from '' Substream Magazine'' wrote about the song "is an especially gripping slow-burn. It's powerful and deep in its minimalism, and it will definitely give you chills." The singer wrote on her social networks about the song "I'm excited to share this with you. Writing it was a really important step for me in making this album. It makes me feel exposed putting it into the universe but see me now." Critical reception Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
