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Futuristic (rapper)
Zachary Lewis Beck (born June 2, 1991), known professionally as Futuristic, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He was born in Bloomington, Illinois and currently resides in Tempe, Arizona. Futuristic gained recognition after the release of his album, '' The Rise'', along with his single "The Greatest" in 2015. Early life Zachary Lewis Beck was born in Bloomington, Illinois on June 2, 1991. Being one of eight kids, Beck started rapping when he was in the first grade with his brothers in a talent show. When he was in fifth grade, his parents separated and he moved with his mom to Danville, Illinois. Later, he moved to Tempe, Arizona and went to McClintock High School. Beck struggled through depression when his grandmother died, and he used music in order to develop himself. Career 2010–2014: Career beginnings In September 2010, Futuristic released his first music video which was a remix to J. Cole's song, " Who Dat". In February 2012, Futuristic released his de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Phoenix New Times
''Phoenix New Times'' is a free digital and print media company based in Phoenix, Arizona. ''Phoenix'' ''New Times'' publishes daily online coverage of local news, restaurants, music, arts, cannabis, as well as longform narrative journalism. A weekly print issue circulates every Thursday. The company has been owned by Voice Media Group since January 2013, when a group of senior executives bought out the founding owners. Matt Hennie was named editor-in-chief of ''Phoenix New Times'' in 2022. Founding The paper was founded in 1970 by a group of students at Arizona State University, led by Frank Fiore, Karen Lofgren, Michael Lacey, Bruce Stasium, Nick Stupey, Gayle Pyfrom, Hal Smith, and later, Jim Larkin, as a counterculture response to the Kent State shootings in the spring of that year. Gary Brennan played a role in its creation. According to the 20th Anniversary issue of the ''New Times'', published on May 2, 1990, Fiore suggested that the anti-war crowd put out its own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cross-promotion
Cross-promotion is a form of marketing promotion where customers of one product or service are targeted with promotion of a related product. A typical example is cross-media marketing of a brand; for example, Oprah Winfrey's promotion on her television show of her books, magazines and website. Cross-promotion may involve two or more companies working together in promoting a service or product, in a way that benefits both. For example, a mobile phone network may work together with a popular music artist and package some of their songs as exclusive ringtones; promoting these ringtones can benefit both the network and the artist.''Contemporary Marketing'', By David L. Kurtz, H. F. MacKenzie, Kim Snow. p521 Some major corporations—Burger King, for example—have a long history of cross-promotion with a range of partners (see Burger King advertising). The Disney Channel has also made extensive use of cross-promotion. Movie tie-ins are good examples of cross-promotion. On occasion, ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
As Seen On The Internet
''As Seen on the Internet'' is the fifth studio album by American rapper Futuristic. It was released on August 26, 2016 through We're The Future Records. The album features guest appearances from Hopsin, Devvon Terrell, Karmin and Goody Grace. Background and promotion In an interview with Sway Calloway, about the album, Futuristic said that: "As Seen on the Internet" is a project that I been wanting to do forever and it's basically it came from like, I popped off from doing that nerd rap and what I did was I collab with a big YouTuber and I dropped my video on the same day and we cross promoted them. So we did that and I just got hella fans from it so I was like "If I could do that one time, what would happen if I did a whole album and every song was like that where I grabbed the biggest people from the internet that they're not even in music necessarily just big people from the internet and incorporated them into the album?". After the release of the album, Futuristic release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Devvon Terrell
Devvon Terrell McLeod (born October 6, 1988), is an American singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer. He is known for his remixes to popular songs online on YouTube. As of October 2020, his channel has received over 800,000 subscribers and over 170 million video views. Early life Devvon Terrell McLeod was born in Brooklyn, New York City on October 6, 1988. From his early youth, Terrell aspired to become a musician. He told ''Forbes'', "Like any other musician, I’ve been doing this my entire life. I was in college, getting my degree in computer information systems, and I realized that I really didn’t want to sit behind a computer for the rest of my life. When I graduated, I decided to go to Full Sail University for my audio degree. That was like musical boot camp. It really solidified the fact that music is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life." Career 2010–2014: Career beginnings In 2010, Terrell released two mixtapes with rapper Young X titled, ''April F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Blasé (song)
"Blasé" is a song by American singer Ty Dolla Sign featuring rapper Future and hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd, taken as the lead single from the former's debut studio album '' Free TC'' on June 26, 2015. Produced by DJ Spinz, Ty and Future split singing the chorus back and forth followed by an outro from Future. Music video On August 17, 2015, the singer confirmed that the music video for "Blasé" had been shot and will premiere "soon". On September 13, 2015, the music video for "Blasé" was released. The music video features cameo appearances from Tinashe and Dej Loaf and was filmed in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. The video includes footage of Rae Sremmurd in Philadelphia's Chinatown as well as a live performance by Ty Dolla Sign. Ty's energetic live performance featured in the video, as well as the video's intentionally amateur film quality, is inspired by and reminiscent of 1980s hardcore punk shows and specifically the live performances of the band Bad Brains and the filmed perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Canadian Hot 100
The Canadian Hot 100 is a music industry record chart in Canada for songs, published weekly by ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' magazine. It was launched on the issue dated March 31, 2007 as the standard record chart in Canada; a new chart is compiled and released to the public by ''Billboard'' on Tuesdays, but post-dated to the following Saturday. The chart is similar to ''Billboard''s US-based Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100 in that it combines CD single, physical and Music download, digital sales, Airplay, radio airplay, and Music streaming service, streaming activity from digital music sources in Canada, all tracked and compiled by Luminate (company), Luminate. Canada's radio airplay is the result of monitoring more than 100 stations representing Rock music, rock, Country music, country, Adult contemporary music, adult contemporary and Contemporary hit radio, Top 40 genres. The first number-one song of the Canadian Hot 100 was "Girlfriend (Avril Lavigne song), Girlfriend" by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Billboard Hot 100
The ''Billboard'' Hot 100, also known as simply the Hot 100, is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital), online streaming, and radio airplay in the U.S. A new chart is compiled and released online to the public by ''Billboard''s website on Tuesdays but post-dated to the following Saturday, when the printed magazine first reaches newsstands. The weekly tracking period for sales is currently Friday–Thursday, after being changed in July 2015. It was initially Monday–Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991. This tracking period also applies to compiling online streaming data. Radio airplay is readily available on a real-time basis, unlike sales figures and streaming, but is also tracked on the same Friday–Thursday cycle, effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021. Previously, radio was tracked Monday–Sunday and, before Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
MTV News
MTV News was the news production division of MTV. The service was available in the US with localized versions on MTV's global network and an online news team. In 2016, MTV refreshed the MTV News brand to compete with the likes of BuzzFeed and ''Vice'', but by mid-2017 MTV News was significantly downsized due to cutbacks. MTV News content was available from respective MTV websites, Apps, YouTube and on-air. In November 2018, MTV News began producing daily updates on Twitter titled ''MTV News: You Need to Know''. Later 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. On , it was announced that the division would close. The associated website shut down on June 24, 2024. History MTV News began in 1987 with the program ''The Week in Rock'', hosted by long time ''Rolling Stone'' writer/music critic Kurt Loder, the first official MTV News corresponde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
A Great Big World
A Great Big World is an American musical duo from New York made up of singer/songwriters Ian Axel and Chad King and signed to Epic Records. The group is best known for their single "This Is the New Year", which was performed by the cast in an episode of ''Glee (TV series), Glee'' and reached the Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs), ''Billboard'' Mainstream Top 40 chart in May 2013, and their worldwide hit "Say Something (A Great Big World song), Say Something", particularly after recording it as a duet collaboration with Christina Aguilera. The duet peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Career Early beginnings Ian Axel and Chad King met at New York University, where they were attending the Steinhardt Music Program. Both were music business students and Axel is said to have convinced King to write a song together. King agreed to work with Axel after hearing him sing. They both wrote and performed songs together prior to Axel embarking on a solo career in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hold Each Other
"Hold Each Other" is a song by American pop duo A Great Big World, released as the lead single from their second studio album, ''When the Morning Comes (A Great Big World album), When the Morning Comes''. The song was released on July 22, 2015, through Epic Records and features vocals from American rapper Futuristic (rapper), Futuristic. Music video The song's accompanying music video premiered on September 16, 2015, through their Vevo channel. Commercial performance "Hold Each Other" debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart at number 99 during the week of October 10, 2015, becoming A Great Big World's second Hot 100 entry and Futuristic's first. The song also debuted on the Canadian Hot 100, ''Canadian'' Hot 100 chart at number 69. Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References 2015 singles 2015 songs A Great Big World songs Epic Records singles {{2010s-pop-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rap 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 Luminate. 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 for overall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 Luminate. 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 for overal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
