Tag: rihanna
Gotye and David Guetta top Spotify most-streamed lists for 2012
Spotify have revealed the artists making waves through their music streaming service in 2012, publishing the lists of most streamed albums, tracks, and artists, both globally and in the UK, as well as the most used apps in the desktop…
Ed Sheeran is UK's most pirated artist, Drake tops US list
A new study into music piracy patterns has revealed singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran as the UK's most pirated artist. We thought the UK had more refined musical taste! The new research, published by Musicmetric, also reveals Drake as the most pirated…
COMPETITION: WIN BATTLESHIP THE VIDEO GAME ON XBOX 360
WIN: BATTLESHIP THE VIDEO GAME To celebrate the release of the high seas epic adventure Battleship The Video Game, Activision have given us five copies of the game for the Xbox 360 to give away along with a set of…
10 bands and artists who use Garageband, and will probably use the iPad 2 app too
Alongside the iPad 2 launch last night, Apple also revealed a handful of new apps ready to be downloaded alongside the new slate. We've written an in-depth guide to the new Garageband app, which you can read by clicking…
6 *FREE* Nokia music apps from the Ovi Store: Shazam, Spotify and more!
"Without music life would be a mistake". Nietzche said that, and he was one of them clever sorts, or so I'm told. Looks like the folks over at Nokia know their German existential philosophy, as this week they're letting…
Can the X6 save Nokia's Comes With Music?
Analysts from MKM Partners have today predicted that Nokia's Comes With Music service may not survive till the end of 2010, and may have to close unless Nokia drastically increases its number of active users. As MKM's Tero Kuittinen suggests:…
Nokia X6 out this week?
The Nokia X6 could be out as early as the end of the week.
Microsoft conspiracy theory #472: Rihanna & Michael Jackson's subliminal 'Soft endorsement
Am I going completely nuts and verging dangerously close on Zune-guy’s obsession with Microsoft, for hearing the lyric ‘It’s the sound, the sound of Microsoft’ within winter-loving pop-strumpet Rihanna’s ‘Please Don’t Stop The Music’ song?
Our ever informative Stu from My Chemical Toilet has told me the repetitive background lyric in the song (more noticeable at 2.40 minutes into the track) is actually a sample from Michael Jackson’s ‘Wanna Be Startin’ Something’, which various lyrics directories claim is him singing ‘Ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa, ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa’. (Apparently originally taken from Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango’s ‘Soul Makossa’).
Tinfoil-hat-wearers, got an opinion? Is this just typical Michael Jackson gobbledy-gook or a subliminal brainwashing attempt from Microsoft to sell more copies of Word…
Forget the CD single, start buying the CD ringle, says Sony
CD singles. Has anyone actually bought one since 1997 when Steps’ ‘5,6,7,8’ was released?! Seems the music industry shares similar thoughts on CD singles, as they’ve suddenly come up with a no-brainer – CD single ringtones, dubbed ‘ringles’. Errr…
Those clever chaps at Sony BMG Music Entertainment, obviously desperate for The Next Big Thing, invented the idea, and Universal Music Ground are the first out of the pen in delivering the goods…
