Billboard Hot 100

What Makes You Beautiful, reached number one on the Scottish Singles Chart, UK Singles Chart, and Irish Singles Chart. Justin Biebers first single, One Time, never reached number one on any charts, but came very close. Both singles were on the Billboard Hot 100. What Makes You Beautiful reached number four, while One Time only reached number seventeen. One Direction's single was on 24 music charts all around the world and earned ten certifications, and Justin Bieber's single was on 16 music…

“Rock the Casbah” came out in June 11, 1982 by the English punk rock band The Clash. “Rock the Casbah” is the third single on The Clash's fifth album Combat Rock and reached number 8 on the Billboard hot 100 in the U.S. It also reached number 8 on the dance chart. I think that the lyrics, by Joe Strummer, were inspired by a news report of Iranians being flogged for the crime of owning a disco album and create an amusing fantasy where a disco-hating sharif is defied by everyone from the citizens…

Formed in 1993, Daft Punk is a French electronic music duo by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. They were founded by Pedro Winter, the head of Ed Banger Records. Their music consists of house music, funk, techno, disco, rock music, and synthpop. They had significant popularity in the late 1990s. They are also known for their visual stylization and disguises associated with their music. The duo have worn elaborate helmets and gloves to give of robot personalities. After 2001, they…

The song “Unpretty” co-written by, Dallas Austin and TLC member Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins in 1998 and also produced by Austin being released in 1999, was to influence young women how to accept themselves for who they are in their own significant way. The song has (in music terms), a slow tempo and is not too high in volume as far as bass, tempo and so forth. The lyrics along with instrumental bring the togetherness in understanding of the song. TLC was a popular R&B girl group upcoming in the…

ever gets singing time. He would later make a song (“Octopus’s Garden”) which would be his second song he had ever written. This song would also reach number one on every major British charts. In the United States it reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100. This song would also become the name of a animated movie they would make called “Yellow Submarine”. I do enjoy this song and recommend listening to this song because it is one of the most interesting song The Beatles would…

Ariana Grande-Butera. That is just her name, no middle name at all. That is just one of the many facts that I will tell you about Ariana! Last year, you likely hadn’t heard of Ariana Grande. But her star is on the rise, and 2013 was an especially stellar year for the 20-year-old singer, actress, and songwriter. Grande began her ascent into the spotlight in 2008, when she performed the role of Charlotte in the musical 13 on Broadway. She received a National Youth Theatre Association Award for…

Brendan Schiltz 24 February 2015 Professor Sweetin MUS-109 Home Assignment 1 African American work songs were originally developed during slavery, between the 1700’s and 1900's. Because they were part of a culture where they couldn’t write, they decided to record the songs orally when the era of slavery came to an end after 1865. Many of their origins in African song traditions may have been sung to remind the Africans of home, while others were forced to sing these songs by their owners to…

Throughout hip hop music’s history, community members have debated over what constitutes “real hip hop”, yet recent trends have proven that hip hop as a genre is very open and fluid, where an artist with a unique musical flow can blow up overnight and influence the hip hop music of tomorrow. Of course, hip hop music did not spring out of the blue, but rather it was a newly packaged form of musical delivery that ascended from the music that preceded it. Thus, hip hop was not just a music style…

She released a solo album with the song Come and Get It and it became her first top ten entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Additionally, it peaked at number two on the Mainstream Top 40 chart. In 2014, she had to take a break because she found out that she had lupus…

Music has become increasingly available, beginning with the rapid distribution of sheet music to the invention of the record player to having any song in the world available from an online streaming service. Music has become a daily part of people’s lives, whether an individual is consciously aware of it or not. Music can be heard being played in the background of a commercial, out loud on the speakers at a sporting event, or played on the radio while driving in ones’ car. The prior…