Popular Music Online

For the first time, there is now an online access to the most extensive reference work dedicated entirely to popular music. It is the 10-volume Encyclopedia of Popular Music that is already acknowledged around the globe. Aside from the fact that it is regularly updated with the latest revised articles, the Encyclopedia of Popular Music is also totally cross-searchable together with Grove Music Online within the latest Oxford Music Online gateway. The site covers popular music of all types since 1900 up to the present. The online edition will contain 27,000 entries including the full content of the 4th edition which was published in 2006.

The very popular classical music label Deutsche Grammophon has formally launched an online digital music download site of its own. Deutsche Grammophon is owned by Universal and it is where you can find thousands of greatest classical recordings admired by many classical music fanatics. The site provides more than 600 albums that are completely out of production at the moment. However, you can still find many of the albums among online vendors. To make the quality of its music better than those available with online music vendors, Deutsche Grammophon decided to upgrade with 320kbps bitrate. Regular iTunes downloads use only 128kbps bitrate.

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1. American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West

2.  Black and Gold by Sam Sparro

3. Low by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain

4. 4 Minutes by Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake

5. Touch my Body by Mariah Carey

6.  Mercy by Duffy

7. Always where I need to be by Kooks

8.  Better in Time/Footprints in the Sand by Leona Lewis

9.  Cry for You by September

10. With You by Chris Brown

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Downloading digital music is becoming more popular. The risk is that there is a tendency that fans will be downloading music from illegal sources. If we download the music from illegal sources, we will not be helping our favorite artists. This is where the importance of downloading free music online from legal or authorized sites comes in. Every time you download music for free from legal download sites, it will not cost you anything but the artist still gets a small amount to be paid by the site.

If the site is free, where does it get the money to pay the artist? The answer comes in the form of online advertisements. Remember that popular music is a business oriented style. It is bank rolled by producers for the sole purpose of making a profit. The people making money are the advertisers because with a fraction of the cost for buying air time, they are spending considerably less amount placing ads in Internet sites.

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Popular music is a product of modern business enterprise. The main goal is to earn a profit. The primary concern of companies is to select and cultivate the music that has the most appeal with the public which therefore will translate to larger profits for the firm. In this aspect, popular music is different from folk and classical music. Folk music emanated from the desire of ordinary people to have their own enjoyment, while classical music was meant to serve the purpose of the Church or to entertain nobles.

Business enterprises are the controlling forces of popular music. However, young people who are aspiring to be popular artists are not always looking to make a profit. Their primary concern is to have an outlet for their creativity and expression or just to have some fun. The conflicting motives of stakeholders in the popular music industry have been a constant source of tension.

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There have been a lot of issues in recent years about copyright and intellectual property rights with regard to sharing of music online. Looking at the problem from another perspective, sharing music online may not be putting your favorite singer or band out of work but rather, you may be able to discover some fresh new talents who will be the next big superstars of the music industry. Being able to listen or sample first the music will give you a better insight on the artist and help you to decide which albums you would actually like to purchase.

A note of reminder though, just because a piece of music or an album is shared online does not necessarily mean it is automatically legal. Check if the music you are downloading is legally offered by the record company holding the rights to the music or if the artist has consented for his music to be downloaded for free from the Internet.

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Many of us sing a particular song without knowing the artist or even the title of it. Song titles are sometimes forgotten more often than the lyrics. Here are some helpful tips inn gathering information about a particular song:
• Whenever you hear a good song you must jot down the lyrics that you have remembered.
• Open your favorite Internet browser.
• Look for it by going to the search engine such as Google.
• Type the lyrics that you know and other information regarding the song.
• Click “Search” and wait for the result.
• Write down the information that appeared.
Having hard time in determining the title and other information about a certain song will be lessened when you follow these steps.

Popular Musicology Online is an academic journal on the World Wide Web. PMO was established in 2000 and is independently published. It is the online successor to the hardcopy journal Popular Musicology Quarterly and incorporates and extends the remit of its predecessor. Popular Musicology Quarterly was established in 1995 at the Popular Music Research Unit of Salford University in England.

PMO is exclusively published online and is an un-funded, free academic resource made accessible to the scholarly and the general public. These target beneficiaries are groups that usually have keen interest in debates about popular music. PMO is composed of an international advisory panel of leading popular musicologists. PMO is an innovative voice in the critical development approaches to the field.

Source: popular-musicology-online.com

Chris Cornell’s rocked out rendition of the Michael Jackson hit Billie Jean received rave reviews, especially after it was further popularized when American Idol seventh season winner (then contestant) David Cook sang it on the show.

The former frontman for the band Audioslave has taken this to another level, teaming up with popular hip hop and R&B mixer Timbaland to make Scream, a crossover album where Chris takes his music beyond the borders of his comfort zone.

The reviews are mixed though, with some saying Chris should just go back to where he belongs. After all, a hardcore rocker and a hip hop mixer team up Cornell and Timbaland at that was not a partnership people expected. Other reviews have lauded Cornell for doing something new, but still expressed the superiority of his rock music.

In what may be one of the most devastating blow to the music industry, Spiral Frog has spiraled its last straw and is set to close shop. The free music site has lost most of it’s revenue from ad’s, overcome by pressure from the many download sites paid or free. By the way, this is the reason why most of us still prefer to buy music online, we pay, we download the music and we do what ever the hell we do with it afterwards. Spiral Frog’s commitment to ad’s that helped pay its operating costs has run out of steam overcome by the financial crisis and lagging support.
The music industry has been suffering for quite sometime, victim to the utter failure of DRM and the move to control music from the masses. The site is faltering and missing step with the rest of the world who use iTunes for their music and other download sites that charge for the music you want. It may only be time when even the recording industry giants may fail, leaving the masses to dictate what they want when they want it straight from the artists themselves many of whom have already turned to new media and other forms of music sharing the globe has so embraced. gone will be the sites that offer free music (well, except maybe for the FTP sites) that allows access to many of our favorite music from all over the world.