11.21.14 giveStars, UNICEF#Imagine, and More
Nov 21, 2014 0:39:23 GMT -5
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Two Versions of "Imagine" For UNICEF
A second version of "Imagine" has Adam singing the "brotherhood of man" line.
Here is the first version:
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(Adam at 1:14)
Outtake of Adam's Part
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Second version is here: www.touchcast.com/un_unicef/imagine_official_video
Outtake Of Adam's Part in Second Version
youtu.be/g9XRp1YZrkE
YOU CAN PARTICIPATE!
UNICEF Reimagines John Lennon's "Imagine" as the World's Biggest Sing-Along!
Generations of activists have been inspired by John Lennon's "Imagine," but the song will take on a whole new meaning — and sound — as of today. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child (which was ratified by the General Assembly on Nov. 20, 1989), UNICEF is joining forces with Yoko Ono and producer and DJ David Guetta to launch the #IMAGINE project — the world's largest sing-along to bring awareness to UNICEF and its global mission.
The project is a multimedia happening with global stars like Katy Perry, Will.i.am, Idris Elba, Seth Green, Angelique Kidjo, Daniela Mercury, and Priyanka Chopra lending their voices to a black and white video recording of the legendary "Imagine." Lennon and Ono's voices can be heard in clips from old recordings. Through a free, downloadable app, individuals can record themselves singing "Imagine" next to their favorite singers along with their thoughts on a better world for kids. The recordings can then be shared with families, friends, and UNICEF. In late December, Guetta will compile all of the celebrity and individual recordings into a track that will make its debut on Jan. 1 simultaneously in Times Square and around the world.
The project was announced with great fanfare at the United Nations this morning. Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness were on hand to introduce Ono. Ono hopes that the recording will bring some light to the dark times the world is experiencing. Björn Ulvaeus, from ABBA, announced that the group's song "Chiquitita," which they performed on the same UN stage back in 1979, has generated more than $4 million in donations to UNICEF through the years. Starting today, any further money raised from the song will be donated to UNICEF programs for young girls.
To participate in the program:
Download the TouchCast app for iOS via Apple's App Store or at imagine.unicef.org.
Record your version of "Imagine" with Lennon and a host of celebrities simply by tapping the red record button.
Record personal messages describing what you imagine a better world for children would be like.
Share your recordings with friends with the hashtags #EVERYVOICECOUNTS and #IMAGINE.
imagine.unicef.org/
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Exclusive: Watch Brian May Of Queen And Adam Lambert Discuss The Future
by Ben Smith
VH1 Classic On Tap DJ Nik Carter sat down with revered rock guitarist Brian May of Queen and and solo star Adam Lambert backstage at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour ceremony presented by Classic Rock magazine. They were there to pickup the award for Band of the Year for their ongoing Queen + Adam Lambert concert tour which has thrilled fans of both the legendary British rockers and the American Idol veteran and solo star.
While May is reticent to commit to saying if the pairing is a permanent marriage, he does say “It’s a very good affair.” You can watch the full interview above or go to VH1 Classic On Tap to hear more exclusive interviews with the biggest names in rock n’ roll.
View Video at www.vh1.com/music/tuner/2014-11-20/brian-may-of-queen-and-adam-lambert-discuss-the-future/?utm=share_twitter
New Boxscores
13 Queen + Adam Lambert Air Canada Centre Toronto, Ontario June 13, 28, 2014 $2,418,890 29,032 /
29,032 2 / 2 $119.24, $27.16 Live Nation
54 Queen + Adam Lambert Palace Of Auburn Hills, Mich. 12-July 2014 $961,050 12,331 / 14,070 1 / 1 $125, $35 Live Nation
56 Queen + Adam Lambert American Airlines Center Dallas, Texas 10-Jul-2014 $928,240 11,000 /
13,167 1 / 0 $121.25, $31.25 Live Nation
Billboard, Changing the Charts, Will Count Streaming Services
By BEN SISARIONOV. 19, 2014
Streaming music services like Spotify have brought big changes to the music industry. But one important part of the business has not kept up: Billboard’s album chart.
Now Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan, the agency that supplies its data, will start adding streams and downloads of tracks to the formula behind the Billboard 200, which, since 1956 has functioned as the music world’s weekly scorecard. It is the biggest change since 1991, when the magazine began using hard sales data from SoundScan, a revolutionary change in a music industry that had long based its charts on highly fudgeable surveys of record stores.
The new chart, covering sales and listening from Monday to Nov. 30, will be revealed on Billboard’s website on Dec. 4 and published in print in its Dec. 13 issue. Silvio Pietroluongo, Billboard’s director of charts, said that by looking at streams as well as sales, the new chart will more accurately reflect how people listen to music these days.
“We were always limited to the initial impulse, when somebody purchased an album,” Mr. Pietroluongo said in an interview. “Now we have the ability to look at that engagement and gauge the popularity of an album over time.”
One expected result is that albums by big pop stars — which tend to open high on the chart and then plunge after just a few weeks — should linger longer in the upper rungs. Ariana Grande’s “My Everything,” for example, which opened at No. 1 in September, was No. 36 on last week’s chart, with 10,000 sales. Under the new formula, it would have been No. 9.
SoundScan and Billboard will count 1,500 song streams from services like Spotify, Beats Music, Rdio, Rhapsody and Google Play as equivalent to an album sale. For the first time, they will also count “track equivalent albums” — a common industry yardstick of 10 downloads of individual tracks — as part of the formula for album rankings on the Billboard 200.
The change is to some degree a sign of a broad reconsideration of media measurement in the digital age, as television studios, magazine publishers and others push companies like Nielsen to account for the changes in how people consume media.
It is also being welcomed by record companies that have been frustrated with the old chart’s blind spots. Daniel Glass, the founder of Glassnote Records, an independent label whose acts include Mumford & Sons and Chvrches, said that Billboard’s charts play a vital role in the industry by demonstrating the success of a new act. These days the fans of those acts may stream more albums than they buy.
“It’s been very difficult over the last two or three years to communicate the charts to radio stations,” Mr. Glass said. “I’ve been Scotch taping and Band-Aiding Shazam and Spotify, bringing in all this data for them. Now with this all-in-one streaming chart, it’s a much truer reflection of how much is being consumed.”
Album sales in the first half of the year declined 15 percent from the same period in 2013, according to SoundScan, as downloads have now joined CDs as a declining sales format. Yet streaming from so-called on-demand services like Spotify — which let people pick exactly what songs to listen to, unlike radio services — was up 42 percent in the same period.
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“Album sales have become a smaller and smaller part of the industry,” said David Bakula, a senior analyst at Nielsen. “To just look at album sales and say this is how we measure success is really leaving out that half of the business that is coming from streams and song sales.”
With each tweak Billboard makes to its charts, there is often a corresponding uproar. Last year, Billboard began counting YouTube views for the Hot 100, its pop singles chart. Critics worried at the time that the practice would reward novelty viral videos, and indeed the first beneficiary of the change was Baauer’s “Harlem Shake,” a song with modest sales but huge exposure through dance-along videos online.
For the most part, the Hot 100 has remained the dominion of the same pop hits that rule radio and download sales, although there have been exceptions. Last year, for example, a popular parody video on YouTube helped Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball” return to No. 1 after a nine-week absence.
The change may hurt artists whose albums are not on streaming services, or are mostly consumed through sales. Barbra Streisand’s “Partners,” for example, opened at No. 1 in September, and on last week’s chart it was still at No. 7, with 28,000 sales. But under Billboard’s new chart rules, it would have fallen to No. 13.
Taylor Swift’s “1989,” the biggest hit album of the year, was withheld from Spotify and other streaming outlets, and two weeks ago, it still opened at No. 1 with nearly 1.3 million sales, the biggest weekly total for any album in 12 years. On the latest chart, released by Billboard on Wednesday, “1989” holds at No. 1 for a third week, with 312,000.
“No amount of streaming in the world,” Mr. Bakula said, “could keep Taylor from No. 1.”
www.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/business/media/billboard-changing-the-charts-will-count-streaming-services-.html?src=twr&_r=4
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Adamtopia CalendarNovember 24, 2014: TV, Japan Summer Sonic 2014 Queen + Adam Lambert Day Two (Tokyo) airs on WOWOW Live Channel 192 at 12:00. Japan Time (GMT+9)
November 30, 2014:: Q+AL on XFactor UK
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December 28, 2014 (US) The Classic Rock Awards ceremony will be televised on AXS TV. Info on where AXS is available here: www.axs.tv/subscribe/
QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT – 2015 UK and EUROPE TOUR
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Fri 27 February SHEFFIELD Motorpoint Arena
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