This is just a quick little post, another one will follow shortly! But I just thought I’d post these track lists from Mr Williams and Miss Lewis.
ECHO (Apparent) Track list
Out Nov 17
1. Happy
2. Heartbeat
3. Can’t Fight It
4. Heal
5. My Hands
6. Smoke and Mirrors
7. Forever
8. Between The Lines
9. Closer
10. No More
11. Love
12. Strangers
13. Come To Life
14. Escape
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REALITY KILLED THE VIDEO STAR Track list
Out Nov 9
1. Morning Sun
2. Bodies
3. You Know Me
4. Blasphemy
5. Do You Mind?
6. Last Days of Disco
7. Somewhere
8. Deceptacon
9. Starstruck
10. Difficult For Weirdos
11. Superblind
12. Won’t Do That
13. Morning Sun (Reprise)
Not really breaking news, but here it is…
Yep, it was previewed to us by the man himself. I gotta say I’m not too sure about it but it’s sounding promising. I, for one, liked Rudebox so if it has slight hints of the album’s sound then I’m all for it! It’s the first single from his upcoming album Reality Killed the Video Star
Enjoy!
Wow, well today I found this on The Saturdays’ forum (thanks KevKev). The album doesn’t have a title currently and it features a track called Not Good Enough which was leaked last year and was to be featured on the Chasing Lights album – hopefully they have changed up the track.
Only time will tell if this is the true one, I for one need to see official confirmation but it looks pretty exciting! Anyway this out 12th October. The single Forever Is Over is out on the 5th October.
1. Forever Is Over
2. Here Standing
3. Ego
4. No One
5. One Shot
6. Wordshaker
7. Denial
8. Open Up
9. Lose Control
10. Not Good Enough
11. Deeper
12. 2 A.M.
Sugababes
Sweet 7
Release 23-Nov-2009
Catalogue Number: 2716926
1. Get Sexy
2. Wear My Kiss
3. About A Girl
4. Wait For You
5. Thank You For The Heartbreak
6. Miss Everything - featuring Sean Kingston
7. She’s A Mess
8. Give It To Me Now
9. No More You
10. Sweet & Amazing
11. Little Miss Perfect
This is the track list so far for the girl’s 7th Studio album. Bonus tracks may still yet appear. The first single Get Sexy is out on the 31st August, whilst the second single About A Girl is released 2 weeks prior to this albums release.
I’m not particularly enjoying the album title, maybe if it was Sweet Seven it would be a little more redeeming.
Filed under: Music | Tags: Calvin Harris, Christina Aguilera, Jake Shears, Kelly Clarkson, Kylie Minogue, Nelly Furtado, new album
First off! Christina Aguilera
Whose been working on her follow-up to Back to Basics!
From this exciting quick telephone conversation to a radio station (click) she speaks about how the project has been progressing!
To summarise:
- They’re currently in the final stages of recording/mastering.
- She discusses working with Sia, Santigold, Ladytron and M.I.A.
- The song titles are interesting.
- There’s something for everyone on the album and she believes that it’s her best yet.
- Also that the album uses her voice differently and shows off her versatility
Other news: She’s also been working with The Dream, Claude Kelly and Tricky Stewart.
Lovely 
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Some quick Kylie News!
Her official twitter (http://twitter.com/kylietweettweet) tweets somethine pretty exciting! She is possibly working with Calvin Harris AND Jake Shears on a track for her next studio album!
- Working with Jake & Calvin?
Harris contributed Heart Beat Rock on her previous record X; whilst Mr. Shears from the Scissor Sisters has worked with her on her single I Believe In You from her greatest hits: Ultimate Kylie, as well as White Diamond (performed on her homecoming tour/released as a bonus for X); and the track Ooh (The Blues) from the Scissor Sister’s sophomore album Ta-Dah.
Click here for the tweet in question!
This could be potentially amazing!
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Here’s the new cover for Nelly Furtado‘s Spanish album: Mi Plan. Out September 29, the single Manos al Aire was released 29th June – it’s amazing!
Beautiful.
- “Manos al Aire”
- “Más”
- “Mi Plan” (featuring Álex Cuba)
- “Sueños” (featuring Alejandro Fernández)
- “Bajo Otra Luz” (featuring Julieta Venegas & La Mala Rodríguez)
- “Vacación”
- “Suficiente Tiempo”
- “Fuerte” (featuring Concha Buika)
- “Silencio” (featuring Josh Groban)
- “Como Lluvia” (featuring Juan Luis Guerra)
- “Feliz Cumpleaños”
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Finally, today I bought Kelly Clarkson‘s debut album Thankful, and I must say it was pretty bad. I’ve got all her albums and she’s lucky she was the American Idol winner otherwise she would’ve been dropped! I then re-listened to My December and realised how pretty damn good this understated album is. Although it cannot compare with its predecessor Breakaway. All I Ever Wanted was certainly a return to form!
So now I have ranked them – I know, I know, how exciting!
- Breakaway
- All I Ever Wanted
- My December
- Thankful
Fancy.
Filed under: Music | Tags: Come to Life, Forever Is Over, Natalie Imbruglia, new album, new single, The Saturdays, Want
Remember my last post about dear Ms. Natalie Imbruglia and how disappointed I was with her latest offering… Wild About It actually not feeling too ‘wild about it’ myself…
Well it seems that the song Want, still off her new album Come to Life is the lead single! Listen to it here:
I think it’s so much better than what I was expecting from this campaign! I’m super excited!
Released September 21st
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Oh and next is The Saturdays, just a very quick update on information. Single, Forever Is Over, is currently slated for a 5th October release; whilst their still un-named follow-up album is due for released on the 12th October.
Here’s a fun photo of them:
Filed under: Music | Tags: new album, new single, Robbie Williams, Sugababes, Whitney Houston
That’s the line up for today’s post!
First off it’s Robbie Williams who’s looking to return with his new album “Reality Killed The Video Star”, out November 9th with the preceding single “Bodies” impacting October 12.
This is his first album since his 2006 release “Rudebox” which, despite being a UK number 1 album, failed to sell as much as his previous records. The forthcoming release is also his final original album release from his £80m record deal with EMI. The album and single have been produced by Trevor Horn.
He has also been working with Don Black on the album. Black co-wrote the James Bond themes Thunderball and Diamonds are Forever. Also, Michael Jackson‘s early release Ben. Williams stated that some of the songs on this album have been re-written with Jackson in mind.
Click here for the full original article.
I’m actually pretty excited about this release for some reason. I personally loved Rudebox because it was just really quirky.
Williams described this record:
“[as a mix of the] old Robbie, new Robbie and a Robbie that neither of us have met”.
Also check out instrumental snippets of some album tracks on his Official Website (the trailer). They sound epic.
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Next up is Whitney Houston. I cannot wait to see what she comes up with, her previous album release Just Whitney was such a disappointment and she clearly wasn’t “with it” during that era.
Anyway she’s really back with her new album I Look to You is released August 31, 2009 in the UK; however there is no release date for a launch single.
The title track I Look to You has already been released within the US and other territories but there has been no word of a UK release. The track was written by R. Kelly and produced by Harvey Mason Jr. and Chris “Tricky“ Stewart.
Other tracks proposed as singles include the Alicia Keys penned track Million Dollar Bill, produced by Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean; and I Didn’t Know My Own Strength which was written by Diane Warren and produced by David Foster.
Houston commented on the themes of the album at the album listening party in London:
“It’s about making the songs last in the hearts of the people. And that’s what we’ll try to do with this album. If you wanna cry, you’ll cry, if you wanna laugh, you can laugh, if it’s make you dance, you’ll dance. ‘Cause that’s what it’s all about…”
Amongst the names already mentioned, she has worked with some big names for this comeback including: Fernando Garibay, Johntá Austin, Stargate, Claude Kelly and Akon (who is the only person to feature on a track on her album).
Here’s the cover & track listing!
Whitney Houston
I Look to You
1. Million Dollar Bill
2. Nothin’ But Love
3. Call You Tonight
4. I Look to You
5. Like I Never Left (feat. Akon)
6. A Song for You
7. I Didn’t Know My Own Strength
8. Worth it
9. For the Lovers
10. I Got You
11. Salute
12. I Didn’t Know My Own Strength (Remix – iTunes Bonus Track)
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Finally, the Sugababes. They have released the Get Sexy track listings and it seems like they won’t be including and new B-Sides. However I’m quite intrigued about the Hadouken! mix.
Just an FYI for people. The “Single Version” is the version which features all of the ‘Babes on the chorus (i.e. the version used on the video) and the “Radio Edit” is the version which only features Amelle singing solely on the chorus.
CD Maxi
1. Get Sexy (single version)
2. Max Sanna and Steve Pitron Mix
3. Bitrocka Remix
4. Superbass Vocal
- PLUS free double sided poster
iTunes Bundle
1. Get Sexy (single version)
2. Get Sexy – Radio edit (feat. Amelle on chorus)
3. Max Sanna and Steve Pitron Mix
4. Bitrocka Remix
5. Superbass Vocal
6. Hadouken! Remix – iTunes exclusive
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Thrilling stuff.
Filed under: Music | Tags: best of, Britney Spears, greatest hits, Leona Lewis, Natalie Imbruglia, new album, new single, singles collection, Sugababes, The Saturdays, Will Young
Howdy folks!
It’s that time again to bring you more thrilling updates on some of my favourite music artists. Now, again most of this should’ve been posted yesterday so it was a little more up-to-date but I was a tad too preoccupied.
But better late than never!
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Let’s begin with Mr Will Young who has announced the release of his first Greatest Hits collection. In his Official Newsletter the information is as follows:
Will Young – The Hits
- Evergreen
- Light My Fire
- You & I
- Leave Right Now
- Your Game
- Friday’s Child
- Switch It On
- All Time Love
- Who Am I
- Changes
- Grace
- Let It Go
- Bonus Track 1
- Bonus Track 2
The collection, if you haven’t already gathered, contains the majority of the singles from his four albums: From Now On, Friday’s Child, Keep On & Let It Go; plus 2 brand new tracks. The only singles omitted are Evergreen’s a-side partner Anything Is Possible, The Long & Winding Road (a duet with Pop Idol runner-up Gareth Gates) and Don’t Let Me Down which was You & I’s other a-side.
He’s been apparently working with Calvin Harris and Groove Armada, possibly on a new album or for the bonus tracks for this hits collection.
I have all of Will’s albums but I never really considered myself a huge fan but I feel the track listing contains a good solid body of work that any artist should be proud of. I did wish Anything Is Possible was included in the track list and that the listing should really be a little mixed up rather than just in a chronological order; if you were to do that I would’ve preferred it to be Present to Past.
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Next up with have another fun update on the Sugababes (you can almost tell that I actually like these guys…).
Here’s the single cover for their single Get Sexy out on the 31st August.
Plus here’s a better quality version of the video:
Slightly off on a tangent, Tinchy & Amelle‘s single Never Leave You is currently topping the UK iTunes chart and are #1 on the midweek’s (counting both physical and digital sales) at the moment. The biggest contenders so far will be the Black Eyed Peas‘ follow-up single I Gotta Feeling and Madonna‘s Greatest Hits single Celebration which is out in the next few days!
Tinchy Stryder also feels that he’d be up for “returning the favour” to Amelle and working on a new Sugababes’ track as a featured artist if it felt like it was right for him (click here for the full article).
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Alrighty, now onto The Saturdays.
It’s just a quick one really, but this article (click here) stating that they threatened to go on strike in favour of more break time seems like a load of bulls**t. However, I must say I’m not surprised they seem like they’ve been working non-stop since they’ve started!
Oh and don’t forget to pre-order their 2010 calendar! (here)
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Woo now for the legend that is Miss Britney Spears.
I love, love, love this cake that a massive Britney fan got made for their birthday! I wish I got this type of cake made for me..!
There’s still no news on the apparent Greatest Hits/Best Of/Singles Collection she is meant to be releasing which coincides with the final leg of her Circus Tour. Amazon.com has it listed here. (Obviously I don’t count this as real evidence for a release…)
She’s been in the studio with Max Martin during her mainland European stint of the Circus Tour and it seems Fernando Garibay has been working on some new tracks to submit; furthermore Keri Hilson has also mentioned that she may be working on some new tracks for her.
No one actually knows what these tracks are for, whether new tracks for the greatest hits or for a new album??
And talking about the Final Act of the Circus Tour (starring Britney Spears) – which kicks off soon! – I’m wondering whether, with the name change, there will be any significant changes. I mean she has added Mannequin to her set list and has not been performing Touch of My Hand in some of her recent shows. Are these signs of things to come? Will she add new songs? Change songs? Or just change up the costumes? Who knows until she resumes her tour August 20th in Hamilton, Canada!
I would probably like to see more oldies coming back, like Stronger or Overprotected; or perform more Circus tracks (seeing as she’s only performing the singles from it despite it being called “The Circus Tour”) like Out From Under or Kill the Lights. OR even perform Toy Solider from Blackout! I actually wish I could see her again!
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Now we’re onto someone new! Natalie Imbruglia.
She releases her fourth album, Come To Life, on October 5th! Here’s the track listing:
- My God
- Lukas
- Fun
- Twenty
- Scars
- Want
- WYUT
- Cameo
- All The Roses
- Wild About It
The new single is Wild About It, out September 28th, and the video is available on the official site or you can watch it on youtube here:
I’m looking forward to what she puts out because I liked Counting Down the Days, Left of the Middle and White Lillies Island. She’s worked with Coldplay on this album and I’m interested to what spin they put on her music. However, I must say I am slightly disappointed with Wild About It. It’s a little bit mundane. I suppose I was expecting another Shiver or Torn or Wrong Impression, but I’ll reserve judgement ‘til I hear the rest of her output.
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Finally a little quickie on Leona Lewis.
I just wanted to update you on what she’s been doing for her follow-up to the smash Spirit. She’s been working with a hell of a lot of amazing writers and producers including:
Timbaland, Ryan Tedder, Taio Cruz, James Fauntleroy, Danja, Xenomania, Bangladesh, Max Martin, Aqualung, Ina “the 6th Saturday” Wroldsen, Ne-Yo, Claude Kelly, Novel, John Shanks and Will.I.Am.
Good Stuff.
