Billboard’s Women in Music 2016 recipents

Billboard announced Wednesday (Oct. 26) that Shania Twain and Halsey will be honoured for their inimitable contributions to the music industry as part of the Billboard’s 11th annual Women in Music event, which will be held Dec. 9 in New York City and airing nationally on Lifetime on Dec. 12. Halsey is also set to perform at the 2016 Women in Music event, and this year Madonna will be honored as the 2016’s Woman of the Year  and the country legend Shania Twain will receive the 2016 Women in Music ‘Icon’ award, which celebrates an artist whose historic contributions to the music industry establish them among the highest class of performers.

Janice Min, president and chief creative officer of The Hollywood reporter-Billboard Media Group said: “Shania Twain is a groundbreaking artist whose successful country-pop crossover blazed the trail for a new generation of country stars like Taylor Swift, Billboard’s 2014 Woman of the Year, and Carrie Underwood.” Min also said “She’s fearless in her career, following her own path and pushing the boundaries of the country music genre as she creates music that has proven to be timeless. She is revered in the industry and we are honoured to present the Icon award to her.”

Twain over the course of nearly three-decade career has earned four No. 1 albums on Top Country Albums, with 2002’s UP! Which also topped the Billboard 200. Her album Come On Over, a smash hit is the No.1 country album of all time and the second best-selling album overall since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. The album has moved a staggering 15.7 million units in the U.S. Come On Over also holds the record for the most weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Album chart at 50 weeks.

Halsey, the chart-topping singer-songwriter is this year’s Women in Music ‘Rising Star‘, in recognition for her chart dominance and exceptional, unconventional talent. Janice Min said “Halsey id the voice of a generation, someone who os an impassioned political advocate and personal artist, the kind who can have a No.1 single , as she did with ‘closer’, and not at all be categorized as your typical pop star,” Min went on to say “her credibility and talent make her a must-have collaborator for the like of Justin Bieber and The Chainsmokers. Her incredible talent has earned her this year’s’ Rising Star award and we look forward to hearing what’s next from her as she continues making music during what we know will be a long and successful career.”

Halsey’s debut album BADLANDS went to No. 1 on Alternative Albums and No. 2 on the Billboard 200, which eventually went Platinum. The convention-flouting and outspoken artist has sold out to headlining tours, including a headlining show at Madison Square Garden which sold out in minutes. Halsey is currently atop the Billboard Hot 100 for a 10 week with “Closer” her collab with The Chainsmokers.

The Women of the Year recipient this year is Madonna, her Rebel Heart Tour, which wrapped in March, solidified her status as one of the biggest touring acts of all time. Madonna sold more than 1 million tickets and walked away with $170 million, that makes her the highest grossing solo touring artist in Billboard Boxscore history (archives back to 1990) with a staggering $1.31 billion in total concert grosses.

The star-studded 11th annual Women in Music event is held in conjunction with the publication of Billboard’s Women in Music list, which identifies the 50 most powerful female executives in the industry each year.

You can watch the 11th annual Women in Music airing on Lifetime on Dec 12th 2016.

 

Lady Gaga Carpool Karaoke With James Corden

Yesterday we had a little sneak peek of Lady Gaga’s Carpool Karaoke episode with James Corden, the episode aired Tuesday night (Oct.25) and it did not disappoint, the pair sung their hearts out to Gaga’s greatest hits including one of her new tracks “Perfect Illusion“, “Bad Romance“, “Poker Face“, “Born This Way“. The episode ended  with another of Gaga’s new tracks  “Million Reasons” from her new album Joanne, which you need to get a yourself a copy of, if you haven’t already!

Check out Lady Gaga’s Carpool Karaoke video below. 

 

Elementary SN5-EP3 ‘Render, and Then Seize Her’

Last week Sherlock was abducted by a local street gang who wanted his help in finding who killed one of their men. Sherlock and Watson also found themselves in the middle of an international hunt to recover a priceless centries-old antiquity “The Jade Seal”.

SN5-EP3 ‘Render, and The Seize Her’

Captain Gregson’s (Aidan Quinn) girlfriend Paige (Virginia Madsen) meets Sherlock for the first time and asks if she can hire him on the sly. We see a naked guy being creepy looking through a window and takes a picture with the phone and sends it. Someone walks up behind him, and he pleads “it not what it looks like” but is shot point-blank. Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) is dragging a large bag behind him, Watson (Lucy Liu)is hoping it’s not a body in the bag. The bag in question is full of medical claim and files from a neurologist office who is treating Captain Gregson girlfriend Paige and she believes one of the staff there are engaged in criminal enterprise.

Sherlock receives a text from Marcus (Jon Michael Hill) about a death at a nudist colony. The victim is Kenneth Toland , a regular at the nudist colony. The owner shows them the video that she received from Kenny before he was shot. Watson and Sherlock take the footage to the husband who positively identifies the woman in the video as his wife Beth Stone. They look at the security footage from when Ms Stone was taken, the gun looks to be the same as what killed Kenny, when Watson spots something on the roof of the van, she believes the van used to be a TV news van.

Sherlock has found that three of the clerical staff are double billing however, he is sure the Doctor is clean and is not in on the scam. But Sherlock is troubled by Paige’s file, her insurances has lapsed, she has bounced a check and is now using plastic (credit cards) to pay. Bell finds the van that was used in the kidnapping a burnt out shell and as always nobody heard a thing. Watson gets lucky and finds a phone with the sim card intact with calls to Mr Stone.

Sherlock and Paige meet and he tells her that the clerks are defrauding the office, Sherlock being Sherlock asks Paige about the intentions to Gregson with regard to the future, and if the Captain knows she’s going broke. Marcus, Watson and Gregson arrest Dinatio. But his tell them the footage they saw was not him and that Mr Stone and Dennis came to him looking for an investment, they wanted $800k he says he asked them to make it. Sherlock believed Dennis is the suspect given away by his playlist which was also in the mob footage.

Beth Stone turns up and says she had two kidnappers and Dennis doesn’t fit either of their descriptions. Beth Stone‘s story is a very elaborate one, she was being held in a tent in the woods after the nudist colony. Mr Stone says they asked for $3 million. Sherlock sees a news story about Beth and said her breast are her undoing. Beth was trying to guilt her husband, the software Dennis made would bring in lots of money but Dennis was the one who shot Kenny. We get to see a different side of Sherlock this episode as he shows off his somewhat romantic side as he produces Gregson with some very shiny bling.

See you the same time next week when we recap Elementary SN5-EP4

Elementary airs Sunday 10/9c on CBS

Drake Announces ‘More For Life’ Project

Drake announced on Sunday Night (Oct.23) on OVO Sound Radio episode, that he new music is coming our way. Drake is releasing a project titled More Life in December this year, he also posted artwork for More Life on Instagram.

On the show Drake celebrated his Birthday a little early, he will turn the big 30 on Oct. 24 by dropping three new tracks from More Life on the episode. He premiered the tracks “Two Birds, One Stone“, “Sneakin“, “feat. 21 Savage” and “Fake Love” all of these tracks can be streamed below on Apple Beats.

Check out OVO Sound Radio which airs on Apple’s Beats 1.

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We Look At This Weeks Chart News

Although Billboard Hot 100 has been dominated by The Chainsmokers sitting at the top for the past nine weeks, there has been quite a bit of activity on the other charts.

• Rick Astley after 23 years is back on the charts debuting at No. 23 on the Independent Albums chart with “50“.

 

• Bob Dylan debuts at No. 40 on the Social 50 chart at 75 years old making him the oldest living solo artist to reach the tally.

 

• Melissa Etheridge debuts at No. 34  on the Billboard 200 Album chart with “Memphis Rock and Soul“

 

• Green Day earns third No.1 on the Billboard 200 Album chart with “Revolution Radio“

 

• Kanye West is dominating the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop airplay chart collecting his eight No.1 with “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1

• Maroon 5 enters at No.1 on the Billboard + Twitter Top Tracks chart with “Don’t Wanna Know” featuring Kendrick Lamar

• K-pop band BTS‘ Wings rewrites the records for the highest-charting and best-selling K-pop album in a one week period, according to Nielsen Music, as the set debuts at No.26 on the Billboard 200.

• Miami-based duo GTA debut at No.7 on Billboard’s Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart with its full-length, “Good Times Ahead“.

• Zay Hilfigerrr and Zayion McCall skyrocket for 36 to 3 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with the viral smash “Juju on That Beat.”

• The pop/R&B singer The Weeknd is bubbling under Billboard’s Alternative Songs airplay chart with “Starboy” featuring Daft Punk.

• The Country duo LoCash have earned their first No.1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart with “I Know Somebody“

• Christian metal core band Fit for a King comes in at No.2 on the Top Christian Albums chart with “Deathgrip“

• Eminem’s “Campaign Speech” has rocketed to the top of the real-time Billboard + Twitter Trending 140 chart after its surprise premiere on YouTube.

• The Pet Shop Boys‘ “Say It to Me” hits the Dance Club Songs chart as the Hot Shot Debut.

• Pio-Taro debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 77 with his 45-second-long novelty hit “PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen)“the shortest song ever to hit the chart.

• Twenty One Pilots remain the to musical act in the U.S., holding atop the Billboard Artist 100 chart for a third total week

• Miguel Bosé’s “MTV Unplugged debuts” at No.7 on the Top Latin Album chart, bringing the MTV brand back to the chart for the 14th time

 

• Kings of Leon earn their first No.1 on the Billboard 200 Album charts with “Walls”.

 

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That’s the Chart News for this week, check back the same time next week for the latest on what’s happing in the Charts. Find me on Twitter: @Presh81

Prince Greatest Hits Collection ‘4Ever’ To Be Released Nov. 22

Billboard exclusively reported last week, that a Prince greatest-hits collection and a Purple Rain deluxe edition were on the way.

Prince 4Ever will be a greatest-hits album with 40-tracks and is due for release on November 22 in the U.S and November 25 in other territories. The album will feature Prince’s best-known songs including, “1999“, “Diamonds And Pearls“, “When Doves Cry“, “Nothing Compares 2 U“, “U Got the Look” and many more  awesome tracks from the late singer. The album will also feature the unreleased “Moonbeam Levels.” Most of the tracks on 4Ever have been released as a single over his career, apart from a few album cuts “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?” and the B-side “Gotta Stop (Messin’ About).” Prince 4Ever will contain a 12-page booklet with previously unpublished photos by Herb Ritts.

The excitement doesn’t stop there, A remastered Purple Rain deluxe edition is set for release early next year , however the details are still sketchy, the set will include “a second album of previously unreleased material,” according to the press release, which also notes that plans for the set “were agreed with Prince before he passed away”.  The second album might include, multiple unreleased contemporaneous tracks such as “Electric Intercourse“, “G-Spot“, “Father’s Song“, “Wednesday“, “All Day, All Night” and “Possessed” which have appeared on bootlegs or were recorded with different Prince-related acts.

Both albums will be released by Prince’s NPG Records with Warner Bros., the label to which he was signed to for the first half of his professional career. All the tracks on Prince 4Ever date from his Warner Bros. era, which spanned from 1977 until 1996

Track listing for Prince 4Ever

1. 1999
2. Little Red Corvette
3. When Doves Cry
4. Let’s Go Crazy
5. Raspberry Beret
6. I Wanna Be Your Lover
7. Soft and Wet
8. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad
9. Uptown
10. When You Were Mine
11. Head
12. Gotta Stop (Messin’ About)
13. Controversy
14. Let’s Work
15. Delirious
16. I Would Die 4 U
17. Take Me With U
18. Paisley Park
19. Pop Life
20. Purple Rain
21. Kiss
22. Sign ‘O’ The Times
23. Alphabet Street
24. Batdance
25. Thieves In The Temple
26. Cream
27. Mountains
28. Girls & Boys
29. If I Was Your Girlfriend
30. U Got The Look
31. I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man
32. Glam Slam
33. Moonbeam Levels
34. Diamonds and Pearls
35. Gett Off
36. Sexy MF
37. My Name Is Prince
38. 7
39. Peach
40. Nothing Compares 2 U

 

We Look Back On Music History To Discover What Happend… On This Day 20th Oct 2016

Welcome to the latest edition of OTD this week we start in 1955 and end in 2011, it wouldn’t be OTD without an appearance by the usual suspects and of course the new comers.

OTD Legend

Light Black = Track Title // Black = Film Titles  // Green = Albums // Blue = Tours // Orange = Venues, Places, Concerts // Purple = Recording Studios

On This Day…

1955

🎙Elvis Presley and Bill Haley & His Comets both appeared at Brooklyn High School auditorium, Cleveland.

1960

🎙Roy Orbison had his first UK No.1 single with ‘Only The Lonely’ and his first of 33 hits. The song was turned down by The Everly Brothers and Elvis Presley so Orbison decided to record the song himself.

1961

🎙The Beatles played a lunchtime show at The Cavern Club, Liverpool and that evening they appeared at The Village Hall in Knotty  Ash, Liverpool.

1962

🎙Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett and the Crypt Kickers started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Monster Mash’, it became a No.3 hit in the UK eleven years later in 1973. The song had been banned by The BBC in the UK, it was deemed to be offensive.

1967

🎙Davy Jones of The Monkees opened his own ‘Zilch’, Boutique in Greenwich Village, New York City.

1969

🎙The Who played the first of six nights at New York’s Filmore East performing a two-hour show featuring the songs from ‘Tommy.’

1973

🎙The Rolling Stones went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Angie’, the group’s 7th US chart topper. The Song was a No.5 hit in the UK.

1976

🎙The Led Zeppelin film ‘The Song Remains The Same’, premiered in New York City. The charity night raised $25,000 for Save The Children Fund.

1977

🎙Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines from Lynyrd Skynyrd were all killed along with manager Dean Kilpatrick when their rented plane ran out of fuel and crashed into a densely wooded thicket in the middle of a swamp in Gillsburg, Mississippi. The crash seriously injured the rest of the band and crew who were due to play at Louisiana University that evening.

🎙Siouxsie Sioux and Kenny Morris from The Banshees were arrested and held overnight at Holloway Police station, London for causing an obstruction after a London gig, they were both find £20.

1978

🎙The Police made their US debut at C.B.G.B.S, New York. The trio had flown  on low-cost tickets with Laker Airtrain  from the UK, carrying their instruments as hand luggage.

1979

🎙The Eagles started a nine-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘The Long Run‘, the bands forth US No.1.

1983

🎙American country and western singer – songwriter Merle Travis died of a heart attack aged 65. Travis is acknowledged as one of the most influential American guitarist’s of the twentieth century. Travis wrote ‘Sixteen Tons‘ a 1955 US No.1 hit for Ernie Ford and he appeared in the 1953 movie ‘From Here to Eternity‘ singing ‘Reenlistment  Blues‘.

1984

🎙Wham! started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Freedom‘, the duo’s second No.1. The song was used in a Japanese commercial for Maxell audio cassettes, with altered lyrics.

1996

🎙UK singer Mark Morrison was arrested accused of a conspiracy to rob a West London shop, he was later released on bail.

2003

🎙A jury found Girls Aloud singer Cherly Tweedy guilty of assaulting a nightclub worker. The singer was sentenced to complete 120 hours of unpaid community service and was ordered to pay her victim £500 compensation, plus £3,000 of prosecution costs. The singer had denied attacking toilet attendant Sophie Amogbokpa, saying she only punched her in self-defence. The charges stemmed from an incident at the Drink nightclub in Guildford, Surrey, on 11th January.

🎙Amy Winehouse released her debut album Frank (named after Frank Sinatra). The album has now sold over one million copies in the UK.

2005

🎙Michael Jackson received a jury summons at his Neverland Ranch in California four months after he was acquitted on child molestation charges. A spokesperson said it was likely he would be excused from serving due to the fact that he has lived in Bahrain since the trial.

2006

🎙George Michael openly smoked a cannabis joint during  an interview on a TV show. The singer was filmed backstage in Madrid, Spain where the drug is legal. Michael said “It’s the only drug I’ve ever thought worth taking, this stuff keeps me sane and happy. But it’s not very healthy”.

2007

🎙Paul Raven, bassist with post-punk band Killing Joke, died of a suspected heart attack aged 46 in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was recording. He left the band in 1987 before forming Murder Inc and joining Ministry, Prong and Mob Research.

2011

🎙US photographer Barry Feinstein, best known for taking enduring pictures of musicians such as Bob Dylan and George Harrison, died aged 80. Feinstein was responsible for capturing more than 500 record sleeves, including Harrison’s All Things Must Pass album and the cover photograph for Dylan’s album The Times They Are A-Changin. Feinstein also did The Rolling Stones sleeve for Beggars Banquet, shot in a graffiti-covered toilet.

2014

🎙John Holt, reggae singer and songwriter who first found fame as a member of the Paragons, died aged 67. Holt penned the song ‘The Tide Is High‘ made famous by Blondie.

🎙The childhood home of former Beatle, George Harrison sold at an auction at The Cavern Club for £156,000 ($250,000). The three-bedroom mid-terrace home was where The Quarrymen held some of their first rehearsals before the band evolved into The Beatles in 1960.

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That brings us to the end of another edition of OTD, make sure you join me the same time next week for another step back in music history only on Skatronixxx.com also don’t forget to check out this week’s OTD Spotify Playlist below.

Find me on Twitter: @Presh81

American Horror Story SN6 EP1 – ‘Roanoke’

It’s been a long wait, but finally, the highly anticipated season 6 of American Horror Story aired last night (14th September 2016) which in fact it makes this the first time that series has debuted outside of October in its history. Details about this seasons cast and plot were very far and few between, with everyone keeping tight-lipped and only giving us teasers to let our imaginations run wild on where season 6 would take us, so needless to say I had high expectations for last nights premiere for season 6, however, it wasn’t how I expected the first episode to be. It was a little slow off the blocks and both S and I thought it to be a little lack luster given previous seasons of AHS, so I had to watch it again this morning and I can tell you my opinion has changed and it is not as lack luster as I first thought last night, but is still very different to what I had expected/anticipated given the teasers. Ok lets recap the first episode of AHS season 6.

“Roanoke” SN6-EP1

Roanoke is presented as a paranormal documentary series which is it titled My Roanoke Nightmare, it follows a couple Shelby Miller (Lily Rabe) & Matt Miller (Andre Holland) whose experiences are reenacted by actors (Sarah Paulson as Shelby Miller and Cuba Gooding Jr. as Matt Miller).

The Millers move from Los Angeles, California to a house in Roanoke Island, North Carolina following a brutal assault on Matt which the stress also lead to Shelby losing the baby from a miscarriage. As soon as the Millers settle into their new home, it doesn’t take long before strange and paranormal things to begin haunting them. While Matt is out running errands in the next town a few miles away, Shelby is at the house when it suddenly starts to hale…. Wait for it…. TEETH, yes, I’m talking human teeth!! Obviously freaked out about what she has just seen, Shelby tries to tell Matt what she had just experienced but with no evidence of teeth lying around he tries to convince Shelby that it was just a hail storm and that the weather here in Roanoke can take a bit of getting used to.

 

With Matt needing to go away for work he is reluctant to leave Shelby at the house, however, she insists she will be ok. Later that evening Shelby gets into the hot tub with a nice red and just as she starts to relax….. BANG!! She is pushed and held under the water as she fearless tries to fight back against her attacker, when all of a sudden she is released and able to come up, but there is no one there. She calls the police and Matt, he rushes back and the police tell him there is no evidence of anyone being anywhere near the hot tub or anywhere else, Matt tells the cop he believes it the hillbilly’s that they outbid, for the house that is responsible for the strange things that are happening.

Matt needs to return to the hospital where he is hoping to land the account (then he can travel less if he lands them) but he doesn’t want to leave Shelby at home on her own. He calls on his sister Lee (reenacted by Angela Bassett) to come and stay with Shelby until he gets back. The Women don’t particularly like each other, Lee was a cop but was shot in the line of duty and she became addicted to painkillers which eventually lead to her being fired from the force. The Women start arguing, meanwhile, Matt is in his hotel room he get a text and assumes it from Shelby but it’s a notification that the cameras he had set up before he left had been triggered, it was a mob of people with fire torches walking towards the house. Mid-argument Shelby and Lee don’t hear their phone but soon hear noises and go to investigate, the pair is lured to the basement where there was a video playing showing a half man half pig looking figure.

Matt rushes back and is showed the video, but he reassure’s both Shelby and Lee that is most likely a fake, Shelby no longer wants to live there but they have sunk their life savings into the house and have no other option. Shelby is pissed off that Matt is not listening or believing her and takes off in the car , but she doesn’t get far before she hits what looks like women, she slams the brakes on and get out to check the person is ok, when suddenly she gets up and walks off into the night. Shelby gives chase but ends up getting herself lost and runs into a mob who are carrying fire torches, she can do nothing but stand there as they surround her.

*Note: In the late 16th century, Sir William Raleigh, the explorer after whom the capital of North Carolina would later be named, selected artist John White to lead a group of 115 colonists to start a new colony on Roanoke Island off the coast of what is now Dare County. A previous colony had been established on the island but had been abandoned after its leaders killed the chief of the Native American tribe that had been its primary trade source. After founding the colony in 1587, White returned to England to get more supplies. He hoped he would only be gone for three months, but England’s war with Spain prevented White from returning as all English ships were seized by the government for the war effort.

It wasn’t until 1590 that White returned, and when he did, every single person in the Roanoke colony had disappeared, including his wife, daughter, and granddaughter. The only clue left behind was a word carved in a post: “Croatoan,” the name of a nearby tribe.

Wikipedia – Roanoke Island

Does the word “Croatoan” seem familiar? Well, that’s because it appeared in the very first season of “American Horror Story.” In Episode 11 of that season, a psychic tells a ghost story about an exorcism that happened at Roanoke Colony after all the colonists died. To banish the spirits of the colonists that kept haunting the island, one of the Native American elders performed a ritual that ended with him shouting “Croatoan.”  Perhaps seasons past and present of AHS will all share a common link?

I have a feeling that episode 2 might ramp things a little more. AHS6 episode 2 will air 21st September 2016.  Be sure to follow me @presh81 to stay up to date with all things AHS!!

Check out what’s in store for next weeks episode 2!

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On This Day In Music History – September 15th, 2016

It’s Thursday and that can only mean two things, one it’s almost the weekend and two it’s time for another edition of On This Day! So let’s get cracking and find out what went down in Music History On This Day 15th Sept, 2016.

Colour Meaning:

Purple = Record labels, Orange = Places + Concerts, Green = Albums, Blue = Tours, Black = Singles.

On This Day…

1956

🎙 Elvis Presley started a five-week run at No. 1 on the US charts with ‘Don’t Be Cruel.’ ‘Don’t Be Cruel’ went on to become Presley’s biggest selling single, with sales over sis million by 1961. This “double-sided hit” which had ‘Hound Dog‘ on the B side, became the most successful on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. One side reached No.1 on the chart, the other No.2. The two titles spent a combined 55 weeks in the Top 100 in 1956-1957.

1961

🎙 A group from Hawthorne, California called The Pendletones attend their first real recording session at Hite Morgan’s Studio in Los Angeles. The Band recorded ‘Surfin‘, a song that would help shape their career as The Beach Boys.

1962

🎙 The Four Seasons started a five-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Sherry‘, it made No.8 in the UK. They became the first American group to have three No.1’s in succession.

1964

🎙 The Beatles on tour in the USA, appeared at the Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio. During the performance a group of fans managed to break through the line of police fronting the stage and were able to get up on-stage. Police ordered The Beatles off-stage in the middle of a song, and the concert only resumed after Derek Taylor got on the PA system and pleaded for order to be restored so that the rest of the performance would not be cancelled by the police.

1965

🎙 The Ford Motor Company became the first automaker to offer an 8-track tape player as an option for their entire line of vehicles on sale in the US. Tapes were initially only available at auto parts stores, as home 8-track equipment was still a year away.

1966

🎙 The Small Faces were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘All Or Nothing‘, their only No.1 hit. According to Kay Marriott, Steve Marriott’s mother, Steve wrote the song about his spilt with ex-fiancee Sue Oliver, though first wife Jenny Rylance states that Marriott told her he wrote the song for her as a result of her split with Rod Stewart.

1967

🎙 Filming continued for The Beatles ‘Magical Mystery Tour.’ Lunch was at James and Amy Smedley’s Fish and Chip Shop in Taunton, Somerset with The Beatles being filmed and photographed eating their fish and chips.

1968

🎙 The Doors were forced to perform as a trio at a concert in Amsterdam after singer Jim Morrison collapsed while dancing during the Jefferson Airplane’s performance.

1970

🎙 US Vice-President Spiro Agnew said in a speech that the youth of American were being “brainwashed into a drug culture” by rock music, movies, books and underground newspapers.

1975

🎙 Pink Floyd released their ninth studio album Wish You Were Here in the UK. The album which explores themes of absence, the music business, and former band-mate Syd Barrett’s mental decline peaked at No.1 on both sides of the Atlantic and went on to spend a total of 84 weeks on the chart.

1978

🎙 Bob Dylan kicked off his longest and most continuous US tour of his career in Augusta, Maine, playing the first of sixty-five gigs in sixty-two cities.

1979

🎙 Led Zeppelin scored their sixth US No.1 album when ‘In Through The Out Door‘ started a seven-week run at the top of the charts.

1984

🎙 Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s ‘Relax‘ became the longest running chart hit since Engelbert Humperdink‘s ‘Release Me‘, after spending 43 weeks on the UK singles chart.

1990

🎙 George Michael scored his second UK No.1 solo album with his second release ‘Listen Without Prejudice Vol.1.’ The album went on to sell over 8 million copies worldwide.

🎙 The Steve Miller Band had a UK No.1 with ‘The Joker‘ 16 years after its first release. The song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1974. More than 16 years later it reached No.1 in the UK singles chart after being used in “Great Deal“,  a Hugh Johnson directed television advertisement for Levi’s, thus holding the record for the longest gap between transatlantic chart toppers.

🎙 Wilson Phillips had their second US No.1 with ‘Release Me‘, a No.36 hit in the UK. The group was made up of Carnie & Wendy Wilson, the daughters of Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson, along with Chynna Phillips, the daughter of Mamas and Papas founder John Phillips.

1994

🎙 A reel to reel tape of The Quarry Men appearing at St Peter’s Parish Church garden party Liverpool in July, 1957, sold for £69,000, ($125,000) at a Sotheby’s auction.

1997

🎙 A 34-year-old man was awarded more than £20,000 by a French court after he lost his hearing when he stood too close to loudspeakers at a U2 concert in 1993.

2003

🎙 ABBA tribute acts overtook Elvis Presley impersonators in the battle of British covers singers according to a survey. The Swedish group jumped from third most tributed act in 2001 to top in 2002 with imitators like Abba Fever and Voulez Vous putting on Abba shows. Elvis dropped to number two while The Beatles dropped to three. The Performing Right Society carried out the research.

2004

🎙 Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) died in Los Angeles after a five-year battle with prostate cancer. The founding member of The Ramones was a major influence on many punk and 90’s bands. In 1977 the scored a hit single with ‘Sheena Is A Punk Rocker‘.

2006

🎙 The Casbah Coffee Club in Liverpool where The Beatles played their first gig was given a Grade II listed building status after a recommendation from English Heritage. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison played in the converted coal cellar of the house in West Derby, in August 1959 as The Quarrymen.

2008

🎙 Pink Floyd keyboard player and founding member Richard Wright died aged 65 from cancer. Wright appeared on the group’s first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967 alongside Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason. David Gilmour who joined the band at the start of 1968 said: “He was such a lovely, gentle, genuine man and will be missed terribly by so many who love him” In 2005, the full band reunited – for the first time in 24 years – for the Live 8 concert in London’s Hyde Park. Wright had also contributed vocals and keyboards to Gilmour’s 2006 solo album On An Island.

2014

🎙 Apple released a tool to remove U2’s new album from its customers’ iTunes accounts six days after giving away the music for free. Some users had complained about the fact that their latest album Songs of Innocence had automatically been downloaded to their devices without their permission.

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Well folks that brings us to the end of this weeks edition of  On This Day 15th Sept, 2016 in Music History. Make sure you check out this weeks OTD Spotify playlist below, it’s bound to get you into weekend mode!! You can catch On This Day (OTD) every Thursday only on Skatronixxx.com you can also find us on Twitter, you will find the links below the OTD playlist.

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Your Weekly Top 50 Singles Chart Wrap Up

Welcome back to this weeks Top 50 Singles Chart Wrap Up for the 12 September 2016. Let’s find out if The Chainsmokers and Halsey’s single is still holding at No.1.

ARIA SINGLES CHART

☆ 1.  Closer – The Chainsmokers Feat. Halsey (LW 1)

☆ 2.  Let Me Love You – DJ Snake Feat. Justin Bieber (LW 2)

☆ 3.  Dancing on My Own – Calum Scott (UP – LW 10)

☆ 4.  Heathens – Twenty One Pilots (DOWN – LW 3)

☆ 5.  Cold Water  – Major Lazer Feat. Justin Bieber & M∅ (DOWN – LW 4)

☆ 6.  Papercuts – Illy Feat. Vera Blue (DOWN – LW 5)

☆ 7.  Side to Side – Ariana Grande Feat. Nicki Minaj (UP – LW 36)

☆ 8.  Sucker For Pain – Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons, X Ambassadors, Ty Dolla $ign, Logic (DOWN – LW 7)

☆ 9.  Starving – Haillee Steinfeld (UP – LW 24)

☆ 10.  In The Name Of Love – Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha (DOWN – LW 8)

☆ 11.  I Love You Always Forever – Betty Who (DOWN – LW 6)

☆ 12.  Perfect Strangers – Jonas Blue (DOWN – LW 9)

☆ 13.  Alarm – Anne-Marie (DOWN – LW 11)

☆ 14.  Final Song – M∅ (DOWN – LW 12)

☆ 15.  #Wheresthelove – The Black Eyed Peas Feat. The World (NEW)

☆ 16.  Treat You Better – Shawn Mendes (DOWN – LW 13)

☆ 17.  The Ocean – Mike Perry (DOWN – LW 14)

☆ 18.  Send My Love (To Your New Lover) – Adele (DOWN – LW 15)

☆ 19.  This Is What You Came For – Calvin Harris Feat. Rihanna (DOWN – LW 16)

☆ 20.  One Dance – Drake Feat. Wizkid & Kyla (DOWN – LW 17)

☆ 21.  Can’t Stop The Feeling! – Justin Timberlake (DOWN -LW 18)

☆ 22.  We Don’t Talk Anymore – Charlie Puth Feat. Selena Gomez (DOWN – LW 19)

☆ 23.  Too Good – Drake Feat. Rihanna (DOWN – LW 20)

☆ 24.  Don’t Let Me Down – The Chainsmokers Feat. Daya (DOWN – LW 21)

☆ 25.  The Greatest – Sia Feat. Kendrick Lamar (NEW)

☆ 26.  Into You – Ariana Grande (DOWN – LW 22)

☆ 27.  Crash – Usher (DOWN – LW 23)

☆ 28.  Still Falling For You – Ellie Goulding (LW 28)

☆ 29.  In My Blood – The Veronicas (DOWN – LW 25)

☆ 30.  Cool Girl – Tove Lo (UP – LW 32)

☆ 31.  Cake By The Ocean – DNCE (DOWN – LW 27)

☆ 32.  Ain’t My Fault – Zara Larsson (NEW)

☆ 33.  Say It – Flume Feat. Tove Lo (DOWN – LW 29)

☆ 34.  Cheap Thrills – Sia (DOWN – LW 30)

☆ 35.  Mercy – Shawn Mendes (DOWN – LW 26)

☆ 36.  This Girl – Kungs vs. Cookin’ On 3 Burners (DOWN – LW 35)

☆ 37.  Toothbrush – DNCE (UP – LW 45)

☆ 38.  Don’t Mind – Kent Jones (DOWN – LW 31)

☆ 39.  Ride – Twenty One Pilots (DOWN – LW 38)

☆ 40.  Me Too – Meghan Trainor (DOWN – LW 34)

☆ 41.  Don’t Be So Shy (Filatov & Karas Remix) – Imany (DOWN – LW 33)

☆ 42.  I Hate U, I Love U – Gnash Feat. Olivia O’Brien (DOWN – LW 37)

☆ 43.  Anywhere – Passenger (NEW) 

☆ 44.  Never Be Like You – Flume Feat. Kai  (DOWN – LW 40)

☆ 45.  Cruel – Snakehips Feat. Zayn (DOWN – LW 40)

☆ 46.  Panda – Desiigner (DOWN – LW 42)

☆ 47.  I Took A Pill In Ibiza – Mike Posner (DOWN – LW 41)

☆ 48.  Needed Me – Rihanna (DOWN – LW 46)

☆ 49.  All In My Head (Flex) – Fifth Harmony Feat. Fetty Wap (UP -LW 50)

☆ 50.  Let Me Hold You (Turn Me On) – Cheat Codes & Dante Klein (NEW)

This Weeks Top 3 Singles: Closer – The Chainsmokers Feat. Halsey (1), Let Me Love You – DJ Snake Feat. Justin Bieber (2), Dancing on My Own – Calum Scott (3).

This Weeks New Singles: #Wheresthelove – The Black Eyed Peas Feat. The World (15), The Greatest – Sia Feat. Kendrick Lamar (25), Ain’t My Fault – Zara Larsson (32), Anywhere – Passenger (43), Let Me Hold You (Turn Me On) – Cheat Codes & Dante Klein (50).

This Weeks Big Movers: Starving – Hailee Steinfeld (From No.24 to No.9), Side To Side – Ariana Grande (From No.36 to No.7)

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BILLBOARD SINGLES CHART

☆ 1.  Closer – The Chainsmokers Feat. Halsey (LW 1)

☆ 2.  Cold Water – Major Lazer Feat. Justin Bieber & M∅ (LW 3)

☆ 3.  Heathens – Twenty One Pilots (UP – LW 4)

☆ 4.  Cheap Thrills – Sia (DOWN – LW 3)

☆ 5.  Don’t Let Me Down – The Chainsmokers Feat. Daya (UP – LW 7)

☆ 6.  This Is What You Came For – Calvin Harris Feat. Rihanna (LW 6)

☆ 7.  Ride – Twenty One Pilots (DOWN – LW 5)

☆ 8.  Treat You Better – Shawn Mendes (UP – LW 10)

☆ 9.  One Dance – Drake Feat. Wizkid & Kyla (DOWN – LW 8)

☆ 10.  Needed Me – Rihanna (UP – LW 11)

☆ 11.  Send My Love (To Your New Lover) – Adele (DOWN – LW 9)

☆ 12.  We Don’t Talk Anymore – Charlie Puth Feat. Selena Gomez (UP – LW 13)

☆ 13.  Let Me Love You – DJ Snae Feat. Justin Bieber (UP – LW 16)

☆ 14.  Can’t Stop The Feeling! – Justin Timberlake (DOWN – LW 12)

☆ 15.  Into You – Ariana Grande (LW 15)

☆ 16.  Too Good – Drake Feat. Rihanna (DOWN -LW 14)

☆ 17.  Make Me – Britney Spears Feat. G-Eazy (UP – LW 58)

☆ 18.  Broccoli – D.R.A.M. Feat. Lil Yachty (UP – LW 19)

☆ 19.  Sucker For Pain – Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imaging Dragons With Logic & Ty Dolla $ign Feat. X Ambassadors (DOWN – LW 17)

☆ 20.  Gold – Kiiara (LW 20)

☆ 21.  Luv – Tory Lanez (LW 21)

☆ 22.  For Free – DJ Khaled Feat. Drake (DOWN – LW 18)

☆ 23.  I Hate U, I Love U – Gnash Feat. Olivia O’Brien (UP – LW 25)

☆ 24.  Never Be Like You – Flume Feat. Kai (DOWN – LW 23)

☆ 25.  Panda – Desiigner (DOWN – LW 22)

☆ 26.  Controlla – Drake (DOWN – LW 24)

☆ 27.  Hymn For The Weekend – Coldplay (UP – LW 28)

☆ 28.  Sit Still, Look Pretty – Daya (UP – LW 29)

☆ 29.  Work From Home – Fifth Harmony Feat. Ty Dolla $ign (DOWN – LW 26)

☆ 30.  Just Like Fire – P!nk (DOWN – LW 30)

☆ 31.  Side To Side – Ariana Grande Feat. Nicki Minaj (NEW) 

☆ 32.  This Girl – Kings vs. Cookin’ On 3 Burners (UP – LW 35)

☆ 33.  No Limit – Usher Feat. Young Thug (UP – LW 36)

☆ 34.  H.O.L.Y. – Florida Georgia Line (DOWN – LW 30)

☆ 35.  Work – Rihanna Feat. Drake (UP – LW 39)

☆ 36.  Mama Said – Lukas Graham (UP – LW 47)

☆ 37.  Stressed Out – Twenty One Pilots (LW 37)

☆ 38.  I Took A Pill In Ibiza – Mike Posner (DOWN – LW 33)

☆ 39.  Me Too – Meghan Trainor (DOWN – LW 32)

☆ 40.  All In My Head (Flex) – Fifth Harmony Feat. Fetty Wap (DOWN – LW 31)

☆ 41.  Tiimmy Turner – Desiigner (DOWN – LW 34)

☆ 42.  Unsteady – X Ambassadors (DOWN – LW 40)

☆ 43.  Peter Pan – Kelsea Ballerini (DOWN – LW 42)

☆ 44.  Low Life – Future Feat. The Weeknd (DOWN – LW 43)

☆ 45.  Don’t Mind – Kent Jones (DOWN – LW 38)

☆ 46.  7 Years – Lukas Graham (LW 46)

☆ 47.  Cake By The Ocean – DNCE (UP – LW 49)

☆ 48.  Different For Girls – Dierks Bentley (UP – LW 51)

☆ 49.  Starving – Hailee Steinfeld (UP – LW 53)

☆ 50.  Make You Miss Me – Sam Hunt (DOWN – LW 45)

This Weeks Top 3 Singles: Closer – The Chainsmokers Feat Halsey (1), Cold Water – Major Lazer Feat. Justin Bieber & M∅ (2), Heathens – Twenty One Pilots (4)

This Weeks New Single: Side To Side – Ariana Grande (31).

The Weeks Big Movers: Make Me – Britney Spears Feat G-Eazy (From No.58 to No.17).

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OFFICIAL UK SINGLE CHART

☆ 1.  Closer – The Chainsmokers Feat. Halsey (LW 1)

☆ 2.  Let Me Love You – DJ Snake Feat. Justin Bieber (LW 2)

☆ 3.  Cold Water – Major Lazer Feat. Justin Bieber & M∅ (LW 3)

☆ 4.  Dancing on My Own – Calum Scott (LW 4)

☆ 5.  Heathens – Twenty One Pilots (LW 5)

☆ 6.  Don’t Let Me Down – The Chainsmokers Feat. Daya (LW 6)

☆ 7.  Perfect Strangers – Jonas Blue Feat JP Cooper (LW 7)

☆ 8.  Treat You Better – Shawn Mendes (UP – LW 9)

☆ 9.  One Dance – Drake Feat. Wizkid & Kyla (DOWN – LW 8)

☆ 10.  In The Name Of Love – Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha (UP – LW 17)

☆ 11.  Sucker For Pain – Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, Imagine Dragons, Ty Dolla $ign, X Ambassadors & Logic (UP – LW 13)

☆ 12.  Too Good – Drake Feat. Rihanna (DOWN – LW 10)

☆ 13.  This Girl – Kungs vs. Cookin’ On 3 Burners (DOWN – LW 11)

☆ 14.  This Is What You Came For – Calvin Harris Feat. Rihanna (DOWN – LW 12)

☆ 15.  You Don’t Know Love – Olly Murs (UP – LW 27)

☆ 16.  Is This Love (Remix) – Bob Marley Feat. Lvndscape & Bolier (UP – LW 20)

☆ 17.  Alarm – Anne-Marie (DOWN – LW 16)

☆ 18.  Cheap Thrills – Sia (UP – LW 19)

☆ 19.  Still Falling For You – Ellie Goulding (UP – LW 26)

☆ 20.  Sunshine – Tieks Feat. Dan Harkna (DOWN – LW 15)

☆ 21.  We Don’t Talk Anymore – Charlie Puth Feat. Selena Gomez (DOWN – LW 14)

☆ 22.  Into You – Ariana Grande (LW 22)

☆ 23.  Can’t Stop The Feeling !– Justin Timberlake (DOWN – LW 18)

☆ 24.  Side To Side – Ariana Grande Feat. Nicki Minaj (UP – LW 72)

☆ 25.  Tears – Clean Bandit Feat. Louisa Johnson (DOWN – LW 21)

☆ 26.  Final Song – M∅ (DOWN – LW 25)

☆ 27.  Good Grief – Bastille (DOWN – LW 24)

☆ 28.  Don’t Mind – Kent Jones (DOWN – LW 23)

☆ 29.  Tilted –  Christine & The Queens (DOWN – LW 28)

☆ 30.  Ain’t My Fault – Zara Larsson (NEW)

☆ 31.  Trouble – Offaiah (UP – LW 60)

☆ 32.  I Hate U, I Love U – Gnash Feat. Olivia O’Brien (DOWN – LW 30)

☆ 33.  All In My Head (Flex) – Fifth Harmony Feat. Fetty Wap (DOWN – LW 29)

☆ 34.  Controlla – Drake (DOWN – LW 32)

☆ 35.  False Alarm – Matoma & Becky Hill (UP – LW 46)

☆ 36.  Millionaire – Digital Farm Animals Feat. Cash Cash (UP – LW 42)

☆ 37.  Send My Love (To Your New Lover) – Adele (DOWN – LW 33)

☆ 38.  Let Me Hold You (Turn Me On) – Cheat Codes & Dante Klein (UP – LW 43)

☆ 39.  The Ocean – Mike Perry Feat. Shy Martin (UP – LW 41)

☆ 40.  Hymn For The Weekend – Coldplay (DOWN – LW 31)

☆ 41.  I Took A Pill In Ibiza – Mike Posner (DOWN – LW 35)

☆ 42.  Who Do You Think Of – M∅ (DOWN – LW 37)

☆ 43.  Ain’t Giving Up – Craig David & Sigala (DOWN – LW 39)

☆ 44.  No Money – Galantis (DOWN – LW 36)

☆ 45.  Cake By The Ocean – DNCE (DOWN – LW 38)

☆ 46.  Hotter Than Hell – Dua Lipa (DOWN – LW 40)

☆ 47.  #Wheresthelove – Black Eyed Peas Feat. The World (NEW)

☆ 48.  Cruel – Snakehips Feat. Zayn (DOWN – LW 34)

☆ 49.  The Greatest – Sia Feat. Kendrick Lamar (NEW)

☆ 50.  Panda – Desiigner (DOWN – LW 45)

This Weeks Top 3 Singles: Closer – The Chainsmokers Feat. Halsey (LW 1), Let Me Love You – DJ Snake Feat. Justin Bieber (LW 2), Cold Water – Major Lazer Feat. Justin Bieber & M∅ (LW 3).

This Weeks New Singles: Ain’t My Fault – Zara Larsson (30), #Wheresthelove – Black Eyed Peas Feat. The World (47), The Greatest – Sia Feat. Kendrick Lamar (49).

This Weeks Big Movers: Trouble – Offaiah (From No.60 to No.31), Side To Side – Ariana Grande Feat. Nicki Minja (From No.72 to No.24).

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