Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Nine Worthies were also a popular subject for masques in Renaissance Europe. In William Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost the comic characters attempt to stage such a masque, but it descends into chaos. The list of Worthies actually named in the play include two not on the original list, Hercules and Pompey the Great. Alexander, Judah ...
List of songs written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter; List of songs written by Jack Keller; List of songs written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich; List of songs written by Jeffrey Steele; List of songs written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller; List of songs written by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis; List of songs written by John Rich; List of ...
Since Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in 2009, every video that has reached the top of the "most-viewed YouTube videos" list has been a music video. In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. [1] The billion-view mark was first passed by Gangnam Style in ...
The list differs from the 2004 version, with 26 songs added, all of which are songs from the 2000s except "Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G., released in 1994. The top 25 remained unchanged, but many songs down the list were given different rankings as a result of the inclusion of new songs, causing consecutive shifts among the songs listed in 2004.
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
During 2015, streaming grew with an 80 per cent increase in the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2014, with 59 songs being streamed more than 10 million times [18] and 17 more than 20 million times. [19] In total 53.7 billion songs were streamed in the UK in 2015, equating to almost 2,000 songs played in each UK household ...
If two or more artists have the same claimed sales, they are then ranked by certified units. The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums.
Ian Sime from York's The Press says Ocean's cover of "A Simple Game" is richly infused with Northern Soul angst, calling it "the perfect hit single". However, his interpretations of "A Change Is Gonna Come", "No Woman No Cry" and "Having a Party" have a "distinct air of Cabaret Classic, and the least said about his rendition of "Cry Me a River" the better."