Calvin Harris

He's made $100 million, is the hottest DJ in the world and has worked with the pop royalty - but who is Calvin Harris? And how did he go from stacking shelves in his local supermarket to such astonishing global success? He's come a long way from making music in his bedroom in his native Dumfries but since bursting onto the music scene with 'Acceptable in the 80s' in 2007, he has broken Michael Jackson's record for most hits from one album, become the first British artist to have one billion plays on Spotify and turned hit-maker for stars like Kylie Minogue, Rihanna, Cheryl Cole and Dizzee Rascal. This is the astonishing story of Calvin Harris's journey from struggling musician to international star, revealing what makes him tick, why he has the Midas touch, how he went from being a lanky kid with little self-confidence to a modelling deal with Armani and how he became a global megastar.

An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference between human and machine, with a recurrent practice of parsing "human" musicality from its "merely mechanical" simulations. In Sounding Human, Deirdre Loughridge tests and traverses these boundaries, unmaking the "human or machine" logic and seeking out others, better characterized by conjunctions such as and or with. Sounding Human enters the debate on posthumanism and human-machine relationships in music, exploring how categories of human and machine have been continually renegotiated over the centuries. Loughridge expertly traces this debate from the 1737 invention of what became the first musical android to the creation of a "sound wave instrument" by a British electronic music composer in the 1960s, and the chopped and pitched vocals produced by sampling singers' voices in modern pop music. From music-generating computer programs to older musical instruments and music notation, Sounding Human shows how machines have always actively shaped the act of music composition. In doing so, Loughridge reveals how musical artifacts have been--or can be--used to help explain and contest what it is to be human.

What are the Top 20 popular songs by Michael Jackson on Youtube Have you heard this beautiful song "Mary J. Blige, U2 - One" before? This book answers these questions and introduces 1200 very popular songs to you. "Top 1200 Billboard Singles by 100 Artists" presents a list of 1200 most popular Billboard Singles by 100 artists, with direct Youtube links of music videos. Just 1-Click away to enjoy music! No more typing and searching are needed. It's convenient and organized for you. The book presents Top 10 songs for each of 100 artists. Some of them have even more: Top 20 songs or Top 30 songs. Total combined views of 1200 songs is 157,444,346,071. More than 100 millions views per song. As of February 1, 2016.

Insights into the aesthetics of one of popular culture's favorite art forms

Welcome to Music Heaven! More than 2500 great songs are here for you. All songs come with direct links of Youtube music videos. Just 1-Click away to enjoy music! This unique book can also be a great music reference. It introduces 500+ great musicians across six decades, from 1950s to 2010s. Please enjoy Top 5 songs by each musician from Youtube. 2500+ great songs in this book cover all the major genres: Pop, Rock, Hip Hop, R&B, Punk, Electronic, Soul, Jazz, Heavy Metal, New Age, Country, Blues, Dance, Reggae, Folk, Latin and many more. This book will be a wonderful journey. Let's travel back through time, along with all these beautiful songs and memories. This book is organized by Artist view in alphabetical order. Every song comes with recent view counts of Youtube music video (which measures the song's lasting popularity). Thanks a lot for your interest in this book! Hope you enjoy it!