music blog
The song “photograph”, released in 2015, is one of the mega-hits of Ed Sheeran.
The melody of “Photograph” inspired many other musicians as well.
In May 2011 the German singer/songwriter Andreas Bourani published his song “Nur in meinem Kopf” with remarkable opening chords.
In February 2012 Nickelback released his song “Lullaby” – using remarkable chords.
I’m happy to share with you my public Spotify “Zweimal Sommer” playlist, containing all the music embedded in my blog in chronological order. Enjoy and Follow to stay tuned!
If a melody is great, it sounds great in many different music genres. The song “Use Somebody” is a very good example. The original melody was published by Kings of Leon in 2008 as a pop/rock song.
The same melody also sound beautiful in this acoustic version of Laura Jansen.
Finally Armin von Buuren did a nice job converting it into an EDM/trance song.
Music is an amazing phenomenon. There are no rules, it just captures feelings, emotions and creates an atmosphere which is specific for each song.
“Slowly” (Despacito) is climbing up the charts anything else than slowly. The facts are absolutely stunning.
It is #1 in the Spotify “Global Top 50” playlist with 6.5 million streams per day! The next song following is 2 million streams behind – this distance is more than what other “Global Top 50” songs have as their total daily stream!
When the song “Gangam style” by Psy was released in 2012, it broke the view limit of Youtube in 2014, which was the 32 Bit integer maximum value of 2,147,483,647 views at this time. Youtube had to change their code and is now using a 64 Bit integer value.
However, since 2012 “Gangam style” now collected 2.8 billion views in a period of 5 years.
The song “Hello” by Adele was another phenomenon: released in October 2015 it now collected 1.9 billion views in a period of a little more than 1.5 years.
This is the unbelievable:
Despacito was released in January this year and has now collected 2.1 billion views is a period of only 5 months! Stunning!
It’s played everywhere, therefore here just a cover version which I like because of the female/male voice mix.
My latest new music discovery (through the Vevo channel on Instagram) is the Manchester Orchestra. Never heard of them before but the magic refrain of their song “The Alien” immediately caught my attention. The destructive video wouldn’t have been necessary but anyway, the atmosphere and sound of the song is great.
The track “Watching the storm” has already more than 14 Mio. plays on Spotify, it reminds me a lot of M83 “Un nouveau soleil”. This is the original version on Youtube…
…and on Soundcloud.
Six years after R. Kelly has released his RnB hit “Ignition“, Phoebe Ryan has created a wonderful cover version in her own style.
Germany is still proud of Lena as a winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010 with her song “Satellite”. But she has more songs, one of them is “Traffic Lights” and the video of this song totally fascinates me. It has superb visual effects in harmony with the music throughout the whole video, a great atmosphere and a wonderful dance scene at the end! Excellent work from www.the-noise.de!