Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Top 50 Songs of 2013

Dave’s Music Database:

Top 50 Songs of 2013

These are the top 50 songs of the year based on their overall performance in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by combining chart data, sales figures, streaming, video views, and aggregates from year-end lists.

Check out “Top Songs and Albums of the Year” lists here.

    DMDB Top 1%:

  1. Pharrell Williams “Happy
  2. Robin Thicke with T.I. & Pharrell Williams “Blurred Lines
  3. Lorde “Royals
  4. John Legend “All of Me
  5. Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams “Get Lucky
  6. Katy Perry “Roar
  7. One Republic “Counting Stars
  8. Avici with Aloe Blacc “Wake Me Up!
  9. Katy Perry with Juicy J “Dark Horse
  10. Magic! “Rude

  11. Idina Menzel “Let It Go”
  12. Pitbull with Ke$ha “Timber”
  13. Hozier “Take Me to Church”
  14. Miley Cyrus “Wrecking Ball”

    DMDB Top 2%:

  15. Eminem with Rihanna “The Monster”
  16. Justin Timberlake “Mirrors”
  17. Vance Joy “Riptide”
  18. Bastille “Pompeii”

    DMDB Top 5%:

  19. Kacey Musgraves “Follow Your Arrow
  20. Beyoncé with Jay-Z “Drunk in Love”

  21. Milky Chance “Stolen Dance”
  22. Darius Rucker “Wagon Wheel”
  23. Drake with Majid Jordan “Hold on, We’re Going Home”
  24. Lorde “Team”
  25. Nico & Vinz “Am I Wrong?”
  26. Arctic Monkeys “Do I Wanna Know?”
  27. George Ezra “Budapest”
  28. DJ Snake with Lil Jon “Turn Down for What”
  29. Baauer “Harlem Shake”
  30. Miley Cyrus “We Can’t Stop”

  31. A Great Big World with Christina Aguilera “Say Something”
  32. Drake “Started from the Bottom”
  33. Tove Lo “Habits (Stay High)”
  34. Sia with the Weeknd & Diplo “Elastic Heart”
  35. Mr. Probz “Waves (Robin Shulz Remix)”
  36. Justin Timberlake with Jay-Z “Suit & Tie”
  37. Eminem “Rap God”
  38. Jason Derulo with 2 Chainz “Talk Dirty”
  39. Fall Out Boy “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ‘Em Up)”
  40. One Direction “Story of My Life”

  41. Naughty Boy with Sam Smith “La La La”
  42. American Authors “Best Day of My Life”
  43. MKTO “Classic”

    DMDB Top 10%:

  44. Kristen Bell with Agatha Lee Moon & Katie Lopez “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?”
  45. Arcade Fire “Reflektor”
  46. Ellie Goulding “Burn”
  47. Florida Georgia Line with Luke Bryan “This Is How We Roll”
  48. Paramore “Ain’t It Fun”
  49. Lady Gaga “Applause”
  50. Ariana Grande “Santa Tell Me”

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First posted 12/30/2013; last updated 1/18/2023.

2013: Top 25 Albums

First posted 12/31/2013; updated 1/8/2021.

Dave’s Music Database:

Top Albums of 2013

Based on a combination of year-end lists (see resources at bottom of page) and overall status in Dave’s Music Database, these are the top 25 albums of 2013. Be sure to also check out the DMDB post of the top 50 songs of 2013.

  1. Beyoncé Beyoncé
  2. Frozen soundtrack
  3. Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City
  4. Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer, Different Park
  5. Kanye West Yeezus
  6. Daft Punk Random Access Memories
  7. Arctic Monkeys AM
  8. Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience
  9. Lorde Pure Heroine
  10. Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2

  11. Luke Bryan Crash My Party
  12. Arcade Fire Reflektor
  13. Haim Days Are Gone
  14. David Bowie The Next Day
  15. Drake Nothing Was the Same
  16. Queens of the Stone AgeLike Clockwork
  17. My Bloody Valentine MBV
  18. Chance the Rapper Acid Rap
  19. Disclosure Settle
  20. One Direction Midnight Memories

  21. Michael Bublé To Be Loved
  22. Blake Shelton Based on a True Story
  23. Janelle Monáe The Electric Lady
  24. Jay-Z Magna Carta…Holy Grail
  25. Katy Perry Prism

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Q Magazine: Songs of the Year, 1953-2013

Originally posted 4/15/2019.

Q is a British music magazine which has published numerous best-of lists over the years. Based on those lists (sources at bottom of page) and year-end lists, here are the best songs from each year.

  • 2013: Arctic Monkeys “Do I Wanna Know?”
  • 2012: Plan B “Ill Manors”
  • 2011: Adele “Someone Like You
  • 2010: Plan B “Stay Too Long”

  • 2009: Kasabian “Fire”
  • 2008: The Fall “Senior Twilight Stock Replacer”
  • 2007: Amy Winehouse “Rehab
  • 2006: Gnarls Barkley “Crazy
  • 2005: Arctic Monkeys “I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor”
  • 2004: Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out
  • 2003: OutKast “Hey Ya!
  • 2002: Coldplay “The Scientist”
  • 2001: The Strokes “Last Nite”
  • 2000: Eminem with Dido “Stan

  • 1999: Pharoahe Monch “Simon Says”
  • 1998: Britney Spears “Baby One More Time
  • 1997: The Verve “Bittersweet Symphony”
  • 1996: The Prodigy “Firestarter”
  • 1995: Underworld “Born Slippy”
  • 1994: Oasis “Live Forever”
  • 1993: Nirvana “Heart-Shaped Box”
  • 1992: Radiohead “Creep
  • 1991: Massive Attack “Unfinished Sympathy”
  • 1990: The Charlatans “The Only One I Know”

  • 1989: The Stone Roses “Fools Gold”
  • 1988: The La’s “There She Goes”
  • 1987: Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine
  • 1986: Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry “Walk This Way
  • 1985: Madonna “Into the Groove”
  • 1984: The Smiths “How Soon Is Now?”
  • 1983: New Order “Blue Monday”
  • 1982: The Jam “A Town Called Malice”
  • 1981: The Specials “Ghost Town”
  • 1980: Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart

  • 1979: The Specials “Gangsters”
  • 1978: Kate Bush “Wuthering Heights”
  • 1977: David Bowie “Heroes”
  • 1976: Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the U.K.”
  • 1975: Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody
  • 1974: Kraftwerk “Autobahn”
  • 1973: Slade “Cum on Feel the Noize”
  • 1972: Stevie Wonder “Superstition
  • 1971: John Lennon “Imagine
  • 1970: Black Sabbath “Paranoid”

  • 1969: The Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter”
  • 1968: The Beatles “Hey Jude
  • 1967: The Kinks “Waterloo Sunset”
  • 1966: The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations
  • 1965: Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone
  • 1964: The Kinks “You Really Got Me
  • 1963: The Beatles “She Loves You
  • 1962: The Tornadoes “Telstar”
  • 1961: Ben E. King “Stand by Me
  • 1960: The Shadows “Apache”

  • 1959: Ray Charles “What’d I Say
  • 1958: Cliff Richard & the Drifters “Move It”
  • 1957: Wee Willie Harris “Rockin’ at the 2 I’s”
  • 1956: Lonnie Donegan “Rock Island Line”
  • 1955: Fats Domino “Ain’t That a Shame”
  • 1954: Elvis Presley “That’s All Right, Mama”
  • 1953: Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart”


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Saturday, December 28, 2013

Beyonce’s self-titled album hit #1

Beyoncé

Beyoncé


Released: December 13, 2013


Peak: 13 US, 110 RB, 2 UK, 13 CN, 13 AU


Sales (in millions): 2.3 US, 0.6 UK, 5.0 world (includes US and UK)


Genre: R&B/pop


Tracks:

Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts.

  1. Pretty Hurts (6/10/14, 36 RB, 63 UK, 78 CN, 47 AU, 0.2 million)
  2. Haunted (includes hidden track “Ghost”)
  3. Drunk in Love (with Jay-Z) (12/17/13, 2 US, 12 RR, 11 RB, 9 UK, 23 CN, 22 AU, sales: 3.75 million)
  4. Blow
  5. No Angel
  6. Partition (includes hidden track “Yonce”) (1/25/14, 23 US, 12 RB, 74 UK, 100 CN, sales: 1.42 million)
  7. Jealous
  8. Rocket
  9. Mine (with Drake) (1/4/14, 82 US)
  10. XO (12/16/13, 45 US, 16 RR, 12 RB, 22 UK, 21 CN, 16 AU, sales: 1.53 million)
  11. Flawless (with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) (8/12/14, 41 US, 12 RB, 65 UK, 88 CN, 0.2 million)
  12. Superpower (with Frank Ocean)
  13. Heaven
  14. Blue (with Blue Ivy)


Total Running Time: 66:35

Rating:

3.852 out of 5.00 (average of 15 ratings)


Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Album:

“The greatest female R&B artist of the century finally made a record as sexy, snarling, soft, strange, and outright superlative as she is.” GQ “This album was the smart risk that made it all happen.” VC This “was a record seemingly designed to convey, clearly and calmly, that there was simply no one else in her lane.” Beyoncé “showed off her musical scope and feminist outreach” RS500 and asserted herself “as a full-spectrum visionary who was also dreaming up the future, invigorating the industry, maturing in her marriage, and blossoming into first-time motherhood. PF

Surprise Release

“Beyoncé pulled off pop’s biggest heist, disappearing off the face of the earth to make a visual masterpiece behind closed doors, with a ring of secretive collaborators. Shooting music videos around the world while on tour, Bey wore in-ear headphones throughout filming to keep the material under wraps. When she finally unleashed the self-titled project the hugely ambitious album laid down the blueprint for a whole new way to release music.” NME

“On an unassuming Thursday night, when most people were either getting ready for bed or still reeling over the latest drama-filled episode of ABC’s Scandal,” SP Beyoncé’s eponymous fifth album was released on iTunes with no warning. Such releases are more common now, but when Beyoncé dropped with zero promotion, it “completely disrupted existing models of distribution,” VC “setting the internet on fire, setting new metrics of success for the out-of-nowhere album release model.” BB As she said, “I didn’t want to release my music the way I’ve done it…I am bored with that.” RS500 It showed that she wasn’t afraid of “an unconventional marketing strategy.” VC “Marketing campaigns, it implied, were for the little people.” GU

It worked, earning a Guinness world record as the fastest-selling album in iTunes’ history IS selling 80,000 downloads in just three hours, VC “revolutionizing how albums are conceived and released.” PF “To this day, the music industry has yet to figure out how to top Beyoncé, as a multimedia tour de force and sheer news event – the only person who has is Beyoncé herself.” SP

Visual Album

Beyoncé also broke ground as a “a full-suite visual album,” RS’19 redefining “what constituted an album package.” VC It was “the first major pop album to adapt to the way we listen to, and watch, music in the YouTube age.” PF It “was a kaleidoscopic experience that heightened the senses” SP with each track accompanied by “an artfully directed video and packaged as one immersive, even cinematic experience.” VC The vidoes were “shot around the world: New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and of course, her native Houston.” RS500

The Music

“After being previously accused of being too robotic and having a cold personality,” SP “the famously guarded singer [was] more candid than ever” SP offering “a court side view of her explorations of feminine sexuality and intimate relationships.” CS’19 “Black women are often urged to be silent, yet Beyoncé made it more comfortable to own and express your identity.” SP This set “the mold for a more politically aware, sexually confident and altogether provocative iteration of Queen Bey.” BB

The songs were “an unprecedented display of her blossoming self-realization.” VC She tackled “heavier sociopolitical issues more directly than ever before.” VC For example, Flawless “was an unprecedented summit of women’s continuous fight for gender equality” SP complete with a sample from a 2012 Ted talk by Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, offering “a breakdown of feminist theory.” VC It “helped establish Beyoncé as a fierce interpreter and purveyor of black feminist thought for the pop masses. PF

The album “deals a lot with sexuality and her marriage to Jay-Z, and those songs ended up being the best on the album.” IS Rob Sheffield wrote in Rolling Stone that “she hits nasty highs all through the album, from the squishy slow jam RocketIS to “the fractured Timbaland production Partition [in which] she and Jay get kind of rough in the back of the limousine. She has to warn the chauffeur, ‘Driver roll up the partition please.’” IS Both songs “highlighted her innate provocative nature” SP while others, such as “Pretty Hurts and Jealous, found her face-to-face with her insecurities.” SP

There were “big-time bangers and anthems” VC like the “club-ready Drunk in LoveSP which “will get played at weddings as long as there are weddings.” RS’19 Blow, a song about oral sex, “was best paired with disco lights and rollerblades.” SP Sheffield called it the best on the album, saying that it “has an air of melancholy in the chilly neo-disco groove.” IS There were also “high-profile collabs Superpower with Frank Ocean [and] Mine with Drake.” RS500

She also “stretched her sonic capabilities” SP and sought “more challenging music with no regard for airplay.” SP “The production was dank, sexy, and shook the electro-pop environment…to its core with booming R&B bass lines and rattling trap hi-hats, which would soon become the new norm.” CS’19 Sheffield said “the vibe on Beyoncé is moodily futuristic R&B, strongest when it goes for full-grown electro soul with an artsy boho edge.” IS

Impact and Accolades

The album was at the helm of a renaissance in which R&B found itself “creeping up behind hip-hop and surpassing rock entirely as the more innovative, album-centric genre.” SP It also “laid the groundwork for Lemonade, her next visual album, which would…tell the story of her rage, liberation, and ultimate forgiveness for her husband Jay Z’s alleged infidelity.” VC

“It was nominated for five Grammy Awards, took home three, secured her Video Vanguard Award at the 2014 VMAs…and earned Beyoncé the distinction of being the first female artist to have her first five albums debut atop the Billboard 200 chart. SP The album spent a whopping 185 weeks on that chart.


Notes: A second disc included videos of the songs.

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First posted 12/18/2020; last updated 4/21/2022.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Eminem & Rihanna hit #1 with “The Monster”

The Monster

Eminem & Rihanna

Writer(s): Marshall Mathers, Bebe Rexha, Robyn Fenty, Aaron Kleinstub, Jonathan Bellion, Bryan Fryzel, Maki Athanasiou (see lyrics here)


Released: October 29, 2013


First Charted: November 3, 2013


Peak: 14 US, 16 BA, 13 DG, 11 ST, 14 RR, 22 A40, 113 RB, 11 UK, 13 CN, 13 AU, 13 DF (Click for codes to charts.)


Sales (in millions): 8.0 US, 1.31 UK, 10.78 world (includes US + UK)


Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 1033.48 video, 1053.31 streaming

Awards:

Click on award for more details.

About the Song:

This was the thirteenth trip to the top of the charts for Rihanna and the fifth for Eminem. Three years earlier, the pair collaborated on the #1 hit “Love the Way You Lie.” They also worked together on “Love the Way You Lie (Part II)” that year and “Numb” in 2012. “The Monster” topped the charts in a dozen countries. Surprisingly, it was Eminem’s first time topping the R&B chart in the United States.

It originated as a song by singer Bebe Rexha. She was working on her debut album and wrote the hook for “The Monster.” She was inspired by a quote saying “We stop looking for the monsters under our beds when we realize they’re inside us.” SF She then worked on the song in the studio with Jon Bellion, who came up with the melody. SF

Once the song ended up in Eminem’s hands, he added his own verses. He knew he wanted to work with Rihanna again on the song because, as he told her, “I think that people look at us a little crazy.” SF It became a song finding “Eminem pondering the negative effects of his fame while Rihanna comes to grips with her inner demons.” WK Rexha hoped her vocals would be featured on the song, but she was replaced with Rihanna. As she said, “Nbody even told me. I just heard it on the radio.” SF However, she ultimately considered it a blessing because, she said, it “put me me in a position where people in the music business started knowing who I was and started respecting me.” SF

Atlanta Black Star described “The Monster” as “an old school rap song…[that] blends genres with Eminem’s rap vocals, rock gutiars, and Rihanna’s pop-style singing of the chorus.” WK Critics like Idolator’s Mike Wass noted it wasn’t as powerful as “Love the Way You Lie” but that it was still “undeniably catchy and hook-filled enough for top 40 radio success.” WK


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First posted 7/29/2023.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2014

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced its inductees for the 2014 class. Artists are eligible for the Hall 25 years after the release of their first single or album. The newest slate will be inducted on April 10, 2014, at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in New York City. HBO will air the event in May. Here are the inductees:

Peter Gabriel: He was inducted into the Hall in 2010 as a member of Genesis. As a solo artist since the ‘70s, he has explored electronic and world music. His video for #1 hit “Sledgehammer” ranks as one of the best videos of all time.

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Daryl Hall & John Oates: This blue-eyed soul duo has the most successful Billboard chart run of any twosome in music history. They started in Philadelphia in the early ‘70s, but hit their peak in the early ‘80s with #1 hits “Kiss on My List,” “Private Eyes,” “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do),” and “Maneater.” They’ve sold more than 13 million albums.

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Kiss: Miracles never cease. Members of the Hall induction committee swore they’d never let the mother of all hair bands in while fans have raised a stink in the 15 years the group have been eligible and been passed up. Critics have never liked the band, but the KISS Army represents one of the most loyal fan bases in the history of rock. They’ve sold over 20 million albums on the strength of rock classics like “Rock and Roll All Nite” and power ballads like “Beth.”

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Nirvana: The group most associated with grunge enters the Hall in its first year of eligibility, 25 years after the release of the single “Love Buzz” in 1988. Three years later, they would take over the world with “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and parent album Nevermind. The group’s heyday was short-lived when lead singer Kurt Cobain committed suicide months after the release of the 1994 follow-up, In Utero, but their influence had been cemented.

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Linda Ronstadt: She emerged from the folk scene in Los Angeles in the 1960s and became one of pop music’s biggest successes in the 1970s with a blend of country and rock, selling more than 30 million albums and winning a slew of Grammy awards. She regularly covered classics from rock’s pioneers – among them were the Everly Brothers’ “When Will I Be Loved,” Buddy Holly’s “That’ll Be the Day,” and Roy Orbison’s “Blue Bayou.”

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Cat Stevens: This British folk singer/songwriter made a name for himself in the 1970s with hits like “Wild World” and “Peace Train.” He converted to Islam in 1977, changed his name to Yusuf Islam, and stepped out of the spotlight for more than two decades. He has sold more than 15 million albums.

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E Street Band: Bruce Springsteen was inducted into the Hall in 1999. Now his backing band since 1973 is inducted with the Award for Musical Excellence.

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Brian Epstein: He receives the Ahmet Ertegun Award (for non-performers) for his work as the manager of the Beatles. He signed them and then sheparded them until his death in 1967. Paul McCartney said, “If anyone was the fifth Beatle it was Brian.”

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Andrew Loog Oldham: He also receives the Ahmet Ertegun Award (for non-performers) – and also for producing one of rock music’s most acclaimed bands – The Rolling Stones. He was with them for their formative years, helping to push Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to write original material.

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Sunday, December 8, 2013

200 years ago: Beethoven's 7th symphony premiered

Symphony No. 7 in A major

Ludwig van Beethoven


Composed: 1809-1812


First Performed: December 8, 1813


Peak: --


Sales (in millions): --


Genre: classical > symphony


Parts/Movements:

  1. Poco sostenuto – Vivace
  2. Allegretto
  3. Presto
  4. Allegro con brio


Average Duration: 37:40

Rating:

4.140 out of 5.00 (average of 7 ratings)


Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Work:

“Ludwig van Beethoven completed this work in 1812, but withheld the first performance until December 8, 1813, in Vienna. It is scored for pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, and trumpets, plus timpani and string choir.” RD

“1812 was an eventful year for the very famous, seriously deafened Beethoven. July was especially noteworthy. At Teplitz he finally met Goethe (1749-1832), but was disappointed to find (he felt) an aging courtier who was no longer a firebrand or kindred democrat; worse yet, a musical dilettante. A week before that only meeting of German giants, Beethoven had written the letter to his mysterious ‘immortal beloved’ that was discovered posthumously in a secret drawer. Then, toward the end of the year, he meddled unbidden in the affairs of his youngest brother, Johann, who was cohabiting contentedly with a housekeeper. Somehow, he found time to compose the last of his ten sonatas for violin and piano and to complete a new pair of symphonies – the Seventh and Eighth – both begun in 1809. He introduced the Seventh at a charity concert for wounded soldiers, and repeated it four nights later by popular demand.” RD

“Richard Wagner called Symphony No. 7 ‘the apotheosis of the dance,’ meaning of course to praise its Dionysian spirit. But this oxymoron stuck like feathers to hot tar, encouraging irrelevant and awkward choreography (by Isadore Duncan and Léonide Massine among others) and licensing the music appreciation racket to misinterpret Beethoven’s intent as well as his content. Wholly abstract and utterly symphonic, the Seventh was his definitive break with stylistic conventions practiced by Mozart, Haydn, and a legion of lesser mortals who copied them. He stretched harmonic rules, and gave breadth to symphonic forms that Haydn and Mozart anticipated. If, in his orchestral music, Beethoven was the last Austro-German Classicist, he did point those who followed him to the path of Romanticism.” RD

“While the poco sostenuto introduction begins by observing time-honored rules of harmony, within 62 measures it modulates from A major to the alien keys of C and F major, then back again! The transition from solemn 4/4 meter to 6/8 for the balance of an evergreen vivace movement (in sonata form) further exemplifies Beethoven’s conceptual stretch.” RD

“Coming from the 20-minute funeral march of his earlier Eroica Symphony, Beethoven created an allegretto ‘slow’ movement. He established a funerary mood (without its being specifically elegiac) through the repetition of a 2/4 rhythmic motif in A minor, the most somber key of the tempered scale. A minor serves more than an expressive function, moreover; it readies us for the reappearance of F major in a tumultuous five-part Scherzo marked Presto. Two trios go slower (assai meno presto), in D major – a long distance harmonically in 1812 from the work’s A major tonic. The beginning of a third trio turns into a short coda capped by five fortissimo chords.” RD

“A major finally returns in the final movement. Here more than anywhere else in his orchestral music, Beethoven became a race-car driver. As in the ‘slow’ movement, the rhythm is 2/4, but sonata-form replaces ABA. And there’s a grand coda longer than the exposition, the development, or the reprise, which, furthermore, begins in B minor! But modulations bring it back to A major in time for a heart-pounding final lap with the accelerator pressed to the floor.” RD

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Last updated 4/17/2022.

Friday, December 6, 2013

Grammy Nominations 2014

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The nominations for the 2014 Grammys were announced on Friday, December 6, 2013. Below are the nominees for the major awards. The full listing is available here. The 56th Grammy Awards will be held January 26, 2014. Album of the Year:

  • Sara Bareilles The Blessed Unrest
  • Daft Punk Random Access Memories
  • Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
  • Macklemore & Ryan Lewis The Heist
  • Taylor Swift Red

Record of the Year:

  • Daft Punk with Pharrell “Get Lucky”
  • Imagine Dragons “Radioactive”
  • Lorde “Royals”
  • Bruno Mars “Locked Out of Heaven”
  • Robin Thicke with T.I. & Pharrell “Blurred Lines”

Royals

Song of the Year:

  • Lorde “Royals”
  • Macklemore & Ryan Lewis “Same Love”
  • Bruno Mars “Locked Out of Heaven”
  • Katy Perry “Roar”
  • Pink “Just Give Me a Reason”

Roar

Best New Artist:

  • James Blake
  • Kendrick Lamar
  • Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
  • Ed Sheeran
  • Kacey Musgraves


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