Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

MJ’s latest video first ever to premiere on Twitter

- Ichael Jackson’s Nico & Vinz One Republic. George Ezra’s ohn Legend’s Ariana Grande

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new music video ‘A Place With No Name’ became the first ever to premiere on Twitter. The song appeared on August 13 as it also became the second single to be taken off his posthumous album ‘ Xscape’. The new song was first recorded by Michael back in 1998, but the current release bears his production together with Stargate and Dr.Freeze. T he Norwegians have re-captured the UK singles crown after a lapse of 28 years. Taking the honours is the group

with the song ‘Am I Wrong’. Back in 1986 it was A-ha who topped the UK singles chart with ‘The Sun Always Shines On TV’. Nico & Vinz have a good song out there. ‘Am I Wrong’ had been on the chart for five weeks at the lower range. But when it was fully released it surged in popularity with streaming combined to jump from No: 52 to the No: 1 spot this week. It is pop song with Afrobeats that that clears many boundaries. Nico & Vinz are a song writing and singing duo from Oslo. They came together in 2009 and were then called Envy. ‘Am I Wrong’ was first released in the Scandinavi­an region under the name Envy. It did well for them but in January of this year the duo decided to change the name to Nico & Vinz. Nico is Nico Sereba and Vinz is Vincent Dery. ‘Am I Wrong’ is co- penned by the duo with support from William Wii Larsen. The latter produced the song with Nesty Kutt. T he highest song to debut on the UK singles chart is ‘Love Runs Out’ at No: 3 for

The US pop rock group notched up their fifth UK top 10 with the current release, a follow up to the No: 1 hit Counting Out’ from 2013. ‘Love Runs Out’ like the previous release is taken from the album ‘Native’. One Republic is fronted by Ryan Tedder who is also known to have penned hit songs for One Direction, Adele, Beyonce, Maroon 5, Ellie Goulding among others and recently a hit for Ella Henderson. A fter 15 weeks on the singles chart

‘Budapest’ is showing no signs of slowing down. The folk/rock song has been shuffling positions on the top 10 since it peaked at the No: 3 spot. The song entered the chart in June at No:4. The song is the first track to be taken the 21 year old singer’s album ‘ Wanted On Voyage’. J

‘All Of Me’ is a song you either love or hate. Be that as it may, the track has been certified as Platinum track as it has sold over 1,015,582 copies in the UK alone. The song recently completed 18 weeks on the UK top 10 singles chart. It has b been streamed over 2 21 million times and d downloaded over 8 804,500 times. U

S pop star s says she is excited a about the release of her second album ‘My Everything’ that is due before the end of the year. The 21 year old feels the new album will be much better than her debut album ‘ Yours Truly’. Grande is enjoying success right now in many countries with the song ‘Problem’ featuring Iggy Azelea.

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