Snow Patrol
CHART SPOTLIGHT. Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol bows the new video for ‘Called Out in the Dark’ today! Headlining the upcoming album Fallen Empires, the track has so far only charted in New Zealand. Hopefully interest will be fueled by the new video.
The group is most famous for its 2006 hit single ‘Chasing Cars’ which was successfully featured on Grey’s Anatomy.
CHART SPOTLIGHT. Mattias Tell’s new single ‘Nikolina’ Is released via Spotify and iTunes today. Initially inspired by Guns N’ Roses’s Apptite for Destruction, Mattias Tell found his way to the music scene via his first band Stardog Champion. Described as direct raw rock in Swedish, Tell also performs in the punk trio Rättshaveri as well playing the bass to Timo Räisänen. ‘Nikolina’ is backed up by the B side ’21 gram.’
Listen to Mattias Tell via Spotify.
CHART SPOTLIGHT. Mary J. Blige originally recorded the vocals for ‘Titanium,’ the latest UK top twenty hit from French DJ David Guetta. By the looks of it, Australian singer Sia ended up on the final version which bows at No.16 this week. Included on the upcoming set Nothing But the Beat (set for release on Aug. 26), the initial version featuring Blige was leaked recently. With lyrics saying ‘You shoot me down / But I won’t fall / I’m titanium,’ the track will certainly be successful on both radio and dancefloors.
The track was co-written by Giorgio Tuinfort and the Dutch house producer Afrojack, whose remix of Leona Lewis’s ‘Collide’ WelcheMusic covered only yesterday. ‘Titanium’ follows the recent hits ‘Little Bad Girl’ (with Taio Cruz and Ludacris) and ‘Where Them Girls At’ (with Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj).
David Guetta ft SIA ”Titanium” by Globalprpool
CHART REFLECTION. Carola Häggkvist proved to be a true diva at tonight’s ‘Sommarkrysset’ delivering her own rendition of ‘Enough Is Enough (No More Tears)’ which was released as a single earlier this year. ‘Schlager’ artists such as Caroline af Ugglas, Christer Sjögren, Sanna Nielsen and Jessica Andersson hailed Carola ahead of her performance saying that we don’t have any other female artist on her level.
And they’re probably right. Definitely one of the artists who got the Eurovision Song Contest to thank for her career breakthrough, Carola came third in the 1983 edition of the ESC at the tender age of 16. Carola Häggkvist has represented Sweden three times.
