Craig David Greatest Hits
Ling Kliment
Greatest Hits is Craig David's first greatest hits album and was released on 24 November 2008.[1] It contains three new songs, "Where's Your Love", "Insomnia" and "Just My Imagination" (unrelated to the track on his 2010 album). "Officially Yours" and "Unbelievable" are the only two singles previously released by David not to feature on the album.
The album peaked at number 48 in the UK, thus becoming David's lowest-charting album to date. It received a Silver certification from the BPI.[2] In 2016, after the release of Following My Intuition, it rose to a new peak of number 28 after entering the top 40 for the first time.[3]
Serving as a reminder to the songs Craig had in the early 2000s (decade), this Greatest Hits is at very least a fun listen. Craig David was a great pop star, who simply needs to take some time to rediscover his love of music and win back the hearts of the nation.
Craig expressed excitementand amusement with the timing of releasing a greatest hits album and embarkingon a wide-scale world tour, saying that it freely allows him to play all thehits without letup.
In hindsight, andconsidering his still young career, the multi-awarded singer-songwriter is veryproud of having a greatest hits record under his growing discography. And likeother artists who found themselves dishing out a collection of popularmaterials, Craig thinks that his latest disc symbolizes the closing of achapter and the unveiling of a more exciting future in his musical journey.
AllStar.com Music News quotes Brad Starks, the Webmaster of Van Halen's official Web site (van-halen.com) saying the split occurred approximately a month ago but the band chose not to share the news on their site.
David Lee Roth fronted the band from its signing with Warner Bros. in 1977 until 1985. The band then hired Sammy Hagar, who left in 1996 after a falling out with the rest of the group. Lead singer No.3, Gary Cherone, is also now gone.
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Alanis Morissette, Goo Goo Dolls, and Nelly Furtado have been added to the Hallmark Olympic Celebration concerts being held during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, RollingStone.com reports. The series kicks off with the Dave Matthews Band on Feb. 9, a day after the opening ceremonies, and continues through Feb. 24, the day of the closing ceremonies, with Martina McBride.
Other music-related Olympic festivities include Sting, Dixie Chicks, LeAnn Rimes, the Band's Robbie Robertson, Yo-Yo Ma and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performing at the Feb. 8 opening ceremonies, and 'N Sync, Bon Jovi, Christina Aguilera, Charlotte Church, Josh Groban and Harry Connick Jr. taking part in the closing ceremonies.Advertisement
The Recording Artists Coalition (RAC) has updated the list of performers scheduled to appear at its first series of all-star concerts on Feb. 26 in and around Los Angeles. Billboard magazine reports the Dixie Chicks, Emmylou Harris, Trisha Yearwood and Dwight Yoakam will perform at the Universal Amphitheater, while Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Beck and Social Distortion's Mike Ness will headline at the Wiltern Theater.
Observers say the four concerts may be the biggest effort ever undertaken in one market on the same night. More shows are being planned in other cities for later this year. The proceeds will fund the RAC's artists rights activities both in federal and state legislative matters and as non-partisan recording artist representatives in private-sector negotiations.
System, which has just returned from a tour of Australia and New Zealand, will kick off a 12-city headlining U.S. tour on Feb. 14. Dates, cities, and other details for Ozzfest 2002 will be announced shortly by the Ozzfest camp.
-- Alicia Keys, U2, Nelly Furtado, Backstreet Boys and Outkast are among the artists who'll appear on the seventh annual Grammy CD compilation. Billboard.com reports the 17-track 2002 collection -- on Universal Music Entertainment's (UME) UTV Records -- will also features hits from India.Arie, Train, Bob Dylan, the Soggy Bottom Boys, David Gray, Craig David, Michael Jackson, Elton John, Brian McKnight, James Taylor, Five For Fighting, and R.E.M. It hits stores Feb. 5.
-- Disturbed, Papa Roach and Marilyn Manson are among the artists whose music appears on the soundtrack of the upcoming motion picture "Queen of the Damned." The album features five original recordings crafted by the songwriting team of Korn's Jonathan Davis and former Oingo Boingo keyboardist Richard Gibbs. Guest vocalists also include Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, Wayne Static from Static-X and Jay Gordon from Orgy. The CD hits stores Feb. 19. The movie -- based on Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles" -- opens nationwide Feb. 22. It was the final film project of the late Aaliyah, who stars in the title role as the vampire queen Akasha.Advertisement
-- Jennifer Lopez's remix album, "J To Tha L-O! -- The Remixes," includes a new track. "Alive" was written by Lopez with her new husband, Cris Judd, and frequent collaborator Cory Rooney, reports Billboard.com. It will appear in the artist's upcoming film, "Enough," which opens May 24. The album hits stores next Tuesday.
-- Sade is releasing her first live album, "Lovers Live." The 13-song CD was recorded last year in Inglewood and Anaheim, Calif., during Sade's first live dates in seven years. Nine extra tracks are to be included on the DVD and VHS version of the album, which will come out later.
-- Chris Isaak, whose popularity has been enhanced by his Showtime cable television series, has a new album coming out in mid-February called "Always Got Tonight." In January, Isaak's self-titled show began a second season of 17 new one-hour episodes.
-- A double Patti Smith album, "Land 1975-2002," is scheduled for release in mid-March, with one disc of greatest hits and a second disc of previously unreleased material, including her recording of Prince's "When Doves Cry." Smith is planning a national tour in conjunction with the album's release.
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Joel is the 2002 MusiCares Person of the Year. Also performing at the dinner, hosted by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, will be Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Rob Thomas and Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, among others, reports country.com. Proceeds benefit The MusiCares Foundation, established by the Recording Academy to help people in the music community with financial, personal or medical needs.Advertisement
Fans who miss the Dave Matthews Band on its spring tour can get a taste of their favorite band at a nearby grocery store. The group is the inspiration for a new flavor of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, the band's publicist tells SonicNet.com.
One Sweet Whirled -- available in Ben and Jerry scoop shops now and in grocer's freezers in February -- riffs off the song "One Sweet World" and combines coffee ice cream with caramel and marshmallow swirls.
"The Stone Roses' first LP for me captures a wonderful band at a peak, coinciding with a great musical movement, inspired by Manchester, Madchester and coming perfectly after the summer of love in 1988. Great tunes that I still hear everywhere I go now."
"One album I always will go back to as generation-changing is Blue Lines. From start to finish, it is dark, glorious, unique and innovative. This was the sound of Britain's multiculturalism, set in the heart of Bristol, and the world sat up and took notice. Shame the Brits committee hasn't."
"People often miss great music because they may be averse to 'musicals' but this is a fantastic score by Benny Andersson with masterful lyrics by Tim Rice and Bjorn Ulvaeus. It's everything that Mamma Mia isn't."
"It has to be Parklife by Blur. That album helped to redefine the British pop group. Blur showed their influences and moved them on in Parklife while still proving to be a major songwriting force."
"This has two lyrics that mean more to me than any other. One is the title track's description of love 'coming for me through the trees', and the other is on 'Cloudbusting': 'I just know that something good is going to happen'."
"When I was purged from the Brits' voting list last year, I assumed I wasn't the only over-50 who had been dumped. One result is this risible list. Brothers in Arms runs away with it for the quality of songwriting and musicianship."
"What we're forgetting is that the Brits were always a joke: corporate masturbation, put together by people who didn't really like music, who ran record companies. Tigermilk was made as a college project light years away from the rancid bullshit of the Brits."
"Less the messy abomination of popular opinion than a charismatic masterpiece, reminiscent of some of my favourite albums, the kind born out of an inclination towards burn-out, disintegration and ruin. I'm not sure it's the 'best' UK album, but there's nothing else quite like it."
"It's the ultimate example of having a sound in your head, then totally nailing it. By making the songs as good as the idea, it blasted away all their shoegazing contemporaries. So ahead of its time that, 19 years on, it still sounds modern."
"After 20 years of Record Collection Rock I thought I was weary of magpies like Taylor serving up simulacra of Brian Wilson, Arthur Lee and Todd Rundgren. But it made me cry tears of joy at music's power to undo the mind's control of the heart."
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