Download Akon's Album Collection (Freedom [2008])

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Track List:

1. Right Now (Na Na Na)

2. Beautiful (featuring Colby O’Donis & Kardinal Offishall)

3. Keep You Much Longer

4. Troublemaker (featuring Sweet Rush)

5. We Don’t Care

6. I’m So Paid (featuring Young Jeezy & Lil Wayne)

7. Holla Holla (featuring T-Pain)

8. Against the Grain (featuring Ray Lavender)

9. Be with You

10. Sunny Day (featuring Wyclef Jean)

11. Birthmark

12. Over the Edge

13. Freedom

Description:

Freedom is the third studio album by Senegalese-American hip hop and R&B singer-songwriter,Akon. The album was originally named Acquitted. It was released on December 2, 2008.‘Freedom’ features collaborations with Hip- Hop’s “man of the hour” Lil Wayne (”I’m So Paid”) and Akon’s platinum artist T-Pain(”Holla Holla”).

Akon broke out on the music scene in 2004 with the platinum albumTrouble that featured singles, “Locked Up” and “Lonely.” He returned in 2006 with the triple-platinum certified Konvicted CD. The Senegalese native broke chart history in 2007 as the first artist to simultaneously hold the #1 (”I Wanna Love You“) and #2 (”Smack That“) positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart twice. He went on to become Billboard Magazine’s Top Artist of 2007, the #2 Hot 100 Producer of the Year, and #2 Hot 100 Songwriter of the year.

Akon has grown with each new album release, while his sound has evolved to the satisfaction and dissatisfaction of his fans, Freedom will no doubt be remembered as the turning point in Akon’s career where he evolves from a hip hop artist to a bonafide entertainer.

With all the radio friendly songs you’ll find yourself humming to many of these songs during the day, therefore, making it buy you won’t regret this holiday season.

The first single released from the album was “Right Now (Na Na Na)“, it peaked at #8 on the Billboard 100. The second single is “I’m So Paid“, featuring Young Jeezy & Lil Wayne. It made a hot debut at #40 on the Billboard 100. The week the album was released, another song “Beautiful“, featuring Colby O’Donis & Kardinal Offishall debuted at #19.

It is the first album by Akon not to carry the Parental Advisory sticker and it doesn’t need an edited version to be sold at Wal-Mart. Although in terms of lyrics it’s not totally free of that sex-and-violence insinuating language, it shows that it is possible to release a great hip-hop/R&B recording without resorting to extreme obscenity almost in every song.

Overall, this is easily Akon’s best album. Still not a perfect album, but its definitely his strongest performance yet.

Download Akon's Album Collection (Konvicted [2006])

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Track List:

1. Shake Down

2. Blown Away

3. Smack That

4. I Wanna Love You

5. The Rain

6. Never Took The Time

7. Mama Africa

8. I Can't Wait

9. Gangsta Bop

10. Tired Of Running

11. Once In A While

12. Don't Matter

13. Gringo

Description:

It took five singles and more then twelve months for Akon‘s debut, Trouble, to finally become certified as a platinum selling album. However, history will not repeat itself with Konvicted, Akon’s highly anticipated follow-up album, which should reach the same marking point in less than half the time. Currently raising eyebrows just two singles into the masterpiece, Konvicted resumes where Trouble left off.

Akon offers infectious hooks, catchy bridges and the ability to skip from R&B (Never Took The Time) to Hip-Hop (Blown Away) and over to World music (Mama Africa), without showcasing any as a personal specialty over another. The current singles (Smack That featuring Eminem and I Wanna Love You featuring Snoop Dogg) display Akon’s skill during collaboration, but make no mistake: the album is all AKON. The most masterful of which have Akon belting out his own backup vocals and requiring the assistance of nobody (well maybe an engineer, but he may do that too).

Konvicted took Akon longer than expected to complete, after his production and song writing abilities garnered him work as one of the most sought after talents in the industry. Work on upcoming material from Young Jeezy, Gwen Stefani and even Elton John required the creative process for Akon’s own album to take a temporary back seat. Temporary, the key word of course, since the end result of his patience is a complete album with as many single choices as their include tracks.

Download Akon's Album Collection (Trouble [2004])

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track listing:

1. Locked Up

2. Trouble Nobody

3. Bananza (Belly Dancer)

4. Gangsta

5. Ghetto

6. Pot Of Gold

7. Show Out

8. Lonely (Old Version)

9. When The Time's Right

10. Journey

11. Don't Let Up

12. Easy Road

13. Locked Up (Remix)

14. Gunshot (Bonus Track)

15. Locked Up (Taz Remix) (Bonus Track)

Description:

On the face of it Akon (real name Aliaune Thiam) could be just another 50 Cent type, a kid who struggled, had run-ins with the law and ended up making music to get out of the ghetto.

But there's cultural depth to the man that generates that little bit more interesting. Having spent his first seven years in Senegal before moving to America, and having a musical legend of a father (Jazz musician Mor Thiam) has certainly helped contribute to the originality on Trouble.

When the album starts with Locked Up a track that has 'smash hit' rubber stamped all over it there's a worrying flashback to Mario Winans' debut album which flattered to deceive despite the success of I Don't Wanna Know. These fears are somewhat allayed though by Trouble Nobody.

At first there's a slight uneasiness in the music, the beat is too upbeat and bashful to be classed as R&B yet the vocals and rapping is too smooth to be classed as hip-hop. The easiest thing then is to avoid trying to pigeon hole the track and accept it for the emotive piece of music it is. It is a standard story of misdemeanours and a plea for reform, but Trouble Nobody isn't riddled with tired clichés.

The Senegalese, or certainly African influence shines through in Bananza (Belly Dancer) which is reminiscent of Marcus Houston's Pop That Booty in flavour and delivery. Yet it has an edge that cannot really be explained, maybe it's the fact Akon didn't launch his career in a poor excuse of a teen-comedy show.

Gangsta may be fairly homogenous in terms of lyrical content with every other track ever written about Gangsters and has a beat that TI would feel at home rapping over. But with a closer listen it is essentially a skit on the lifestyle, the surprises flow in Ghetto with its strong moral overtones particularly with relation to AIDS.

Lonely will bring back comic memories for anyone who has seen Team America - World Police but for those of you have not, there's an emotive song - but songs about 'that special one' have been done to death, and no matter how poignant they lack originality in my cynical eyes.

Fortunately it leads into the best song on Trouble, When The Time's Right which has an early allusion to KRS One's Sound of the Police and develops into a head banging track with an infectious bass-heavy beat. Journey continues the strong back-end of the album, with another example of Akon's production talents.

It's almost fitting that the album officially ends with a remix of Locked Up featuring Styles P's aggressive rapping, the cyclical structure of the album makes it seem complete - and it is a break from the intro/outro some choose to use. As if that's not enough the UK's very own Taz gets an outing on the bonus Locked Up remix.

Download mp3 and lyrics John Mayer ft Taylor Swift - Half of My heart

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John Mayer - Half Of My Heart Lyrics

I was born in the arms of imaginary friends

Free to roam, made a home out of everywhere I’ve been

Then you come crashing in, like the realest thing

Trying my best to understand all that your love can bring

Oh half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation

Half of my heart takes time

Half of my heart’s got a right mind to tell you

That I can’t keep loving you

Oh, with half of my heart

I was made to believe i’d never love somebody else

I made a plan, stay the man who can only love himself

Lonely was the song I sang, ’til the day you came

Showing me a better way and all that my love can bring

Oh half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation

Half of my heart takes time

Half of my heart’s got a right mind to tell you

That I can’t keep loving you

Oh, with half of my heart

With half of my heart

Your faith is strong

But I can only fall short for so long

Time will hold, later on

You will hate that I never gave more to you than half of my heart

But I can’t stop loving you

But I can’t stop loving you

But I can’t stop loving you with half of my…

Half of my heart

Half of my heart

Half of my heart’s got a real good imagination

Half of my heart’s got you

Half of my heart’s got a right mind to tell you

That half of my heart won’t do

Half of my heart is a shotgun wedding to a bride with a paper ring

And half of my heart is the part of a man who’s never really loved anything

Half of my heart

Half of my heart

Half of my heart

Half of my heart

Half of my heart

Half of my heart

Clay Aiken Ready For Tour, Would Return to 'Idol' As Judge

American Idol's" second season runner-up Clay Aiken has his own idea of what the show should do to replace departing judge Simon Cowell.

"I've always thought it would be a great addition to the panel to have someone who's a former contestant and knows what it's like to be up on that stage and be critiqued," Aiken tells Billboard.com. So is he raising his hand? "Well, I'm so far removed from it at this point that I don't know if I remember what it's like, but who knows. I would not put myself out there to be as caustic as (Cowell) is, but if they want to call me, bring it on. We can talk."

Aiken, however, has plenty of singing to do before having that discussion. The North Carolina-based singer released his fifth album, "Tried & True," on June 1; the collection of pop standards -- including "Unchained Melody," "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," "Misty," "Mack The Knife" and "Moon River" (with Vince Gill) -- marks his first release away from the "American Idol" enclave of 19 Recordings and Sony Music (he's now with Decca), and Aiken feels it shows the measure of the man better than his previous releases.

"It's what I've wanted to do for the past seven years," says Aiken, acknowledging he felt like "a square peg in a round hole" on his more contemporary pop albums. "I like songs that have incredible melodies and nice orchestrations and arrangements that are really about the voice and the melody and just being beautiful, and these songs are that. People talk about it being a big decision to change course, but I actually see it as an opportunity to kind of get back to what I've always wanted to do."

Besides the album, Aiken performed a special concert in March at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium which was taped for a PBS special that will air in August, along with an accompanying DVD. Meanwhile, Aiken is gearing up for the July 23 start of his 16-date summer tour with second-season "Idol" winner Ruben Studdard, who was one of the guests at the March concert.

"We've been talking for years about trying to do something together and had never really found the time to do it," Aiken notes. "But both of us looked at our calendars around December of last year, January of this year, and said, 'Wait a second, we don't have anything this summer we're dealing with.' He's working on an album right now, and mine will have just been released, so...'Let's just do this. It's now or never.'"

Aiken promises the shows will feature quite a bit of collaboration between he and Studdard, too. "It's kind of a musical revue of sorts -- some of the biggest hits and greatest songs -- from our point of view -- and songs that have influenced us from over the past five decades," Aiken explains. "We'll start in the 50s and do some medleys and then move on from their. We're really good friends and have a great time when we're together, so I think it's going to be a lot of fun to do a tour like this, for us and for the audiences, too."

New Release: John Mayer ft. Taylor Swift-Half of My Heart

John Mayer wrote an alternative rock song called "Half Of My Heart" and released as the third official single from the album studio "Battle Studies", later released as a digital download single on June 28, 2010 by Columbia Records. "Half Of My Heart" as compared with the songs and singles that had brought John Mayer in the era before the "Battle Studies" sounds more pop rock.

The contents of the song "Half Of My Heart" tells about the love story between John Mayer's romance with Taylor Swift which they half-heartedly say that they should stay together making love, but their hearts are the other half felt they should not be together and not be able to maintain romance group should either of them.

John Mayer had to give a message to Taylow Swift via twitter in the year 2009 that the message in order to record a song together, and finally John Mayer wrote "Half Of My Heart" within three days and recorded it with Taylor Swift.

"Half Of My Heart" managed to reach 29th position in the U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks on May 8, 2010. It is a appearance John Mayer is the fourteenth in the charts.

Stereophonics

Stereophonics are a rock band who were formed in 1992 in Cwmaman, Wales by friends Kelly Jones (Guitar/Vocals), Stuart Cable (Drums) and Richard Jones (Bass) but no relation to Kelly. Colloquially known to their fans as the ‘Phonics or the Stereos, in the years preceding their popularity, they went through shifting line-ups and were known by a variety of names including “KDR”, “Zephyr”, “Silent Runner”, “Blind Faith” and their most widely known pre-Phonics moniker “Tragic Love Company,” taking one word from each member’s favourite band (The Tragically Hip, Mother Love Bone, and Bad Company). The band’s official current line-up is Kelly Jones, Richard Jones, Javier Weyler and Adam Zindani.

Tragic Love Company had started out as a 4-piece band playing covers and original songs that had a blues vibe. After various fourth members, including childhood friend Simon Collier, left, the band decided to stick to being a 3-piece, ditching the blues for an edgier, punk sound which would translate better when played live. The band played up and down the country playing shows which ranged from less than 10 people to packing hundreds into small venues the length of the M4. It wasn’t until John Brand took over as their manager in 1996 that the music industry started to take interest in the band. The name Tragic Love Company was decidely dropped for being too long-winded, and after Stuart saw the lettering on his father’s radiogram, they adopted the name ‘The Stereophonics’, before quickly dropping the ‘The’ to simply Stereophonics. On August 1st, 1996 they became the first band to be signed to Richard Branson’s new label V2.