Thereâs a regal quality to
Golden Child. It starts in their lush name - a golden child is âa perfect infant who only appears once every hundred years,â as the group said in 2017, during their debut showcase. Except that, in this case, there are ten of them.
Daeyeol, Y, Jangjun, TAG, Seungmin, Jaehyun, Jibeom, Donghyun, Joochan, and Bomin made their entrance in K-pop with the vibrant DamDaDi . Bursting with exuberance, the release set them apart as the gilded children their name promised them to be. Living together in a dorm since before debut, main rapper Jangjun tells Clash that âthe good thing [about it] is that there is never a boring day. On the other hand, the hard thing is that there is never a quiet day.â Busan-born vocalist Jibeom agrees. âWhile there s never time to be bored, sometimes it is difficult because weâre always loud.â
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Ultra in the top 5. The results were calculated based on their tracks on the genre charts, emphasizing that tracks were weighted: those that entered the charts in the recent months influenced the final score the most. To celebrate this achievement, let’s take a look at how Defected rose to the top.
The British independent record label was founded by
Simon Dunmore inÂ
1999, specialising in house music recordings, compilation albums, events, publishing, artist booking and management. Ever since Defected Records set foot in the music industry, it was obvious it could only deliver quality house music in the UK, becoming one of the most prestigious labels in the world. If you consider yourself a house head, Defected is the ultimate home for you. Their soulful, vocal house masterpieces, old school classics and certified club bangers are destined for the dancefloor. You’ll find songs being the perfect marriage of house and disco, deep and dirty
Platinum vinyl record for Pandora s 10 billionth thumb in 2016 (Photo by Christoph Dernbach via Getty Images)
Before Pandora’s personalized internet radio service launched in 2005, there was Savage Beast Technologies. From 2000 to 2004, the company focused on building out its music-recommendation technology, the Music Genome Project. Pioneered by founder Tim Westergren, the Music Genome Project had humans, in the form of skilled musicians, listening to songs to uncover and annotate their musical attributes.
Remarkably, music analysts are still listening to songs today. Many aspects of how streaming music platforms provide song recommendations has shifted to computers and machine learning, but not all. There are still analysts doing the same work they have for the last 20 years. We talked to several analysts, past and present, to get a sense of how they work today, 20 years after the Music Genome Project’s inception.