2023 saw another six Album of the Year nominations (same as 2022), but one album did stand above the other five. Something to Give Each Other is the third studio album by Troye Sivan.
Released mid-October, this is Sivan's first album release in five years. A big follow up to 2018's Bloom.
This record only features one collaboration with Spanish singer and guitarist Guitarricadelafuente. A bit of a change of gears from Bloom which saw fellow Aussie Gordi on board along with superstar Ariana Grande.
The album has received universal acclaim from critics.
We got the lead single Rush first off, where it topped the charts in Israel and entered the top ten in Ireland, Croatia, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia. The second single featured some old school Bag Raiders on Got Me Started.
The third single One of Your Girls, featured a now hot to trot music video. Well not as hot to trot as the Rush video. To be honest!
This has been Sivan's most commercially successful album, becoming his first album to top the ARIA chart, while reaching the top ten in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
The record also reached number one on the US Dance/Electronic Albums chart.
Rush was nominated for Best Pop Dance Recording and Best Music Video at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards as Sivan’s first nominations. The album was nominated for the 2023 Australian Music Prize.
With all this love for this record, it's no surprise the album is my Album of the Year for 2023. Now bring the tour down under please Troye! Like ASAP!
The Album of the Year is only days away! Today is all about Something to Give Each Other, the third album by Troye Sivan.
Clocking in at just over 30 minutes, this is the perfect album to bring in the new year!
Got Me Started (featuring that iconic Bag Raiders sample), is almost certain to play somewhere on NYE.
Something to Give Each Other landed as a nomination back in October. Ever since, the album has continue to win folks over. From the singles to the album tracks.
This album is a strong contender for the Album of the Year for 2023! Tomorrow your last nomination from the incredible social media queen, PinkPantheress.
Doja Cat is no stranger to the Album of the Year prize. In 2021 the brilliant Planet Her record was easily my album of the year.
So Scarlet, the follow up record takes a different tone. However the lead, killer single, Paint the Town Red packs a massive punch.
There is also no guests on this record, but loads of pure fire!
You can check out my initial post here. So in the midst of Xmas and NYE, this is the perfect record to stream right now. You can stream it in full below. This is also one of the longest studio records up for the prize this year.
Happy Boxing Day, you made it through Christmas with the family - LOL
Nomination number three time. No stranger to the Album of the Year race, its Olivia Rodrigo with her second record, GUTS. The original post when GUTS was nominated can be found HERE
By now you would have heard all the singles, vampire, bad idea right? and get him back! These are all super catchy tracks. The album is 12 tracks, just over 39 minutes. It sure does pack a punch with the opener all-american bitch!
You need a good summer album, GUTS streams now right below. A former feature album, a tour on the way, Olivia Rodrigo is a champion!
The Album of the Year is coming this weekend! Let's take a look at another nomination! Genesis Owusu's STRUGGLER record landed really soon after G Flip's DRUMMER album.
Like G Flip, this nomination landed late August when the Album of the Year race commenced for 2023. You can view the OG nomination here, while streaming the album below.
I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays as we are now deep in the 2023/2024 holiday season. Until tomorrow's nomination post! Night, night!
Not long now until the Album of the Year for 2023 is unveiled. Will it be a local record like G Flip's Drummer? This was nomination numero uno back in August. You can view the OG post HERE.
No Album of the Week next week, so each day (or so) there are some random holiday days from tomorrow. I will look back at the big six nominees.
For day one of the retrospective review, let's listen to G Flip's big record Drummer once more.
The feature album this week (Pink Friday 2,) is the sequel to the debut studio album by rapper Nicki Minaj.
Released back in November, 2010, Minaj enlisted a variety of producers whose efforts resulted in a primarily hip hop and pop record, which sees additional influences from R&B.
Pink Friday features guests Eminem, Rihanna, Drake, will.i.am, Kanye West and Natasha Bedingfield. Not bad for a debut record.
The album gave us eight singles. Your Love, Check It Out, Right Thru Me, Moment 4 Life, Did It On'em, Girls Fall Like Dominoes, Fly, plus breakout single, Super Bass.
Which peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and entered the top ten worldwide, while five other singles peaked within the top 40 on the Hot 100.
Pink Friday debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, selling 375,000 copies in its first week.
Internationally, it also charted within the top 20 in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
As of February 2018, the album has sold two million traditional copies in the United States.
Pink Friday was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012, alongside Minaj's other nominations for Best New Artist and Best Rap Performance for the single Moment 4 Life.
Let's throwback this Thursday to 2010 with some classic cuts from this BIG record. So big the sequel will be featured to close of play Sunday, Christmas Eve.
The weather is definitely warming up! I will keep blogging here and HERE however posts maybe a little more limited. I'm not sure about feature albums all over the holidays, however there will be (as usual) some keys dates.
December 31. Like every year, the Album of the Year for 2023. Last year SZA took out the gong. Who will it be this year? The latest nominee was PinkPantheress You can view more Album of the Year for 2023 info HERE
January 1st and 2nd. The best 200 songs of 2023. Last year Eliza Rose was the top of the pops. Who will wear the crown of 2023's biggest tune?
And that's it!
For now this week it's all about Tate McRae. Nicki Minaj also released a BIG record, jam packed full of guests. Let's take a quick sneak pack at some of the cuts from that record. The holidays are almost here, so happy holiday's y'all!
This past Thursday I finally checked out the new Sydney Football Stadium. The occasion, Robert Peter Williams XXV tour.
Robbie shot to fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, then launching a solo career in 1996.
His debut studio album, Life thru a Lens, was released in 1997, and included his signature song Angels. Which was his offical last (full) song of his encore. Later there was a medley of accapella hits as he exited the stage.
His discography includes seven UK No. 1 singles, and all but one of his 14 studio albums have reached No. 1 in the UK. Six of his albums are among the top 100 biggest-selling albums in the UK, with two of them in the top 60, and he gained a Guinness World Record in 2006 for selling 1.6 million tickets in a single day during his Close Encounters Tour.
Robbie also played hits like Rock DJ, Kids, Let Me Entertain You and Feel.
The concert was a wild range of emotions, from Robbie's highs to his honest lows. It was a full on performance which started with rain and then on my way home, ended up with the heavens opening!
This was UK pop/showman ship at its finest. Sam Smith when trying to command the entire arena recently may need a few lessons from Robbie. Getting older boomers moving, younger fans alike all in admiration of his tales of his lows, to singing along with the highs of his career.
This will be a concert I won't forget in a while. A man even proposed to the mother of his child. Wild! And that is just the start of it.
Its EP feature week next week. So gear up from EP's from wide ranging genres. See you then x
Heaven Knows is the debut studio album by PinkPantheress, along with the sixth Album of the Year Nomination for 2023.
Released last Friday, it follows her 2021 mixtape To Hell with It. The album includes the monster hit, Boy's a Liar Pt. 2 (with Ice Spice) alongside, Mosquito, Capable of Love, & Nice to Meet You featuring Central Cee.
Yes there are some big guests on this record. Including Rema and the brilliant Kelela. While the producers on the record are equally as impressive as the guests. Greg Kurstin, Mura Masa, Danny L Harle and more lend a hand to this stellar debut album.
PinkPantheress is set to tour the record as part of The Capable of Love Tour. It's set to begin in February 2024, taking in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, France and Germany.
Samuel Frederick Smith played two close to full Qudos Bank Arena shows this weekend just gone.
I was super lucky enough to see the English singer and songwriter. In October 2012, they were featured on Disclosure's breakthrough single Latch.
Which I loved on the radio, my music playlists and to run to (when I used to run).
Latch peaked at number eleven on the UK Singles Chart. It was also my highlight from Saturday's Gloria tour. Smith played tunes from the debut studio album, In the Lonely Hour, which was released in May 2014.
The third single from their debut album Stay with Me, was internationally successful, reaching number one in the UK and number two on the US Billboard Hot 100. It on Saturday night was a monster sing-a-long!
Like I Can and other earlier singles were also crowd favourites before the show got a little sexy.
Smith's second studio album, The Thrill of It All, was released in November 2017.
They sang the lead single, Too Good at Goodbyes, early in his 19 strong set.
They gave us Promises with Calvin Harris, which peaked at number one in the UK.
Smith also performed a solo version of the excellent Dancing with a Stranger. Originally released with Normani.
Last year, Smith's single Unholy with Kim Petras, from the fourth album Gloria, became their first number one single in the US and won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
Unholy was also the scary, post Halloween closing tune. It was a wild night out at Homebush. With a wide ranging crowd of folks who loved the Michael Buble love songs, but maybe not so much in love with the Unholy side.
Smith has interested me for years. The dance tunes are unreal, the live vocals incredible. Now that The Weeknd has postponed. That was my November live music moment.
Next up, more Tkay on the way for this week's excellent feature album!
The Album of the Year is back on after nomination #4 Scarlet, last month. Something to Give Each Other is the third album by Troye Sivan.
Released earlier this month, it is Sivan's first album release in five years, following Bloom. This record features only one collaboration, from Spanish singer and guitarist Guitarricadelafuente.
The album received universal acclaim from critics. Following the lead single Rush, which topped the charts in Israel and entered the top ten in Ireland, Croatia, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia.
The second single Got Me Started (sampling Aussie legend, Bag Raiders), entered the charts in nine regions including Australia and the UK.
The third single, One of Your Girls, was released concurrently with the album. Along with another FAB visual for the track.
This has become Sivan's most commercially successful album, becoming his first album and second project to top the ARIA chart in Australia, while reaching the top ten in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
Rush like Kylie's Padam Padam have become instant gay club classics! Sivan is on the edge of global domination.
Not to mention that saucy album cover below. Meow!
