October 6, 2024Oct 6 I do hope others can enjoy it too! And thanks to Colm's graphics, here is the completed product; Love this compilation!! :rolleyes: I did a three-hour special of Foreign Language songs on my Radio station today. It was great fun playing the tunes gathered from the lists on BuzzJack. Best wishes, Tiffer.
October 13, 2024Oct 13 Can reveal four tracks that are going to be included for the 2014 annual; Disc 1 10. Kylie Minogue – Into The Blue Disc 2 25. Idina Menzel – Let It Go Disc 3 15. DJ Snake & Lil Jon – Turn Down For What Disc 4 11. Vance Joy – Riptide
October 14, 2024Oct 14 any guesses of the opening songs for each of the 4 discs? Who would like to have a try and guessing our opening tracks? ;)
October 15, 2024Oct 15 Okay okay... Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be Mr. Probz - Waves Ella Henderson - Ghost Pitbull feat. Kesha - Timber
October 17, 2024Oct 17 Hoping To Me, To You (Bruv) by Tinchy Stryder & The Chuckle Brothers will be on it.
October 25, 2024Oct 25 On behalf of me and Wardy, we are happy to bring to you BuzzJack presents... 2014! :cheer: Let's take a trip back in time, ten years ago, and relive some of the best bits the year had to offer. 2014 may only have been a decade ago but it has a lot to be proud of. Kicking things off on Disc 1 we have the biggest selling single of the year, made famous by its inclusion in Despicable Me 2, and that was the infectious Happy by Pharrell Williams with Taylor Swift's infectious pop anthem 'Shake It Off' following after him. The opening disc also introduces us to acts like Meghan Trainor, Ella Henderson, Years & Years and Jax Jones, who would all go on to enjoy many more hits in the UK. Some of the year's dance music is included here and the disc finishes with Eurovision entries by Molly and drag queen Conchita Wurst from Austria who won the competition in 2014. The second disc opens with Ed Sheeran who was growing into the peak of his career with love ballad Thinking Out Loud taken from his multi-platinum album x. Some of the year's more alternative and indie music can be found amongst the tracks on this disc, including Imagine Dragons, Twin Atlantic and Royal Blood. Pop music continues to flourish over the remaining tracks reminding us that in 2014 it was not uncommon to see pop bands most weeks in the chart. The last X Factor Christmas chart topper in Ben Haenow also features and we finish this disc with the inescapable 'Let It Go' by Idina Menzel from the accompanying film Frozen. Disc 3 takes us back to some of the many dance highlights 2014 had to offer kickstarting with the mammoth smash from Clean Bandit and Jess Glynne with 'Rather Be'. There really was a plethora of producers around making music that impacted the UK music industry. From Avicii to Zedd, from Calvin Harris to Sigma, there is something for everyone here. R&B still had a place in the charts in 2014 and some of the big hitters are right here on this disc. The disc concludes with some moody pop from some of the most up and coming artists of the time. Concluding this project, our final disc begins with what was our first introduction to Ariana Grande, a pop sensation with her first big hit and UK #1 in Problem which also made chart history when streaming officially was introduced at the end of June and topped the chart on both sales and streams. She would go on to have several more #1's over the next decade. One hit wonders from Nico & Vinz, Mr. Probz, MAGIC!, Vance Joy and John Martin all make an appearance. Riptide has been especially noteworthy for its long-term endurance, regularly making appearances in the UK Top 100 chart all these years later. We also see Take That's first #1 as a trio follow suit at track 12. The disc is played out to some remaining dance music from the year which was possibly one of the most represented genres in the charts at this time.
October 26, 2024Oct 26 Listening now and one disc down this has brought back so many memories. 2014 is the year I finished and graduated uni, moved home and got my first job post-studies so it is quite a meaningful year. The soundtrack was on point
October 27, 2024Oct 27 This is a fantastic collection that Roba and Wardy put together, many thanks for your efforts on it. Great to see the two Eurovision inclusions. 2014 was a very pivotal year for me personally too - I got the job I'm still in now, I met my partner...so it's nice to have this soundtrack. Really hits home how strong dance music was that year. Some very memorable and huge hits all round. Wanted to point out too that deciding to include the second Ed song was a late inclusion - we do generally stick to the one song per artist guideline but sometimes (like Eminem in 2002) an artist is just so huge and has two all-conquering No.1 hits, that it just becomes impossible to leave one out.
November 22, 2024Nov 22 Oi oi, get your raving bucket hats at the ready... Edited November 22, 2024Nov 22 by lewistgreen
November 24, 2024Nov 24 INCOMING... Quick shout out first to Colm, gooddelta and awardinary for noticing some playlist work I'd done elsewhere in the forum and wanting to take it forward as an idea with me involved. Basically, if you like dance music and want a better representation of the year than the record labels think you should have them keep your eyes peeled tomorrow *.* Edited November 24, 2024Nov 24 by lewistgreen
November 24, 2024Nov 24 Oi oi, get your raving bucket hats at the ready... Edited November 24, 2024Nov 24 by TheSnake
November 24, 2024Nov 24 Nice quote there Snake as the song that gif is associated with might very well just be making an appearance
November 25, 2024Nov 25 Thanks for agreeing for this to be a Buzzjack Presents compilation Lewis! I think we all felt we could and should issue something stronger than Ministry of Sound's 'effort'. This is great and I'll be saving and listening.
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