Who and What are you looking forward to/have high hopes for 2008 in Music? :dance:

Sooo much!

 

The main three:

 

Madonna

Mariah

Nelly Furtado (fingers crossed) :wub:

 

Edit: and NO DOUBT!!!! Hopefully :(

Edited December 5, 200717 yr by Ryan

Goldfrapp to earn their first #1 album.

 

And new albums from Portishead & Madonna. (No matter how c**p it'll sound!).

Pussycat Dolls, Mariah, Ashlee Simpson, Cassie, errrm cant think of any others right now.

Bloody hell ;;

 

Adele - Great talent, realy good voice and writes her own stuff. :wub: BIG one to watch out for next year.

Foals - One of the big Indie bands of next year, no doubt. I would recomend "Balloons" to anyone. :wub:

Ghost Frequency/Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong/Vincent Vincent And The Villans.. - All the fantastic Indie band that will be big next year. ^_^

Pendulum - New album out next year. ^_^

Hot Chip - :heart:

 

And loads more.

Madonna

 

 

Cliff Richard's back catalogue 50 years in the music industry :angry:

I hope to hear from Anastacia.

 

Also Jamelia.

For me:

 

Black Eyed Peas

Anastacia

Nicole Scherzinger/PCD

Aerosmith

Mariah Carey

Robbie Williams

Three new female singers greatly excite me:

 

Duffy - Rockferry

 

Adele - Daydreamer

 

Sia - Buttons

 

 

Also hopefully 2008 will be the year of Led Zeppelin touring the world and recording a new album; and the biggest & best band in the world ever (who originated from the 2008 European City of Culture) finally releasing their back catalogue digitally & a set of remastered CD's for the first time since 1987 with a heavily rumoured Elvis/Michael Jackson-esque assault on the singles charts............................

 

Maybe this track will finally get a deserved UK#1 position....... 41 years after Emperbert Humperdinck stopped a run of 18 consecutive UK #1 hit singles by the fab four...

 

Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (1967 UK#2)

One more GA studio album? That would be the most amazing thing EVER!

Three new female singers greatly excite me:

Sia - Buttons

Also hopefully 2008 will be the year of Led Zeppelin touring the world and recording a new album; and the biggest & best band in the world ever (who originated from the 2008 European City of Culture) finally releasing their back catalogue digitally & a set of remastered CD's for the first time since 1987 with a heavily rumoured Elvis/Michael Jackson-esque assault on the singles charts............................

 

Maybe this track will finally get a deserved UK#1 position....... 41 years after Emperbert Humperdinck stopped a run of 18 consecutive UK #1 hit singles by the fab four...

 

Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (1967 UK#2)

So will The Beatles actually release their back catalogue digitally then? I thought Jackson owned it? :unsure:

GOLDFRAPP!!!! though getting a number 1 album would be a push considering this is supposed to be a return to felt mountain's sound. i'd love for them to try though! there shouldn't be too much competition

 

and of course, madonna! let's hope the timbaland/neptunes collaborations don't fall flat

New Feeder album, that should get a good sales record thanks to the sucess of the singles album, and looking forward to the tour.

 

Jimmy Eat World's tour

 

New album by The Verve

Edited December 5, 200717 yr by Marcus

Mariah I'm hoping for big things for, though more in the US than in the UK. I would love her to get another UK #1 single though! :(

In terms of bands that have already released material before then the only ones i'm really looking forward to is Arctic Monkeys and then Alex Turner + Miles Kane's stuff. There's loads of music coming out that interests me but I dunno how good their music will be, as there's been lots of poor comebacks this year!

 

New music however; Hadouken!, Foals, Black Kids, The Ting Tings, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, The Ghost Frequency shall be big next year methinks.

Madonna

Whitney Houston

Mariah Carey

Ashlee Simpson

Britney =)

Nicole Scherzinger

;)

So will The Beatles actually release their back catalogue digitally then? I thought Jackson owned it? :unsure:

 

I think he had to sell it to pay for the court cases. (I may be wrong, though.)

So will The Beatles actually release their back catalogue digitally then? I thought Jackson owned it? :unsure:

 

Michael Jackson owns (well he has sold half his stake in) the publishing (songwriting royalties) of the songs, not the actually musical tracks which would be owned by the Beatles record label Apple, licenced to EMI.

 

So that means he can decide whether the Beatles songs can be used in TV adverts, agree to artists covering the songs or not (i.e. on X Factor you have never heard a post Beatles Paul McCartney song or a David Bowie song because they both despise Simon Cowell and have therefore refused him permission for acts to perform their songs which they own the publishing for. Even more ironically Simon Cowell's two favourite sings of all-time Unchained Melody & Somewhere Over The Rainbow are owned by Paul McCartney's publishing company MPL, so you could argue Paul is a hypocrite on that respect); but he can't grant permission for the actually tracks or music to be used in the said scenarios.

 

One of the most heavily rumoured reasons for the delay in the Beatles back catalogue going digital are due to The Beatles were waiting for Michael Jackson to become bankrupt, so he would loose the ownership of the Beatles publishing, as he gained them through apparently unethical means:

 

Back in the early mid 1980s he was a very good friend of Paul's (having recorded the duets "The Girl Is Mine" & "Say Say Say" & Paul & Yoko were trying to buy the ownership of the publishing of the Beatles songs having agreed to pay the asking price of £40 million. But Paul (stupidly) told his friend Michael about this, who then went through his lawyers to activate an outbidding clause in the buying contract (where a third party won the rights to ownership if they bid £5 million more than the Beatles related attempt) and bid £5 million more than Paul & Yoko combined so gaining ownership of the Beatles publishing company Northern Songs, which ended Paul & Michael's friendship.

 

It also explains why Michael Jackson was/is hated by real Beatles fanatics long before other lurid allegations were made about him in the 1990s....

dido and anastacia

Edited December 5, 200717 yr by T Boy