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Each month I select 20 songs (10 songs twice a month) that I am either hooked on or am curious about. Most of the music I select are rock, hip-hop, R&B and pop songs.
My song selection comes from 20-30 CDs I get from various sources each month, as well as recommendations from iTunes and Amazon. I also check out the charts in US, UK and Japan.
Mercury Prize is a music award given to best British or Irish album of the year. Previously winners include creative and successful bands like Primal Scream, Portishead, PJ Harvey, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, and last year’s winner Elbow (amazing album, I should add). This year’s nominees included heavy favorites such as Bat For Lashes, Friendly Fires, Kasabian and La Roux, but the award was given to fairly unknown newcomer female rapper, Speech Debelle. Before the award was given, her debut album, Speech Therapy has sold less than 3000 copies. One of the singles, “The Key” was available for free download on Amazon MP3. It is definitely unique sounding. It’s definitely not a top 40 material, but I thought I should give it a chance.
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