Best of 2025: Top 40 Singles
My Top 40 singles of 2025 including Self Esteem, JADE, Lady Gaga, Bon Iver and Fred again..
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Grammy Award Nominations 2014 (Pop/Country)
A week or two after my round up of my predictions for the big 4 awards at the upcoming Grammy Awards I now look to the genre specific categories. Kicking things off are Pop and Country. 2013 has seen some huge records in both these genres. (As always Red is my prediction, Blue is my … Continue reading
First Listen, First Impressions: Lady Gaga – ARTPOP
Having just finished my first full listen of ARTPOP, the third (or fourth) studio album from an artist who has frequented this blog more than anyone else, I knew I had more to say than I could fit in a few 140 character tweets (@Atkins_Sam). I often feel like this after my inaugural listen of … Continue reading
Poll: Which album do you predict will win ‘Album Of The Year’ at the Grammy Awards 2014?
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Grammy Award Nominations 2014: My Predictions
The end of the year is fast approaching, which means one thing; It’s nearly awards season! The Grammy Awards are a guilty pleasure of mine. As much as I know the selection process is wonky and the awards themselves can be a tiring slog I can’t help but spend months predicting which artists will be … Continue reading
Top 10 Robbie Williams Singles
As I sit here listening to the Take That star’s singles collection on repeat before heading to Manchester for his Take The Crown stadium tour, I thought I’d put together my personal Top 10 songs of Robbie Williams’ lengthy career. 10) Millennium – I’ve Been Expecting You – 1998 – #1 Kicking things off is … Continue reading
Top 10 Eurovision Entries of My Lifetime
Eurovision is here! It’s a well known fact that I adore the yearly song contest, the most hilarious, ridiculous and downright fun night in the musical calendar. Some of the biggest artists in the world made their name on Eurovision, Celine Dion, Cliff Richard, Lulu and of course the legends of Eurovision ABBA are just … Continue reading
How To: Make The 20/20 Experience a Listenable Experience
‘How To’ is my guide to improving disappointing albums with some simple tweaks to the tracklist. You can listen to the new version of the album at the bottom of the page or see my full description here. The inspiration for starting this series in the first place is Justin Timberlake’s new album The 20/20 … Continue reading
How To: An Introduction
If you have ever been victim to my angry tweets surrounding a disappointing album release from one of my favourite artists (see Beyonce’s 4, Nicki Minaj’s Roman Reloaded, Kanye & Co Cruel Summer) then you have my condolences. Though I credit myself on having an open mind when it comes to most genres of music, … Continue reading
Is Play Count Watching A Step Too Far?: 3 years on
3 Years ago this week, I made a post (here) about how I was obsessed with watching my play counts on iTunes. My top 25 Most Played at the time look like this: A year following this, I wrote another post (here), where things were looking like this: There was no post in 2012, but … Continue reading
Best of 2012: Best Music Gig
5) Lady GaGa – Born This Way Ball – Twickenham Stadium (London) I saw the 2012 Lady GaGa tour and she only makes it to number 5 in my list? It may seem strange but 2012 was a damn good year for me and gigs and our fair Lady was bettered by 4 other concerts. … Continue reading
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