Music is more than a song or a certain record. Nowadays, music has a strong industry behind it and it's much more than selling an artist. Big things happened and we chose our top of Moments in the music industry of 2013.
David Bowie, the (highly expected) Return
In the morning of his 66th birthday, David Bowie surprised the world, breaking a 10-year-musical-silence with the song Where Are We Now? for his record The Next Day, released later in March.
My Chemical Romance, the end of (modern) punk
The iconic punk/rock band released a press release about the end of the band, on March 22, 2013, on their website.
The post can be read here. Next March 25, 2014, after a year of their announcement they'll release a greatest hits entitled May Death Never Stop You, in their own words "We hope you take the journey with us into MCR's past, and enjoy the small taste of what might have been."
Miley Cyrus, the change of the (little) girl
The biggest discussion of 2013 was, unquestionably, the (huge) change of Miley Cyrus's music and image.
Miley Cyrus started the "scandal" with We Can't Stop, marking the beginning of Miley's musical change that is followed her "dirty south hip-hop" Bangerz. She also counts with Wrecking Ball - the video that shocked for being so off-topic - and recently, Adore You.
Anxiously waiting to see how everything is going to work out in 2014!
P!nk, Billboard's Woman of the year
Last December 10, P!nk accepted the award for 2013 Billboard's Woman of the year in Music.
On her acceptance speech, she said "It's been an incredible year and I feel grateful to radio for sticking by me, and to the fans and friends and all of the incredible talent that I was fortunate enough to work with for this album."
During this year, P!nk's last record The Truth About Love became her first number 1 album on the Billboard's charts, four successful and achieving singles and a worldwide tour with more than 140 dates.
Justin Bieber, the (early) Retirement
On Christmas night, the 19-year-old Canadian musician tweeted "My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring". A few days earlier, he made a similar statement during an interview to a radio station.
Other tweets were added with a different speech, leaving in doubt the big question "Is Justin Bieber retiring?"
Without further confirmation or statements, beliebers say it's a "joke" adding their idol won't be retiring any soon.
Waiting for the next chapters...
Lorde
One of the biggest surprises of 2013 - her minimalism, her rudeness image and her raw vocals caught me of guard.
She is a lot of things - the press has seen her as beauty and beast, but "one of my favourite things is her iconic and very characteristic voice for being so raw, so masculine and yet so pure and graceful."
Her uncommon look, her way of being so teen and so mature and off-beauty is inspiring and I honestly hope she continues around. She is damn talented, she has a bright future in music industry if she continues to be this particular, this one of a kind.
Lou Reed
"On October 27th, the music world lost one of its most important figures."
That's how we started our goodbye to Lou Reed.
An artist that is going to be missed for his rawness, his strength, his silence and fight to talk about music. Music was his world.
Lou Reed once said “Without music, we might as well close the planet. Music is the lifeblood of everything. If we didn’t have music, we might as well be dead.”
Your music will live on, nonetheless... you will be missed, Lou.
Read our retrospective, written by Diogo, here.
David Bowie, the (highly expected) Return
In the morning of his 66th birthday, David Bowie surprised the world, breaking a 10-year-musical-silence with the song Where Are We Now? for his record The Next Day, released later in March.
My Chemical Romance, the end of (modern) punk
The iconic punk/rock band released a press release about the end of the band, on March 22, 2013, on their website.
The post can be read here. Next March 25, 2014, after a year of their announcement they'll release a greatest hits entitled May Death Never Stop You, in their own words "We hope you take the journey with us into MCR's past, and enjoy the small taste of what might have been."
Miley Cyrus, the change of the (little) girl
The biggest discussion of 2013 was, unquestionably, the (huge) change of Miley Cyrus's music and image.
Miley Cyrus started the "scandal" with We Can't Stop, marking the beginning of Miley's musical change that is followed her "dirty south hip-hop" Bangerz. She also counts with Wrecking Ball - the video that shocked for being so off-topic - and recently, Adore You.
Anxiously waiting to see how everything is going to work out in 2014!
P!nk, Billboard's Woman of the year
Last December 10, P!nk accepted the award for 2013 Billboard's Woman of the year in Music.
On her acceptance speech, she said "It's been an incredible year and I feel grateful to radio for sticking by me, and to the fans and friends and all of the incredible talent that I was fortunate enough to work with for this album."
During this year, P!nk's last record The Truth About Love became her first number 1 album on the Billboard's charts, four successful and achieving singles and a worldwide tour with more than 140 dates.
Justin Bieber, the (early) Retirement
On Christmas night, the 19-year-old Canadian musician tweeted "My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring". A few days earlier, he made a similar statement during an interview to a radio station.
Other tweets were added with a different speech, leaving in doubt the big question "Is Justin Bieber retiring?"
Without further confirmation or statements, beliebers say it's a "joke" adding their idol won't be retiring any soon.
Waiting for the next chapters...
Lorde
One of the biggest surprises of 2013 - her minimalism, her rudeness image and her raw vocals caught me of guard.
She is a lot of things - the press has seen her as beauty and beast, but "one of my favourite things is her iconic and very characteristic voice for being so raw, so masculine and yet so pure and graceful."
Her uncommon look, her way of being so teen and so mature and off-beauty is inspiring and I honestly hope she continues around. She is damn talented, she has a bright future in music industry if she continues to be this particular, this one of a kind.
Lou Reed
"On October 27th, the music world lost one of its most important figures."
That's how we started our goodbye to Lou Reed.
An artist that is going to be missed for his rawness, his strength, his silence and fight to talk about music. Music was his world.
Lou Reed once said “Without music, we might as well close the planet. Music is the lifeblood of everything. If we didn’t have music, we might as well be dead.”
Your music will live on, nonetheless... you will be missed, Lou.
Read our retrospective, written by Diogo, here.
Other highlights: That The XX are amazing, we all know that... The band used their uniqueness and organised their own festival, entitled night + day, "in three of the world's most unique locations" Lisboa, Berlin and London.
Wouldn't it be good to have other bands and artists inviting other bands they are friends with or that admire and organize more festivals like this one?
Wouldn't it be good to have other bands and artists inviting other bands they are friends with or that admire and organize more festivals like this one?
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