Sara Bareilles - Kaleidoscope Heart
Kaleidoscope Heart is the second major-label release from Sara Bareilles. Her first album, Little Voices, instantly became a top seller on iTunes when it was released and was certified Gold less than a year later. “Love Song” was the driving force behind the success of that album and it remains her biggest hit.
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Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
Teenage Dream is Katy Perry’s sophomore album and her chance to prove to the world that – and I’m paraphrasing – she didn’t get lucky with the first album because this is what she’s meant to do. When you’re hiring the best pop producers in the world to write the songs on your album, though, it’s gotta be damn near impossible to fail.
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Christina Aguilera - Bionic
Christina Aguilera claims that her personal experiences shape each album that she releases and that she captures those characteristics to use in her music. She has become an actress, a wife and a mother in the four years between Back to Basics and Bionic, so one might expect all kinds of changes in her music.
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Marina & the Diamonds - The Family Jewels
The Family Jewels is the first album from Marina & the Diamonds. The Marina in question is Marina Diamandis and the Diamonds – while originally just based on her Greek last name – is now the term she uses to refer to her fans.
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Ke$ha - Animal
Ke$ha has appeared out of what seems like nowhere with an electropop dance album that sounds surprisingly fresh …considering the fact it took seven years to complete.
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Norah Jones - The Fall
The Fall is the fourth studio album from Norah Jones and if it continues the trend of her other albums – selling about half as many copies as the one before it and hitting number one on the charts – then sales on her new number one record should only reach about three and a quarter million copies worldwide.
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Cobra Starship - Hot Mess
Cobra Starship is a pop punk band that exploded onto the scene after writing "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)" for the movie that made the internet its bitch in 2006. That one song pretty much ensured the success of the band while simultaneously locking in their style…and they make the exact type of music that you would expect from a band closely associated with Snakes on a Plane.
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Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night
As Day Follows Night is the third full-length album from Australian singer-songwriter, Sarah Blasko. Her last album, What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have, won an ARIA Award for “Best Pop Release” in 2007. The ARIA Awards are the Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards and Sarah Blasko has been nominated seven times since she released her debut EP in 2002.
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Florence + the Machine - Lungs
Florence Welch is the first half of Florence + the Machine and the Machine part refers to whoever (or whatever) she decides should accompany her during her musical escapades. She describes herself as being “musically inept,” but that presumably applies to musical instruments because the things she does with her voice are definitely musical.
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Sara Lov - Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming
Sara Lov decided that she wanted to be a singer when she was six years old, but that is only one characteristic of her unusual upbringing. She was born in Hawaii and moved to L.A. with her mother when her parents divorced. Then, at the age of four, she was kidnapped by her father and taken to Israel against her will, where she lived for another ten years before being repatriated by an uncle.
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