Music You Should Know - Fall Edition!

After my last post a couple days ago, it's time to lighten the mood a bit and give you folks some highlights of what's hot right now...

I'm known as "Mr. Commercial" at work and my peers make fun of me a bit but I don't mind because there's no one else in that place who is as tapped into what people are downloading and what's current. I pride myself with my seasonal mixes based on how fresh they are and that I can mix in lesser known electronic artists that my friends would never hear otherwise.

Fall is always the biggest release time of the year. Many albums that get released in October and November are "events" and will do well simply just based on hype. Aside from new records by major hit makers, some artists also choose to release greatest hits albums around mid November with the intention of making some big sales with holiday gift buyers. The season is about to kick off this Tuesday with the release of Kings of Leon's "Come Around Sundown" followed by Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" which is out the following Tuesday. Both artists have mass commercial appeal and both albums have been widely anticipated from school girls to hockey dad's nationwide. Not to be outdone, November has some big hitters too from Rihanna's "Loud" to Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" to Ne-Yo's "Libra Scale". Pink and Nelly Furtado are just two of many artists "hits" packages being released. Robyn announced just recently that she will be releasing the "ultimate" Body Talk album in late November. This would be her third release this year. She has been doing these highly successful EP's every few months and she is getting lots of love from the gays. I love that we live in a world that would give someone like her another chance. Her singles this year "Dancing On My Own" and "Hang With Me" are near the top of my list of favourite tracks that have come out in 2010. Her new single "Indestructible" is gaining huge momentum as we speak (and featured on Autumn Beats).

We can't forget about holiday music. The biggest selling artist last year in the world was a beyond middle aged housewife from England. She returns this year with "The Gift" out November 9th - it's safe to say that this will be a huge release that could outsell almost everything else. For whatever reason people are drawn to Susan Boyle and whatever she does turns to gold or I should say multi-platinum in her case. Annie Lennox is also expected to do quite well with her holiday record "A Christmas Cornucopia" - one of my all time favourite versions of "Winter Wonderland" was sung by Annie back in 1987 so I'm interested too see what this album will be like. Mariah Carey decided that one holiday album from her just wasn't enough and is releasing "Merry Christmas to You II" in a few weeks. The cover is horribly airbrushed - I mean everyone knows she hasn't been that thin in years - I'm not sure at this point what the response will be to this release as she's been off her mark lately with her last two attempts.

Ok enough release talk - let's get you some goodies to checkout...

Hello - Martin Solveig ft Dragonette > doesn't everything start with "Hello"?
Broken (I'm Sorry) - Madonna < unreleased from "Celebration" sessions, produced by Oakenfold.
Heartbeat - Enrique Iglesias ft Nicole Scherzinger < loving his new stuff! 2nd single of pop bliss
Night Is Young - Nelly Furtado < lead single from her new greatest hits record
Shampain (Fred Falke Edit) - Marina and The Diamonds < newly released remix - fell in love after I saw the video
Indestructible (Radio Edit) - Robyn < given a new beat, fresh for the November release
Just The Way You Are (WestFunk & Steve Smart Radio Edit) - Bruno Mars < this song has exploded everywhere and it's not hard to understand why - great mix!!
Runaway - Kanye West < love him or hate him this song is da bomb! 2nd single from new record.
Grown Woman - Kelly Rowland < she can do no wrong it seems lately - 3rd single from an album that has still no release date?!?
Not Giving Up On Love - Armin van Buuren < features Sophie Ellis Bextor on vocals
MiddleDistanceRunner - Chicane ft Adam Young < geniuses
True Love [feat. Fisher) - George Acosta < this came out earlier this year but it's sexy
Teenage Dream (Manhattan Clique Edit) - Katy Perry < great pop song with an even better remix
Long Distance (Jody Den Broeder Edit) - Brandy < really hope this goes big for her as it came out this summer
Only Girl (In The World) - Rihanna < #1 song on iTunes for the last 4 weeks
Forever And A Day (Antoine Clamaran Video Mix) - Kelly Rowland < 4th single, didn't love the original but this mix makes it much better
Closer (Loverush UK! Edit) - Jes < 2nd single from Night Glow
Subconscious (Eric Kupper Edit) - Samantha James < 2nd single from Subconscious
Change Your Mind - Kylie Minogue < unreleased from Aphrodite, rumoured to be produced by Deadmau5
The Emergency - BT & Andrew Bayer < he's still going after all these years!
Crossfire (David Morales Edit) - Brandon Flowers < great remix of lead single of his solo debut

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