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ON THE RADAR MISHA B
RARING TO RETURN to music following her X Factor fame and fresh from a recent school tour, Misha B is set to unleash her feisty attitude on the UK charts, following the release of Why, Hello World, which earned her the accolade of Mixtape of the Week on BBC Radio 1Xtra in April. Debut single Home Run is sched-
uled for release on July 15 through Relentless Records. Speaking to Music Week about choosing it as her official debut release, Misha said: “Everybody at the label was like “This has to be the single” I feel like it’s a great starting point and it really captures my sound.”
"It started off a sad song
inspired by my ex but then elements of fun were added!" The element of fun is a running
theme for Misha as she describes her autumn-release debut album which features collaborations with top UK producers TMS, MNEK and Naughty Boy, as fresh, fun and funky. “I hate the word journey,” she
muses “but that's what my music is! [The album] will showcase all my different flavours.” And her infamous rapping will
be featured too "every now and again. With my rapping, I do it when it feels right.”
HE SAID / SHE SAID
clear that we do not believe Morrissey is a racist… we apologise to Morrissey if he or anyone else misun- derstood our piece
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The NME says sorry, sort of, for a 2007 article. The Mozfather believed the 'twisted' piece painted a vulgar picture. So much so he took NME to court. The pair finally settled last week.
We wish to make Strutting on to the X Factor audi-
tion stage to belt out an attitude- laden version of Aretha Franklin’s Respect in 2011, Misha wasn’t one of the show’s contestants that audiences were quick to forget. Whilst making it to fourth place and garnering comparisons to Chaka Khan (or Jackie Chan as she thought Louis Walsh said), the soulful songstress won legions of fans and stands today with a more than 230,000 Twitter followers, 63,000 Facebook fans and over 7 million views on YouTube. Her most famous fan, who has kept in touch, is mentor Kelly Rowland – Misha revealed: “Kelly’s been real-
LIVE & RELEASE SCHEDULE
JULY 15 DEBUT SINGLE: Home Run SECOND SINGLE tbc DEBUT ALBUM tbc LABEL Katie Collard 020 7361 8421 and Shabs Jobanputra, Relentless / Sony MANAGEMENT Char Grant, Modest! Management LIVE July 12 Yoyo, Notting Hill Arts Club
ly supportive, she’s been support- ive ever since I left the show.” Misha’s named her army of fol-
lowers Aliens: “They’re out of this world," she explained. “I think the world alien means not being afraid to stand alone and be yourself. I say my fans are aliens because they support me regardless of
what they hear about me.” Living to her personal motto
‘dream big’ her ambitions stretch further than single sales: “I’d like to one day perform at the Brits or on BET [the Black Entertainment Network]. That’s one of the sta- tions that I’ve grown up watching, so fingers crossed, one day…”
TAKE A BOW TEAM KEANE Label: Island
General manager: Jon Turner A&R: Louis Bloom
Manager: Adam Tudhope, assisted by Beth Louise Warren - Everybody's Management
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HITWISE Primary Ticketing Chart
POS PREV EVENT 1 1 COLDPLAY 2 3 ELTON JOHN 3 5 MADNESS 4 6 TOM JONES 5 2 JESSIE J 6 20 ED SHEERAN 7 NEW ALFIE BOE 8 10 V FESTIVAL 9 NEW BLINK 182 10 NEW WESTLIFE 11 NEW STONE ROSES 12 15 ONE DIRECTION 13 9 T4 ON THE BEACH 14 19 OLLY MURS 15 7 JUSTIN BIEBER 16 NEW T IN THE PARK 17 18 CAPITAL SUMMERTIME BALL 18 NEW LADY GAGA 19 NEW RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 20 NEW BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
VIAGOGO Secondary Ticketing Chart POS EVENT
1 THE STONE ROSES 2 BLINK 182 3 MADONNA 4 ONE DIRECTION 5 WESTLIFE 6 COLDPLAY 7 ED SHEERAN 8 JAY-Z 9 JESSIE J 10 BEACH BOYS 11 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 12 LADY GAGA 13 USHER 14 PEARL JAM 15 STEREOPHONICS 16 NICKELBACK 17 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 18 BEN HOWARD 19 NICKI MINAJ 20 KEANE
Marketing: Chris Scott - Island Records
THE LOWDOWN
Album: Strangeland Highest chart position: 1
MUST-SEE MUSIC TICKETING CHARTS
TIXDAQ Primary Ticketing Chart
POS PREV EVENT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1 4
2 8 9
NEW BEACH BOYS
NEW DONNY AND MARIE OSMOND ONE DIRECTION OLLY MURS
NEW ED SHEERAN NEW MADNESS LADY GAGA NICKI MINAJ LIONEL RICHIE
10 18 JESSIE J 11 7
STONE ROSES
12 14 TOM JONES 13 NEW EMELI SANDE 14 16 V FESTIVAL 15 10 NOEL GALLAGHER 16 17 MADONNA 17 NEW JENNIFER LOPEZ 18 20 GEORGE MICHAEL 19 NEW BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 20 NEW HARD ROCK CALLING
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