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Friendly Fires are an English indie rock band from St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. [1]

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Andrew Weatherall

Andrew James Weatherall (born 6 April 1963 in Windsor, Berkshire) is an English DJ, producer, and remixer.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Azari & III

Azari & III (pronounced "Azari and Third") were a Canadian music group formed in 2008, performing house, electronic and dance music.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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British Phonographic Industry

The BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, commonly known as the British Phonographic Industry or BPI, is the British recorded music industry's trade association.

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Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest is a sudden loss of blood flow resulting from the failure of the heart to effectively pump.

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Carl Craig

Carl Craig (born May 22, 1969) is an American electronic music producer, considered to be one of the most important names in the Detroit second generation of techno musicians.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Dance-punk

Dance-punk (also known as disco-punk or funk-punk) is a music genre that emerged in the late 1970s, and is closely associated with the post-punk and new wave movements.

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Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.

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Ed Macfarlane

Edward David Macfarlane (born 15 May 1984) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and the lead vocalist of the English electronic music band Friendly Fires.

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Florence and the Machine

Florence and the Machine (stylised as Florence + the Machine) are an English indie rock band that formed in London in 2007, consisting of vocalist Florence Welch, keyboardist Isabella Summers, and a collaboration of other musicians.

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Friendly Fires (album)

Friendly Fires is the debut album from British band Friendly Fires.

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Glasvegas

Glasvegas are a Scottish indie rock band from Glasgow.

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Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar.

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Gran Turismo 5

is the fifth game in the Gran Turismo racing video game series.

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Gucci

Gucci is an Italian luxury brand of fashion and leather goods, which is owned by the French holding company Kering.

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Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

Hans-Peter Lindstrøm (born 16 February 1973) is a Norwegian producer who works under the name Lindstrøm.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (often abbreviated Herts) is a county in southern England, bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south.

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Holy Ghost!

Holy Ghost! is an American synthpop duo from Brooklyn, New York City, consisting of Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel.

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Independent Albums

The Independent Albums chart (previously titled Top Independent Albums) ranks the highest-selling independent music albums and extended plays (EPs) in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Irish Albums Chart

The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track.

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Jump in the Pool

"Jump in the Pool" is the second single by Friendly Fires taken from the band's self-titled debut album Friendly Fires.

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Kiss of Life (Friendly Fires song)

"Kiss of Life" is a single by Friendly Fires, released on 11 August 2009.

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Kompakt

Kompakt is a Cologne-based electronic music independent record label and vinyl/CD distributor, owned by Wolfgang Voigt, Michael Mayer and Jürgen Paape.

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List of best-selling music artists

This list includes music artists with claims of 75 million or more record sales.

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London Forum

The London Forum, formerly known as the Town & Country Club, is a concert venue in Kentish Town, London, England owned by MAMA & Company.

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Mercury Prize

The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released in the United Kingdom by a British or Irish act.

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Mexico Ingles Airplay

Mexico Ingles Airplay is a record chart published weekly by Billboard magazine for English-language singles receiving airplay in Mexico.

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Music download

A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a home computer, MP3 player or smartphone.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company, also referred to as Official Charts (previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.

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Oricon Albums Chart

The Oricon Albums Chart is the Japanese music industry standard albums popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon.

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Pala (album)

Pala is the second album from British alternative dance band Friendly Fires.

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Paris (Friendly Fires song)

"Paris" is the second single by Friendly Fires taken from the band's self-titled debut album Friendly Fires.

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Perfume

Perfume (parfum) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds, fixatives and solvents, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent.

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Phenomenal Handclap Band

Phenomenal Handclap Band are a psychedelic soul band from New York City.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a punk rock music genre that maintains the aggression and intensity of hardcore punk but emphasizes a greater degree of creative expression initially inspired by post-punk and noise rock.

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Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and filmmaker.

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Radio 1's Live Lounge – Volume 4

Radio 1's Live Lounge – Volume 4 is a collection of live tracks played on Jo Whiley's former Radio 1 show.

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Reissue

In the music industry, a reissue (also re-release, orepackage, or re-edition) is the release of an album or single which has been released at least once before, sometimes with alterations or additions.

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Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London, England.

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Roundhouse (venue)

The Roundhouse is a performing arts and concert venue situated at the Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England.

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Scottish Singles and Albums Charts

The Scottish Singles Chart (Scots: Scots Singles Chairt, Scottish Gaelic: Cuairt Orain na h-Alba) and Scottish Albums Chart are charts compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on physical and digital sales in Scotland.

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Section 25

Section 25 are an English post-punk and electronic band, best known for the single "Looking From A Hilltop", with two different music videos, and their association with iconic Manchester record label Factory Records.

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Shoegazing

Shoegaze (or shoegazing, originally interchangeable with "dream pop"Nathaniel Wice / Steven Daly: "The dream pop bands were lionized by the capricious British music press, which later took to dismissing them as "shoegazers" for their affectless stage presence.", Alt. Culture: An A-To-Z Guide to the '90s-Underground, Online, and Over-The-Counter, p. 73, HarperCollins Publishers 1995) is a subgenre of indie and alternative rock that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s.

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Skam Records

Skam Records is an independent Electronic record label based in Manchester, England, founded by Andy Maddocks around 1990.

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Skeleton Boy

"Skeleton Boy" is the third single by Friendly Fires taken from the band's self-titled debut album Friendly Fires.

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Speech Debelle

Corynne Elliot (born 1983 in London, England), better known as Speech Debelle, is a British rapper signed to the Big Dada record label.

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St Albans

St Albans is a city in Hertfordshire, England, and the major urban area in the City and District of St Albans.

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St Albans School, Hertfordshire

St Albans School is an independent school in the city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, in the South East of England.

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Strangelove (song)

"Strangelove" is the eighteenth UK single by Depeche Mode, released on 13 April 1987 as the lead single from their sixth studio album Music for the Masses.

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Television advertisement

A television advertisement (also called a television commercial, commercial or ad in American English, and known in British English as a TV advert or simply an advert) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.

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The Advisory Circle

The Advisory Circle is an alias of electronic musician Jon Brooks (along with King of Woolworths).

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Soft Pack

The Soft Pack is an indie rock band from San Diego, United States.

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The South Bank Show

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show.

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Top Heatseekers

Top Heatseekers are "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine.

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Transmission (TV series)

Transmission (also known for sponsorship reasons as Transmission with T-Mobile) is a British television programme broadcast on Channel 4, offering live performances and interviews of famous music artists, that ran for three series between 2006 and 2007.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts

The UK Independent Singles Chart and UK Independent Albums Chart are charts of the best-selling independent singles and albums, respectively, in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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White Lies (band)

White Lies are an English post-punk band from Ealing, London.

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Wii Fit

is an exergaming video game designed by Nintendo's Hiroshi Matsunaga for the Wii home video game console.

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XL Recordings

XL Recordings is a British independent record label founded in 1989 by Richard Russell, Tim Palmer and Nick Halkes.

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Zane Lowe

Zane Lowe (born Alexander Zane Reid Lowe; 7 August 1973) is a New Zealand-born radio DJ, Live DJ, record producer, and television presenter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Fires

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