Saturday 26 March 2016

Big In 2016 (Groups)

It took a while to choose our final 6 groups to feature in this post but here are the groups we have chosen for our Big In 2016 (Groups).

1. Chasing Midnight (United Kingdom)
We have written about these guys a lot over the last year and their cover videos are still very popular! Whether taking on Zayn Malik's 'Pillowtalk' or Justin Bieber's 'Love Yourself, the talent of Chasing Midnight always comes through.
The group is always working on new songs, cover videos and entertaining things for their fans to enjoy. 

We just hope the group releases a song for fans to buy soon!






2. Union J (United Kingdom)
The last couple of months have been very interesting for Union J. With the announcement of George Shelly leaving the group, Josh presenting the ChartShow Awards, Jaymi working on a performing arts school and JJ working on a film, fans can be excited to see their favourite members working on solo projects but what about Union J?
The group have announced they are working on their 3rd album and it is rumoured they will announce a new member in the next couple of months.

Their last album 'You Got It All' did not chart as high as their debut album but did showcase amazing songs and a new direction. Such songs as 'Midnight Train', 'Yolo' and 'Central Park' are stand out tracks and not to forget the two top 10 singles from the album 'Tonight (We Live Forever)' and 'You Got It All'.

We feel that 2016 will be Union J's year and its about time for them to break other international markets too!






3. Sweet California (Spain)
Sweet California are a girl group from Spain. So far they have had 2 albums and have shared stages at music festivals with such artists as The Vamps, Iggy Azalea and Union J and had a song called Wonderwoman (featured on our blog) with American Rapper Jake Miller.
After changing a member of the group, the ladies are back with a re-release of their album 'Head For The Stars 2.0' as well as a new single 'Good Lovin'.

The ladies sing in both English and Spanish and have what it takes to be international superstars.






4. Brofaction (Austria)
Brofaction is a brothers-duo from Austria. Nico (21) and Laurin (17) are not only fantastic singers but also write music and play various instruments including piano and guitar. They have been surrounded by music since they were both young and Laurin was on Team Lena on The Voice of Germany Kids.
In 2015 they released their summer feel-good song 'Back at the Playground' which in our opinion, should be the summer hit for 2016 too and have been touring around Austria and Germany to promote their music.

But it is not only Austria and Germany who get to enjoy Brofaction's talent. There are now rumours that the guys are in talks to fly to the UK to record new songs as well as perform live gigs.

Until then, be sure to get your copy of 'Back at the Playground' from iTunes and stream it on Spotify and Apple Music!





5. All Saints (United Kingdom)
For anyone who is too young to remember the song 'Never Ever', we recommend you Youtube it. Any way, that was then and now the ladies of All Saints are back with new singles, an upcoming album and a tour!!!
All Saint's first single from their upcoming album 'Red Flag' (out 8th April) is the Shaznay Lewis written 'One Strike'. 
They have already performed on Alan Carr's chatty man and will be headlining their first live gig at KOKO in April. To follow this performance will be the 'Red Flag Tour' that takes place in October. During the tour they will perform some tracks from the new album as well as some of the greatest hits including 'I Know Where It's At', 'Pure Shores' and 'Black Coffee'.

There second single from 'Red Flag' is called 'One Woman Man' which is currently available on iTunes along with 'One Strike'.






6. Feurherz (Deutschland)
Someone call the fire fighters because its getting hot in here! German boy band Feuerherz have recently celebrated their 1st year as a band. The German Schlager/Pop band have been touring around Germany and Austria and enjoying the success of their single 'Verdammt Guter Tag' (Damn Good Day) and album 'Verdammt Guter Tag' as well as their multilingual Christmas single 'Merry Christmas' which was sung in German, English, Italian and Dutch.

The guys are currently on tour again and working on their second album.



 

Nick Jonas - Last Year Was Complicated

With everyone excited about eating loads of Easter chocolate eggs, what more would you need? Well how about the announcement of Nick Jonas' new album?
That's right, Nick Jonas has finally confirmed that he will be releasing his new album 'Last Year Was Complicated' on the 10th June. The anticipated follow up from the 'Levels' singer's last album 'Nick Jonas' released the first single from the new album called 'Close' feat. Tove Lo on the 25th March. As well as this feature, Nick has other songs featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Big Sean.

Nick will be touring with Demi Lovato, who he runs a record label with, and he will be performing some of the new songs from the album as well as his older hits such as 'Jealous', 'Levels' and 'Chains'.