MP3 Music Downloads

Each album on the list finds a sweet spot between artistic brilliance, stylistic innovation, and cultural relevance. You could listen to the Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead hiding under a pillow fort in your bedroom (as Morrissey would no doubt prefer), or it could blow your mind in a crowded bar. Why? Because it pushes a unique vision from the margins to the mainstream (or the margins of the mainstream), reshaping both. Until someone new (a Wu-Tang Clan or White Stripes) emerges to redraw the margins all over again. These records tell us something different with every listen; even at their tiniest, they make private epiphanies feel like public events.

Spin 100 Albums 001-100

Popularity: 1% [?]

born January 31, 1981

Justin Timberlake is an American pop musician and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as two Emmy Awards. He got his big break when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez. Timberlake became famous in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the boy band ‘N Sync, whose launch was financed by Lou Pearlman.

As both a member of NSYNC and a solo artist, Southern superstar Justin Timberlake has played a major role in the teen pop explosion of the ’90s and 2000s. Like similar teen pop favorites — who have included the Backstreet Boys, C-Note, Christina Aguilera, Hanson, the Spice Girls, and Britney Spears — Timberlake usually doesn’t get much respect from rock critics (who, in many cases, tend to be very alternative-minded and anti-commercialistic). Regardless, he is adored by millions of fans, many of whom have been adolescent girls. Over the years, the teen market has had a lot of different sounds. In the ’70s, for example, artists like Donny Osmond, the Partridge Family, David Cassidy, and the DeFranco Family were aimed at teens — those were the bubblegum popsters one typically read about in Tiger Beat magazine back then. But Timberlake is part of the more modern school of teen pop, which is mindful of dance-pop, urban contemporary, and hip-hop and got started with the rise of New Kids on the Block, Debbie Gibson, and Tiffany in the late ’80s. New Kids, in fact, were the male group that paved the way for NSYNC as well as the Backstreet Boys and Take That (who were meant to be a British equivalent of New Kids). And just as Tiger Beat (the bible of bubblegum) was obsessed with the New Kids in the late ’80s, it would become equally obsessed with NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys in the ’90s.

Like Spears (who Timberlake became romantically involved with), Aguilera, and NSYNC’s JC Chasez, Timberlake got his start on the Disney Channel’s ’90s version of The Mickey Mouse Club. Timberlake and Chasez were on The Mickey Mouse Club simultaneously in their pre-NSYNC days, and they kept working together when NSYNC was formed. NSYNC got started in Orlando, FL, in 1996, when Timberlake and Chasez teamed up with Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Joey Fatone. Released by RCA/BMG in 1998, the vocal quintet’s self-titled debut album sold millions of copies in both the United States and Europe and contained the smash hits “I Want You Back” and “Tearing Up My Heart.” NSYNC’s second album, No Strings Attached, was released on Jive in 2000 and was even more commercially successful; No Strings Attached went double platinum in only one week, and the singles “Bye Bye Bye” and “This I Promise You” became major hits.

Jive released Celebrity, NSYNC’s third album, in 2001, and after that, Timberlake started recording as a solo artist. The singer had performed live as a solo artist before NSYNC, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that he actually recorded an album as a solo act. Justified, Timberlake’s first solo album, was released on Jive in November 2002. “Like I Love You,” the album’s first single, became a major hit and was followed by a second single, “Cry Me a River” (not to be confused with the melancholy Arthur Hamilton standard that was a hit for the late jazz singer/actress Julie London in 1955). Now a bona fide star — the album had reached number two on the Billboard 200 — and heartthrob to millions of girls,Timberlake continued his success by appearing on the Black Eyed Peas smash hit “Where Is the Love?” and in the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXVIII, where he pulled off part of co-performer Janet Jackson’s top in the now infamous “wardrobe malfunction” incident. That event, however, didn’t stop him from winning two Grammys that year, and though he stayed out of the studio for a few years in order to concentrate on acting opportunities, Timberlake returned to the music world in 2006 with his Prince-inspired FutureSex/LoveSounds, which featured production work from Timbaland and Rick Rubin, and was followed by a brief club tour. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide

Popularity: 1% [?]

P!nk Funhouse /Explicit Version/.

P!nk comes right on time in 2008 with her highly anticipated and provocatively personal Funhouse album, addressing both her public and private persona, as only P!nk can. Teaming once again with hitmakers Max Martin, Billy Mann, and others, P!nk is poised to leave another memorable mark worldwide! Since her debut in 2000, P!nk (Alecia Moore) has been widely hailed as a fearlessly talented singer, songwriter and the Pennsylvania native’s genre-defying creative risk-taking has propelled her to global stardom. To date, the chanteuse has sold 22 million albums cumulatively worldwide. 12 tracks.

Popularity: 85% [?]

Britney Spears launching her US tour in New Orleans last night in a suit looking like solid gold.

Perhaps Britney Spears was exploring different sides of her personality at her comeback show. Then again, she may have just been trying to find the right costume to flatter what is a rather fuller figure these days.

The 27-year-old singer’s fans didn’t seem to mind. More than 16,000 were there to welcome her back in New Orleans for her first tour for five years. 

Los Angeles Times critic Ann Powers wrote: ‘Her singing was dominated by a backing track.

‘Her moves were nothing special – defined by much strutting and stripper-like shimmying, with the minimum amount of acrobatics to prove her mettle as a dance-pop queen.’

MTV’s James Montgomery said: ‘At times, Britney herself is almost dwarfed by the spectacle… She brought the circus to her hometown, and it was a huge, sold-out, screaming success. 

Britney is hoping the tour will cement her comeback after a difficult few years, which saw her shave her head, have a messy custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline and was hospitalised twice for psychiatric evaluation.

Britney has been hard at work getting her body back after her out-of-shape appearance at the 2007 MTV Music Video Awards.

She has spent months in the dance studio practicing for the tour with the help of choreographers JaQuel Knight – who choreographed Beyonce Knowles’s Single Ladies – and Tony Testa.

The Circus tour runs for four months and covers the US, Canada and England, with plans to expand to the rest of Europe.

She will perform six gigs in London’s O2 arena from June 3 to 14.

Popularity: 71% [?]

• Boom Boom Pow by Black Eyed Peas.
• Poker Face by Lady GaGa.
• The Climb by Miley Cyrus.
• Just Dance by Lady GaGa.
• Right Round by Flo Rida.
• Gives You Hell by The All-American Rejects.
• Day ‘N’ Nite by Kid Cudi.
• Second Chance by Shinedown.
• Love Story by Taylor Swift.
• Kiss Me Thru The Phone by Soulja Boy Tell`em.
• We Made You by Eminem.
• I Know You Want Me (Calle O… by Pitbull.
• Blame It [Explicit] by Jamie Foxx featuring T-Pain.
• Lucky featuring Colbie Caillat by Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat.
• Hot N Cold by Katy Perry.
• Sugar [Feat. Wynter] by Flo Rida.
• 1, 2, 3, 4 by Plain White T’s.
• I’m Yours by Jason Mraz.
• Careless Whisper (single) by Seether.
• Viva La Vida by Coldplay.
• Halo by Beyonce.
• Dead And Gone [Feat. Justin… by T.I.
• You Found Me by The Fray.
• Single Ladies (Put A Ring O… by Beyonce.
• Heartless by Kanye West.

Popularity: 32% [?]