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38-553: [REDACTED] Look up banga in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Banga may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Banga (album) , a 2012 album by Patti Smith A song by Ali Shaheed Muhammad from the 2004 album Shaheedullah and Stereotypes The name of Pontius Pilate's dog in Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita BANGA ,

76-532: A digital download on April 1, 2012. Banga was recorded throughout 2011 at Electric Lady Studios in New York. Speaking of the recording process, Smith said: "there's a certain innocence recording your first things that you can't recapture but we recorded this album in the same studio -- in Jimi Hendrix ' studio Electric Lady -- with the same personnel, the same sense of idealism and even, by coincidence,

114-692: A collective of Angolan architects Food [ edit ] Banga (soup) , a type of meat, fish and palm fruit soup from Southern Nigeria Agastache rugosa , a culinary herb known as banga in Korea Places [ edit ] Banga, Aklan , a municipality in the Philippines Banga, Angola , municipality in Angola Banga, Burkina Faso , a town in Burkina Faso Banga, Entebbe , Uganda Banga, India ,

152-632: A response to expanding technology and needs of customers who wanted and/or needed easy, quick access to music. Their business models respond to the "download revolution" by making legal services attractive for users. Even legal music downloads have faced a number of challenges from artists, record labels and the Recording Industry Association of America . In July 2007, the Universal Music Group decided not to renew their long-term contracts with iTunes. This decision

190-953: A town and nagar panchayat in India Banga Assembly Constituency Banga, Pakistan , a town in Punjab, Pakistan Banga, South Cotabato , a municipality in the Philippines Vanga Kingdom (also known as the Banga Kingdom), an ancient name for the region of Bengal in India and Bangladesh People [ edit ] Banga Sainis , a sub clan of Saini people Ajaypal Singh Banga , CEO of Mastercard Harindarpal Banga , Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist Radek Banga , Czech-Romani singer Other uses [ edit ] Banga (pottery) , large earthen jars made in

228-401: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Banga (album) Inspired by Smith's "unique dreams and observations", the material on Banga focuses on "a wide range of human experience" and features songs about history, current affairs, death and nature. The album was announced alongside the release of its lead single, "April Fool", as

266-589: Is exhilarating." Evelyn McDonnell of the Los Angeles Times gave the album a positive review, describing Banga as "an encyclopedia’s worth of literary, mythic, historical, religious and musical references; doo-wop ballads; epic guitars and guitar epics; quivering poems in headstand pose" and awarded the album three and a half out of four stars. NME gave the album an eight out of ten rating, calling it "a compelling balance between poetry and musicality," further noting that "the instrumentation soundtracks

304-425: Is reportedly a birthday song for Smith's friend Johnny Depp . "Constantine's Dream" is a "ten-minute-plus improvisational meditation" and Smith has said " [in the song] there are many questions. It questions the role of artists in our society. The questions are there, and they're not answerable questions." "Maria" is partially based on actress Maria Schneider and the song Smith calls "the more emotional song on

342-523: Is rife with chaos and beauty." Both the album's musical structure and lyrical themes vary. "Amerigo" is based on "imagining the voyage of Amerigo Vespucci to the New World in 1497" and "Fuji-san" is a rock song in tribute to the people of Japan following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami . "This is the Girl" is referred to as "a classic ballad" in memory of English musician Amy Winehouse and "Nine"

380-649: The Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format . According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made US$ 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. According to the RIAA , music downloads peaked at 43% of industry revenue in

418-647: The United Kingdom and June 5 in the United States. The album was issued on CD and LP with a special edition CD including a 64-page hardcover book of images, lyrics and liner notes and a bonus track titled "Just Kids." Smith promoted the album with a 40-date European tour, beginning in Bergen , Norway on June 23 and concluding in London , United Kingdom on September 13. The tour included two legs in

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456-416: The Philippines Banga language , a language of Nigeria See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Banga Banga, Punjab (disambiguation) Bangla (disambiguation) Bengal (disambiguation) Vanga (disambiguation) Paschimbanga (disambiguation) (West Bengal) Bunga (disambiguation) Banka (disambiguation) Bangka (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

494-775: The RIAJ. The first was Songs for Japan (2011), a charity compilation album raising profits for the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami , which was certified gold for 100,000 downloads in June 2011. The second album was the Japanese language cast recording of the Frozen soundtrack, which sold 100,000 copies between its release in March 2014 and January 2015. In South Korea, Circle Digital Chart has been tracking digital sales since 2009. The most successful song according to their published data

532-422: The US in 2012, and has since fallen to 3% in 2022. Paid downloads are sometimes encoded with digital rights management that restricts copying the music or playing purchased songs on certain digital audio players. They are almost always compressed using a lossy codec (usually MPEG-1 Layer 3, Windows Media, or AAC), which reduces file size and bandwidth requirements. These music resources have been created as

570-866: The United Kingdom, one in June and another in September. Smith also performed at a number of summer festivals including the ZMF Festival in Freiburg , Germany Bospop in Weert , Netherlands Stockholm Music and Arts Festival in Stockholm , Sweden and Electric Picnic in Stradbally , Ireland. Banga was released to widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic , which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics,

608-438: The United States was held by Gwen Stefani 's " Hollaback Girl ", which sold over one million downloads, making it the first song to achieve platinum download status. As of July 2012 , the record for the best-selling downloaded single in the United States on the iTunes Store is held by The Black Eyed Peas 's " I Gotta Feeling ", which has sold over 8 million downloads. Soon after his death in 2009, Michael Jackson became

646-778: The United States. Their stated goal is to support artists' creativity and help them not be cheated out of money by illegal downloading. The Recording Industry Association of America launched its first lawsuits on the 8th of September 2003, against individuals who illegally downloaded music files from the Kazaa FastTrack network. Two years after it began, the campaign survived at least one major legal challenge. The RIAA said it filed 750 suits in February 2006 against individuals downloading music files without paying for them in hopes of putting an end to Internet music piracy . The RIAA hopes their campaign will force people to respect

684-459: The album a positive review, called Banga "the best Patti Smith album since Horses " and summarised that "no one else makes rock records as rich, poetic and sexy as this." Drowned in Sound awarded the album a seven out of ten rating with reviewer Len Lukowska calling it "a bit of musical beauty, some interesting lyricism and a pinch of hippy bollocks – still distinctly Patti Smith" but criticised

722-415: The album received an average score of 81, based on 30 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Allmusic editor Thom Jurek awarded the album four out of five stars, writing that "the album is absent the dynamic, free-form chaos that marks her earlier recordings, but is better for it... it's not only provocative and expansive lyrically, but abundantly enjoyable musically." BBC reviewer Garry Mulholland gave

760-591: The album sold 430,000 digital copies. Adele's third studio album 25 became the fastest-selling album in a week in iTunes history after it was released on 20 November 2015. It sold 1.64 million digital copies in its first week (included preorders on the iTunes store since the release of the album's lead single "Hello" in October 2015). In 2006, the Recording Industry Association of Japan began issuing certifications for digitally released music in Japan, compiling data from

798-441: The album's "poetic feel," describing it as a "veer into the territory of overblown." Entertainment Weekly gave the album an A− rating and said it was "her most energized in years, if not decades." Kurt Orzeck of FILTER awarded the album an 88% rating, writing "the beatnik punk-poet sings, speaks, testifies and scats her way through her new batch of bangers, carrying her characters into new worlds... sometimes [the songs on

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836-413: The album's title: "for those who are curious, you can find what Banga is if you read The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov ." In The Master and Margarita , Banga is Pontius Pilate 's dog to whom Pilate could freely complain about the hemicrania that tortured him. Other songs on the album were also inspired by literature, particularly "April Fool," inspired by Nikolai Gogol . The photos within

874-411: The album] are whimsical, sometimes they are terrifying, but they are always true to the human spirit." The Guardian reviewer Dave Simpson awarded the album four out of five stars, describing the album as "a mixture of pop songs and poetic explorations, aided by the instantly resumed chemistry between Kaye's shimmering hooks and Smith's sensual vocals" and noted that "the collision of sound and language

912-474: The beginning of the 2000s Napster was sued due to mass infringement of music ownership copyrights by the record industry- a sue which issued a preliminary injunction for the service and was concluded by the closure of the Napster free music sharing between its users. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) oversees about 85 percent of published music production, distribution and manufacturing in

950-532: The booklet of the CD detail part of the album's composition, in late 2011 aboard the Costa Concordia , months before she capsized off the coast of Italy. Smith and Kaye were invited by Jean-Luc Godard to accompany him while he was shooting his film Socialisme . Smith makes a brief cameo appearance in the film. The Banga CD booklet includes photos taken of Smith and her band during their cruise. Banga

988-483: The copyrights of music labels and eventually minimize the number of illegal downloads. The Official Charts Company began to incorporate downloads in the UK Singles Chart on 17 April 2005, at which time Radio 1 stopped broadcasting the separate download chart, although the chart is still compiled. Initially this was on condition that the song must have a physical media release at the same time; this rule

1026-420: The early 2000s onwards. The best-selling song is Fukushima -based vocal group Greeeen 's song " Kiseki " (2008), which was certified for being legally downloaded four million times between 2008 and 2015, followed by R&B singer Thelma Aoyama 's " Soba ni Iru ne " (2008) featuring rapper SoulJa , which was certified for three million downloads between 2008 and 2014. Greeeen's song " Ai Uta " (2007) ranks as

1064-692: The first artist to sell over one million songs downloaded via the Internet in one week. However, Adele marks the most downloads sold by a single song in a week, with " Hello " selling 1.12 million copies in November 2015. Eminem 's seventh studio album, Recovery (2010), became the first album to sell one million digital copies. Beyoncé 's self-titled fifth studio album became the fastest-selling album within 24 hours in iTunes history after its release in December 2013. Within 24 hours of availability,

1102-461: The imagery, rather than simply buffering it with noise" and citing the album as Smith's strongest vocal performance. Pitchfork Media editor Lindsay Zoladz gave the album a 7.1 out of 10, writing, " Banga meditates on ideas about exploration and adventure" but noted that "the shorter, less assuming tracks that best capture that spirit of discovery" and said "though neither a high point nor a low point in her freewheeling, four-decade career, Banga has

1140-407: The record is coming out on the anniversary of when we recorded my debut album Horses in 1974. These type of things, I always take them as good signs." The sessions were produced by Smith, Tony Shanahan , Jay Dee Daugherty and Lenny Kaye . The material on Banga is "inspired by Smith's unique dreams and observations" and the album's lyrics are "a reflection of our complex world – a world that

1178-410: The record." Describing the song, Smith said: "it's the one that looks back on a beautiful time and sort of encapsulates the [1970s] in a certain way for me. It's a nice little R&B song, but an emotional song." Smith told Q that part of the album had been written on the ill-fated cruise ship Costa Concordia . In an interview on CBS News Sunday Morning on April 1, 2012, Smith explained

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1216-518: The same charm of Smith's best albums: It flits with the impressionistic fascinations of a single mind." Rolling Stone reviewer Will Hermes awarded the album three and half stars out of five, saying that Banga "has sweet moments of song" but "the real magic happens when the words start flying off the grooves," citing "Constantine's Dream" as the album's stand-out track. Shah Salimat from Mediacorp xinmsn ( MSN Singapore) said that Smith's voice "shines best unadorned for all to feel" and calls "Mosaic"

1254-446: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Banga . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Banga&oldid=1227450640 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1292-500: The third highest certified song, with 2.5 million downloads tracked between 2007 and 2009. Two more songs have sold more than two million paid downloads: Ayaka 's " Mikazuki " (2006) and Kobukuro 's " Tsubomi " (2007). The most successful ringtone in Japan is Moldovan-Romanian band O-Zone 's " Dragostea din tei " (2003), known locally as "Koi no Maiahi" ( 恋のマイアヒ ) , which was certified as having four million units sold. In Japan, only two albums have received digital certifications by

1330-665: The track "that will have you channeling your inner Stevie Nicks ." Music download A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download ) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer , portable media player , MP3 player or smartphone . This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression , particularly

1368-671: Was announced for released on April 1, 2012. The album's lead single, "April Fool," was released as a digital download on various online stores the same day. Prior to the album's release, Smith performed a one-off show at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin , Ireland with Sam Shepard on April 9 and debuted "This is the Girl" at a performance at the City Winery in New York on May 13. Banga was released on June 1 in Ireland, June 4 in

1406-557: Was fully lifted on 1 January 2007, meaning all download sales are now eligible in the chart. Music downloads have been measured by the Official Charts Company since 2004 and included in the main UK Singles Chart from 2005. Up to November 2022, the most-streamed song in the UK is " Someone You Loved " by Lewis Capaldi , with over 562 million streams. In November 2005, the record for the best-selling downloaded single in

1444-625: Was primarily based on the issue of pricing of songs, as Universal wanted to be able to charge more or less depending on the artist, a shift away from iTunes' standard—at the time—99 cents per song pricing. Many industry leaders feel that this is only the first of many show-downs between Apple Inc. and the various record labels. According to research by the website TorrentFreak , 38 percent of Swedish artists support file share downloading and claim that it helps artists in early career stages. Artists, including Swedish rock group Lamont, have profited from file sharing. The recording industry vs Napster: In

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