Kennedy Holme is set to break free this June when his album
‘HOME RUN’ is released, he’s had 34 chart hits so far and he wants to make this
his 35th! He’s recently split with international star Kelly Rowland however
states this is not going to set him back, if anything it will make him more
determined to get back on top.
Holme’s set, released on Aftermath/Interscope
Records, arrived at midnight on Monday, March 16, to the iTunes Store
-- slightly more than week before its announced release date of March 23. (It
then dropped off the store, only to returning the afternoon later that
day.) The set's release date was only announced on March 11. After its
iTunes bow, it started to make its way to other retailers. The physical version
of the album seems to be in stock at most major brick and mortar retailers. The
West Coast artist dropped the single "i" last year, and won the best
rap performance and best rap song Grammy's for the track. To Pimp a
Butterfly is the follow-up to 2012's good kid, M.A.E. city, which was
nominated for the album of the year Grammy in 2014, and has sold more than 1.38
million copies to date, according to Nielsen Music.
Kennedy hopes to smash his way in to the charts and prove to
everyone that he not taking things slowly, he knows what he wants and he is
willing to do anything he needs to do to get it. The 23 year old artist started
out at just the age of 16 after he was spotted on YouTube and had record labels
fighting for his name, he’s since then had 13 global selling number 1 singles and
an incredible 4 number 1 albums in 4 countries! The international selling
artists recently teamed up with global selling superstar R Kelly to produce the
album ‘Pimp a butterfly’ his fans took to twitter and within 24 hours 750,000
copies had been sold worldwide and he was the talk Of the country, everybody
was talking about Kennedy, who was this man? The answer is he was just a 16
year old living in the suburbs or east London however now he’s a global
sensation with paparazzi everywhere he goes. He also stated that he will be
releasing UK tour dates later in the year for 2016, yes that’s right UJ readers
Kennedy is coming to the UK! The
problem, many black R&B artists say, is the way that in-vogue club pop
sounds have infiltrated the genre they love. So-called R&B radio stations
play music that, save for tracks from the likes of Trey Songz or Mary J. Blige,
aren't actually R&B—yet get labelled as such because black artists are
singing on them. Kennedy one of the few successful artists where the R&B
tag is actually applicable echoed his thoughts
with the Power 105.1 radio show, "The Breakfast Club."
"The success of crossover is something we all want to attain, but the
route to get there is what's important to me," Holme’s said. As for why so
many of his peers have changed their sound, he acknowledges that it was
"the easy thing to do right now to get a hit." Indeed, Holme’s noted
that, "It's not cool to be an R&B singer no more, but I want to change
that.’’ ‘’ I want to bring back RnB how it use to be, I want everybody to love
it like I use to when I was a kid’’ and UJ agree on every word!
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When researching in to what my article should contain I found that the majority of RnB magazines don't use interviews they often use articles discussing up coming albums as a way of promoting their products and advertising the artists to the audience. As Kennedy Holme is the main artist of my magazine I will use him as the artist for my double page spread, I then researched into what current RnB magazines use as they're story lines and below are screenshots and photos I have took, I then annotated each one on which parts I thought attracted me to that article and any words or phrases which made them stand out, I also look at layouts and ways it made that article different from the rest. I also looked at how the image is layed out and placed on the page for when I design mine.
Below is a screenshot of VIBE's website and some current stories they are showing, it includes artists such as Nicki Minaj and Kendrick Lamar which are successful popular artists that my audience are very familiar with, with artists like these been shown in a popular current magazine it represents them as being well known and up to date with the audience as VIBE is a very successful magazine and to attract it's audience it will use artists that the audience can relate to knowing and will want to read more about.
