Use of Web 2.0

YouTube- YouTube is a big basis for artists, new music videos a chance for fans to see what their artists is doing with Vevo. YouTube has quickly become the place where you can search any artist and find music or a music video for the artist.







There are various channels which contain the artists songs and music videos, some artists create their own channels and share their songs etc..
Channels such as SBtv, Link-up Tv, GRM daily, these are some of the channels that help promote the artists and their new track



These are three main channels which share the genre we based our video around.They all have their own website which all contain various posts of the artists relevant to our genre. These sites also consists of blogs and posts of recent activities and various things which keep fans up to date, also various things also are on these sites, such as rumor's or little snippets into what an artist could be doing. One other site which i haven't mentioned is BBC radio, they branch off into different channels and the main one that would link in with our genre is Radio 1xtra, which focuses on urban charts and various genres of music. They also consist of 'fire in the booth' which is a freestyle session for artists, and artists of the genre we have focused on have been involved and apart of fire in the booth.
grmdaily.com
thelinkup.com

sbtv.co.uk/

 a music streaming site is also very popular https://soundcloud.com this site mainly shares mixtapes 

so any mixtapes produced by the artists usually are posted on soundcloud

The web has had a massive impact on these artists Google being a big part of it, 

or web 2.0 and social media. 

You can search any artist and could find their fan page, their website(if they have one) a youtube page and links to their music.

Artists are very heavily linked in with social media and use it to reach out and keep their fans updated.

The use of Twitter and facebook are also key, most of their upcoming events are on these websites and make it

ac-knowledgeable for their fans to know when and where they are performing. 

Similar artists

There are artists who have linked up with our group and also have similarities in their lyrics relating to some of the same ideas. This links the artists to having a good link between them and fans who are interested in the other then get interest in the group we have chosen. These artist also share the fact they all come from the UK and either live in the same city(London) or keep good contact to feature on eachothers projects.

Skepta

 Joseph Junior Adenuga (born 19 September 1982, better known by his stage name Skepta, is an English rapper, grime artist, songwriter and record producer of Nigerian descent. e is most commonly known for releasing grime music. He released his debut studio album Greatest Hits in late 2007 and his second, Microphone Champion in 2009, both independently. He is also the founder of the grime group BBK(Boy Better Know) this was formed with his brother JME also a grime artist.
BBK has featured in various places around the country as well as having artists from London they also have artists from Birmingham and Manchester. As well as being part of that group Skepta has also been known for his clash with Devilman another grime artist, this clash has been on going for a few years and has been noted as one of the longest and most remember in the history of this genre. Skepta has also joined forces with other artists such as Stormzy another artist coming from the borough of London. His fan base is rapidly and always increasing as he does worldwide tours his latest one being in the US.
Skepta has four studio albums released:

• Greatest hits (2007)
• Microphone champion(2009)
• doin' it again(2011)
• Konnichiwa(2014)

These are his current albums which have been released he also has mixtapes which have been released. Mixtape-a compilation of favourite pieces of music, typically by many different artists, recorded on to tape or another medium by an individual.
Mixtapes:

• Been there done that(2010)
• Community payback(2011)
• Blacklisted(2012)

Skepta is also signed to three labels:

• Boy Better Know (2005-present)
• 3 Beat Records(2010-present)
• Universal Island(2011-present)

As well as being apart of the group BBK Skepta and the group brought out merchandise such as clothing line, phone cases, posters and more items.







Skepta's songs have been in the charts and his single 'that's not me' got into the top 40 and stayed in spot #21 for a period of 2 weeks in 2014 in the official charts list.


 
His other single 'shutdown' spent 4 weeks on the charts, from the picture you can see that the single was in the top 100 4 times, then moved up to the top 75 3 places and then finally made it into the top 40 and position #39 where it stayed for 2 weeks. This single and his other one 'that's not me' were very popular in the download charts and both made reasonable progress with the numbers it produced.

Stormzy

Michael Omari (born 26 July 1993), better known by his stage name Stormzy, is an British MC who makes both grime and rap music. Stormzy came on to the music scene in 2013 with his EP, however he made it big with his album 'Dreamers Disease' in 2014, this album burst onto the scene and his popularity increased gradually, stormzy has also feauted with other artists such as chipmunk(chip), professor green,wiley and many others. Most recently festivals such as wireless, itunes and reading have been destinations for live performances, wireless festival which took place in early july feautured stormzy who performed along with various other artists, he is also starting to do worldwide tours as well most recently travelling from Croatia to Australia and then to South Africa. His popularity gradually increasing as his best know songs 'shut up' 'know me from' and 'wickedskengman' have risen in the charts to such places as 2nd in the independent charts. Stormzy came onto the grime scene in 2010 with videos on YouTube and channels which were promoting artists from grime, hip-hop or R'n'B genre.
 
http://thelinkup.com/


http://sbtv.co.uk/


Stormzy has a mixtape as well:

• 168: the mixtape.

This was released in 2013 and this helped with his promotion as an grime artist.

He also has his own merchandise which consists of posters, hoodies/t-shirts, phone cases and more.
 
Stormzy has featured on a lot of artists album's in the past two years some of these artists consist of :

• angel
• wiley
• nick Jonas
• p money
• big narstie
• jadakiss
• wretch 32
• yungen
• professor green

These are some of the names accountable for helping and introducing Stormzy to world of music gradually boosting his popularity with each artist he got involved with.
 
Here are the albums available for Stormzy on ITunes and also a list of all the top songs which he has either published or features in and these are the ones which have been bought most.

Stormzy and his single 'wickedskengman4' has been rising in the charts moving up places rapidly by each week. In the picture above his single have moved up to #14 position on the iTunes singles chart.
it later dropped 4 places which left it in #18 position on the official UK charts, Stormzy being overwhelmed with this achievement left another message for his fans "I can’t even speak right now. Too emotional. WickedSkengMan 4 charted at no.18 in the official UK Charts. to those that supported…"




Even all the buys from ITunes have moved his songs placing up an a very quick speed, in September a quote was released by stormzy "NUMBER 2 ON THE OFFICIAL iTUNES CHART!!!!! LETS GET THIS TO NUMBER 1 PLEASE KEEP SUPPORTING THIS IS MENTAL!!"

Giggs

Nathaniel Thompson (born 11 May 1983), better known by his stage name Giggs, is an English rapper with Caribbean roots. Giggs has been active on the music scene since 2005, and released his debut album in 2008 'Walk in da Park', from that point his career and popularity increased. He is assigned to 3 labels; Takeover entertainment; SN1 Records and XL Recordings, his first album was released with SN1 records. Through his career he was involved with a number of artists and continued to increase his stock as a grime artist, SN1 records which he founded with his peers who are Gunna Dee, Joe Grind, Spender and Young Giggs (YG), Kyze and Tiny Boost, this group gradually got better and more popular as they produced albums.
In the same year of his debut studio album Giggs was nominated for the best British act at the BET awards, he won the award and this only helped his image grow as an artist. After his first album Giggs started featuring in other artists tracks with a number of appearances on artists tracks such as Skepta, JME, chipmunk(chip), Wiley and many others. His second album was released in 2010 and was called 'Let em ave it', this album brought more attention immediately for Giggs and found himself in the same year featuring on other artists songs yet again, the same artists mentioned previously, used Giggs again and link was created between these artists and this genre.
Giggs' third album was released in 2013 'when will it stop' this album caught interest of various artists again, however this album had a deeper understanding to it. This album and his most recent one to date relates to the battle between law enforcement and those out on the street.
His most recognizable and recent appearance was this year where he featured in JME's track 'Man don't care', this has been a huge hit this year and sent the music scene crazy and has racked up 12.5 million views since its release 7 months ago. Giggs has been nominated for a mobo award twice and in 2010 and 2011 but didnt win either year.

He has also released a number of mixtapes :

• SN1 – The Beginning (with Gunna Dee & Joe Grind) (2007)
• Hollowman Meets Blade (with Blade Brown) (2007)
• Best of Giggs (The Real Meaning) (2008)
• Bloody Raw (2008)
• Ard Bodied (with Dubz) (2008)
• Best of Giggs 2 (2009)
• Who Said That? (2009)
• Best of Giggs 3 (2010)
• Another Quick One (2010)
• Take Your Hats Off (hosted by DJ Whoo Kid) (2011)
• Every Angle Friday (2011)
• The Final Straw (2011)
• Best of Giggs 4 (2013)
• STR8 Murkin (2014)
• THE SN1 FOLDER (with T.BOOST KYZE FIX GUNNA BDK FRENCHY LE BOSS ML JOE GRIND) (2015)

He has also released a number of singles 

Slow songs in 2009

Don't go there in 2010

Look what the cat dragged in 2010

Hustle on in 2010

(is it Gansta?)yes,yes,yes in 2013

Look what the cat dragged in is his most recognizable song which loads of people can relate to this artist.