I was walking in NYC 10+ years ago and saw this band performing a street fair as far as I can remember. What I witnessed was two energetic frontman from Ireland wooing the crowd. I asked them for a demo and I posted them on Kings in 2003. Anyhow, I just heard they signed to Interscope and will hit the road with P!NK in October, and November and will headline in Australia.
Check out the video for the track Get On It by The Kin.

Lorde (Royals) – 51,022
Katy Perry (Roar) – 28,656
Miley Cyrus (Wrecking Ball) – 27,992
Avicii (Wake Me Up) – 21,282
Lady Gaga (Applause) – 13,548
Britney Spears (Work B**ch) – 12,310
Katy Perry (Walking On Air) – 11,022
One Republic (Counting Stars) – 9,837
Luke Bryan (That’s My Kind of Night) – 10,133
Passenger (Let Her Go) – 8,682
Panic! At the Disco (Miss Jackson) – 2,585
John Legend (All of Me) – 2,499

For instance, Katy Perry’s single ROAR had 28,656 paid downloads on iTunes within the last 24 hours. Lorde’s single Royals had 51,022 paid downloads.

Buzz Track: Hold Up Girl

The Long Island four-piece, NGHBRS recently released a music video for their catchy indie pop song “Hold Up Girl”. Their full length “Twenty One Rooms” was released on July 16th. The band is headlining The Space in New Hamden, CT this Friday on October 4th. This is a artist to watch.
Contact: billy@sightinsound.com

Buzz Track: Get Out

Tommy Burr is a singer songwriter who is generating a great deal of attention with his recently compiled 5 song EP. His video for the track Get Up has 100k views on YouTube and he co-produced the songs with Kristoffer Eriksson (also in Violet Days) and Herman Gardarfve. He’s been performing on the club circut in Stockholm.
Contact: magnus@catapult-music.com

YouTube will launch first ever awards show. YouTube credits itself for breaking artists, not MTV or any other outlet. Hence, they will hand out awards to nominees who over the past year who garnered the biggest YouTube views.

YouTube will feature live performances by Lady Gaga, Eminem, Arcade Fire and other artists for the first-ever YouTube Music Awards show which will air November 3rd.

“The whole night should feel like a YouTube video itself,” Spike Jonze said in a statement. “We’re getting together a group of amazing artists and filmmakers to do this live — tune in to see what happens live.”

This could disrupt the Grammys and the MTV Video Music Awards as the Google-owned company will hand out seven awards to nominees who over the past year garnered the biggest YouTube views.

“Our point is to celebrate YouTube’s role in the music ecosystem,” says Danielle Tiedt, the San Bruno, Calif.-based company’s vice president of marketing. “If you think about how most of us encounter music, it’s usually on YouTube, whether it’s stars like Miley Cyrus and her VMA performance or her new Wrecking Ball video, or musicians like Lindsey (Stirling), who broke thanks to our site.”