Heartbeat On Pitchfork’s Top 500 Tracks of The 2000’s

Posted August 21st 2009 by Aaron Comments (1)
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Annie’s 2004 hit Heartbeat has made it onto Pitchfork’s Top 500 Tracks of The 2000’s coming in at #17. Pitchfork explained:

A few great records were made this decade about the memory of dancing: In this one the dance is a stand-in for everything joyful and special about a lost moment. With its urgent builds, “Heartbeat” wills that dance to start again; with her serene delivery, Annie knows that it can’t really. An Internet sensation before that meant much actual success, for most of the 00s Annie made ginger attempts to step from being “our” pop star to being everyone’s. The subsequent success of Robyn and M.I.A. suggests this was no pipe-dream, but since most of Annie’s best songs from “Chewing Gum” to “Anthonio” are exercises in beguiling diffidence it’s not wholly surprising she never managed it.

And it hardly matters: hit-laden or not, very few catalogues contain anything as bewitching as “Heartbeat”, a piece of disco handicraft as intimate as it is giddy. Annie’s final verse, taken quiet and half-spoken as the song peaks, is like eavesdropping on a secret wish. As soon as she finishes it the song blows out like a birthday candle. “I won’t forget.” Stardom be damned, neither will we. –Tom Ewing

Songs Remind Me of You – Chart Watch

Posted August 18th 2009 by Aaron Comments (9)
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After just over a day of iTunes sales, Annie’s latest single Songs Remind Me of You is doing well on iTunes. It’s listed on the main iTunes page under New Singles & EPS. Below are some of its positions on iTunes in various countries.

Norwegian Main Chart: #49
Swedish Main Chart: #85
UK Main Chart: #155

Norwegian Dance Chart: #6
UK Dance Chart: #22
Irish Dance Chart: #44
US Dance Chart: #49

If you’ve not already bought a copy of Songs Remind Me of You, click here to buy it now.

Annie Blogs About Songs Remind Me of You

Posted August 17th 2009 by Aaron Comments (0)
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Hey everyone!!!

How are you doing? I..m back in sunny Berlin. Just been eating some vietnamese food..I still feel the taste of ginger in my mouth,and probably the whole of annie is smelling like ginger..well,could have been worse. It..s been happening a lot this summer. First of all I moved into a new apartment in Berlin…it..s so so so so so extremly wonderful…you woun..t believe it. I..ve been working a lot this summer,and some of you have probably already noticed that there..s been some talk about my album…..Don..t stop…..it will be out,the OCTOBER 19th 2009,so I..m very very pleased!!!!! And I hope you will be too.it..s great running my own label,and also working with people who i find really inspireing .I also have a new management that..s really good too. So I..m truly happy. And I wanted to let you know that today,the first single of the album is out on ITUNES exclusive: Songs remind me of you…. it..s one of the first tracks I did for ..Don..t stop… I recorded it in London together with Richard X..
I hope you like it……

Check out this link

enjoy your evening…

love…annie

Songs Remind Me of You On iTunes Worldwide

Posted August 17th 2009 by Aaron Comments (5)
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Annie’s latest single Songs Remind Me of You has been added to the iTunes Store worldwide with a release date of today, August 17th. That means it’s OUT NOW. It’s just a single track clocking in at 4:17 with no remixes. It’s under distribution by Annie’s label Totally and Smalltown Supersound.

As you can see in the picture to the right, the sleeve artwork is slightly different to the one Annie posted on her MySpace with the title in a different position.

Click here to go to your country’s iTunes Store and download Songs Remind Me of You now in case it gets taken down faster than you can say Loco.

Wears The Trousers Interviews Annie

Posted August 17th 2009 by Kirkland Comments (0)
Filed Under Don't Stop, Interviews

Fantastic indie pop culture blog Wears The Trousers has just published an interview with Annie where she gives her thoughts on the Pet Shop Boys, Egyptology and DJ gender discrimination.  It’s a very good read indeed!

Annie @ Wears The Trousers

“Don’t Stop” Photoshoot

Posted August 16th 2009 by Aaron Comments (0)
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Below are some new promotional pictures of Annie from her new and much better photoshoot for Don’t Stop. I couldn’t post them when they surfaced the other day because the gallery hadn’t been opened. The photos are very stylish and somewhat iconic (much better than what Island were using to promote Annie). Click on the thumbnails below to view the photoshoot in the gallery:

Edit: Some more new photos from this shoot added thanks to Anniemaniac Calum.

The Anniemaniac Gallery

Posted August 16th 2009 by Aaron Comments (3)
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The Anniemaniac Gallery is finally open and off to a great start with over 860 pictures of Annie. We’ll be adding more to the gallery all the time. If you have any pictures of Annie that aren’t in the gallery, it would be great if you could send them into us to help make a complete photo collection. You can send them to aaron@anniemaniac.com and we will give credit. Thanks to Anniemaniac Reija for sending in some great magazine scans already.

You can visit the gallery by using the navigation to the right or by clicking on the picture below:

Cover For Songs Remind Me Of You Revealed

Posted August 15th 2009 by Kirkland Comments (2)
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This picture has been put on Annie’s MySpace:

Click to enlarge

So this confirms that Annie’s next single is indeed Songs Remind Me Of You.  Don’t scream too much Anniemaniacs, we want you to be able to leave a Comment in the box!

New Details On The Paul Epworth Tracks Emerge!

Posted August 15th 2009 by Kirkland Comments (2)
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Annie has updated her Official MySpace with details of her new Paul Epworth tracks:

Annie also teamed up with producer de jour Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Friendly Fires) to work on three tracks including hypnotic album opener ‘Hey Annie’, the pulsating title track ‘Don’t Stop’ and ‘I Don’t Like Your Band’, a slice of sublime stuttering electro-pop complete with hilarious throw-down lyrics, ‘You’re out of tape and out of time. Don’t get me wrong – I like you, I don’t like your band, It’s not you, It’s your tunes’.

Interestingly, she’s also moved the Richard X produced fan favourite Songs Remind Me Of You to the top of her MySpace music player.  More Annie/Richard X is always welcome!

Hey Annie Rumours…

Posted August 14th 2009 by Kirkland Comments (0)
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PopJustice forum user ‘CharDog’, has seemingly heard Paul Epworth/Annie track Hey Annie and according to CharDog:

“Hey Annie” is basically Annie’s “Hollaback Girl.” Amazing.

This news should make all Anniemaniacs very excited.  Annie is much better than Gwen Stefani, of course.  And we won’t seek out CharDog and beat him up for hearing Hey Annie before us.  We Anniemaniacs need to stick together.

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