Cosmopop
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Cosmopop is a London
London
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 and Berlin
Berlin
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-based songwriting and music production team. The duo is focused on writing melodic pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 songs, with occasional forays into dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....

, R'n'B and rock.

History

Cosmopop first became popular in 2000 on the Internet music site MP3.com
MP3.com
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, with its Eurodance
Eurodance
Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s or early 1990s primarily in Europe. It combines many elements from House, Techno, Hi-NRG and especially Italo-Disco...

 production "Oh la la", produced by Martin Altmeyer and featuring vocals by Conny Angel.

In 2001, the duo was selected as one of five finalists of the "act2001" contest sponsored by BMG
BMG
Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...

 and featured on Viva TV.

In 2002, Cosmopop exclusively licensed most of their repertoire to Cyclus / Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Sony/ATV Music Publishing is a music publishing company co-owned by The Michael Jackson Family Trust and Sony. The organisation was originally founded as Associated TeleVision in 1955 by Lew Grade. In 1957, ATV acquired Pye Records as a wholly owned subsidiary...

, incl. the dreamdance production "Dragonfly", performed by dreamdance pioneers X-Perience
X-Perience
X-Perience is a eurodance band from Berlin, Germany. Their music style varies between synthpop, trance and ethnopop. The band members are Manja Wagner , Matthias Uhle and Alexander Kaiser . Singer Claudia Uhle, Matthias' sister, left the band in 2007 and was replaced by Manja.-History:X-Perience...

.

Cosmopop's most widely known song to date is "Heartbeat Radio" which was recorded by several female solo acts incl. Kim Styles and Natasha Thomas
Natasha Thomas
Natasha Thomas is a Danish pop singer-songwriter.-Career:In 2003, at the age of sixteen, Thomas released her debut single "Why ", which reached number forty in the German Chart ."Save Your Kisses For Me" was released at the beginning of June 2004, meeting great success, while her...

. In early 2006, the song entered the German sales charts in a new version called "Radio Heartbeat" produced by Alex Christensen
Alex Christensen
Alex Christensen , Jasper Forks or Alex C. as he is known, is a German dance music composer, producer, and DJ, generally known as the face, and one of the founding members, of U96...

 and performed by U.S. based duo R´n´G.

Cosmopop relaunched its online presence on its Facebook site http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cosmopop/6110154581 in 2011.

Songs

2000 "Oh la la"

2000 Supersonic Love

2001 Heartbeat Radio

2002 Let me take you to heaven

2002 Love in stereo

2003 Dragonfly (performed by X-Perience
X-Perience
X-Perience is a eurodance band from Berlin, Germany. Their music style varies between synthpop, trance and ethnopop. The band members are Manja Wagner , Matthias Uhle and Alexander Kaiser . Singer Claudia Uhle, Matthias' sister, left the band in 2007 and was replaced by Manja.-History:X-Perience...

)

2003 Yes or no

2003 Living for more

2003 In and out of love (feat Filippa von Stackelberg)

2004 You turn to me

2004 Better world

2004 Say goodbye

2005 Friends

2005 Under the mistletoe

2005 Pimp it

2006 Radio Heartbeat (performed by R'n'G / Alex Christensen
Alex Christensen
Alex Christensen , Jasper Forks or Alex C. as he is known, is a German dance music composer, producer, and DJ, generally known as the face, and one of the founding members, of U96...

)

2006 Hooked on you

2007 Senorita

2008 Call Me Dorian

2011 "4-play"

2011 "Emmanuelle"
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