{"id":32997,"date":"2022-01-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=32997"},"modified":"2022-01-11T14:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T14:03:56","slug":"europes-heartbeat-some-new-music-for-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/01\/europes-heartbeat-some-new-music-for-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe’s Heartbeat: Some New Music For The New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This month’s edition of Europe’s Heartbeat<\/a> has premiered on Radio Six International<\/a>, which means it’s available to listen again on both the Heartbeat website<\/a> or through Mixcloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first week of January the charts and new release lists still have a high proportion of festive music, so there might be the occasional December release with a tinge of holiday sentiment. There are fewer songs from the various Top Ten charts around Europe, dominated as they are by either Mariah or Wham. I think there’s a worthwhile study in there to see if there’s any pattern as to why the public prefers one or the other in each country; which is something to look at come December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that, let’s get to the music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the radio broadcast you can listen again to this month’s edition of Europe’s Heartbeat, with the latest releases, chart hits, and my favourites from the last four weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[35,27,13,26],"tags":[5957,5955,5949,5951,5946,5947,5956,5954,5948,5953,5950,5952],"class_list":["post-32997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcast-radio","category-digital-music","category-links-to-my-articles","category-multimedia","tag-anna-of-the-north","tag-barbara-bandeira-and-carminho","tag-blanco","tag-dima-bilan-and-alexander-filn","tag-emmms","tag-ida-maria","tag-ilse-delange","tag-juan-zelada","tag-more-ve-otesi-manga","tag-olli-halonen","tag-sergey-lazarev-and-vlad-topalov","tag-ufo361-and-pasanim","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/flickr_nrk_anna_of_the_north.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-8Ad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33004,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32997\/revisions\/33004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}