Group Research into Chosen Artist (Group)

Our chosen artist is Owl City who is also known as Adam Young. In 2007 while he was living at his parents home in Owatonna, Minnesota. He started making music in his parents basement with a computer and a few instruments because he was plagued with his insomnia and his irregular sleeping patterns, this led to him creating songs that related to the genre electropop and after he had made a song he would then upload the song to MySpace for everyone on their to listen to. This is where he gained a lot of attention because lots of people were enjoying his songs. One song in particular "Hello Seattle" led to Owl City/Adam Young getting his first record contract with Universal Republic Records in 2008 because of his MySpace song.



He has released five albums including Ocean Eyes which went platinum with RIAA and ARIA as well as going gold with BPI and MC. One of the singles on that album, "Fireflies" went to number one in the UK singles chart and it also went number one in the US Billboard top 100. Having knowledge of the artist will help us when it comes to creating our music video because we will know how the artist likes to portray himself and others in his music videos.