Clubland (dance brand)

Clubland

Type	Private
Industry	Dance Compilation albums, Radio / Television
Genre	Nightclub Music
Founded	United Kingdom, 2002
Founder(s)	Matt Cadman
Headquarters	Blackburn, United Kingdom United Kingdom
Products	Clubland 1 - 18
Owner(s)	AATW
Parent	AATW / UMTV
Website	Clubland.fm

Clubland is a brand created by the UK dance record labels All Around the World and Universal Music TV. Since 2002 Clubland has made many dance compilation albums, including the popular Clubland series, which is currently up to Volume 20. Clubland also hosts live events in various nightclubs and clubland Ibiza, and in 2008 many Clubland artists featured on the Clubland Night of Your Life arena tour. Clubland also release a monthly radio show podcast from its website and in January 2008, Clubland launched its own digital TV channel, Clubland TV.

Website

The Clubland website Clubland.fm is used for fans to catch up on the latest news in Clubland as well as to see the tracklistings for all the Clubland albums. Fans can also listen to the latest Clubland tracks and see the latest Clubland videos. Information about Clubland artists is shown on the website and it is where the podcast is available to listen to and download from. There are also sections for babes, cars, and games on the website and free stuff such as desktop wallpapers are available to download. There is also a Clubland forum on the website as well as a Clubland Shop and new Hardcore section, with all the latest news in Clubland X-Treme Hardcore.

Radio Show Podcasts

Since October 2006, each month there had been a podcast released by Clubland, available for listeners to download from their website [1] or iTunes [2]. Dave Bethell presents the podcast, which was usually about 30 minutes long, in the same style as a radio show and the podcast was also used mainly to air exclusive new Clubland tracks and advertise forthcoming Clubland releases and events. Podcasts are now unavailable.

Clubland TV

Main article: Clubland TV

In January 2008, Clubland launched its own TV channel on Sky channel 383. The channel airs the latest Clubland music videos as well as Clubland classics. In the future the channel will show live events and interviews from Clubland as well as competitions and prizes.

Live Events

Clubland often hold live events across various nightclubs in Great Britain, Ireland and Magaluf in Mallorca. Flip & Fill usually tour nightclubs with MC Domino and Frisco and sometimes a Live PA act, in an event called "Flip & Fill's Clubland Tour". Launch parties are held around the time of a new Clubland or Clubland X-Treme Hardcore release, with live performances by Clubland artists, such as Flip & Fill and Ultrabeat, and these are used to help promote the release and filming for the album trailers.

On their website, Clubland usually promote the weekend events of some of their favorite venues and some of the hardcore events taking place, as well as promoting the live performances of some of their artists. Clubland also promoted Cascada's UK tour with Ultrabeat in September - October 2007.

Clubland Live

In March 2008, Clubland held Clubland Live, an arena tour across seven arenas in the UK with some of the biggest acts in Clubland appearing. Cascada and Scooter headlined the tour and some of the acts appearing on the tour were Ultrabeat, Flip & Fill, N-Trance and Kelly Llorenna.

Clubland Live 2

A second tour followed in November and December 2008, this time with Scooter headlining and acts including September, Kate Ryan, Darren Styles and Ultrabeat.

Clubland Live 3

In July 2009, www.clubland.fm (Clubland's Website) revealed the dates for Clubland Live 3 with Cascada headlining the show. Other performers include Agnes Carlsson (aka Agnes), N-Dubz and Darren Styles. The shows started on Nov. 26th at the Glasgow SECC and ended on December 6 at The National Indoor Arena, Birmingham. [3]

Clubland Live 4

The Clubland Live 4 tour was scheduled to take place in October 2010 at various locations across the country. Headlined by Scooter and other acts including Tinchy Stryder, Ultrabeat, Italobrothers, Roll Deep, N-Force, Aggro Santos, Friday Night Posse, Dougal & Gammer, Alex K, MC's Domino & Whizzkid. The entire tour was cancelled on October 6th 2010 due to 'unforeseen circumstances' [4], after an announcement on the official Clubland website. No further information was given.

Performers

Breeze Cascada Darren Styles Flip & Fill Friday Night Posse Groove Coverage Hixxy Infernal K-Klass Kate Ryan Karen Danzig Kelly Llorenna Martijn Ten Velden Masters at Work Mickey Modelle N-Trance N-Dubz Scooter Special D Sunblock Therese Ultrabeat Whelan & Di Scalia

• Pixie Lott

Compilation albums

A previous compilation album series also titled Clubland, begun in 1997 by Telstar.

Clubland Classix album cover

Clubland series

• Clubland - The Ride of Your Life
• Clubland II - The Ride of Your Life
• Clubland III - The Sound of The Summer
• Clubland 4 - The Night of Your Life
• Clubland 5
• Clubland 6
• Clubland 7
• Clubland 8
• Clubland 9
• Clubland 10
• Clubland 11
• Clubland 12
• Clubland Classix - The Album of Your Life
• Clubland 13
• Clubland 14
• Clubland Classix 2 - The Album of Your Life is Back
• Clubland 15
• Clubland 16
• Clubland Smashed [Mixed By Friday Night Posse]
• Clubland 17
• Clubland 18 (Released 8 November 2010)
• Clubland Smashed 2 [Mixed By Friday Night Posse & Tuffcub]
• Clubland 19 (Released 27 June 2011)
• Clubland 20 (7 November 2011)

The international cover of Clubland 2, released in Germany, with the cover design of Ultimate NRG 3 which was released in the UK.

Clubland X-Treme series

• Clubland X-Treme
• Clubland X-Treme 2
• Clubland X-Treme Hardcore
• Clubland X-Treme Hardcore 2
• Clubland X-Treme Hardcore 3
• Clubland X-Treme Hardcore 4
• Clubland X-Treme Hardcore 5
• Clubland X-Treme Hardcore 6
• Clubland X-Treme Hardcore 7

Floorfillers series

• Floorfillers
• Floorfillers 2
• Floorfillers 3
• Floorfillers 4
• Floorfillers Club Classics
• Floorfillers Anthems
• Floorfillers 08
• Floorfillers Clubmix
• Floorfillers 80's Club Classics
• Floorfillers 2010
• Monster Floorfillers
• Floorfillers 2011

Dance Mania series

• Dance Mania
• Dance Mania 2
• Dance Mania Party (CD/DVD) - Released 8 December 2008

Ultimate NRG series (Mixed By Alex K)

• Ultimate NRG
• Ultimate NRG 2
• Ultimate NRG 3
• Ultimate NRG 4
• Ultimate NRG Megamix
• Ultimate NRG 5

Clubmix series

• Clubmix 2003
• Clubmix 2004
• Clubmix 2005
• Clubmix 2006
• Clubmix 2007
• Clubmix Classics

Others

• Anthem - Classics from Clubland
• Funky House '06
• Club 2K7
• Dancemix 2008
• Bounce Mania
• Welcome to the Club
• RnB Clubland

External links

• Clubland.fm
• AATW.com
• UMTV.co.uk
• Clubland Events MySpace
• ClublandFM's Channel on YouTube