Temposhark - Internet Popularity and Podcasts

Internet Popularity and Podcasts

In March 2006 MySpace featured Temposhark as one of their favourite artists giving the band a new worldwide platform with more than 928,000 unique plays to date. The band also have over 25,000 friends on the networking site.

2006 also saw the launch of Temposhark's official podcast series featuring lengthy interviews with fellow musicians/singers (including Kate Havnevik and Sophie Solomon) as well as short video documentaries and studio diaries. This free series of digital downloads began in May that year and is available from music stores such as iTunes and has attracted a cult following of 15,000 subscribers.

In December 2007 and January 2008, Temposhark's singer Robert Diament was invited to be a guest blogger on music blog ArjanWrites.com where he wrote a number of blog entries related to his favourite music.

In January 2008, Temposhark launched their music on the Last.fm internet radio network. In one week they had over 54,600 plays of songs from their debut album.

In February 2008, MySpace featured Temposhark again as one of their featured artists giving them an incredible boost to their listening figures of over 70,000 listens in a few days.

In March 2008, global fashion brand Fred Perry chose Temposhark as one of their new favourite rising bands. Temposhark were featured for the whole month of March at the Fred Perry website and a selection of Temposhark's songs, taken from their debut album, were streamed on the Fred Perry website radio player.

In March 2008, the band's debut album reached number 20 in the top 100 iTunes USA chart for electronic music.

In May 2008, Temposhark won funding of £15,000 from SliceThePie (SliceThePie.com,) winning the top prize out of over 1,000 selected bands. The money helped the band make and release their second album Threads.

On 27 June 2008, SXSW Click digital festival announced Temposhark's music video Blame in the top 3 finalists for the best music video of 2008. At the end of July 2008, Temposhark were announced the winner of the Music Video category, and will therefore have their video screened at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

On 29 August 2008, Temposhark recorded a live radio session for the British Council's radio show The Selector which included an exclusive acoustic song I Kissed A Girl, a cover version of the hit number 1 song by Katy Perry. Having been uploaded onto the internet, the song quickly became popular with bloggers and fans alike. During the radio interview singer Robert Diament joked that,

In 2010, Temposhark's Knock Me Out gained popularity with gamers thanks to the song being featured on the US computer game website OurWorld in level 6 of the game Dance Planet and Dance Planet Multiplayer.

In May 2010, Rob Diament of Temposhark featured in the music video to Will Kevans' single Dialling Tone starring British actor Russell Tovey.