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Founded | 1999 |
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Type | Youth music |
Registration no. | 1125646 |
Focus | Challenging circumstances |
Location | |
Area served | South East England |
Employees | 10 |
Website |
rhythmixmusic |
Rhythmix is a United Kingdom music charity that provides a range of music-making opportunities for young people across the South East region. Since 1999, Rhythmix has worked with more than 40,000 young people.
Rhythmix works with partner organisations to provide music-making opportunities to children and young people in challenging circumstances, and to people with dementia.
Rhythmix has five main fields of work:
In 2011, Rhythmix came to widespread media attention when the television presenter and music promoter Simon Cowell attempted to trademark the name Rhythmix in relation to a girl group that featured on the eighth series of The X Factor. After a legal challenge, Cowell's company, Syco, dropped the trademarking application and the group agreed to change their name to Little Mix. [1]
In response to the X Factor naming controversy, an online protest was launched that promoted the Nirvana single " Smells Like Teen Spirit" to become 2011 Christmas number one in the UK Singles Chart. This was an attempt to emulate a successful 2009 Facebook campaign that promoted Rage Against the Machine's song " Killing in the Name" and prevented the X Factor winner from taking the spot. [2] The attempt failed: Little Mix got their number one the week before Christmas, and singing group Military Wives took the Christmas number one. [3]
This article contains content that is written like
an advertisement. (October 2013) |
Founded | 1999 |
---|---|
Type | Youth music |
Registration no. | 1125646 |
Focus | Challenging circumstances |
Location | |
Area served | South East England |
Employees | 10 |
Website |
rhythmixmusic |
Rhythmix is a United Kingdom music charity that provides a range of music-making opportunities for young people across the South East region. Since 1999, Rhythmix has worked with more than 40,000 young people.
Rhythmix works with partner organisations to provide music-making opportunities to children and young people in challenging circumstances, and to people with dementia.
Rhythmix has five main fields of work:
In 2011, Rhythmix came to widespread media attention when the television presenter and music promoter Simon Cowell attempted to trademark the name Rhythmix in relation to a girl group that featured on the eighth series of The X Factor. After a legal challenge, Cowell's company, Syco, dropped the trademarking application and the group agreed to change their name to Little Mix. [1]
In response to the X Factor naming controversy, an online protest was launched that promoted the Nirvana single " Smells Like Teen Spirit" to become 2011 Christmas number one in the UK Singles Chart. This was an attempt to emulate a successful 2009 Facebook campaign that promoted Rage Against the Machine's song " Killing in the Name" and prevented the X Factor winner from taking the spot. [2] The attempt failed: Little Mix got their number one the week before Christmas, and singing group Military Wives took the Christmas number one. [3]