Now here’s something for all you Bon Jovi fanatics, November 15th marks the start date of our incredible Bon Jovi competition to win the Bon Jovi Ultimate Collector’s Edition USB complete with 30 of Bon Jovi’s greatest hits plus 17 incredible videos! To enter the competition simply create a special Bon Jovi playlist of YOUR favourites and share it here on the blog (Terms & Conditions are here).

Share your playlists across Facebook, Twitter and your profile and the most shared playlist wins! You’ll be ‘Wanted Dead Or Alive‘ if you win this prize!

We want you to ‘Get Ready’ and ‘Breakout’ your playlisting skills to celebrate the unleashing Bon Jovi’s Greatest Hits! The new album includes all of your favourite Bon Jovi hits plus four brand new songs!

Spotify Premium user? You’re in luck! Put a ‘Bullet’ into ‘Silent Nights’ and listen now to the three exclusive live tracks; recorded at New Jersey’s new Meadowlands Stadium.

Cee Lo Green, who was one half of the Gnarls Barkley duo that brought us the 2006 smash hit single ‘Crazy’ seems to have done it again! After a short hiatus he has rocketed to the top of the charts with his massive single ‘F**k You’ which has become a global phenomenon.

His highly anticipated album ‘The Ladykiller’ will be released on November 8th and features more up tempo, catchy tunes which are sure to have you tapping your toes within seconds. However you needn’t take our word for it as, Spotify Premium users are being given the exclusive opportunity to stream this amazing album, a whole week before it is released.

So for your chance to listen to one of the most incredible neo – soul/ R&B releases of the year. Sign up to Spotify Premium now and enjoy the Ladykiller’s soulful vibes.

Rather than an annotated playlist for the month that was, this month Drowned in Sound has compiled a selection of playlists to soundtrack your wet summer mornings and the turning of grey afternoon into indian summer evenings…

Drowned in August 2010

August was a strange month for releases. Festivals and the Arcade Fire (strangely absent from Spotify), the fantastic Scott Pilgrim film soundtrack (click to read our interview with the film’s star Michael Cera and director Edgar Wright) and Klaxons kind of overshadowed a lot of really interesting smaller releases but then again, there weren’t a great deal of album of the year contenders. Meanwhile, there were lots of great singles from the likes of Everything Everything and Gonzales. Click here to play and explore this month’s playlist.

Also, if you missed them, click for Drowned in July 2010 and Drowned in June 2010.

Drowned in Sound 2010 - Q2

Earlier this year, we compiled a playlist featuring the best bits of the first quarter of the year (you’ll find that one here) and due to the overwhelming response, we’ve compiled a playlist for Q2, which explores the swirled electronics of Ikonika, LCD Soundsystem and Emeralds before exploring the big guitars and broken hearts of The National and DiS’ one-to-watch tip for 2010/Mercury Music Prize nominee, Villagers.
Click to play this playlist

Reading & Leeds Festival 2010

If you’re heading to Reading & Leeds festival this week or plan to watch the coverage on TV/via the web, here’s a playlist with our picks from the line-up get you in the mood. Or if you have a premium account, to stick on your iPod in the car instead of listening to The Get Up Kids’ back catalogue. Click to play this playlist

The Neptune Music Prize 2010

DiS has announced the nominees for the The Neptune Music prize, our alternative to the Mercury Music Prize. You can vote for your favourite of our picks. If you’re not au fait with all of the nominees, we made this handy Spotify playlist to sample a little bit of each.

Lastly, if you have enjoyed this and/or any of our previous playlists, please take a second to vote for DrownedinSound.com in the BT Digital Music Awards. Thank you.

You’ll find plenty more Spotify playlists by DrownedinSound.com here.

The summer is winding down but our friends over at ShareMyPlaylists.com provide us with yet another in their series of excellent playlist posts to get your week started. You can check out thousands of playlists at ShareMyPlaylists.com - they’ve got a little something for everyone.

Mark Webster’s The Soul Of The Beatles
Eve wondered what the Beatles would have been listening to from the early days in Liverpool to the hazy days towards the end of their career? Well this playlist by playdio gives us a small snippet of what would have been ringing in the ears of the Fab Four. From Isaac Hayes theme tune to Shaft to a live version of Slippin’ Into Darkness by War, it may surprise you. Fascinating playlist.

Soundtrack To July 2010
The first of the month saw iamnottheenemy take a look back to all the tracks that were making it big in July. All the big guns were out in force during the sweltering summer month including Mark Ronson & Business Intl, We Are Scientists, Foals, Bombay Bicycle Club, Faithless, Danger Mouse and many many more. Finding all the good songs so you don’t have to, this playlist is hit after hit.

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ShareMyPlaylists.com provides us with another in their series of excellent playlist posts. You can check out thousands of playlists at ShareMyPlaylists.com - they’ve got a little something for everyone.

Strictly BASS… Part Five
We hit the ground running this month with the latest in this brilliant series of bulky bass line inspired playlists from syknyk. This month’s the tunes playing havoc with you boom box include Radio 1’s Toddla T, dubstep producer de jour Rusko and Boy 8-Bit.

Undiscovered Prince
The Purple One is back with a new album, 20Ten, which he once again decided to give away for free in some daily rag or other, and to celebrate SMP’s head honcho kieron has put together this brilliant playlist which, in his own words, is “dedicated to some of the best tracks to come out of Paisley Park over the years.” A must for all Prince fans featuring album tracks, remixes and B-sides.

A Song A Day 2010
This is a great concept for a playlist which, as the name suggests, features a song added every day during 2010. Click here for a song to suit every mood. Is your boss giving you trouble? Morrissey - Little Man, What Now? Girlfriend just dumped you? Sinead O’Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U. Do you think you left the iron on at home? Beck - It’s All In Your Mind.

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We’ve been fans of Facebook for a long time now, so much so that we looked to them for inspiration when building our own social features.

Yesterday they reached a big milestone, 500 million users, and to celebrate they’re collecting stories from their users and asking which ones inspire them. We’re happy to take a small part in this and we’re asking our users to share their music stories with the new Stories tab on our Facebook page.

So if you’ve found a new favourite band after seeing them in your friend’s top artists, attended an amazing festival or maybe you even found love after someone dropped a track in your Spotify inbox - please feel free to share the story.

We’ve been a little quieter recently on the new music front but we should be getting back into a regular rhythm, to kick off we’ve got a nice size update to let you know about. We added 7856 albums and singles, in total 96,964 new tracks are now available.

A few highlights include:

• Billy Talent III by Billy Talent
• Artwork by The Used
• A number of releases from Labrador Records
• A bunch of classic albums from the Meat Puppets

It’s a big list so I’ve broken out releases from The Orchard into one sheet and all other releases into a second Google doc. As with every update not all albums listed may be available in your country and some tracks previously available may no longer be playable due to regional restrictions.

7 Worlds Collide was a live album released in 2001 by New Zealand singer/songwriter, Neil Finn. In December of 2008 the 7 Worlds Collide line up reconvened to record a charity album for Oxfam.

Starting today Spotify Premium users in the UK can listen exclusively to the new album, The Sun Came Out, before it’s released. Familiar faces from the original album abound, Johnny Marr, Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway of Radiohead and the likes of KT Tunstall and Wilco are all included.

Just a small little update to get your week started. We added 119 albums and singles, in total 1,080 new tracks are now available.

A few highlights include:

• The Stone Roses (20th Anniversary Legacy Edition) by The Stone Roses
• The single One More Chance by Bloc Party
• Also check out the single Vi Ses På Lördag by Hela Sveriges Fotbollsklubb

For the full listing have a look at the Google doc. As with every update not all albums listed may be available in your country and some tracks previously available may no longer be playable due to regional restrictions.

We’ve been a little quiet recently when it comes to adding new music, hopefully today’s update will make up for that. We added 20,430 albums and singles, in total 219,665 new tracks are now available.

There’s so much in here but a few highlights include:

• A lot of dance and trance music from the Armada Music label
• The Spanish label Blanco y Negro Music added a lot of tracks
• The Belgian aggregator NEWS has been included, they focus on dance/club music
• Two Dancers by Wild Beasts

Today’s update was so large it’s split into two sheets which still barely held the whole list. The first one has artists A-K and K-Z. I’ve also attached a full text file in case anyone prefers downloading that. As with every update not all albums listed may be available in your country and some tracks previously available may no longer be playable due to regional restrictions.

Let us know if you find any gems in today’s update.