Friday 26 March 2010

Top Songs/Albums; WB 29/3/10

Songs



1. Salem Al Fakir - Keep On Walking (1)
2. Caro Emerald - A Night Like This (4)
3. Boyzone - Gave It All Away (7)
4. Timoteij - Kom (2)
5. Lena Meyer-Landrut - Satellite (5)
6. Anna Bergendahl - This Is My Life (3)
7. Lady GaGa feat Beyoncé - Telephone (8)
8. Kate Nash - Do Wah Doo (12)
9. Niamh Kavanagh - It’s For You (6)
10. Safura - Drip Drop (50)
11. Boyzone - Love Is A Hurricane (14)
12. Inna - Hot (16)
13. Mika - Kick Ass (17)
14. Staygold feat Spank Rock, Lady Tigra and Damien Adore - Backseat (10)
15. One More Time - Den Vilda (13)
16. Boyzone - Ruby (9)
17. Trina feat Diddy and Keri Hilson - Million Dollar Girl (NEW)
18. Alcazar - Headlines (11)
19. Boyzone - Let Your Wall Fall Down (32)
20. Natalie Bassingthwaighte - Turn The Lights On (NEW)
21. Train - Hey Soul Sister (26)
22. Robyn - Fembot (NEW)
23. Timbaland feat Justin Timberlake - Carry Out (Re-entry)
24. Maria Haukaas Storeng - Extra Mile (39)
25. Roll Deep - Good Times (49)
26. Gabriella Cilmi - Glue (NEW)
27. Cascada - Pyromania (15)
28. Hera Björk - Je Ne Sais Quoi (Re-entry)
29. Sugababes - She’s A Mess (24)
30. Chipmunk feat Esmée Denters - Until You Were Gone (38)
31. Jessica Andersson - I Did It For Love (18)
32. Alexandra Burke feat Pitbull - All Night Long (40)
33. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Bittersweet (48)
34. Salem Al Fakir - Virgin Mary (21)
35. Tom Dice - Me & My Guitar (27)
36. Gabriella Cilmi - Invisible Girl (NEW)
37. Xavier Naidoo - Alles Kann Besser Werden (NEW)
38. Shakira - Gypsy (44)
39. Stromae - Alors On Danse (41)
40. Didrik Solli-Tangen - My Heart Is Yours (23)
41. Vita Chambers - Young Money (NEW)
42. Sia - Clap Your Hands (NEW)
43. Tinie Tempah - Pass Out (NEW)
44. Gabriella Cilmi - What If You Knew (NEW)
45. Scouting For Girls - This Ain’t A Love Song (45)
46. Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment (NEW)
47. The Pipettes - Stop The Music (NEW)
48. Caro Emerald - That Man (NEW)
49. Jessy Matador - Allez! Ola! Olé! (NEW)
50. Gabriella Cilmi - Hearts Don’t Lie (NEW)

Albums

1. Boyzone - Brother (1)
2. Gabriella Cilmi - Ten (NEW)
3. Salem Al Fakir - Ignore This (2)
4. Melodifestivalen 2010 (4)
5. Sugababes - Sweet 7 (3)
6. Lady GaGa - The Fame/The Fame Monster (5)
7. Absolute Schlager (6)
8. Caro Emerald - Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor (NEW)
9. Amy MacDonald - A Curious Thing (7)
10. Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels (9)
11. Boyzone - Back Again…No Matter What: The Greatest Hits (Re-entry)
12. 100 Essential Tracks: Millennium Hits (NEW)
13. NEO - Human Frontier (8)
14. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can (NEW)
15. Leddra Chapman - Telling Tales (12)
16. Rihanna - Rated R (13)
17. Alphabeat - The Beat Is… (11)
18. Ellie Goulding - Lights (10)
19. Alicia Keys - The Element Of Freedom (15)
20. Florence + The Machine - Lungs (18)

Sunday 21 March 2010

New Music; Mika back on form and some Dutch jazz!

Trina feat Diddy and Keri Hilson - Million Dollar Girl

'Ms Keri Baby' returns with her 94th featuring credit of the past month, this time on the new single by female rapper Trina and legend Diddy, who doesn't really add an awful lot to this song to be honest apart from a phoned in rap segment. Trina, best known here for her top 20 hit with Kelly Rowland, the surprisingly mellow (for her) Here We Go Again, returns to what she does best here - an uptempo club banger. Trina and Diddy alternate the verses but it's the chorus that really makes this song - provided by the ever underrated and fantastic Keri Hilson. Ridiculously and brilliantly catchy after just one listen, this has all of the ingredients of a hit - apart from the fact that the three artists featuring on the song are hardly the most fashionable hitmakers of 2010...maybe if it had been released in 2000...



Caro Emerald - A Night Like This

Dutch jazz singer Caro Emerald has been causing quite a stir in her homeland in recent months, after A Night Like This was featured in a Martini commercial. Not being a fan of jazz myself in particular, Caro's music retains a pop edge that makes it just accessible enough for just about anyone. A typically classy production, Caro's smooth and clear voice is perfect for this type of music and A Night Like This has a triumphant chorus that demands attention. Add this to the list of songs that are recent massive European hits that I want released here, along with Jungle Drum, If A Song Could Get Me You, I Will Love You Monday and countless others...



Mika - Kick Ass

After the flop of largely underwhelming second album The Boy Who Knew Too Much, in comparison to the mega success of the debut at least, Mika seems to have quickly pushed it aside to launch into a new side project. One of my favourite artists in 2007, Mika pushed pop boundaries at the time, bringing a flamboyancy back to an increasingly serious genre. Since then, with the likes of Alphabeat and the comeback of pure pop acts in the charts spearheaded by the likes of The Saturdays, Pixie Lott and Katy Perry, Mika doesn't seem quite so ground breaking anymore and his second album almost felt pedestrian in comparison to the first. Thankfully, despite Melodifestivalen act NEO's best attempt to steal his style, look and voice, Mika is back on top form with the Red One produced Kick Ass, the title track to the film of the same name. Essentially the same backing track as Remedy and Fire Burning, it doesn't matter here because Mika puts his own stamp on the song with a confident 'we are young, we are strong' chant as the chorus. More like this for album number three please!

Friday 19 March 2010

Top Songs/Albums; WB 22/3/10

Songs



1. Salem Al Fakir - Keep On Walking (2)
2. Timoteij - Kom (1)
3. Anna Bergendahl - This Is My Life (7)
4. Caro Emerald - A Night Like This (8)
5. Lena Meyer-Landrut - Satellite (NEW)
6. Niamh Kavanagh - It’s For You (3)
7. Boyzone - Gave It All Away (4)
8. Lady GaGa feat Beyoncé - Telephone (16)
9. Boyzone - Ruby (9)
10. Staygold feat Spank Rock, Lady Tigra and Damien Adore - Backseat (5)
11. Alcazar - Headlines (6)
12. Kate Nash - Do Wah Doo (25)
13. One More Time - Den Vilda (27)
14. Boyzone - Love Is A Hurricane (19)
15. Cascada - Pyromania (10)
16. Inna - Hot (15)
17. Mika - Kick Ass (NEW)
18. Jessica Andersson - I Did It For Love (31)
19. Darin - Out Of My Life (17)
20. Amy MacDonald - What Happiness Means To Me (47)
21. Salem Al Fakir - Virgin Mary (NEW)
22. Cheryl Cole - Parachute (11)
23. Didrik Solli-Tangen - My Heart Is Yours (18)
24. Sugababes - She’s A Mess (NEW)
25. A1 - Don’t Wanna Lose You Again (14)
26. Train - Hey Soul Sister (NEW)
27. Tom Dice - Me & My Guitar (NEW)
28. Marina & The Diamonds - Hollywood (13)
29. Neo - Higher (NEW)
30. Lena Meyer-Landrut - Bee (NEW)
31. Kids Of 88 - Just A Little Bit (12)
32. Boyzone - Let Your Wall Fall Down (50)
33. Malcolm Lincoln - Siren (NEW)
34. Eric Saade - Manboy (36)
35. Amy MacDonald - Spark (40)
36. Salem Al Fakir - Red Rock (NEW)
37. NEO - Human Frontier (28)
38. Chipmunk feat Esmée Denters - Until You Were Gone (NEW)
39. Maria Haukaas Storeng - Extra Mile (NEW)
40. Alexandra Burke feat Pitbull - All Night Long (NEW)
41. Stromae - Alors On Danse (NEW)
42. Paula Seling feat Ovi - Playing With Fire (44)
43. Sugababes - Crash & Burn (NEW)
44. Shakira - Gypsy (Re-entry)
45. Scouting For Girls - This Ain’t A Love Song (NEW)
46. Cache Cache - Only Do For Love (NEW)
47. Feminnem - Lako Je Sve (45)
48. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Bittersweet (49)
49. Roll Deep - Good Times (NEW)
50. Safura - Drip Drop (NEW)

Albums

1. Boyzone - Brother (1)
2. Salem Al Fakir - Ignore This (NEW)
3. Sugababes - Sweet 7 (NEW)
4. Melodifestivalen 2010 (2)
5. Lady GaGa - The Fame/The Fame Monster (3)
7. Amy MacDonald - A Curious Thing (4)
8. NEO - Human Frontier (NEW)
9. Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels (5)
10. Ellie Goulding - Lights (6)
11. Alphabeat - The Beat Is… (8)
12. Leddra Chapman - Telling Tales (10)
13. Rihanna - Rated R (11)
14. Jason DeRülo - Jason DeRülo (9)
15. Alicia Keys - The Element Of Freedom (14)
16. Melodi Grand Prix 2010 (13)
17. Glee: The Music, Volume 2 (17)
18. Florence + The Machine - Lungs (15)
19. Erik Hassle - Pieces (12)
20. Leona Lewis - Echo (18)

Thursday 11 March 2010

Inget Konstigt Alls!

Two Days to go to the Melodifestivalen final in Globen, Stockholm. I was supposed to be going there today but am not well enough to travel so will sadly miss it this year having seen the 2009 final live and Malena triumph over dark horse Caroline Af Ugglas. Disappoinment aside I like all ten songs in the final, some more than others, although arguably the quality overall isn't as high as last year - there's no Stay The Night in the final shake up that's for sure!!! 18 year old former Idol contestant Anna Bergendahl appears to be the favourite with the country's current No.1 single, the radio friendly ballad This Is My Life. Her husky unique voice set her aside from the pack and would differentiate it slightly from the numerous other ballads selected for the Eurovision Song Contest so far, and they're obviously trying to repeat Yohanna's success last year for Iceland. Producer Christer Bjorkman has enlisted the help of six international juries (from Russia, France, Greece, Norway, Serbia and Ireland) to help pick the best song for Eurovision, an interesting new way of doing things but the public will be more interested in voting for the best song, not necessarily the one that will perform best in Oslo, so expect the jury votes to differ wildly from the public voting again this year.



Andreas Johnson's We Can Work It Out, Ola's Unstoppable, Peter Jöback's Hollow, Pernilla Wahlgren's Jag Vil Om Du Vågar and Jessica Andersson's I Did It For Love are generally thought to be no hopers in the final, surprising considering that all five of those acts are big names in Sweden, but this is a song contest after all, and those are certainly not the best songs here this year. Darin's atmospheric ballad Out Of My Life is tipped for a top five finish, despite him and Peter originally being favourites to win, but a win looks unlikely for him now. So onto Anna's real competition then. Three more Melodifestivalen debutants are still in with a shout. Eric Saade's Frederik Kempe penned pop anthem Manboy could get the Hope & Glory vote, and has an outside chance to win, but I think the other two to watch are girlband Timoteij's infectious Swedish language ethno-pop song Kom, and quirky singer songwriter Salem Al Fakir's Keep On Walking. I expect one Timoteij, Salem and Anna to win and wouldn't be surprised to see any going to Oslo, although I genuinely think that Timoteij would perform far better at Eurovision than the other two as it's instantly likeable and distinctive. It should be an interesting final on Saturday, shame I won't be there to see it.

Wednesday 10 March 2010

Top Songs/Albums; WB 15/3/10

Songs



1. Timoteij - Kom (2)
2. Salem Al Fakir - Keep On Walking (1)
3. Niamh Kavanagh - It’s For You (38)
4. Boyzone - Gave It All Away (5)
5. Staygold feat Spank Rock, Lady Tigra and Damien Adore - Backseat (3)
6. Alcazar - Headlines (4)
7. Anna Bergendahl - This Is My Life (28)
8. Caro Emerald - A Night Like This (13)
9. Boyzone - Ruby (NEW)
10. Cascada - Pyromania (12)
11. Cheryl Cole - Parachute (6)
12. Kids Of 88 - Just A Little Bit (8)
13. Marina & The Diamonds - Hollywood (7)
14. A1 - Don’t Wanna Lose You Again (9)
15. Inna - Hot (15)
16. Lady GaGa feat Beyoncé - Telephone (19)
17. Darin - Out Of My Life (17)
18. Didrik Solli-Tangen - My Heart Is Yours (11)
19. Boyzone - Love Is A Hurricane (NEW)
20. Lady GaGa - Dance In The Dark (10)
21. Ola - Unstoppable (The Return Of Natalie) (21)
22. Pernilla Wahlgren - Jag Vill Om Du Vågar (33)
23. Pixie Lott - Gravity (22)
24. Cults - Go Outside (NEW)
25. Kate Nash - Doo Wah Doo (45)
26. Leddra Chapman - Story (14)
27. One More Time - Den Vilda (27)
28. NEO - Human Frontier (24)
29. Alphabeat - Hole In My Heart (16)
30. Delphic - Halcyon (20)
31. Jessica Andersson - I Did It For Love (Re-entry)
32. Andreas Johnson - We Can Work It Out (26)
33. Sunstroke Project feat Olia Tira - Run Away (NEW)
34. Groove Armada feat Will Young - History (39)
35. Venke Knutson - Jealous Cause I Love You (18)
36. Eric Saade - Manboy (37)
37. Alex Gardner - I’m Not Mad (40)
38. Gabriella Cilmi - On A Mission (42)
39. Ellie Goulding - The Writer (30)
40. Amy MacDonald - Spark (NEW)
41. Zola Jesus - Night (NEW)
42. Sibel - Stop (46)
43. Ellie Goulding - Guns & Horses (NEW)
44. Paula Seling feat Ovi - Playing With Fire (NEW)
45. Feminnem - Lako Je Sve (NEW)
46. Mariah Carey feat Ne-Yo - Angels Cry (41)
47. Amy MacDonald - What Happiness Means To Me (NEW)
48. Peter Jöback - Hollow (48)
49. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Bittersweet (NEW)
50. Boyzone - Let Your Wall Fall Down (NEW)


Albums

1. Boyzone - Brother (NEW)
2. Melodifestivalen 2010 (1)
3. Lady GaGa - The Fame/The Fame Monster (2)
4. Amy MacDonald - A Curious Thing (NEW)
5. Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels (3)
6. Ellie Goulding - Lights (4)
7. Absolute Schlager (7)
8. Alphabeat - The Beat Is… (6)
9. Jason DeRülo - Jason DeRülo (5)
10. Leddra Chapman - Telling Tales (8)
11. Rihanna - Rated R (12)
12. Erik Hassle - Pieces (9)
13. Melodi Grand Prix 2010 (10)
14. Alicia Keys - The Element Of Freedom (11)
15. Florence + The Machine - Lungs (14)
16. Sharleen Spiteri - The Movie Songbook (13)
17. Glee: The Music, Volume 2 (20)
18. Leona Lewis - Echo (15)
19. Cheryl Cole - 3 Words (16)
20. Glee: The Music, Volume 1 (17)

Friday 5 March 2010

Top Songs/Albums; WB 8/3/10

Songs



1. Salem Al Fakir - Keep On Walking (3)
2. Timoteij - Kom (2)
3. Staygold feat Spank Rock, Lady Tigra and Damien Adore - Backseat (1)
4. Alcazar - Headlines (9)
5. Boyzone - Gave It All Away (12)
6. Cheryl Cole - Parachute (4)
7. Marina & The Diamonds - Hollywood (10)
8. Kids Of 88 - Just A Little Bit (NEW)
9. A1 - Don’t Wanna Lose You Again (5)
10. Lady GaGa - Dance In The Dark (Re-entry)
11. Didrik Solli-Tangen - My Heart Is Yours (6)
12. Cascada - Pyromania (18)
13. Caro Emerald - A Night Like This (NEW)
14. Leddra Chapman - Story (8)
15. Inna - Hot (11)
16. Alphabeat - Hole In My Heart (33)
17. Darin - Out Of My Life (38)
18. Venke Knutson - Jealous Cause I Love You (13)
19. Lady GaGa feat Beyoncé - Telephone (37)
20. Delphic - Halcyon (30)
21. Ola - Unstoppable (32)
22. Pixie Lott - Gravity (23)
23. Tania Foster - Supawoman (7)
24. NEO - Human Frontier (NEW)
25. Timbaland feat Katy Perry - If We Ever Meet Again (14)
26. Andreas Johnson - We Can Work It Out (26)
27. One More Time - Den Vilda (27)
28. Anna Bergendahl - This Is My Life (NEW)
29. Marina & The Diamonds - Are You Satisfied? (16)
30. Ellie Goulding - The Writer (NEW)
31. Chanee and N'Evergreen - In A Moment Like This (17)
32. Hera Björk - Je Ne Sais Quoi (20)
33. Pernilla Wahlgren - Jag Vill Om Du Vågar (NEW)
34. Rihanna - Rude Boy (24)
35. Jon Lilygreen & The Islanders - Life Looks Better In The Spring (21)
36. Erik Hassle & Malin Dahlstrom - Who’s Gonna Walk You Home (36)
37. Eric Saade - Manboy (39)
38. Niamh Kavanagh - It’s For You (NEW)
39. Groove Armada feat Will Young - History (NEW)
40. Alex Gardner - I’m Not Mad (46)
41. Mariah Carey feat Ne-Yo - Angels Cry (44)
42. Gabriella Cilmi - On A Mission (28)
43. Jason DeRülo - What If (NEW)
44. Kate Nash - Doo Wah Doo (NEW)
45. Alphabeat - DJ (Re-entry)
46. Sibel - Stop (NEW)
47. Jason DeRülo - Ridin’ Solo (NEW)
48. Peter Jöback - Hollow (NEW)
49. Gramophonedzie - Why Don’t You (49)
50. Kristina - Horehronie (NEW)


Albums

1. Melodifestivalen 2010 (NEW)
2. Lady GaGa - The Fame/The Fame Monster (5)
3. Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels (1)
4. Ellie Goulding - Lights (7)
5. Jason DeRülo - Jason DeRülo (NEW)
6. Alphabeat - The Beat Is… (18)
7. Absolute Schlager (2)
8. Leddra Chapman - Telling Tales (4)
9. Erik Hassle - Pieces (3)

10. Melodi Grand Prix 2010 (6)
11. Alicia Keys - The Element Of Freedom (8)
12. Rihanna - Rated R (12)
13. Sharleen Spiteri - The Movie Songbook (NEW)

15. Leona Lewis - Echo (14)
16. Cheryl Cole - 3 Words (16)
17. Glee: The Music, Volume 1 (15)
18. Ke$ha - Animal (13)
19. Salem Al Fakir - Astronaut (9)
20. Glee: The Music, Volume 2 (20)