Gloria Estefan Tops My Personal Countdown List for the Eleventh Time with Wepa

Here are my favorite songs for the week ending April 27, 2012.

#1 Gloria Estefan - Wepa (NEW)

Gloria Estefan is back on top of MyFABEMusic's Weekly Top 10, due mainly to this song's inclusion in the latest release of the Les Mills Program, Body Jam 60.  This is already her eleventh #1 song in my personal Top 10, which stretches way back to 1985 with Conga.  Here's a list of her songs which became my personal #1's -

1985 - Conga
1988 - 1-2-3
1989 - Get On Your Feet
1991 - Coming Out of the Dark
1991 - Nayib's Song 
1991 - Live For Loving You
1994 - Everlasting Love
1996 - (You'll Be Mine) Party Time
1998 - Cuba Libre
1999 - Music of the Heart (with N 'Sync)

This week, the first single from her album Little Miss Havana, Wepa, goes to #1 in my personal countdown.  This was due mainly to the song being present in the latest release of Body Jam 60, which is one of my favorite exercises.

#2 - Beyonce - Love on Top (RE)

This song was the first number one song in my personal countdown taken from Beyonce's '4' album.  It went to #1 end of last year.  The album eventually produced two more number one songs this year (End of Time and I Miss You).  Due again to its inclusion in the latest release of Body Jam, it reenters my personal list at #2 this week.

#3 - Madonna - I'm A Sinner (NEW)

MDNA was release a few weeks back and this week, five songs from the album crashes into my personal countdown.  The highest charting song is I'm A Sinner, which comes in at #3.

#4 - Madonna - I Fucked Up (NEW)

#5 - Madonna - Gang Bang (NEW)

#6 - Madonna - Girl Gone Wild (NEW)

#7 - Madonna - Turn Up the Radio (NEW)

#8 - Swedish House Mafia - One (RE)

This song was a top 10 song from early last year after Usher and Swedish House Mafia performed this in the American Music Awards.  This week, due again to its inclusion in the latest Body Jam release, it reenters at #8. 

#9 - fun. - Some Nights (9)

#10 - Chris Cornell - The Keeper (10)

My Five Favorite Songs from Madonna's MDNA

I have been playing Madonna's MDNA for a few days now and I have come up with the five songs that I like the best from it.  It's no surprise that four out of five of them are all dance songs since this is largely a dance album with a few ballads thrown in.  I am slowly beginning to like her album but it's not quite near the status of Ray of Light or Like A Prayer in terms of being legendary in terms of quality and output.

#1 I'm A Sinner - This song sounds reminiscent of her hit Beautiful Stranger so I won't be surprised if it was produced by William Orbit.  I haven't checked it though so I may be incorrect.  This is, as of now, my most favorite song from her album.  It's naughty and I just love it's vibe!

#2 I Fucked Up - When I was still listening to the 'leaks' from the album, this was the song that I liked the best.  It's still up there among my favorites.  I just love how frank Madonna is here.

#3 Gang Bang - This is the song that I'm looking forward to see how she does it in her upcoming tour.  It's naughty and raunchy and a lot of fun to listen and dance to! Drive bitch!

#4 Girls Gone Wild - A true dance anthem if there was one.  They're saying that this is going to be the next release from MDNA.  That's good!  It's actually representative of what the songs are in this album.

#5 Turn Up the Radio - In my opinion, probably the most radio-friendly among all her songs from this album.  Well, the first single, Give Me All Your Luvin' was ok, but I felt it was a poor cousin to what Gwen Stefani and Britney Spears had done before, so I think this one, would've been a more superior first release.

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Chart Performance: Madonna

Madonna gets her twenty-first Top 10 album in the UK this week, and her twelfth #1 album, as MDNA, debuted at #1.  Her chart span now extends to 30 years since her self-titled debut album peaked at #6 up to her present album.  Here are her Top 10 albums in the UK -

1983 - Madonna (#6)
1984 - Like A Virgin (#1)
1986 - True Blue (#1)
1987 - Who's That Girl (#4)
1987 - You Can Dance (#5)
1989 - Like A Prayer (#1)
1990 - I'm Breathless (#2)
1990 - The Immaculate Collection (#1)
1992 - Erotica (#2)
1994 - Bedtime Stories (#2)
1995 - Something to Remember (#3)
1996 - Evita (#1)
1998 - Ray of Light (#1)
2000 - Music (#1)
2001 - GHV2 (#2)
2003 - American Life (#1)
2005 - Confessions on a Dance Floor (#1)
2007 - The Confessions Tour (#7)
2008 - Hard Candy (#1)
2009 - Celebration (#1)
2012 - MDNA (#1)

In the US, the same album also debuted at #1.  It's her eighth #1 album and her 20th Top 10 album in the US. It also extends her chart life for thirty years now between her first Top 10 album and this new album MDNA.  This week, it slips to #8.  Here are her Top 10 albums in the US -

1983 - Madonna (#8)
1984 - Like A Virgin (#1)
1986 - True Blue (#1)
1987 - Who's That Girl (#7)
1989 - Like A Prayer (#1)
1990 - I'm Breathless (#2)
1990 - The Immaculate Collection (#2)
1992 - Erotica (#2)
1994 - Bedtime Stories (#3)
1995 - Something to Remember (#6)
1996 - Evita (#2)
1998 - Ray of Light (#2)
2000 - Music (#1)
2001 - GHV2 (#7)
2003 - American Life (#1)
2005 - Confessions on a Dance Floor (#1)
2008 - Hard Candy (#1)
2009 - Celebration (#7)
2010 - Sticky and Sweet Tour (#10)
2012 - MDNA (#1)

I'm A Sinner: My Favorite Songs in Madonna's MDNA

This song sounds like a funkier version of Beautiful Stranger, but with far more irreverent lyrics.  I like how the funky beat starts the song off and proceeds to a psychedelic middle portion and continues off with a prayer to the Virgin Mary.  I don't think she'd be a fan of this song because Madonna sings that she enjoys being a sinner!

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I F***ed Up: My Favorite Songs from Madonna's MDNA

With all the leaks in the Internet of Madonna's upcoming MDNA album, I couldn't help but listen to a few of them.  I'm not sure though which of those songs are really in the album, but of the handful that I listened to, this song, I Fucked Up, is currently one of my favorites among all of them.  It starts out slowly but speeds up towards the end.  Madonna does sound a bit different in this album but it may take me a few more spins before I will really find here, the songs that I like here.

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