Mary J. Blige

Mary J. Blige has twenty-five top 10 hits in  My Weekly Top 10 countdown, including eight which went to #1.  

Mary stretches her chart run to 26 years this week as Love Yourself, her collaboration with Kanye West, moves up to #7, in My Weekly Top 10 countdown.

1992 - You Remind Me (#8)

1992 - Real Love (#1)

1992 - Reminisce (#8)

1992 - Sweet Thing (#4)

1993 - Love No Limit (#7) 

1994 - Be Happy (#6)

1995 - Mary Jane (All Night Along) (#3)

1995 - I'm Goin' Down (#3)

1996 - Not Gon Cry (#1)

1997 - I Can Love You (with Lil Kim) (#8)

1997 - Everything (#1)

1997 - Missing You (#3)

1998 - Seven Days (#9)

1999 - As (with George Michael) (#1)

1999 - All That I Can Say (#3)

2001 - Family Affair (#1)

2002 - No More Drama (#1)

2003 - Ooh! (#7)

2006 - One (with U2) (#7)

2012 - Need Someone (#1)

2013 - The Living Proof (#1) 

2016 - Stronger (#10)

2016 - Good Love (with T.I.) (#5)

2016 - I Feel Good (#5)

2017 - Love Yourself (with Kanye West) (#7)

Here's a video of that song.  It already has 109,880 views.

My Weekly Top 40 July 5, 2013: #29 Mary J. Blige - Ain't Nobody

Mary J. Blige's twenty-fourth top forty hit in my personal countdown, Ain't Nobody moves from #30 to #29 this week.

Mary J. Blige Tops My Personal Countdown for the Eighth Time

Well, sometimes I discover songs which are already past their release dates.  This happens again this week, as the theme song from the movie The Help, Mary J. Blige's The Living Proof, ascends to the top of my personal countdown.  This happened because I chose Need Someone as my top pick for her album My Life II, which incidentally, also went to #1 in last year.

Here are my favorite songs for the week ending January 11, 2013 -

#1 Mary J. Blige - The Living Proof (#4)

#2 Matt Redman - 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) (#3)

#3 Emeli Sande - Clown (#6)

#4 John Mayer - The Age of Worry (#5)

#5 Tamar Braxton - Love and War (#7)

#6 Chris Brown - Don't Judge Me (#1)

#7 Lana del Rey - Ride (#8)

#8 Robbie Williams - S**t on the Radio (#9)

#9  Lena - Stardust (#10)

#10 Alexis Jordan - Laying Around (NEW)

Chris Brown's Don't Judge Me Becomes My First #1 Song of 2013

Even though both Chris Brown and Rihanna underwent a lot of media controversy over their volatile and often violent relationship, one thing is clear, both of them never stopped working - and because of that, they've had #1 songs in my personal countdown even if they were always on the media spotlight!

This week, Chris Brown gets his ninth #1 song in my personal countdown, as Please Don't Judge Me, moves from #2 to #1.  

Here are my ten favorite songs for the first week of 2013, week ending, January 4, 2013 -

#1 Chris Brown - Please Don't Judge Me

#2 Sakanaction - Boku to Hana

#3 Matt Redman - 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)

#4 Mary J. Blige - The Living Proof

#5 John Mayer - The Age of Worry

#6 Emeli Sande - Clown

#7 Tamar Braxton - Love and War

#8 Lana del Rey - Ride

#9 Robbie Williams - S**t on the Radio

#10 Lena - Stardust

3rd MyFABEMusic Awards: R&B Act of 2012

Here are the nominees for the 3rd MyFABEMusic R&B Act of the Year award. 

Beyonce

Chris Brown

Frank Ocean

 
Mary J. Blige 

 Pastor Charles Jenkins and Fellowship Chicago

And the R&B Act of 2012 is Beyonce.

3rd MyFABEMusic Awards: R&B Song of 2012

The nominees for R&B Song of the Year include the gospel group of Pastor Charles Jenkins and Fellowship Chicago and R&B royalties Mary J. Blige, Chris Brown and Beyonce, who fielded two hits this year.

Here are the nominees for the 3rd MyFABEMusic award for R&B Song of the Year. 


Beyonce - I Miss You

Beyonce - Love on Top

Chris Brown - Turn Up the Music

Mary J. Blige - Need Someone

Pastor Charles Jenkins and Fellowship Chicago - Awesome

And the R&B Song of 2012 is Beyonce's Love on Top

Mary J. Blige Scores Her Ninth #1 Song in My Personal Countdown

 

It was great that I gave a listen to Mary J. Blige's latestalbum, My Life The Journey Continues.  My most favorite song this week, Need Someone, comes from that album, and it becomes her ninth trip to the top of my personal countdown.

Another surprising detail from my personal countdown this week is the presence of non-English songs.  In fact, six of the ten songs in my countdown this week are not even in English!  It is truly becoming an international countdown!  Of the six, two are in Spanish, two in Korean, one in French and one in Japanese!

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending November 23, 2012.

#1 Mary J. Blige - Need Someone (5)

#2 Alanis Morissette - Woman Down (7)

#3 Kelly Clarkson - Catch My Breath (10)

#4 Gocho - Si Te Digo La Verdad (2)

#5 Nicki Minaj - Marilyn Monroe (6)

#6 Sakanaction - Yoru No Higashigawa (1) 

#7 Carlos Vives - Volvi A Nacer (NEW)

#8 BB Brunes - Coups et Blessures (NEW)

#9 Epik High - It's Cold (NEW)

#10 10cm - Fine Thank You and You? (NEW)

Japanese Band Sakanaction Tops My Personal Countdown This Week

Here are my favorite foreign songs for the week ending November 16, 2012 -

#1 Sakanaction - Yoru No Higashigawa (3)

#2 Gocho - Si Te Digo La Verdad (2)

#3 P!nk and Nate Ruess - Just Give Me A Reason (1)

#4 Ne-Yo - Let Me Love You (5)

#5 Mary J. Blige - Need Someone (NEW)

#6 Alanis Morrissette - Woman Down (NEW)

#7 Nicki Minaj - Marilyn Monroe (RE)

#8 Ryan O'Shaughnessy - No Name (NEW)

#9 Imagine Dragons - It's Time (NEW)

#10 Kelly Clarkson - Catch My Breath (NEW)

My Five Favorite Songs from Mary J. Blige's My Life II

I have a huge stack of CDs I bought Christmas of last year and I still have to listen to most of them! Crazy me! Anyway, here's one of these CDs, Mary J. Blige's My Life II The Journey Continues.  I think Mary release My Life about a decade ago, and that album sounds a bit different from this one.  I know I have several of her albums, no, no, I think I have all her albums, including the concert ones!  I am such a big fan of this lady, and I have heard her metamorphose through her music.

Anyway, I won't be doing general album reviews anymore since people now choose downloads instead of buying the whole album.  So after listening to the CD for hours on end, here are my five most favorite songs from the album ranked from #1 (my most favorite) to #5 (still a favorite, since this album has 14 songs in them).




 #1 The Living Proof


#2 Need Someone




#3 Empty Prayers




#4 Ain't Nobody




#5 No Condition

Mary J. Blige Singing Empty Prayers Live in Chicago

I admit I was floored when I saw this Youtube clip of Mary J. Blige, Singing Empty Prayers, my third most favorite song from her My Live II The Journey Continues. She just sings it with such conviction and her voice - whew - listen to that emotion! I do wish she comes to Manila for a show! I would dearly love to watch her live!

Mary J. Blige Singing Need Someone in Later... With Jools Holland

Mary J. Blige's The Living Proof (The Help) - Golden Globe Nominee Best Original Song 2012

Mary J. Blige did a song for a movie a long time ago, I think it was Not Gon' Cry - I even forgot now for which movie it was. But anyway, this song, The Living Proof from the movie The Help is solid and is perfect for the movie. And yeah, it's vintage Mary! I think, it's also her first Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song.

Mary J. Blige: The Journey Continues (Act 1)

The Queen of Hip Hop, Mary J.Blige, returns this week to the US Top 10 album charts with her eleventh Top 10 album - My Life II: The Journey Continues (Act 1).  This week, the album debuts at #5.  Below are her Top 10 albums in the US -

1992 - What's the 411? (#6)

1994 - My Life (#7)

1997 - Share My World (#1)

1999 - Mary (#2)

2001 - No More Drama (#2)

2003 - Love & Life (#1)

2005 - The Breakthrough (#1)

2006 - Reflections: Retrospective (#9)

2007 - Growing Pains (#1)

2009 - Stronger with Each Tear (#2)

2011 - My Life II: The Journey Continues (Act 1) (#5)