Chart Performance: Nate Ruess

Nate Ruess of fun. has one top 10 hit as Nate Ruess in the UK.  Just Give Me A Reason, his collaboration with Pink, went to #2.  The same song went to #1 in the US.

fun.'s Dapper and Fun Style

I just saw fun. perform at this year's Grammy awards and without fail, the band members, Nate Ruess, Jack Antonoff and Andrew Dost, were dressed in their very unique preppy hipster style!  I especially like the sheen of Nate Ruess' shirt.  It was in plain color but when the lights land on it, it looked like silk or silky leather - if there's such a thing!  If I were just 20 years younger, this band's look would be the one I'd be wearing on the streets!

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)

A Gospel Song Tops My Personal Countdown for the Third Time

Awesome by Charles Jenkins and Fellowship Chicago is just the third gospel song to top my personal countdown.

Here are the gospel songs that have topped my personal countdown -

1997 - Kirk Franklin and God's Property - Love
2011 - Kirk Franklin - I Smile

#1 Pastor Charles Jenkins and Fellowship Chicago - Awesome (RE)

This beautiful gospel song reenters the countdown this week at #5.


#2 Ne-yo - Let Me Love You (#2)

#3 Keane - Sea Fog (RE)

Keane's Sea Fog reenters the countdown this week at #2.  It reached #1 two weeks ago.

#4 P!nk and Nate Ruess - Just Give Me A Reason (NEW)

I was listening to Pink's album this week, The Truth About Love) and I chanced upon this beautiful duet she has with Nate Ruess and I love it so much it has already reached #4 in my personal countdown.

#5 Foster the People - Helena Beat (10)

This is a former #1 song and this week it jumps six places to #5.

#6 Frank Ocean - Thinking About You (RE)

#7 Sakanaction - Your No Higashigawa (RE)

#8 Jonas Brothers - Turn Right (2)

#9 Gocho - Si Te Digo La Verdad (RE)

#10 Jason Nelson - Shifting the Atmosphere (RE)