UK Chart Performance: One Direction

One Direction has fourteen top ten hits in the UK. Four of them went all the way to #1.

2011 - What Makes You Beautiful (#1)

2011 - Gotta Be You (#3)

2012 - One Thing (#9)

2012 - Live While We're Young (#3)

2012 - Little Things (#1)

2013 - Kiss You (#9)

2013 - One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) (#1)

2013 - Best Song Ever (#2)

2013 - Story of My Life (#2)

2013 - Steal My Girl (#3)

2014 - Night Changes (#7)

2015 - Drag Me Down (#1)

2015 - Perfect (#2)

2015 - History (#6)

One Direction Finally Tops My Personal Countdown

One Direction already has eight top 10 hits in my personal countdown.  Finally, one of those eight gets to the top this week - and that song is She's Not Afraid, which earlier peaked at #2.  It reenters this week's countdown at the top.  

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending December 6, 2013 -

#1 One Direction - She's Not Afraid (RE)

#2 Mika - Elle Me Dit (RE)

#3 Jason Mraz - A Beautiful Mess (RE)

#4 Naked Eyes - Emotion in Motion (RE)

#5 Naked Eyes - Promises, Promises (RE)

#6 Naked Eyes - Fortune and Fame (RE)

#7 Naked Eyes - Piccadilly (NEW)

#8 Naked Eyes - I Could Show You How (RE)

#9 Naked Eyes - Voices in My Head (RE)

#10 Kodaline - One Day (#NEW)

My Weekly Top 10 December 6, 2013: #1 One Direction - She's Not Afraid

One Direction's She's Not Afraid finally becomes the boy band's very first #1 hit in my personal countdown.  The song reenters the countdown straight to the top.

Newcome Lorde Lords It Over My Personal Countdown This Week

Lorde gets her very first #1 hit in my personal countdown this week, as Royals, moves from #8 to #1.  

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending November 22, 2013 -

#1 Lorde - Royals (#8)

#2 One Direction - She's Not Afraid (RE)

#3 Mika - Elle Me Dit (RE)

#4 Lady Gaga - Applause (RE)

#5 Jason Mraz - A Beautiful Mess (RE)

#6 Hezekiah Walkder (NEW)

#7 Calvin Harris feat. Ayah Marar - Thinkin' 'Bout You (NEW)

#8 Ellie Goulding - Burn (NEW)

#9 Zedd feat. Hayley Williams - Stay the Night (NEW) 

#10 Pet Shop Boys (NEW)

One Direction

One Direction has seven top 10 hits in my personal countdown.  One of them went all the way to #1.

2012 Little Things (#10)
2013 Heart Attack (#8)
2013 Over Again (#4) 
2013 - I Would (#5) 
2013 - Best Song Ever (#9) 
2013 - One Thing (#8)
2013 - She's Not Afraid (#1) 
2013 - Teenage Dirtbag (#2)

Train Gets Their Third #1 Song in My Personal Countdown

Train gets their third #1 song in my personal countdown this week as Bruises, their collaboration with Ashley Monroe moves from #2 to #1.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending November 1, 2013 -

#1 Train feat. Ashley Monroe - Bruises (#2)

#2 The Killers - Runaways (#5)

#3 Jamie Cullum - You're Not the Only One (#10)

#4 Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend (#1)

#5 Justin Timberlake - Take Back the Night (RE)

#6 One Direction - She's Not Afraid (RE)

#7 Britney Spears - Work Bitch (RE)

#8 Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know (RE)

#9 Arctic Monkeys -  Why'D You Only Call Me When You're High (NEW)

#10 Mika - Elle Me Dit (NEW)

My Weekly Top 10 November 1, 2013: #6 One Direction - She's Not Afraid

One Direction reenters my personal countdown this week, as She's Not Afraid starts its chart run at #6.

My Weekly Top 40 July 19, 2013: #29 One Direction - Over Again

One Direction's second top ten hit in my personal countdown, Over Again, has already peaked at #4.  This week, it slips to #29.     

Sara Bareilles Tops My Personal Countdown For the First Time with Brave

Brave is Sara Bareilles' second top ten hit in my personal countdown and the first to go all the way to the top.  Love Song went all the way to #3.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending July 12, 2013 -

#1 Sara Bareilles - Brave (#2)

#2 Lana del Rey - Young and Beautiful (#3)

#3 Ciara - Body Party (#4)

#4 One Direction - Over Again (#6)

#5 Bishop Paul S. Morton - Best Days Yet (#7)

#6 Xavier Naidoo - Bei Meiner Seele (#8)

#7 Maitre Gims - J'Me Tire (#9)

#8 Carly Rae Jepsen -Tiny Little Bows (#16)

#9 Bruno Mars - Treasure (#11)

#10 Felix Poon - 掌舵 (#12)

Ronan Keating Gets His Fifth #1 Hit In My Personal Countdown This Week

Ronan Keating is no stranger to the top spot in my personal countdown.  In 2000, all four songs of his first solo album, Ronan, went all the way to #1, Life Is A Rollercoaster, Heal Me, Keep On Walking and When the World Was Mine .  Thirteen years later, my third pick from his latest album Fires, Love You and Leave You, moves to the top spot this week, making it his fifth #1 song as a solo singer.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending July 5, 2013 -

#1 Ronan Keating - Love You and Leave You (#3)

#2 Sara Bareilles - Brave (#5)

#3 Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful (#6)

#4 Ciara - Body Party (#9)

#5 Lee Brice - I Drive Your Truck (#10)

#6 One Direction - Over Again (#11)

#7 Bishop Paul S. Morton - Best Days Yet (#13)

#8 Xavier Naidoo - Bei Meiner Seele (#14)

#9 Maitre Gims - J'Me Tire (#15)

#10 Akdong Musician - I Love You (#12)

A Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull Collaboration Finally Hits Number One in My Personal Countdown

Live it Up is already Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull's third collaboration.  On the Floor and Dance Again both reached the top 10 in my personal countdown but it's Live It Up that goes all the way to #1.  It's Jennifer's eighth #1 and Pitbull's fifth in my personal countdown.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending June 21, 2013 -

#1 Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull - Live It Up (#6)

#2 Mika ft. Pharrell - Celebrate (#2)

#3 Ronan Keating - Love You and Leave You (#8)

#4 Carrie Underwood - Unapologize (#12)

#5 Sara Bareilles - Brave (#7)

#6 Phillip Phillips - Gone Gone Gone (#13)

#7 Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful (#14)

#8 Lee Brice - I Drive Your Truck (#11)

#9 One Direction - Over Again (#15)

#10 Ciara - Body Party (#26)

A Spanish Song From A Colombian and Brazilian Singer Tops My Personal Countdown this Week

Carlos Vives from Colombia and Michel Telo from Brazil, both big superstars in the world of Latin music, get their very first #1 hit in my personal countdown this week, as Como Le Gusta A Tu Cuerpo moves from #2 to #1.  It's also the second top 10 hit for both guys in my personal countdown.

Here are my ten favorite song for the week ending April 5, 2013 -

#1 Carlos Vives / Michel Telo - Como Le Gusta A Tu Cuerpo (#2)

#2 Lee Ha Yi - 1, 2, 3, 4 - (#3)

#3 Alexis Jordan - Hush Hush  (#6)

#4 Tegomass - Sayonara Ni Sayonara (#7)

#5 Leighton Meester - Words I Couldn't Say (#8)

#6 Justin Timberlake - Mirrors (#1)

#7 Ronan Keating - NYC Girl (#10)

#8 One Direction - Heart Attack (#11)

#9 Alanis Morissette - Empathy (#17)

#10 Lee Seung Gi - Return (#16)

New Favorite Song This Week: One Direction - Heart Attack

Heart Attack is the fourth One Direction song in my personal countdown. This week it debuts at #29.

Tamar Braxton Tops My Personal Countdown For The First Time

Toni Braxton's sister, Tamar Braxton, gets her very first #1 song in my personal countdown as Love and War, moves up from #3 to #1 this week.  It's also her first appearance in my personal countdown.  Toni, on the other hand, has 13 top ten hits, seven of them, #1 songs.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending February 1, 2013 -

#1 Tamar Braxton - Love and War (#3)

#2 John Mayer - The Age of Worry (#2)

#3 Emeli Sande - Clown (#1)

#4 One Direction - Kiss You (#13)

#5 David Bowie - Where Are We Now (#15)

#6 Sexion d'Assaut - Problemes d'Adultes (#16)

#7 Kacey Musgraves - Merry Go Round (#21)

#8 Owl City - If My Heart Was A House (NEW)

#9 Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Wanz - Thrift Shop (#20)

#10 Ronan Keating - Easy Now My Dear (#14)

Niall Horan: One of the Boys of One Direction

I just thought of featuring Niall Horan of One Direction after their group topped the Billboard albums chart.  It's been a longtime since a British boy band has topped the albums chart in America, maybe even the singles chart - so it's a good thing the group is making headway again in today's generation of kids.

MyFABEMusic Weekly Top 10 - December 30, 2011

This week, OPM hits rule!  Pops Fernandez gets her first #1 song in my hit list in 22 years!  Her song 'Don't Say Goodbye' was a former #1 of mine way back in 1989.  This is her third #1 in my list, her first being Points of View, her duet with Joey Albert.

Newcomer Solenn Heusaff gets her first Top 10 hit in my list and this should be #1 next week.  I am really warming up to the song.

Pops has two hits in my list this week, By Heart is at #5.  Natasha Bedingfield is also a new entry with No Mozart, as well as Ed Sheeran's Lego House, which I am now slowly getting to notice.

#1 Pops Fernandez and Robin Nievera - Friends

This is the song that immediately caught my attention when I listened to Pops album last week.  It's a beautiful duet with her son Robin.

#2 Solenn Heusaff - It's Our First Time

This song by Solenn kinda grew on me - it's actually smooth and sexy the way she sings it!

#3 Beyonce - End of Time

I still love to this Beyonce song.  I love how rapid she sings on this one.

#4 Beyonce - I Miss You

A beautiful pensive song from Beyonce. A gem!

#5 Pops Fernandez - By Heart

This is the first song of Pops' album Silver.  She sounds like Amy Grant here.  Love it!

#6  Ed Sheeran - Lego House

This song kinda grew on me.  I love how passionately Ed sings the chorus!

#7 One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful

#8 Natasha Bedingfield - No Mozart

The first song that I immediately noticed from Natasha's Strip Me album.

#9 Katy Perry - The One That Got Away

#10  Lloyd and Andre 3000 - Dedication to My Ex

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Chart Performance: One Direction

One Direction's second #1 album in the US, Take Me Home, slips to #10 this week.  Up All Night also topped the charts when it was released there.

This week, the same album tops the UK album charts.  Their first album, Up All Night, peaked at #2. 

Their fourth UK #1 song, Little Things, slips to #9 this week.  It's also their sixth UK top 10 hit. Here are their top 10 hits in the UK -

2010 - Heroes (as part of X-Factor Finalists 2010 ) (#1)

2011 - Wishing On A Star (with The X-Factor Finalists 2011 and JLS) (#1)

2011 - What Makes You Beautiful (#1)

2011 - Gotta Be You (#3)

2012 - Live While We're Young (#3)
2012 - Little Things (#1)

One Direction's second top 10 hit in the US, Live While We're Young peaked at #3.  Their first top 10 hit, What Makes You Beautiful, peaked at #4.