The Frozen Soundtrack Puts Four Number One Songs in My Personal Countdown

The soundtrack to the movie Frozen puts four #1 songs in my personal countdown.  Love is an Open Door is the fourth track from that album to go all the way to #1.  It has been sometime ago that a soundtrack album has done that - and most of those which did are movie classics as well.  Top of mind soundtracks that I can recall right now that has duplicated this feat are The Bodyguard and Dirty Dancing. The other #1 songs from this Frozen album are In Summer, Let It Go, Do You Want to Build A Snowman and this week's #1 song, Love is an Open Door.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending April 18, 2014 -

#1 Kristen Bell / Santino Fontana - Love is an Open Door (#2)

#2 G-Dragon - Crayon (#3)

#3 John Legend - All of Me (#4)

#4 Alicia Keys - Brand New Me (#5)

#5 Jason Derulo - Talk Dirty to Me (#9)

#6 Beyonce - Partition (#10)

#7 Lady Gaga - Sex Dreams (NEW)

#8 Gary Barlow - Requiem (NEW)

#9 Josh Groban - Happy in My Heartache (NEW)

#10 Revolverheld - Ich lass fur Dich das licht an (NEW)

FABE Weekly Top 10 April 18, 2014: #1 Kristen Bell and Santino Fontana - Love is an Open Door

Love is an Open Door is the fourth #1 hit from the hit Disney musical Frozen.  It finally moves up this week from #2 to #1eek.

The songs from the movie soundtrack of Frozen has been very enduring way after the movie has been shown here in Manila.

Twenty Number One Songs For Beyonce!

Beyonce gets her twentieth #1 song this week as Drunk in Love, her collaboration with husband Jay-z, moves up to #1.  It's also her second #1 from her Beyonce album.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending April 11, 2014 -

#1 Beyonce feat. Jay-z - Drunk in Love (#3)

#2 Kristen Bell feat. Santino Fontana - Love is an Open Door (#2)

#3 G-Dragon - Crayon (#4)

#4 John Legend - All of Me (#6)

#5 Alicia Keys - Brand New Me (#5)

#6 Kanye West - Black Skinhead (#8)

#7 Chris Brown / Ester Dean - I Love You (#9)

#8 Usher - More (#10)

#9 Jason Derulo - Talk Dirty to Me (NEW)

#10 Beyonce - Partition (NEW)

Beyonce Tops My Personal Countdown for the 19th Time!

XO becomes Beyonce's 19th #1 hit in my personal countdown.  The song is from her latest album and it's the first song from that album to top my weekly top 10.  The song moved from #3 to #1 this week.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending March 28, 2014 -

#1 Beyonce - XO (#3)

#2 Kristen Bell / Santino Fontana - Love is an Open Door (#2)

#3 Beyonce feat. Jay-z - Drunk in Love (#4)

#4 Sakanaction - Goodbye (#5)

#5 James Blunt - Bonfire Heart (#6)

#6 Sakanaction - Yuriika (#7)

#7 Jamie Cullum - Get A Hold of Yourself (#8)

#8 John Legend - All of Me (#9)

#9 Coldplay - Magic (#10)

#10 G-Dragon - Crayon (NEW)

A Great Big World Gets First Number One Song in My Personal Countdown

The duo A Great Big World got their very first #1 song in my personal countdown this week, as their collaboration with Christina Aguilera, Say Something, moves to the top spot this week.  This is also Christina's twelfth #1 song in my personal countdown.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending March 21, 2014 -

#1 A Great Big World feat. Christina Aguilera - Say Something (#2)

#2 Kristen Bell / Santino Fontana - Love is an Open Door (#3)

#3 Beyonce - XO (#5)

#4 Beyonce feat. Jay-z - Drunk in Love (#6)

#5 Sakanaction - Goodbye (#7)

#6 James Blunt - Bonfire Heart (#8)

#7 Yuriika - Sakanaction (#9)

#8 Jamie Cullum - Get A Hold on Yourself (#10)

#9 John Legend - All of Me (NEW)

#10 Coldplay - Magic (NEW)

Frozen Soundtrack Yields Third #1 Song This Week

Interestingly, my most favorite song from the Frozen soundtrack was In Summer, and the song went straight to #1 the week after I saw Frozen in theaters here in Manila last November.  Let It Go was a very slow burn song and it went to #1 a few weeks back.  This week, the soundtrack yields a third #1 song, as Do You Want to Build a Snowman moves to #1.

It's Kristen Bell's first #1 song in my personal countdown and the fourth for Idina Menzel.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending March 14, 2014 -

#1 Kristen Bell / Idina Menzel - Do You Want to Build A Snowman (#3)

#2 A Great Big World / Christina Aguilera - Say Something (#10)

#3 Kristen Bell / Santino Fontana - Love is an Open Door (#2)

#4 Stefano Langone - Yes to Love (#4)

#5 Beyonce - XO (#5)

#6 Beyonce / Jay-z - Drunk in Love (#9)

#7 Sakanaction - Goodbye (#8)

#8 James Blunt - Bonfire Heart (NEW)

#9 Sakanaction - Yuriika (NEW)

#10 Jamie Cullum - Get A Hold of Yourself (NEW)

Vampire Weekend Rules My Personal Countdown Again

This year's winner for Grammy Best Alternative Album, Vampire Weekend, gets their second #1 song in my personal countdown as Ya Hey moves to the top spot this week.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending March 7, 2014 -

#1 Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey (#2)

#2 Kristen Bell / Santino Fontana - Love is an Open Door (#3)

#3 Kristen Bell / Idina Menzel _ Do You Want to Build A Snowman (#4)

#4 Stefano Langone - Yes to Love (#5)

#5 Beyonce - XO (#6)

#6 Storm Queen - Look Right Through (#7)

#7 Justin Bieber - Roller Coaster (#8)

#8 Sakanaction - Goodbye (#9)

#9 Beyonce feat. Jay-z - Drunk in Love 

#10  A Great Big World feat. Christina Aguilera - Say Something

Lady Antebellum Tops My Personal Countdown for the Third Time

Lady Antebellum has now topped my personal countdown for the third time as Compass moves to the top spot this week.  Carrie Underwood was the last country artist to top my personal countdown when Quitter hit the top spot October of last year.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending February 28, 2014 - 

#1 Lady Antebellum - Compass (#2)

#2 Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey (#3)

#3 Kristen Bell / Santino Fontana - Love is an Open Door (#8)

#4 Kristen Bell / Idina Menzel - Do You Want to Build a Snowman (#10)

#5 Santino Fontana - Yes to Love (#5)

#6 Beyonce - XO (#7)

#7 Storm Queen - Look Right Through (#RE)

#8 Justin Bieber - Roller Coaster (RE)

#9 Sakanaction - Goodbye (NEW)

#10 Beyonce feat. Jay-z - Drunk in Love

Stromae Tops My Personal Countdown For A Second Time

Belgian singer Stromae, tops my personal countdown for the second time, as Tous Les Memes, moves from #4 to #1  It's also the first French language song to top my countdown in 2014.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending February 21, 2014 -

# Stromae - Tous Les Memes (#4)

#2 Lady Antebellum - Compass (#7)

#3 Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey (#6)

#4 Avril Lavigne - Rock N Roll (NEW)

#5 Stefano Langone - Yes to Love (#9)

#6 Avril Lavigne - Here's to Never Growing Up (NEW)

#7 Beyonce - XO (#5)

#8 Kristen Bell / Santino Fontana - Love is an Open Door (#8)

#9 Avril Lavigne / Chad Kroeger - Let Me Go (NEW)

#10 Kristen Bell / Idina Menzel - Do You Want to Build A Snowman (#10)

Broadway Star Idina Menzel Tops My Personal Countdown For the Second Time

In 2004 Idina Menzel topped my personal countdown with the Broadway hit Defying Gravity from the musical Wicked.  Almost a decade later, she returns to the top with Let It Go, this time, from the movie musical Frozen.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending February 14, 2014 -

#1 Idina Menzel - Let It Go (RE)

#2 David Guetta feat. Ludacris and Taio Cruz - Little Bad Girl (#3)

#3 Showtek and Noisecontrollers - Get Loose (Tiesto Remix) (#1)

#4 Stromae - Tous Les Memes (#5)

#5 Beyonce - XO (#7)

#6 Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey (#8)

#7 Lady Antebellum - Compass (#9)

#8 Kristen Bell / Santino Fontana - Love is an Open Door (#10)

#9 Stefano Langone - Yes to Love (RE)

#10 Kristen Bell / Idina Menzel - Do You Want to Build A Snowman (RE)

Imagine Dragons Top My Personal Countdown for the First Time

The band Imagine Dragons finally top my personal countdown this week after their great performance at the 2014 Grammy Awards this week, where they also won a Grammy.  The song It's Time peaked at #9 in my personal countdown in 2012.  This week, it reenters at #1.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending January 31, 2014 -

#1 Imagine Dragons - It's Time (RE)

#2 Kacey Musgraves - Merry Go Round (RE)

#3 Stromae - Tous Les Memes (#2)

#4 Alicia Keys - When It's All Over (#5)

#5 Beyonce - XO (RE)

#6 Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey (#9)

#7 Carly Rae Jepsen - Guitar String / Wedding Ring (#3)

#8 Lady Antebellum - Compass (#7)

#9 Kristen Bell / Santino Fontana - Love is an Open Door (RE)

#10 Kristen Bell / Idina Menzel - Do You Want to Build a Snowman (RE)

Mika Tops My Personal Countdown for the Fourteenth Time

Mika rises to the top of my personal countdown for the third time this year - and the fourteenth time overall, as Elle Me Dit, moves from #2 to #1.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending December 20, 2013 -

#1 Mika - Elle Me Dit (#2)

#2 Lorde - Team (#7)

#3 Josh Gad - In Summer (NEW)

#4 Idina Menzel - Let It Go (NEW)

#5 Kristen Bell and Santino Fontana - Love is an Open Door (NEW)

#6 Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel - Do You Want to Build A Snowman (NEW)

#7 Maia Wilson and the Cast of Frozen - Fixer Upper (NEW)

#8 Lady Gaga - Venus (#8)

#9 OneRepublic - Preacher (#9)

#10 Britney Spears - Perfume (NEW)

Santino Fontana

Santino Fontana has one #1 hit in my personal countdown.

2013 - Love is an Open Door (with Kristen Bell) (#1)