Chris Brown Tops My Personal Countdown for the Ninth Time

Chris Brown gets his ninth #1 song in my personal countdown this week, as Turn Up the Music zooms from #9 to #1. Below are his other number one songs in my personal countdown -

2008 - No Air (with Jordin Sparks)
2008 - Forever
2008 - Superhuman (with Keri Hilson)
2009 - I Can Transform You (with Lil Wayne)
2009 - Crawl
2010 - Yeah 3X
2011 - Beautiful People (with Benny Bennasi)
2011 - She Ain't You
2012 - Turn Up the Music



Here are my favorite songs for the week ending Ap13, 2012 - 


#1 Chris Brown - Turn Up the Music (#9)

#2 - LMFAO - Hot Dog (NEW)

This week, LMFAO performs here in Manila and this is one of the songs that they performed live!  This week, it enters at #2.

#3 - The Cranberries - Be With You (NEW)

The Cranberries also performed here last week and their classic, Be With You, returns to the top 10 this week.

#4 - The Cranberries - Schizophrenic Playboys (NEW)

This is one of the new songs from their album.

#5 - LMFAO - Champagne Showers (NEW)

#6 - The Cranberries - Desperate Andy (NEW)

#7 - The Cranberries - Ridiculous Thoughts (NEW)

#8 - Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (#1)

#9 - Hanson - Give A Little (#5)

#10 - Big Bang - Blue (#7)

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Concert Review: The Cranberries In Your Head: Zombie, Zombie, Eh, Eh, Eh

Everyone who was into 90s rock, specifically the Irish kind, and I don't mean U2, trooped to the Araneta Coliseum tonight to revel in the unique brand of rock offered by the Cranberries!

Admittedly, the band has been absent for a very long time since my last recollection of them was when Zombie became such a monster hit in the early 2000s.  However, my most favorite CD of them was 1996's To The Faithful Departed, which I remember buying in Cagayan de Oro! That CD contained some of the hits that they performed tonight, including Free to Decide, When You're Gone and their last encore song, Salvation.

Earlier this year, the band released a new album called Roses, and tonight, they previewed a LOT of material from their new album, Roses which included Conduct, Tomorrow, and my new favorite, Schizophrenic Playboys.  Their new songs don't detract much from their original sound but unfortunately, I didn't find any of them catchy enough, worthy of a Zombie-like hit but as I said earlier, Schizophrenic Playboys sounds pretty interesting!

They played many hits tonight.  Their two opening songs - Dreams and Linger among them.  Other big crowd pleasures included Ode to My Family, Just My Imagination, Be With You and of course, the crowd favorite, Zombie! 

Dolores can still play a mean guitar set and she did Salvation in its original rapid speed. Even Be With You was played pretty quick. It's not surprising too that Dolores danced around the stage like a wild banshee - and although she limited her make-up to standard black - no gold costumes tonight dearies - she can still pull it off as a rocker mama! And she sounded great too!! So that was a good thing for all of us!

It was a very compact show even if they did around 22 songs thereabouts. I guess it's because Dolores didn't interact with the audience too much, which was a pity. I actually thought since she was already a veteran performer, that she would involve all of us in mindless chatter from time to time. But not tonight. Tonight was purely business and the band just played true to form.

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I saw this setlist of the Cranberries show in HK two nights ago so most likely, this will be their setlist tonight too  in their show at the Araneta Coliseum!  I like it!!

The Cranberries Concert Setlist at HKCEC, Hong Kong on April 8, 2012 | setlist.fm

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My Five Favorite Cranberries Songs

In lieu of their concert here in Manila later tonight, I came up with this list of the five songs that I love from this Irish band -



#1 Salvation - This is actually my all time Cranberries favorite hit!  I just love how hard-driving they are here!



#2 Linger
- This was their very first US Top 10 hit. Their sound was so different from the other Top 10 songs in the US at that time that it wasn't hard to distinguish them from the rest of the pack.!



#3 Ode to My Family
- Probably one of their most haunting songs - immediately became a hit when it came to the Philippines



#4 Zombie
- I don't know how this song became their most famous song but it definitely holds you with Dolores' brash vocals and the song's intriguing lyrics and video. Knowing that they're from Ireland and the IRA, well, maybe the message of the song is somewhere there...



#5 Free to Decide

- This was one of the songs that I liked from their album where Salvation came from. I think that was the only album I bought from them. It was a great one!

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