My FABE Music Top 10 Countdown: December 27, 2019

Indonesian singer Rizky Febian becomes the first singer from his country to top My FABE Music Top 10 countdown.  Thanks to my Indonesian language classes, another language opens up their musical influences to me.

Here are my ten favorite songs by international artists for the week ending December 27, 2019 -

#1 Kesempurnaan Cinta (#2) *1 week
      Rizky Febian

#2 Mine Right Now (#3)
      Sigrid

#3 No New Friends (#4)
      LSD

#4 Happy With You (#5)
      Paul McCartney

#5 Harmony Hall  (#6)
       Vampire Weekend

#6 Megatron  (#7)
      Nicki Minaj

#7 Memories (#9)
      Maroon 5

#8 Blessing  (#10)
      Laura Story

#9 The Man (NEW)

      Taylor Swift

#10 NASA (NEW)

        Ariana Grande

My FABE Music Top 10 Countdown - December 20, 2019

Taylor Swift tops My FABE Music's Top 10 countdown this week - making it the first #1 song for the 2020 calendar for this chart, which starts Christmas weekend of the previous year.

Here are my ten favorite songs by international artists for the week ending December 20, 2019 -

#1 I Forgot That You Existed (#2)
      Taylor Swift

#2 Kesempurnaan Cinta (#3)
      Rizky Febian

#3 Mine Right Now (#4)
      Sigrid

#4 No New Friends (#5)
      LSD

#5 Happy With You (#6)
      Paul McCartney

#6 Harmony Hall  (#7)
       Vampire Weekend

#7 Megatron  (#8)
      Nicki Minaj

#8 Never Really Over (#10)
      Katy Perry

#9 Memories (NEW)
      Maroon 5

#10 Blessing  (NEW)
         Laura Story

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

My Weekly Top 10 March 7, 2014: #1 Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey

The band Vampire Weekend gets their fourth #1 song in my personal countdown this, as Ya Hey, moves back up this week from #2 to #1. The song is also their first top 10 hit from their latest album, Modern Vampires of the City.

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)

Dance Music from Showtek and Noisecontrollers Top My Personal Countdown This Week

Dance music returns to the top of my personal countdown this week as four tracks from the current release of Body Jam populate my weekly top 10.  Leading the list is Showtek and the Noisecontroller's Get It Loose (Tiesto Remix) which enters this week at the top.

Here are my ten favorite songs by foreign artists for the week ending February 7, 2014 -

#1 Showtek and the Noisecontrollers - Get It Loose (Tiesto Remix) (NEW)

#2 Chris Brown - Fine China (NEW)

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

#4 Idina Menzel - Let If Go (RE)

#5 Stromae - Tous Les Memes (#3)

#6 Iggy Azalea - Bounce (NEW)

#7 Beyonce - XO (#5)

#8 Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey (#6)

#9 Lady Antebellum - Compass (#8)

#10 Kristen Bell / Santo Fontana - Love is an Open Door (#9)
 

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)

A Grammy for the Modern Vampires!!

 

 

 

I admit I was one of those people who were shocked when the Grammy voters snubbed Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires of the City from the Album of the Year nominees this year. It's one of the more interesting albums last year but hey, as I said, the voters come from such diverse musical genres, it's hard to please everyone - and their music is not really that crowd pleasing!

Anyhow, they did win a Grammy last night for Best Alternative Music Album, which is really well-deserved! This song, Ya Hey, is my most favorite track from that album and they perform it really well here!

They are also another band that I would love to see perform here in Manila! For now, hanggang Youtube na lang muna beauty ko.....

Eighteenth #1 Song for Britney Spears as She Tops My Personal Countdown This Week

Britney Spears gets her eighteenth #1 song in my personal countdown this week, as Perfume, moves from #4 to the top spot.  It's also her 27th top 10 hit.  Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending January 24, 2014 -

#1 Britney Spears - Perfume (#4)

#2 Stromae - Tous Les Memes (#3)

#3 Carly Rae Jepsen - Guitar String/Wedding Ring (#5)

#4 Zendaya - Replay (#6)

#5 Alicia Keys - When It's All Over (#7)

#6 Justin Bieber - Roller Coaster (#8)

#7 Lady Antebellum - Compass (NEW)

#8 Storm Queen - Look Right Through (NEW)

#9 Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey (NEW)

#10 Stefano Langone - Yes to Love (NEW)

Vampire Weekend

The band Vampire Weekend has four top ten hits in my personal weekend, including two number one songs.

2009 - Horchata (#3)
2009 - Giving Up the Gun (#1)
2009 - I Think Ur A Contra (#3)
2014 - Ya Hey (#1)

My Concert Wish List for 2014

I hope these foreign acts decide to come here in 2014!  This is in alphabetical order!

Akdong Musician
Frank Ocean
fun.
Imagine Dragons
Jamie Cullum
Lorde
Mika
Pink
Vampire Weekend
Vincent Ingala

Ke$ha wins five MyFABEMusic Awards for 2010

Pop singer Ke$ha swept five awards in the 1st MyFABE Music Awards including Artist of the Year, Record of the Year and New Artist of the Year.  She also got nods for Pop Act of the Year and Pop Song of the Year.

Vampire Weekend and Alexis Jordan got two awards each.  Vampire Weekend won the Rock Act of the Year and Rock Song of the Year award for Giving Up the Gun. Alexis Jordan won R&B Act of the Year and R&B Song of the Year for Happiness.

John Mayer got the coveted Album of the Year award for Battle Studies.

Artist of the Year - Ke$ha

Record of the Year - Ke$ha - Your Love Is My Drug

Album of the Year - John Mayer - Battle Studies

New Artist of the Year - Ke$ha

Pop Act of the Year - Ke$ha

Pop Song of the Year - Ke$ha - Your Love Is My Drug

Collaboration of the Year - Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow - Shame

Movie/Musical/TV Song of the Year - Tift Merrit - Another Country

Rock Act of the Year - Vampire Weekend

Rock Song of the Year - Vampire Weekend - Giving Up the Gun

R&B/Hip Hop/Rap Act of the Year - Alexis Jordan

R&B/Hip Hop/Rap Act of the Year - Alexis Jordan - Happiness

Grammys 2011: My Vote for Best Alternative Rock Album

The nominees for Best Alternative Rock Album are Arcade Fire (The Suburbs), Infinite Arms (Band of Horses), The Black Keys (Brothers) and Broken Bells.   They are all worthy nominees and I would not hesitate to pick two of them for this award, but my personal choice goes to Vampire Weekend, a band I discovered more than a year ago, because of their wonderful album, Contra.  I know it's a band which a lot of young people listen to, and I could not blame them - it's quirky, their videos are unique, and they talk about teen feelings.  Here is one of the songs from that album, which I really like -

Giving Up the Gun by Vampire Weekend - My #5 Favorite Song of 2010

My favorite band of the year is Vampire Weekend - and this song, Giving Up the Gun - lands at #5 in my year-end favorites. I love the video, and I love the quirky nature of the song! It exemplifies the vibrancy of today's youth and the crazy things they are concerned with nowadays! I usually hear this being played in my gym (Fitness First SM The Block), and I usually sing along with it as it is being played. When I sing along to this, I feel like I'm dressed like a Japanese ninja and wielding a sword. I don't know why - but that is the vibe this song is giving me. Too bad, I missed their live show in Singapore!! Totally sucks!