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)

My Weekly Top 10 February 21, 2014: #1 Stromae - Tous Les Memes

Stromae gets his second #1 hit in my personal countdown, as Tous Les Memes, moves back up from #4 to #1 this week. In 2012, Alors On Danse went all the way to #1.  I love the video of this song!

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)

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)

Jason Derulo Trumpets His Way To The Top Spot of My Personal Countdown

Trumpets is Jason Derulo's fifth top 10 hit in my personal countdown and his very first #1 hit.  The song moves from #2 to #1 this week.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending January 17, 2014 -

#1 Jason Derulo - Trumpets (#2)

#2 Fatboy Slim - Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat (#3)

#3 Stromae - Tous Les Memes (#7)

#4 Britney Spears - Perfume (#4)

#5 Carly Rae Jepsen - Guitar String / Wedding Ring (#8)

#6 Zendaya - Replay (#6)

#7 Alicia Keys - When It's All Over (#9)

#8 Justin Bieber - Roller Coaster (#5)

#9 Beyonce - XO (#10)

#10 Miley Cyrus - Adore You (NEW)

OneRepublic Finally Tops My Personal Countdown

After a slew of top ten hits, OneRepublic finally tops my personal countdown this week, as Preacher, moves from #4 to the top spot.  

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending January 10, 2014 -

#1 OneRepublic - Preacher (#4)

#2 Jason Derulo - Trumpets (#6)

#3 Fatboy Slim - Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat (#8)

#4 Britney Spears - Perfume (#5)

#5 Justin Bieber - Roller Coaster (NEW)

#6 Zendaya - Replay (NEW)

#7 Stromae - Tous Les Memes (NEW)

#8 Carly Rae Jepsen - Guitar String/Wedding Ring (RE)

#9 Alicia Keys - When It's All Over (RE)

#10 Beyonce - XO (NEW)

New Music from Stromae

Stromae broke into the mainstream because of his hit Alors On Danse, which went to #1 in my personal countdown. He just released his new song, strangely entitled in Spanish, Te Quiero, but the lyrics are in French, por supuesto! I saw him perform this in a French music show and he's sooo mince!!

This week, he gets his second #1 song as Tous Les Memes, moves to the top spot.

Alors On Danse by Stromae - My #6 Favorite Song of 2010

Of course, there has to be a non-English song in my ten favorite songs of 2010! Every year, there's usually one or two that gets into the list. This year, it's the dance hit by Stromae, Alors On Danse, that does the honors, ending at #6 in my year-end list. The lyrics are in French and the song just says, to forget your problems and dance! Stromae is Belgian, by the way. The rhythm and the beat are both hypnotic and the first time I heard it, I was already hooked. Middle of this year, this song was the most played song on my Ipod, especially when I was working out. I was usually grooving to it in my head while ogling all those hot guys around!

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Download of the Week: Stromae - Alors On Danse

Stromae, also known as Paul van Haver, has the honors of the Download of the Week - with his song 'Alors On Danse'. Stromae is a singer-songwriter of Rwandan-Belgian origin - his father is Rwandan, his mother, Belgian.  In 2009 Paul worked as a young trainee at the musical radio station NRJ in Brussels. Vincent Verbelen, Music Manager, was impressed by this song and decided to air it for the first time on NRJ. The response from listeners was one of extreme enthusiasm and Stromae’s career was launched. Sales quickly rose to number one in Belgium in just a matter of weeks.  By May 2010 the track had reached number one in France, the Netherlands, Greece, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Belgium and the Czech Republic.  I love to dance to this song and it's the most played track in my Ipod right now!