American Top 40 with Mandy Moore for weekending June 2 & 3, 2007

Mandy Moore guest-hosts this week. And the consensus is that she did great, way much better than other so-called stars. The shows aired in over 450 radio station worldwide so if you missed it then here’s your chance with The Top 10 shows with Mandy Moore MP3 (17 minutes- Telescopic Version)

Click Here to listen or download an except or telescopic version of the show

Also enjoy her new single “Extraordinary” from the new album – Wild Hope, which will be out June 19 here in the States. Of course, the rest of the world got Mandy first again.oh well…as “Wild Hope” had already been released for over a month now worldwide.

AMERICAN TOP 40 – JUNE 2, 2007
LW TW WKS Artist – Title
39 40 (43) Nickelback – Far Away
36 39 (37) Justin Timberlake featuring T.I. – My Love
31 38 (13) Mims – This Is Why I’m Hot
Breakout: Kat Deluna featuring Elephant Man – Whine Up
33 37 (26) Rihanna and Sean Paul – Break It Off
38 36 (02) 30 Seconds To Mars – The Kill (Bury Me)
37 35 (05) Dashboard Confessional – Stolen
30 34 (27) Beyoncé – Irreplaceable
35 33 (03) Bow Wow featuring T-Pain and Johnta Austin – Outta My System
32 32 (02) Ciara – Like A Boy
23 31 (10) Beyoncé and Shakira – Beautiful Liar
Optional Extra: Rihanna – S.O.S. (Rescue Me)
28 30 (29) Paula DeAnda featuring The Dey – Walk Away (Remember Me)
29 29 (34) The Fray – How To Save A Life
34 28 (03) Linkin Park – What I’ve Done
Extra: R. Kelly featuring T.I. and T-Pain – I’m A Flirt (Remix)
– 27 (01) Fergie – Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal)
27 26 (03) Elliott Yamin – Wait For You
18 25 (21) Justin Timberlake – What Goes Around…Comes Around
26 24 (03) Fall Out Boy – Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
24 23 (07) Baby Boy Da Prince featuring Lil’ Boosie – The Way I Live
21 22 (05) Kelly Clarkson – Never Again
20 21 (25) Nelly Furtado – Say It Right
Optional Extra: The Killers – Mr. Brightside
19 20 (18) Nickelback – If Everyone Cared
25 19 (04) Bone Thugs-N-Harmony featuring Akon – I Tried
15 18 (21) Daughtry – It’s Not Over
Extra: Weezer – Beverly Hills
16 17 (09) Ne-Yo – Because Of You
17 16 (12) Hinder – Better Than Me
22 15 (04) T-Pain featuring Yung Joc – Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’)
14 14 (17) The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Face Down
13 13 (06) Rihanna featuring Jay-Z – Umbrella
11 12 (09) Diddy featuring Keyshia Cole – Last Night
10 11 (12) Carrie Underwood – Before He Cheats
Optional Extra: Usher featuring Lil’ Jon and Ludacris – Yeah!
07 10 (21) Gwen Stefani featuring Akon – The Sweet Escape
06 09 (14) Akon – Don’t Matter
12 08 (06) Daughtry – Home
08 07 (07) Maroon5 – Makes Me Wonder
09 06 (05) Justin Timberlake – Summer Love
Extra: Mandy Moore – Extraordinary
05 05 (17) Gym Class Heroes featuring Patrick Stump – Cupid’s Chokehold
04 04 (17) Fergie featuring Ludacris – Glamorous
03 03 (15) Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake – Give It To Me
Optional Extra: Chris Brown – Say Goodbye
02 02 (08) Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend
01 01 (14) Pink – U And Ur Hand ** 3 weeks @ no. 1 **

Natasha Bedingfield “I Wanna Have Your Babies” new single worldwide but not yet available here in US until August

Link to Natasha Bedingfield’s New Video not available here in the US

Link to download an MP3 of her new single “I Wanna Have Your Babies”

Mary Schmich Chicago Tribune Essay 10th Anniversary also the inspiration for Baz Luhrmann “Everyone’s Free To Wear Suncreen”. Interestingly that song was sort of a cover version of Rozilla “Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good)”

Listen & download MP3 Spoof of Yoda’s  Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen

June 1, 2007 marks the 10th Anniversary of Mary Schmich essay published in The Chicago Tribune. In her introduction to the column, she described it as the commencement address she would give if she were asked to give one. When the column became the song, her wish came true as at Zagreb’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing the song Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) is played at every graduation ceremony.

The song features a spoken-word track set over a mellow backing track. Contrary to popular belief the essay is not read by Baz Luhrmann, on the track; it is narrated by Australian voice actor Lee Perry. The chorus is sung by Quindon Tarver.

The song lyrics, which consist of a litany of humorous but practical advice, were drawn word for word from the Schmich column except for a date change from “‘97″ to “‘99″ – although an early version has been found with the original line of “Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ‘97″ still in place.

The song is a remix of “Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good)” performed by Quindon Tarver in Luhrmann’s 1996 film William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet. The melody of the backing track can be heard being sung by a choir during the wedding scene. “Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good)” and conseqeuntly “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” seem to be some sort of a cover version of Rozalla’s 1991 hit single “Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good)” as all three songs share the same writers, Tim Cox and Nigel Swanston, published by Peermusic Ltd. I will try to dig up my copies of old AT40 on my archives and will post a link to Rozalla song and Baz Luhrmann song, and see how they would sound side by side.     

This year also marks the return of the song with a new 2007 version included in the 10th anniversary soundtrack of Romeo & Juliet.

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• PersianDNA: The video, streaming audio, lyrics, and a parody of the song

Parodies

• Piled Higher and Deeper strip The PhD comic strip that parodies “Wear Sunscreen.”

Mary Schmich’s columns in the Chicago Tribune includes archive, biography and story collections

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young The “wear sunscreen” column.

IFILM – Shorts: Yoda’s Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen

Sunscreen Movie – Treasure life’s Moments* Short film based on on the column by Mary Schmich and Baz Luhrmann

[View Full film Here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY_GyyvsHbM] A Great Short Film Spoof!

Jennifer Lopez new CD out March 27 ‘Como Ama Una Mujer’ (How A Woman Loves)

 Full CD AOL Listening party  

Jennifer is back with her first ever completely Spanish album. ‘Como Ama Una Mujer’ (How A Woman Loves) (March 23 UK Release date & March 27 US Release date) sees Jennifer fulfilling a longtime dream in revisiting her Hispanic roots.The album is mainly produced by Estéfano, along with Marc Anthony and Julio Reyes.

Jennifer Lopez guest performer & mentor April 10 &11 on American Idol – Latin music week

Track listings:

• 1. Que Hiciste
• 2. Me Haces Falta
• 3. Como Ama Una Mujer
• 4. Te Voy A Querer
• 5. Por Que Te Marchas
• 6. Por Arriesgarnos
• 7. Tu
• 8. Amarte Es Todo
• 9. Apresurate
• 10. Sola
• 11. Adios

Gwen Stefani “The Sweet Escape”contender at No. 1 in the US, UK and Australian chart

Her song “The Great Escape” concurrently holds at No. 2 on US, UK & Australian Charts.

Gwen Stefani is also a guest performer and mentor on March 27 & 28 American Idol show -Theme : 90’s Music (Revised) Songs That Have Inspired Gwen Stefani

The Sweet Escape featuring Akon

If I could escape I would but, first of all, let me say
I must apologize for acting stank and treating you this way
Cause I’ve been acting like sour milk all on the floor
It’s your fault you didn’t shut the refrigerator
Maybe that’s the reason I’ve been acting so cold?

If I could escape and recreate a place that’s my own world
And I could be your favorite girl (forever) perfectly together
Tell me boy now wouldn’t that be sweet? (sweet escape)
If I could be sweet
I know I’ve been a real bad girl (I’ll try to change)
I didn’t mean for you to get hurt (whatsoever) we can make it better
Tell me boy now wouldn’t that be sweet? (sweet escape)

Akon:
I want to get away to our sweet escape
I want to get away, yeah

You held me down, I’m at my lowest boiling point
Come help me out, I need to get me out of this joint
Come on let’s bounce, counting on you to turn me around
Instead of clowning around, lets look for some common ground
So baby, times get a little crazy, I’ve been gettin’ a little lazy
Waitin’ on you to come save me
I can see that your angry by the way that you treat me
Hopefully you don’t leave me, wanted you with me

If I could escape and recreate a place that’s my own world
And I could be your favorite girl (forever) perfectly together
And tell me boy now wouldn’t that be sweet? (sweet escape)
If I could be sweet (sorry boy)
I know I’ve been a real bad girl (I’ll try to change)
I didn’t mean for you to get hurt (whatsoever) we can make it better
And tell me boy now wouldn’t that be sweet? (sweet escape)

If I could escape
If I could escape
Cause I’ve been acting like sour milk all on the floor
It’s your fault you didn’t shut the refrigerator
Maybe that’s the reason I’ve been acting so cold

If I could escape and recreate a place that’s my own world
And I could be your favorite girl (forever) perfectly together
And tell me boy now wouldn’t that be sweet? (the sweet escape)
If I could be sweet

I know I’ve been a real bad girl (I’ll try to change)
I didn’t mean for you to get hurt (whatsoever) we can make it better
And tell me boy now wouldn’t that be sweet? (the sweet escape)

Akon:
I want to get away to our sweet escape
I want to get away, yeah

Natasha Bedingfield new single ‘I Wanna Have Your Babies’ BBC 1 Interview , her second album “N.B.” US released date pushed back to August

Click here to go to the link – Natasha Bedingfield BBC Interview and acoustic performance of her new single ‘I Wanna Have Your Babies’ as well as a cover of ‘Chasing Cars’ by Snow Patrol.

Listen again to the session

CD Cover of Natasha Bedingfield (April 16 UK Release) (US Release date August 2007 – guess will have to wait 5 months ,bummer!)

U.K. pop vocalist Natasha Bedingfield will return in August with her second Epic album, “N.B.” The set, which is due next week internationally, is led by first single “I Wanna Have Your Babies.” That cut debuted (April at No. 25 on the U.K. singles chart.Among the contributors to the new album are producer Mike Elizondo, Maroon 5 vocalist Adam Levine (on “Say It Again”), rapper Eve (on “No More What Ifs”) songwriter Danielle Brisebois (“When You Know, You Know”) and producers such as Nate “Danja” Hills (“Not Giving Up”).“A lot of what I wrote about on this album is relationships,” Bedingfield tells Billboard.com. “Having gone away from home for a year-and-a-half and been independent and on the road, I really just value relationships. That gave me a lot of ammo to write with.”The artist describes “Soulmate,” which was written and demoed in a single afternoon, as “probably the most universal song on the album. I tried later to re-record it and sing it again, but nothing was as good as that first day.”Another cut, “Smell the Roses,” dates back to sessions for Bedingfield’s 2004 smash debut, “Unwritten.” She says, “We quit writing it halfway through, because we wanted to write something more upbeat. Two or three years later, we were listening to some stuff, and we realized, this is a gem that we just forgot about.”Bedingfield will hit the road for an extensive tour beginning in September. “I’ve done so much gigging in the past couple of years,” she says. “That has really added a live feel to my music. I’ve got a lot more live instruments and my voice has changed a bit.”

Tracklisting

We can reveal that this is the final tracklisting:

1. How Do You Do?

2. I Wanna Have Your Babies

3. Soulmate

4. Who Knows

5. Say It Again

6. Pirate Bones

7. Backyard

8. Tricky Angel

9. When You Know You Know.

9.2. I Think They’re Thinking (interlude)

10. (No More) What ifs

11. Not Givin’ Up

12. Still Here

13. Smell The Roses

Oklahoma band Hinder rules the Aussie chart for the 7th week at No.1

HINDER ON TOUR        

Hinder announced their first ever European Tour!
03/23/07 - Stockholm, Sweden
03/25/07 - Hamburg, Germany
03/26/07 - Berlin, Germany
03/27/07 - Cologne, Germany
03/29/07 - Munich, Germany
03/30/07 - Amsterdam, Holland
04/01/07 - Paris, France
04/03/07 - Manchester, UK
04/04/07 - Birmingham, UK
04/05/07 - London, UK        

US DATES:
2/28/07 Tulsa, OK
3/01/07 Little Rock, AR
3/02/07 Charenton, LA
3/03/07 New Orleans, LA
3/16/07 South Padre Island, TX
4/13/07 Johnstown, PA
4/14/07 Cullowhee, NC
4/16/07 Dahlonega, GA
4/17/07 Chattanooga, TN
4/19/07 Maryville, MO
4/22/07 Lubbock, TX
4/25/07 Boca Raton, FL
4/27/07 Fairfield, CT
4/28/07 Clarion, PA
4/29/07 Tampa, FL
5/01/07 Aiken, SC
5/04/07 Birmingham, AL
5/05/07 Jackson, MS
5/08/07 Green Bay, WI
5/11/07 Nashville, TN
5/16/07 Philadelphia, PA

   

Chart Moves : Justin Timberlake & Chris Daughtry at #1

 

We’ve got two new #1 songs on our AT40 shows this week. On the CHR version, Justin Timberlake moves into the top spot with “What Goes Around…” And that makes him the first solo male to pull at least three hits from a single album since way back in 1987 and 1988. George Michael had four #1s from “Faith” – “Faith.” “Father Figure,” “One More Try” and “Monkey.” And around the same time, Michael Jackson had five #1s from “Bad” – “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You,” “Bad,” “The Way You Make Me Feel,” “Man In The Mirror” and “Dirty Diana.”

Meanwhile, over on the Hot AC chart, Daughtry climbs to #1 with “It’s Not Over.” And that makes him only the second contestant from “American Idol” to go to #1 on AT40. Here’s your Hot AC rundown of “American Idol” finalists:

2005 Behind These Hazel Eyes – Kelly Clarkson #1 (5 weeks at #1)
2007 It’s Not Over – Daughtry #1 (1 week at #1)
2005 Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson #2
2005 Because Of You – Kelly Clarkson #2
2004 Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson #2
2006 Walk Away – Kelly Clarkson #3
2002 A Moment Like This – Kelly Clarkson #4
2006 The Real Thing – Bo Bice #11
2003 Miss Independent – Kelly Clarkson #14
2006 Some Hearts – Carrie Underwood #26
2007 Before He Cheats – Carrie Underwood #29+

No. 1 song from yesteryears

No.1  30 years ago – Love Theme From The Star Is Born-Evergreen-Barbra Streisand

No.1  20 years ago – Lean On Me-Club Nouveau 

No.1  10 years ago – Lovefool-Cardigan 

No.1   5 years ago – In The End-Linkin Park 

No.1  a year ago –  Check On It-Beyonce f/ Slim Thug 

Rick Astley 20th Anniversary of the hit “Never Gonna Give You Up”

http://www.rickastley.co.uk/

2007 will also bring about the 20 year anniversary of Rick’s debut Never Gonna Give You Up.