Right now…

Natasha Bedingifeld – Single

I have heard this song today, the first 30 seconds or so I was thinking what is this, another stereotypical latin-style song; But then by the end of the song I was loving it!! I think it is gonna be a love it or hate it, or annoying kind of song. I like it at the moment tho

It is Michel Teló – Ai Se Eu Te Pego

I think it will be a big hit this summer, I am sure if you go to Spain or a latin country this summer, this will be played a lot!

It was the song Cristiano Ronaldo & Marcelo were dancing to when Real Madrid scored, Neymar also danced to it on a Brazilian TV show.

It is currently #1 on iTunes in: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. Doing quite well in Europe then, if it comes to the UK I’d imagine it being after the summer

What do you think?

edit: I just discovered an English version, so maybe it WILL come out in the UK.

So it is almost time for the Brit Awards 2012. Here is the list of the nominees. I have to say that some of the nominations are a bit of a shock, like Kanye/Jay Z being an “International group”, and some of the best British Singles aren’t really that great. Blur get the outstanding contribution to music award.

Here is the list.

BRITISH MALE SOLO ARTIST

Ed Sheeran
James Blake
James Morrison
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Professor Green

BRITISH FEMALE SOLO ARTIST

Adele
Florence & The Machine
Jessie J
Kate Bush
Laura Marling

BRITISH BREAKTHROUGH ACT

Anna Calvi
Ed Sheeran
Emeli Sandé
Jessie J
The Vaccines

BRITISH GROUP

Arctic Monkeys
Chase & Status
Coldplay
Elbow
Kasabian

BRITISH SINGLE

Adele: Someone Like You
Ed Sheeran: The A Team
Example: Changed The Way You Kissed Me
Jessie J Ft B.o.B.: Price Tag
JLS Ft Dev: She Makes Me Wanna
Military Wives / Gareth Malone: Wherever You Are
Olly Murs Ft Rizzle Kicks: Heart Skips A Beat
One Direction: What Makes You Beautiful
Pixie Lott: All About Tonight
The Wanted: Glad You Came

BRITISH PRODUCER

Paul Epworth
Flood
Ethan Johns

BRITISH ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Adele: 21
Coldplay: Mylo Xyloto
Ed Sheeran: +
Florence & The Machine: Ceremonials
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake

INTERNATIONAL MALE SOLO ARTIST

Aloe Blacc
Bon Iver
Bruno Mars
David Guetta
Ryan Adams

INTERNATIONAL FEMALE SOLO ARTIST

Beyoncé
Björk One
Feist
Lady Gaga
Rihanna

INTERNATIONAL GROUP

Fleet Foxes
Foo Fighters
Jay-Z / Kanye West
Lady Antebellum
Maroon 5

INTERNATIONAL BREAKTHROUGH ACT

Aloe Blacc
Bon Iver
Foster The People
Lana Del Rey
Nicki Minaj

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO MUSIC AWARD

Blur

CRITICS’ CHOICE

1st – Emeli Sandé
2nd – Maverick Sabre
3rd – Michael Kiwanuka

Two songs I am currently obsessed with and cannot stop playing, I am really in love with these 2 songs at the moment I blame How to Make It In America (The TV Show), they were both featured on it and now I can’t stop listening to them

They are old, espeically the Akon track, but still sound so good

What do you think of them?

Akon featuring Styles P – Locked Up

Jeremih – Birthday Sex

It is that time of year, the year is over, so here is my list of the best songs of the year. It is hard to make a list, how to pick what goes where since I have loved so many songs this year at different points, but I think I have done it. Many will not agree of course, and sometimes depending on what mood I am in for which song, neither will I!

Here is the top 80, a random number I know, but that is around how many songs which I think deserve the place on the list.

1. Lucenzo Feat. Don Omar – Danza Kuduro
2. Lykke Li – Sadness Is A Blessing
3. pitbull – Give Me Everything (feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer)
4. Lykke Li – Get Some
5. Mohombi feat. Nicole Scherzinger – Coconut Tree
6. Coldplay – Paradise
7. Sean Kingston – Party All Night (Sleep All Day)
8. David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj & Flo Rida – Where Them Girls At
9. Aura Dione – Geronimo
10. Nicki Minaj – Super Bass
11. Example – Changed The Way You Kiss Me
12. enrique iglesias with usher feat.lil wayne – dirty dancer
13. Bob Sinclar & Raffaella Carra – Far L’Amore
14. Sean Paul – Got 2 Luv U (Ft. Alexis Jordan)
15. Jessie J – Price Tag (feat. B.o.B)
16. Nayer feat. Pitbull & Mohombi – Suavemente
17. Rihanna – S & M
18. Petter feat. September Baksmälla
19. Example – Natural Disaster (Laidback Luke vs. Example)
20. Ian Carey And Snoop Dogg Featuring Bobb – Last Night
21. Jay Z Kanye West – Otis (feat. Otis Redding)
22. coldplay – every teardrop is a waterfall
23. Dj Antoine Vs Timati Feat Kalenna Welcome To St Tropez
24. Agnes – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
25. Rihanna – Cheers (Drink To That)
26. example – Stay Awake
27. taio cruz feat. kylie minogue – higher
28. Daivd Guetta – Little Bad Girl (feat. Taio Cruz)
29. Taio Cruz – Hangover (feat. Flo Rida)
30. Azuro feat. Elly – Ti Amo
31. Tinie Tempah feat. Ellie Goulding – Wonderman
32. Wretch 32 – Don’t Go
33. Kate Ryan – Lovelife
34. Inna – Sun Is Up
35. jennifer lopez feat. pitbull – on the floor
36. Alexandra Stan – Mr. Saxobeat
37. Pitbull – Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor) (feat. T-Pain)
38. Gym Class Heroes – Stereo Hearts (Feat. Adam Levine)
39. Katy Perry – Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
40. Nicole Scherzinger – Poison
41. september – resuscitate me
42. jennifer lopez feat. lil wayne – im into you
43. Jessie J – Do It Like a Dude
44. Tinie Tempah – Till I’m Gone feat. Wiz Khalifa
45. Nicole Scherzinger – Dont Hold Your Breath
46. sunrise avenue – hollywood hills
47. Wretch 32 – Unorthodox feat. Example
48. Katy Perry & Kanye West – E.T
49. Tiesto And Diplo Featuring Busta Rhymes – C’mon (Catch ‘em By Surprise)
50. Enrique Iglesias – Tonight (feat. Ludacris)
51. swedish house mafia – save the world
52. Rihanna – We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris)
53. Beyoncé – Run the World (Girls)
54. Swedish House Mafia Vs Knife Party – Antidote
55. R.I.O. – Like I Love You
56. the lonely island – i just had sex (feat. akon)
57. SNOOP DOGG – Sweat (David Guetta Remix)
58. Soprano – Regarde Moi
59. Pitbull – Rain Over Me (feat. Marc Anthony)
60. Timbaland – Pass At Me (feat. Pitbull)
61. Avicii – Levels
62. Britney Spears – Hold It Against Me
63. Chris Brown & Benni Benassi – Beautiful People
64. Vato Gonzalez – Badman Riddim
65. bruno mars – grenade
66. Britney Spears – Till The World Ends
67. Avril Lavigne – What The Hell
68. Chase & Status & Tinie Tempah – Hitz
69. Chase and Status ft Delilah – Time
70. Chipmunk – Champion (Feat. Chris Brown)
71. LMFAO – Party Rock Anthem
72. Leona Lewis – Collide (Feat. Avicii)
73. Inna feat. Bob Taylor Déja Vu
74. Olly Murs – Heart Skips A Beat (Feat. Rizzle Kicks)
75. rihanna – california king bed
76. Olly Muirs – Dance With Me Tonight
77. Martin Solveig And Dragonette – Hello
78. nero – me and you
79. Lady Gaga – Born This Way
80. david may feat. max urban – facebook love

How did I organise the list? – It was pretty hard, so what I did was group the songs into their own top 10, each top 10 was in a list 1-8, and then each group of 10 was put into order, then stick them all together….Complicated to explain but it works for me

Danza Kuduro, my number 1 track of the year!! It had to be really. I did not like it much the first time I heard it, then I loved it for months and months; It got released in the UK around 4 or 5 months later and the rest of the UK started to like it, but I liked it first It is not even the “original” version, the most famous, and best version is with Don Omar, which I love to death. Definitely the best song of the year, I will remember this song as a 2011 song

Here is some music for you to listen to.

Lucenzo featuring Don Omar – Danza Kuduro

Taio Cruz – Hangover

Coldplay – Paradise

Sean Kingston – Party All Night (Sleep All Day)

Mohombi featuring Nicole Scherzinger – Coconut Tree

Lykke Li – Sadness Is A Blessing

Aura Dione – Geronimo

MTV UK Just posted their top 100 most watched videos. The most watched video of 2011 is LMFAO – “Party Rock Anthem”. I did not like this when it first came out, but I have to admit, it is catchy and did grow on me. The list is quite surprising, with some songs ranking bad and others quite high. I am not sure if this is the “most played” or most watched, because it would be hard to find out exactly who was watching when

Katy Perry “Last Friday Night (TGIF)” is a lowly #45, I swear every time I turned on MTV it was on!

You can see the full top 100 here at MTV UK.

Here are some of the great tunes I was listening to over the weekend. Some were on my old “playlist” the last time I did it, others will be new

Taio Cruz – Hangover
I love this track! It’s a really good party track, and I dont think it is getting released in the UK or at least it hasnt yet.

Swedish House Mafia vs Knife Party – Antidote
THEY ARE BACK!! And in a big way. I heard this last week or so, and it is amazing. What a track from Swedish House Mafia.

Aura Dione – Geronimo
This is my favourite song right now! I love this, and I love Aura Dione and have for a while. I like her style and her music is cool too, always original and fresh

So that Superbad track, what do you think of it?

Doctor P & Flux Pavilion – Superbad

I am not sure if it is genius or terrible!

A LIST

• Taio Cruz Featuring Flo Rida – Hangover
• Madcon – Freaky Like Me
• Coldplay – Paradise
• Rihanna – Cheers (Drink To That)
• Gym Class Heroes – Stereo Heart

B LIST

• Avicii – Levels
• Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris – We Found Love
• Aura Dione – Geronimo
• Timbaland Featuring Pitbull – Pass At Me

C LIST

• Nicki Minaj – Super Bass
• Soprano – Regarde Moi
• Rizzle Kicks – When I Was Younger
• Nicki Minaj & Rihanna – Fly
• Mohombi- Maraca

I have decided that this will be my last regular playlist. I say regular because I have done one every Monday for a very long time, it used to be called “Chart” but I since changed it to playlist since I didnt want to have an ordered list. I will continue to do playlists, but not as a regular feature, and just every now and then or when I think I can do a relevant one. I don’t seem to write much about music or songs any more and just do a playlist, so hopefully I will write more about music since I will not have a regular playlist if that makes sense

I will of course do a “best of 2011″ playlist, which will be a huge list, 50 or maybe 100 tracks, I have not started to work on it yet but I know it will be hard because of all the amazing tracks there have been in 2011

A LIST

• Taio Cruz Featuring Flo Rida – Hangover *NEW*
• Madcon – Freaky Like Me
• Coldplay – Paradise
• Rihanna – Cheers (Drink To That)
• Gym Class Heroes – Stereo Heart

B LIST

• Soprano – Regarde Moi
• Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris – We Found Love
• Aura Dione – Geronimo
• Nicki Minaj – Super Bass
• Timbaland Featuring Pitbull – Pass At Me

C LIST

• Jessie J – Who You Are
• Rizzle Kicks – When I Was Younger
• Nicki Minaj & Rihanna – Fly
• Avicii – Levels
• Mohombi- Maraca *NEW*

I have added “Hangover” by Taio Cruz. This song has been around for a bit but has not been released in the UK yet, but has around Europe. I like it, maybe it will get released here in the UK in the future? It seems Taio Cruz is more popular in Europe than here

What do you think?