Will these boys bring HOTNESS to Party Pilipinas?

Pinoy boyband XLR8 will join Party Pilipinas on March 28. Will they be able to help the show? They sure look promising in this video.

Will you go see Aljur Abrenica's Sexy First Concert?

On March 26, Aljur Abrenica will hold his first concert in Zirkoh Tomas Morato. And since he's not really popular for his singing, he'll try to lure audiences with a sexy theme. The half-naked poster and the show's title "I'm Yours" would give you the idea.

He said on pep.ph, "Iniimbitahan ko po kayo na manood ng aking first major concert. Sa March 26 po 'yan. It's a hot Friday night at 10 p.m. Sa inyong sa inyo po ako, I'm Yours. May mga special guest po ako. Sana makarating kayo dahil kakaibang Aljur po ang makikita n'yo rito."

Hmm. What could be the "kakaiba" thing he's talking about. We've already seen him in trunks. Will he go a little further?

photo courtesy of getitfromboy.net

Kris aquino releases her Fourth Album!

She's already got three albums that sold big (one got gold, one got platinum while another one reached DOUBLE platinum!)and she's not even a singer! Here's the press release from her facebook account:

The Queen Of All Media, Kris Aquino, returns with her latest CD
(her 4th under Universal Records), "The Blessings Of Love". The album
includes songs personally handpicked by Kris herself, songs about
patriotism, family and love are the unifying themes of her latest album
release. Her previous album were all certified bestsellers - "Songs Of
Love and Healing" (Double Platinum), "Songs Of Love and Inspiration"
(Gold) and "The Greatest Love: A Tribute To President Corazon Aquino"
(Platinum).

Just like her past album releases, "The Blessings Of Love" brought
together a veritable who's who of local music business.

Tracklisting :

1. Martin Nievera - Impossible Dreams
2. Gary Valenciano - Love Is The Answer
3. Jed Madela - To Where You Are
4. Nina - You Are Not Alone
5. Christian Bautista - I Have Fallen In Love (With The Same Woman Three Times)
6. Jay R - Dance With My Father
7. Gail Blanco - Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo
8. Erik Santos - Iingatan Ka
9. Ogie Alcasid - Ikaw
10. Ronnie Liang - Walang Iba
11. Noel Cabangon with Aia De Leon of Imago - Kanlungan
12. Regine Velasquez - Hindi Ka Nag-iisa

Will you buy one?

Yeng's got a new show!

Since PBB Double Up Late is now over, it will be replaced by a whole new show called Music Uplate Live which will be hosted by Yeng Constantino.

The show will air on March 15 and will run from Monday to Friday every week.

But hey, this project, even if it's just a small one, did not come easy for Yeng. She said on pep.ph, "Mga two weeks ago, nag-audition po ako. Pumila rin po ako. Marami ang nag-audition for this slot. After po ng day na nag-audition ako, the next day, meron pa ulit. Pero karamihan po ng nag-audition, mga bagong host."

"Siyempre po, hindi naman po ako pinanganak na maging host. Unlike as a composer, bata pa lang po ako, nine years old pa lang po ako, nagsusulat na ako. As a host, malaking bagay po ito para sa akin. Actually, kinakabahan din po ako."

And when she was chosen, she said, "Sumigaw talaga ako! Tinawagan ako ni Ms. Annabelle [Regalado, Star Records head], talagang talon ako nang talon, hindi ako tumigil. Yung totoo, gustung-gusto ko talaga. Gustung-gusto ko talagang gawin 'to dahil gusto ko na rin mag-try ng ibang bagay."

Well, good luck girl. These days, celebrities have to learn more talents in order to stay in the mean world of Showbiz. Look at Sharon Cuneta or even Sarah Geronimo. If all they did was sing, people would have grown tired of them a long time ago.

photo courtesy of regalfilms.com

It's not Charice; It's Arnel Pineda!

Yup. The Journey frontman has announced that he will be the one to sing the National Anthem in Pacquaio's fight this Sunday.

Hmm. We're unsure about this. We know Arnel is good when it comes to rock but the Lupang Hinirang is not rock at all. Well, good luck.

photo courtesy of flickr.com

Our newest EAR CANDY!

Practically unknown You Tube singing sensations make their own version of We Are The World and it's as good as the one made by super famous celebrities!

Love it so much! Nick Pitera, Lisa Lavie and Ahmir are there. Could you name the others? God. They're even better than those people in American Idol!

Charice to sing the National Anthem in Pacquaio-Clottey fight: About time Pacman!

It's not Jay-R! Pacquaio finally chose Charice to sing the Philippine national anthem in his fight against Clottey on March 13.

And we agree! There's no better choice right now. Right?

P.S. Somebody please tell Charice to keep it simple and just stay with the original version.
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Sarah Geronimo and Rico Blanco win big in Myx Music Awards 2010!

With performances from Aldred Gatchalian, Sam Concepcion, Kaye Miranda, Cheska Ortega, Gian Magdangal, Karylle, Nina, La Divas, Rayver Cruz, Iya Villania, Jay-R, Richard Poon, Yeng Constantino, Jayson Fernandez of Rivermaya, Rachel Ann Go, Kean Cipriano of Callalily, Christian Bautista, Urbandub and other artists, the MYX Music Awards 2010 was successfully staged in the Music Museum. Here are the winners:

Favorite International Music Video: "Love Story" by Taylor Swift
Favorite Indie Artist: Archipelago
Favorite Media Soundtrack: "Record Breaker" for Sunsilk by Sarah Geronimo
Favorite Bandarito Performance: Roots of Nature
Favorite MYX Live Performance: Rico Blanco
Favorite Urban Video: "Upuan" by Gloc9 featuring Jeazelle Grutas
Favorite Rock Video: "Diamond Shotgun" by Chicosci
Favorite Mellow Video: "Old Friend" by Kyla
Favorite New Artist: Young JV
Favorite Remake: "You Changed My Life" by Sarah Geronimo
Favorite Collaboration: "Higante" by Ely Buendia and Francis Magalona
Favorite Guest Appearance in a Music Video: Heart Evangelista in Hale's "Bahay Kubo"
Favorite Celebrity MYX VJ: Billy Crawford
Favorite Group: Sponge Cola
Favorite Male Artist: Rico Blanco
Favorite Female Artist: Sarah Geronimo
Favorite Artist: Sarah Geronimo
Favorite Song: "Back In Time" by Jay-R and Kyla
Favorite Music Video: "Kasalanan" by 6CycleMind and Gloc9.

MYX Magna Award: Jose Mari Chan
Special Citation: Christian Bautista

The presenters were Paolo Valenciano, Robin Nievera, Carl Guevarra, Lauren Young, Mong Alcaraz of Chicosci, Bangs Garcia, Jet Pangan, Daiana Menezes, Mickey Perz, Amber Davis, Rafael Rosell, April "Congrats" Gustilo, Mark Escueta of Rivermaya, Jolina Magdangal, Matteo Guidicelli, Saab Magalona, Aiza Seguerra, Sitti, Amir Garcia of Slapshock, Kyla, Richard Poon, Tim Yap, Jennylyn Mercado, Rhian Ramos, Ryan Eigenmann, Billy Crawford, Noel Cabangon, Aia de Leon of Imago, and Donita Rose.

Sarah was also last year's biggest winner. Wow. With her music and movie career doing super good, Sarah's just got one more challenge to REALLY conquer: TV. We think she has not reached her full potential when it comes to TV projects yet.

What do you think?

photo courtesy of abs-cbn.com

Charice's Pyramid: We Love!

People like her make us SO PROUD to be Pinoy! This song is now No. 10 in Amazon MP3 Bestsellers!

We Are The World 25 for Haiti: We Like!

This remake of the epic song by USA for Africa in 1985 was done by lots of big stars for the benefit of the victims of the Haiti earthquake. We had goosebumps all the way!

The participants? Konti lang naman. Here:

Akon, Bono, India.Arie, Patti Austin, Tony Bennett, Justin Bieber, Bizzy Bone, Ethan Bortnick, Brandy, Jeff Bridges, Toni Braxton, Zac Brown, Kristian Bush, Busta Rhymes, Natalie Cole, Harry Connick Jr., Kid Cudi, Miley Cyrus, Celine Dion, Snoop Dogg, Drake, Earth Wind & Fire, Faith Evans, Fergie, Melanie Fiona, Jamie Foxx, Sean Garrett, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Groban, Anthony Hamilton, Keri Hilson, Julianne Hough, Jennifer Hudson, Enrique Iglesias, LL Cool J, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Randy Jackson, Taj Jackson, Taryll Jackson, TJ Jackson, Al Jardine, Joe Jonas, Kevin Jonas, Nick Jonas, Rashida Jones, Gladys Knight, Adam Levine, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Benji Madden, Joel Madden, Mary Mary, Katharine McPhee, Jason Mraz, Mýa, Jennifer Nettles, Orianthi, Freda Payne, P!nk, A. R. Rahman, Nicole Richie, Raphael Saadiq, Carlos Santana, Nicole Scherzinger, Isaac Slade, Trey Songz, Musiq Soulchild, Jordin Sparks, Barbra Streisand, Swizz Beatz, T-Pain, Robin Thicke, Rob Thomas, Usher, Vince Vaughn, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Will.i.am, Ann Wilson, Brian Wilson, Nancy Wilson and BeBe Winan.

La Diva to stage an "Intimate" concert; You like?

SOP's singing trio will go one step further to get more attention this time becoming sexier in their first ever Valentine's day concert called Intimately La Diva tonight at 8:30 p.m. in One Esplanade Mall of Asia Complex.

Pretty unpopular venue and not so HOT concert title.

Anyway, the three are looking gorgeous in the above pic. A huge improvement from their usual get-up on SOP which looked like rented gowns from some cheap gown rental shop.

Will you go watch La Diva tonight? Do you even like the idea?

We'd rather stay at home to watch THE BIG NIGHT! For sure, there will be a press release about this concert being a BIG HIT tomorrow on SOP. Maybe they'll even say that MOA was full to the brim of La Diva fans. LOL.

photo courtesy of igma.tv

Aljur Abrenica has started recording his first album; Will it be another flop or a possible hit?

Yes. GMA's prince is planning to jump start his singing career through his first album. He said on pep.ph: "Nagre-recording na ako, nag-start na kami. May mga revivals, tapos medyo alternative siya; four revivals, anim na original. Meron din akong mga sariling composition. Si Arnel Pineda [lead vocalist of Journey], hinihingan namin ng kanta, pag-uusapan pa. Hindi pa rin namin napapag-usapan yung title pati yung carrier single."

Err. we're not sure about this. He's not really well-known for his singing talent. His last movie was a big flop. His latest soap, The Last Prince can't even maintain a respectable lead over its ABS-CBN counterpart in Mega Manila. It's even doing worse in the National ratings.

What we think? Aljur is only hot because he IS HOT. As in physically. If that hotness will entice people to buy his album, we don't know.

photo courtesy of igma.tv

Have you seen Pink's AMAZING Grammy Performance?

Wow. Now that's entertainment! We'll see who can do something like that first here in the Philippines. C'mon, singing in the center of the stage is so old! Pinoy concert artists should start getting creative and daring. Right?

Christian Bautista to do a TV series in Indonesia?

Piolo and other Kapamilyas top the list of Odyssey's Best Selling Albums!

Like what we said in one of our previous articles, ABS-CBN artists are selling more albums than GMA stars. Click here for the article.

Here is another proof:
Odyssey Record Bar’s Best Selling Albums (January 4-10, 2010)
Overall
1. Decades – Piolo Pascual (Star Records)
2. Ikaw Na Nga – Willie Revillame (Star Records)
3. Romance Revisited:The Love Songs
of Jose Mari Chan (Exclusive Minus One Edition) – Christian Bautista (Universal Records)
4. The Fame Monster – Lady GaGa (MCA Music)
5. Fearless (Platinum Edition) – Taylor Swift (MCA Music)
6. I Dreamed a Dream – Susan Boyle (Sony)
7. Franco – Franco (MCA Music)
8. Music and Me – Sarah Geronimo (Viva Records)
9. Power Hits 4 – Various Artists (MCA Music)
10. 2009 Year of Us – Shinee (Universal Records)

OPM
1. Decades – Piolo Pascual (Star Records)
2. Ikaw Na Nga – Willie Revillame (Star Records)
3. Romance Revisited:The Love Songs of Jose Mari Chan (Exclusive Minus One Edition) – Christian Bautista (Universal Records)
4. Franco – Franco (MCA Music)
5. Music and Me – Sarah Geronimo (Viva Records)
6. Pray: The Mysteries of the Holy Rosary – Various Artists (Star Records)
7. As 1 – Gary Valenciano and Martin Nieverra (Universal Records)
8. Byahe – Noel Cabangon (Universal Records)
9. Songs Rediscovered 2 – Jed Madela (Universal Records)
10. Acoustic Duets – Rey and Kaye (Alpha)

photo courtesy of pinoytrail.com

Jaya on SOP: "Hindi ko din alam kung anong mali. Basta kami, we try to do our best na lang."

Bong Godinez reported on pep.ph about Jaya's comments regarding SOP. We're not sure if SOP fans will take it well but we think there's really something wrong with that show. Here's what Jaya said:

"We are going through something. Kaming mga talents, we're as confused as whoever. Kasi binago 'yong format, so hindi talaga namin alam kung anong pakiramdam ng viewers. Let's face it, it's not really rating as well as it used to."

"Ang masasabi ko lang sana maakit namin ulit ang mga viewers because obviously, the other show [ABS-CBN's ASAP XV] is also very nice. And I also watch that show kasi siyempre gusto ko ring makita kung anong kaibahan sa amin."

"We used to sing well on put-together numbers. We used to have Basil [Valdez] come in, we used to have tiny orchestra. Bigay mo lang kung anong hindi makita ng tao sa Araneta [Coliseum] o ibang concert venues. Hindi ko din alam kung anong mali. Basta kami, we try to do our best na lang."

photo courtesy of friscostore.com

SOP Cover Girls: You like?

They are Carla Abellana, Lovi Poe, Heart Evangelista, Bianca King and Glaiza de Castro. They're all sexy and beautiful. In fact some of them can really sing. But do you like them?

We think for comparison's sake, they can be pitted against ASAP's It Girls consisting of Bea Alonzo, Anne Curtis, Maja Salvador, Iya Villania, and Shaina Magdayao.

Now this will be some fierce competition since ASAP's It Girls have good girl images thanks to their bida roles while most some of the SOP Cover Girls have bad girl mode due to their kontrabida roles. Bea Alonzo and Anne Curtis are also bigger stars than the Cover Girls.

Since they are still starting, let's give the SOP Cover Girls a chance. We think they have what it takes to be as good and even better than the It Girls. They should do away with the lip synching though. That way, they will have a big advantage over ASAP's forever lip synching It Girls.

However, they need to level up on poise, projection, energy and stage presence. These are the strengths of the It Girls.

Who do you like better?

Sorry dreamers,YRS is too much for La Diva!

After seeing YRS' Elvis Presley performance a while ago with Gary V., we just have to say once and for all that they should not be compared to La Diva. Yeng, Rachelle, and Sarah are way too talented, too popular, and too successful for La Diva.

Sure La Diva may have something to say when it comes to voice quality but when it comes to stage presence, appeal, and overall impact, YRS is the clear winner.

La Diva will should be matched to the threesome of Laarni Lozada, Sheryn Regis and Auriette Divina. What do you think?

photo courtesy of pinoyexchange.com

Kris Lawrence is South Border's newest Vocalist!

Finally a breather from just being Katrina Halili's boyfriend. Although Kris is doing good enough on his own, we think he'll do better with a well-established band like South Border. Plus, his voice is not too different from the band's past vocalists. Kris Lawrence was a product of ABS-CBN's Star in a Million but is now an SOP regular.

photo courtesy of star-tube.blogspot.com

SOP's La Diva will finally release an album and music video!

In an interview with iGMA, Maricris Garcia said, "Finally, after a long, long time, eto na magkakaroon na ng album at lalabas na siya so, syempre fulfilling din 'yung feeling kasi pinaghirapan namin eh. Medyo madugo ang pinagdaanaan namin at eto na!"

Their carrying single is called "Kasiping Ka" and they will have their first major solo concert, entitled Only La Diva.

Will you buy their CD or go to their concert?
photo courtesy of igma.tv and tagpuan.com