Lopez Blogs

It seems forever and a day since it was announced that Simon Curtis would be starring in new Nickelodeon musical movie "Spectacular", but finally the project is on the horizon. You can now pre-order the soundtrack (featuring 3 songs with Simon on lead vocal) from Amazon - it's out on 3rd February just 13 days before the movie hits US tv screens on Monday February 16th! Hurrah! It's all very exciting. Some observations about the soundtrack tracklisting - Wings Of A Dream and Something To Believe In sound like just the sort of inspirational song titles that lead to just the sort of inspirational songs that I love in musicals. I mean, who wouldn't want to be on the wings of a dream?! And please let that be a cover version of Eye Of The Tiger - choir style! Please? And remember my picks for 2009 when I said that the ace perkiness of Things We Do For Love needed a decent pop cover version? Look at track 12 on the album, and trust me when I say I have my fingers crossed for all things amazing from this tune :)

I've been quite good so far at predicting (without them being predictions to be fair, just which lovely Jason songs I've liked best) at predicting Jason Mraz songs that will ultimately become singles. In 2006, a demo of I'm Yours was the theme to Darren and my wedding, a whole 2 years before it became the lead single to his introspective third album. Now, current single Lucky was my choice for follow up single to the proper official release of I'm Yours back in June (when it made number 3 on my chart). Lucky is a lovely song that stands the test of time (much like I'm Yours did) and sounds heavenly nearly 7 months later. Auspop are quite right. Jason does indeed look quite scrumptious in this video :) And a final hurrah! Jason's "aggressive" pricing of his album in the UK (£4.97 in Tesco) means he stands at 22 on the album charts, while the still heart string tugging I'm Yours finally gets a top 40 placing on the singles charts at 34. Woohoo!

The Only Chart That Counts...

21 - Britney, Womanizer
20 - Alesha Dixon, Breathe Slow (NE/VID)
19 - Girls Aloud, The Promise
18 - Take That, Greatest Day
17 - The Killers, Human
16 - Danny, Radio (Acoustic)
15 - Annie Lennox, Shine A Light (NE)
14 - Lenka, All My Bells Are Ringing
13 - Sugababes, No Can Do
12 - Same Difference, We R One
11 - Leona Lewis, Run
10 - Leon Jackson, Creative
09 - JLS, Hallelujah
08 - Girls Aloud, The Loving Kind
07 - The Killers, Spaceman
06 - Jason Mraz, Live High
05 - Britannia High, Start of Something
04 - Lily Allen, The Fear
03 - Take That, Up All Night
02 - Same Difference, If You Can't Dance
01 - ???? (revealed soon) (2 weeks)

Back soon with Danny, Darin, Franz Ferdinand, more Spectacular and probably something else not invented yet! Now I;m off to watch Ray Quinn make a tit of himself (hopefully) in Dancing On Ice... (Edit: Dammit! Ray Quinn was brilliant! I am eating my words. They taste like chicken...)