New Music as of 28 January 09

Mainstream Top 40 KEVIN RUDOLF - Welcome To The World DAVID GUETTA - Baby When The Light FILLY - Sweat (The Drip Drop Song) JAMIE FOXX - Blame It (f/T-Pain & Yung Joc) MADCON - Beggin' STONEBRIDGE - You Don't Know TAYLOR SWIFT - White Horse Rhythmic PITBULL - Calle Ocho (75 Street Brazil) BOW WOW - You Can Get It All ATIBA - Hey Lady CHARLIE HUSTLE - Go Hard (f/Rebel) CYSSERO - Swag It Out JAY DA MENACE - My Lil' Hood Thing JIM JONES - Blow The Bank (f/Oshy) LIL WAYNE - Prom Queen OJ DA JUICEMAN - I'm Booming And Bunkin' PLAYAZ CIRCLE - Stupid SHAWTY LO - Supplier (f/Trey Songz) VARIOUS ARTISTS - America's Song WEBSTAR - Dancing On Me Active/Mainstream Rock POWERMAN 5000 - Super Villain SICK PUPPIES - Too Many Words

Hot AC (Adult Contemporary) GAVIN ROSSDALE - Forever May You Run MAX MORGAN - Wait For Me BRETT DENNEN - Follow Your Heart COLBY O'DONIS - What You Got (f/Akon) DANITY KANE - Damaged RAY LAMONTAGNE - You Are The Best Thing Alternative MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - Desolation Row PEOPLE IN PLANES - Last Man Standing BIG B - Sinner (f/Scott Russo) BON IVER - Skinny Love ERIC HUTCHINSON - OK It's Alright With Me IDA MARIA - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked KAISER CHIEFS - Good Days Bad Days PETER BJORN & JOHN - Nothing To Worry About PUSCIFER - The Mission RAZORLIGHT - Wire To Wire RISE AGAINST - Entertainment SKINDRED - Electric Avenue THE BPA - He's Frank (f/Iggy Pop) VIKING SKULL - Start A War

c/o www.AllAccess.com

Links to BayFM-related posts

Ok I admit now, this really isn't my only blogsite. I do have this so-called unofficial blog which lately, I have been updating with posts discussing about stuff at the radio station. It's not that I don't want to write personal rants here, but I've been using that other blog as an alternative to let out some of my angst and, mostly, frustrations at work.

So, here I am wanting to share with TTRO readers these posts I did on my other site. They are pretty interesting read, revealing this other picture behind the facade.

It's a community radio station for crying out loud!
Footnotes on the Subic Bay Hour (tagalog post)
Sights & Sounds: Sinulog 2009 (yea, it's about my vacation but still thinking about BayFM)

I'm guessing this is another rant. But hey, this is my blog, right? (putting that BayFM rant tag down there).

New Music as of 21 January 09

Mainstream Top 40 KELLY CLARKSON - My Life Would Suck Without You FLO RIDA - Right Round FALL OUT BOY - America's Suitehearts EMINEM - Crack A Bottle (f/Dr. Dre & 50) SOULJA BOY - Kiss Me Thru The Phone U2 - Get On Your Boots BRITNEY SPEARS - If U Seek Amy I.G AND LIL D.P. - Go Hard NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK - Dirty Dancing SHONTELLE - Stuck With Each Other (f/Akon) THE-DREAM - My Love (f/Mariah Carey) Rhythmic LUDACRIS - Nasty Girl (f/Plies) CIARA - Never Ever (f/Young Jeezy) ASHER ROTH - I Love College 50 CENT - I Get It In BUSTA RHYMES - Hustlers Anthem (f/T-Pain) BUSTA RHYMES - Respect My Conglomerate BIG TEASE - Do Tha Stanky Legg (f/Blackout) JADAKISS - Can't Stop Me PLIES - Want It, Need It (f/Ashanti) DERTY - Uh Oh (f/Lil' Boosie) ELIJAH KING - Cry No More FAT PIMP - Halle Berry FLO RIDA - Touch Me INDIA.ARIE - Chocolate High JOE BUDDEN - The Future (f/The Game) MC MAGIC - Girl I Love You (f/Zig Zag) MVR - Hit The Bobby RICH BOY - Drop (f/Polow Da Don) TRACY WILLIAMS - Diva (f/2 Pistols) TRAE - Grey Cassette (f/Bun B) UNLADYLIKE - Bartender YOUNG JEEZY - Who Dat (f/Shawty Redd)

Hot AC (Adult Contemporary) HOOBASTANK - So Close, So Far ERIN MCCARLEY - Love Save The Empty LISA MISKOVSKY - Still Alive Alternative PAPA ROACH - Lifeline AUDRYE SESSIONS - Turn Me Off IGLU & HARTLY - In This City K'NAAN - If Rap Gets Jealous MATT AND KIM - Daylight FLOGGING MOLLY - Lightning Storm G LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE - Soft And Sweet HOCKEY - Too Fake HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD - Sell Your Soul KILLS - Cheap & Cheerful NEW FOUND GLORY - Listen To Your Friends OASIS - Falling Down RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS - A Choppy Yet Sincere Apology THE BPA - Toe Jam (f/David Byrne & Dizzee) WILD LIGHT - California On My Mind Active/Mainstream Rock SINCE OCTOBER - Guilty BLACK TIDE - Shout 12 STONES - Broken Road 16 SECOND STARE - Ballad Of Billy Rose DIRTFEDD - Here I Am LAMB OF GOD - Set To Fail SAMMY HAGAR - Loud SCHOOLYARD HEROES - I Want Your Soul For Christmas STEADLUR - Bumpin' STEEL PANTHER - Death To All But Metal UNCROWNED - Remember Your Ghost

c/o www.AllAccess.com

Feature: ALICIA KEYS

Alicia Keys helped redefine the term "overnight sensation" when her 2001 debut effort, Songs in A Minor, sold more than 50,000 copies during its first day of release. Mixing R&B songcraft with a sultry dose of neo-soul, the album went on to move more than ten million units worldwide, officially establishing the young Alicia Keys (who was only 19 during the recording process) as an international star. Although she shared the charts with such R&B contemporaries as Destiny's Child, Keys' talents distinguished her as a different sort of diva, one who played a variety of instruments and penned the vast majority of her songs without outside help. The Diary of Alicia Keys solidified her popularity two years later, and Alicia Keys spent the rest of the decade refining her now-signature sound.

Alicia Augello Cook was born in Harlem in early 1981. Raised by her Italian-American mother, she enrolled in classical piano lessons at the age of seven and began writing songs four years later. An education at the Professional Performance Arts School helped hone her vocal skills, and Alicia graduated at the age of 16 as the class valedictorian. Two Columbias loomed on the immediate horizon: Columbia University and Columbia Records, both of whom had extended offers to the talented student/musician. Although she attempted to make both options work, Alicia found it difficult to juggle the two commitments and chose to focus exclusively on her music career. Assuming the stage name of Alicia Keys, she began to work with Columbia and contributed a song to the Men in Black soundtrack, but disputes with the label resulted in her contract's termination.


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Keys bounced back by aligning herself with Clive Davis, the president of Arista Records, but work on her debut album stalled when Davis was ousted from the company in 2000. Davis soon formed his own label, J Records, and welcomed Keys back into the fold with an aggressive publicity campaign (including an influential appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show). Songs in A Minor was then released in June 2001 and debuted at the top of the charts, eventually netting five Grammys and platinum certifications in ten different countries. Released in 2003, The Diary of Alicia Keys enjoyed similar Grammy-certified success, and Keys released a book of poetry the following year. A live CD/DVD package, Unplugged, arrived in 2005 and followed Keys' two previous releases to the top of the charts, even if it failed to win any of the four Grammys for which it was nominated. Alicia Keys then entered the acting world, starring in both Smokin' Aces and The Nanny Diaries in 2007, before issuing the pop-influenced As I Am later that year.

source: www.AllMusic.com

New Music as of 7 January 09

Mainstream Top 40 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - If I BRITNEY SPEARS - Shattered Glass CASCADA- Perfect Day FLO RIDA - Round Round HILARY DUFF - Reach Out LIGHTS - Drive My Soul NICK LACHEY - Patience RIHANNA - Bad Girl (f/ Chris Brown) RIHANNA - Breakin' Dishes ROMI LOVEL - Letting Go TANYA AKA T6 - I'm So Paid YANOU - Sun Is Shining Rhythmic SKILLZ - Rap Up 2008 JADAKISS - Letter To B.I.G. (f/Faith Evans) LIL ROB - Bang Bang Boogie AL KAPONE - Show Me BEYONCE - Video Phone CASH - Walk Wit A Dip CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD - Crank Dat Elroy (f/JQ) CHRIS BROWN - Love Music DJ CLASS - I'm The Ish DJ EARWORM - United State Of Pop 2008 DJ FELLI FEL - Feel It ERUP - Click Mi Fingers FAR EAST MOVEMENT - Girls On The Dance Floor FAT JOE - Winding On Me (f/Lil Wayne) GORILLA ZOE - What It Is (f/Rick Ross & Kollo) J. ROMAN - Slow Jam Mixtape JAMIE FOXX - Blame It (f/T-Pain & Yung Joc) KAFANI - Need Ya Body KIA SHINE - Checkin' My Fresh NASTY NARDO - Until PLIES - Dat B*tch PLIES - You (f/Tank) RED CAFE - So Easy RICHGIRL - 24's TREY SONGZ - In Your Phone YOUNG DRO - Take Off (f/Yung L.A.) YUNG L.A. - 36 O'S (f/Lil Boosie) YUNG L.A. - Ain't I (f/Young Dro/T.I.)

Hot AC (Adult Contemporary) CELINE DION - My Love CORY LAMB - Drowning MICHAEL BUBLE - Lost Alternative AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT - Sometime Around Midnight KILLERS - Spaceman DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - Grapevine Fires VON BONDIES - Pale Bride AGAINST ME! - Borne On The FM Waves Of The Heart ASHES OF SOMA - Bedroom Walls BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH - Until We Burn In The Sun BOUNCING SOULS - Man In Black COCONUT RECORDS - Microphone COLBIE CAILLAT - Turn Your Lights Down Low COLDPLAY - Life In Technicolor II DIRTY HEADS - Believe DIRTY LITTLE RABBITS - Happy HURT - Wars JOSH DAVIS BAND - Messages From Mars KINGS OF LEON - Crawl MORRISSEY - I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris NICKELBACK - I'd Come For You PINK - Who Knew PRINCE - Crimson & Clover PUSHMOWER - War Machine SAM ROBERTS - Them Kids SERJ TANKIAN - Honking Antelope THE SPILL CANVAS - Reckless Abandonment TRAPT - Contageous TWO HOURS TRAFFIC - Nighthawks Active/Mainstream Rock FLYLEAF - I'm So Sick (Live) FOREVER OEUVRE - First Stone KID ROCK - Lowlife (Living The Highlife) ONE LESS REASON - Seasons BECK- Gamma Ray DEREK TRUCKS BAND - Down In The Flood EAGLES OF DEATH METAL - Anything 'Cept The Truth

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The Year That Was: A Countdown of the Top 15 Songs of 2008

Listen to the one-hour 2008 year-end countdown produced and featured by DJ TommyG over 89.5 BayFM, plus a list of the top 15 songs of the past year based on the number of weeks they have stayed at number one in the billboard charts.


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Top 15 songs of 2008 (BayFM compilation)
1. Low – Flo-Rida ft. T-Pain (10 wks)
2. Whatever You Like – T.I. (7 wks)
3. I Kissed A Girl – Katy Perry (7 wks)
4. Live Your Life – T.I. ft. Rihanna (6 wks)
5. Lollipop – Li'l Wayne ft. Static Major (5 wks)
6. Love In This Club – Usher ft. Young Jeezy (3 wks)
7. Bleeding Love – Leona Lewis (3 wks)
8. Single Ladies (Put a ring on it...) – Beyonce (2 wks)
9. Disturbia – Rihanna (2 wks)
10. Touch My Body – Mariah Carey (2 wks)
11. Womanizer – Britney Spears (1 wk)
12. So What – Pink (1 wk)
13. Take A Bow – Rihanna (1 wk)
14. Viva La Vida – Coldplay (1 wk)
15. No One – Alicia Keys (1wk)

BayFM Sights and Sounds of New Year Celebration 09 in Subic Bay

All photos taken from the New Year Celebration held at the Boardwalk, Subic Bay Freeport.
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1st row: Olongapo City local band Bojo and the Aztecs
2nd row: Bojo's axemen; the girls of PYT
3rd row: Bojo guitarist amid blue fog; Pretty Young Things on stage; host BernieMac of BayFM
4th row: crowd by the beach and backstage

All BayFM photos courtesy of John Co (shot with Canon 5d mark2). All rights reserved.

09 FIREWORKS @ SUBIC BAY