Divas on the Dance Chart (Billboard) Update

This week's Billboard Dance chart in focus.

It's no secret that I don't like Eva Simmons' "I Don't Like You," no matter the mix. Yet the bitch hit #1 on the chart this week. So be it. Still, I love that "Touch Me," Katharine McPhee's big number from the tv series, "Smash" has reached number four. Hoping it gets up to the smashing tippy-top.

Katy Perry's "Wide Awake" has jumped from #11 to #5, as the singer's movie loses to Spiderman at the b.o. this weekend. But huge leap for Miss Kylie, armed with her "Timebomb," exploding from #21 to #9! Another American hit for the Aussie dance diva!

Toni Braxton's divine "I Heart You" settles nicely at #13, one chart step up from the dance mixes of Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" (that artist cited for reckless driving this afternoon in L.A.) with Canadian pop star  Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" one rung lower.

J-Lo's going in with "Goin' In," debuting in the top 25 at #18 (remix below), while Kelly Clarkson's "Dark Side" pays off at #20. (#30 last week.) Reina reappears with "Lover Who Rocks You" (we love you, Miss Reina). And one of my all-time favorite dance divas, the divine Debby Holiday (check out our Q&A below) rises to #22 with the fantastic "Key to Your Soul." Scissor Sisters' "Only the Horses" at last cracks the top 25.

Thanks to the US, UK, Canada and Italy, German, Belgium, Brazil, Israel, Hungary, Myanmar, Australia, France, Turkey & Argentina for your blog views and support this week. Let's dance for peace, for love and for a united world with equal rights for all! We deserve it! Universal love is a possibility.

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Divas of Note, Billboard 6/28

Victory for the US of A

Well, who knows where the time goes, indeed? Here we are, Pride Day over and Fourth of July practically upon us. Happy holiday to my American friends, and let's celebrate the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare as well!

Thank you, Indonesia, Turkey, Argentina and Italy, especially, for your blog support this past week.

Now let's get down to business with the divas we adore. I'm talking the latest Billboard dance chart!

Check out my Q&A with Debby Holiday

"Key to Your Soul," the Debby Holiday-fronted number by John LePage, snuggles in at #25 and is sure to rise for the multiple-Billboard-charting artist. Don't miss Dj Buddy B's EXCLUSIVE interview with Ms Holiday! It includes the hot, new video for this song.

 http://djbuddybeaverhausen.blogspot.com/2012/06/buddy-bs-exclusive-q-with-debby-holiday.html

Kylie's got a timebomb!

Shawn Christopher ("Another Sleepless Night") is the divine diva on Ralphi Rosario's remake of "Menergy," peaking for Pride and now nestled at #24. Meanwhile, Kylie Minogue's incendiary "Timebomb" explodes at #21, making "the biggest goddamned explosion you've ever heard," as Liz Taylor said in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. That's a 10-position boost from last week's #31! (Time for some explosions with US's Independence Day and France's Bastille Day in the air.)

Katy Perry's "Wide Awake" does seem alert as it jumps from #22 to #11. Toni Braxton's "I Heart You" is at #8, fallen from the top spot last time, after its meteoric rise. (Still a hot number.)

And Katharine MacPhee ascends to #5 with remixes from Smash's "Touch Me." http://djbuddybeaverhausen.blogspot.com/2012/06/smash-season-2-update.html

Kevin Scott Hall

ps: New Yorkers, don't miss good friend Kevin Scott Hall's "Golden" at  Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., on July 18 at 7pm, and July 21 at 6pm. (The show includes a song I wrote, a'la disco, "No More Mr Nice Guy!")

Till next week's Billboard review, kittens, enjoy this:

Smash Season 2 Update

Latest news, according to Digital Spy, is that Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson will make several guest appearances on Smash next season opposite Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty. Hudson will portray Tony-winning Broadway star, Veronica Moore.

Hottie Andy Mientus (who was in the off-Broadway production of Carrie, the musical (see my post, http://djbuddybeaverhausen.blogspot.com/2012/02/carrie-on.html )) will be added to the cast for some spice.

Unfortunately, five characters will get the axe: Dev (Raza Jaffrey; sigh!), Deborah Messing's husband (Brian d'Arcy James) and son, and the scheming Ellis Boyd (whom I will miss, but let's see what intrigue develops otherwise in Season 2.  I mean, Ellis was fired by Anjelica Houston and Dev did sleep with poison Ivy!) And Michael Swift -- with whom Messing started messing around with in real-life, leaving her real-life hubby -- will no longer be on the show. Oh, the sweet and sour porking of it all!

Besides ditching her domestic-tsuris storyline, by the by, Missy Messing will get a more glam wardrobe, it is promised. Go all Dynasty on us, bitch, we love you! So, let's hope Season 2 brings us more sex appeal and let the gloves come off already! I'm ready! Who gets the first big slap?

Divas Rising

Amber Dirks

Glad to work my way out of the imbroglio on Facebook with diva Friends Amber Dirks and Amber today, so it's now on with the Billboard divas & where they stand, USA. (Both Ambers, I expect right now, to do Q&As on this blog in the near future, and Debby Holiday in time for NYC Pride. Stay tuned.)

Toni Braxton's "I Heart You" hit #1 this week! Big woo for Ms Braxton, lifted strongly by the mixes of Mark Picchiotti and Peter Rauhofer.

"I Don't Like You" by Eva Simons is #4, but then, I don't like her either. Rihanna's "Where Have You Been" drops to numero 6. But Kathareine McPhee and Carly Rae Jepsen rise nicely, to numbers 7 and 8, with "Touch Me" and "Call Me Maybe," respectively.

"Menergy" may have hit its high at #8 last week, as it's now at #16. Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" got to #21 and JLo hangs in at #24 with "Dance Again," and again and again.

Thanks out this week to the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Philippines, Turkey and United Arab Emigrates. Love back at ya! It's one world; get into the universal love of it all.

Below, the original pop version (not remixed) of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe;" pretty hot video.

Billboard Blab and Promo Winners

Toni Toni Toni!

Let's talk highlights of the Top 25 Billboard Dance Chart ending the week of June 16, shall we?

While poppy little boppers One Direction took over the top nook with "What Makes You Beautiful," Rihanna sinks like yesterday's beleaguered Battleship to 4th place while Toni Braxton's "I Heart You," however, nicely keeps up its momentum, going from #6 to #3, hopefully on its way to #1, where it deserves to be.

"Dance Again," also once #1, stays put at 8th place, a hit for sure with eight weeks on the chart so far. If I were into numerology, I'd give Missy JLo a head's up about the number 8. Behind it, "Menergy," the Ralphi Rosario remake featuring Shawn Christopher, leaps from 15th place to 9th. Pumping menergy for sure! Many a dj likes Eva Simmons' "I Don't Like You," now in the 10th spot. I don't like her (or it).

Canada's Carly Rae Jepson is at lucky number 13 this week with "Call Me Maybe," babies.  But Katherine McPhee's "Smash" hit, "Touch Me" steams its way up the Dance chart from #24 to #13! Can't touch her, she's smoking hot!

Ok, I didn't need a deadline for my "NYC Pride Anthems 2012" promos (my oversight not to establish one) because I received three correct answers shortly after I announced the totally free giveaways.  The promo-only cd-r's mail out Monday to:

AJ, USA
David, USA
Lucho, Brazil

Congratulations winners & thanks to all who participated!

And Happy Gay Pride to everyone on the planet, damn it!

Gay Pride Promo NYC 2012 + Competition

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Buddy B Eyes the Billboard Dance/Club Chart

Can it truly be the very end of May already? I am eyeing the Billboard Dance/Club chart ending June 9 and feel like I'm being swept through time like a blossom on a summer breeze.

And, more like a heat-seeking missile through the hot summer's air of Cape Canaveral, Rihanna's "Where Have You Been" hits #1 on this week's Billboard, where it seemed bound by its swift trajectory up the Dance/Club chart over the past 16 weeks. Jennifer Lopez further tumbles from that perch, to #5, but still making us want to "Dance Again." At sixth place, Toni Braxton's "I Heart You" catapults from 12th, all in only six weeks. Good show, Toni, you're back!

Last week's #1 dance tune was "Brokenhearted" by Karmin, which now finds itself at 11, a rather precipitous fall. Ralphi Rosario's new version of Patrick Cowley's "Menergy," featuring the vocals of Shawn Christopher, is lifted to the 15th spot from #17 last week. I guarantee you'll be hearing this at Gay Pride festivities everywhere in the upcoming months, and it is included on my brand-new "PRIDE: NYC Anthems 2012" promo cd. Competition to win a free copy to come soon, details on this blog. (NYC's original Pride march and celebration are on Sunday, July 24, incidentally.)

And, in its second week on the chart, another track on my promo-only Pride cd makes it into the top 25. Katharine McPhee's "Touch Me," from the NBC-tv series Smash (Buddy B's favorite new series), is already a smash by leaping from 36th place (now #24) after being on the the chart a mere two weeks. (Remix also featured on my Pride promo.) (Note: my cds are for promotional use only & not for sale. Winners of my competition receive cds and postage free of charge.)

Hear Ralphi's Space Disco Club Mix 2012 on this YouTube link below, where you can download the song:

Smash's Big Bollywood Number

Here's the full "A Thousand & One Nights" production number from last season's Smash. Previously, there was no idea that the Dev character might burst out into song and dance, but he does so magnificently in this elaborate fantasy sequence. The whole production seems to be on quite a grand scale for a tv series, lavish and expertly produced and choreographed. Pulling this together in a week had to be a challenge, but it comes across as a labor of love.

How do the actors work those neck muscles like that? Katharine McPhee, whose neck seems to flex even in her second reaction shot, says she is not really a dancer, but you could fool me by the way she boogies down in this.

Cast members and story lines are all symbolically represented within this song. I love Anjelica Houston's campy coyness, and how Ellis fleetingly appears to usurp a jewel, true to nature. I also adore Deborah Messing as she dances this mess around (in line with her tv family) and looking like she's having a great time at it. Even Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep's daughter, Grace Gummer, sportingly appear.

While Rolling Stone's Katy Kroll called this a "very jumping-the-shark moment," it was generally very well received by viewers and fans, and one of the season's highlights. More importantly, I love it!