Hells yes! It is Friday and it is a half day for the Chachi! Can I get a hells yeah?! Tomorrow is ‘A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum’ so you know what that means. DENVER PAR-TEEEEE! But before I get all crazy Prince style, it is time for the Friday staple!
Chachi’s Top 20 Video Countdown!
We start this week with a hip hop video that looks to be saying goodbye to the Top 20…
20. K-OS – Sunday Morning (Last Week #17)
It seems the run is over for K-OS after a pretty good stay. This video made it all the way to the Top Ten which is pretty good for a first time out. Here is to hoping for a new video very soon!
19. Daddy Yankee feat. Fergie – Impacto (New Entry)
Reggaeton! Very few people know this, but I am totally down for Daddy Yankee. He is the mad notes! Sadly, Fergie is a man and had the audacity to call out Nelly Furtado (OH NO SHE DI-ENT!) but that doesn’t take away from the kickassedness of this video. Oh, and Fergie looks like she is on roids. Ladies, you don’t have to look like fucking Triple H to be attractive. I likes some softness.
18. Three Days Grace – Never Too Late (Last Week #16)
Another video on the verge of falling off the Countdown after falling one spot short of the Top Five. Do we still get MuchMusic on Comcast? I don’t think we do. That sucks because it was the only place I could see these guys.
17. L`Arc~en~Ciel – Seventh Heaven (Last Week #20)
When in the hell are they going to be on the On Demand Bento Box?! They have TM Revolution (which don’t get me wrong, rawk your fucking face) on every damn week! Give me some Hyde and the crew!
16. UVERworld – Zero no Kotae (Last Week #14)
Just got the single for ‘endscape’ and it totally kicks the ass! Meanwhile, this video falls two more spots. UVERworld hasn’t done much on the live front, either. Can’t find any videos of tour footage which kind of sucks. You know, UVERworld almost has this Countdown on lock if not for this next person…
15. John Legend – PDA (We Just Don’t Care) (Last Week #12, four weeks at #1)
Can John officially be called ‘King of the Countdown’? Three #1 videos ties him with UVERworld (although T.I. and Yui have a chance to tie them) and he has Album of the Year to his credit. Sounds like credentials to me.
14. T.I. – Big Things Poppin’ (Last Week 18)
Suck emcees can call him sire! T.I. moves up four big spots with this video! I am looking forward to “T.I.P. vs. T.I.” more than any album this year including Common’s “Finding Forever”, Kanye’s “Graduation” and Usher’s coming LP. Hopefully the R.Kelly and T-Pain cameos will be kept to a minimum. God, let the R.Kelly and T-Pan cameos be kept to a minimum.
13. M-Flo feat. Crystal Kay – Love Don’t Cry (Last Week #13)
So this video stands at #13 this week. Any word on a Crystal Kay album? I needs my hawtie fix since Yuna Ito is playing hard to get. Even better, Sowelu is back! MY GOD, SOWELU IS BACK! Mmm…how I missed her so. If I could find a way to get both her and Mandy Moore to marry me…I would so die happy.
12. Foxxi MisQ feat Zeebra – Luxury Ride (Last Week #15)
Screw that, give me these three ladies. Not going to lie, these ladies aren’t my ideal but there is something about funky fresh dance moves and Japanese women. It’s….a thing I have. Oh, and that’s a nice car that lady is sitting in. Is that a straight six? Heh, I have a straight six right now watching this video.
11. Kumi Koda – Get Up & Move! (Last Week #8)
Well it looks like Kumi Koda is falling like…she did on that bottle in the ‘Juicy’ video. I wonder where that bottle is now. Probably traumatized. THE BOTTLE SAID NO! Anyway, we are into the Top 10!
10. Fall Out Boy – Thnks Fr Th Mmrs (Last Week #11)
We have made it to the upper regions and we start with a little Fall Out Boy! God…I really hate Tag body spray. I really do. But this song kicks ass and that holds precedent over everything else. Makes up for the 4 minute ad of a video.
9. Yui – CHE.R.RY (Last Week #6, one week at #1)
And the citizens cry due to sorrow. Yui looks to be falling out of the Top 10 after a run as the #1 video. Could Yui be the ‘Queen of the Countdown’? Well, aside from Nelly Furtado and Namie Amuro (and maybe Amy Lee from Evanescence) she really is by herself on top with that one. Oh, that and she is hella hot.
8. Abingdon Boys School – Howling (Last Week #10)
RAWKING ALL UP ON YOUR FACE! Abingdon Boys School moves up two spots this week and dare I say hell yeah. This song is on my profile and as soon as I re-find my software for clipping music it is SO the next ring tone!
7. Yui – My Generation (Last Week #9)
Yay! More Yui! Back to the ‘Queen of the Countdown’ comment. What ever happened to A.I.?! After ‘I Wanna Know’ I haven’t heard from her since! While you are at it, give me some more Jamosa. That is some nice, saucy woman right there. Hell, give me some new Halcali and May J (I’m not really feeling ‘Dear…’)! Let the ladies have some time!
6. Orange Range – Ika Summer (Last Week #7)
One step away from the Top Five and we have Orange Range! Been a while since they have been up this high! They had some lackluster work recently *ahem* ‘UnRockstar’ but this video is making up for it. Here is to a follow up album soon!
5. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend (Last Week #3)
Hey! Hey! You! You! Okay, I still like this video but let’s face it: it’s Avril Lavigne. Yeah, I must say I would wreck that (if I completely knew how, my knowledge of wrecking is spotty at best) but at the end of the day she made ‘SK8TR BOI’ and for that I can never forgive. Although she DID make ‘Falling Down’ so it kind of evens out.
4. Rascal Flats – Stand (Last Week #5)
You know…Rascal Flats could lay claim to ‘Kings of the Countdown’. Before Nelly Furtado’s ‘Say It Right’ they had the longest running unofficial video in the Top 20 with ‘What Hurts The Most’ last year. Hell, it even made it to #1! With ‘Stand’ they have their second Top 5 and are making a run for the top to boot! Pretty good for some guys from Ohio.
3. Maroon 5 – Makes Me Wonder (Last Week #4)
We are in the Top 3 and Marron 5 makes their first trip up here ever! I just got their album and it is actually pretty good! It is not as single laden as their first album but the songs are good on their own merit. Oh, that and this video kicks the ass. Especially the unedited version. The song sounds like my life for the most part. Only two remain…
2. nobodyknows+ - Hero’s Come Back! (Last Week #1, four weeks at #1)
UPSET OF THE YEAR! After a month long stranglehold on the Top Spot, nobodyknows+ falls a spot to Number 2! This song SO kicks the ass and I really wonder if they can follow this up. I mean it is DIFFICULT to follow up your first video with another bad ass one. UVERworld did with ‘Shamrock’ after ‘Chance!’ but those are rare. We will have to see! Well…this means we have a new King
1. Yuna Ito – I’m Here (Last Week #2, one week at #1)
…or shall I say QUEEN! After a LOOOOOOONG 3 month wait Yuna Ito finally captures the throne! Did you see her at the MTV Japan VMA’s? Can you say ‘teh hawt’ peeps because that is what she was! Can’t believe ‘Truth’ didn’t win a VMA at ALL. I love Kumi Koda as much as the next j-pop fan but didn’t she win LAST YEAR? And the video she won for this year wasn’t all that damn good! Doesn’t matter, because Yuna is #1 on the Chachi Top 20 Video Countdown and that is all that matters!
Well, that is all for this Friday! Tune in next week to see if Yuna can hang on to #1 for a second week! Or can nobodyknows+ not only capture the Top Spot TWICE with the same song but be the first video since T.I’.’s “What You Know” to stay at #1 for more than a month? Or can Maroon 5 leapfrog BOTH for the crown? Tune in next week to find out!
Until then, stay up peeps!
Chachi Out
