Los 40 principales de esta semana
2 - Amaia Montero – Quiero ser
Done. I suppose, for those petty enough to keep count, she’s got one over on her former bandmates this week.
3 – Manuel Carrasco – Sígueme
Runner-up on Operación Triunfo 2 in 2003, one place in front of Beth and fourteen places in front of Mai Meneses of Nena Daconte fame and glorious cheeriness. Still selling after all these years (which, of course, most of the candidates from those early days aren’t), his Spanish Wikipedia article gives the word detailed a whole new dimension. It probably lists what he had for breakfast every day in the Academía.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkKx1115Sc4
At the other end of the spectrum, I have nothing to say other than ‘fairly pleasant’.
5 – El Canto del Loco - Peter Pan
Also discussed before. The band are currently in the news for sad reasons, as lead singer Dani Martín’s sister died a few days ago.
7 – La Quinta Estación - Que Te Quería
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1KYgLmu770
Down from three members to two for album number four, this doesn’t seem to be stopping former 2007 Latin Grammy winners La Quinta Estación from having big success (even in the USA), while sounding quite 1980s (in a good way).
9 – Estopa – Hemicraneal
I’ve always had a soft spot for rumba-rock brothers Estopa, especially their more up-tempo numbers. This, admittedly, is one of the ballads, and doesn’t have a proper video, but at least it means that I’ve seen one Spanish video that doesn’t include the words ‘Embedding disabled by request’:
And there’s no way that I can end this post without a link to my favourite song of theirs from 2004:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os6at3nn85A
