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Here's the last update in the 1000 Songs Challenge. :) The Weeknd 532. Not A Love Story * 533. Potion 534. Often *People are saying this isn't The Weeknd and it's a singer called Julian Cruz but I don't know, so I just left it under his name. 535. Professor Green feat. Tori Kelly- Lullaby 536. MNek- Wrote A Song About You

This week the video is Çatı Katı by Turkish singer Gökhan Türkmen . I can't find information on him in English but according to the Turkish Wikipedia (Vikipedi) and his official Facebook page he has released 3 albums, Biraz Ayrılık (2012)   Büyük İnsan (2013) and En Baştan (2014) and an EP, Ara (2012) . (Click the link on Gökhan's name for his Vikipedi entry). Çatı Katı was uploaded on 7th February, so I'm guessing it was released round about then. En Baştan came out on 13th February. Update 30/4/19: Had to replace the video. For more on Gökhan visit these links: Official site (Turkish language): www.gokhanturkmen.com.tr Official FB (Turkish but there's a translate option):  https://www.facebook.com/turkmengokhan

Recently I came across a dance video on YouTube (in my recommendations) of a girl called Kaycee Rice. I found this other video of Kaycee dancing with her partner Gabe De Guzman. It's called Monster and it's an interesting dance, it seemed a bit strange to me at first (lol) but it's good. Kaycee and Gabe are in the 11 year old age category  in this video and the dance style is hip hop. Kaycee became an internet sensation at 10, when the video of her doing a solo called Werk (the one I was recommended) was posted on Twitter by singer Katy Perry. You can read the article and watch the video here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2345230/EXCLUSIVE-Katy-Perrys-Tiny-Dancer-How-superstar-turned-little-girl-internet-sensation.html Kaycee is from Simi Valley in California and dances at Studio 13 Dance , which is owned by her mum Laura Rice. She does a variety of dance styles including hip hop, lyrical and jazz. Some of Kaycee's routines were choreographed by Tric

This week's video is Boss by American singer Tinashe . Her full name is Tinashe Jorgensen Kachingwe and she's also a dancer, actress and model. Her dad is Zimbabwean and her mum is American and her name means "God is with us" in the Zimbabwean language Shona . Tinashe started modelling and acting at only 3 years old. Her acting credits include Cora Unashamed and Two and a Half Men . As a teenager she was a member of girl group The Stunners, which was created by the American singer and actress Vitamin C .  The group released a few singles before splitting in 2011. At 18 Tinashe created her own home studio and made 3 mixtapes In Case We Die (2012), Reverie (2012) and Black Water (2013) which she released through her website. Tinashe's first official single from In Case We Die was My High. She has released 7 singles from her mixtapes altogether, including Boss, Ecstasy and Vulnerable featuring rapper Travi$ Scott . Tinashe signed to RCA Records in July 2012 a

The latest instalment! I'm over halfway through now. :) The Weeknd 504. Birthday Suit 505. Get Yours 506. Lust Spell 507. Intrinsic Worth Tinashe- Reverie mixtape 508. Fear Not 509. Yours 510. Slow 511.Another Me 512. Come When I Call 513. Illusions 514. Reverie 515. I'm Selfish 516. Ecstasy 517. Who Am I Working For 518. Let You Love Me (Xxyyxx Remix) Listen to it here and follow the link to download it at Dattpiff.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxJmmanmMZA

Here is a new song by Turkish Belgian singer Hadise . It's called  Nerdesin Aşkım? (which translates as "Where Are You, My Love?" according to Facebook translation!) and is from her new album Tavsiye (Advice). Both the single and album are out now.                                Listen to the album here: https://www.ttnetmuzik.com.tr/ss/308752/3520846

I've been thinking of doing a post of my my Top 10 favourite songs for ages and I finally got round to it! lol. It wasn't really an easy task to narrow it down because I like a lot of songs, but I decided on the list in the end. So here they are. :) Update 12/9/18: Had to replace a couple of these videos because they'd been deleted. 1. Mariah Carey- Honey This is my favourite Mariah song. :) It was the first single from her 1997 album Butterfly. I included Honey in my Top 10 Mariah Songs post which you can read here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2013/01/top-10-mariah-carey-songs.html                                        2. Mariah Carey- Heartbreaker (Remix) feat. Da Brat and Missy Elliot This is the remix to Heartbreaker and while I like the original, the remix is my favourite. It's featured on both the Rainbow album (1999) and The Remixes (2003). I also included this song in my Mariah Top 10 (No 2).                                     3. 

Today's video is Rest Calm by Nightwish . It's from their Imaginereum album which was released in 2011 and the singers are Marco (also the bass guitarist and co-composer) and Annette (their second singer who replaced Tarja ). Hope you like it. :)

Time for the fortnightly instalment of the 1000 Songs Challenge. :) There aren't as many songs this week, so it's not such a big list! Random videos on music channels 470. M.O.- Dance On My Own 471. Rixton- Me and my Broken Heart 472. Ella Eyre- If I Go 473. Maverick Sabre- Emotion 474. Foxes- Glorious 475. D.J. Cassidy feat. R. Kelly- Make The World Go Round 476. Michael Buble- Hollywood 477. Ali Love- Deep Into The Night 478. The Vamps feat. Demi Lovato- Somebody To You 479. Kieza- Giant  In My Heart 480. Paloma Faith- Trouble With My Baby 481. Neon Jungle- Louder 482. Blood Money- Jo Tere Sang (Bollywood)