Recently I got I Like to Move It CD by the Madagascar 5 from Germany and there are penguins in the group. I do not think it has anything to do with the Madagascar movie. For one, there are only three penguins instead of four and there are also two chickens in the group. But then the point here is all about how penguins have become the latest wisecracking cutesies from the animal kingdom to invade media. I do not know if this is how penguins will sound if they could talk but with this release, penguins are now also singers.
The Madagascar 5 performs old and new tunes, most of them with danceable arrangements. The original versions of two of these, I Like to Move It and Stayin Alive, were used in the Madagascar soundtrack. Western Dance Party featuring Chicken Charlie is the first single release. The other cuts are Popcorn, Caribbean Time, New York, New York, Summer Dance Party, Dolce Vita, Happy Children, My Dove, A Friend again with Chicken Charlie on solo, No Limits and two more mixes each of I Like to Move It and Popcorn.
Kiddies will enjoy dancing to this one. It is also a reminder that the party season will be upon us any time soon. June is over. The year is half-way through. There are now only 177 days till Christmas and 184 days until 2007. How time flies.
The day before his first single release Do I Make You Proud zoomed to No. 1 in Billboard Magazines Hot 100 Chart, the singles sales chart and the Pop 100 chart. Wow! This guy is really raking it in. The song was the inspiring new original that Taylor performed during the American Idol finals last May in Los Angeles. The debut single also includes Hicks cover of the Doobie Brothers classic Takin It to the Streets.
The list of the Top 10 songs in Billboards Hot 100 this week is as follows: Do I Make You Proud by Hicks; Hips Dont Lie by Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean; Promiscuous by Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland; Its Goin Down by Yung Joc; Ridin by Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone; Crazy by Gnarls Barkley; Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts; Unfaithful by Rihanna; Me & U by Cassie; and Snap Yo Fingers by Lil Jon featuring E-40 & Sean Paul of YoungBloodz.
The Top 10 titles in the Billboard 200 albums are The Big Bang by Busta Rhymes; Taking the Long Way by the Dixie Chicks; Decemberunderground by AFI; High School Musical, the soundtrack album by Various Artists; Cars, also a soundtrack from the animated film; Stadium Arcadium by the Red Hot Chili Peppers; Me and My Gang by Rascal Flatts; New Joc City by Yung Joc; and Laugh Now Cry Later by Ice Cube.