Zouk Tops Music Download Charts
Billboard Magazine has begun reporting the Top 10 downloaded songs of the month around the world, as reported by Weedshare, a leading online distributor of songs for $ purchase. This periodic tabulation includes all musical styles including Rock, Pop, R&B, etc.. In a number of reports over the past year, we have seen Zouk songs making the top ten. Yes, you heard it right! Antillean music is now competing with some of the top alternative rock bands and pop groups, at least in this medium.
Top 10 Weed Files
At the forefront of Superdistribution and the legal file-sharing movement that respects artist copyrights, Weedshare is now putting out weekly statistics for their hottest selling "weed files". Zouk songs are in bold letters...
August
1) Sananda Maitreya, Time Takes Time
2) Atherton, California
3) Jocelyn Deloumeaux, Klere mwen
4) Face a Face, bay lov
5) Roger Joseph Manning, Jr., The Land of Pure Imagination
6) Gretchen, Zion
7) Jason Falkner, Lost Myself
8) Statetrooper, The Calling
9) Imperial Drag, She Cries All Night
10) Iron, I Want U
July
1) Kelly Clarkson, Since U Been Gone (club radio edit alt version)
2) Sananda Maitreya, 05 It Ain't Been Easy
3) Roger Joseph Manning, Jr., Wish It Would Rain
4) Heart, Love Hurts
5) Mandy Kane, (UK) Hanky Panky
6) Ali Angel, Juste Nous
7) Dave Matthews (Solo), Phish's - Waste
8) Gretchen, Fading
9) Iron, I Want U
10) Chris Lovard, Sé lanmou
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Interview with Aisa Lafour, Zouk Dancer
Aisa Lafour is a Zouk dancer from Holland. She and her partner were invited to perform at the Bytom International Dance Festival in Poland. We caught up with Aisa after the festival to find out what happened.
Zouk News: Congratulations on your recent performance! And thank you for taking the time to travel to Poland to educate others about our dance.
Aisa: It's nice that you want to thank me for going to Poland, but who you really want to thank is the wonderful organization from the Bytom Dance Festival. They invited me as a teacher and paid my trip, my accomodation and my salary.
Zouk News: A posting of a newspaper article covering your participation in the Bytom International Dance Festival recently appeared on Critical Dance, a web forum. Who is the author of this article?
Aisa: The person who wrote this article was a Polish journalist covering the festival and writing for the festival bulletin. Stuart Sweeney translated and edited it for the English media. He was at the festival to give lectures about dance.
Zouk News: (Stuart Sweeney is a well respected dance critic and journalist for a number of European dance magazines. He is also the Moderator of "Critical Dance", a web based forum. For more on Stuart, see: http://criticaldance.com/whoweare/ssweeney.html )
Aisa: In Poland i appeared in about 5 articles about Zouk because it'a a new dance. Nobody knew about it. I was even on television and the radio, to talk about Zouk.
Zouk News: Who attended the Bytom Festival?
Aisa: There were teachers and dance groups from the USA, United Kingdom, France, Holland, Belgium, Slovenia, and of course Poland. In addition, attendees included semi professional Ballet, Modern, and Jazz dancers.
Aisa Lafour is a Zouk dancer from Holland. She and her partner were invited to perform at the Bytom International Dance Festival in Poland. We caught up with Aisa after the festival to find out what happened.
Zouk News: Congratulations on your recent performance! And thank you for taking the time to travel to Poland to educate others about our dance.
Aisa: It's nice that you want to thank me for going to Poland, but who you really want to thank is the wonderful organization from the Bytom Dance Festival. They invited me as a teacher and paid my trip, my accomodation and my salary.
Zouk News: A posting of a newspaper article covering your participation in the Bytom International Dance Festival recently appeared on Critical Dance, a web forum. Who is the author of this article?
Aisa: The person who wrote this article was a Polish journalist covering the festival and writing for the festival bulletin. Stuart Sweeney translated and edited it for the English media. He was at the festival to give lectures about dance.
Zouk News: (Stuart Sweeney is a well respected dance critic and journalist for a number of European dance magazines. He is also the Moderator of "Critical Dance", a web based forum. For more on Stuart, see: http://criticaldance.com/whoweare/ssweeney.html )
Aisa: In Poland i appeared in about 5 articles about Zouk because it'a a new dance. Nobody knew about it. I was even on television and the radio, to talk about Zouk.
Zouk News: Who attended the Bytom Festival?
Aisa: There were teachers and dance groups from the USA, United Kingdom, France, Holland, Belgium, Slovenia, and of course Poland. In addition, attendees included semi professional Ballet, Modern, and Jazz dancers.
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