One of my favorite artist out right now, Alicia Keys, said in a recent interview that one of her favorite bands was The Fray. Just by coincidence I ran across her live cover of their hit, “How To Save A Life”, and I wanted to know what my Love Muffins thought of the song. I have also provided the original song so you can see how you think it stacks up.

Alicia Keys – How To Save A Life
The Fray – How To Save A Life

As with any year, there were plenty of albums released in 2007. But only a few were able to tickle my fancy. Some of these albums moved my soul, others touched my spirit, and others just made me wanna hit the club house. In the end, I don’t really care how commercially successful the album was. The only thing I care about is if it made me groove. So here’s my list of 2007 best albums (in no particular order).

- Feist – The Reminder
- Mary J. Blige – Growing Pains
- Alicia Keys – As I Am
- Kanye West – Graduation
- Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
- Britney Spears – Blackout
- Jill Scott – The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3
- Jay-Z – American Gangster
- Keyshia Cole – Just Like You
- Rihanna – Good Girl Gone Bad
- Kylie Minogue – X

So love muffins, Let me know which albums had you jammin’ this year?

When it came to evaluate the best songs of 2007, I looked at all the songs that dominated the airways this year. These were the songs that served as the soundtrack to our lives and the tunes that we couldn’t run away from no matter how hard we tried. Of all the songs that topped the Billboard Top 100 Airways chart this year, only a select few were able to hold the title for longer than 3 weeks. Here they are (in the order in which they debuted on the chart this year)!

- Beyonce – Irreplaceable (8 weeks + 3 weeks in 2006)
- Akon – Don’t Matter (6 Weeks)
- T-Pain feat. Yung Joc – Buy U A Drink (Shawty Snappin’) (8 weeks)
- Rihanna feat. Jay-Z – Umbrella (4 weeks)
- Fergie – Big Girls Don’t Cry (7 weeks)
- Soulja Boy – Crank That (Soulja Boy) (3 weeks)
- Alicia Keys – No One (9 weeks and still counting)

So Love Muffins, Let me know which one you think was the best song of 2007!

Ooh la la! Alicia Keys is stepping her game up! The songstress looks absolutely orgasmic as she promotes her new album “As I Am” today in Tokyo, Japan. Her make-up is fierce and her dress is fab! She has come a long way from that “grungy style” look she had during her first album. Thoughts?

According to Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan Alicia Keys’ new album “As I Am” has sold over 742,000 copies in the United States debuting at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 tomorrow!

Alicia Keys storms The Billboard 200 this week with “As I Am” (J), which debuts at No. 1 after selling 742,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That’s the best sales week for a solo female artist since Norah Jones’ “Feels Like Home” shifted 1 million copies in 2004. In a week where every top 10 album shifted more than 100,000 units, Josh Groban’s “Noel” (143/Reprise) zooms 6-2 with a 93% increase to 223,000. Celine Dion’s “Taking Chances” (Columbia), her first new pop album in four years, opens at No. 3 with 214,000. The multi-label, multi-artist “Now 26″ collection is new at No. 4 with 208,000, the third lowest opening tally for the “Now” line.

This just goes to show that even in an age of free internet downloading quality music still sells and is appreciated by many. Congrats Alicia you deserve it!