Christina
Aguilera with "Hurt" from Back to Basics
(RCA)
Clay
Aiken of American Idol fame with "A
Thousand Days" from A Thousand Different Ways
(RCA), "Invisible" and
"I Will Carry You" from Measure of a Man
(RCA), and the single "This
is the Night.
Backstreet
Boys return with "Incomplete" from their
Never Gone CD (Jive)
Corinne
Bailey Rae from England with "Put Your Records
On" from her self-titled debut CD
Daniel
Bedingfield from England with "If You're Not
the One" from his Gotta Get Thru This CD (Island)
Natasha
Bedingfield, from England (sister of Daniel Bedingfield)
with "Unwritten" from her Unwritten CD
(Sony Music)
James
Blunt, the English singer-songwriter with "You're
Beautiful" (Back to Bedlam)
Bon
Jovi with "(You Want to) Make a Memory"
from Lost Highway (Island Records) and featuring
Sugarland vocalist Jennifer
Nettles with "Who Says You Can't Go Home"
from Have A Nice Day (Island Records)
Boyzone
"Every Day I Love You," (single only, available
at popular CD sites on web) and "No Matter What"
(Notting Hill SDTK, Island) by the Irish band
Jim
Brickman featuring vocalist Hillary Scott
with "Never Alone" (alternate version with Sara
Evans on Escape, SLG Records) and featuring
singer Geoff
Byrd with "Hideaway (When It Snows)" from
Escape (SLG); featuring
vocalist Wayne Brady (from TV's The Wayne Brady
Show and Whose Line Is It Anyway?) with "Beautiful"
from Brickman's The Disney Songbook CD (Walt Disney
Records); and featuring singer Roch Voisine with
"My Love Is Here" and Mark Schultz with"'Til
I See You Again" from Jim Brickman Greatest Hits
(RCA/Windham Hill)
Michael
Bublé (boo/BLAY), the young Canadian singer,
"Everything" from Call Me Irresponsible
and "Home" from It's Time CD (143/Reprise)
Ryan
Cabrera, the 21-year old Dallas songwriter-guitarist,
with "True" from Take It All Away (E.V.L.A./Atlantic)
The
Calling with "Wherever You Will Go" from
Camino Palmero
Mariah
Carey with "We Belong Together" from The
Emancipation of Mimi
Vanessa
Carlton, Pennsylvania songwriter-pianist, with "A
Thousand Miles" from her debut album Be Not Nobody
(A&M) and the Legally Blonde soundtrack
Kelly
Clarkson with "Because of You," "Behind
These Hazel Eyes," "Since U Been Gone," &
"Breakaway" (Breakaway, RCA)
Phil
Collins with "Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart
Away" from Love Songs (Atlantic/Rhino), "Look
Through My Eyes" from the Brother
Bear soundtrack (Disney), and "Can't Stop Loving
You" (Testify, Atlantic)
Counting
Crows (featuring guest vocals by Vanessa Carlton)
with Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" from Films
About Ghosts
Sheryl
Crow with a remake of Rod Stewart's "The First
Cut is the Deepest" from The Very Best of Sheryl
Crow (A&M)
E.G.
Daily, actress and voice artist (Tommy Pickles from
Rugrats, etc.) with
"Changing Faces" (Tearing Down the Walls,
EGDP/Immortal Access)
Chris
Daughtry, American Idol contestant, with "Home"
from Daughtry (RCA)
Howie
Day, the 23-year old singer-songwriter from Maine
with "Collide" from Stop All the World Now
(Epic)
D.H.T.
featuring Edmée, a Belgian duo whose name
stands for "Dance. House. Trance.," with a remake
of Roxette's "Listen to Your Heart" from their
new Listen to Your Heart CD (Robbins Entertainment)
Diamond
Rio "One More Day" from One More
Day (Arista)
Dido
with "White Flag" from Life for Rent (Arista)
Celine
Dion with "You and I," a studio
recording from A New Day ... Live in Las Vegas (Epic)
and "Have You Ever Been in Love"
and "Stand By Your Side" from One Heart
(Epic)
Eagles
with "How Long" from Long Road Out of Eden
(Eagles Recording Company) and "No
More Cloudy Days (Farewell I DVD)
Enya
"Only Time" from her A Day Without Rain
(Reprise) and the title song from Amarantine
(Reprise) by the Irish chanteuse famous for "Orinoco
Flow (Sail Away)" and the Gaelic version of "Silent
Night"
Evanescence,
the Christian goth-rock band from Arkansas, with "My
Immortal" from Fallen (Wind-Up) as well as The
Daredevil soundtrack
Fergie,
from the Black Eyed Peas, with "Big Girls Don't Cry"
from The Dutchess (A&M)
Five
for Fighting (John Ondrasik, who named his
"band" after a hockey penalty) with “The
Riddle” from Two Lights (Columbia), “100
Years” from The Battle for Everything (Aware/Columbia)
and "Superman (It’s Not Easy)" from his America
Town CD (Columbia)
The
Fray, the Denver-based quartet, with "How to
Save a Life" from their How to Save a Life CD
(Epic) and the acoustic version of "Over My Head (Cable
Car)" not found on their How to Save a Life
CD
Gnarls
Barkley, the Baltimore-based duo, with "Crazy"
from St. Elsewhere (Atlantic/Downtown Records).
Goo
Goo Dolls with "Better Days" from Let
Love In and "Give A Little
Bit," a studio-recorded remake of the Supertramp hit,
which is ironically found on their Live in Buffalo, 4th
of July, 2004 CD
Josh
Groban with "You Are Loved (Don't Give Up)"
from Awake (Reprise) and "Remember When It Rained"
and "You Raise Me Up" from his Closer CD
(Reprise)
Hall
and Oates with "Ooh Child" & "I'll
Be Around" from the Our Kind of Soul CD (U-Watch
Records)
Faith
Hill with "One" and "Cry"
from her Cry CD (Reprise) and "There You'll
Be" from the Pearl Harbor soundtrack (Hollywood
Records/Warner Brothers)
Hoobastank,
Southern California suburban rockers, with "The Reason"
from The Reason CD (Island)
Enrique
Iglesias with "Somebody's Me" from Insomniac
(Interscope)
Elton
John "Answer in the Sky" (Peachtree
Road CD)
Norah
Jones with "Don't Know Why" from Come
Away With Me (Blue Note/Virgin)
Nick
Lachey, Jessica Simpson's ex, with "What's
Left of Me" from What's Left of Me (Jive/Zomba
Records)
Huey
Lewis and actress Gwyneth
Paltrow with a remake of Smokey Robinson's
"Cruisin'" from the Duets soundtrack (Hollywood
Records)
Lifehouse
with “You and Me” from their third CD, Lifehouse
(Geffen)
Kimberley
Locke, American Idol finalist, with "I
Could" (One Love, Curb) and "8th World
Wonder" (Curb)
Lonestar
"I'm Already There from I'm Already There (BNA)
Los
Lonely Boys, the three Garza brothers from West
Texas with “Heaven” from their self-titled debut
CD (Epic)
Maroon
5 with "Makes Me Wonder" from It Won't
Be Soon Before Long (A&M/Octone) and "Sunday
Morning," "She Will Be Loved" and “This
Love” from Songs About Jane (Octone/J Records)
matchbox
twenty with "Unwell" (More Than You
Think You Are, Atlantic)
John
Mayer with "Waiting on the World to Change"
from Continuum (Columbia) and "Daughters"
from Heavier Things (Columbia)
Martina
McBride with "Anyway" from Waking
Up Laughing (RCA) and "In
My Daughter's Eyes" and "This One's for the Girls"
from Martina (RCA)
Jesse
McCartney, teen soap star, with "Beautiful
Soul" (Beautiful Soul CD, Hollywood Records)
Michael
McDonald from the Doobie Brothers with "Ain't
No Mountain High Enough (Motown CD)
Tim
McGraw with "My Little Girl" from the
Flicka soundtrack (Curb), "When
the Stars Go Blue" from Hits Vol. 2 (Curb/Reprise)
and "Live Like You Were Dying"
from Live Like You Were Dying (Curb/Reprise)
MercyMe
with "Here With Me" from Undone (Curb Records)
Ingrid
Michaelson from Staten Island with "The Way
I Am" (Girls & Boys, Sony/BMG/Red)
Anna
Nalick, a 20-year old songwriter from southern California,
with "Breathe (2 A.M.)" from Wreck of the Day
(Columbia)
Nianell
(nee/uh/nell), the Namibian singer-songwriter, with "Hey
You," "Never Been Loved Like This," "How
Many Times," "Slowly Killing Me" and "We'll
Find A Way" from her Angel Tongue CD (Fresh
Music, South Africa), as well as "As
One" and "Isn't It" from Who Painted the
Moon? (Fresh/BMG Africa), available from www.gemm.com
Nickelback
from Canada, with "If Everyone Cared,"Far Away,"
and "Photograph" from their All the Right Reasons
CD
Plain
White T's with "Hey There Delilah" from
Every Second Counts
Daniel
Powter from Australia with "Bad Day" from
dp (Warner Brothers)
Rascal
Flatts with "My Wish" and "What Hurts
the Most" from Me & My Gang (Lyric Street
Records)
Lionel
Richie with "Long Long Way to Go"and
"Just for You" (Just for You, Island)
Chris
Rice with "When Did You Fall (in Love with
Me) from his Amusing CD (iNO/Columbia Records).
LeAnn
Rimes "Can't Fight the Moonlight" and
"I Need You" from I Need You (Curb) and"Probably
Wouldn't Be This Way" from This Woman (Curb)
Santana
on guitar featuring vocalist Michelle Branch with
"I'm Feeling You" from his All That I Am
(Arista); and with vocalist Alex
Band from the Calling with "Why Don't You &
I" and "Game of Love" (with Michelle Branch)
from his Shaman CD (Arista)
Seal,
the British singer-songwriter, with "Love's Divine"
from Seal IV (Warner Brothers)
Kerri
Sherwood with "Slow Dance" from
As Sure As the Sun, available through www.kerrisherwood.com,
by calling 1-800-651-7478, or at Rainy Day Records in West
Olympia and CD Connection in Lacey
Simply
Red with "Sunrise" (simplyred.com)
Snow
Patrol, the quintet from the UK, with "Chasing
Cars" from Eyes Open
Jordin
Sparks, the Arizona teen and 2007 American Idol
winner, with "Tattoo" from Jordin Sparks
(Jive)
Nicol
Sponberg, daughter of missionaries who grew up in
the Congo, with "Crazy in Love" from Resurrection
(Curb)
Gwen
Stefani and Akon with "The Sweet Escape"
from Stefani's The Sweet Escape (Interscope)
Rob
Thomas, matchbox 20 lead singer, with "Little
Wonders" from Little Wonders (Atlantic) and
"Streetcorner Symphony,"
"Ever the Same," "Lonely No More," and
"This is How a Heart Breaks" from his …something
to be CD (Atlantic)
3
Doors Down with "Here Without You" from
Away From the Sun (Universal) and "Here
By Me" from Seventeen Days (Universal)
Jim
Thorburn with the piano instrumental "Jamie's
Song" from Coconuts (Chunky & Brownie Music),
available from his web site (click on his name to get there)
Train
with "Get to Me," "When I Look to the Sky,"
and "Calling All Angels" from My Private Nation
(Columbia)
KT
Tunstall, Scottish songwriter, with "Suddenly
I See" and "Black Horse & the Cherry Tree"
from Eye to the Telescope (Virgin)
Shania
Twain with "It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing,""Forever
& For Always," and "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!"
from Up! (Mercury)
Uncle
Kracker with a remake of Dobie Gray's "Drift
Away" from No Stranger to Shame (Lava Records)
and "Follow Me" from the Detroit DJ's Double
Wide (Lava/Atlantic)
Carrie
Underwood, the American Idol winner, with "Before
He Cheats" from Some Hearts
(Arista)
Keith
Urban, the Australian country superstar, with "Tonight
I Wanna Cry" and "Making Memories of Us"
from Be Here and "You'll Think of Me" from
Golden Road (Capitol)
Luther
Vandross with "Buy Me A Rose" and "Dance
With My Father," the 2004 Grammy Song-of-the-Year,
from Dance With My Father (J Records)
Lee
Ann Womack with the widely-acclaimed "I
Hope You Dance" from I Hope You Dance (MCA)
Top Christmas
Songs "White Christmas" is the runaway winner
in Mixx 96.1's poll of favorite Christmas songs. The rankings
were determined by Mixx 96.1 listeners asked to list their
top three. Over 100 songs were mentioned. Listings are followed
by number of votes received.
1. "White Christmas" (88)
2. "Silent Night" (69)
3. "O Holy Night" (44)
4. "Little Drummer Boy" (40)
5. "Jingle Bells" (35)
6. "Christmas in the Northwest" (28)
7. "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting…)"
(27)
8. "Silver Bells" (25)
9. "Grandma Got Run Over by A Reindeer" &
"Winter Wonderland" (24)
10. "Jingle Bell Rock" & "I'll be Home
for Christmas" (23)
11. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (17)
12. "Christmas Eve Sarajevo 12/24" (14)
13. "Blue Christmas" & "Santa Baby"
(13)
14. "Do You Hear What I Hear?" (12)
15. "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" (11)
16. "Merry Christmas Darlin'" & "Mary,
Did You Know" (10)
