And here it is – well, a little snippet, anyway. It’s called “You’re the One”

Here is a list of the 25 Top Hip Hop Songs this week. They are constantly updated, so bookmark the page and come back often! Also, don’t forget that many of these artists have featured videos, shoutouts, and interviews on the site, so explore a bit, as well. *melanie

• No Church in the Wild (feat. Frank Ocean) - Kanye West & JAY Z
• Young, Wild & Free (feat. Bruno Mars) - Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa
• Not Afraid - Eminem
• The Motto (feat. Lil Wayne) [Bonus Track] - Drake
• Headlines - Drake
• Ima Boss (Remix) [feat. T.I., Birdman, Lil' Wayne, DJ Khaled, Rick Ross & Swizz Beatz] - Meek Mill
• Faded (feat. Lil Wayne) - Tyga
• International Love (feat. Chris Brown) - Pitbull
• Strange Clouds (feat. Lil Wayne) - B.o.B
• Take Care (feat. Rihanna) - Drake
• 5 O'Clock (feat. Wiz Khalifa & Lily Allen) - T-Pain
• Ni**as in Paris - Kanye West & JAY Z
• Rack City - Tyga
• Mirror (feat. Bruno Mars) - Lil Wayne
• Make Me Proud (feat. Nicki Minaj) - Drake
• Dance (A$$) [Remix] (feat. Nicki Minaj) - Big Sean
• Super Bass - Nicki Minaj
• Work Out - J Cole
• Time of Your Life - Kid Ink
• Wild Ones (feat. Sia) - Flo Rida
• Can't Get Enough (feat. Trey Songz) - J Cole
• Stupid Hoe - Nicki Minaj
• Another Round (feat. Chris Brown) - Fat Joe & Chris Brown
• Snitches Ain't... (feat. Tyga, Snoop Dogg & Nipsey Hussle) - YG
• Gotta Have It - Kanye West & JAY Z

CDBaby.com is continuing in their quest to be the end-all-be-all in music distribution needs for independent artists.

You can now – for only a $9 set-up fee and 9% of net sales – distribute your single to, not only CDBaby itself, but to iTunes, Amazon MP3, Rhapsody, Spotify, and others.

Interested in releasing a whole album? Still the regular great price of $35 and 9%.

Brian Felson, the president of CDBaby, had the following to say, “Independent artists are changing the way that they interact with their fans. Now musicians can sell singles as soon as they’re mixed, put out an EP every 3 or 4 months and then finally compile the best of the best material into a full album by the year’s end.”

Independent distro just keeps getting better and better!

Lelia Broussard, kickass acousticvids artist and interviewee, is making a new record! But she needs listeners’ help to do it.

Go here to find out how (AND WHY!) you should help -

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leliabroussard/new-songs-new-record-by-lelia-broussard-former

There’s a very funny video, and a breakdown of all the kill-ah prizes you can get.

GO NOW!

John Mayer is proposing a Digital Cleanse for the first week of 2010, with the rules outlined below. I can’t join because my job involves the things he’s proposing eschewing, but does anyone else feel like jumping on board? Speak up in the comments!

THE RULES:

*email only from laptop or desktop computers
*cell phones can only be used to make calls, and no text messages or e-mails are allowed – if you receive a text, you must reply in voice over the phone. E-mails must be returned from a laptop or desktop computer.
*no use of Twitter or any other social networking site – this includes reading as well as posting.
*no visiting of any entertainment or gossip sites. (No need to detail which ones – you know what they are.)

If you love guitar music, like a lot of acousticvids visitors do, then you might very well be interested in learning how to play guitar as well!

We’ve gathered a collection of the best and clearest guitar tutorial resources the web has to offer, for the popular songs that people are looking for, and put them all together here.

If you’d like to know how to play a song on guitar that you don’t see here, send an email to melanie (at) acousticvids.com and I’ll see about getting it added!

VIDEO TUTORIALS

• How to Play Hey There Delilah on Guitar - Plain White Ts
• How to Play Stairway to Heaven on Guitar
• How to Play Bubbly by Colbie Caillat on Guitar

Big congrats go out to acousticvids artist Justin Hopkins, who recently had his first baby, a little girl!

Congrats, Justin!!!!

So, Matt Nathanson has finally joined the ranks of those of us who tweet, and it’s about time. His wit is perfect for tweet-size bites!

Follow him at http://twitter.com/_mattnathanson.

And, hey, while you’re in the following mood…why not follow us? http://twitter.com/acousticvids.

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I’m sure you’ve heard the refrain on the radio.

“And that’s Big for Me, your chemistry, it’s electricity, you’re the hottest scenery.
It’s Big for Me, put it on the marquee, my priority is makin’ you happy, that’s Big for Me.”

The catchy tune, which just got picked up by Sirius XM radio, is infectious – it will have you humming days after you’ve heard it!

And, as luck would have it, it’s by acousticvids artist Jd Webb!

Check out this video of him performing it –

I’ve been hooking up with a lot of old high school friends on Facebook lately – it seems the entire Tracy High class of 1992 or thereabouts has up and gotten themselves a Facebook account!

Names that haven’t crossed my lips, or mind, in 15 years have once again hit the forefront of my consciousness, and high school memories have been surfacing with regularity the past couple of weeks.

One of the things that struck me was this – many, if not most, of those memories are accompanied by a song. And, mind you, this was even before I really got into music in a big way. How *that* happened is a story for another time! But, in high school, I was actually more into choir music than pop (yes, I was a geek! ) .

But, lately, I’ve been remembering Christy Betts from my Junior year French class playing drums with her hands on her desk and singing “Personal Jesus.” Or Freshman year Physical Science class, Lisa Delgadillo doing an over-the-top silly rendition of “Red, Red Wine” to crack kids up. Or Mr. Brown, my cool sophomore year Biology teacher (he’s my Facebook friend, too!) letting us play the radio while we did labs at the end of the year – and one particular day when everyone started singing along with, “Nothing Compares to You.”

It’s amazing to me that so many of my memories are tied in with music, even before I became truly immersed in music intentionally. Music just makes everything richer.

What are some of your music memories?