The Top 14 Announcement
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| Ryan Cayabyab with the PhilPop finalists |
After
a not so long wait, the 14 finalists for the Philippine Popular Music Festival has
finally been revealed during a recent press conference held at the Genting Club
at Maxims Hotel Manila . The 14
finalists emerged as the cream of the crop from the record breaking number of
3,000 entries coming not just from the Philippines
but from other parts of the world as well. These songs will battle it out
during the finals of PhilPop to be held this July 14, 2012 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC). An album featuring all these songs will be released soon.
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| The PhilPop finalists |
The
Top 14 are: Himig ng Panahon by Timothy
Anjello Alfaro, Bigtime by Trina
Belamide, Dulo ng Dila by Noah Zuñiga
Cabalquinto, Slowdancing by John
Kennard Eleazar Faraon, Minsa’y Isang
Bansa by Gary Granada, Brown by James
B. Leyte and Jezreel S. De Oca, Kesa
by Edwin B. Marollano, Piso by Kristofferson
B. Melecio, 3:00 AM by Keiko Necesario,
Takusa by Byron Ricamara, Tayo Tayo Lang by Ronaldo Sorioso, Kontrabida by Soc Villanueva, Negastar by Michael Angelo Santos
Villegas, and Bawat Hakbang by Karl
Vincent Villuga.
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| Ryan Cayabyab |
Now
I can say that I’ve had a hand in the screening process since I was personally
asked by PhilPop executive director Ryan Cayabyab to be an adjudicator. It was
an honor and a very rewarding and yet exhausting experience to screen the
entries for two rounds: the first round where the 3,000 were trimmed down to
1,000 and the round where the top 100 were further trimmed into the top 30. The
adjudicators were made up of a very diverse group of people in the music
industry from label executives, technical people, recording artists, music
journalists, etc. and the top 14 did reflect that diversity. As expected, there
were entries that I heard during the screening that I hoped would end up as
finalists but they unfortunately didn’t make the cut. But some of the songs
that really appealed to me did make it so it’s now really up to the judges in
the finals to make that decision on what the winning songs will eventually be.
The
winning song will bag P1 million in cash while the second and third placers
will take home P500,000 and P250,000 respectively. A People’s Choice award will
also be given to the most popular entry as decided by text votes.
The Philippine Popular Music Festival is jointly presented by Maynilad, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), and Smart. Major sponsors are Meralco, Resorts World Manila and TV5. Other sponsors are Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC), Sun Cellular, First Pacific Leadership
Academy (FPLA), Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC), and Philex Mining Corporation. Media partners are KBP,
Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Star and Radio High.
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