A collection of the tops songs that I've been listening to lately:

Artist: Alan
Song: Sign
Language: Martian? I have no idea if she's even singing words...sounds more like X-Files-esque alien sounds. If it is a language my best assumption would be Tibetan.
Info: alan is a Tibetan/Chinese singer and Erhu player from Sichuan province who debuted in 2005 with the album Sheng Sheng Zui Ru Lan. She made her Japanese language debut in 2007 under avex in Japan with the single Ashita e no Sanka. alan grew up in the Meiren valley in the Rongxar county of the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in China. Her father is a civil servant, while her mother was a former singer. She is ethnically Tibetan, and learned singing from a young age, and started to learn how to play the erhu at age eight. At nine years old, alan was selected for the leading role in the TV drama Tai Yang Nu Shen, and first pursued a career as an actress. alan was scouted when Avex China held auditions in Beijing, and went on to debut with a Japanese language single in November 2007, titled Ashita e no Sanka. She is currently still studying Japanese, and only has a basic grasp of the language. On the 5th of March 2008 alan will release her 2nd Japanese single Hitotsu.
Comments: So cool, reminds me of the X-Files theme song but with...voices in the background. LOVE IT! LOVE IT! Should be featured on 'Pure Moods'.
DL: http://www.box.net/shared/9d9tsun6so

Artist: Alisa Mizuki
Song: Engaged
Language: Japanese
Info: Arisa Mizuki (Mizuki Arisa, Mizuki Alisa, 観月ありさ, born on December 5, 1976) is a J-pop singer and actress. Mizuki was born in Tokyo, Japan, and made her singing debut on 15 May 1991 under Columbia Music Entertainment. She is currently signed under avex tune.
Comments: Nice slow pretty song. If I ever make a wedding song mix this would be on it, obviously. This song kinda reminds me of Namie's 'Can You Celebrate?' and for some reason Morning Musume's 'Happy Summer Wedding'. Yeah, don't ask...most be the whole marriage them. Has anyone ever confirmed that 'Can You Celebrate?' IS a wedding song?? I just always assumed.
DL: http://www.sendspace.com/file/rf09as

Artist: Angela Aki
Song: Train Train (Live)
Language: Japanese
Info: Angela Aki (アンジェラ・アキ Anjera Aki), born on 15 September 1977 in Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan, to a Japanese father and an Italian-American mother, is a Japanese singer-songwriter. Her former Japanese real name is 安芸 アンジェラ (Aki Angela) Angela Aki is completely bilingual in English and Japanese as she was raised in Japan, but moved to Hawaii at the age of fifteen where she graduated from Iolani School. From there she moved on to George Washington University where she graduated with majors in politics and music.
Comments: IDK why I just really like this song. It's like Angela's typical piano-driven music. Even though, it's live it's VERY high quality. This is supposedly a cover, does anyone know the original artist?
DL: http://download.yousendit.com/1D24D5E54333B65A

Artist: Aqua
Song: Barbie Girl
Language: English
Info: Aqua is a Danish-Norwegian pop group, best-known for their 1997 breakthrough single "Barbie Girl". The group formed in 1994, and achieved huge success across the globe in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The group sold an estimated 28 million albums and singles.
Comments: Fun fun song. I love cheesetastic music like this. Am I the only one who hears her sing, "I'm a blonde emo girl in a fantasy world"?? Bc that's totally what I hear.
DL: http://download.yousendit.com/B53E427F700EB11C

Artist: Ayumi Hamasaki
Song: Mirrorcle World
Language: Japanese
Info: 浜崎あゆみ (Ayumi Hamasaki, born October 2, 1978 in Fukuoka, Japan), is an award-winning japanese singer. Commonly known simply as "Ayu", Ayumi Hamasaki is one of the most popular and influential Japanese singers. Apart from being a singer, Ayumi is a songwriter, a model, an actress, and a composer. Ayumi started her music career in 1994 and released her first album "Nothing from Nothing" in 1995 but because the album was not successful, she was dropped by her record label. In 1998 she released her first album on her new record label, Avex Entertainment Corporation, "A Song for XX" with her first single "poker face". She has sold more than 50 million records in Japan alone, with the releases of her 9 full-length studio albums, 1 mini-album, 4 compilation albums, 41 singles, and 17 remix albums, being the top selling solo and female artist and the 4th top selling Japanese artist in history. With the release of her 40th single "BLUE BIRD", Hamasaki's single sales have passed the 20 million mark, making her the 1st solo and female singer to reach that milestone.
Comments: Such a GOOD GOOD song. I just wish that the chorus has more BANG. I hate how it's like..suppressed bc the chorus is so good.
DL: http://download.yousendit.com/C5E58D581C11C2DE

Artist: Haley Bennett
Song: Entering Bootytown
Language: English
Info: Bennett was born in Fort Myers, Florida and grew up in Naples. She studied music and acting while attending Barron Collier High School. She also attended Stow High School in Ohio. After graduating, she and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue her career in the summer of 2005. Bennett was then cast in her debut film role as the pop-sensation character Cora Corman in the 2007 romantic-comedy Music and Lyrics, opposite Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. She has also signed a three-picture deal with Warner Brothers Pictures.
Comments: This is from the Music & Lyrics Soundtrack. This song is just so...hilarious. Without blantly being like HAHAHAH. I guess you can say 'tongue in cheek'? You'll listen to it and be like..."did she just say 'you're booty is the way into his heart...'"?? Really good song.
DL: http://www.sendspace.com/file/kpev9z

Artist: Haley Bennett
Song: Buddha's Delight
Language: English
Info: Bennett was born in Fort Myers, Florida and grew up in Naples. She studied music and acting while attending Barron Collier High School. She also attended Stow High School in Ohio. After graduating, she and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue her career in the summer of 2005. Bennett was then cast in her debut film role as the pop-sensation character Cora Corman in the 2007 romantic-comedy Music and Lyrics, opposite Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. She has also signed a three-picture deal with Warner Brothers Pictures.
Comments: Because I "believe in color" haha. Another song from Music & Lyrics.
DL: http://download.yousendit.com/E037EC424A9BD124

Artist: Haley Bennett and Hugh Grant
Song: Way Back Into Love
Language: English
Info: Bennett was born in Fort Myers, Florida and grew up in Naples. She studied music and acting while attending Barron Collier High School. She also attended Stow High School in Ohio. After graduating, she and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue her career in the summer of 2005. Bennett was then cast in her debut film role as the pop-sensation character Cora Corman in the 2007 romantic-comedy Music and Lyrics, opposite Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. She has also signed a three-picture deal with Warner Brothers Pictures.
Comments: Great duet, too bad Hugh Grant can't sing better, but he's not too bad!
DL: http://www.sendspace.com/file/2h7hq0

Artist: Justin Timberlake
Song: My Love
Language: English
Info: Hellooo, it's Justin Timberlake.
Comments: Okay, this song IS always one of my most listened to songs each week. I love it. I'm not really a JT fan buttttt I love this song :D It's like... funky.
DL: http://download.yousendit.com/A85C9F08450EDC73

Artist: Lyrico
Song: Immortality
Language: English
Info: Lyrico (aka Harumi Tsuyuzaki 露崎春女; born April 11, 1974 in Kanagawa, Japan) is a female Japanese pop, R&B, soul singer and songwriter. Shortly after her debut in 1995, she achieved a fame as an extraordinarily talented singer. With her astonishing vocal skills and unique songwriting talent, Lyrico has captivated her fans for more than a decade.
Comments: Lyrico sings this BETTER than Celine Dion IMO. I mean seriously, it's not very often that I prefer something over Celine Dion but this song definitely. Even though Lyrico is a Japanese artist her English in this song is PERFECT which I like. Unlike some artists, coughcoughKODAKUMIcoughcough. How dare she ruin 'A Whole New World'.
DL: http://www.sendspace.com/file/whhz2q

Artist: Marilyn Manson
Song: This is Halloween
Language: English
Info: You know Marilyn Manson.
Comments: PERFECTION. The perfect blend of Disney with Manson's own...twist. Not too Marilyn Manson-y or Disney-y. Just the perfect blend of both. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
DL: http://download.yousendit.com/DCD6DBE11CD1A75F

Artist: Marilyn Manson
Song: What Goes Around...Comes Around (live)
Language: English
Info: You know Marilyn Manson.
Comments: This is a live acoustic cover of Justin Timberlake's song of the same name. I believe it was made for BBC's Radio 1 Live Lounge but i'm not sure. On that radio show they have artists perform live versions of songs WAYY out of their own genre. This cover is so good not at all like Manson's other covers.
DL:  http://www.sendspace.com/file/noekbg

Artist: Olivia Newton-John
Song: Physical
Info: Born in Cambridge, England in 1948, the youngest child of Professor Brin Newton-John and Irene, daughter of Nobel Prize winning physicist, Max Born, Olivia moved to Melbourne, Australia with her family when she was five. By the age of fifteen, she had formed an all-girl group called Sol Four. Later that year she won a talent contest on the popular TV show, “Sing, Sing, Sing,” which earned her a trip to London. By 1963, Olivia was appearing on local daytime TV shows and weekly pop music programs in Australia. Olivia cut her first single for Decca Records in 1966, a version of Jackie DeShannon’s "Till You Say You’ll Be Mine." In 1971, she recorded a cover of Bob Dylan’s "If Not For You," co-produced by John Farrar, who she continues to collaborate with today.
Comments: Only the BEST Olivia Newton-John song. If this was in Grease I might actually like that movie. I guess this song is supposed to be about sex, but I never knew that until recently...I always assumed it was about exercising. Olivia Newton-John is so dirty =D
DL: http://download.yousendit.com/27B2F10469F74B54

Artist: Rich Mullins
Song: Awesome God
Info: Richard Wayne Mullins was an American singer/songwriter who lived in Richmond, Indiana till his untimely death in an automobile accident in 1997. He was a prodigiously talented Christian musician and composer, playing, primarily, the piano but also the hammered dulcimer, the lap dulcimer and the Irish tin whistle.
Comments: Even though this song is Christian...it has kinda skanky background music. I would go to church if all the songs has skanky 80s background music that kinda reminds me of Patrick Swayze (get well soon dawg). But, seriously this song has one of the prettiest choruses out of the God songs that I know. It's my favorite even in church.
DL: http://www.sendspace.com/file/jkr3n8

Artist: Shiori Takei
Song: Baby One More Time...
Info: N/A all last.fm has available really is "The singer who sings pop music from jazz, bossa nova".
Comments: If Britney Spears was never Britney Spears and was instead Michelle Branch or Jewel this is what Baby One More Time... would have sounded like. This is the best cover of Baby One More Time... that I've heard thus far. It's just plain old fashioned acoustic-y goodness.
DL: http://download.yousendit.com/9F2E9460144EBCF9

Artist: Steven Curtis Chapman
Song: Dive
Info: Steven Curtis Chapman (born November 21, 1962 in Paducah, Kentucky) is one of the biggest legends in contemporary Christian music. He was first signed on to a songwriting deal in the early 1980s, based upon the strength of his song "Built To Last" which was recorded by popular gospel group The Imperials. Shortly after, he signed a record deal with Sparrow Records, where he rose to prominence.
Comments: I LOVE this song :D It's Christian, but it's like Jars of Clay "I fooled into listening" type Christian music. If I didn't tell you it was Christian you wouldn't have known probably until the end where I believe he says something along the lines of "I want to dive into Jesus" or something...
DL: http://www.sendspace.com/file/n1yqg3