Songs As the first ‘Song of the Week’ of the New Year, I tried to think of something that would give us all hope that this year may be better than the last. Something that would inspire us all to look forward to 2010 with high hopes and great expectations. With that idea in mind, I went through all my songs that I have of David Archuleta performances, and I found one that I felt would give us all the hope we need that 2010 could be a good one. We just have to have a little faith and believe!

Did you guess it?

The Song of the Week is…

“When You Believe”

“When You Believe” was written in 1997 by Stephen Schwartz for the animated musical film, The Prince of Egypt, a 1998 feature film by DreamWorks.

Stephen Schwartz’s career spans over four decades. He has written such popular hit musicals as Godspell(1971), Pippin (1972) and Wicked (2003). He has also contributed lyrics to many successful animated films, including Pocahontas(1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and Enchanted (2007). In addition, Mr. Schwartz has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, three Grammy Awards, and three Academy Awards, including one for the song “When You Believe” from the film, The Prince of Egypt. Mr. Schwartz has also been nominated for six Tony Awards.

In the film The Prince of Egypt, the inspirational song “When You Believe” is performed by the characters Tzipporah (played by Michelle Pfeiffer) and Miriam (sung by Sally Dworsky). Miriam sings of the tough times that have them both questioning their faith. They have prayed for many nights to God, but it seems to them that their prayers have remained unanswered, and they wonder if they are wasting their time. Nevertheless, they realize that although times may be difficult, “there can be miracles when you believe” in God. They always keep their faith!

A pop version of “When You Believe” was produced as a single with additional music added by writer-producer Babyface for the film’s soundtrack album. It was released as a duet by American singers Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey and was the film soundtrack’s first single in November of 1998. It also became the first single from Houston’s album My Love Is Your Love, as well as a single for Carey’s compilation album #1’s.

“When You Believe” won the 1999 Academy Award for Best Original Song and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. It also received a Golden Satellite Award nomination for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture. In 2000, it was nominated by the Grammy Awards for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.

David Archuleta sang “When You Believe” while he was a contestant on Season 7 of American Idol. It was during week 9 (Mariah Carey was the mentor that week), that David chose to sing the song. He was given help and advice from Mariah Carey which he took to heart. Here is David performing the song “When You Believe,” ‘live’ in April 2008 for American Idol. Encouraged by Mariah, it was the first time David had demonstrated his beautiful and clear falsetto. (Chills!!!)

David Archuleta’s recorded version of “When You Believe” from American Idol, Season 7.:

Lyrics to “When You Believe”

Many nights we prayed
With no proof anyone could hear
In our hearts a hopeful song
We barely understood

Now we are not afraid
Although we know there’s much to fear
We were moving mountains
Long before we knew we could

[wwooww]
There can be miracles
When you believe
Though hope is frail
It’s hard to kill

Who knows what miracles
You can achieve
When you believe somehow you will
You will when you believe

In this time of fear
When prayer so often proves in vain
Hope seems like the summer birds
Too swiftly flown away

Yet now I’m standing here
My heart so full, I can’t explain
Seeking faith and speaking words
I never thought I’d say

There can be miracles
When you believe (When you believe)
Though hope is frail
It’s hard to kill (Mmm)

Who knows what miracles
You can achieve (You can achieve)
When you believe somehow you will
You will when you believe
[Ooh]

They don’t always happen when you ask
And it’s easy to give in to your fears
But when you’re blinded by your pain
Can’t see your way through the rain

A small but still, resilient voice
Says hope is very near, oh [Oh]
There can be miracles (Miracles)
When you believe (when you believe, yeah) [Though hope is frail]

Though hope is frail [It’s hard]
It’s hard to kill (Hard to kill, oh, yeah)
Who knows what miracles
You can achieve (You can achieve, oh)

When you believe somehow you will (Somehow, somehow, somehow)
Somehow you will (I know, I know, know)
You will when you believe [When you]
(Ohoh)

[You will when you]
(You will when you believe)
[Oohoohooh]
[Oh…oh]
[You will When you believe]
[You will When you believe]Mmmyeah

Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey singing “When You Believe” from the origin soundtrack of the 1998 animated film The Prince of Egypt:

Have a great week all….and I hope you will never stop believing! It’s a New Year, what have we got to lose?

Keep the faith, 😉
Katie

Listen to Song of Last Week.

David Archuleta, the Voice

 

pikepss Weekly on David Archuleta

Good Morning to all Honeybees and Fans!

This week we had David Archuleta in Texas performing at the Sun Bowl, but naughty CBS didn’t broadcast even one of his songs! How many e-mails did they receive questioning that producer’s decision! Humm…. A new song was covered, Don’t Stop Believin by Journey and David nailed it beautifully. His other songs were Zero Gravity, Crush, as well as the Anthem and God Bless America.

Lots of polls need to be addressed with Musiqtone, Stadium of Fire, Idol Polls and TWBE. Please take a moment to vote on these polls as David deserves to come in first. Many fans have forgotten how important it is to get David’s name ranked higher on Google, Yahoo, and MSN and to win many of the polls and contests. It really only takes a few minutes and it will make a big difference on how David’s name keeps getting mentioned in the media. Thanks for your support!

David’s 19th birthday was the big news this last week and it looked as if he had a grand time, and brother Daniel’s dog ripped out Totoro eyes! Bad doggie! Records sales were up and David is Seventeen Magazine’s #7 Heartthrob of the decade and J-14’s #6 Hottest stars of 2009! Congratulations!

Hope you all had a Bright and Happy ring into 2010! Have a great week everyone!

Media

Reviews and Interviews

29 December
From FOD
Stadium of Fire Online Poll

Stadium of Fire Online Poll: DAVID NEEDS YOU TO VOTE THIS WEEK!
Yes, I’m shouting! This is the final online poll to determine whether David Archuleta will perform at the 2010 Stadium of Fire event in Provo, Utah. From the Salt Lake Trib:

America’s Freedom Festival at Provo officially released today the final online poll for the Stadium of Fire’s “Vote the Voice” event.

After aggressive grassroots and viral lobbying among thousands of fans, the community may now choose between David Archuleta, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Bon Jovi and Eric Dodge to become a potential performer in a future July 4 Stadium of Fire celebration.

Fans must visit the Freedom Festival’s Facebook page to access a link to the new online ballot. Over 15,000 votes have been cast since Oct. 15 to narrow the list of favorite contenders to five. The new online poll of five names is comprised of leading nominees from the last two phases of the Freedom Festival’s “Vote the Voice” campaign—an ongoing vote held since September on the festival’s Twitter and Facebook pages.

Apparently, David Archuleta fans dominated Twitter discussions about Vote the Voice. Their lobbying for the American Idol runner-up was so relentless, one of the largest David Archuleta fan pages on Twitter took notice and encouraged its thousands of followers to get involved.

Members of the community should visit the Freedom Festival’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/freedomfestival to learn more about how to vote for their favorite performers. Fans can also stay up to date with Vote the Voice on Twitter at www.twitter.com/freedmfestprovo.

*****
Seventeen Magazine
Heartthrobs of the Decade – David Archuleta is #7

He may have only been the runner-up on American Idol in 2008, but David Archuleta won the real prize — the love and affection of millions of teen girls (and their moms). This consummate nice boy loves his family and still hasn’t been kissed — he’s waiting for the right girl! It’s no wonder we have a total Crush on this cutie!

1 January

El Paso Times
Fan Frenzy: Sun Bowl

Another attraction at the Fan Fiesta this year was the opportunity to have an autograph signed by David Archuleta, last year’s runner-up on the television hit “American Idol.” The first 300 children and teenagers in line received an invitation onto the field for Archuleta’s halftime show at the game.

Ashley Sepulveda, 13, waited in line with her sister, Amber Sepulveda, 17, for an hour and a half to meet Archuleta.

The sisters were breathless with excitement and clutching their autographed pictures tightly, but they managed to say between squeals, “He is so amazing!” Their mother, Linda Hooper, 50, said that the Fabens family had come to the Fan Fiesta specifically for tickets to Archuleta’s show.

Sun Bowl Reviews
David Archuleta wows his fans at Brut Sun Bowl performance and meet and greet
by Paula Slade

David Archuleta, the very talented 19-year old pop crooner, once again wowed his fans during a half time performance at the Brut Sun Bowl Game between Oklahoma and Stanford on Thursday, December 31, 2009 in El Paso, Texas.

Playing to a sold-out stadium crowd of 50,426 ticket holders brought Archuleta face-to-face with his largest audience ever, other than his television appearances on American Idol.

The Sun Bowl’s stadium was filled to capacity and tickets for the game had been snapped up almost as soon as they were made available. This was only the third time in the stadium’s history that the venue has sold out since it was remodeled and expanded from 30,000 seats in 1983. More significantly, even in this tough economy, it was the first time in the stadium’s 76-year history that the game was sold out in advance of the actual game day.

The ABC Television Network affiliate station, KVIA, Channel 7 in El Paso captured (for their news broadcasts) not only an excerpt of Archuleta performing the cover of Journey’s classic, “Don’t Stop Believin,” but followed with a brief interview and a video of the after-performance meet and greet with his loyal fans.

For the half-time performance Archuleta also sang two other crowd-pleasers, his own composition, “Zero Gravity and “Crush” from his double platinum single.

You know a bowl game has star power when former American Idol runner-up David Archuleta is snagged to perform at halftime.

IDOL NEWS

Season 7’s runner-up, David Archuleta, celebrated his birthday on December 28th. In the year and a half since the 2008 finale, David has released two albums and took part in five tours!

Just six months after David’s run on American Idol, he released his self-titled debut album, which peaked at No. 2 on three different Billboard charts and was certified Gold. The album included his hit single “Crush” and his second single “A Little Too Not Over You” which David co-wrote. This October David released a holiday CD entitled Christmas from the Heart. The album includes 12 Christmas songs covered by David and one original song, “Melodies of Christmas,” that he co-wrote.

The summer following the Season 7 competition David headed out on tour with the rest of the Top 10 for the American Idols LIVE! 2008 tour. Six months later he spent one month traveling the country on his solo tour. This summer (and part of fall), David joined Demi Lovato on a nationwide tour. And up until last week, David was performing shows across the nation on his “Christmas from the Heart” tour.

These accomplishments, paired with David’s strong fan base, have earned the star a number of awards. In 2008, David won two Teen Choice Awards – one for Most Fanatic Fans and one for Best Smile. The following year, David won three Teen Choice Awards – one for Breakout Artist, another for Music: Love Song (for “Crush”), and a final award for Music Tour (for his tour with Demi Lovato). He also won the Music Rising Star ALMA Award in 2009. Hitting it big on the charts, David has collected four No. 1 hits on the Billboard charts and landed on Billboard’s Decade End and Year End lists which were released two weeks ago.

With a new book on the horizon, Chords of Strength, and an album scheduled for a 2010 release, there are no signs of slowing down from this Idol alumnus.

Happy Birthday, David!

DAVID’S BLOGS

29 December

Nooo! My Brothers dog ripped Totoro’s eyes out!

BEFORE AND AFTER

SALES, CHARTS, UPDATES

28 December

Idols on the Billboard End Decade (’00s) Chart
Hot Digital Songs
# ARTIST SONG
99 – David Archuleta – Crush

1 January

Pro-FM quite enjoys ALTNOY.
ALTNOY made 92 Pro-FM’s list of the top 92 songs of 2009, closing in at #35.

This is beating out some Britney songs, Kanye, Katy Perry, Bieber, and a bunch of other people with super smash songs this (last…) year.

Radio Disney

David makes two, count ’em TWO, appearances in the Radio Disney Top 50 of 2009. Miley Cyrus and David’s duet, “I Wanna Know You” comes in at #23. A Little Too Not Over You comes in at #35. Way to go David!

2 January

Week of January 9th 2010

 
Top 200 Albums last week #55 – Week on chart 11 peaked at  #30

Top Holiday Albums last week #11 – Week on chart 11 peaked at #2

Twitters

DavidArchie & Friends

28 December

DavidArchie – Today I turn 19! Times flies!!! It’s been a great morning already! Thanks everyone for all your birthday wishes!!!

Birthday Bash Celeb Twitters

 

 

28 December

DavidArchie – Went and watched Avatar with the family. Now that’sa movie that takes you on an adventure!

DavidArchie – Had a great day spent with the family! Thanks again everyone for your birthday mssages! Have a good night!

29 December

Nooo! My brother’s dog ripped totor’s eyes out!

DavidArchie – Just finished an appointment at the ortho again.

DavidArchie – Well time at home for the holidays was nice! Had a great time with the family! Texas, here I come. But I’ll be back soon Haha.

30 December

DavidArchie – Strange how the year is almost over. Hoping it ends well! It’s been a good one though haha. Anyone happen to be in El Paso for the Sun Bowl?

DavidArchie – Woah, I forgot about that lol. That is crazy! RT@kistellita it’s strange to think that the DECADE is over…

DavidArchie – Going to rehearse. It’s nice outside! Big differnece from freezing snowy Utah haha. I’ll be at the Fan Fiesta later today.

DavidArchie – Had good Mexican lunch at Avila’s. Headed to the Fan Fiesta now!

DavidArchie – At the fan fiesta! Jamming to Michael Jackson!

DavidArchie – Check out my new blog! http://davidarchuletanetwork.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-end-of-09

DavidArchie – I love Meet the Robinsons. I watched it with my sisters last week. Good stuff lol. Random but it came into my mind. Good night!

31 December

DavidArchie – Today’s New Years Eve! I’ll be performing at the Sun Bowl today!

DavidArchie – Getting ready to go out and sing the National Anthem!

DavidArchie – Man it’s not so warm out there lol. But finished singing the National Anthem and God Bless America! So cool having military there!

DavidArchie – Had a fun time at the Sun Bowl! Thanks everyone at the Sun Bowl and El Paso for having me. Time to leave already though.

DavidArchie – Gotta give a shout-out to @BryceAvery whose birthday’s today!

DavidArchie – Made it safely to Dallas! Hanging with my cousin and aunt for New Year’s Eve. Had Indian food,and About to watch Sherlock Holmes.

DavidArchie – Happy New Year!

1 January

DavidArchie – First day of the year. Hanging with @TheRocketSummer. I spelled his name wrong yesterday lol. My bad Bryce.

2 January

DavidArchie – It’s nice to spend time with family. Spent the morning with my aunt and cousin. Loving the sunny weather in Dallas.

DavidArchie – Eating baleadas! Haven’t had one for a while!

DavidArchie – No way! Blow Away by A fine Frenzy was just playing in the store haha. Love that song!

DavidArchie – Oh hi again red eye. I haven’t seen you for a while.

APPEARANCES

Fan Fiesta, Sun Bowl

 30 December

Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Fan Fiesta!
David is signing autographs at the Fan Fiesta in El Paso, Texas tonight! A little pre-Sun Bowl fun. Whee! 🙂

Google Alerts

Strawberry Cake

29 December

Just Jared Jr. David Archuleta Has a Strawberry Passion

Check out David Archuleta showing off his birthday cake inside his home in Utah on Monday afternoon (December 28).

The 19-year-old singer celebrated with his close friends and family today with a Cold Stone Creamery Strawberry Passion Cake. One of David’s friends customized his cake at the local Cold Stone store.

Read more: httpv://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2009/12/28/david-archuleta-has-a-strawberry-passion/#ixzz0VIILvPJr

1 January

Crowd pleaser – David Singing “Don’t Stop Believin” by Journey

Sun Bowl 12/31/09 – El Paso, Texas

2 January

Jeopardy is America’s favorite quiz show, and David was the answer to one of their questions!

Fans

blogs, vids, VIPs

31 December

J-14’s Hottest Stars of 2009
We already brought to you J-14 most searched star of 2009 on j14.com and now it’s time for the ultimate poll — the hottest stars of 2009! Tens of thousands of you voted and here are your top 14 stars.

David is #6       Go David!!

Human Interest

iloveallaccess

27 December

 We can’t thank iloveallaccess enough for those lovely meet and greets with David Archuleta.  They truly made each one special and hope we will see them again for his next tour.  Thank you!

 

31 December
 
Get Your VIP Picture on a mug…or a mousepad…or a shirt!

I Love All Access tweeted some VILs (Very Important Links) so that you can purchase your VIP photo on various merchandise from Shutterfly!  It’s a great opportunity to get your Archie friend a surprise gift (if you know what show they attended) or to get yourself something special with your picture with David.

Great thing is, the summer tour VIP’s are posted too!  Click the links below to access each menu of shows.

Summer Tour 2009, password “archie09″

Christmas from the Heart Tour 2009, password “heart”

pikepss’ Pick of the Week

The End of 2009 – David says, Cough, Cough, I’m not sick! Don’t worry! –

Well it wasn’t difficult to choose this blog as my favorite this week. That special warm feeling I get every time I see and hear David always wins out. His charming thank you’s to his fans for all we have done for him endears me to him even more. We should be thanking you for giving us the greatest year in music we have ever had.    Oh, by the way…does he not know his fans well…yes, some of us are mother hens!

Last week’s Weekly Wrap is still newsworthy!

DA Weekly Buzz about David Archuleta!