Hi and welcome to what is sadly going to be my last SingStore update post for you guys across the big pond.

My lovely colleagues at SCEA will be updating you about everything SingStar and SingStore from now onwards, which is great because they are actually not finishing work when you get up so responses will be much faster than me having to catch up with you the next day in London! Exciting news all around!

Moving on to this week’s update, which boasts great tracks from the likes of Kool & the Gang, Celine Dion, Cheap Trick and The Specials. My personal favorite however will have to be ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds because it’s just brilliant and featured in the equally brilliant movie ‘The Breakfast Club’.

That’s it from me. Thanks for all your support on here over past few months, I’ll miss y’all. And should you really have the urge to get in contact with me again, you can always stop by on the EU Blog to say ‘Hi’.

Keep on singin’,

Nina x

PS: I would still love a ‘Save Nina’ T-Shirt :-)

In English

• Blind – “Break Away”
• Sanne Salomonsen – “Everybody’s Eyes On You”
• 1990s – “You’re Supposed To Be My Friend”
• Aleksander With – “A Little Too Perfect”
• Badly Drawn Boy – “Once Around The Block”
• Celine Dion – “Love Can Move Mountains”
• Cheap Trick – “The Flame”
• Kajagoogoo – “Too Shy”
• Kool And The Gang – “Ladies Night”
• Koop Arponen – “Every Song I Hear”
• Spandau Ballet – “Lifeline”
• Superfamily – “The Radio Has Expressed Concerns About What You Did Last Night”
• The Specials – “Ghost Town”
• Vampire Weekend – “A Punk”
• Senses Fail – “Can’t be Saved”
• Fools Garden – “Lemon Tree”
• Simple Minds – “Don’t You Forget About Me”
• Lovin’ Spoonful – “Summer In The City”
• Chris Brown – “With You”
• Neverstore – “Rejected All Along”

Some great tracks this week from Blondie with ‘Rapture’, Spandau Ballet’s ‘Through The Barricades’ and ‘Here Comes your Man’ by The Pixies. Please check out the whole list of tracks and artists below.

The SongPack this week comes courtesy of the amazingly talented Dizzee Rascal including ‘Dance Wiv Me’, ‘Fix Up, Look Sharp’ and his latest hit single with Armand van Helden, ‘Bonkers’.

To everybody who downloaded the Coldplay 2 SongPack: If you could delete and re-download it, the medley should definitely be working now! Sorry for the delay with fixing this one.

Also a big thanks to Erin for filling in for me two weeks ago!

Keep on singing and see you soon,

Nina x

In English

• Eoghan Quigg — “28,000 Friends”
• The Libertines — “Can’t Stand Me Now”
• Pixies — “Here Comes Your Man”
• The Sounds — “Painted by Numbers”
• Friendly Fires — “Paris”
• Blondie — “Rapture”
• September — “Satellites”
• Spandau Ballet — “Through the Barricades”
• I’m From Barcelona — “We’re From Barcelona”

In Spanish

• Sidonie Los Olvidados

SongPack

• Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome — “Dance Wiv Me,” “Flex,” and “Holiday”
• Armand van Helden – “Bonkers,” and ” Fix Up, Look Sharp”

Hi all! It’s SingStar update time today, but first of all I would like to apologize again for the delay with the last update.

This week, new tracks on the SingStore include the legendary Paul McCartney and Wings with ‘Let ‘Em In’, plus The Stanley Brothers with The Clinch Mountain Boys’ “I’m A Man Of Constant Sorrow” which you may recognize from the excellent O Brother Where Art Thou movie.

The total number of downloadable songs available in the U.S. SingStore now stands at over 900, and don’t forget there are also over 20 song packs available on the store.

Thanks for your continuing support. See you in a couple of weeks time.
Nina x

In English
Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People
Newton Faulkner – All I Got
The Coral – Bill McCai
The Stanley Brothers with The Clinch Mountain Boys – I’m A Man Of Constant Sorrow
Travis – Something Anything
Wings – Let ‘Em In

In Spanish
El Arrebato – Dame Cariño
Natalia Lafourcade – En el 2000

In Portuguese
Just Girls – Passa O Vento

This week, we have a real surprise for all Spanish and Portuguese language singers amongst you: over forty Spanish and Portuguese language tracks previously unavailable in the US store are now available for download. You can see the full track listing below and I hope you like what you see.

Also included in the update are great tunes from Roxette, Deep Purple and The Bangles plus two Song Packs: SingStar Sizzlers a perfect addition to any BBQ party in your back yard and a special Vagrant Records pack including The Hold Steady, Dashboard Confessional and Senses Fail.

For all your Queen fans, we’re also happy to announce that SingStar Queen for PS3 and PS2 will be available for purchase as a standalone disc starting tomorrow.

Enjoy! Until next time…

Nina X.

In English

• Strange Kind Of Woman (A side remix 96) – Deep Purple
• Chariot – Gavin DeGraw
• Flowers & Football Tops – Glasvegas
• Dressed For Success – Roxette
• Fading Like A Flower – Roxette
• It Must Have Been Love – Roxette
• Joyride – Roxette
• Listen To Your Heart – Roxette
• Run To You – Roxette
• Sleeping In My Car – Roxette
• Spending My Time – Roxette
• The Look – Roxette
• Tell Me It’s Not Over – Starsailor
• Walk Like An Egyptian – The Bangles
• On The Radio _ The Concretes
• Happy Birthday Helen – Things Of Stone and Wood
• Just A Friend of Mine – Vaya Con Dios

In Spanish

• Cada Golpe – Melocos

Additional tracks in Spanish and Portuguese:

• Ahí Estás Tú – Chambao
• Asas Na Mão – Lúcia Moniz
• Besos – El Canto Del Loco
• Búscate un hombre que te quiera – El Arrebato
• Cadillac Solitario – Loquillo y Trogloditas
• Chuva – Lúcia Moniz
• Con La Mano Levantá – Macaco
• Con sólo una sonrisa – Melendi
• Cuídate – La Oreja de Van Gogh
• Depende – Jarabe de Palo
• Devuélveme A Mi Chica – Hombres G
• Dile Al Sol – La Oreja de Van Gogh
• El Último Vals – La Oreja de Van Gogh
• Fala-me de Amor – Santos e Pecadores
• Fantasminha Brincalhão – Avô Cantigas
• Geografia – La Oreja de Van Gogh
• Hablando En Plata – Melendi
• La Casa Por El Tejado – Fito & Fitipaldis
• La Costa Del Silencio – Mago De Oz
• Lola – Pastora
• Manos vacías – Miguel Bosé con Rafa Sánchez
• Maria Albertina – Humanos
• Nada – Jorge Cruz
• Nada que perder – Conchita
• Não Voltarei a Ser Fiel – Santos e Pecadores
• No sé qué me das – Fangoria
• Noche en vela – Guaraná
• Novia A La Fuga – Melendi
• Pokito a poko – Chambao
• Princesa (Beija-me Outra Vez) – Boss AC
• Que no – Deluxe
• Quiéreme – Andy Y Lucas
• Si quieres bailamos – Pereza
• Sideral – Macaco
• Sin Documentos – Los Rodríguez
• So Payaso – Extremoduro
• Soldadito marinero – Fito & Fitipaldis
• Soñaré – La Oreja de Van Gogh
• Una Noche Con Arte – El Arrebato
• Ya nada volverá a ser como antes – El Canto Del Loco

SingStar Sizzler Song Pack

• LDN – Lily Allen
• Summertime – DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
• Sing It Back – Moloko
• Barbara Ann – Beach Boys
• Daydream Believer – The Monkees

Vagrant Records Song Pack

• Screaming Infidelities – Dashboard Confessional
• At Your Funeral – Saves The Day
• A Fact of Life – FACT
• Can’t Be Saved – Senses Fail
• Stay Positive – The Hold Steady

It’s time for the SingStore update and without further ado, let me introduce you to this week’s brand new tracks.

SingStar must-haves this week include ‘Smooth Operator’ by Sade, Gloria Estefan’s ‘Dr. Beat’ and Roy Orbison with ‘I Drove All Night’. For all fans of the hottest tunes of the moment there’s Kasabian’s recent single ‘Fire’ plus some great tracks by Coldplay, The Hold Steady and P!nk.

We’ve recently had some reports from the community about ‘Charmless Man’ by Blur being slightly out-of-synch. I’m glad to say that this has been fixed so if you have previously downloaded this track, please delete it from your hard drive and re-download it from the store anytime after Thursday and everything should be ‘nanananananananaaananaanaaaaa’ again.

Also, for those of you eagerly awaiting the release of SingStar Queen, we’re happy to announce that the release date for the standalone disc has been pushed up and SingStar Queen will now be available for purchase on August 4.

Speak soon,
Nina