It’s SingStore update week again. Are you excited? Well, I am a little bit because of the fabulous 80s Part 4 song pack. Yep, it’s got all of my faves in there but I am especially fond of Toto’s ‘Africa’ and of course, who could resist the lovely Jennifer Rush with ‘The Power Of Love’? One for Valentine’s Day, I reckon!

Otherwise, there’s more Kylie, Nightwish and ANOTHER one I won’t be able to stay away from: REO Speedwagon’s ‘Can’t Fight This Feeling’! Mixed bag this week with lots of great 80s stuff thrown in. I’m happy.

Right, I better get packing. Desk move ahead.
See you soon.

Nina xx

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Kylie Minogue ‘Hand On Your Heart is not for sale in AUS/NZ

Some more Steps (yay!) with ‘It’s The Way You Make Me Feel’, ‘Photograph’ by Def Leppard for you rockers out there and a bit of Katy B for good measure.

Also released this week are the individual tracks from the Hi-NRG song pack including songs by Sinitta, Samantha Fox, Divine, Evelyn Thomas and Hazell Dean.

We’ll be putting up the next discounted ‘You Decide‘ song list in game this week so make sure you follow us on Twitter @SingStarHQ to find out about the time and day of release. You can read all about how to vote for the next one and find the full tracklist on our website.

Also, did you know that since the end of December, the entire SingStore catalogue has been available to browse and buy from on the PSN Store? Whereas before you could only get hold of song packs, wallpapers, avatars and the like, you can now purchase all your songs straight from there if you fancy. Pretty convenient if you ask me!

That’s it again for me today. See you soon.

Nina xx

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I hope you all greeted the New Year in style (including much singing and dancing, of course!?) and are now ready for the first ever SingStore Update in 2012.

By the way, we released a little Christmas surprise on 21st December last year, outside of the ordinary update, so if you haven’t got the amazing Adele song pack yet, you can download it from the SingStore now. I’ve added the full tracklist below as it was missing from the last blog post, for obvious reasons.

So, this week, a good mix of artists and their work are making an appearance including Loick Essien, some more Spice Girls, Dean Martin for all you crooners out there and my personal favourite, Steps with ‘One For Sorrow’.

Attention! More exciting stuff coming up…

Songs from the SingStore for less you say? Head over to the SingStar UK Facebook page where ‘You Decide’ what’s going to be available at a discount in the SingStore next month. Head to the ‘Party Tracks’ chart in-game to see which songs are currently available at a discounted price and then vote on Facebook for February’s theme.

In addition, all our UK fans should check out the fabulous ‘Pass The Mic’ competition on Facebook. Write a song with your mates and you could get to record it in a professional studio!

This Wednesday we’re also releasing DanceStar Party ‘Mix 6′ on the PSN store. Tracklist is as follows:

Mix 6

• M-People – Movin’ On Up
• Alison Limerick – Where Love Lives
• TLC – Creep
• Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee La Da Da)

Happy January,
Nina xx

Status Quo ‘Down Down’ is not released in SCEA territories.
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Not sure where this year has gone but here we are with the last SingStore update of 2011. Don’t be sad though, because we’ll be back with more in January and there MIGHT even be a special surprise release for you before the year is out.

I’ll have another word with the big bearded man in the red and white coat. Keep your eyes and ears peeled, my friends! (Hint: Following us on @SingStarHQ is probably your best bet)

On to the update. As you can see below we only have one real Christmas song for you this year thanks to Coldplay but I am hoping that the seven Song Packs more than make up for that. Five of them are brand-spanking new and exclusive, and we put together two Essentials packs just for you, showcasing the best in the SingStore with ’80s Part 3′ and ‘The Best Of The Noughties,’ so you don’t have to go looking for it.

We’ve got new Elton John, Billy Idol, Take That 3 and Def Leppard Song Packs plus ‘Mosh It Up!’, a compilation of tracks you’ll love if you like it a bit heavier. Please be careful with the furniture when moshing inside. We don’t want injured SingStar players on our conscience!

Other songs in the update include great tracks by Bob Dylan, some more Spice Girls and the amaaazing ‘Black Velvet’ by Alannah Myles.

Also released this week on the PlayStation store are DanceStar Party Mixes 4 & 5. Yep, that’s eight more tracks for you to download. Just making sure your party doesn’t have to stop this festive season. Enjoy.
So, that’s me done on here for this year. Have a great holiday season, eat, drink, be merry and make sure you greet 2012 with a bit of a sing and a dance.

See you in 2012,
Nina xx

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What’s up? Anything been happening in the last few weeks? It’s been getting a lot busier here at @SingStarHQ in the run-up to the festive season but we don’t mind that at all. Once you see what’s in the 14th December update and we see your little faces light up with excitement, that’s what makes it all worth it!

Anyway, it’s not time for that yet (three more weeks sleeps) so let’s get on with the penultimate update of 2011.

Included this week, a brand new single from the very popular Coldplay called ‘Paradise’, some more Spice Girls which some of you have been waiting for plus the massive ‘Insane In The Brain’ by ‘Cypress Hill’. Yo! The exclusive and brand spanking new Hi-NRG SongPack got a few people in the office quite excited to say the least and I hope you’ll feel the same way. Five NRG-packed tracks to jump around to by the queens of the genre including Sinitta, Sam Fox and Hazell Dean.

For those of you into DanceStar Party, we released ‘Mix 3′ on the PlayStation Store last week, containing four more tracks to get your dancing shoes out for. Check out what’s available for download right here.

Also, lots more exciting stuff to come your way on the SingStar front soon so watch this space for more info.

See ya,
Nina xx

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Hi-NRG SongPack

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Happy Halloween! All got to work on time this morning with the clocks having gone back?
So, last week saw the release of SingStar ‘Back To The 80s’ which I was very excited about and I played it all weekend. Now my voice is gone. Hey ho! Anyone else had a go?

It’s also great to see all the videos and snaps people have been uploading whilst playing DanceStar Party on the website. Some excellent moves in there!

In the SingStore this week we have Aloe Blacc, A bit of Gloria Gaynor, Swing Out Sister and, already a modern classic, ‘You Get What You Give’ by the ‘New Radicals’.

FYI – coming up to Christmas we’ll be changing the space between updates a little but you’re probably already used to this from previous years. The next updates will be released on the following dates:

• 23 November 2011 – next update
• 14 December 2011 – final 2011 update
• 11 January 2012 – first update in 2012

See you in three weeks.
Nina xx

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But what actually went into making the game and what different elements did the team need to tackle to bring you the ultimate dancing experience?

Key members from Sony’s London Studio talk us through their areas of speciality, the challenges they faced and the fun they had making DanceStar Party in the video below. Enjoy!

Check out www.dancestarparty.com for more news, useful tips and generally everything you need to know about DanceStar Party plus don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @DanceStarHQ!

Good weekend? It was ‘scorchio’ in London on Saturday so hope you all had a nice last Indian Summers Day wherever you were. Enough about the weather!

Not a big update this week but there are some quality tracks in there in my opinion. There’s Kelly Clarkson, Blondie and Dusty, keeping it all girlie, plus the boys also get a look in in the shape of The Offspring, REO Speedwagon and Tinchy Stryder & Dappy. Enjoy.

Also launching this week is our new dance game DanceStar Party. Find out all about it on the www.dancestarparty.com website. It’s really quite good, you know !

Until next time, with a few more tracks in my virtual bag, I hope.

Nina xx

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Tinchy Stryder & Dappy – Spaceship is not released in SCEA.

So, in case you need to cool down a little, get yourselves inside the house, fire up SingStar and download one of the beauties below. We’ve got Edwyn, Kelly and Martika for you plus a lovely Dusty Springfield song pack, an essential for those long summer evenings.

And if anyone’s even remotely interested, I’ll be going a little mental for The Offspring tracks although REO Speedwagon and The Damned are very close behind.

See you in a few weeks ( if not before )

Nina xx

Song pack
Essentials: Dusty Springfield

• Son Of A Preacher Man
• I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten
• I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself
• The Look Of Love
• You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me

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What? You missed it? Don’t worry, just head over to singstar.com and you’ll find out all about the songs that are included on the disc. Hope you like what you see!

And while we’re at it, we thought we might as well reveal the tracklist for our brand new dance game, aptly named DanceStar Party, too. It just seemed fair ☺! It’s out in October and includes 40 hits, 160 dances and much much more cool stuff – find out all about it here (link to blog announcement).

In the SingStore this week we have all the songs from the very popular ‘Songs From Andrew Lloyd Webber‘ song pack and I know a few of you have been awaiting them eagerly.

Otherwise there are some great tracks by of Train, more Kylie, Sade, Bad English and Wretch 32 feat. Example.

Bye bye,
Nina xx

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Kylie Minogue is not released in Australia/New Zealand.

Check out the full list of tracks a bit further down the page but not before watching the awesome video below . And don’t forget to follow us on @DanceStarHQ on Twitter for more news and all things DanceStar Party!

Amerie 1 Thing
Barry White You’re The First, The Last, My Everything
Basement Jaxx Where’s Your Head At
Billy Idol with Generation X Dancing with Myself
Bodyrockers I Like The Way
Carl Douglas Kung Fu Fighting
CeCe Peniston Finally
Chromeo Night By Night
Deadmau5 Ghosts ‘N’ Stuff (feat. Rob Swire)
Diana Ross Upside Down
Duck Sauce Barbra Streisand
Ellie Goulding Starry Eyed
Elton John I’m Still Standing
Example Kickstarts
Groove Armada feat. Gram’ma Funk I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim mix)
Ida Corr Vs Fedde Le Grand Let Me Think About It
Iggy Pop Lust For Life
Jay Sean featuring Lil Wayne Down
Jessie J Do It Like A Dude
Kool And The Gang Get Down On It
Lady Gaga Born This Way
LMFAO Party Rock Anthem
Los Del Rio Macarena
Miami Sound Machine Dr Beat
New Kids On The Block You Got It (The Right Stuff)
Nicole Scherzinger Don’t Hold Your Breath
Ok Go Here It Goes Again
OutKast The Way You Move
Republica Ready To Go
Rihanna Rude Boy
SNAP! The Power
Tavares Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel
The Chemical Brothers Hey Boy Hey Girl
Tiesto v Diplo feat Busta Rhymes C’mon (Catch ‘Em By Surprise)
Tinie Tempah Pass Out
Usher featuring Pitbull DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love
Usher featuring will.i.am OMG
Vengaboys We Like To Party
Willow Whip My Hair
Yolanda Be Cool vs D Cup We No Speak Americano

Hello, SingStar friends,

Did you miss me? Was Chris nice to you while I was off? If not I will have words, you know! Hope you enjoyed the last update with songs from the likes of Rihanna, Katy B, Toto et al.

Gamescom was awesome. The SingStar stand at was mega busy (some pics below of people getting a first glimpse of the ‘Back to the 80s’ disc) and so were all sixteen pods we were showing our brand new DanceStar Party game off on. Queues everywhere!!!

Did any of you manage to come down and play? Can you see yourself on any of the pics? More news on all of the above very soon…

On to the SingStore:

Ok, maybe that’s just me but you know sometimes you read about and artist/song and think, ‘I have NO idea who/what this is’, then you listen to it and go, ‘I know this, I know this, I love it!’ Yep, happened to me with Neon Trees and ‘Animal’ today.

However, I had no problems recognising any of the others and I am especially fond of ‘Jessie’s Girl’ and its singer, Mr. Rick Springfield. I always thought he had a luscious head of hair.

Then there’s OK Go with ‘Here We Go Again’ which of course stands out because of the band’s creative use of running machines in the video alone. Note: you will only need microphones to play this and not invest in any further equipment. Up to you, of course.

I also need to mention Kid Cudi ‘Day ‘N’ Nite’ which comes with a dance add-on for good measure and if I may say so, I think could beat every single one of you in a dance-off having demoed it a LOT Excellent dance routine.

Until next time,

Nina xx

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Kylie Minogue is not released in Australia/New Zealand.

Howdy!

I’m so excited because I am the one who gets to tell you that we have a brand new SingStar Blu-ray Disc in the works which will be ready for your collective singing pleasure in time for Christmas. ‘Back To The 80s’ will feature 30 massive hits from the decade which was otherwise defined by neon legwarmers, oversized shoulder pads and bad hair. We’ll be posting a full tracklist for you once we have it available so watch this space. I know I can’t wait to get my hands on it (the tracklist AND the disc that is).

If you haven’t been to visit the SingStore or My SingStar Online since Tuesday last week you should get your virtual selves there asap because the 5.12 patch is waiting for you. Once you’re done with the update you will be able to share your in game snapshots with the world via Facebook, view all the songs in the SingStore by release date, plus we added a few new filters to the song selection carousel.

Now on to the SingStore update. I’m loving ‘Kyrie’ by Mr. Mister this week, P!nk and (obviously!) ‘Livin’ La Vida Loca’ for which I shall also be getting the dance add-on so I can make sure I get the fullest Ricky Martin experience possible! Oh yes! Let’s also not forget about Toto with ‘Rosanna’ or Take That or the Rock Steady Crew, ok?

Last but not least, some lucky SingStar team members are off to Gamescom in Cologne next week so if you want to see/hear/read what we get up to there, make sure you follow us on Twitter @SingStarHQ or if you’re out there too, make sure you come and say hi.

See ya,
Nina xx

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Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls – not released in SCEA territories.

I was very happy that most of you seemed to like the last update and hope that this one will get the same reaction! Fingers crossed…

So, what do I have for you this week? Well, there’s another brand new Boney M song, in case you’re already bored of ‘Daddy Cool’, plus the one I am very excited about because it involves a Gallagher brother and most of Oasis just minus the other brother: Beady Eye with their excellent first single ‘The Roller’. ‘Ave it!

A little more ‘fun’ and a favourite because of its cringe factor has got to be ‘Jump In My Car’ by The Hoff, right? Ok, if that’s not your cup of tea then I can also offer you Jarvis and his popular beat combo Pulp with ‘Disco 2000′ or a lovely ballad by the boys from that little know band Take That?

If you’re STILL indecisive, just grab your Move controller and get stuck in with the dance add-ons for Chris Brown, OutKast or New Kids On The Block. Or if you know how to sing in Danish or in German, there’s always Sukkerchok (great name!) and Roland Kaiser respectively.

That’s all folks. See you soon…

Nina x

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All tracks released worldwide apart from Kylie Minogue (not in Australia/New Zealand)

Welcome!

This week we’re back to the normal Wednesday update so technically speaking you could say that you’re getting this one a day early . Hope you had a good time with the songs and dance add-ons from the last one? Which one was your favourite or maybe there was one you just tried out because you saw the preview video and now you can’t stop playing it? You can always let us know on Twittter!

Frontrunners for the shopping cart this week for me are: ‘Daddy Cool’ by Boney M. (I REALLY can’t wait for this, honest), Mr. Mister, Inner City, and this is where the German in me comes out, Sandra’s ‘Maria Magdalena’ and The Scorpions with ‘Still Loving You’. Actually, I could go on but I’d just be repeating the below list and that ain’t the point, is it?

Don’t forget, if you don’t fancy anything this week, you can always check out everything that’s available in the SingStore for your country/language plus all the discs and songs on them on our website right here.

Much love,

Nina x

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All tracks released worldwide apart from Kylie Minogue (not in Australia/New Zealand)

First things first: Please note that this weeks’ update will be available on Thursday, 30th June and not on Wednesday as usual. Sorry for the delay.

I hope you had a great weekend in the sun? We had a great one, kicking off our ‘festival season’ not at Glastonbury like a lot of you but a bit closer to home, in London’s Hyde Park where we got to see the Kings Of Leon, Ray Davies from the Kinks, the mighty Bon Jovi and many more…

Who was your favourite artist of the weekend, on SingStar or at Glasto or on TV? Let us know on twitter.com/SingStarHQ.

On the list for my SingStar weekend will be Chesney Hawkes ‘The One And Only’ because it’s great feel-good pop, Eliza Doolittle, just for the whistling and in my humble opinion, one of the best ballads ever: Extreme’s ‘More Than Words’. Maybe also some Jamiroquai and definitely ‘It’s A Shame’ by Talk Talk.

Have a great week and here’s hoping the weather stays this nice!

Nina x

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All tracks released worldwide apart from Bloc Party and Rosenstolz.

Wow, it’s been a while. It’s good to be back and I hope you were all keeping up-to-date with what was happening with the PSN outage on Twitter @SingStarHQ and @PlaystationEU and not been thinking that I don’t want to talk to you anymore because I definitely do ☺.

Talking of Twitter, we’ve just passed the 1,000 follower mark on Friday so a huge thanks to all of you who support SingStar on there. Make sure you keep on tweetin’ because as always, we just love to see what you get up to every day and night, and especially what you’re singing at the moment.

On to the update which I guess you’re all here for, right? We’ve got a few more songs for you than in recent updates because of the large gap since the April one and I certainly hope you can all find something to download on Wednesday.

As usual you can find the full tracklisting below but I recommend you dust off your mics for the following: Spinal Tap, The Alarm, Queens Of the Stone Age (to prepare for Glastonbury!), Propellerheads feat. Shirley Bassey and The Animals. And, just because I can, I will pretend that we haven’t missed Eurovision back in May and belt out Lena’s ‘Sattelite’ all weekend.

Quite a few foreign languages tracks, too in Danish, Finnish, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Nyd! Nauti! Viel Spass! Buon divertmento! Divirta! Disfruta! (apologies in advance if any of these should turn out to be weird/wrong/rude).

There’s also a nice little Motor City Soul Essentials song pack for those of you want to get into swing of things with one easy download plus four fine dance add-ons to shake your hips to.

See you in two weeks’ time.

Ninaxx

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So, what have I got for you to keep you occupied over the upcoming Easter and Royal Wedding bank holiday bonanza?

Let’s start with the bundles of musical joy we call song packs of which we have no less than three in this update. For those of you who didn’t think Oklahoma! was the best the world of musical theatre had to offer (you know who you are), feast your vocal chords on this: Songs From Andrew Lloyd Webber features five infamous songs from Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Whistle Down the Wind, Love Never Dies and Joseph. What do you reckon? Popular enough for you? ☺

Also in the song pack section, a bit of a special thing that will make your lives just that little bit easier. The Dance Off and Rock Out packs are not just great song collections in themselves but the respective dance and guitar add-on packs for them are now available.

What does that mean? Easy peasy: get the song pack, get the add-on pack and you’ll own all dance add-ons for the songs in the Dance Off pack and all guitar add-ons for the Rock Out pack in one go. Massive time saver!

Single songs I am going to try out are from Jessie J., The Killers and Eros Ramazzotti plus I’ll be waving the Move controller around to Toploader and ‘Boogie Wonderland’.

Happy Easter, enjoy Kate and Wills’ wedding if you’re going (my invite must have got lost in the post) and I shall see you again after all that.

Nina xx

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All tracks released worldwide apart from Jessie J and the Eros Ramazzotti.

It’s officially springtime now and I don’t know about you but we’ve had the loveliest sunshine last week over here in London Town. Mhh, makes me think about songs about the weather… ☺. Anyway, on to the store update.

This week we have a very exciting song pack for you consisting of the first ever ‘proper’ classical music on the SingStore. (I say ‘proper’ because we of course also already have the fantastic Il Divo song pack on offer featuring some classical songs).

So, instead of perfecting your Lady Gaga or Jon Bon Jovi performances every weekend, why don’t take it down a notch, relax and try yourselves at some arias from five infamous composers, including Mozart’s ‘Queen Of The Night Aria’ and di Capua’s ‘O Sole Mio’. Oh, and obviously you’ll get to practice your Italian, German and French at the same time. How many song packs do THAT for you, huh?

Also on my list this week, ‘Cryin” By Aerosmith, a bit of pop from JLS and Héroes del Silencio with ‘Avalancha’ plus, how could I deny anyone my amazing Jamiroquai impression to ‘Virtual Insanity’? I told them they should have filmed me doing the dance but they didn’t listen.

Here comes the boring but necessary bit: maintenance. I guess it’s got to be done and don’t ask me why but it means that the next update will be postponed by one week to 20th April. Apologies but at least you’ll have some new tracks to keep you busy over the Easter holidays, right?

See ya laters,
Nina xx

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All tracks released worldwide apart from Marilyn Manson and the Jamiroquai dance add-on.

Hope you’re keeping well? Spring is here soon and then it will be summer in no time. Yay! Any of you lot off to any festivals this year? Maybe see you there.

So, the update is a bit on the small side this week but I hope you can at least find one or two tracks or guitar and dance add-ons to tide you over to the next one. Peter Andre anyone? Worth it just for the video and the sexy dance alone, right girls? And the Pixies ‘Here Comes your Man’ on guitar? You know it’s right!

Or maybe check out Ellie Goulding’s favourite SingStore tracks she picked for her very own What’s hot list last week. Maybe there are some gems in there you haven’t tried out yet?

Talking about Ellie Goulding, make sure you pop over to the news section on the website this week. Ellie came in as part of ‘SingStar meets…’ and we put your questions, and some of ours, to her. Find out what she had to say about SingStar, her career and much more…

Love and respect,
Nina xx

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