Hello, everyone, this is my first time to post my Best of, and I can't wait to post them, the top 100, award categories winner, and the best and (maybe) worst moments of pop culture of the year. But before we begin, I would like to present my schedule, which will be story-oriented and include some "fictionalized" live performances from the best music acts in this"LIVE Global Broadcast"
Schedule & Performers:
Dec 9: Warm-Up Top 20 of 2011 Countdown (Taped)
Dec 10: Songs 100-96 & Best Talent Show Judge (First Live Show)
Performers: Perfume
Dec 11: Songs 95-91 & Best Talent Show Winner
Performers: IU & Phillip Phillips
Dec 12: Songs 90-86 & Best Hip-Hop
Performers: Calvin Harris
Dec 13: Songs 85-81 & Best R&B
Performers: Havana Brown & TVXQ
Dec 14: Songs 80-76 & Tribute Artist of the Year
Performers: Raisa & Yuna
Dec 15: Songs 75-71 & Best Dance
Performers: Boyce Avenue
Dec 17: Songs 70-66 & Best Rock (People's Choice categories voting closed on this date at 23:59 JKT)
Performers: Example & The Script
Dec 18: Songs 65-61 & Best Country
Performers: Hunter Hayes & Lady Antebellum
Dec 19: Songs 60-56 & Best Pop
Performers: Alyssa Reid & Delta Goodrem
Dec 21: Songs 55-51 & Best Male
Performers: David Guetta
Dec 22: Songs 50-46 & Best Group
Performers: 2NE1, The Saturdays, The Wanted
Dec 23-27: No Show due to intensive learning
Dec 28: Songs 45-41 & Best Female
Performers: JKT48 & Lee Hi
Dec 29: Songs 40-36 & Best New Artist
Performers: Carly Rae Jepsen & Rita Ora
Dec 30: Songs 35-26 & People's Choice Best Canadian Asia-Pacific Acts
Performers: CherryBelle, Hedley, OneRepublic & Girls' Generation
Dec 31: Songs 25-16 & People's Choice Best UK & American Act
Performers: Jessie J, TBA
Jan 1: No Show
Jan 2: Songs 15-11 & People's Choice Song of the Year
Performers: TBA
Jan 3: LIVE Finale, Songs 10-1, People's Choice Album of the Year & Video of the Year
Performers: AKB48, PSY, Sm*sh, Super Junior, Taylor Swift (Still to be announced)
Schedule may be changed without announcement.
Nominations List:
Winners are highlighted in boldface.
People Choice’s Song of the Year:
· Adele – Set Fire to the Rain
· Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
· Ellie Goulding – Lights
· Gotye (featuring Kimbra) – Somebody That I Used to Know
· Maroon 5 (featuring Wiz Khalifa) – Payphone
People’s Choice Album of The Year:
· Carly Rae Jepsen – Kiss
· Justin Bieber – Believe
· Lana Del Rey – Born to Die
· Maroon 5 – Overexposed
· Taylor Swift – Red
Video of the Year:
· Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
· Katy Perry – Wide Awake
· Maroon 5 (featuring Wiz Khalifa) – Payphone
· Nicki Minaj - Starships
· PSY – Gangnam Style
Best Female:
· Adele
· Ellie Goulding
· Katy Perry
· Rihanna · Taylor Swift
Best Male:
· Conor Maynard
· David Guetta · Flo Rida
· Gotye
· Olly Murs
Best Group:
· Coldplay
· Fun.
· LMFAO · Maroon 5
· One Direction
Best Pop:
· Adele
· Katy Perry
· One Direction
· Rihanna · Taylor Swift
Best Rock: · Coldplay
· Fun.
· Linkin Park
· Maroon 5
· The Script
Best Hip-Hop:
· Flo Rida · Nicki Minaj
· Pitbull
· Professor Green
· PSY
Best Country:
· Carrie Underwood
· Hunter Hayes
· Lady Antebellum
· Miranda Lambert · Taylor Swift
Best R&B:
· Chris Brown
· Conor Maynard
· Justin Bieber
· Little Mix · Rihanna
Best Dance:
· Carly Rae Jepsen · David Guetta
· Ellie Goulding
· Jessie J
· Rita Ora
Best New Artist: · Carly Rae Jepsen
· Conor Maynard
· Fun.
· Lana Del Rey
· Rita Ora
People’s Choice Best American Act:
· Flo Rida
· Fun.
· Katy Perry
· Maroon 5
· Rihanna
· Taylor Swift
People’s Choice Best Canadian Act:
· Alyssa Reid
· Carly Rae Jepsen
· Drake
· Hedley
· Justin Bieber · Marianas Trench
People’s Choice Best UK Act:
· Adele
· Coldplay
· Conor Maynard
· Ellie Goulding
· Olly Murs
· One Direction
People’s Choice Best Asia-Pacific Act:
· Agnes Monica (Indonesia)
· Guy Sebastian (Australia)
· Han Geng (China)
· Perfume (Japan) · PSY (South Korea)
· Yuna (Malaysia)
Best Talent Show Winner:
· Jermaine Paul (The Voice)
· Little Mix (The X Factor UK)
· Melanie Amaro (The X Factor USA)
· Michael Ray (The Next) · Phillip Phillips (American Idol)
Best Talent Show Judge: · Adam Levine (The Voice)
· Britney Spears (The X Factor USA)
· Delta Goodrem (The Voice Australia)
· Guy Sebastian (The X Factor Australia)
· Jessie J (The Voice UK)
· Simon Cowell (Britain’s Got Talent & The X Factor USA)
Most of the awards is based on Last.fm scrobbles, Facebook likes, Twitter followers, and my chart performances point. While the video of the year will be also based on YouTube views instead of last.fm scrobbles. The People's Choice categories is solely based on YOUR VOTES, log on to http://dimasstories.blogspot.com/p/b...12-voting.html to vote for your favorite artist, album, and song, but hurry, because voting closes tonight at 23:59 JKT (GMT+7)! Get voting now!
About The Host: Alyson:
Alyson is a fictional character from The Musical Life of Kris Neil, an aspiring Broadway actress who currently finishing her senior year in Jakarta Arts High School. Alyson currently spends her one month length winter holiday as she accepted the host role, she couldn't wait to host the show live in front of the live studio audience and the worldwide viewers.
Read The Musical Life of Kris Neil to learn more about Alyson on dimasstories.blogspot.com
Nick:
Nick is a fictional character from Indonesian language story, The Secret Wizards, an aspiring soccer player and also a wizard. He is originally from Essex, England, but currently resides in Bandung, Indonesia. Same with Alyson, he's really excited to host the show as well, he wants to show his hosting skills besides his wizardry and soccer skills.
Read The Secret Wizards to learn more about Nick on dimasstories.blogspot.com
Well, I will participate on your threads, and the Warm-Up Countdown will be posted immediately! Stay tuned!
Alyson: “Best of 2012, 2012 has been really amazing. Wait, we’re on air already?”
Nick: “Yes, we are.”
Alyson: “But there’s no live studio audience.”
Nick: “Please, we’re doing the warm-up, silly, in fact this is not live broadcast, it’s a taped broadcast.”
Alyson: Yes, maybe music fans are afraid to see you as a wizard.”
Nick: “That’s my character from The Secret Wizards, in Bahasa Indonesia, or maybe the fans are afraid to see you as an Broadway musical actress.”
Alyson: “Whatever, that’s my character from The Musical Life of Kris Neil. By the way, are you ready?”
Nick: “I’m not involved, babe, really.”
Alyson: “Fine… Welcome to Dimas Pettigrew’s Best of 2012! *runs around*”
Nick: “You’re devious b****.”
DIMAS PETTIGREW'S BEST OF 2012
Alyson: “Hi, guys, good evening!”
Nick: “Or maybe good morning, and finally the wait is over! Dimas Pettigrew’s Best of 2012 is here!”
Alyson: “Check it out, Nick, we’re in the DPS Studio, it’s designed like TRL studio, but minus the live audience in the first official episode, I mean the warm up. We won’t count down the best of 2012 today yet. But tomorrow, we will go live and start counting down the top 100, Perfume will be coming for a live performance.”
Nick: “But for now, we’re gonna countdown the top 20 of 2011 for the warm-up, a.k.a. the first episode of Dimas Pettigrew’s Best of 2012.”
Alyson: “We are going to take you touring the studio, this is the DPS main area, where we will be introducing the top 100, and for today, we have 20 best songs of 2011 and we know you love them, let’s start counting down! Starting with number 20! Introduce the number 20, Nick.”
Nick: “Okay, the number 20 belongs to One Direction’s What Makes You Beautiful, please enjoy!”
#20. One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful
Nick: “The number 20 is also Alyson’s favorite song of 2011.”
Alyson: “Still one of them, but not the number one.”
Nick: “Well, there are 19 songs to go, but let’s speak Best of 2012, shall we, Alyson?”
Alyson: “Go ahead.”
Nick: “This year, the top 100 songs are based on weekly chart performance points, as well as official chart peak points, such as Billboard Hot 100, Canadian Hot 100, and UK Singles Chart.”
Alyson: “And there will be an award-like celebration, remembering this year had many cool new artists, cool new songs, and cool videos. Maybe One Direction or Katy Perry will win the most awards.”
Nick: “I think not, Taylor Swift and Maroon 5 will win all their nominations.”
Alyson: Nick, please don’t spoil the award winners, we have 19 songs to go, right. Okay, number 19, it’s Foster The People’s Pumped Up Kicks.”
#19. Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks
#18. Black Eyed Peas – Just Can’t Get Enough
#17. The Wanted - All Time Low
Alyson: “The Wanted, the coolest lads in Britain, reached number 17 with their debut single All Time Low, which was actually released in 2010. You know what, Nick, I’m a huge fan of The Wanted and One Direction. Okay, what’s next.”
Nick: “Okay, I love number 16 song, it’s one of my favorite songs of 2011, I love the video, and it’s Adele’s Someone Like You.”
[CENTER]#16. Adele – Someone Like You
#15. Rihanna – S&M
Nick: “And the number 15 belongs to one of the most controversial music video of 2011, S&M by Rihanna.”
Alyson: “And probably we have one more in number 14, ladies and gentlemen, number 14, LMFAO’s Sexy and I Know It.”
#14. LMFAO – Sexy And I Know It
Nick: “Welcome back to Dimas Pettigrew’s Best of 2012 Warm-Up, we’re counting down the top 20 songs of 2011.”
*Nick looked at Alyson who was checked on her Twitter on her Microsoft Surface.*
Nick: “Um, Alyson, is there something you gotta say?”
Alyson: “Uh, sorry, okay, Miranda tweeted me to tell something more about the award nominees. Okay, Miranda, we’ll talk about it later, but first, we’re in the place where the award winner from each categories will be announced beside the main area!”
Nick: “It’s the award lounge, check it out, *took a trophy from the award lounge table* this is a trophy for each award category winner, they will be receving this trophy, but if they can’t be here, we’re sending the trophy straight to the winning act, or if they’re here, we’re going to give it straight to the artist. Our friends from the stories which are posted on dimasstories.blogspot.com will be here to present the award.”
Alyson: “More information is coming right after the the number 13 to number 11 videos, number 13 belongs to Professor Green featuring Emeli Sande with Read All About It.”
#13. Professor Green featuring Emeli Sande – Read All About It
#12. Katy Perry featuring Kanye West - E.T.
#11. Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull - On The Floor
*Nick mimes dancing to On The Floor while walking to the award lounge*
Alyson: “Nick, really? What are you doing?”
Nick: “I’m dancing like J.Lo to On The Floor.”
Alyson: “C’mon, Nick, we don’t have time for that, we got to discuss the nominations before revealing the top ten of 2011.”
Nick: “Is my dance bad?”
Alyson: “Really bad, hurry up and start talking about the nominees!”
Nick: “Okay, fine. So we have many cool new artists, cool new songs, and cool new videos in 2012, like best new artist, we have Carly Rae Jepsen, Fun, Rita Ora, Conor Maynard, and Lana Del Rey. Or we can talk about the best video, we have cool videos to win the award, like Psy’s Gangnam Style, Katy Perry’s Wide Awake, or for me the best video of the year goes to Maroon 5’s Payphone, I really like the action sequence.”
Alyson: “Don’t forget about the people’s choice nominees, which all online users all around the globe can vote their favorite artist, song, and album, don’t forget that the people’s choice categories are solely based on your vote, guys.”
Nick: “I can vote too?”
Alyson: “You can vote for your favorite song, Nick.”
Nick: “Hell yeah, I’ll vote after this episode ends!”
Alyson: “And don’t forget, the voting will be closed on Sunday, 16th December at 23:59 Jakarta Time, okay audience, you have to vote for your favorite on people’s choice categories! You have to! Only you can decide the winner of people’s choice categories.”
Nick: “You know what, time to reveal our number 10, it’s Nicki Minaj with Super Bass!”
#10. Nicki Minaj – Super Bass
#09. Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger
Alyson: “*sings Moves Like Jagger while dancing* All the moves like Jagger, I’ve got the moves like Jagger, I’ve got the moves like jagger.”
Nick: “Seriously, Alyson?”
Alyson: “Yes, Moves Like Jagger is number 9 of 2011! *stop dancing* We’ll talk the award process for the non-people’s choice categories right?”
Nick: “Yes, we will, I’ll start first? Fine.”
Alyson: “No, ladies first. Guys, you know the award process for the people’s choice categories, right? It’s solely based on your votes, while the non-people’s choice categories is based on chart performance and social media performance as well, how many he got Facebook likes, Twitter followers, and all-time last.fm scrobbles.”
Nick: “Of course the Video of the Year nominees is based on the same performance, minus last.fm, it’s also based on how many YouTube views as well.”
Alyson: “Wow, that’s amazing.”
Nick: “Hell yeah, it is, now number 8 belongs to Cee-Lo’s Forget You!”
Alyson: “Not that one, but F*** You.”
Nick: “It’s the explicit version, we need clean version to broadcast so kids and teens won’t hear the f-bombs, fine, Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Forget You by Cee-Lo Green.”
Alyson: “C’mon, are you going to play clean version? Super Bass was played with the explicit version!”
#08. Cee-Lo Green – Forget You
#07. Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer – Give Me Everything
#06. Bruno Mars - Grenade
Alyson: “*walking with Nick to the basement* Welcome back to Dimas Pettigrew’s Best of 2012 Warm-Up, we have five videos to go until we reach the number one of 2011!”
Nick: “We’re in the basement floor of DPS studio, and this is the Live Lounge, where all daily performers will be performing here live, most audience will watch our show from here as well as the live performances straight from here.”
Alyson: “What about the live studio audience from the main area?”
Nick: “They can watch the big screen to see the live performances. By the way, next video belongs to the most controversial music video of 2011, that’s for me, it’s Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris with We Found Love.”
Alyson: “Don’t watch this, kids, change your channel until the video ends.”
Nick: “Seriously, they don’t know when the video ends, Alyson.”
#05. Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris – We Found Love
Nick: “We reach number five and there are four videos left to go until we reveal the number one.”
Alyson: “Number four belongs to the best shuffle dance of all time, this is my opinion, it’s the best choreography video of all time! It’s LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock with Party Rock Anthem!”
Nick: “Everyday I’m Shufflin’!”
#04. LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett & GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem
#03. Lady Gaga - Born This Way[
Alyson: “Oh, it’s really lovely Born This Way by Lady Gaga, which is number 3. And two more to go!!”
Nick: “Alyson, these final two songs are really great and inspiring for me, I think they are the best of 2011.”
Alyson: “They are the best, seriously.”
Nick: “And we’re revealing the runner-up! It’s Katy Perry’s Firework!”
#02. Katy Perry – Firework
Alyson: “Okay, the number one, are you really excited?”
Nick: “I’m really excited!! Really!!”
Alyson: “And we’re happilly announce that the number 1 of 2011 belongs to… *pauses* Nick, tell the number 1 spot!”
Nick: “It’s Adele with Rolling in The Deep, yes! My favorite song of 2011!! She deserves to be the number one! So congratulations, Adele!”
Alyson: “Yes, and that’s why Rolling in The Deep is so lovely tune, before we introduce the number 1 video, we have to say goodbye to viewers, Nick.”
Nick: “That’s it, the Warm-Up episode is over?”
Alyson: “Yes, it’s over already. But Dimas Pettigrew’s Best of 2012 is just begun, I’m really excited to see all live studio audience who will be watching us hosting the show!”
Nick: “Actually, me too, and we’ll reveal the Best Talent Show Judge in the next episode as well! We have Adam Levine from The Voice, Simon Cowell from The X Factor USA and Britain’s Got Talent, Delta Goodrem from The Voice Australia,”
Alyson: “We also got our queen of pop, Britney Spears from The X Factor USA.”
Nick: “Alyson, queen of pop is actually Madonna.”
Alyson: “But she’s queen of pop for me.”
Nick: “Fine, and by the way, guys, log on to dimasstories.blogspot.com to vote for your favorite People’s Choice nominees, only you can decide the winner of each People’s Choice categories, voting closes on 16th December at 23:59 Jakarta Time.”
Alyson: “And starting tomorrow, we will be counting down the top 100 of 2012, and Perfume will perform! I’m Alyson,”
Nick: “I’m Nick,”
Alyson: “And we’ll see you when we’re counting down the top 100! To end the show, here’s the number one of 2011, Adele – Rolling In The Deep!”
Nick: “Bye, see you soon!”
Alyson: “Bye! Nick, we did it!”
Nick: “Yeah, we really did.”