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Could anyone have imagined that it would be this hard to send someone home on SYTYCD? I don’t remember it ever being this hard. Seems to say a lot about the quality of the dancers this year. Although, it seems to also speak to the fact that very few dancers really stand out over the others.

Enough of that, on to the list of tonight’s music:

Group dance: “Brand New Day” from The Wiz; Choreographer: Tyce Diorio

Special Musical guest: Kelly Clarkson

SYTYCD top 14 Solos:
Karla Garcia: “Blackbird” by Dionne Farris Buy CD on Amazon
Vitolio Jeune: “Here Comes Goodbye” —Rascal Flatts
Kayla Rodomski: “Stupid” —Sarah McLachlan
Kupono Aweau: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” —Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Jeanine Mason: “Moonlight Sonata” —Smart Sleep With Classical
Phillip Chbeeb: “You’ll Find A Way (Switch & Sinden Remix)” —Santigold

If you’re looking for the previous SYTYCD music, you can find it here.

Another week of So You Think You Can Dance is upon us. I’m actually traveling this week with my 2 children to give my 8 month pregnant wife a break from the children. Yes, this is going to be an interesting week for me. That’s also why I’m a little late in posting the music for this week’s SYTYCD. Better late than never no? As always, the latest SYTYCD music can be found here.

Now for the list of music used for the SYTYCD top 14.

Janette Manrara and Brandon Bryant danced a Cha-Cha-Cha to the song “Hush Hush” —The Pussycat Dolls choreographed by Jean-Marc Généreux
Kayla Radomski and Kupono Aweau danced a Contemporary to the song “Eyes On Fire” —Blue Foundation choreographed by Sonya Tayeh
Randi Evans and Evan Kasprzak danced a Broadway to the song “Rich Man’s Frug” from Sweet Charity choreographed by Joey Dowling
Caitlin Kinney and Jason Glover danced a Pop-Jazz to the song “Creator” —Santigold choreographed by Brian Friedman
Jeanine Mason and Phillip Chbeeb danced a Hip-hop to the song “Love Lockdown” —Kanye West choreographed by Tabitha D’umo and Napoleon D’umo
Melissa Sandvig and Ade Obayomi danced a Classical Pas de deux to the song Romeo & Juliet: Provofiev’s Suite (No.1 Op 64b, 6th Movement) —Orchestre De La Suisse Romande & Armin Jordan choreographed by Thordal Christensen
Karla Garcia and Vitolio Jeune danced a Quickstep to the song “Puttin’ on the Ritz” —Rufus Wainwright choreographed by Jean-Marc Généreux

Check out all the music from the SYTYCD top 16 results show. This includes Napoleon and Tabitha’s group number and special guests The Veronicas. If you’re looking for music from the previous episodes of So You Think You Can Dance, you can find that here.

Group hip-hop dance to the song “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)” -Pitbull (Choreographer: Dmitry Chaplin, Napoleon & Tabitha D’umo)

Musical guest: “Take Me On The Floor” —The Veronicas
Guest dancers: The Rage Boys Crew: “Feel It”—Colby O’Donis and Mauli-B

Dance for Their Life Solos:
Asuka Kondoh: “Don’t Trust Me” —3OH!3

Vitolio Jeune: “Viva La Vida” —Coldplay

Karla Garcia: “15 Step” — Radiohead

Jonathan Platero: “The Hunted” — Kodo

Caitlin Kinney: “Que Sera Sera” —Jennifer Terran

Jason Glover: “New American Classic” —Taking Back Sunday

I’m obviously a big fan of the music from So You Think You Can Dance. Otherwise, why would I list all the music from the show right? Well, in the process of posting all the music, I became acquainted with someone who works for a company that licenses music for So You Think You Can Dance.

I asked if they’d answer some questions about the process for clearing the music for So You Think You Can Dance and they thankfully obliged. I also tried to find out if So You Think You Can Dance isn’t available on DVD because of the music rights. Here’s the questions I asked (in bold) and this person’s answers.

What’s the process you go through to get the music cleared to be used on SYTYCD?
Anytime we own a copyright (or part of one) to a song the show wants to use, we receive a request from the [SYTYCD] music supervisor for that song and we enter it into the record we keep for the show in our system. Sometimes we can clear the song right away, but a lot of the time we have to seek approval from one or more of the writers on the song–it just depends on the type of publishing agreement we have with the writer. Once we get approval, we tell the show it’s cleared for our percentage. This can be 100%, or it can be smaller if there are multiple writers who are signed to different publishers.

How much notice do they usually give you to clear the music?
That depends. The show starts clearing songs long before the season starts, because it’s such a music-intensive show and they want to have a base of possible songs to choose from, sort of like a karaoke catalog. Then, once they start editing the audition episodes, they send more requests for songs they know they want to air, which usually gives us a few weeks to clear those. Once the performance episodes start airing, the time frame is obviously much shorter. Sometimes a choreographer will want to change songs at the last minute or something else will come up, and we need to get it cleared before the routines are chosen after the results show, so the kids can have time to rehearse. So that can sometimes be a day-of rush. Usually, though, we have a few days.

Is it true that the reason they can’t come out with DVDs of past seasons of SYTYCD because of the rights to the music?
I don’t know what the reason is for sure, but I do know that it would be very expensive for them to produce DVDs, because they’d have to pay for video rights for all the songs.

Do most artists want to have their music used on SYTYCD? Seems like it would be nice exposure for an artist.
We don’t have too many problems clearing, but we occasionally have writers/artists that are picky about it. We had a situation last season where a choreographer really wanted a certain song for a routine, but the songwriter didn’t want the song used. We tried hard to persuade them, because it would have been a great routine, but it didn’t work out, unfortunately.

How many of the songs you’re asked to clear get denied? What reasons do they give for not wanting their song on the show?
It’s a small percentage–usually just a few per season (when we clear hundreds). It can be anything from not wanting the song to be chopped and edited (like they have to do because of the length of the routines), to not wanting to commercialize the song by having it on the show. It’s up to them, though, so in the end we have to go with whatever they tell us.

Any other interesting tid bits that fans of SYTYCD might want to know?
Just that there is some awesome music picked out for this season! But they wouldn’t expect anything less from SYTYCD, would they?

We’re back one again with the full list of music from the SYTYCD top 16. Kayla and Kupono dance together for the first time and Dave Scott returns to the show as a choreographer. Also, feel free to take a look back at previous SYTYCD music.

Karla Garcia and Jonathan Platero danced Hip-hop to the song “By My Side” —Jadakiss featuring Ne-Yo choreographed by Dave Scott

Asuka Kondoh and Vitolio Jeune danced Jazz to the song “Heartbreaker” —Pat Benatar choreographed by Mandy Moore

Melissa Sandvig and Ade Obayomi danced Rumba to the song “Emotion” —Destiny’s Child choreographed by Tony Meredith

Janette Manrara and Brandon Bryant danced Hip-hop to the song “What a World” —Common choreographed by Dave Scott

Kayla Radomski and Kupono Aweau danced a Viennese Waltz to the song “Sweet Dreams” —Jewel choreographed by Jean-Marc Généreux

Randi Evans and Evan Kasprzak danced Contemporary to the song “Koop Island Blues” —Koop featuring Ane Brun choreographed by Mia Michaels

Caitlin Kinney and Jason Glover danced a Paso Doble to the song “O Fortuna” —Mozaretum Orchestra Salzburg & Kurt Prestel choreographed by Jean-Marc Généreux

Jeanine Mason and Phillip Chbeeb danced Broadway to the song “Moses” from Singing in the Rain choreographed by Tyce DiOrio

As arguably the best site on the internet for finding all the songs from So You Think You Can Dance, I think it’s always interesting to share what seems to be the most popular songs from So You Think You Can Dance. I’m really scientific in my process for determining the most popular. I just figure out which iTunes links are clicked on the most. Check out the results:

Top Songs from Performance and Results Shows this Week
Falling Slowly by The Frames?
24 Hours (The Aston Shuffle A-Bomb Remix) by Terry Poison
Hot Like Wow by Nadia Oh
Missin You by Trey Songz
Dreams Are More Precious by Enya
Make You Feel My Love by ADELE
Imma Be by Black Eyed Peas
Shake A Tail Feather (Originally performed by Ray Charles) (Karaoke)

Top 20 Songs from So You Think You Can Dance Season 5
Tore My Heart by Oona
Don’t Let Your Feet Touch Ground by Ash Koley
Belief by Gavin DeGraw
Breathe Me by Sia
Falling Slowly by The Frames
Great DJ by The Ting Tings
Winter Song by Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Slow Me Down by Emmy Rossum
Moonburn by Craig Lyons
Jungle Drum by Emiliana Torrini
Coldfront by Amie Miriello
Nobody by Ne-Yo
Dance With Me by Old 97’s
Pollen and Salt by Daphne Loves Derby
Habanera by Kate Nash
Make You Feel My Love by ADELE
Toxic by Yael Naïm
May It Be by Hayley Westenra & Conventus Choir
Walking On by Army of Me
Four Women by Nina Simone

We’re back again with the list of the SYTYCD 2009 results show music for the top 18. Last night had a real hit song that a lot of people seemed to love called “Falling Slowly” by The Frames. Feel free to take a look back at all the SYTYCD 2009 music.

Now for the SYTYCD 2009 top 18 results show music:
SYTYCD top 18Group dance to the song “Higher Ground” —Stevie Wonder (Choreographer: Mia Michaels)

Special musical guest sang “Goodbye” —Kristinia DeBarge (Original Kristinia DeBarge music video )

Special guest Indian dancer: Amrapali Ambegaokar: Kathak

The bottom 3 couples did the following solos:
Caitlin Kinney: “Make You Feel My Love” —Adele
Jason Glover: “Superman” —Robin Thicke
Ashley Valerio: “By Your Side” —CocoRosie
Kupono Aweau: “Many Moons” —Janelle Monáe (Original Janelle Monáe music video )
Kayla Radomski: “Walking On Air” —Kerli (Original Kerli music video )
Max Kapitannikov: “Footloose” —Kenny Loggins

The Ashley Valerio montage was to the song “Already Gone” by Kelly Clarkson
The Max Kapitannikov montage was to the song “On Your Own” by Green River Ordinance

As always were here to list the music from tonight’s episode of So You Think You Can Dance. 9 dances to all sorts of styles means we’re going to be treated to another wide variety of music. Also, remember to look back at the songs from past SYTYCD episodes.

Randi Evans and Evan Kasprzak danced Jive to the music “Shake A Tail Feather”—Ray Charles choreographed by Louis van Amstel

Melissa Sandvig and Ade Obayomi danced Jazz to the music “24 Hours” (The Aston Shuffle A-Bomb Remix) —Terry Poison choreographed by Sonya Tayeh

Caitlin Kinney and Jason Glover danced Hip-hop to the music “Missin’ You” —Trey Songz choreographed by Shane Sparks

Janette Manrana and Brandon Bryant danced Disco to the music “Loving Is Really My Game”—Brainstorm choreographed by Doriana Sanchez

Asuka Kondoh and Vitolio Jeune danced Waltz to the music “Dreams Are More Precious” —Enya choreographed by Louis van Amstel

Kayla Radomski and Max Kapitannikov danced Pop-Jazz to the song “Hot Like Wow” —Nadia Oh choreographed by Brian Friedman

Karla Garcia and Jonathan Platero danced a Contemporary piece to the song “Falling Slowly” —The Frames choreographed by Stacey Tookey (Original The Frames Music Video )

Jeanine Mason and Phillip Chbeeb danced Tango to the music “Violento (Up Mix)”–Bailongo! choreographed by Tony Meredith

Ashley Valerio and Kupono Aweau danced Hip-hop to the music “Imma Be” —The Black Eyed Peas choreographed by Shane Sparks

Check out the music used for the solos on the SYTYCD top 20 results show. Shane Sparks is back on SYTYCD!!

Group dance: “Boom Boom Pow” —The Black Eyed Peas Choreographer: Shane Sparks
Guest dancers: Miriam Larici & Leonardo Barrionuevo danced an Argentine Tango (Music: “Tangueira” from Forever Tango)
Musical guest: “Fire Burning” —Sean Kingston
Solos:
Paris Torres: “It Doesn’t Hurt” —Katie Thompson
Tony Bellissimo: “Early in the Morning” —The Gap Band
Asuka Kondoh: “Did Ya” —BoA
Vitolio Jeune: “We Belong Together” —Gavin DeGraw
Karla Garcia: “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” —Aretha Franklin
Jonathan Platero: “Krazy” —Pitbull featuring Lil Jon

The Paris Torres montage was to the song “Already Gone” by Kelly Clarkson
The Tony Bellissimo montage was to the song “On Your Own” by Green River Ordinance

As always here’s a link to find the previous SYTYCD music.

As we’ve been doing for all of So You Think You Can Dance season 5, we’ll be listing all of the music from So You Think You Can Dance. You can see all the previous SYTYCD music or check out the music from the So You Think You Can Dance top 20 below (updated throughout the evening):

Jeanine Mason and Phillip Chbeeb danced Hip-hop to the song “Mad” —Ne-Yo to the choreography of Tabitha D’umo and Napoleon D’umo (Original Music Video )

Asuka Kondoh and Vitolio Jeune danced Broadway to the song “Hot Honey Rag” from Chicago to the choreography of Tyce Diorio

Karla Garcia and Jonathan Platero danced a Cha-cha to the song “Poker Face” —Lady Gaga choreographed by Tony Meredith (Original music video )

Randi Evans and Evan Kasprzak danced Jazz to the song “I Only Have Eyes For You” —Jamie Cullum choreographed by Tyce Diorio

Paris Torres and Tony Bellissimo danced Hip-hop to the song “Let the Beat Rock” (Boyz Noize Megamix) —The Black Eyed Peas choreographed by Tabitha D’umo and Napoleon D’umo

Caitlin Kinney andJason Glover danced Bollywood to the song “Jai Ho” from Slumdog Millionaire choreographed by Nakul Dev Mahajan

Janette Manrara and Brandon Bryant danced a Foxtrot to the music “Come Fly With Me” —Michael Bublé choreographed by Louis van Amstel

Ashley Valerio and Kuponohi’ipoi “Kupono” Aweau danced a Jazz number to the song “Felt Mountain” –Goldfrapp choreographed by Wade Robson

Melissa Sandvig and Ade Obayomi danced a contemporary number to the song “Right Here Waiting” –Richard Marx choreographed by Mandy Moore (Original Music Video )

Kayla Radomski and Maksim “Max” Kapitannikov danced a samba number to the song “Jum Bah Day” (on YouTube)—House of Gypsies choreographed by Louis van Amstel.