1:43 scores another hit

MANILA, Philippines - 1:43 (photo) scored commercial success in its third all-original album titled #KalyePop (KPop) released last week under MCA Music (Universal Music Philippines).  

#KalyePop was reportedly selling like hotcakes in various Astrovision, Astroplus and Odyssey record bars in Metro Manila while certain branches ran out of stocks a few days after copies landed on the shelves.

“It is a pleasant surprise to learn that the sales of #KalyePop is doing well, especially at this time when music fans are no longer buying physical copies of OPM albums. We can’t help but be grateful to our fans for the good news,” says  the band’s spokesman Anjo Resurreccion.

The neocolonial-inspired album #KalyePop contains six original tracks from the boy band that popularized Sa Isang Sulyap Mo, the song that won the 2013 PMPC Star Award for Music Song of the Year and the Most Promising Performing and Recording Group in the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation’s 45th Box-Office Entertainment Awards.

Except for the upbeat novelty song Ang Saya-Saya written by Jonathan Ong of Sonic State Studio, the rest of the tracks including the hit Hayop Sa Ganda and the earlier promotional single Ikaw At Ako were composed by musician and the group’s road manager Urie Tesorio.