Author: JE CC

The love team’s second film to cross ₱200-million mark at the box office, Un/Happy For You is poise to deliver more local records, in the coming weeks. Already the biggest local box office hit in 2024, Star Cinema’s Un/Happy For You continues to dominate local cinemas, proving the industry is once again alive and still has hope. Last Saturday, August 24, the film crossed the ₱253 million mark, drawing approximately 800,000 admissions, on its second week. The film has been wrecking local records for the year and since pandemic, including the biggest single-day gross of ₱46 million, recorded last August 18, Sunday.…

The Popstar Royalty  hit an all-time high monthly listeners on Spotify, reflecting the soaring popularity of the cover song she recorded for he film in 2014. Sarah Geronimo may have not recorded any studio album in the last few years (although she had a number of collaborative singles w/ other artists) in 2022 and  2023, but not an ounce of her popularity and influence diminished, through the years. She, in fact, continues to top musical charts, and this year, she is the face of a new viral craze, online! Have you been seeing the viral dance craze, ‘Maybe This Time’,…

Both shows have been frequently hitting single digits in both total and aggregated ratings, according to Nielsen Philippines. While Pulang Araw remains in the Top 10 of Netflix Philippines’ most streamed TV shows, three weeks in a row, it continues to bleed in the TV ratings game, posting mostly only half of the ratings its rival show, FPJ’s Batang Quiapo, continues to enjoy. Last Monday, the Coco Martin-starrer hit a new all-time high of 18.3, nearly 10-point ahead of Pulang Araw’s 8.8. On Tuesday, Batang Quiapo pulled off an 18.0 people rating, again with a gargantuan lead of 9.9 points over Pulang Araw’s 8.1. Pulang…

Coming from a stagnant first half of the year, local cinema sees invigoration with the arrival of Star Cinema’s Un/Happy For You. Local cinema saw incredible box office numbers, last year, with Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera’s Rewind, becoming the biggest local commercial film of the year and grossing more than ₱915 million at the global box office. But that was more than six months ago. No other local release this year, has ever hit ₱100 million at the box office. Not until JoshLia and Star Cinema’s Un/Happy For You, which deserves the recognition of being a new box office hero. The said reunion…

With SM alone, pre-sales for the highly-anticipated reunion film, has already registered incredible numbers. Joshua Garcia and Julia Barreto’s reunion romantic-drama film, Un/Happy For You, will rake millions. That’s at least what the movie’s pre-sales at SM Cinemas are telling us. Pre-sales are ticket purchases paid in advance by moviegoers ahead of a film’s actual showing date. It does not reflect the actual gross of the film, but gives an idea how strong its box office performance going to be. The new Star Cinema film will welcome its first regular audiences on Wednesday, August 14, but money has already been…

With the number one TV show in the country, airing between Lumuhod Ka Sa Lupa and Pamilya Sagrado, on primetime, it seems the Coco Martin-starrer is reinforcing the two shows to attract more audiences.

Kapamilya Online Live and Kapuso Stream continue to engage in an interesting battle, with the former taking home the crown. Kapamilya primetime programs are bringing home the bacon, dominating online concurrent viewership game with significant lead versus their Kapuso rivals. That said, GMA Network’s primetime dramas are showing big improvement over the last few months, especially since powerhouse shows, Asawa ng Asawa Ko, and Widow’s War, debuted. FPJ’s Batang Quiapo, which remains the most watched TV drama in the country, unquestionably reigns supreme. It is the only local TV show, whose combined live concurrent viewers on YouTube and Facebook, regularly…

Both ABS-CBN and GMA Network have attained major feats on YouTube, this month.

The Kapamilya action-drama series only replicates its massive success on television,  with record-breaking concurrent views, online.

The week particularly focuses on the death of Ivana Alawi’s character, Bubbles, whose fate fell grim because of David  The number one TV show in the country, FPJ’s Batang Quiapo, further surged forward both in the ratings and live concurrent viewership games. As if it is unstoppable, the Coco Martin-topbilled action drama, even soared in both metrics, with the arrival of the extremely-hyped new rival series, Pulang Araw. On Monday, July 29, FPJ’s Batang Quiapo, fended off Pulang Araw, in the live concurrent viewership game, logging a stellar 622k online concurrent viewers, or more than 15 times that of Pulang Araw. The series, which…

Like a gigantic storm, BINI captivated netizens and music lovers anew, with the release of their latest single, ‘Cherry On Top’. Who run the world?!, a powerful line, one that’s already common, was asked by thd so-called Nation’s Girl Group, in Cherry On Top, their newest pop banger, that’s currently setting the internet ablaze. Thousands of devoted fans awaited for the official release of the music video and audio track, ladt night, July 11, and with the numbers rising to unprecedented levels, one can’t deny how massive a hit the new track is poised to be. On YouTube alone, the…

The new Kapamilya action-drama soared past 550,000 live viewers, for the first time, on YouTube alone.

ABS-CBN lords the online concurrent viewership game, with FPJ’s Batang Quiapo, now regularly hitting more than half a million, nightly.

Record-breaking feats remain aplenty with ‘FPJ’s Batang Quiapo’, as it continues to lead all local weekday TV programs, in both online and traditional TV battlegrounds. Coco Martin’s FPJ’s Batang Quiapo continues to clobber timeslot rival, Black Rider, with the Kapamilya show, keeping its position among all TV programs airing on weekdays, ratings-wise. The series has consistently defeated, not just the Ruru Madrid-starrer, but also GMA Network’s flagship primetime newscast, 24 Oras. On Monday, July 1, for example, FPJ’s Batang Quiapo, logged a 14.6 people rating, according to Nielsen Philippines, higher than 24 Oras’ 13.6. The Kapuso newscast was the perennial overall top rater, before Batang Quiapo’s debut on February…

Hits recorded by two acts have taken turns as the most streamed track on Spotify. I’m ABS-CBN’s recording arm, Star Music, continues to reach new highs this year, and that’s mostly thanks to two of its currently most popular artists, PPOP girl group, BINI, and solo artist, Maki. BINI has been on a record-breaking craze on Spotify, since the beginning of the year, becoming the first girl group to hit 1 million and 2 million monthly listeners. The group then became the most streamed PPOP group in the country, surpassing SB19. The girl group is the first group of its…

This is not the first time the series soared above half-a-million in online concurrent live viewers. At the moment, events in the number one TV show in the country, FPJ’s Batang Quiapo, are still sowly churning into a potential major turn, but online viewers seem to be already glued on what’s next, as reflected by the show’s near-record live concurrent viewers online. On Tuesday, FPJ’s Batang Quiapo saw its live concurrent viewers on YouTube, spiked to more than 486,000, one of the highest it ever achieved, when not taken into account Facebook. On the same day, some 15,000+ tuned in on…