This is the first of what will be known as the monthly Jiboneus top 5 music chart.

So how do I came out with the five track every month? Most of the time I use iTunes or my iPod to listen to music. Each time you listen to a song on iTunes it records the play count. This is also true with iPods. Each time you sync your iPod to your iTunes it updates the songs play count.

Every end of month I’ll check my iTunes and get a list of 5 most played track on my iTunes, as the Jiboneus top 5 chart. For the month January 2009 we have: -

#5. 1 2 3 4 by Feist

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Leslie Feist is a Canadian singer and songwriter who performs as a solo artist under the name Feist and also as a member of a Canadian indie rock group known as the Broken Social Scene.

The track 1234 is form her highly successful album The Reminder. She co-wrote it with Sally Seltmann of New Buffalo, it’s simply a joy to listen to even thought the song is about lost love. Feist adds an upbeat sound to it.

The song 1234, the album The Reminder and Feist herself was made popular prior to an iPod Nano commercial featuring this song. The song sky rocketed through music charts everywhere. Time magazine named 1234 as one of the top 10 Best Songs of 2007. On 2008 Feist won Single of the Year on Juno Award. Quite an achievement for an indie artist.

The song had always been my all time favorite, so does the album The Reminder. You can buy Feist, The Reminder from Amazon.com.

#4. Love You Yes by Couple

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#3. C’mon Operator by Couple

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Number four and three on the chart are Love You Yes and C’mon Operator, both songs are from Couple’s latest album Teenage Disc Fantastic. Once I got their album on their album launching gig, Teenage Gig Fantastic, it has been in a constant repeat mode.

The band Couple has been around for quite sometime, I remember hearing about them during the late 90s, when the term ‘indie band’ isn’t so much of the ‘in thing’ back then.

The band Couple, being one of Rolling Stone’s 25 Best Band On MySpace, they played power pop music, taking queues from the likes of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Who and a little bit of Weezer thrown in. The influence is obvious in their music.

Their first album Top of The Pop has been one of my all time favorite album to listen to and their latest Teenage Disc Fantastic will surely make its way onto the list.

Check out their MySpace page for more information on where you can get yourself a Teenage Disc Fantastic CD album.

#2. Soul Meets Body by Death Cab for Cutie

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Who wouldn’t want to live where soul meets body while the sun wraps its arms around you and melody softly soaring through your atmosphere?

Usually, when an indie band so intimately and fiercely loved by their fans when on to sign with a major record label, often it resulted in a backlash form fans and a painful death for the bands. Death Cab for Cuite however, manages to survive and grown even more when signing with a major recording company.

The album Plans is their debut album under Atlantic Records, and the song Soul Meets Body has always been on my top iTunes playlist.

No doubt that the band made popular by a popular teen TV show, The O.C. Seth Cohen the fictional character in The O.C. is dub as the prime time television’s poster boy for ‘indie music’ and Death Cab for Cutie is supposedly his favorite band.

#1. Paper Planes by M.I.A

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From Canada’s Feist to Malaysia’s Couple to America’s Death Cab for Cutie and now we go to Sri Lanka/British hip-hop artist, M.I.A.

Paper Planes by M.I.A is a very catchy tunes that recently gets into my iTunes. It has lyrics that only makes sense for when you are high, although I was told that it has a more deeper meaning to it, a satire on immigrant stereotypes.

Paper Planes and M.I.A was made popular when the song made it into a film trailer for the movie Pineapple Express. It then gets more popular as it was featured on the film Slumdog Millionaire. Both are movies that I like.

The scene of when the kids train hooping and making a living on trains in Slumdog Millionaire and this songs fits perfectly. It would make a wonderful music video for Paper Planes.

Get M.I.A or the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack on Amazon.