Maja Salvador will be leaving a huge footprint on the music scene with her debut album “Believe”. And it is not loosely said so. As apart from the album being certified Gold last June (only 2 months after the official release) and obtaining an official Vevo channel on YouTube with views summing up to almost 6 million, the album takes the cake off the plate of its contemporaries once again by becoming the first OPM album to be mastered for iTunes.

 

A “mastered for iTunes” song is a digitally downloadable track on iTunes, taking legs of optimization to make every bit of it in the highest definition possible and as close to how artists and their production team intend every song to be heard as possible, while keeping the music file size down for portability and for more efficient digital distribution.

 

The calibre that “Believe” has set for itself makes it well-worthy of this iTunes mastery. As it geared away from traditional instrumentation and instead adopted modern production, it has become the most ideal vehicle to drive our eardrums to crave newness from the OPM department. All the while the album never lost sight of what is really important: it’s an OPM record. Note that all songs were penned in Filipino to butter up Maja’s new-fashioned Pinay image interbred with pop-house-R&B sound that could run parallel with American Top 40 tracks.

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This leap of Maja’s music to verge into the digital age is a gutsy deal in changing the game face of the local music industry not just in the manner of distribution and consumption of music, but also in itsproduction and ultimately, the artistry. Now you can listen in hi-def to the album with crystal-clear vocals, smoother strums and deeper thumps as if each of the tracks just got off the LASIK chair.

 

A milestone like this wasn’t far from Maja’s horizons to begin with. The way she wants things to happen in her music career is to take the qualitative side of the road, obvious in the production of her songs and the videos for them: never dry and juiceless. Maja believed that “Believe” would go places, and the album took the entire industry with it.

 

There’s no denying it. “Believe” is a key part of OPM music history now.

 

The mastered for iTunes “Believe” contains the original tracklist:

 

BONUS TRACKS:

 

Hear the difference by getting “Believe” off iTunes viahttps://itunes.apple.com/us/album/believe/id849627454

 
Good things are definitely coming her way! Only 2 months after its release, Maja Salvador’s debut album “BELIEVE” receives Gold Record award for selling more than 7,500 copies nationwide! The Dance Princess was awarded on by surprise on ASAP 19 last June 8, 2014 after she launched her second single from the album, entitled “Halikana” (featuring Abra).

Released under Ivory Music & Video and produced by award-winning arranger and producer, Jonathan Ong, the album features 8 tracks including the hit song “Dahan-Dahan” and her collaboration with hip-hop star Abra called “Halikana”. In this album, the Dance Princess also launched her first original composition called “Buong Gabi” featuring Project Pinas.
Her first single hit the radio airwaves and music charts by storm. After its first week of airing, “Dahan-Dahan” reached as high as #1 on the radio charts including and the music video reached 1M YouTube views after 2 months. It’s also one of the top-selling songs on iTunes and her song landed on the top spot along with foreign artists.

Maja Salvador’s “BELIEVE” album, under Ivory Music & Video, is available in major record stores for only P200.00. Also available for download on iTunes, SPINNR, Spotify and Deezer!

Also, Maja Salvador will be staging her first major concert entitled “MAJ: The Legal Performer” on July 12, 2014 at the Music Museum with special guests, Piolo Pascual, Rayver Cruz, Enchong Dee, King of the Gil, Enrique Gil, Hotlegs and CT Guyz! Ticket Prices range from 2500, 1800 and 800. For inquiries, contact Music Museum at 7216726 and Ticketworld at 8919999! 

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Me, I love music and I think we all love music and more we all love to sing, right?  Just like Maja Salvador, she loves music and she loves to sing which made her one of the newest recording artist with an album titled as "Maja Believe".
Coming from the title of the "Maja Believe" she did believe and according to her the title itself tells that all you just need is believe on your dreams and you'll achieve it. She added also that you need to practice and practice in order to achieve it.  Just like what she did, she kept practicing with singing and eventually her dream to have an album came true.



According to her she wants to prove that she is a singer also, and her talent does not stop only on acting and dancing.  Singing is something that she have plus her talent on song writing as well.   She disclosed that "I want to be a total performer". She is very thankful that Ivory Record trusts her talent and gave the opportunity to have an album.


It was not a long time ago when Kapamilya star, Maja Salvador, appeared on Gandang Gabi Vice and shared that she’s serious about pursuing singing as a career, “Gusto ko na, kaya nga ako nag-tour kasi 10 years na ako sa business.” She even shared that she was taking voice lessons from Annie Quintos of The Company.


“Gusto ko i-share sa kanila [sa fans] na meron akong bagong minamahal, which is yung pag-kanta. Sobrang swerte lang na may nakarinig ng boses ko from Ivory Music na yun nga, willing silang gumawa ng album ko.” It was December 2013 when Maja signed a recording contract with Ivory Music & Video. After months of excitement and anticipation, the actress-turned-singer unleashes her talent in singing with her debut album MAJA BELIEVE!


Produced by award-winning arranger and producer, Jonathan Ong, the album features 8 tracks including her first single “Dahan-Dahan” and the sure-to-be hit collaboration with hip-hop star Abra called “Halikana”. Maja Salvador also awakens the songwriter in her as she co-writes a track called “Buong Gabi” featuring Project Pinas.

The “Dance Princess” shared that this album is a dream come true for her as not everyone is given the chance to have a record deal, “Hindi lahat sumusugal na bigyan ng album ang isang artista so I’m very thankful. Sobrang naa-amaze ako sa nangyayari sa akin today.”



She admitted that the recording process wasn’t an easy ride for her since it’s a first-time endeavor to record a music album, but all was well with the help of the engineers at Sonic State Studios. “Parang nung umpisa, hindi ko alam kung tama ba yung ginagawa ko kasi first time ko mag-record ng kanta [at] first time ko gumawa ng album pero nahanap ko rin yung placement ng voice ko,” she confesses.

Surreal would be the best word to explain her feeling when she heard her first single “Dahan-Dahan” on the radio, “Nung una ko siyang narinig sa radyo, nakatulala lang ako kasi parang hindi parin ako makapaniwala.” In fact, her first single hit the radio airwaves and music charts by storm. After its first week of airing, “Dahan-Dahan” reached as high as #1 on the radio charts including MOR Dagupan. It’s also one of the top-selling songs on iTunes and her song landed on the top spot along with foreign artists since its release on March 6, 2014.



Her favorite song among the track of her album is the "Dahan Dahan" her carrier single, I like the message of the song and it match my voice in this song. Next that I like most is "Wala Na Bang Pag-ibig" that's the song that I usually sing in Videoke.

During the press con she was asked why all  the tracks are in Tagalog, this is what she said "Its more fun pag tagalog kaya puro tagalog song", hahaha, that was fun.