“FLYFM crushes on David Archuleta” Week, Malaysia
ArchuCupcake, anyone?
(L) Reads “Malaysian ArchAngels heart David Archuleta” - Special thanks and acknowledgement to Andrew for the David Archuleta cartoon. (R ) Reads “Malaysian ArchAngels park @ FLYFM coz FLYFM heart David Archuleta - The cupcakes were personalized with the FlyFM DJs’ names.
These delicious and “too pretty to be eaten” cupcakes were specially designed and baked by Elicia, a Malaysian ArchAngel from Archuleta Avenue Malaysia (http://archuletavenue.wordpress.com/) to thank and appreciate FlyFM (http://www.flyfm.com.my/), one of the three major English radio stations for conducting the “FlyFM crushes on David Archuleta” week from September 15th to 19th during its Must Have Music segments (10 am to 4 pm).
For the Malaysian ArchAngels, it was a week of pure ArchuHeaven whereby FlyFM aired the songs David had sung from his Star Search to American Idol days, snippets of his interview clips and phone conversations of the DJs with the fans, which were interspersed into their normal playlist. The special week-long feature came about after FlyFM was overwhelmed with tons of requests for Crush and Ai Sim, a Malaysian Golden Archie was instrumental in helping FlyFM to compile the materials for the feature. We have included her story below. What FlyFM did with David Archuleta Week was an unprecedented move on their part and the Malaysian ArchAngels were a force to be reckoned with. It was a golden opportunity not only for the ArchAngels to reminisce but to give an up close and personal knowledge and information to the non-fans.
FlyFM also deserves another major kudos – they were the first radio station to debut Crush on Friday after the Z100 world premiere and Crush has been crushing their biggest countdown chart, “Most Wanted Chart” which plays the top 10 most requested song every Monday to Friday.
So we showered FlyFM with some ArchuLove!
The gifts – DJ Steve & Jules of FlyFM thanked us in their blogs
http://www.flyfm.com.my/fly_jocks/2nd%20page/240908_steve.asp http://www.flyfm.com.my/fly_jocks/2nd%20page/230908_jules.asp
“FlyFM crushes on David Archuleta” feature on Must Have Music and carried a trademark fan shoutout – “I am an ArchAngel and I love David Archuleta!”
http://www.flyfm.com.my/mhmr.asp
Our Tribute Post to FlyFM:
(L) David Archuleta picture credit to ealbino of FansofDavid. Thank you message written by John Chang of Archuleta Avenue Malaysia. http://archuletavenue.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/tribute-to-flyfm-thank-you/
Elicia’s blog at:- http://www.sinfullyyourscakes.blogspot.com/
Audio clips and Recaps We have also compiled the audio clips and recaps of “FlyFM crushes on David Archuleta” feature to share with all of David’s fans. Enjoy!
Day 1 – Audio & Recap http://archuletavenue.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/flyfms-d-week-day-one-recap/
Day 2 – Audio & Recap http://archuletavenue.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/fly-fm-david-week-day-1-150908-snippets/
Day 3 – Audio & Recap http://archuletavenue.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/flyfms-david-week-day-3-recap-day-2-audio-clips/
Day 4 – Audio & Recap http://archuletavenue.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/fly-fm-david-archuleta-week-day-4-audio-snippets/
Day 5 – Audio & Recap http://archuletavenue.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/fly-fm-david-week-recaps-and-audio-clips/
Ai Sim’s story:- THIS IS HOW IT ALL HAPPENED!!! ------(remember David said everything happened with a reason or something like that..)
On Sept. 8 Steve called me and informed me that they are organizing “David Archuleta Week” the following week and required my assistance provide him with some of Archie Angels’ contact numbers for him to call them to arrange for some recordings of their ‘shout outs’ to be aired during the program.
Steve told me “because you are the only one who sent us the updates on David Archuleta, you are officially designated as David Archuleta’s biggest fan on “Music Must Have!” Ha! Ha! What I did was provide David’s updates, interviews & video links whenever submitting Crush requests! My main intention was to let them who is “DAVID ARCHULETA” and not just introducing David as AI Runner-Up!! I only provided FlyFM with the information I had on David the rest was done by them.
On the morning of the 2nd day I sent 2 emails to Adam (Music Director). One with the 1st day recap and another one with WYSYLM Tulsa Youtube to thank FlyFM for organizing such remarkable program!
I managed to speak to Adam later in the afternoon. The 1st thing of course was to thank him and his team personally for organizing the program. He asked me whether it is up to my expectation so far. Ha ha! I told him that I was so nervous and excited and I wanted to share with the whole world including David! He told me I should be proud because FlyFM has not done this for any artist before.
Adam told me he was so shocked with details of the recap! It was the 1st time he had read such recaps and comments. He told me he became nervous and worried because he will be coming out for the show after he read the recap. (jokingly)!!! Arch Angels are a serious lot!!!
According to Adam the response to this program has been overwhelming, telephone requests and web requests have been pouring in. Ha ha! They received complaints too for not having enough staff to handle phone calls!
FlyFM definitely did a fabulous job! The compilation of songs during AI with the judges’ comments and the interview clips were really useful. What a way to promote David!
I sent some Famous Amos cookies as gifts on Friday morning to Adam, Steve and Hafiz in appreciation of their job well done. The guys (just after Hafiz started the show) called me to thank me for the cookies and Adam also acknowledged my contribution to the program! I thanked him and his team once again for organizing this show and told him after this David’s fan base in Malaysia will definitely grow.
We have started a rave on David Archuleta. Here’s hoping David fan in Malaysia increases by the day and our support for him does not wane.
-Ai Sim www.goldenarchies.com
~Archuleta Avenue Malaysia~