Music & Streaming Radio BlackBerry Apps Dominate – Top 10 FREE BlackBerry Apps

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! It’s Saturday and time for an update on the Top 10 Free BlackBerry Apps, calculated by number of downloads from BlackBerry App World. Last week, the Top 10 featured three BlackBerry Apps that squeezed their way into the top 10; Facebook, Slacker Radio and Color ID. Color ID didn’t just slowly climb the latter, it paved it’s way to the top, becoming last week’s top Free BlackBerry App.

This week’s listing of Apps has a common theme as BlackBerry users searched for and downloaded the best Music and Streaming Radio Apps that BlackBerry has to offer. In fact, 40% of this weeks top 10 and 3 out of the top 5 Apps were of the Music and Streaming Radio category. Let’s take a closer look at the Top 10 Free BlackBerry Apps, as of September 12, 2009 & be sure to visit us next Saturday to see which Apps make the cut.

To download these apps, you must first install BlackBerry App World onto your BlackBerry. Visit BlackBerry App World from your PC,  then enter your e-mail address to get the download link e-mailed to you. You may also visit www.blackberry.com/appworld/download from your BlackBerry Browser. Once you’ve download BlackBerry App World, you’ll have the ability to download all the Free or Paid Apps from a collection of 1300+ BlackBerry Apps.

10. (6) BlackBerry App World 1.1.0.15 (Utilities) 3 Stars, 49 Pages of Reviews, 906KB

“Personalize your BlackBerry smartphone with games, social networking, personal productivity applications and so much more. BlackBerry apps can take full advantage of proven features like BlackBerry push technology and GPS to name a few so you can experience apps like never before. Put more of your life on your BlackBerry smartphone.”

9. (NR) Tunewiki Free 1.0.0.69 (Music & Audio) 3.5 Stars, 36 Pages of Reviews, 143 KB

“Next generation social media player with lyrics, translation and music charts based on community contributors. Lyrics display as subtitles as subtitles Karaoke style, translation of lyrics to forty languages, maps of music played according to location, top 50 lists in every country of the world, and many more.”

8. (NR) Ka-Glom – Free 1.2.1 (Games) 4 Stars, 82 Pages of Reviews, 529 KB

“Combine the explosive Ka-Glom jelly to blast blocks and get the ultimate chain reaction. Ka-Glom is a high-pressure game of falling blocks. Of the two block types, only the Ka-Glom jelly is explosive. Connect four Ka-Gloms of the same color to start an explosive reaction eliminating all connecting blocks of that color. In building huge chain-reacting explosions your Ka-Glom Factor increases  and the bonus points multiply”

7. (5) Poynt 1.4.2.72 (Utilities) 4.5 Stars, 311 Pages of Reviews, 581 KB

“Use Poynt to find people, businesses, movie theaters, retailers and restaurants near you. Poynt uses GPS or cell-site locations to pinpoint you and quickly deliver the information you need whenever and wherever you need it. Find phone numbers and contacts with one click, browse websites and map directions. Plan a night out – book movie tickets and dinner reservations, add it to your calendar and invite your friends. Add listings to your BlackBerry Address Book, add movie and restaurant events to your BlackBerry Calendar, share listings using BlackBerry Messages. Poynt is free and available in Canada, the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom.”

6. (10) ScoreMobile for BlackBerry 1.2 *new update* (Sports) 4 Stars, 88 Pages of Reviews, 361 KB

“Provide up-to-the-minute sports scores, boxscores, fantasy player stats, betting odds, game previews, recaps, top stories, and league standings. In addition we publish exclusive live blogs for key games. Coverage currently includes: Football (NFL, NCAAF, CFL), Baseball (MLB), Basketball  (NBA, NCAAB), Hockey (NHL), Golf (PGA), Auto Racing (NASCAR Sprint Cup) and Soccer (EPL, MLS)…Personalize Favorite teams and Data Refresh intervals.”

5. (NR) iheart Radio 1.0 (Music & Audio) 3 Stars, 181 Pages of Reviews, 270KB

“iheartradio delivers America’s favorite radio stations, including Z100, KISS FM, WGCI, KFI AM and KFAN, right to your BlackBerry Pearl, Curve, Storm or Bold. Bookmark your favorite stations, view album art and get lyrics to your favorite songs. You can even listen to traffic reports for New York and LA. iheartradio also includes digital-only stations…All stations are streamed in high quality AAC for a superior listening experience.”

4. (8) Slacker Radio 2.0.49 (Music & Audio) 4 Stars, 160 Pages of Reviews, 1.6MB

“Listen to all your favorite personalized Slacker stations on your BlackBerry for free! You can listen to over 100 stations programmed by music experts or create your own custom stations right from your BlackBerry. You’ll have detailed artist biographies, full album reviews and more. Best of all, the music can be stored on your phone so you can listen even when you don’t have a connection!”

3. (2) WeatherEye 1.1.1.6 (Weather) 3 Stars, 219 Pages of Reviews, 934KB

“WeatherEye BlackBerry provides you the following information and allows you to select from any city The Weather Network provides content for Current locations, Short-term forecasts, Long-term forecasts and Warning updates.”

2. (1) Color ID – Free 1.1.2 (Utilities) 3.5 Stars, 16 Pages of Reviews, 427KB

“Know instantly who or where an email, sms or incoming call is from just from the colors of the flashing light on your BlackBerry. Assign multiple LED colors for SMS messages, Email and Incoming Calls to SPECIFIC contacts. Assign any one or two colors to the BlackBerry LED indicator. Select from 9 colors and combinations of them: Orange, Pink, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Purple, Red, White or none. Multiple phone numbers and email address ability for one color combination. Syncs with BlackBerry address book for easy additions! Easy-to-use interface with preview functionality. Share with a friend feature. Setup wizard for first-time users. ”

1. (3) Pandora 1.1.1.1 (Music & Audio) 4.5 Stars, 573 Pages of Reviews, 286 KB

“Radio that is personalized just for you, playing only the music that you love. Simply enter one of your favorite songs or artists and Pandora creates a radio station that explores just that kind of music. With your BlackBerry smartphone, Pandora brings an effortless personal soundtrack right to you whenever you want to listen to music.”

This weeks top 5 are pretty solid. Pandora is my clear number 1 and you can’t go wrong with iheart Radio or Slacker Radio and WeatherEye is a great tool to keep up with current and future forecasts. The one App that is a bit limited is Color ID Free, since the free version only allows you to add 2 contacts. If the App is for you, you may want to purchase the full App for $5.99. For the top 6 through 10, I use each of them with the exception of Tunewiki. Tunewiki is a great App, but it doesn’t provide you with music, it’s more of a social media player for your existing music. Do you have any favorites that you feel should be included in the top 1o? What are your thoughts on this weeks top 10?