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<\/p>\nABS-CBN Music creatives, content, and operations head and renowned songwriter and producer Jonathan Manalo receives back-to-back wins at the 2025 Awit Awards and 47th Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA).<\/p>\n
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Jonathan bagged two major honors at the Awit Awards, earning Best Song Written for Media for the \u201cPamilya Sagrado\u201d soundtrack \u201cUlit-Ulit,\u201d which he penned and produced for Regine Velasquez-Alcasid, and also clinching Best Traditional\/Contemporary Folk Recording for producing \u201cATM,\u201d written by Francis Contemplacion and performed by Ice Seguerra.<\/p>\n
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He also won Best Inspiration Secular Song for \u201cBahaghari\u201d at the 47th CMMA.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you, Awit Awards, for the several wins we received! All glory and honor to my Lord & Savior Jesus Christ. Thank you also to the 47th CMMA for recognizing Bahaghari as Best Inspirational Secular Song. It is an honor to have written\/composed, produced, and interpreted this piece (for Reverb Worship\/CBN Asia), and an even greater privilege to minister through this song and share its message at the awards night,\u201d Jonathan said in a post.<\/p>\n
Aside from these new milestones, the OPM hitmaker continues to dominate various music platforms, as he surpassed over 9.5 billion streams, according to Muso, a music credit database. He has also reached more than 18 billion streams across different video platforms.<\/p>\n
As he gears up for 2026, \u201cMr. Music\u201d will mark his 25th anniversary in the music industry with more exciting surprises and projects.<\/p>\n
Best known for producing and writing classics like \u201cTara Tena,\u201d \u201cGusto Ko Nang Bumitaw,\u201d \u201cPagbigyang Muli,\u201d \u201cPatuloy Ang Pangarap,\u201d and \u201cPinoy Ako,\u201d Jonathan\u2019s impact on OPM is unmatched, with hundreds of recordings, multi-platinum successes, and a long list of beloved hits.<\/p>\n
Jonathan has been responsible for building evergreen catalogues for Erik Santos, Kyla, Yeng Constantino, KZ, Angeline Quinto, Jona, Ice Seguerra, Juris, Morrissette, and Moira dela Torre and producing theme songs performed by Gary Valenciano, Regine Velasquez, Sarah Geronimo, Pablo, and SB19.<\/p>\n
He also produced some of BINI\u2019s hit songs, \u201cLagi,\u201d \u201cStrings,\u201d \u201cBlooming,\u201d and \u201cParu-paro.\u201d He is also the producer behind tracks for ABS-CBN movies and series, among which are the \u201cIt\u2019s Okay To Not Be Okay\u201d soundtrack album, various \u201cPinoy Big Brother Celebrity Collab Edition\u201d songs, and Maki\u2019s \u201cDilaw\u201d for \u201cMy Love Will Make You Disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Earlier this year, some of his classic hits were featured in the musical “Delia D: A Musical Featuring the Songs of Jonathan Manalo,” which ran from April to June at the Newport Performing Arts Theater and received multiple nominations from the upcoming Aliw Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With hundreds of recordings and multi-platinum releases, his work remains foundational to modern Filipino music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pageone-online-network"],"pageone_source":{"pageone_source":"","author_name":"PAGEONE Online Network"},"_pageone_source":"","zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":{"nxtgen_comments":[{"1318":"Ang saya makakita ng OPM win na ganito \ud83d\ude0a\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\udded\r","1319":"more hits soon \ud83d\ude4c\r","1320":"opm stronger dahil sa karya nya na walang katulad \ud83d\udd25\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\udded\r","1321":"sUpEr pR0uD kAmEh d1t0 s@ u \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\udc9b\r","1322":"The article gives a detailed overview of his work\r"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}