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An artist in the top 26 twice with different recordings of the same song, the joint-highest official re-entry to the top 75 (until this week), a lot of frustrated artists, and a band who would make the headlines for the wrong reasons later in the year (thanks to an unusual promotion method involving mobile SIM cards):

1 (3) Proclaimers ft Brian Potter & Andy Pipkin - (I'm Gonna Be) 500 Miles
2 (1) Sugababes vs Girls Aloud - Walk This Way
3 (re) Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
4 (2) Gwen Stefani ft Akon - The Sweet Escape
5 (18) Alex Gaudino ft Crystal Waters - Destination Calabria
6 (5) Fray - How To Save A Life
7 (4) Take That - Shine
8 (6) Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
9 (30) Maximo Park - Our Velocity
10 (19) Fergie ft Ludacris - Glamorous
11 (7) Mika - Grace Kelly
12 (8) Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around ... Comes Around
13 (9) Camille Jones vs Fedde Le Grand
14 (11) Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
15 (32) The Twang - Wide Awake
16 (10) Calvin Harris - Acceptable In The 80's
17 (14) P Diddy ft Keyshia Cole - Last Night
18 (13) Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
19 (12) Kelis ft Cee-Lo - Little Star
20 (16) Take That - Patience
21 (22) Christina Aguilera - Candyman
22 (21) Paolo Nutini - New Shoes
23 (17) Akon ft Snoop Dogg - I Wanna Love You
24 (15) Cascada - Miracle
25 (59) Ghosts - Stay The Night
26 (37) Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
27 (26) Killers - Read My Mind
28 (29) Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
29 (60) Hilary Duff - With Love
30 (20) Omarion - Ice Box
31 (27) Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes
32 (23) Good Charlotte - Keep Your Hands Off My Girl
33 (28) Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene It's An Arms Race
34 (35) Pink - Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
35 (-) Ciara - Like A Boy
36 (-) Tiny Dancers - I Will Wait For You
37 (25) Lily Allen - Alfie
38 (-) Seamus Haji ft KayJay - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
39 (24) Fratellis - Baby Fratelli
40 (33) Mason vs Princess Superstar - Perfect (Exceeder)

41 (-) Rumble Strips - Alarm Clock
42 (-) Brett Anderson - Love Is Dead
43 (-) Jamelia - No More
44 (-) Razorlight - I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got
45 (-) Lemar - Tick Tock
47 (-) New Young Pony Club - The Bomb
48 (48) Cascada - Everytime We Touch
59 (-) Midas - Don't Dance
61 (-) Scooch - Flying The Flag (For You)
66 (-) My Chemical Romance - I Don't Love You
68 (72) Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running
71 (re) Chris Cornell - You Know My Name
73 (75) Mika - Lollipop

#25 was in fact a re-entry to the top 40 - it had charted at #39 on downloads 3 weeks previously.

Hilary Duff was at #29 exactly one year to the week after her previous hit Fly had occupied that position in its 2nd week on the chart (although that was a faller from #20). In fact JK & Joel accidentally played Fly instead of With Love on the chart show!

This chart featured 4 songs that made official re-entries to the top 10 at some point during their chart runs - as well as Avril Lavigne, Snow Patrol (who returned after their exclusion), Cascada (which charted at #57 before being removed from I-Tunes), and Scooch (which was also removed from I-Tunes and would re-enter at #5 a few weeks later) all managed this feat.

Arcade Fire had a somewhat unusual run: 74-72-68-xx-56 (first 3 weeks were on downloads, there was then a vinyl physical released).