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Hey here are my picks: 06. 4th Week " Macklemore; Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop " [ 34-30-5-6 ] 08. 4th Week " The Saturdays; Sean Paul - What About Us " [ 25-13-9-8 ] 09. 11th Week " Rihanna; Mikky Ekko - Stay " [ 30-1-1-1-3-3-4-4-5-10-9 ] 10. 6th Week " Ke$ha - C'Mon " [ 16-1-1-3-7-10 ] 13. 4th Week " Nicole Scherzinger - Boomerang " [ 28-15-13-13 ] 14. NEW! " Justin Timberlake - Mirrors " [ 14 ] 15. 7th Week " Little Mix - Change Your Life " [ 11-9-9-6-6-12-15 ] 19. 11th Week " will.i.am; Britney Spears - Scream & Shout " [ 25-20-12-5-2-4-5-5-7-14-19 ] 23. 7th Week " Cheryl - Ghetto Baby " [ 16-6-7-9-14-17-23 ] 25. 13th Week " Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble " [ 6-2-3-5-2-2-5-7-11-13-18-24-25 ] 26. 10th Week " One Direction - Kiss You " [ 27-3-3-9-14-18-15-20-25-26 ] 31. 7th Week " Amelia Lily - Shut Up (And Give Me Whatever You Got) " [ 1-1-3-3-8-18-31 ] 37. 5th Week " Justin Timberlake; Jay-Z - Suit & Tie " [ 17-22-27-36-37 ] 38. 15th Week " Ke$ha - Die Young " [ 35-22-2-3-5-11-9-4-10-13-15-21-26-32-38 ]

(R )1 will.i.am & Britney Spears Scream & Shout (10 weeks) [4-7-4-5-OUT-5-1-1-3-5-OUT-1-] (8)2 Girls Aloud Every Now & Then (11 weeks) [1-3-6-4-4-5-6-OUT-8-8-8-2-] (10)3 Girls Aloud On the Metro (12 weeks) [4-5-4-3-2-3-8-6-10-10-10-3-] (1)4 Kimberley Walsh One Day I'll Fly Away (5 weeks) [6-OUT-5-OUT-1-1-4-] (4)5 Willam Boy is a Bottom (3 weeks) [4-4-6-] (6)6 Amelia Lily Shut Up (8 weeks) [6-8-10-1-1-6-6-6-] (7)7 The Saturdays What About Us? (7 weeks) [2-4-2-2-7-7-7-] (R )8 Macklemore Thrift Shop (2 weeks) [4-OUT-8-] (R )9 Girls Aloud Beautiful Cause You Love Me (12 weeks) [5-2-3-1-2-2-3-7-2-10-3-OUT-9] (N)10 Little Mix Change Your Life Thanks to the new hip hop remix "Scream & Shout" returns to the chart and shoots back to the top after a very quiet week for new music plays eligible for this top 10. In the event of a tie in weekly plays of a track, any such tracks which were in the previous chart will be listed highest, hence the huge jump back up the list for Girls Aloud's new album tracks. Just one new entry for Little Mix who denied Taylor Swift a chart place, herself boosted by the Brit Awards performance of the night, in my opinion. Expecting Girls Aloud to linger further as I'm now going to see them in Manchester on the 6th :-D Also expecting future new entries for Taylor Swift and Amelia Lily however, given the impact The Big Reunion has had on my song plays of late, it could be difficult to string a chart together for a while...

1. ABBA - Definitive Collection 2. ABBA - Visitors 3. ABBA - Waterloo 4. ABBA - Arrival 5. ABBA - Voulez - Vous 6. ABBA - ABBA 7. ABBA - Ring Ring 8. Atomic Kitten - Ladies Night 9. Atomic Kitten - Feels So Good 11. All Siants - All Hits 12. All Siants - Studio 1 13. All Siants - Saints And Sinners 14. Amy Macdonald - This Is The Life 17. Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin 22. Ace Of Base - Flowers 26. Britney Spears - Britney 27. Britney Spears - Blackout 28. Britney Spears - In The Zone 29. Britney Spears - Singles Collection 30. Britney Spears - Oops! I Did It Again 31. Britney Spears - Circus 32. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time 33. Britney Spears - Femme Fatale 34. Blondie - Atomic: Best Of Blondie 35. Blondie - Parallel Lines 37. B*Witched - B*Witched 38. B*Witched - Awake And Breathe 44. Christina Aguilera - Back To Basics 45. Christina Aguilera - Bionic 47. Christina Aguilera / Cher - Burlesque (OST) 48. Corrs - Home 53. Dido - No Angel 54. Dido - Life For Rent 64. Emma Bunton - Girl Like Me 65. Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground 66. Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Girls Aloud 67. Girls Aloud - Chemistry 68. Girls Aloud - Tangled Up 69. Girls Aloud - Out Of Control 70. Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say? 71. Girls Aloud - Ten 72. Geri Halliwell - Schizophonic 73. Geri Halliwell - Scream If You Wanna Go Faster 74. Geri Halliwell - Passion 75. Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby 76. Gwen Stefani - Sweet Escape 87. Kylie Minogue - X 90. Kylie Minogue - Afrodite 93. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream 102. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You 103. Lily Allen - Alright Still 105. Lucie Silvas - Breathe In 115. Madonna - Immaculate Collection 116. Madonna - American Life 120. Marina And The Diamonds - Electra Heart 133. Paris Hilton - Paris 134. Pixie Lott - Turn It Up 136. Rachel Stevens - Funky Dory 138. Sugababes - Three 139. Sugababes - Angels With Dirty Faces 140. Sugababes - Sweet 7 141. Sugababes - Overloaded: Singles Collection 142. Sugababes - Change 143. Sugababes - Taller In More Ways 145. Steps - Step One 146. Steps - Steptacular 147. Steps - Last Dance 148. Steps - Gold Greatest Hits 149. Steps - Buzz 150. S Club 7 - 7 151. S Club 7 - S Club 152. S Club 7 - Sunshine 153. Spice Girls - Spice 154. Spice Girls - Spiceworld 155. Spice Girls - Greatest Hits 159. Shania Twain - The Woman In Me 160. Shania Twain - Come On Over 163. Sophie Ellis Bextor - Read My Lips 164. Sophie Ellis Bextor - Trip The Light Fantastic 165. Sophie Ellis Bextor - Make A Scene 166. Saturdays - Chasing Lights 173. Tatu - 200 km/h In The Wrong Line Singles: 1. Atomic Kitten - Right Now 2. Atomic Kitten - Tide Is High 4. Geri Halliwell - Ride It DVD: 1. ABBA - Definitive Collection 6. Girls Aloud - Out Of Control (Live) 7. Girls Aloud - Tangled Up (Live) 8. Kylie Minogue - Ultimate Kylie 11. Sugababes - Overloaded: Singles Collection Fantastic match! Like other people have said above I'd recommend Rachel Stevens' "Come and Get It"...it was one of the best pop albums of 2005 and in fact the decade and was criminal that it flopped. I noticed that you have all the ABBA albums bar Super Trouper and The Album- they are 2 masterpieces which, if you can get the abomination which is half of Ring Ring then you'll be more than pleased with these remaining 2 albums.

(R )1 Kimberley Walsh One Day I'll Fly Away [6-OUT-5-OUT-1-] (R )2 Adele Skyfall [10-OUT 3 weeks-2-] (R )3 Little Mix How Ya Doin' (N)4 Willam Boy is a Bottom (N)5 Bingo Players Get Up (Rattle) (1)6 Amelia Lily Shut Up (6 weeks) [6-8-10-1-1-6-] (2)7 The Saturdays What About Us? (5 weeks) [2-4-2-2-7-] (8)8 Girls Aloud Every Now & Then (9 weeks) [1-3-6-4-4-5-6-OUT-8-8-] (9)9 Destiny's Child Nuclear (4 weeks) [9-8-9-9-] (10)10 Girls Aloud On the Metro (10 weeks) [4-5-4-3-2-3-8-6-10-10-] A complete overhaul at the top end, though I predict a quick turnover with maybe only Kimberley and Little Mix hanging around.

I don't get all the Disclosure love. All I had on Saturday when I was DJing was "have you got Latch?" for example...and the answer was no because it's appalling and has no atmosphere and the same must be said for the follow-up. Confused.com with the Brits' buying habits of late.

Liberty X and Atomic Kitten were my 2 favourite groups of 2002 by a mile so I'm really pleased they're both on this show. Liberty X's 2nd album wasn't a patch on the 1st but I remember they released the same time as Rachel Steven's Come and Get It and couldn't believe just how badly both of them did commercially. My top 3 tracks for each Big Reunion act: 5ive 1. If Ya Gettin' Down 2. It's The Things You Do 3. Got the Feelin' Liberty X 1. Just a Little 2. Jumpin' 3. Song 4 Lovers B*Witched 1. Rollercoaster 2. Blame it on the Weatherman 3. I Shall Be There Atomic Kitten 1. The Last Goodbye 2. Right Now 3. Be With You Honeyz 1. Not Even Gonna Trip 2. End of the Line 3. Finally Found 911 1. Party People...Friday Night 2. More Than A Woman 3. Private Number

1 will.i.am & Britney Spears Scream & Shout 2 Amelia Lily Shut Up 3 The Saturdays What About Us? 4 Girls Aloud Something New 5 Girls Aloud Beautiful Cause You Love Me 6 Girls Aloud On the Metro 7 Girls Aloud Every Now and Then 8 Nicki Minaj Va Va Voom 9 Kimberley Walsh One Day I'll Fly Away 10 Destiny's Child Nuclear

(1)1 Amelia Lily Shut Up (5 weeks) [6-8-10-1-1-] (2)2 The Satrudays What About Us? (4 weeks) [2-4-2-2-] (10)3 Girls Aloud Beautiful Cause You Love Me (11 weeks) [5-2-3-1-2-2-3-7-2-10-3-] (N)4 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Thrift Shop (N)5 Nicole Scherzinger Boomerang (3)6 will.i.am & Britney Spears Scream & Shout (9 weeks) [4-7-4-5-OUT-5-1-1-3-5-] (4)7 Nicki Minaj Va Va Voom (3 weeks) [5-4-6-] ( R )8 Girls Aloud Every Now & Then (8 weeks) (8)9 Destiny's Child Nuclear (3 weeks) [9-8-8-] (6)10 Girls Aloud On the Metro (9 weeks) [4-5-4-3-2-3-8-6-9-]

(10)1 Amelia Lily Shut Up (4 weeks) [6-8-10-1-] (4)2 The Saturdays What About Us? (3 weeks) [2-4-2-] (1)3 will.i.am & Britney Spears Scream & Shout (8 weeks) [4-7-4-5-OUT-5-1-1-3-] (5)4 Nicki Minaj Va Va Voom (2 weeks) [5-4-] ( R )5 Kimberley Walsh One Day I'll Fly Away (2 weeks) [6-OUT-5-] (8)6 Girls Aloud On the Metro (8 weeks) [4-5-4-3-2-3-8-6-] (3)7 Girls Aloud Something New (10 weeks) [1-1-2-2-1-1-1-4-3-7-] (9)8 Destiny's Child Nuclear (2 weeks) [9-8-] (N)9 Justin Timberlake & Jay-Z Suit & Tie (2)10 Girls Aloud Beautiful Cause You Love Me (10 weeks) [5-2-3-1-2-2-3-7-2-10-] ADDED TO THE TIM'S TOP 10 DIAMOND LIST (10 weeks or more on the chart) GIRLS ALOUD SOMETHING NEW GIRLS ALOUD BEAUTIFUL CAUSE YOU LOVE ME OUT: Girls Aloud Every Now and Then (7 weeks on chart- PEAKED AT #1) 50 Cent My Life (1 week on chart- PEAKED AT #7)

Hey! 01 12 01 The Saturdays • What About Us 02 03 02 Rihanna feat Mikky Ekko • Stay • 9 Weeks • 23-15-10-3-3-6-6-3-2- 04 01 01 Leona Lewis • Glassheart • 4 Weeks • 25-X-1-1-4- 05 05 04 Will.i.am feat Britney Spears • Scream & Shout • 7 Weeks • 23-11-10-4-4-5-5- 07 14 07 Little Mix • Change Your Life • 6 Weeks • 18-16-29-X-23-14-7- 08 06 02 PSY • Gangnam Style • 11 Weeks • 10-8-4-2-2-9-9-2-2-6-8- 10 04 01 James Arthur • Impossible • 6 Weeks • 1-1-1-3-4-10- 12 10 01 Rihanna • Diamonds • 16 Weeks • 11-1-2-3-3-3-1-1-8-6-9-15-15-11-9-10-12- 18 22 12 Cheryl • Ghetto Baby • 13 Weeks • 23-17-19-28-17-12-16-16-20-30-X-22-22-18- 19 15 01 Loreen • Euphoria • 43 Weeks • 24-11-11-12-9-9-14-15-6-1-1-3-3-4-5-1-5-5-10-8-5-5-3-4-8-9-9-15-14-7-10-10-13-17-27-26-27-29-29-8-12-15-19- 21 19 01 Nicki Minaj feat Cassie • The Boys • 14 Weeks • 23-8-6-8-5-1-3-7-20-22-18-17-19-21- 23 24 01 Girls Aloud • Something New • 14 Weeks • 5-1-2-2-7-5-12-15-25-28-23-20-24-23- 24 RE 16 Little Mix • Wings • 12 Weeks • 17-16-20-21-24-19-22-25-24-24-30-X-24- 26 NE 26 Rihanna • Pour It Up • 1 Week • 26- 27 27 01 Little Mix • DNA • 16 Weeks • 9-1-1-2-4-4-6-11-19-22-27-30-22-19-27-27- 29 NE 29 Kanye West, Jay Z & Big Sean • Clique • 1 Week • 29- 30 20 01 Girls Aloud • Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me • 9 Weeks • 25-13-10-1-2-4-7-14-20-30-

(1)1 will.i.am & Britney Spears Scream & Shout (7 weeks) [4-7-4-5-OUT-5-1-1-] (7)2 Girls Aloud Beautiful Cause You Love Me (9 weeks) [5-2-3-1-2-2-3-7-2-] (4)3 Girls Aloud Something New (9 weeks) [1-1-2-2-1-1-1-4-3-] (2)4 The Saturdays What About Us? (2 weeks) [2-4-] (N)5 Nicki Minaj Va Va Voom (5)6 Girls Aloud Every Now and Then (7 weeks) [1-3-6-4-4-5-6-] (N)7 50 Cent, Eminem & Adam Levine My Life (3)8 Girls Aloud On the Metro (7 weeks) [4-5-4-3-2-3-8-] (N)9 Destiny's Child Nuclear (8)10 Amelia Lily Shut Up (3 weeks) [6-8-10-]

(5)1 will.i.am & Britney Spears Scream & Shout (6 weeks) [4-7-4-5-OUT-5-1-] (N)2 The Saturdays What About Us? (2)3 Girls Aloud On the Metro (6 weeks) [4-5-4-3-2-3-] (1)4 Girls Aloud Something New (8 weeks) [1-1-2-2-1-1-1-4-] (4)5 Girls Aloud Every Now and Then (6 weeks) [1-3-6-4-4-5-] (N)6 Kimberley Walsh One Day I'll Fly Away (3)7 Girls Aloud Beautiful Cause You Love Me (8 weeks) [5-2-3-1-2-2-3-7-] (6)8 Amelia Lily Shut Up (And Give Me Whatever You Got) (2 weeks) [6-8-] (R )9 Ke$ha Die Young (4 weeks) [6-7-8-OUT-9-] (N)10 Adele Skyfall

(1)1 Girls Aloud Something New (7 weeks) [1-1-2-2-1-1-1-] (3)2 Girls Aloud On the Metro (5 weeks) [4-5-4-3-2-] (2)3 Girls Aloud Beautiful Cause You Love Me (7 weeks) [5-2-3-1-2-2-3] (4)4 Girls Aloud Every Now and Then (5 weeks) [1-3-6-4-4-] ®5 will.i.am & Britney Spears (5 weeks) [4-7-4-5-OUT-5-] (N)6 Amelia Lily Shut Up (And Give Me Whatever You Got) (N)7 Taylor Swift We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (5)8 STEPS Light Up the World (6 weeks) [7-5-7-10-5-8-] (10)9 Little Mix DNA (7 weeks) [3-3-6-9-3-10-9-] Extremely quiet week but Amelia Lily could well become a top 3 hit as the month continues. Girls Aloud show no sign of letting go of the whole top 4 with their new tracks.

1 Cheryl Cole Call My Name With just under 200 plays across 3 mixes, including the Calvin Harris original mix, Cheryl Cole JUST beats her own group to the top by around 6 plays. 2 Girls Aloud Something New 3 Cheryl Cole Under the Sun 4 Scissor Sisters Let's Have a Kiki 5 Nicki Minaj Starships 6 Rihanna & Chris Brown Birthday Cake 7 Coldplay & Rihanna Princess of China 8 Girls Aloud Beautiful Cause You Love Me 9 Katy Perry Part of Me 10 Kelly Clarkson Stronger 11 Kylie Minogue Timebomb 12 The Saturdays 30 Days 13 Cher Lloyd Want You Back 14 Amelia Lily You Bring Me Joy 15 Pixie Lott Kiss the Stars 16 Little Mix Wings 17 Marina & the Diamonds Primadonna 18 Scissor Sisters Shady Love 19 Ke$ha Die Young 20 Jennifer Lopez & Pitbull Dance Again 21 Christina Aguilera Your Body 22 Madonna Girl Gone Wild 23 Girls Aloud Every Now and Then 24 Loreen Euphoria 25 Psy Gangnam Style 26 Girls Aloud On the Metro 27 Rihanna Where Have You Been 28 Rihanna & Jay-Z Talk That Talk 29 Nicki Minaj Automatic 30 Chris Brown & Rihanna Turn Up the Music 31 Little Mix DNA 32 Madonna Masterpiece 33 Kelly Clarkson Dark Side 34 Alexandra Burke & Erick Morillo Elephant 35 Scissor Sisters Keep Your Shoes 36 Madonna I'm a Sinner 37 Chris Brown Don't Wake Me Up 38 Calvin Harris & Example We'll Be Coming Back 39 Cheryl Cole & will.i.am Craziest Things 40 Jeff Lynne Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

1 Cheryl Cole Call My Name 2 Girls Aloud Something New 3 Cheryl Cole Under the Sun 4 Scissor Sisters Let's Have a Kiki 5 Nicki Minaj Starships 6 Rihanna & Chris Brown Birthday Cake 7 Coldplay & Rihanna Princess of China 8 Girls Aloud Beautiful Cause You Love Me 9 Katy Perry Part of Me 10 Kelly Clarkson Stronger 11 Kylie Minogue Timebomb 12 The Saturdays 30 Days 13 Cher Lloyd Want You Back 14 Amelia Lily You Bring Me Joy 15 Pixie Lott Kiss the Stars 16 Little Mix Wings 17 Marina & the Diamonds Primadonna 18 Scissor Sisters Shady Love 19 Ke$ha Die Young 20 Jennifer Lopez & Pitbull Dance Again 21 Christina Aguilera Your Body 22 Madonna Girl Gone Wild 23 Girls Aloud Every Now and Then 24 Loreen Euphoria 25 Psy Gangnam Style 26 Girls Aloud On the Metro 27 Rihanna Where Have You Been 28 Rihanna & Jay-Z Talk That Talk 29 Nicki Minaj Automatic 30 Chris Brown & Rihanna Turn Up the Music 31 Little Mix DNA 32 Madonna Masterpiece 33 Kelly Clarkson Dark Side 34 Alexandra Burke & Erick Morillo Elephant 35 Scissor Sisters Keep Your Shoes 36 Madonna I'm a Sinner 37 Chris Brown Don't Wake Me Up 38 Calvin Harris & Example We'll Be Coming Back 39 Cheryl Cole & will.i.am Craziest Things 40 Jeff Lynne Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

(1)1 Girls Aloud Something New // TEN (6 weeks) [1-1-2-2-1-1-] (2)2 Girls Aloud Beautiful Cause You Love Me // TEN (6 weeks) [5-2-3-1-2-2-] (4)3 Girls Aloud On the Metro // TEN (4 weeks) [4-5-4-3-] (6)4 Girls Aloud Every Now and Then // TEN (4 weeks) [1-3-6-4-] (10)5 STEPS Light Up the World // LIGHT UP THE WORLD (5 weeks) [7-5-7-10-5-] (N)6 Little Mix How Ya Doin'? // DNA (N)7 The Saturdays & Sean Paul What About Us? (7)8 Ke$ha Die Young // WARRIOR (3 weeks) [6-7-8-] (9)9 Cher Woman's World (4 weeks) [8-8-9-9-] (3)10 Little Mix DNA // DNA (6 weeks) [3-3-6-9-3-10-]

(2)1 Girls Aloud Something New // TEN (5 weeks) [1-1-2-2-1-] (1)2 Girls Aloud Beautiful Cause You Love Me // TEN (5 weeks) [5-2-3-1-2-] (9)3 Little Mix DNA // DNA (5 weeks) [3-3-6-9-3-] (5)4 Girls Aloud On the Metro // TEN (3 weeks) [4-5-4-] (4)5 will.i.am & Britney Spears Scream & Shout // #willpower (4 weeks) [4-7-4-5-] (3)6 Girls Aloud Every Now and Then // TEN (3 weeks) [1-3-6-] (6)7 Ke$ha Die Young // WARRIOR (2 weeks) [6-7-] (N)8 Rihanna Diamonds // UNAPOLOGETIC (8)9 Cher Woman's World (3 weeks) [8-8-9-] (7)10 STEPS Light Up the World // LIGHT UP THE WORLD (4 weeks) [7-5-7-10-]

(3)1 Girls Aloud Beautiful Cause You Love Me // TEN (4 weeks) [5-2-3-1-] (2)2 Girls Aloud Something New // TEN (4weeks) [1-1-2-2-] (1)3 Girls Aloud Every Now and Then // TEN (2 weeks) [1-3-] (7)4 will.i.am & Britney Spears Scream & Shout // #willpower (3 weeks) [4-7-4-] (4)5 Girls Aloud On the Metro // TEN (2 weeks) (N)6 Ke$ha Die Young // WARRIOR (5)7 STEPS Light Up the World // LIGHT UP THE WORLD (3 weeks) [7-5-7-] (8)8 Cher Woman's World (2 weeks) (6)9 Little Mix DNA // DNA (4 weeks) [3-3-6-9-] (N)10 Ke$ha Warrior // WARRIOR

(N)1 Girls Aloud Every Now and Then // TEN (1)2 Girls Aloud Something New // TEN (3 weeks) [1-1-2-] (2)3 Girls Aloud Beautiful 'Cause You Love // TEN (3 weeks) [5-2-3-] (N)4 Girls Aloud On the Metro // TEN (7)5 STEPS Light Up the World // LIGHT UP THE WORLD (2 weeks) (3)6 Little Mix DNA // DNA (3 weeks) [3-3-6-] (4)7 will.i.am & Britney Spears Scream & Shout // #willpower (2 weeks) [4-7-] (N)8 Cher Woman's World (6)9 JLS Hottest Girl in the World // EVOLUTION (2 weeks) ®10 Taylor Swift We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (2 weeks) [9-OUT-10]

TRACKLISTING: 1 Something New 2 The Promise 3 The Loving Kind 4 Untouchable 5 Sexy! No No No... 6. Call The Shots 7. Can't Speak French 8. Something Kinda Ooooh 9. Biology 10. The Show 11. Love Machine 12. I'll Stand By You 13. Jump 14. No Good Advice 15. Sound of the Underground 16. On The Metro 17. Beautiful Cause You Love Me 18. Every Now and Then "Something New" The first single release in nearly 4 years from a group I thought would never reform and to be honest I'd lost faith. In the early days of the hiatus, I imagined that The Saturdays would have received all my affections from then on. They have done a reasonable job at keep the girl group torch lit for me but now that Xenomania's guinea pigs are back there's no competition! Coming back with this as the lead single of 4 possibles, this was, I feel the wisest choice. It feels like Girls Aloud's best bits all rolled into a 3-minute megamix, with a 2012 nod. Sounds amazing on the dancefloor, in the bedroom and the pub! 95% "The Promise" Brian Higgins created this track to really put the girls on the map. Pity they then split just after! Nevertheless, with a nod to 60s Motown, "The Promise" is a fabulous lead track for an album (Out of Control), though, it doesn't necessarily fit in the with the electronic feel of the majority of their 5th studio collection. The fastest-selling single in the UK in 2008 (until The X Factor finalists beat them the week after), I absolutely adored this track for months. It's aged well also...but maybe not as well as some of their other tracks. 87% "The Loving Kind" Co-written by the Pet Shop Boys, you can easily imagine Neil Tennant singing this sweetened sequel to 2007 smash hit, "Call the Shots", the lyrics describing one's slight desperation to hold on to a fading relationship. Bittersweet, in that the lyrics are quite sad yet the music is as uplifitng as a ballad of this nature could be...like a less defiant version of "Call the Shots" only with PSB association, which would continue to influence the sound of their latest studio album "Out of Control." 86% "Untouchable" The only official GA single to miss the UK top 10 to date, "Untouchable", is arguably far superior in its original 7-minute form than the autotuned radio edit, yet, ironically Cheryl is one of only 2 members to not have her vocals in the radio edit not tinkered with, as she usually ends up being the first port of call when the producers want to electronically modify a vocal on a track by the girls. The fact it didn't make the top 10 was probably a combination of it being the 3rd single to be lifted from their only million-selling studio album (Out of Control) and it's not as instant for the casual radio listener as a lot of their other hits. Definitely one for the pop connoisseur and Girls Aloud nut. 89% "Sexy! No, No, No..." I'm a sucker for blatant autotune-use and the intro to this top 5 smash from 2007 utilises that technology to maximum effect, with Cheryl taking care of such a vocal. It's like 2 tracks merged into 1 which is almost standard procedure for a Xenomania track given to the Girls, when the first (semi) chorus kicks in with a huge bang. What made this track so much memorable was the mind-blowing emergence to this song on their Tangled Up tour in 2008. This song is another one for the hardcore fan, more-so than the casual listener as it thinks too far outside the box for a conventional radio song, which is the probable reason for the song's quick descendancy out of the top 75. 91% "Call the Shots" Probably the most perfect pure pop song of the last decade. It doesn't have the typical Xenomania structure of verse-chorus-random bridge-fade out or whatever... 3 verses, chorus 3 times, etc. Even though Nadine is normally regarded as the best vocalist in the group, yes, she may have the most powerful but, Nicola begins to shine in this track during the bridge. The driving rhythm is similar to later-stage ELO, 20 years previously. "Call the Shots" is like something PSB could have written, had Xenomania not beaten them to it, but probably explains the collaboration which would come a year later. 92% "Can't Speak French" As much as I like this song, I think the radio edit gives it the extra little kick it needs, a touch more countermelody and sound effects to bring out the cute little tune. Not much to say about this track. It's pretty and has the customised Xenomania/Girls Aloud song structure. Nice addition of a re-recorded vocal in French on the B-side to the single too. 82% "Something Kinda Ooooh" My favourite single of the last decade, this was the girls' first step into full-on dance mode, away from the rock-tinged pop and the results paid, with a song which could well be about doing naughty things round the back but who knows? The lyrics are nonsense in typical Miranda Cooper style and it's fabulous for it. Although the promo video was panned at the time, I actually adored it and it seems Booty Luv liked it too as they pretty much copied the scenes in their video for "Some Kinda Rush" a year later. Faultless single! 100% "Biology" Chemistry was half brilliant, half a damp squib. But, the brilliance more than made up for the mediocre tracks like Racy Lacey and Swinging London Town. Somehow managing to splice 3 nonsensical songs into a four-minute masterpiece. A bit of jazz mixed with pop blended in a way never done before and maybe won't be done again any time soon, especially now that Xenomania seem to have completely shied away from mixing genres and going down a sort-of trance-like road. 91% "The Show" 2nd album "What Will the Neighbours Say?" was the first album where Xenomania were at the production helm and crafted a collection especially for the group, beginning a period where Brian Higgins would use the girls as his guinea pigs for trying sonically different pop to the rest of the pack and helped make them the "leaders" of said pack come 2012's comeback. "The Show" was the first fruits of the new look and better sounding Girls Aloud. The song was the first to utilise the special song structure Girls Aloud would deliver time and again. It sounded very '80s synthpop-like, which would later saturate the charts. 84% "Love Machine" This single is probably the single which made the group credible amongst the music snobs. The song loses appeal now because of overplaying in clubs, Homebase adverts and simply because the group have released so many better singles since its release in 2004. At the time, though, "Love Machine" put Girls Aloud in a league of their own. 78% "I'll Stand By You" The 2004 Children in Need single finally gave the group another #1 single, but when you consider all of their hits and where they charted, something doesn't add up. Like "Love Machine" but even more-so, this track hasn't aged as well as the hits which didn't reach the same dizzy heights. Pretty much a carbon copy of the Pretenders' original, but I guess it served its purpose. Back in those days the CIN single tended to get towards #1 every year... 65% "Jump" Girls Aloud claim that this single was necessary in order to stop them from coming across as a miserable group. It certainly worked and as well as giving them their 4th top 3 hit in November 2003 and featuring in the Love Actually soundtrack, it's still a staple part of a club's playlist! A much punchier version of the Pointer Sisters song, the production really makes this song a winner even 9 years on. 84% "No Good Advice" If there were any fears that the group would be a one hit wonder, they were quickly diminished upon the release of this surfer-pop-lite smash. Possible inspiration for Franz Ferdinand can be heard in the guitars as well maybe? 87% "Sound of the Underground" This song still seems to be one of the favourites by many 10 years on but I just can't feel it at all. I think it's dated quite badly but did the job of s*itting rings round One True Voice's rival track "Sacred Trust", which the girls also recorded and did a much better version of. The track just does nothing for me anymore and is always skipped. However, it helped seal the deal with forging a ten-year partnership with Xenomania so it's not all bad! 55% "On the Metro" So Nicola teamed up with half of Orson who now call themselves The Invisible Men, to write one of the 4 new tracks for the retrospective. You can kinda hear the Orson sound in the production. It sounds like something The Saturdays would release as a single and have it bomb but that's not to say that track isn't very good...it just sounds like a track that the fans would appreciate but it wouldn't go down well as a single. At least it gives Nicola another chance to work her pipes. One nice thing about the new tracks is that the vocals are evened out amongst the 5 of them better than in the past. 73% "Beautiful Cause You Love Me" There would have been some concern amongst the hardcore GA fan that releasing a non-Xenomania production for the first time in 6 years (they worked with Dallas Austin for "Walk This Way") would go down like a pork pie at a Bar Mitzvah. However, after listening to the track a couple of times, I now think it's the most perfect Christmas single in recent years, since The Darkness' "Christmas Time" from 2003. Lyrically, it covers the same ground as Sugababes' "Ugly" and Christina's "Beautiful" but musically it sounds more like Spice Girls' Christmas #1s "Goodbye" or "2 Become 1". In another age this could have sailed to the top but I think it may struggle now, but, it's still glorious to me. I'm a tad confused as to why 2 different vocal mixes have circulated though. The original radio premiere version featured more Nadine and Sarah while the album/single version is dominated by Nicola and Kimberley. 88% "Every Now and Then" This track sounds like a new and improved version of Amelia Lily's "You Bring Me Joy" or a "Swinging London Town" for 2012. Although I don't enjoy Swinging London Town much when all the other Girls Aloud fans seem to adore it, the combination of sudden key change, banging drum track and mental vocal production makes this the perfect way to end a CD which is celebrating the first ten years of the greatest pop group of the new Millennium. This really should be released in time to be the 2013 Comic Relief single and watch it soar to the top of the charts! 95% Overall, Girls Aloud's output over the last decade has surpassed the output of any other act during that time. It's a pity their earlier output has dated worse than music from the Chemistry period onwards but I really hope that this CD isn't the end of a group that gave me the soundtrack to me early 20s. Overall rating: 85%

(1)1 Girls Aloud Something New // TEN (2 weeks) (5)2 Girls Aloud Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me // TEN (2 weeks) (3)3 Little Mix DNA // DNA (2 weeks) (N)4 will.i.am & Britney Spears Scream & Shout // #willpower (N)5 Jeff Lynne Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered // LONG WAVE (N)6 JLS Hottest Girl in the World // EVOLUTION (N)7 Steps Light Up the World // LIGHT UP THE WORLD (N)8 Rihanna & David Guetta Right Now // UNAPOLOGETIC (4)9 Amelia Lily Shut Up and Give Me Whatever You Got (2 weeks) (7)10 Amelia Lily You Bring Me Joy (2 weeks)

1 Girls Aloud Something New // TEN 2 Christina Aguilera Your Body // LOTUS 3 Little Mix DNA // DNA 4 Amelia Lily Shut Up and Give Me Whatever You Got 5 Girls Aloud Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me // TEN 6 Cheryl Cole Under the Sun // A MILLION LIGHTS 7 Amelia Lily You Bring Me Joy 8 Leona Lewis Glassheart // GLASSHEART 9 Taylor Swift We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together // RED 10 JLS Dessert // EVOLUTION

Not feeling it at the moment but maybe it's because the radio rip doesn't allow for the full power to come through the speakers...hence why I'm tinkering with it on Adobe Audition at the moment

DJ Tim:E Top 10 (w/e Saturday 25 August 2012) (1)1 Scissor Sisters Let's Have a Kiki (7 weeks) (8-5-x-9-1-1-1-1-) (N)2 Little Mix Wings (2)3 Calvin Harris & Example We'll Be Coming Back (3 weeks) (5-2-3-) (4)4 Cheryl Cole Under the Sun (8 weeks) (1-3-2-1-2-3-4-4-) (6)5 The Saturdays 30 Days (4 weeks) (10-x-x-x-x-6-x-x-6-5-) ®6 Kelly Clarkson Dark Side (3 weeks) (6-x-6-x-x-x-x-x-6-) ®7 Kylie Minogue Timebomb (3 weeks) (8-9-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-7-) (3)8 Amelia Lily You Bring me Joy (3 weeks) (2-3-8-) (9)9 Coldplay & Rihanna Princess of China (9 weeks) (3-5-6-9-1-4-x-8-x-9-9-) ®10 Scissor Sisters Baby Come Home (3 weeks) (10-7-x-10-) NB: Top 3 of 2012 so far... 1 Cheryl Cole Call My Name 2 Nicki Minaj Starships 3 Rihanna Birthday Cake

DJ Tim:E Top 10 (w/e Saturday 18 August 2012) (based on playcounts for current chart hits/ recent hits/ future releases) (1)1 Scissor Sisters Let's Have a Kiki (6 weeks) (8-5-x-9-1-1-1-) (5)2 Calvin Harris & Example We'll Be Coming Back (2 weeks) (5-2-) (2)3 Amelia Lily You Bring Me Joy (2 weeks) (2-3-) (3)4 Cheryl Cole Under the Sun (7 weeks) (1-3-2-1-2-3-4-) ®5 Nicki Minaj Starships (5 weeks) ((7-x-x-7-4-x-6-x-5-) ®6 The Saturdays 30 Days (3 weeks) (10-X-X-X-X-6-x-x-6-) (N)7 Sam and the Womp Bom Bom (6)8 Jennifer Lopez & Pitbull Dance Again (2 weeks) (6-8-) (8)9 Coldplay & Rihanna Princess of China (8 weeks) (3-5-6-9-1-4-x-8-x-9-) ®10 P!nk Blow Me (3 weeks) (2-4-x-10-)