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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-)

In between doing 'work' I thought I'd create a chart of what I consider my Top 20 albums ever, with commentary. 1. ABBA The Album (1977) This is one of the few LPs I wore out from my mother's collection when I was a child, when LPs were commonplace...how I miss them. But, through the years, ABBA have always been one of my top 10 groups at any given time. Today, I'd consider them my favourite group ever, overall. This album, released at the peak of their commercial success, features their biggest-selling U.S. single "Take a Chance on Me", plus the global hits, "The Name of the Game", "Eagle" and "Thank You For the Music". Although not the critics' choice, particularly at the time it was released, the album's mix of songs which take me back to childhood, tracks which meant more when I'd grown up and, tracks which work when I'm DJing...put this album at the top of my chart! "The Album" is the 1st of 3 entries from ABBA in this chart. SINGLES: The Name of the Game/Take a Chance on Me/Eagle/Thank You For The Music 2. Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell (1977) I had considered this my favourite album ever, maybe, partially to show certain stuck-up plonkers that I'm not the stereotypical, brainwashed pop bitch I'm made out to be by them. However, upon reevaluating my favourite albums, I still consider "Bat Out of Hell" one of the greatest. It conjures up memories of listening to it whilst darting down the M5 from Birmingham to Dawlish on our holidays. The whole album is amazing and the track I rated the least when I was younger, "For Crying Out Loud", is arguably now my favourite on the whole collection. SINGLES: Bat Out of Hell/Hot Summer Night/Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad 3. ELO Time (1981) ELO's 2nd chart-topper in the UK, "Time" is a concept album about a man who travels to the year 2095 and experiences soulless girlfriends, moon travel and meteor showers are commonplace. As much as the protagonist thinks he can continue to embrace the future world, ultimately he realises he should have stayed in the '80s. SINGLES: Here Is The News/Twilight/Hold On Tight/Ticket to the Moon 4. Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977) 1977 definitely seems to be the ultimate year for releasing a quality album... I want to get married just so I can get divorced and write a hit record from my experiences. 5. Britney Spears Femme Fatale (2011) The only album in the chart from the current decade, Britney Spears is my most played artist according to my last.fm profile (misterPopsical) and it has certainly been helped by the prescence of her latest collection. More of Sweden's finest producers are showing up in my chart thanks the executive production duty of Max Martin. "Femme Fatale" is an example of an album which is overlooked by many because of the elements the general public and rubbish media publications that focus on the negative stuff, ignoring the fact that the instrumental AND VOCAL production is sublime throughout and every song could have been a single. SINGLES: Hold It Against Me/Till The World Ends/I Wanna Go/Criminal 6. ABBA Arrival (1976) ABBA's biggest-selling studio album features their biggest-selling global hit "Dancing Queen". But, it is the album as a whole which makes me rank this as my 6th favourite ever. "Dancing Queen" is by no means my favourite single of their's, not least helped by the overexposure it always receives. Album tracks "That's Me" and "Arrival" are highlights along with the other singles from this collection: "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and "Money, Money, Money". SINGLES: Dancing Queen/Knowing Me, Knowing You/Money, Money, Money 7. Madonna Confessions on a Dancefloor (2005) OK, so her output has become a little careless of late but, this disco throwback megamix of classics produced by Stuart Price helped make 2005 one of the best for pop album releases. The obvious highlight is "Hung Up"... SINGLES: Hung Up/Sorry/Get Together/Jump 8. ELO A New World Record (1976) This is the album which gave them their UK breakthrough, though ELO had already become a household name in the USA. Highlights include the whole "A" side of the album! SINGLES: Telephone Line/Do Ya/Livin' Thing 9. ABBA The Visitors (1981) ABBA's lowest-selling #1 album, the star was dwindling commercially and I was never fussed over this LP until I rediscovered the album in 2002 when I bought a turntable and starting playing my parents' old vinyl. "Soldiers" became one of my favourite ABBA songs and remains so. Just such a mature, solid collection of tracks. A fitting ending for the group, though having heard subsequent recordings like You Owe Me One and Just Like That, I wonder whether they could have returned with a more fun, poppy album in 1983? SINGLES: One Of Us/When All Is Said and Done/Head Over Heels 10. Britney Spears In The Zone (2003) This was my most played album of 2004 by a country mile. The Onyx Hotel tour was AMAZING and showed how much of a woman Britney really had become... SINGLES: Me Against the Music/Toxic/Everytime/Outrageous 11. Spice Girls Spiceworld (1997) Although not the album which broke them into the mainstream, Spiceworld is much more fun than their bestselling debut overall. This CD was played to death on my little Boots CD tower system in 1998 and only got removed when All Saints' debut ended up on my lap via my sister, who, foolishly passed it to me! She saw the error of her ways and bought the revised edition late in 1998. SINGLES: Spice Up Your Life/Too Much/Stop/Viva Forever 12. The Darkness Permission to Land (2003) When I worked on hospital radio, the main presenter of our show claimed that I would hate what I was about to hear when he dug out "I Believe in a Thing Called Love." How wrong he was. The next day I got the train to Nottingham and purchased "Permission to Land" on vinyl. Because of the thin, cheap vinyl it was produced on, I later had the CD, as did my mom and my sister then I bought it again as I scratched my disc through overuse! This is proof of a mega album surely! Later, in 2004, I broadcast a review on the album via the hospital radio to a rock station in the Netherlands. I discussed how the album seemed to fuse together elements of 2 of my favourite groups: ABBA and Queen. Just listen to "Love is Only a Feeling" and see if you can hear the resemblence to "Chiquitita"? SINGLES: Get Your Hands Off My Woman/Growing on Me/I Believe in a Thing Called Love/Love Is Only a Feeling 13. Girls Aloud Tangled Up (2007) SINGLES: Sexy!... No No No/Call The Shots/Can't Speak French "Chemistry" turned Girls Aloud from a girlgroup I loved into a girlgroup I worshipped! The first half of the album is as good as it could ever get. However, it didn't make my top 20 because of the way it tails off during the 2nd half. I must be one of the minority who doesn't rate "Swinging London Town" but loves "Long Hot Summer"...Anyway, then came "Something Kinda Ooooh" which became my favourite single of the 2000s, a couple of covers which kept them in the spotlight and then...."Sexy...No No No" got its first play on Chris Moyles' Breakfast Show in July 2007. Blown away as soon as I heard Cheryl's autotuned intro, I almost came(!) Then "Call the Shots" became mine and my ex's 'song' (well, that's how I remember it). I could happily play Tangled Up from start to finish without skipping a track, which would become the practice when the next album came along. 14. Queen II (1974) This is another album I remember from my childhood and I dug it out when I bought my own turntable in 2002 (for some reason I wanted to buy all my records on vinyl for no particular reason). I didn't appreciate the prog on the "White" side until 2 or 3 years ago when I had the CD by this point but now I think it's a brilliant indication of where Queen would go over the next couple of albums. But, it's Freddie's "Black" side which I am most fond of...a suite, if you will, of tracks celebrating the Black Queen and the mythical characters Freddie conjured up. You can hear in "March of the Black Queen" that a "Bohemian Rhapsody" was round the corner... SINGLES: Seven Seas of Rhye/White Queen (As It Began) 15. The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour (1967) Soundtrack to the TV movie which bombed upon its initial black and white BBC airing. Originally this album was only released in the US as it is a collection of the UK releases: "Magical Mystery Tour EP" plus the A and B sides to the singles released around this time. SINGLES: Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane/All You Need Is Love/Hello, Goodbye 16. Lady Gaga The Fame (2008/9) Admittedly, it's "The Fame Monster" addition that made me want this album. The original collection is a bit hit and miss, though "Poker Face" stands as one of my favourite singles of all time. "The Fame Monster" disc is flawless, though, especially "Telephone" and the ABBA-esque "Alejandro." SINGLES: Just Dance/Eh, Eh/Poker Face/Paparazzi/LoveGame/Bad Romance/Alejandro/Telephone 17. Queen A Day at the Races (1976) Seen as the album to compliment their breakthrough album "A Night at the Opera", that comparison goes as far as the title to be honest. Queen left behind the progressive sounds in favour of more grit, particularly on tracks like "Tie Your Mother Down" and "White Man". SINGLES: Somebody to Love/Tie Your Mother Down/Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy 18. Rachel Stevens Come and Get It (2005) A sales disaster, both singles and album-wise, this album luckily got picked up by many pop geeks like myself and is seen as a masterpiece. Popjustice want that follow-up and so do I! SINGLES: Some Girls/Negotiate With Love/So Good/I Said Never Again 19. Ke$ha Animal (2009/10) I have been a sucker for Autotune ever since Cher came out with "Believe". To have a whole album with autotuned vocals AND brilliantly produced tunes courtesy of Dr. Luke was going to create a surefire hit as far as I was concerned! Haters gon' hate. Just because Ke$ha can sing doesn't mean she has to if she's making music this amazing! A natural vocal wouldn't suit the style so there! SINGLES: Tik Tok/Blah, Blah, Blah/Your Love Is My Drug/Take It Off/We R Who We R/Blow 20. The Corrs Forgiven Not Forgotten (1995) I bought this in Woolworths, Exeter in March 1999. I remember that as I was on holiday thinking £4.99 was a great price for an album on tape! I was 13... The album is by far, The Corrs' greatest album. I never did take to Talk on Corners, maybe it was because I bought the original and not the remixed edition. Nonetheless, I found their global smash boring in comparison to their lesser-selling collections and quite like "Home" as well. Well, that used up a few hours in between calls at work. Thanks for reading! Please comment :-)

In between doing 'work' I thought I'd create a chart of what I consider my Top 20 albums ever, with commentary. 1. ABBA The Album (1977) This is one of the few LPs I wore out from my mother's collection when I was a child, when LPs were commonplace...how I miss them. But, through the years, ABBA have always been one of my top 10 groups at any given time. Today, I'd consider them my favourite group ever, overall. This album, released at the peak of their commercial success, features their biggest-selling U.S. single "Take a Chance on Me", plus the global hits, "The Name of the Game", "Eagle" and "Thank You For the Music". Although not the critics' choice, particularly at the time it was released, the album's mix of songs which take me back to childhood, tracks which meant more when I'd grown up and, tracks which work when I'm DJing...put this album at the top of my chart! "The Album" is the 1st of 3 entries from ABBA in this chart. SINGLES: The Name of the Game/Take a Chance on Me/Eagle/Thank You For The Music 2. Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell (1977) I had considered this my favourite album ever, maybe, partially to show certain stuck-up plonkers that I'm not the stereotypical, brainwashed pop bitch I'm made out to be by them. However, upon reevaluating my favourite albums, I still consider "Bat Out of Hell" one of the greatest. It conjures up memories of listening to it whilst darting down the M5 from Birmingham to Dawlish on our holidays. The whole album is amazing and the track I rated the least when I was younger, "For Crying Out Loud", is arguably now my favourite on the whole collection. SINGLES: Bat Out of Hell/Hot Summer Night/Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad 3. ELO Time (1981) ELO's 2nd chart-topper in the UK, "Time" is a concept album about a man who travels to the year 2095 and experiences soulless girlfriends, moon travel and meteor showers are commonplace. As much as the protagonist thinks he can continue to embrace the future world, ultimately he realises he should have stayed in the '80s. SINGLES: Here Is The News/Twilight/Hold On Tight/Ticket to the Moon 4. Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977) 1977 definitely seems to be the ultimate year for releasing a quality album... I want to get married just so I can get divorced and write a hit record from my experiences. 5. Britney Spears Femme Fatale (2011) The only album in the chart from the current decade, Britney Spears is my most played artist according to my last.fm profile (misterPopsical) and it has certainly been helped by the prescence of her latest collection. More of Sweden's finest producers are showing up in my chart thanks the executive production duty of Max Martin. "Femme Fatale" is an example of an album which is overlooked by many because of the elements the general public and rubbish media publications that focus on the negative stuff, ignoring the fact that the instrumental AND VOCAL production is sublime throughout and every song could have been a single. SINGLES: Hold It Against Me/Till The World Ends/I Wanna Go/Criminal 6. ABBA Arrival (1976) ABBA's biggest-selling studio album features their biggest-selling global hit "Dancing Queen". But, it is the album as a whole which makes me rank this as my 6th favourite ever. "Dancing Queen" is by no means my favourite single of their's, not least helped by the overexposure it always receives. Album tracks "That's Me" and "Arrival" are highlights along with the other singles from this collection: "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and "Money, Money, Money". SINGLES: Dancing Queen/Knowing Me, Knowing You/Money, Money, Money 7. Madonna Confessions on a Dancefloor (2005) OK, so her output has become a little careless of late but, this disco throwback megamix of classics produced by Stuart Price helped make 2005 one of the best for pop album releases. The obvious highlight is "Hung Up"... SINGLES: Hung Up/Sorry/Get Together/Jump 8. ELO A New World Record (1976) This is the album which gave them their UK breakthrough, though ELO had already become a household name in the USA. Highlights include the whole "A" side of the album! SINGLES: Telephone Line/Do Ya/Livin' Thing 9. ABBA The Visitors (1981) ABBA's lowest-selling #1 album, the star was dwindling commercially and I was never fussed over this LP until I rediscovered the album in 2002 when I bought a turntable and starting playing my parents' old vinyl. "Soldiers" became one of my favourite ABBA songs and remains so. Just such a mature, solid collection of tracks. A fitting ending for the group, though having heard subsequent recordings like You Owe Me One and Just Like That, I wonder whether they could have returned with a more fun, poppy album in 1983? SINGLES: One Of Us/When All Is Said and Done/Head Over Heels 10. Britney Spears In The Zone (2003) This was my most played album of 2004 by a country mile. The Onyx Hotel tour was AMAZING and showed how much of a woman Britney really had become... SINGLES: Me Against the Music/Toxic/Everytime/Outrageous 11. Spice Girls Spiceworld (1997) Although not the album which broke them into the mainstream, Spiceworld is much more fun than their bestselling debut overall. This CD was played to death on my little Boots CD tower system in 1998 and only got removed when All Saints' debut ended up on my lap via my sister, who, foolishly passed it to me! She saw the error of her ways and bought the revised edition late in 1998. SINGLES: Spice Up Your Life/Too Much/Stop/Viva Forever 12. The Darkness Permission to Land (2003) When I worked on hospital radio, the main presenter of our show claimed that I would hate what I was about to hear when he dug out "I Believe in a Thing Called Love." How wrong he was. The next day I got the train to Nottingham and purchased "Permission to Land" on vinyl. Because of the thin, cheap vinyl it was produced on, I later had the CD, as did my mom and my sister then I bought it again as I scratched my disc through overuse! This is proof of a mega album surely! Later, in 2004, I broadcast a review on the album via the hospital radio to a rock station in the Netherlands. I discussed how the album seemed to fuse together elements of 2 of my favourite groups: ABBA and Queen. Just listen to "Love is Only a Feeling" and see if you can hear the resemblence to "Chiquitita"? SINGLES: Get Your Hands Off My Woman/Growing on Me/I Believe in a Thing Called Love/Love Is Only a Feeling 13. Girls Aloud Tangled Up (2007) SINGLES: Sexy!... No No No/Call The Shots/Can't Speak French "Chemistry" turned Girls Aloud from a girlgroup I loved into a girlgroup I worshipped! The first half of the album is as good as it could ever get. However, it didn't make my top 20 because of the way it tails off during the 2nd half. I must be one of the minority who doesn't rate "Swinging London Town" but loves "Long Hot Summer"...Anyway, then came "Something Kinda Ooooh" which became my favourite single of the 2000s, a couple of covers which kept them in the spotlight and then...."Sexy...No No No" got its first play on Chris Moyles' Breakfast Show in July 2007. Blown away as soon as I heard Cheryl's autotuned intro, I almost came(!) Then "Call the Shots" became mine and my ex's 'song' (well, that's how I remember it). I could happily play Tangled Up from start to finish without skipping a track, which would become the practice when the next album came along. 14. Queen II (1974) This is another album I remember from my childhood and I dug it out when I bought my own turntable in 2002 (for some reason I wanted to buy all my records on vinyl for no particular reason). I didn't appreciate the prog on the "White" side until 2 or 3 years ago when I had the CD by this point but now I think it's a brilliant indication of where Queen would go over the next couple of albums. But, it's Freddie's "Black" side which I am most fond of...a suite, if you will, of tracks celebrating the Black Queen and the mythical characters Freddie conjured up. You can hear in "March of the Black Queen" that a "Bohemian Rhapsody" was round the corner... SINGLES: Seven Seas of Rhye/White Queen (As It Began) 15. The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour (1967) Soundtrack to the TV movie which bombed upon its initial black and white BBC airing. Originally this album was only released in the US as it is a collection of the UK releases: "Magical Mystery Tour EP" plus the A and B sides to the singles released around this time. SINGLES: Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane/All You Need Is Love/Hello, Goodbye 16. Lady Gaga The Fame (2008/9) Admittedly, it's "The Fame Monster" addition that made me want this album. The original collection is a bit hit and miss, though "Poker Face" stands as one of my favourite singles of all time. "The Fame Monster" disc is flawless, though, especially "Telephone" and the ABBA-esque "Alejandro." SINGLES: Just Dance/Eh, Eh/Poker Face/Paparazzi/LoveGame/Bad Romance/Alejandro/Telephone 17. Queen A Day at the Races (1976) Seen as the album to compliment their breakthrough album "A Night at the Opera", that comparison goes as far as the title to be honest. Queen left behind the progressive sounds in favour of more grit, particularly on tracks like "Tie Your Mother Down" and "White Man". SINGLES: Somebody to Love/Tie Your Mother Down/Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy 18. Rachel Stevens Come and Get It (2005) A sales disaster, both singles and album-wise, this album luckily got picked up by many pop geeks like myself and is seen as a masterpiece. Popjustice want that follow-up and so do I! SINGLES: Some Girls/Negotiate With Love/So Good/I Said Never Again 19. Ke$ha Animal (2009/10) I have been a sucker for Autotune ever since Cher came out with "Believe". To have a whole album with autotuned vocals AND brilliantly produced tunes courtesy of Dr. Luke was going to create a surefire hit as far as I was concerned! Haters gon' hate. Just because Ke$ha can sing doesn't mean she has to if she's making music this amazing! A natural vocal wouldn't suit the style so there! SINGLES: Tik Tok/Blah, Blah, Blah/Your Love Is My Drug/Take It Off/We R Who We R/Blow 20. The Corrs Forgiven Not Forgotten (1995) I bought this in Woolworths, Exeter in March 1999. I remember that as I was on holiday thinking £4.99 was a great price for an album on tape! I was 13... The album is by far, The Corrs' greatest album. I never did take to Talk on Corners, maybe it was because I bought the original and not the remixed edition. Nonetheless, I found their global smash boring in comparison to their lesser-selling collections and quite like "Home" as well. Well, that used up a few hours in between calls at work. Thanks for reading! Please comment :-)

DJ Tim:E Top 20 Of All Time Britney Toxic

TIM'S TOP 10 (1)1 Scissor Sisters Let's Have a Kiki//MAGIC HOUR (5 weeks) (8-5-x-9-1-1-) (N)2 Amelia Lily You Bring me Joy (2)3 Cheryl Cole Under the Sun//A MILLION LIGHTS (6 weeks) (1-3-2-1-2-3-) (5)4 Elton John vs PNAU Good Morning to the Night//GOOD MORNING TO THE NIGHT (2 weeks) (5-4-) (N)5 Calvin Harris & Example We'll Be Coming Back (N)6 Jennifer Lopez & Pitbull Dance Again//DANCE AGAIN (10)7 Scissor Sisters Baby Come Home//MAGIC HOUR (2 weeks) (10-7-) ®8 Coldplay & Rihanna Princess of China//MYLO XYLOTO (7 weeks) (3-5-6-9-1-4-x-8-) ®9 StooShe Black Heart//STOOSHE (2 weeks) (7-x-x-9-) ®10 Scissor Sisters Shady Love//MAGIC HOUR (6 weeks) (9-5-8-x-10-x-10-x-10-) Scissor Sisters become the first act on the chart to achieve 3 placings on one chart since my chart began in June. "Let's Have a Kiki" is, arguably, the greatest Scissor Sisters track and finally benefits from a promo video and Almighty Mix, to help it maintain its place at the top of the chart, though I doubt these will have much impact on the sales of the track in the UK. Amelia Lily hits a high with debut single "You Bring Me Joy" having been produced by Xenomania, the greatest pop producers this country has seen in decades. I predict higher placings next week for Calvin Harris, "Baby Come Home" and a new entry from Sam & The Womp. Add me on last.fm (misterPopsical)