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7 points Wretch 32 feat. L Traktor 5 points Jessie J Do It Like A Dude 3 points Matt Cardle When We Collide 2 points JLS feat. Tinie Tempah Eyes Wide Shut 1 point Take That The Flood -1 Kanye & Jay Z HAM

I wish Britney had got top 5 instead of Wretch 32. Oh well.

The episode last night was a bit disappointing. Probably the weakest of series 3 so far.

She played Dec 16 in Dublin. I really doubt Sale El Sol will do anything except for Spanish speaking countries...maybe France and Italy...it's kind of like when she released No after La Tortura. I think she's releasing it because it's very personal to her, not for any success.

I thought the video would be more like Darkplace....oh well... I'm loving this right now. It's grown on me loads.

If there's any song that I think Shakira might translate on the album, it's SES. I can hear the chorus already..."when you least expect it, the sun comes out."

Didn't realise Rumour Has It was Ryan Tedder. That just makes it more brilliant.

Great cover. I'm quite looking forward to seeing Ellie acting a bit ridiculously in the video.

I hope Britney can overtake Diddy by Sunday. I like Coming Home but it's an amazing chorus inconvenienced by some crappy raps. HIAM is the better song.

01 Rihanna & Drake - What's My Name? 02 Marina & The Diamonds - Hollywood 03 Lady GaGa & Beyoncé - Telephone 04 Rihanna - Rude Boy 05 The Saturdays - Ego 06 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg - California Gurls 07 Timbaland ft. Katy Perry - If We Ever Meet Again 08 Lady GaGa - Alejandro 09 The Saturdays - Higher 10 Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) Very tough to leave a few of those out. 6-10 I like pretty equally, very difficult to rank them.

Is this the next UK single then? I thought it would be Fly. Or is this one of those times when Radio 1 add the next US single and then swap them round after a couple of weeks?

I wonder if everyone will still be loving this album when the songs have been used to soundtrack everything from furniture adverts to reality tv finales and Radio 1 & 2 instantly A list every single and play them until the sound of them makes you want to chop your ears off.

I think this trailer shows that Fox aren't planning on getting rid of Fringe yet: VWmMm6gfc5E

Fringe needs a Lost style end date given to them. Every episode of series 3 has been incredible and there's obviously a clear destination for this story. It'd be criminal though if it got canceled just as it's hit its stride. It deserves a satisfactory ending.

Yep, this is a classic case of an artist doing something experimental/amazing then stepping back from it when it doesn't sell well with a safe album. The only tracks I still listen to are Lo Que Mas, Devocion and Gordita. This is probably the first Shakira album where I don;t know the words to every song. On an unrelated note, I've been listening to a lot of Major Lazer recently and noticed how Gordita has the same drums as Pon De Floor in the breakdown bit. Shakira should just do some ridiculous dancehall electro-rock album with Diplo and John Hill. The songs that John Hill has done for SW and SES are among Shakira's best and so is Gordita.

In terms of production, melody and lyrics; Nerina Pallot - Idaho is pretty dramatic.

Is it Knock You Down? The production of Coming Home always reminds me of Knock You Down.

Glad Kanye and Britterrz are moving up. Pretty boring though otherwise.

I"m actually quite looking forward to this. I love Scream 1 & 2...the third not so much. 4 looks like it's going to be pretty ridiculous - but in a good way.

Valerie. Give me the Zutons' original anyday.

I'm loving Rumour Has It at the moment. The production is amazing.

This album is pretty great. I never listened to all of 19 so I can't compare. This is an extremely strong album though and is no doubt going to dominate the album chart for the rest of the year.

Yeah, it is a bit ridiculous but it would be nice if Loca somehow went top 40 in Feb and then Rabiosa was released to video channels straight after and became a summer hit. I hope Gordita is a single at some point.

Looks and sounds like a media project from an inner city yoof group.

Like I said, I wish this had a part 2. Diddy's raps have grown on me but they're just an inconvenience while listening to an amazing chorus.