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I hope Lily's sales are strong, but a two or three week run at the top of the charts would be preferable to 9!

Fave: Lily Allen Worst: Jacko. I love a lot of his stuff, but this one is quite poor by comparison.

That's up on last week isn't it?

Top 10, but most but the die-hard fans would rather have an album. I haven't got into this song properly yet, and there hasn't been much exposure unless you go looking.

I liked Debbie Gibson, but complaining that people don't name-check her is a bit pathetic.

Favourite: Zutons Worst: Ne*Yo

Poor sales for those positions, but good for those artists. I loved the acoustic version of Maneater played on the chart show. Do you know if it's available for download?

They sang it at a gig last week, but I'm not aware of any recordings. I can't wait to hear it, but at the same time I don't want it to leak too soon and spoil things.

I hope it gets sorted soon and the situation is made clear to fans and everyone else. It's acts like this that need protecting by the OCC.

I think she'll be around for years to come, and eventually we'll get a Greatest Hits, but until then it'll be start and stop. She is talented and has some excellent songs, but struggles to build a solid following. I love her latest single, but must admit it didn't occur to me to get the album at this stage. I would say she's more talented than Rhianna, but I bought Rhianna's album. It wasn't just down to SOS, but because I liked the follow-up too, but SOS was a major factor.

I must admit, I didn't think Hips Don't Lie would be a big hit in the UK, but I'm thrilled to be proven wrong. Yay for Nelly holding up too. It's a good chart this week (minus football songs).

I love it. I think it'll be top 3 easily, hopefully number one, but I voted top 3, but it'll hang around.

I suppose there is a limit to what they can do with the covers to make them different, but obviously part of the Now series. I agree about people preferring to buy the individual tracks they like. Ripping the tracks you like to make your own, personalised compilations is pretty much the norm these days.

He's turning into a mini-Steve visually, except Steve did refuse to sing these songs. The song itself sounds like so many others and right now I have Blue's Breathe Easy stuck in my head. I think it would be a big hit at Christmas, but it's all out of sorts for The Summer. YouTube videos are often out of synch. It's much more annoying when you know it's a live performance.

My mum could do a better job. :cry:

The news broke about the mime rule along with a number of acts who had already pulled out several days before the tickets went on sale, but people might still have a case for taking their tickets back. It would force the producers to have a bit more respect for the acts involved and the people buying the tickets. I can't believe anyone believed it would be like a mini-festival, but at the same time they used to manage to let people sing (if not play) live at Party in the Park, which is on a bigger scale.

I hope that's not true. I love the song, but it's in no-one's best interests for it to hang around for that long.

The vocals are really wierd. I hope the whole album isn't like that.

Pink didn't say she didn't like Gavin or launch a campaign against him. All she said was that she was shocked at how vain he was, which she was probably asked about as part of an interview where she'll have said a range of things. Pink wasn't the only one. The entire nation was shocked at just how vain he was on Jonathon Ross. I think it's great Charlotte wants to stick up for her man, but she's not doing him any favours by over-reacting like that to everything. For starters, it only draws attention to the fact that Pink said he's vain. :P

Steve does sound bitter, but I'm not surprised. He was treated terribly by everyone on the show. Saying that he's 'just pop' is petty, but I think Shayne owes Steve a lot, because this year the X Factor people couldn't risk the winner being seen to be anything other than a massive success. If Steve hadn't spoken out, it wouldn't have been so important.

Gareth's avoided doing PAs for the last two years because he wanted to focus on moving forward with new material. After all of that, he's not going to suddenly think a GH is a good idea. I know people with less hits have released them, but I don't think Gareth is one of them. Having said that, a few tracks that were just album tracks in the UK were released to radio as singles in countries where they don't do physical singles, such as "Sentimental", "Too Serious too Soon" and "No Self Control".

Excellent news for Shakira. :D

I wasn't keen on her second album. The first was much stronger for me. She also seemed to be taking the cool and aloof thing a little bit too far. Is she with the same label? Because the second album didn't exactly set the charts alight. Having a baby was a convenient opportunity to take a break and come back afresh.

I'd heard they were £100 too, which just feels wrong that anyone would charge that much. £40 and £60 is still a lot, but I'd pay that for good seats.

Great news. I'm not sure they should keep Johnny, but Lauren and Mylene worked well together.