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Results for Soundclash 15 Girls Aloud - The Loving Kind [ 18 ] ** [69.23%] Kanye West - Heartless [ 8 ] ** [30.77%] Sorry it's taken so long to come up with the next challenge but i've been busy these last couple of days and not had internet access, anyway - Girls Aloud take yet another victory nearly bringing their total to double figures, yes it's 9 in a row for The Loving Kind now! Next up Kevin Rudolf Girls Aloud - The Loving Kind vs Kevin Rudolf ft. Lil Wayne - Let It Rock Check back for results in a couple of days, can the girls be beaten this time???

Ok, so keep the airplay in for the whole chart, but why do they need to divide it so the top 10 is solely downloads and 11-40 includes airplay?

Can I ask, what is the point of having downloads and airplay for part of the chart and only downloads for the top 10???? It seems completely pointless and makes the chart pointless - just take airplay out altogether!

I predict 1 - Lady Gaga 2 - Morrison/Furtado 3 - Kid Cudi 4 - Saturdays 5 - Kevin Rudolf 8 - Alexandra 9 - Girls Aloud 18 - Britney 23 - Pink 27 - Alesha Dixon

i thought he might, but it's not looking good so far, i've got an interesting song lined up next tho

42-04. MGMT - Electric Feel 43-02. Sash! & Stunt - Raindrops (Encore Une Fois) 44-02. Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Results of Soundclash #14 Girls Aloud - The Loving Kind [ 28 ] ** [71.79%] Rihanna ft. Justin Timberlake - Rehab [ 11 ] ** [28.21%] and again, a solid victory for Girls Aloud - bringing their tally to 8 wins with The Loving Kind now, next challenge Kanye West Girls Aloud - The Loving Kind vs Kanye West - Heartless As always, check back in a couple of days for the results!

I don't think it even includes airplay anymore does it?

Physicals The Game ft Ne Yo - Camera Phone - 42 Girls Aloud – The Loving Kind - 9 Kid Cudi vs Crookers – Day ‘n’ Nite - 3 White Lies – To Lose My Life - 37 Downloads Alesha Dixon – Breathe Slow - 31 Jordin Sparks - One Step At A Time - 39 Kanye West – Heartless - 11 Lady GaGa - Poker Face - 46 Ne-Yo - Mad - 22 P!nk - Sober - 29 Others Coolio – Gangsta’s Paradise - 38 Jason Mraz – I’m Yours - 25 Kevin Rudolf ft Lil Wayne - Let It Rock - 5 Saturdays - Issues - 4 Bonus #1: Will Alexandra Burke – Hallelujah still be in the Top 5? - No Bonus #2: Will Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) be in the Top 10? - Yes Bonus #3: Will Britney Spears – Circus be in the Top 20? - Yes

01. Lady Gaga - Just Dance 02. James Morrison/Nelly Furtado - Broken Strings 03. Kid Cudi vs Crookers - Day N' Nite 04. Saturdays - Issues 05. Kevin Rudolf - Let It Rock 06. Leona Lewis - Run 07. Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah 08. Beyonce - Single Ladies 09. Girls Aloud - The Loving Kind 10. Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody Bonus questions: 1. (for 5 pts) Which song will be #40 next week? (Artist name and song title needed!) - Kanye West - Love Lockdown 2. (for 3 pts) How many new/re/chart entries will be altogether in the top 40 next week? - 5 3. (for 2 pts) Which album will be higher next week: The Killers Day & Age or Leona Lewis Spirit? - Killers - Day & Age

LOL! yea, that would be a typo then! but yes it is a good idea - surprising to see KOL at the top, I would have thought Beyonce or Rihanna, plus interesting to see Jeff Buckley moving up, obviously due to his albums.

Making this a weekly thing, as suggested (thanks davetaylor!) - this is done under a points system, I've taken the Top 100 Singles and Top 100 Albums and given an artist points for where they appear in each chart - 100 points for No.1 99pts for No.2 down to 1pt. for No.100 Obviously if artists appear more than once then they get points for each time they appear (this week for example Beyonce appears twice in Top 10, she gets 94 points for being at no. 7 and 93 points for being at no.8, also she receives points for being elsewhere in the chart!). Once all the points are added up I'll put them into a table and do a top 40 - in the event of a tie the artist who has a song/album higher in the charts comes first. 01 05 - Kings Of Leon - 354 02 03 - Beyonce - 339 03 04 - Girls Aloud - 321 04 01 - Take That - 310 05 02 - Rihanna - 305 06 20 - MGMT - 278 07 07 - Pink - 260 08 15 - Akon - 253 09 06 - Katy Perry - 243 10 11 - Kanye West - 242 11 13 - Britney Spears - 235 12 10 - Script - 233 13 17 - Saturdays - 229 14 09 - Killers - 223 15 12 - Ne-Yo - 221 16 08 - Duffy - 211 17 14 - Leona Lewis - 203 18 21 - James Morrison - 195 19 19 - Snow Patrol - 188 20 27 - Alesha Dixon - 180 21 22 - Ting Tings - 171 22 18 - N-Dubz - 166 23 39 - Jeff Buckley - 152 24 16 - Jason Mraz - 146 25 26 - Sash - 124 26 25 - Pussycat Dolls - 123 27 24 - Coldplay - 115 28 30 - T.I. - 114 29 36 - Nickelback - 109 30 28 - Elbow - 101 31 38 - Chris Brown - 101 32 31 - Lady Gaga - 100 33 33 - Nelly Furtado - 99 34 29 - Alexandra Burke - 98 35 32 - Basshunter - 96 36 NE - Lil' Wayne - 95 37 NE - Kevin Rudolph - 91 38 34 - Stereophonics - 90 39 35 - Boyzone - 90 40 NE - Vampire Weekend - 90

They have won 7 yes - I'm running out of ideas for challengers!!

Results for Soundclash #13 Girls Aloud - The Loving Kind [ 27 ] ** [55.10%] Britney Spears - Circus [ 22 ] ** [44.90%] It looked for a while as if the Girls were beaten but a late surge of votes keeps their winning streak intact! How will they do against the collaboration of Rihanna and Justin Timberlake? Girls Aloud - The Loving Kind vs Rihanna ft. Justin Timberlake - Rehab Check back for results in a couple of days!

I'm so glad it isn't - I fail to seen the point of putting airplay in with sales, fine have an airplay chart (which we do) but to combine sales and airplay has always seemed pointless, which is why I've never been a huge fan of the Hit40Uk!

It's just this weeks points (week ending Jan 10th), I'll do another one for next weeks chart tomorrow/monday

Probably, but then would have dropped rapidly and would be out within weeks, i much prefer the chart as it is now, I really hated the SIANO every week situation!

I might just do that - thanks for the idea

01-00. Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah 02-02. Leona Lewis - Run 03-02. Lady Gaga - Just Dance 04-02. Beyonce - If I Were A Boy 05-00. James Morrison & Nelly Furtado - Broken Strings 06-02. Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody 07-00. Katy Perry - Hot'n'Cold 08-03. The Killers - Human 09-00. Britney Spears - Womanizer

Wherever an artist ends up in either the singles or the album chart they get points, as i am basing it on the top 100, the artist at no.1 will get 100 points, no2. 99 points and so on all the way down to 1 point for no.100 Because some artists have more than one song/album in the charts they get points for each song/album for example Take That appear 7 times in total (4 times in the singles chart and 3 times in the album chart) SINGLES - Greatest Day - no.10 (91 points), Rule The World - no.45 (56 points), Shine - no. 82 (19 points), Patience - no.90 (11 points) ALBUMS - Circus - no.1 (100 points), Beautiful World - no.30 (71 points), Never Forget - no.79 (22 points) All add up to 370 making Take That the most successful on a points system Hope that makes it a little clearer

what doesnt make sense?

This was just an idea I had, using a points system take the weeks top 100 singles and top 100 albums and see who is the most successful artist as far as having singles and albums in the charts goes - points being 100 for no.1 and 1 point for no.100 If a single is done by 2 artists (eg. Broken Strings) because James Morrison has an album in the album chart both he and Nelly Furtado get 96 points (being no.5 in the singles chart). However if it is the only time both artists appear (eg. Wiley ft. Daniel Merriweather) then they stick as one. In the event of a tie in points it is the artist with the highest chart position that will be placed first, if the chart position is the same it is the artist on the singles chart that will be placed above the artist on the album chart. I'll do a Top 40 because after that there are a lot of ties. 01 - Take That - 370 02 - Rihanna - 352 03 - Beyonce - 343 04 - Girls Aloud - 334 05 - Kings Of Leon - 313 06 - Katy Perry - 263 07 - Pink - 255 08 - Duffy - 251 09 - Killers - 245 10 - Script - 239 11 - Kanye West - 239 12 - Ne-Yo - 238 13 - Britney Spears - 233 14 - Leona Lewis - 229 15 - Akon - 208 16 - Jason Mraz - 206 17 - Saturdays - 184 18 - N-Dubz - 182 19 - Snow Patrol - 180 20 - MGMT - 176 21 - James Morrison - 173 22 - Ting Tings - 173 23 - Sugababes - 156 24 - Coldplay - 133 25 - Pussycat Dolls - 130 26 - Sash - 125 27 - Alesha Dixon - 113 28 - Elbow - 111 29 - Alexandra Burke - 100 30 - T.I. - 100 31 - Lady GaGa - 98 32 - Basshunter - 97 33 - Nelly Furtado - 96 34 - Stereophonics - 95 35 - Boyzone - 94 36 - Nickelback - 94 37 - Miley Cyrus - 93 38 - Chris Brown - 90 39 - Jeff Buckley - 89 40 - Guru Josh Project - 83

Results for Soundclash #12 Girls Aloud - The Loving Kind [ 17 ] ** [53.13%] MGMT - Kids [ 15 ] ** [46.88%] Another very tight one for Girls Aloud, but they scrape through 17 votes to 15, The Loving Kind is now the record holder for the most Soundclash wins (6 so far). Can they win again, this time against Britney? Girls Aloud - The Loving Kind vs Britney Spears - Circus As ever check back in a couple of days to find out the results! can anyone stop the Girls??

21-02. The Script - Break Even 23-01. Sugababes - No Can Do 27-03. The Saturdays - Issues 29-01. The Saturdays - Up 30-01. Rihanna - Disturbia

32-08. Duffy - Rain On Your Parade 37-03. MGMT - Kids 39-06. Girls Aloud - The Loving Kind