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01. Helping Haiti - Everybody Hurts 02. Owl City - Fireflies 03. Timbaland - If We Ever Meet Again 04. Glee Cast - Don't Stop Believin' 05. Ke$ha - Blah Blah Blah 06. Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind Pt II 07. Iyaz - Replay 08. Jedward - Under Pressure 09. JLS - One Shot 10. Journey - Don't Stop Believin' Bonus questions: 1. (for 5 pts) Which song will be #40 next week? (Artist name and song title needed!) Biffy Clyro - Many Of Horror 2. (for 3 pts) How many new/re/chart entries will be altogether in the top 40 next week? 6 3. (for 2 pts) Which album will be higher next week: Jay-Z - Blueprint III or JLS - JLS? Jay-Z

33 Calvin Harris – You Used To Hold Me 39 Cheryl Cole – Parachute 46 Chris Brown - Crawl 35 Erik Hassle - Hurtful 60 Glee Cast – It's My Life / Confessions, Pt. II 68 Glee Cast – Halo / Walking on Sunshine 1 Helping Haiti – Everybody Hurts 69 Hot Chip – One Life Stand 5 Ke$ha ft 3OH!3 – Blah Blah Blah 30 Lady GaGa & Beyoncé – Telephone 55 Leona Lewis – I Got You 16 Marina & The Diamonds – Hollywood 23 Rihanna - Rude Boy 31 Young Money & Lloyd – BedRock Bonus #1: Will Owl City - Fireflies be higher than Timbaland ft Katy Perry - If We Ever Meet Again in the chart? Yes Bonus #2: Will Jedward ft Vanilla Ice – Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby) be higher than JLS – One Shot in the chart? No Bonus #3: Will Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love be higher than Cheryl Cole ft Will.i.am – 3 Words in the chart? No

Date - Artist - Title - Days 29/06/2006 Lily Allen Smile 26 25/07/2006 James Morrison You Give Me Something 2 27/07/2006 Justin Timberlake Sexyback 18 14/08/2006 Scissor Sisters I Don't Feel Like Dancing 24 20/10/2006 Girls Aloud Something Kinda Ooooh 7 27/10/2006 Fedde Le Grand Put Your Hands Up For Detroit 6 02/11/2006 U2 & Green Day The Saints Are Coming 12 08/02/2007 Kaiser Chiefs Ruby 33 10/04/2007 Timbaland ft Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake Give It To Me 19 29/04/2007 Gym Class Heroes ft Patrick Stump Cupid's Chokehold 13 12/05/2007 Maroon 5 Makes Me Wonder 3 25/11/2007 Girls Aloud Call The Shots 17 12/12/2007 Mariah Carey All I Want For Christmas Is You 7 12/05/2008 Rihanna Take A Bow 20 03/03/2009 Flo Rida ft Ke$ha Right Round 19 31/08/2009 Jay-Z ft Rihanna & Kanye West Run This Town 13 19/11/2009 Jason DeRulo Whatcha Say 10 29/11/2009 Black Eyed Peas Meet Me Halfway 1 30/11/2009 Rihanna Russian Roulette 7 I think this should cover everything!

#1 singles that never reached #1 on I-Tunes (together with weeks at #1): Shakira ft Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie - 5 McFly - Don’t Stop Me Now / Please Please - 1 Beyonce ft Jay-Z - Deja Vu - 1 McFly - Star Girl - 1 Westlife - The Rose - 1 Take That - Shine - 2 Beyonce & Shakira - Beautiful Liar - 3 McFly - Baby's Coming Back / Transylvania - 1 Eva Cassidy & Katie Melua - What A Wonderful World - 1 Ting Tings - That's Not My Name - 1 Vanessa Jenkins & Bryn West ft Sir Tom Jones & Robin Gibb - Islands In The Stream - 1 Pixie Lott - Boys And Girls - 1 Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band - The Official BBC Children In Need Medley - 2

1 Owl City - Fireflies 2 Jedward - Under Pressure 3 Glee Cast - Don't Stop Believin' 4 Iyaz - Replay 5 Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind Pt II 6 3Oh!3 - Starstrukk 7 Sidney Samson - Riverside 8 JLS - One Shot 9 Journey - Don't Stop Believin' 10 Timbaland - If We Ever Meet Again 11 Example - Won't Go Quietly 12 Marina & The Diamonds - Hollywood 13 Jay-Z - Young Forever 14 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 15 Ke$ha - Tik Tok 1. (for 5 pts) Which song will be the biggest faller within the top 75 next week? (Artist name and song title needed!) Girls Can't Catch - Echo 2. (for 5 pts) Which song will be the highest climber within the top 75 next week? (Artist name and song title needed!) Boston - More Than A Feeling 3. (for 3 pts) How many new/re/chart entries will be altogether in the top 40 next week? 6 4. (for 3 pts) How many climbers will be in the top 40 next week? (climbers from outside the top 40 don't count!) 6 5. (for 3 pts) How many places will fall the biggest faller within the top 40 next week? 13 6. (for 2 pts) Which album will be higher next week: Chew Lips - Unicorn or Hot Chip – One Life Stand ? Hot Chip

42 Akon ft Keri Hilson – Oh Africa 37 Boston – More Than A Feeling 70 Cheryl Cole - Parachute 75+ Corinne Bailey Rae – I’d Do It All Again 75+ Glee Cast – Alone 75+ Glee Cast – Somebody To Love 61 Gorillaz ft Mos Def & Bobby Womack - Stylo 63 Hot Chip – One Life Stand 2 Jedward ft Vanilla Ice – Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby) 13 Marina & The Diamonds – Hollywood 57 Paolo Nutini - 10 / 10 75+ Peter Andre – I Can’t Make You Love Me 22 Rihanna - Rude Boy 34 Young Money & Lloyd – BedRock Bonus #1: Will JLS One Shot be higher than 30H!3 ft Katy Perry - Starstrukk in the chart? No Bonus #2: Will Jay Sean ft Sean Paul & Lil Jon - Do You Remember be higher than Timbaland ft Katy Perry - If We Ever Meet Again in the chart? No Bonus #3: Will Calvin Harris - You Used To Hold Me be higher than Lady GaGa & Beyoncé – Telephone in the chart? No

Bravery - An Honesty Mistake

Perez Prado - Guaglione beaten by Robson & Jerome (would have been a spectacular record-breaker if it had made it) S Club - Say Goodbye beaten by R Kelly Madonna - Hollywood and Benny Benassi - Satisfaction beaten by Beyonce Eric Prydz vs Floyd - Proper Education beaten (narrowly) by Leona Lewis Eric Prydz - Pjanoo beaten by Katy Perry And of course all of the songs that you-know-who prevented from reaching #1 (especially Right Here Right Now and The Saints Are Coming).

1 Owl City - Fireflies 2 Glee Cast - Don't Stop Believin' 3 Iyaz - Replay 4 3Oh!3 - Starstrukk 5 Journey - Don't Stop Believin' 6 JLS - One Shot 7 Sidney Samson - Riverside 8 Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Pt II) 9 Jay-Z - Young Forever 10 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 1. (for 5 pts) Which song will be the biggest faller within the top 75 next week? (Artist name and song title needed!) Girls Can't Catch - Echo 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: Justin Bieber - My World or Lostprophets - The Betrayed? Justin Bieber

7 Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Part II) Broken Down 48 Beyonce – Halo (HFHN) 59 Calvin Harris - You Used To Hold Me 50 Glee Cast – Bust Your Windows 74 Glee Cast – Taking Chances 16 Jay Sean, Sean Paul & Lil Jon - Do You Remember 21 Jay-Z, Bono, The Edge & Rihanna - Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) 46 Justin Timberlake ft Charlie Sexton – Hallelujah (HFHN) 45 Lady GaGa & Beyoncé – Telephone 57 Lil Wayne & Eminem - Drop The World 61 Paolo Nutini - 10 / 10 33 Pitbull ft Akon – Shut It Down 38 Rihanna - Rude Boy 31 Timbaland ft Katy Perry - If We Ever Meet Again Bonus #1: Will Glee Cast – Don’t Stop Believin’ be higher than JLS – One Shot in the chart? Yes Bonus #2: Will Example – Won’t Go Quietly be higher than Lady GaGa – Bad Romance in the chart? No Bonus #3: Will Alicia Keys – Doesn’t Mean Anything be higher than Timbaland – Morning After Dark in the chart? Yes

7 Alexandra Burke – Broken Heels 20 Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Part II) Broken Down 27 Biffy Clyro – Many Of Horror 55 Calvin Harris - You Used To Hold Me 9 Example – Won’t Go Quietly 19 Girls Can't Catch – Echo 66 Glee Cast – Bust Your Windows 49 Glee Cast – Take A Bow 20 JLS – One Shot 17 N-Dubz ft Mr Hudson - Playing With Fire 44 Pitbull ft Akon – Shut It Down 42 Rihanna ft Jeezy - Hard 51 Vampire Weekend – Cousins 54 Young Money & Lloyd – BedRock Bonus #1: Will Iyaz – Replay be higher than Owl City – Fireflies in the chart? Yes Bonus #2: Will Alexandra Burke - Bad Boys be higher than Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love in the chart? No Bonus #3: Will One Republic – All The Right Moves be higher than Robbie Williams – You Know Me in the chart? Yes

1 Iyaz - Replay 2 Owl City - Fireflies 3 3Oh!3 - Starstrukk 4 Sidney Samson - Riverside 5 Glee Cast - Don't Stop Believin' 6 Journey - Don't Stop Believin' 7 Alexandra Burke - Broken Heels 8 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 9 Example - Won't Go Quietly 10 Justin Bieber - One Time 1. (for 5 pts) Which song will be # 40 next week? (Artist name and song title needed!) 30 Seconds To Mars - Kings And Queens 2. (for 3 pts) How many new/re/chart entries will be altogether in the top 40 next week? 7 3. (for 2 pts) Which album will be higher next week: Alicia Keys - The Element Of Freedom or Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More? Alicia Keys

1 Iyaz - Replay 2 Owl City - Fireflies 3 Sidney Samson - Riverside 4 3Oh!3 - Starstrukk 5 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 6 Journey - Don't Stop Believin' 7 Florence & The Machine - You've Got The Love 8 Alexandra Burke - Broken Heels 9 Ke$ha - Tik Tok 10 Plan B - Stay Too Long 1. (for 5 pts) Which song will be # 20 next week? (Artist name and song title needed!) Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling 2. (for 3 pts) How many new/re/chart entries will be altogether in the top 40 next week? 7 3. (for 2 pts) Which album will be higher next week: You Me At Six – Hold Me Down or Vampire Weekend – Contra? Vampire Weekend

20 Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Part II) Broken Down 38 Biffy Clyro – Many Of Horrors 21 Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over 75+ Fyfe Dangerfield – She Needs Me 54 Glee Cast – Don’t Stop Believin’ 14 Jay-Z ft Mr Hudson - Young Forever 10 Justin Bieber - One Time 47 Lady GaGa & Beyonce - Telephone 60 Mumford & Sons – Winter Winds 36 OneRepublic – All The Right Moves 2 Owl City – Fireflies 49 Paulo Nutini – 10/10 9 Plan B – Stay Too Long 16 Saturdays – Ego Bonus #1: Will Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’ be higher than Lady GaGa - Bad Romance in the chart? No Bonus #2: Will Joe McElderry - The Climb be higher than N-Dubz ft Mr Hudson – Playing With Fire in the chart? No Bonus #3: Will Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire be higher than Leona Lewis - Happy in the chart? Yes

1 Iyaz - Replay 2 Sidney Samson - Riverside 3 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 4 Joe McElderry - The Climb 5 Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway 6 Florence & The Machine - You've Got The Love 7 Ke$ha - Tik Tok 8 Cheryl Cole - 3 Words 9 3Oh!3 - Starstrukk 10 Journey - Don't Stop Believin' 1. JLS - Beat Again 2. 7 3. BEP

13 Alexandra Burke – Broken Heels 75+ Delphic – Doubt 70 Esmee Denters – Admit It 1 Iyaz – Replay 64 Jay Sean, Sean Paul & Lil Jon - Do You Remember 22 Jay-Z ft Mr Hudson - Young Forever 19 JLS - Everybody In Love 21 Justin Bieber - One Time 49 Lady GaGa & Beyonce - Telephone 33 Lostprophets - Where We Belong 14 Saturdays – Ego 2 Sidney Samson ft Wizard Sleeve - Riverside (Let's Go!) 75+ Temper Trap - Fader 28 Wiley & Chew Fu – Take That Bonus #1: Will Florence + The Machine - You've Got The Love be higher than Lady GaGa - Bad Romance in the chart? No Bonus #2: Will Joe McElderry - The Climb be higher than Journey - Don't Stop Believin' in the chart? Yes Bonus #3: Will Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over be higher than Lady GaGa - Poker Face in the chart? No

Honey Ryder are a male/female duo. Tinchy Stryder is one person (as has been implied in February's section). Did they split up? Florence Welch and her Machine reached #51 Kiss With A Fist in 2008 (which I'm pretty sure was a proper release). And Jacko died in June. Apart from that, brilliant stuff!

13 Alexandra Burke – Broken Heels 4 Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling 11 Chipmunk – Look For Me 74 Esmee Denters – Admit It 23 Jay-Z ft Mr Hudson - Young Forever 14 Journey - Don't Stop Believin' 70 JLS - One Shot 55 Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire 40 Lady GaGa - Poker Face 43 Miley Cyrus - Party In The U.S.A. 24 Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name 10 Robbie Williams - You Know Me 17 Saturdays - Ego 66 Wiley & Chew Fu – Take That Bonus #1: Will Ke$ha - TiK ToK be higher than Rihanna - Russian Roulette in the chart? No Bonus #2: Will Alicia Keys - Doesn't Mean Anything be higher than Timbaland - Morning After Dark in the chart? No Bonus #3: Will Leona Lewis - Happy be higher than Michael Bublé - Haven't Met You Yet in the chart? No

1 – Little Boots: Despite topping the Sound of 2009 poll, had a somewhat disappointing year, with single New In Town only reaching #13 in June, and the album Hands initially plummeting after reaching #5. Second single Remedy reached #6 in August, but Earthquake missed the top 75 (peaking at #84). 2 – White Lies: Having already had a #52 single (Death) in 2008, White Lies scored their first top 40 hit in January with To Lose My Life (peaked at #34). The album of the same name reached #1 (but dropped down the chart relatively quickly). Follow-up single Farewell To The Fairground reached #33 in April (both songs curiously climbing 1 place in their 2nd week in the chart). A re-issue of Death reached #174. 3 – Florence & The Machine: Having reached #51 with Kiss With A Fist in August 2008 and #89 in December 2008 with Dog Days Are Over, Florence & The Machine received the Critics’ Choice award at the 2009 Brit Awards but did not achieve a breakthrough until July, when Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) peaked at #12, with the album Lungs spending 5 weeks at #2. Drumming Song peaked at #54 in September, and then a cover of You’ve Got The Love peaked at #16 in November. 4 – Empire Of The Sun: Debut single Walking On A Dream reached the top 10 in their native Australia, as well as in Ireland and Belgium. It only peaked at #64 in the UK (due to I-Tunes giving it away for free initially). The album of the same name peaked at #19 in the UK (and #6 in Australia), and follow-up single We Are The People reached UK #14. Walking On A Dream was later re-released but could only make #72. 5 – La Roux: Having reached #153 in 2008 with introductory single Quicksand, La Roux broke through in March 2009 with In For The Kill, which entered at #11 but eventually reached #2 (spending 4 weeks there). Follow-up hit Bulletproof reached #1 in June, with the album La Roux peaking at #2. I’m Not Your Toy reached #27 in October, but a re-issue of Quicksand failed to chart. 6 – Lady Gaga: Undoubtedly the star of 2009, Lady Gaga at one point had the two biggest-selling singles of the year, with Just Dance and Poker Face both spending 3 weeks at #1, and both reaching #1 in many other countries. She also reached #4 with Paparazzi and #19 with Love Game. All four singles were from the album The Fame, which also reached #1. The re-packaged The Fame Monster yielded a third #1 hit with Bad Romance, as well as several other charting album tracks (including the #30 hit Telephone). She also featured on Wale’s #12 hit Chillin. 7 – VV Brown: Album Travelling Like The Light was released in July (peaking at #30). The only hit single from it was Shark In The Water (which made #34). She also featured on the Young Soul Rebels single. 8 – Kid Cudi: Had a big hit at the start of the year with Day ‘N’ Nite (which reached #2). Follow-up Make Her Say reached #67 in September. He also featured on Kevin Rudolf’s Welcome To The World (which reached #77). Album Man On The Moon: The End Of Day was released in September, but did not chart in the UK (it did go top 5 in the US however). 9 – Passion Pit: Did not have any singles chart success (despite some Radio 1 airplay), but the album Manners peaked at #55. 10 – Dan Black: Had no solo chart success. The shortlisted acts that didn’t make the final 10: Big Pink: Having failed to chart with Too Young To Love (in 2008), Velvet, and Stop The World, Big Pink reached #27 in October with Dominos, from the album A Brief History Of Love, which reached #56. Frankmusik: Having previously released 3 EP’s in 2007 and 2008, Frankmusik reached #26 with the single Better Off As Two in April. Follow-up single Confusion Girl reached #27 in August, with the album Complete Me reaching #13. He was also part of Young Soul Rebels. Master Shortie: Has had no chart success. Mumford & Sons: Album Sigh No More reached #11. Singles Little Lion Man and Winter Winds reached #24 (in October) and #47 (in December). Temper Trap: Peaked at #6 in October with the single Sweet Disposition. Album Conditions reached #29. *** Comparison with previous years: This is the first time that any of the top 10 artists failed to manage a top 75 hit (both Passion Pit and Dan Black missing out). However, the other 8 artists did manage top 40 hits (compared to 9 in 2008 and 7 in 2007). 6 of the top 10 managed top 20 hits (the most since 2005), 4 managed top 10 hits (one more than in 2008), and 3 managed top 5 hits (same as 2008). All 3 of those managed top 3 hits (same as 2008), with 2 of them managing #1 hits (just as in 2008). However, the 2009 artists managed 4 #1 hits between them, compared to just 2 in 2008. 2009 is the first year since 2005 in which the act who topped the list did not manage a top 3 single (2005’s top act were The Bravery, who peaked at #7). *** The ones that got away: Chipmunk JLS Ke$ha Paloma Faith Pixie Lott Wale as well as Daniel Merriweather and Keri Hilson (both of whom had featured on several hits prior to 2009 but had not had any success in their own right). NB: Tinchy Stryder was not eligible for this list, as he released an album in 2007.

1 Joe McElderry - The Climb 2 Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name 3 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 4 3Oh!3 - Starstrukk 5 Cheryl Cole - 3 Words 6 Robbie Williams - You Know Me 7 Peter Kay - Official BBC Children In Need Medley 8 Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway 9 Journey - Don't Stop Believin' 10 Rihanna - Russian Roulette Bonus questions: 1. (for 5 pts) Which song will be #20 next week? (Artist name and song title needed!) Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love 2. (for 3 pts) How many new/re/chart entries will be altogether in the top 40 next week? 6 3. (for 2 pts) Which album will be higher next week: JLS - JLS or Lady GaGa - The Fame (Monster)? Lady Gaga

Deep Dish (one of whom is Sharam) are both originally from Iran. And not a top 10 hit, but El Chombo is from Panama.

Ricky Martin from Puerto Rico. Annabella Lwin (frontwoman of Bow Wow Wow) from Burma/Myanmar. Kyu Sakamoto from Japan (not that many hitmaking artists are from there). And several sources consider Keith Potger of The Seekers to be Sri Lankan - however apart from being born in Colombo, he is Australian.

1 Joe McElderry - The Climb 2 Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name 3 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 4 Rihanna - Russian Roulette 5 Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway 6 Robbie Williams - You Know Me 7 Cheryl Cole - 3 Words 8 Peter Kay - Children In Need Medley 9 Ke$ha - Tik Tok 10 Chuckie & LMFAO - Let The Bass Kick In Miami Girl 11 Alicia Keys - Doesn't Mean Anything 12 Timbaland - Morning After Dark 13 Jason DeRulo - Whatcha Say 14 Journey - Don't Stop Believin' 15 3Oh!3 - Starstrukk Bonus questions: 1. (for 5 pts) Which song will be the biggest faller within the top 75 next week? (Artist name and song title needed!) Bandaged - Silver Bells 2. (for 5 pts) Which song will be the highest climber within the top 75 next week? (Artist name and song title needed!) Journey - Don't Stop Believin' 3. (for 3 pts) How many new/re/chart entries will be altogether in the top 40 next week? 6 4. (for 3 pts) How many climbers will be in the top 40 next week? (climbers from outside the top 40 don't count!) 6 5. (for 3 pts) How many fallers will be in the top 40 next week? 25 6. (for 2 pts) Which album will be higher next week: Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. or Michael Buble - Crazy Love? Black Eyed Peas

21 George Michael – December Song (I Dreamed Of Christmas) 45 Mini Viva - I Wish 65 Pet Shop Boys – Christmas (EP) 1 Joe McElderry – The Climb (Downloads/Others) 50 Alexandra Burke – Broken Heels 74 Bob Dylan – Must Be Santa 7 Cheryl Cole ft Will.i.am – 3 Words 70 Glee Cast – Don’t Stop Believin’ 31 Miley Cyrus – The Climb 51 Mumford & Sons – Winter Winds 32 N-Dubz With Mr Hudson – Playing With Fire 2 Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name 33 Saturdays – Ego 13 30H!3 ft Katy Perry - Starstrukk Bonus #1: Will Lady GaGa – Bad Romance still be in the UK Top 2? No Bonus #2: Will Robbie Williams – You Know Me be in the UK Top 10? Yes Bonus #3: Will Terry Wogan & Aled Jones – Silver Bells still be in the UK Top 40? No

Joan Armatrading from St Kitts & Nevis. Eddy Grant from Guyana. Gibson Brothers from Martinique.