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Stereophonics release their album, Keep The Village alive, on the 11th September. Their single, C'est La Vie, was released today - received its first play on the Chris Evans show. (Info courtesy of the Official Charts webpage).

CBBC are showing an official chart show at half past 6 tonight. Not sure if it's the first one or if there has been one in previous weeks.

Alesha Dixon is releasing new single 'The Way We Are' on June 21 - she's performing it on the live Britain's Got Talent shows in May. (courtesy of Digital Spy)

Christmas day is a Friday this year which means the Christmas chart will be announced on the 25th - I think this will be the third time this happened. If the X Factor final is on the previous Saturday with a Sunday release will there be a campaign to keep the 'midpoint' leader at number one? I like the tie in with CBBC - one of my major gripes is that the chart isn't broadcast on television (unless on the MTV stations). I've always enjoyed Greg James as a DJ and when he has sat in to present the chart show on a Sunday. I'm interested in the format of the 2 hour show - I hope they drop the repeat of the previous week's top 3. I'd like them to play the new entries from 40-21, any song climbing to a new chart peak from 40-21, the entire Top 20 with a Top 5 album countdown and a recap of 40-2 before the reveal of the number 1 single. Whether they could fit that in a 2 hour show is another matter ...

Leona Lewis was number 2 with 'Better in Time/ Footprints in the Sand' and number 25 with 'Footprints in the sand'. (w /e 16 March 2008). If both versions counted together she would have been number one ('Mercy' by Duffy was number one).

Liz McClarnon's single should be listed as Woman In Love. Great work as always ... many thanks!

Had a look through my old British hit singles books - the last one was number 18 - and it doesn't have any additional info to what you have listed. I checked Discogs and they have no more info - they do list the writers for Devotion, though. No joy on the members of the act.

Great resources, as always! Under KWS, their debut single, 'Please Don't Go', is usually listed as a double A side along with 'Game Boy'.

Really enjoyed the Costa Rica match - and the tournament so far. BBC Football reporting that there's been 22 goals in the 6 matches so far compared to 8 goals in 6 matches in 2010. Which means England and Italy will draw 0-0.

Just remembered the Oddities also turned face in 1998.

Rob, d generation x turned face in 1998. Can't think of any others!

Bre, numbers 5 +6 in the singles chart are missing! :D

Thanks for putting the background information up and for adding the charts week to week. I started following the Irish charts last year after coming across Pop 4 on my Sky programme guide. It seemed to go off air last summer - has it moved channels or times? Or simply stopped being shown?

Fantastic resource, fchd! Will make it easy for me to check off my own database. Thanks also for the mini biogs as well.

Brilliant column as always, Suedehead2. Just to point out that 21 has fallen out of the Top 75 for two weeks earlier in the year (chart dated week ending 6 July, 2013).

But the UK chart is not representative of what people are listening to - and never has been. It's representative of what individual tracks people are willing to pay for.

There's only going to be one HMV still standing in Northern Ireland, and that's the one in the city centre. Oh well, I guess one is better than none. Am I right that there are no music retailers left in Northern Ireland, except for Belfast? I can't think of any.

Nick F1 - Everytime was performed on Glee last night.

The first two Christmas songs enter the Top 100 - in the same order as always ... Mariah at 88 and the Pogues at 91.

Enya - 16 years - 1988-2004 (She received a featured credit on Mario Winans's 'I don't wanna know')

Good wins for Spurs and Everton ... not much else to comment on, then. Just a few points about the whole Evra-Suarez incident ... 1. I would've preferred Suarez to have shaken Evra's hand, if only to 'draw a line under the whole thing'. I do understand why he didn't do it and believe Suarez shouldn't be made to shake hands with Evra. 2. The British media have kept this whole scenario running ... to their advantage (after all, it's an easy write up). They could 'draw a line under the whole thing'but choose not to. 3. There's footage on youtube of Gary Neville refusing to shake Peter Schmichael's hand - Schmichael was playing for Man City. Did the media highlight this -Schmichael's 'crime' being playing for City? Did Ferguson label this 'a disgrace'? 4. When Cantona 'Kung Fu Kicked' a Crystal Palace fan in the mid 90s did another football manager label this a disgrace? Or Rio Ferdinand missing a drugs test - was this a disgrace? Was another manager calling for them to be sold? 5. When a manager of a top football team refuses for years to speak to the BBC because of a documenatry investigation into his family, was this a disgrace? Was it petty? Was it a petty disgrace? 6. On Monday night Gareth Bale simulated (which, when I was a child ,we called cheating) by falling over thin air. No media hysteria. How woluld this have been protrayed if Suarez had simulated? No media hsyteria? 7. Has there been a reaction from those great fair minded moralists of our age on Twitter? Those pair of paragons of virtue Wayne Rooney (who cheated on his pregnant wife) and Rio Ferdinand (who missed a drugs test). (I geneuinely do know since I'm not on Twitter).

Think Mil is Del Rio's uncle. He wrestled at the Royal Rumble in 1997 ... I also think he was the first masked wrestler to wrestle at Madison Square Garden.

SORRY! Instead of 'Earth Song' I meant to type 'You are not alone'! (Must concentrate harder!!)

RE: The chart movement of 'Good Feeling' by Flo Rida, it's not exactly the same, but the closest I could remember was 'Earth Song' by Michael Jackson which moved 1-1-2-3-4-5. Sadly, the following week it fell to 7. (Chart run thanks to Polyhex).

If Suarez is banned for 8 games, will the FA consistently ban every player who makes offensive, racist remarks for 8 games? I've heard people talking about sending a message ... how this will act as a deterrent ... again, will this be consistently applied to every footballer who makes offensive and racist comments? For example, if the exact same incident happened in a League 2 match, would the player be banned for 8 games and fined £40,000? If a player insults, for example, Craig Bellamy using 'Welsh' as an insult would the player be banned and fined for insulting him?