Tim

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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

All I Want For Christmas Is You 24 O Holy Night 1- Miss You Most (At Christmas Time) 7 Jesus Born On This Day 1 MEDLEY: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Gloria (In Excelsis Deo) 4 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 18+

I think so too. Otherwise he wouldn't have included McFly following up a #1 with a #1. It's an interesting thread, GD. I wonder what has caused so many flops: or whether there have been more this year than in others.

That's weird. Is she on sale in Woolies or something? What else prompted this return to the charts?

(The others are: 1 Frozen 2 Oh Father 3 You Must Love Me 4 Beautiful Stranger 5 Vogue 6 Secret 7 Justify My Love 8 Don't Cry For Me Argentina 9 Nothing Really Matters 10 The Power Of Goodbye and 1 Like A Prayer 2 Into The Groove 3 La Isla Bonita 4 Like A Virgin 5 Papa Don't Preach 6 Holiday 7 Material Girl 8 Live To Tell 9 True Blue 10 Crazy For You)

Top Ten: 1. Hung Up 2. Sorry 3. Get Together 4. Jump 5. Die Another Day 6. Me Against The Music 7. Hollywood 8. Music 9. American Life 10. Don't Tell Me

Hung Up 60+ Sorry 0-

Beauty and the Beast

She attracts almost universal hatred and yet sells millions of records. Can I be the only one out there who thinks Mimi's music is really rather good? There are certain stars in pop the public loves to hate - almost murderously, it sometimes seems. At the moment, for some people it's Pete Doherty. Others still wish to burn Phil Collins alive. Personally, I want to give Chris Martin a really thorough slapping whenever I see him doing his "look at me, I'm a hugely sensitive showman" routine on telly. One star who attracts almost universal contempt these days seems to be Mariah Carey. Her very name is almost a cuss word, in middle-class circles at any rate. (At our office party this year, guests have been invited to run up CDs of a couple of tunes to rock the room, with just one proviso: no Mariah Carey. All I Want for Christmas is You was also named the worst Christmas song ever in yesterday's Observer Music Monthly.) And this hate will almost certainly find further fuel from the weekend's news that Mimi is to sue porn star Mary Carey (to stop her trademarking the very similar-sounding name on the grounds that customers might confuse the two, thereby defaming her own "brand"). As a legal action it does sound like a fairly classic "only in America" legal case, particularly if you look - as in the interest of research, you understand, I did - at how very unlike the two Careys look. No link there, you might have noticed - you'll just have to google for Mary yourself. This is a family blog. But back to the better known Carey. While I do find the tales of her prima-donnish behaviour, her ridiculous demands for grand luxuries in hotels, etc amusing - I can't share the hatred so many people seem to have for her music. (And, since she's obviously emotionally vulnerable, I get a bit irritated at the public venom directed at a fragile nature.) People have actually said to me, in conversations about music when I've enthused about my taste for R'n'B, "I don't believe it, next thing you'll be telling me you like Mariah Carey!" The thing is, actually, I really do. I'm not a fan of her work while she was the property of Tommy Mottola, the Columbia records executive who star-spotted her, then became her husband while still managing her career. It's aimed at the mass market in a shameless way that deploys Carey's astonishing singing range to fake up strong emotion, and it's often nauseating. However, since she and Mottola separated in 1996 and Carey was able to incorporate her love for hip-hop into the songs, she has just got better and better. The single We Belong Together is plainly one of the very best pop songs recorded in the last 20 years. Yet I can remember a lot of people, after Live 8, saying it was the most appalling thing they saw all day. I saw the performance too, and I thought it was great. Tell me: am I entirely alone in recognising how good she is? Millions and millions of people buy her records - so why does my love for these songs feel like such a lonely passion? (Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog)

Crazy In Love Ft.Jay-Z 5 Naughty Girl 5 Baby Boy Ft.Sean Paul 5 Hip Hop Star Ft.Big Boi & Sleepy Brown 5 Be With You 5 Me,Myself & I 5 Yes 5 Signs Ft.Missy Elliot 4- Speechless 6+ That's How You Like It Ft.Jay-Z 5 The Closer I Get To You Ft.Luther Vandross 5 Dangerously In Love 5 Gift From Virgo 5 Work It Out 6 Bonnie & Clyde '03 4

Intro, writings on the wall 5 So good 5 Bills, Bills, Bills 5 Confessions 5 Bug A Boo 6 Temptation 5 Now that she's gone 5 Where'd you go 5 Hey Ladies 5 If you leave 5 Jumpin Jumpin 6 Say my name 5 She can't love you 5 Stay 5 Sweet Sixteen 4 Outro 2 - Get on the bus 6+ Independant women (part 1) 6 Independant women (part 2) 5 8 days of christmas 5 No no no (part 2) 5

I think it's that DJ Clue is a hip-hop producer, hence they're doing hip-hop records together. I'm sure she'll find someone else to make the ballads with (etc.)

Christmas (Please Come Home)

What's the matter?

All I Want For Christmas Is You 23 O Holy Night 2- Miss You Most (At Christmas Time) 7 Jesus Born On This Day 2 MEDLEY: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Gloria (In Excelsis Deo) 4 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 17+

Definitely. The filmmakers wrote a new song for 'Phantom' and 'Evita' for the same reason. I do like this song and I'll probably buy it or the soundtrack but I don't see it getting much radioplay.

Great news on both counts. I want something I can bob my head too in the car.

All I Want For Christmas Is You 22 O Holy Night 4- Miss You Most (At Christmas Time) 7 Jesus Born On This Day 2 MEDLEY: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Gloria (In Excelsis Deo) 4 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 16+

Shake It Off I was a wayward child

Poor Kelly. I hope your boyfriend was not miffed about the kiss that never was.

Destiny's Child Forum

Now it's #2!!! It's also 30-something from a christmas compilation.

It's now at #3 on the iTunes chart. Could #1 be possible? (Take That and Gwen Stefani are beating her so far)

Downloads: Rascal Flatts 'Life Is A Highway' James Taylor 'Our Town' Sheryl Crow 'Real Gone'