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Ghosty’s Chart - 23/12/12 - Christmas Chart SINGLES: http://poponandon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Girls-Aloud-Something-New-official-album-artwork.jpeg 01 (02) Girls Aloud ~ Something New ~ 5 [1-1-1-2-1] 02 (01) Lauren Aquilina ~ Fools ~ 7 [44-8-4-2-3-1-2] 03 (**) Rachel Zeffira ~ The Deserters/Here On In ~ 1 [3] 04 (36) Queen Of Hearts ~ Warrior ~ 3 [55-36-4] 05 (05) Melissa ~ The Point Of No Return ~ 2 [5-5] 06 (04) Katzenjammer with Ben Caplan and Trondheimsolistene ~ A Fairytale Of New York ~ 4 [56-23-4-6] 07 (16) DJ Fresh ~ Gold Dust (Shy FX Re-edit) ~ 2 [16-7] 08 (09) Röyksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør ~ Running To The Sea ~ 2 [9-8] 09 (25) Cazzette ~ Beam Me Up (Kill Mode) ~ 2 [25-9] 10 (08) Young London ~ Broken ~ 4 [53-22-8-10] 11 (03) Dia Frampton ~ Billy The Kid ~ 4 [12-2-3-11] 12 (06) IAMX ~ The Unified Field ~ 3 [14-6-12] 13 (12) Gabrielle Aplin ~ The Power Of Love ~ 7 [35-4-8-9-9-12-13] 14 (**) Emilia Mitiku ~ Winter Wonderland ~ 1 [14] 15 (07) Steps ~ Light Up The World ~ 9 [1-3-2-2-3-3-4-7-15] 16 (**) El Sueño De Morfeo ~ Depende De Ti/Lo Mejor Esta Por Llegar ~ 1 [16] 17 (15) Jay James Picton ~ Long May They Roll ~ 3 [36-15-17] 18 (**) Vanquish ~ Machine ~ 1 [18] 19 (11) A*M*E ~ Play The Game Boy ~ 5 [14-5-5-11-19] 20 (14) Infernal ~ Can't Go Back ~ 4 [23-10-14-20] 21 (17) Loreen ~ Euphoria ~ 47 [1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-1-1-3-2-3-2-4-8-6-6-7-6-4-6-8-7-8-13-14-12-11-10-11-17-21] 22 (**) Melouria ~ Miracle ~ 1 [22] 23 (**) Michael Mind Project feat. Gravitonas ~ Antiheroes ~ 1 [23] 24 (10) Summer Camp ~ Always EP ~ 8 [2-3-1-2-4-6-10-24] 25 (13) Alphabeat ~ X-Mas (Let's Do It Again) ~ 5 [17-8-7-13-25] 26 (19) Loreen ~ Crying Out Your Name/My Heart Is Refusing Me 2012 ~ 12 [1-1-2-2-4-4-6-6-6-12-19-26] 27 (21) Ke$ha ~ Die Young ~ 4 [34-20-21-27] 28 (22) Christina Perri ~ A Thousand Years ~ 4 [15-13-22-28] 29 (**) Ellie Goulding ~ Figure 8 ~ 1 [29] 30 (28) Shiny Toy Guns ~ Waiting Alone/The Sun ~ 8 [7-6-7-12-14-17-28-30] 31 (**) Leona Lewis ~ Lovebird ~ 1 [31] 32 (**) The Young Professionals ~ Last Christmas ~ 1 [32] 33 (18) Retro Stefson ~ Glow ~ 8 [1-1-3-5-7-8-18-33] 34 (26) Stockholm Syndrome ~ Pretty Girl ~ 11 [18-4-10-15-20-21-21-21-19-26-34] 35 (**) Hafdis Huld ~ Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas ~ 1 [35] 36 (27) Eivør ~ Rain ~ 17 [1-2-5-8-10-12-17-27-25-14-13-14-18-17-18-27-36] 37 (**) Lucy Rose ~ Middle Of The Bed ~ 1 [37] 38 (**) Emeli Sandé ~ Clown ~ 1 [38] 39 (**) Yohanna ~ Coming Around ~ 1 [39] 40 (**) Kylie Minogue ~ On A Night Like This (Abbey Road Session) ~ 1 [40] 41 (20) Lukas Graham ~ Better Than Yourself ~ 3 [40-20-41] 42 (23) Havana Brown ~ We Run The Night ~ 4 [28-21-23-42] 43 (**) Nadine ~ Light In The Sky ~ 1 [43] 44 (**) Severina ~ Uzbuna ~ 1 [44] 45 (**) Bertine Zetlitz ~ Starlight ~ 1 [45] 46 (29) Little Mix ~ DNA ~ 5 [9-13-15-29-46] 47 (24) Stooshe ~ Waterfalls ~ 5 [40-31-26-24-47] 48 (30) M Pokora & Tal ~ Envole-Moi ~ 4 [54-28-30-48] 49 (42) Sinine ~ I'm Dreaming ~ 2 [42-49] 50 (**) Andy Burrows ~ Light The Night ~ 1 [50] 51 (32) Victor Ark & Daniela ~ Bacia Me ~ 14 [4-2-2-11-13-20-27-33-28-26-24-30-32-51] 52 (33) Andreea Banica ~ Could U ~ 2 [33-52] 53 (**) Rebecca Ferguson ~ Shoulder To Shoulder ~ 1 [53] 54 (37) Timoteij ~ Jag Kommer Hem Till Jul ~ 7 [15-10-10-16-24-37-54] 55 (**) JLS ~ Hold Me Down ~ 1 [55] 56 (**) Paloma Faith ~ Just Be ~ 1 [56] 57 (**) Christina Perri ~ Something About December ~ 1 [57] 58 (**) The Games Maker Choir feat. Alistair Griffin ~ I Wish For You The World ~ 1 [58] 59 (**) Torsten Borg ~ Did You Know It All Along ~ 1 [59] 60 (**) The Presets ~ Promises ~ 1 [60] Dropouts 31 (33) Haim ~ Don't Save Me ~ 4 [53-42-33-31] 34 (41) Ivy Quainoo feat. Stanfour ~ Who You Are ~ 3 [51-41-34] 35 (16) Shoes For Julia ~ Bringing On The Heartache ~ 12 [26-7-6-3-5-6-5-5-7-11-16-35] 38 (32) Olly Murs feat. Flo-Rida ~ Troublemaker ~ 4 [28-30-32-38] 39 (**) Bruno Mars ~ Locked Out Of Heaven ~ 1 [39] 40 (39) Linkin Park ~ Castle Of Glass ~ 4 [52-46-39-40] 41 (38) Frida Sundemo ~ Indigo ~ 5 [29-22-22-38-41] 43 (54) Whigfield ~ Jeg Kommer Hjem ~ 2 [54-43] 44 (25) Of Monsters And Men ~ Mountain Sound ~ 6 [29-26-16-19-25-44] 45 (49) Medina ~ Har Du Glemt ~ 3 [59-49-45] 46 (34) Siobhan Dillon ~ Powerless ~ 3 [48-34-46] 47 (59) Dragonette ~ Merry Xmas (Says Your Text Message) ~ 2 [59-47] 48 (**) Daughter ~ Youth ~ 1 [48] 49 (53) Ruby Frost ~ Young ~ 2 [53-49] 50 (**) Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra feat. Rumer ~ Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive ~ 1 [50] 51 (27) Lenka ~ Everything At Once ~ 6 [59-22-25-27-27-51] 52 (31) Mylène Farmer ~ À L'ombre ~ 8 [39-51-28-27-23-26-31-52] 53 (35) Mutine ~ Pose Tes Mains ~ 5 [32-27-35-35-53] 54 (**) Gabby Young & Other Animals ~ Walk Away ~ 1 [54] 55 (37) Masters In France ~ Playin' With My Friends ~ 3 [52-37-55] 56 (**) Superbus ~ Whisper ~ 1 [56] 57 (**) Enrique Iglesias feat. Sammy Adams ~ Finally Found You ~ 1 [57] 58 (**) Jake Bugg ~ Lightning Bolt ~ 1 [58] 59 (**) P!nk ~ Try ~ 1 [59] 60 (**) Los Campesinos! ~ A Doe To A Dear ~ 1 [60] Fresh Hits: 03. Rachel Zeffira - The Deserters InCc8UwSyac 16. El Sueño De Morfeo - Depende De Ti CsOAykh1F4I 18. Vanquish - Machine h6itC3GSPZs 22. Melouria - Miracle S5Qmhg6Sr0A Album of the Week: Shiny Toy Guns - III http://www.msopr.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/STGcoverart.jpg

Hey! My likes: No4- The Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl/ Fairytale of New York 23-12 35-25-10-7-4 No7- Olly Murs ft Flo Rida/ Troublemaker 36-36-32-1-1-2-2-3-7 No8- Wham!/ Last Christmas 34-13 34-11-9-8 No10- PSY/ Gangnam Style 38-27-21-13-1-2-3-2-3-3-9-9-6-5-9-13-12-10 No11- Rihanna/ Diamonds 9-1-4-5-8-8-6-8-4-3-3-10-11 No15- Kylie Minogue/ Santa Baby 32 17-15 No17- Gabriella Climi/ Warm This Winter 35-40-21-17 No18- Slade/ Merry Christmas Everybody 14 38-26-23-18 No19- Ke$ha/ Die Young 40-18-4-6-13-19 No20- Pink/ Try 34-30-22-20-3-5-12-18-20 No22- Swedish House Mafia ft John Martin/ Don't You Worry Child 38-35-32-5-1-2-2-7-4-9-12-13-18-24-22 No23- Jona Lewie/ Stop The Cavalry 37-25-23 No24- Robbie Williams/ Candy 22-1-2-5-6-7-15-22-24 No28- Adele/ Skyfall 2-5-4-1-2-3-11-13-10-22-29-28 No30- Calvin Harris ft Florence Welch/ Sweet Nothing 40-23-18-16-3-1-6-13-14-16-21-22-30-32-30 No32- The Script ft will.i.am/ Hall Of Fame 31-1-1-2-2-3-7-11-14-15-21-24-24-22-24-33-38-32 No34- Haim/ Don't Save Me 34 Nice chart!

Hey! My comments: 8. Röyksopp feat Susanne Sundfør - Running To The Sea (12) (CR-21-12-8) Reaching the same peak as on my chart this week. Will it go any further? :o 24. Jessica Muscat - Ultraviolet (NEW) (CR-24) This is basically Malta's very own Next To Me :lol:, reminds me when Natasha & Charlene ripped off The Saturdays' Up in the Maltese selection a few years back with their track King :lol: 42. The Saturdays - What About Us (Re-entry) (CR-50-47-48-OUT-42) Is this getting a UK release at all? 47. Lauren Aquilina - Fools (NEW) (CR-47) You gave it a listen then! :D Hope it grows on you like it did me! 50. Kevin Borg - Needing You (NEW) (CR-50) I'd say this is almost as certain an entry for Malta as Zlata was for Ukraine :lol:. It's fairly decent and would make for another contemporary entry into what is turning into quite a modern sounding contest so far! I'm a little surprised Young London's new single hasn't appeared here yet as I'd have thought you would like it, it's rather Cascada like!

Hey! My likes: 01 (01) Tegan & Sara – Closer [10wks] (22-10-5-3-3-3-3-5-1-1) 03 (08) Kylie Minogue – On A Night Like This (TARS) (8-3) 05 (03) Io Echo – When The Lilies Die [5wks] (11-2-1-3-5) 06 (14) P!nk – Try [10wks] (29-22-20-13-13-17-16-16-14-6) 07 (04) The Killers – Here With Me [4wks] (13-3-4-7) 08 (05) Blondfire – Where The Kids Are [10wks] (16-7-4-2-2-1-1-2-5-8) 13 (**) Röyksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør – Running To The Sea [1wk] (13) Great to see this enter! A really nice track, although not either of the artist's best release imo 14 (18) Florence + The Machine – Lover To Lover [3wks] (23-18-14) 17 (15) Olly Murs feat. Flo Rida – Troublemaker [9wks] (19-10-8-5-8-10-15-15-17) 19 (12) Coldplay – Hurts Like Heaven [6wks] (32-21-14-8-12-19) 20 (20) Gabrielle Aplin – The Power Of Love [4wks] (35-28-20-20) 22 (16) The Lumineers – Ho Hey [8wks] (39-28-19-14-12-9-16-2) 23 (17) Lana Del Rey – Ride [10wks] (27-19-13-11-14-6-6-10-17-23) 24 (24) Bruno Mars – Locked Out Of Heaven [5wks] (35-31-27-24-24) 28 (23) Girls Aloud – Something New [9wks] (32-22-14-11-7-11-17-23-28) 29 (**) Emeli Sandé – Clown [1wk] (29) 30 (**) Haim – Don’t Save Me [1wk] (30) 31 (39) Girls Aloud – Beautiful ‘Cause You Love Me [2wks] (39-31) 32 (27) CHURCHES – The Mother We Share [10wks] (33-25-15-12-17-22-25-25-27-32) 33 (26) Calvin Harris feat. Florence Welch – Sweet Nothing [12wks] (7-3-2-2-2-4-7-12-15-21-26-33) 34 (25) Two Door Cinema Club – Sun [7wks] (32-24-19-17-18-25-34) 35 (**) Pet Shop Boys – Memory Of The Future [1wk] (35) 37 (29) Solange – Losing You [11wks] (36-30-23-20-19-24-29-37) 38 (28) Robbie Williams – Candy [11wks] (13-4-4-9-7-6-13-18-19-28-38) 40 (31) Of Monsters & Men – Mountain Sound [9wks] (28-16-9-9-15-20-26-31-40) Nice chart! :D

Hey! My likes: (02) 02 | Rihanna - Diamonds | 01-02-01-04-03-03-04-03-03-02-02-02-02- (13) (03) 03 | Girls Aloud - Something New | 01-01-02-02-01-01-01-01-03-03- (10) (10) 04 | Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You | 04-OUT-10-04- (3) (12) 06 | Timoteij - Jag kommer hem till jul | 30-19-18-11-09-12-06- (7) (**) 07 | The Pogues feat. Kirsty McColl - Fairytale Of New York | 07- (1) (07) 08 | Ke$ha - Die Young | 16-06-07-08- (4) (34) 09 | Girls Aloud - Jingle Bell Rock | 34-09- (2) (05) 10 | One Direction - Little Things | 10-06-05-06-07-04-05-10- (8) (08) 11 | Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven | 30-28-17-19-11-05-09-10-08-13-08-11- (12) (06) 12 | Olly Murs feat. Flo Rida - Troublemaker | 17-05-04-04-03-02-02-03-03-06-12- (11) (13) 13 | Sanna Nielsen - Viskar ömt mitt namn | 24-32-18-19-13-11-13-13- (8) (37) 14 | Girls Aloud - Count The Days | 37-14- (2) (**) 16 | DJ Fresh - Gold Dust | 16- (1) (17) 18 | Alphabeat - X-Mas (Let's Do It Again) | 24-27-30-17-18- (5) (09) 19 | Girls Aloud - Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me | 04-04-04-07-09-19- (6) I hope this does get a single release at some point, although it's looking pretty questionable at the moment! (19) 21 | Kelly Clarkson - Catch My Breath | 15-14-15-18-21-15-05-10-23-19-21- (11) (16) 23 | Frida Sundemo - Indigo | 12-06-12-16-23- (5) (23) 24 | Mary N'Diaye - Big Dreamer | 31-18-13-28-31-38-OUT-35-19-23-24- (10) (29) 25 | Agnes - All I Want Is You | 01-02-03-07-10-13-09-13-20-23-31-14-09-15-22-29-25- (16) (20) 26 | Little Mix - DNA | 02-04-04-02-02-01-01-06-07-12-17-20-26- (13) (49) 28 | Little Mix - Change Your Life | 49-28- (2) (28) 29 | Eric Saade - Miss Unknown | 07-20-41-48-OUT-28-29- (6) (**) 30 | Yohanna - Coming Home | 30- (1) Not as stunning as her Eurovision entries, but pretty nice nevertheless! (31) 31 | Medina - Boring | 13-24-29-39-OUT-21-20-31-31- (8) (14) 32 | Steps - Light Up The World | 30-25-20-23-36-29-14-32- (8) (11) 33 | The Saturdays - What About Us | 12-08-08-09-14-11-33- (7) (33) 34 | Loreen - My Heart Is Refusing Me | 20-27-35-OUT-20-08-06-01-03-10-10-16-16-17-15-23-18-33-34- (18) (21) 36 | Eric Saade - Marching (In The Name Of Love) | 17-34-50-OUT-40-21-36- (6) (18) 37 | Gabrielle Aplin - The Power Of Love | 50-21-26-21-18-37- (6) (47) 39 | Loreen - Euphoria | 07-04-04-01-01-01-01-01-01-02-02-01-01-02-01-01-01-01-01-01-02-04-02-02-05-04-03-05-06-06-07-09-15-18-20-14-12-24-26-28-29-30-37-40-43-47-39- (47) (40) 40 | Stockholm Syndrome - Pretty Girl | 31-03-08-14-24-24-29-33-38-40-40- (11) (26) 41 | Tone Damli - Smash | 26-41- (2) (30) 43 | Loreen - Crying Out Your Name | 03-02-06-05-06-10-13-26-25-32-30-43- (12) (36) 45 | Amelia Lily - Shut Up (And Give Me Whatever You Got) | 19-28-25-20-14-34-36-45- (8) (46) 46 | Robbie Williams - Candy | 09-07-11-19-25-46-46- (7) (32) 47 | JLS - Hold Me Down | 28-32-47- (3) (**) 49 | Lawson - Learn To Love Again | 49- (1) (42) 50 | Delta Goodrem - Hunters & The Wolves | 39-35-32-35-42-50- (6 Fab chart! :D

May May means Eurovision month and it was mainly entries into the contest that took over my weekly chart for the entire month. A number of entries grew on me after seeing the contest and many of those can be found here. Aside from Eurovision, May was another relatively quiet month and there is sadly quite a lot of filler tracks here. Top 40 Singles: 01-10 http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/LandOfConfusion_zps12703368.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/30Days_zps804383cc.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/DanceAgain_zpsaa448c23.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/LittleBraveheart_zpsf87d41a6.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Kill_zps32e26da0.jpg 01 Katzenjammer - Land Of Confusion 02 The Saturdays - 30 Days 03 Jennifer Lopez - Dance Again 04 Charlotte Perrelli feat. Kate Ryan - Little Braveheart 05 iamamiwhoami - kill 06 iamamiwhoami - rascal 07 Amy Macdonald - Slow It Down 08 Izabo - Time 09 Queen Of Hearts - Neon 10 Honey Ryder - Marley's Chains Katzenjammer top the month of May with their cover of the Genesis song, which might be more familiar to some people via Alcazar's This Is The World We Live In. The Saturdays come second with the fantastic 30 Days. Two fairly similar tracks, Dance Again and Little Braveheart slot into numbers 3 and 4 respectively, the latter in particular being a surprisingly fantastic and sorely underrated single from Charlotte Perrelli and Kate Ryan. iamamiwhoami complete the top 5 with fan favourite, kill. There's more iamamiwhoami at #6 with kills predecessor, rascal. Amy Macdonald returned in 2012 with Slow It Down, a fairly decent track but the album was to contain better songs. Israel's Eurovision entry follows at #8 and Neon by Queen Of Hearts makes it to #9, seamlessly ripping off Goldfrapp in the process. Finally, the top 10 is rounded off by a nice slice of country-pop from British trio, Honey Ryder. 11-20 11 Bimbo Boy - Die From A Broken Heart 12 Paper Aeroplanes - Multiple Love 13 Radio Killer - Calling You 14 Zeljko Joksimovic - Nije Ljubav Stvar 15 Kaliopi - Crno E Belo 16 The Sound Of Arrows - Conquest 17 Mark Ronson & Katy B - Anywhere In The World 18 Mandy Capristo - Hurricane 19 Ott Lepland - Kuula 20 Sabina Babayeva - When The Music Dies At #11 we have one of my favourite Numayanian entries of 2012 from Bimbo Boy and West Walian duo Paper Aeroplanes are at #12. Romanian dance act Radio Killer make it to #13 just ahead of the Serbian and Macedonian Eurovision entries, the latter of which grew on me the most post-contest. Swedish electro duo The Sound Of Arrows are at #16 and the Coca Cola Olympic track from Mark Ronson & Katy B is one place lower. Former Monrose singer Mandy Capristo makes it to #18 with the punchy Hurricane and closing the top 20 are two Eurovision entries from Estonia and 2012 hosts Azerbaijan. 21-30 21 The Wanted - Chasing The Sun 22 A1 & Annie Khalid - Just 3 Words 23 Can Bonomo - Love Me Back 24 Rumer - P.F. Sloan 25 Silhouette - Can't Keep Up 26 Pikachunes feat. Princess Chelsea - Castle On A Cloud 27 Kurt Calleja - This Is The Night 28 Paloma Faith - Picking Up The Pieces 29 Jessie J - Laserlight 30 Compact Disco - Sound Of Our Hearts British boyband The Wanted just miss out on a place in the top 20 with summer anthem Chasing The Sun and one place lower is another boyband who appear to have had their day in the UK sadly, A1 with the rather great Just 3 Words which was a collaboration with Annie Khalid. The Turkish Eurovision entry is at #23 and the soothing sounds of Rumer are at #24. Northern Ireland's finest, Silhouette appear at #25 with a former Unknown Pleasures entry and a tragically underrated BJSC entry from Palmyra makes it to #26. At #27 is the Maltese Eurovision entry and just below that are big UK hits from Paloma Faith and Jessie J. Finally, the top 30 is completed by the Hungarian Eurovision entry. 31-40 31 Buranovskiye Babushki - Party For Everybody 32 Roman Lob - Standing Still 33 Tulisa - Young 34 Delain - Smalltown Boy 35 Sinplus - Unbreakable 36 Filipa Sousa - Vida Minha 37 Donny Montell - Love Is Blind 38 Iris - Would You? 39 Karin Park - Restless 40 Jessica Lowndes - The Other Girl The infamous Russian grannies are at #31 just ahead of the German entry for Baku. Tulisa makes a random appearance with Young (By this point you can tell I just had gaps to fill). Dutch metal group Delain reach #34 with their Bronski Beat cover and the Swiss, Portuguese, Lithuanian and Belgian entries to Eurovision follow. Finally, the top 40 is completed by Karin Park and Jessica Lowndes, both of which were entered into BJSC. Top 5 Albums: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/EurovisionBaku_zpscf4d9099.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Tabu_zpse86299d9.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/LiveInHamburg_zps200ae152.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/GetStarted_zpsd7da3b1c.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/ClubDeMandinga_zps6e4ecfe0.jpg 01 Various Artists - Eurovision Song Contest: Baku 2012 Top Tracks: Euphoria, La La Love 02 Timoteij - Tabu Top Tracks: Stormande Hav, Het 03 Katzenjammer - Live In Hamburg Top Tracks: To The Sea, Lady Marlene 04 David Lindgren - Get Started Top Tracks: Rendezvous, Shout It Out 05 Mandinga - Club De Mandinga Top Tracks: Zaleilah, Colours May was quite a decent month for albums but clearly the best to be released during this month was the annual Eurovision compilation. Swedish girl group Timoteij come second with their sophomore release, Tabu whilst Norwegian girl group Katzenjammer come third with their fantastic live album. Melodifestivalen favourite David Lindgren makes it to #4 with his album of Danny Saucedo rejects and in 5th place is the Romanian Eurovision entrant, Mandinga.

As soon as Zlata was announced I knew she'd win, after the controversy surrounding Kukushka she'd only ever return to the NF if she was guaranteed a win. Good song though!

I think it's actually alright :lol:

Thanks Rich! :D 01 - You should! Fools has grown on me so much! :wub: 04 - :lol:, I've got used to his voice now. 16 - I do like the odd bit of Drum n Bass and Bassline now and again and this is my favourite from the genre for a while! 19 - MHIRM is carrying this chart run really, Crying Out Your Name would be a lot further down the chart by now on it's own. I really hope she goes with Everytime as the next single if indeed she does release another song of the album! 39 - I can see what you mean! It reminds me quite a bit of The Police! 57 - Agreed :( Thanks for posting! :D Thanks Adam! 16 - Agreed! I'm toying with getting the album! 17 - I did a few weeks back too. The moment that klaxon on Euphoria went it was obvious who was going to win imo. 26 - Me too :(. Hope we get an album from them soon! Thanks for posting! :D

April Apart from a small selection of songs, April was quite the lull in quality of new music. iamamiwhoami managed to keep things interesting with three new tracks which helped make up for the end of the Eurovision selections. There were a couple of really brilliant new UK singles, but aside from that everything was a bit average during April. Top 40 Singles: 01-10 http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/IdleTalk_zpsa39fa531.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/LoveIsNotEnough_zps81aa0e8e.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/WaitingForTheFeeling_zps83a16951.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Primadonna_zps46cde21a.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Forever_zps70f426cd.jpg 01 iamamiwhoami - idle talk 02 Above & Beyond feat. Zoë Johnston - Love Is Not Enough 03 Bright Light Bright Light - Waiting For The Feeling 04 Marina And The Diamonds - Primadonna 05 Medina - Forever 06 iamamiwhoami - play 07 iamamiwhoami - in due order 08 Kate McGill - Replaced 09 Ivy Quainoo - Do You Like What You See? 10 Dragonette - Let It Go iamamiwhoami easily top this month's top 40 with the moving and magnificent idle talk. It beats down competition from UK dance act Above & Beyond with their atmospheric offering Love Is Not Enough. The song acted as my entry into BJSC 44. Welsh musician Bright Light Bright Light comes third with the brilliant single, Waiting For The Feeling whilst fellow Welsh singer Marina And The Diamonds is 4th with Primadonna. Danish singer Medina is at #5 with what was at the time the long awaited English version of last year's hit, For Altid. There's more iamamiwhoami at #6 and #7 and another offering from Wales from Kate McGill at #8. The winner from the German version of The Voice and former BJSC entry from Espen is at #9 beating off former BJSC winner Dragonette in 10th. 11-20 11 Rebecca Stella - Give Me That O 12 Gabrielle - Løkken 13 Paulina Rubio - Boys Will Be Boys 14 Linkin Park - Burn It Down 15 Helen Guttara - Tongues Of Fire 16 Ren Harvieu & Karen Elson - The Train Song 17 Tone Damli feat. Eric Saade - Imagine 18 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe 19 Vanbot - Lost Without You 20 Delain - Get The Devil Out Of Me The second group opens with a spot of trashy pop from Rebecca Stella at #11 and Norwegian singer Gabrielle at #12 with a brilliant choice of single in the shape of Løkken. Mexican singer Paulina Rubio makes it to #13 with the RedOne produced single Boys Will Be Boys and Linkin Park are at #14 after a return to form with Burn It Down. Swedish singer Helen Guttara finds herself at #15 and a cover of Vashti Bunyan's The Train Song by Ren Harvieu and Karen Elson is at #16. A fantastic duet between Tone Damli and Eric Saade is at #17 and just below is the monster hit from Carly Rae Jepsen. Finally, closing the top 20 are Swedish electro-pop artist Vanbot and Dutch metal group Delain. 21-30 21 Pernilla - När Jag Blundar 22 The Destroyers - Hole In The Universe 23 Pupkulies & Rebecca - Ici 24 Anmary - Beautiful Song 25 Olly Murs - Oh My Goodness 26 The School - Never Thought I'd See The Day 27 BIGkids - Drum In Your Chest 28 Jace Everett - Bad Things 29 Lise Karlsnes - Here We Go 30 Tove Styrke - Bad Time For A Good Time The Finnish Eurovision entry, an enchanting if slightly repetitive number from Pernilla just misses out on a spot in the top 20. UK folk collective The Destroyers are at #22 with the raucous Hole In The Universe and there's some subtle French electronica from Pupkulies & Rebecca at #23. Latvia's Eurovision entry, the endearingly terrible Beautiful Song is at #24 just ahead of Olly Murs' Oh My Goodness. Cardiff-based alt-pop band The School are at #26 and the new project from Mr Hudson and Rosie Oddie, BIGkids make their debut entry into this countdown with Drum In Your Chest. The theme tune from True Blood makes a belated entry at #28 and the third single release from Lise Karlsnes' Dance Or Die is at #29 ahead of a similar sounding track from Swedish singer, Tove Styrke. 31-40 31 Cascada - Summer Of Love 32 Michael Rune feat. Cecilie Fleur - Væk I Natten 33 Madonna - Girl Gone Wild 34 Kati Wolf - The Last Time 35 Kato - Suits You Well 36 Sunday Girl - High And Low 37 Elena - Your Captain Tonight 38 Planet R - Kärleken (Det Var Då) 39 Caro Emerald - Dr. Wanna Do 40 Paulina Starborn - Never Gonna Let Me Go Cascada's Summer Of Love opens the final group in April's top 40 and just below that is a collaboration between Danish artists Michael Rune and Cecilie Fleur - it's definitely one for fans of the saxophone. Madonna's Girl Gone Wild is at #33 and former Hungarian Eurovision entrant Kati Wolf is at #34 with her Celine Dion esque ballad, The Last Time. Quirky Belgian singer Kato is at #35 whilst another new musical direction and attempt at chart success by Sunday Girl makes it to #36. Romanian singer Elena is at #37 ahead of a new act formed a former member of Thermostatic, Planet R. Caro Emerald's final single from Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor is at #39 whilst Paulina Starborn closes the top 40. Top 5 Albums: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/ElectraHeart_zps63bb4920.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Replaced_zps8595594d.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/TheVisitors_zps7e0cc8c8.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/LookingBack_zps6a87c522.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/TheSiliconeVeil_zps9694a3cd.jpg 01 Marina And The Diamonds - Electra Heart Top Tracks: Primadonna, Power And Control 02 Kate McGill - Replaced Top Tracks: Replaced, Cursed 03 ABBA - The Visitors (Deluxe Edition) Top Tracks: The Day Before You Came, Cassandra 04 Tone Damli - Looking Back Top Tracks: Butterflies, Imagine 05 Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil Top Tracks: White Foxes, The Silicone Veil Despite April being fairly drab for new singles, there were a number of very decent album releases. Top of the pile is the sophomore release from Marina And The Diamonds. Kate McGill's rather interesting and lovely Book+CD release, Replaced comes second ahead of another re-released version of ABBA's The Visitors which this time featured a never heard before demo track. Tone Damli's best of compilation, Looking Back, is 4th and it is a wonderful collection of songs spanning her career so far. Closing the top 5 is the impressive second album from Norwegian artist, Susanne Sundfør.

drops :wub: One of my favourite tracks of theirs, pleased to see it going against the grain and being higher than play!

March March offered a right mixed back of new singles and a fairly sizeable dollop of Eurovision entries yet again also. Eurovision selections came to a close in March and the majority of ESC related stuff here are the eventual chosen entries for their respective countries. An impressive edition of BJSC also makes it's impact here as do continued single releases from iamamiwhoami and some new tunes from some of the local talent of my area. Top 40 Singles: 01-10 http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/WhiteFoxes_zpse9f297cb.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Drops_zpsd00b7da7.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/NeverForget_zpsa6781df7.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/YouAndMe_zps8ffefaf4.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/ShowMe_zpsc793b7a4.jpg 01 Susanne Sundfør - White Foxes 02 iamamiwhoami - drops 03 Gréta Salóme & Jónsi - Never Forget 04 Joan Franka - You And Me 05 Team Me - Show Me 06 iamamiwhoami - good worker 07 Mandinga - Zaleilah 08 Rona Nishliu - Suus 09 Pastora Soler - Quédate Conmigo (Stay With Me) 10 Pasha Parfeny - Lăutar My entry into BJSC 43 opens up this month's top 40 and it comes from the strikingly brilliant Norwegian artist, Susanne Sundfør. She is joined in the top 10 by fellow Scandinavian acts Team Me, who were my entry into an edition of Unknown Pleasures earlier this year and iamamiwhoami who appear twice with their second and third singles from the kin album. Icelandic Eurovision entrants Gréta Salóme & Jónsi make their second appearance in the 2012 review with the English version of their entry and they are joined by other Eurovision acts Joan Franka from The Netherlands who sent their best entry in years and was utterly robbed by the jury, Romanian dance troop Mandinga, Rona Nishliu from Albania, Pastora Soler from Spain and Moldovan singer Pasha Parfeny. 11-20 11 Frida Hyvönen - Terribly Dark 12 Eva Boto - Verjamem 13 Alphabeat - Vacation 14 Sofi Marinova - Love Unlimted 15 Kamaliya - Rising Up 16 I Am A Camera - Factory Boys 17 Alexandra Burke feat. Erick Morillo - Elephant 18 Eleftheria Eleftheriou - Aphrodisiac 19 Lena Philipsson - Du Följer Väl Med? 20 Engelbert Humperdinck - Love Will Set You Free Although deserving of a position within the top 10, Frida Hyvönen sadly misses out by one place with the Echo Beach esque, Terribly Dark. Danish pop group Alphabeat are at #13 with their summer anthem Vacation (released a little too early in the year imo!) and Ukrainian artist and Steps support act Kamaliya is at #15. Lena Philipsson makes yet another appearance in the 2012 review at #19 and Britain is represented well by electro duo I Am A Camera and X Factor winner Alexandra Burke. Britain's Eurovision entry also appears here at #20. A nice song that was sadly not striking enough to appeal to the Eurovision juries and the majority of Eurovision voters. Other Eurovision entries appearing here include the Slovenian entry at #12, Bulgaria's Sofi Marinova at #14 and Eleftheria Eleftheriou's Greek entry at #18. 21-30 21 Mirami - Miramimania 22 Nina Zilli - L'Amore È Femmina (Out Of Love) 23 Set Sail - The Boat Song 24 Svenstrup & Vendelboe feat. Nadia Malm - Glemmer Dig Aldrig 25 Laleh - Some Die Young 26 Eisblume - Für Immer 27 Sinéad O’Connor - The Wolf Is Getting Married 28 The Skints - Ratatat 29 Stooshe feat. Travie McCoy - Love Me 30 Jedward - Waterline Ukrainian girl group Mirami narrowly miss out on a place in the top 20 here with their catchy pop tune and Italian Eurovision entrant and early pre-contest favourite to win Nina Zilli is at #22. Indie-pop from Set Sail makes it to #23 whilst Danish dance act Svenstrup & Vendelboe appear at #24. BJSC favourite Some Die Young by Laleh makes it to #25 ahead of German act Eisblume who sampled Jasper Forks for their single Für Immer. Ireland is represented in this group by their Eurovision entry from Jedward and a surprisingly very decent single from Sinéad O’Connor. London ska and reggae band The Skints are at #28 and the UK hit Love Me from Stooshe is at #29. 31-40 31 Will Young - Losing Myself 32 Niki & The Dove - DJ, Ease My Mind 33 Moa Lignell - When I Held Ya 34 Supergene - A Division In Class 35 Random Perception - 84 36 Bjorn Ranelid feat. Sara Li - Mirakel 37 Nightwish - The Crow, The Owl And The Dove 38 Charlotte Thorstvedt feat. Margaret Berger - Arrhythmia 39 Laura Wright - Stronger As One 40 Evdokia Kadi - Taxidepse Me At the lower end of a magnificent top 40 we have Pop Idol winner Will Young, Radio 1 favourites Niki & The Dove, Swedish Idol alumnus Moa Lignell and West Wales rock acts Supergene and Random Perception Melodifestivalen fan favourites Bjorn Ranelid & Sara Li just about manage to make it in at #36 with their hilarious entry Mirakel whilst Nightwish slot in just below with the second single from their Imaginaerum album. A subtle dance track from Charlotte Thorstvedt & Margaret Berger makes it to #38 whilst an anthem for the Diamond Jubilee by former All Angels singer Laura Wright appears at #39. Finally, closing the top 40 is former Cypriot Eurovision entrant Evdokia Kadi with her rather interesting song, Taxidepse Me. Top 5 Albums: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/MildtSagt_zpsb760fb4e.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Melodifestivalen2012_zpsa37fa478.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/ToTheTreetops_zps00a6f246.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/SilverMoon_zpsb8040852.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/TheGirl_zps83bc21de.jpg 01 Gabrielle - Mildt Sagt Top Tracks: Bordet, Løkken 02 Various Artists - Melodifestivalen 2012 Top Tracks: Euphoria, Stormande Hav 03 Team Me - To The Treetops Top Tracks: Show Me, With My Hands Covering Both of My Eyes I Am Too Scared to Have a Look At You Now 04 Donkeyboy - Silver Moon Top Tracks: Silver Moon, City Boy 05 Charlotte Perrelli - The Girl Top Tracks: Little Braveheart, The Girl March was a much better month for albums than it's two predecessors and top of the pile, rather comfortably is the debut LP from Norwegian singer, Gabrielle. What a fantastic set of tunes it is! I‘d highly recommend it. Gabrille’s stunning debut pushes the brilliant Melodifestivalen compilation down into 2nd place just ahead of Norway’s version of Arcade Fire, Team Me. Norway is represented for a fourth time at #4 with the second album from pop act Donkeyboy and Charlotte Perrelli completes an all Scandinavian top 5 with The Girl.

February was indeed a very a good month! :D

2013 is shaping up to be an awesome contest, even the countries who usually enter something dire are turning in really decent entries! I suspect it'll all come crashing down though when San Marino announce Lys Assia as their entrant and the Montenegrin entry premiers :(

February After the fairly barren month of January follows February and it's abundance of Eurovision related tunes. More selections get underway including the best of them all, Sweden's Melodifestivalen. Melodifestivalen contains some of the very best songs Sweden has to offer in the year and 12 of my top 40 for February are entries into that contest. February is also the key time for new and returning artists to attempt to chart high within the UK chart and a number of entries here are from artists who wanted to breakthrough in 2012. Top 40 Singles: 01-10 http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Euphoria_zps9f99c1c8.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/StormandeHav_zpscd6e5c1c.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/EchoYouAndI_zps77c5d570.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Sever_zpsb6e8ba26.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Amazing_zps7c9bfbae.jpg 01 Loreen - Euphoria 02 Timoteij - Stormande Hav 03 Anggun - Echo (You And I) 04 iamamiwhoami - sever 05 Danny Saucedo - Amazing 06 The Storm - My Crown 07 Lisa Miskovsky - Why Start A Fire? 08 Foxes - Youth 09 Love Generation - Just A Little Bit 10 Darin - Nobody Knows Unsurprisingly, the Queen of Eurovision and Queen of Life itself, Loreen tops the February top 40 with the sensational Euphoria. A monster hit across Europe and in my (and others) personal chart, racking up 22 weeks at #1 and still going strong within the top 20 over 40 weeks on. Euphoria indeed won Melodifestivalen and some of it's competition also appears in this group including runner up, Danny Saucedo with his entry Amazing. I do believe that had Sweden selected Amazing over Euphoria then they still would have walked away with the Eurovision title. Other Melodifestivalen entries in the top 10 here come from girl group Timoteij, acoustic soloist Lisa Miskovsky and female trio Love Generation (now known as Stockholm Syndrome - more from them later!) The rather unfortunate "nul points in the televote" entry from France is third in this list, Echo (You And I) reminded me of Madonna's Beautiful Stranger somewhat. The first of 9 singles in 2012 from iamamiwhoami appears at #4 - all 9 singles made up their debut album, kin. BJSC favourites The Storm are at #6 and a former BJSC winner from Foxes makes it to #8. Finally the top 10 is rounded off by Swedish singer, Darin with the fantastic Nobody Knows. 11-20 11 Amanda Mair - Sense 12 Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) 13 Gaitana - Be My Guest 14 Sol Heilo - Hold On 15 Lena Philipsson - Live Tomorrow 16 High Contrast feat. Selah Corbin - The Agony & The Ecstasy 17 Icona Pop - Nights Like Bonita 18 Elisa's - Linjen I Min Hand 19 Afro-Dite - The Boy Can Dance 20 Tone Damli - Look Back Amanda Mair just misses out on a spot in the top 10 with her quirky tune, Sense. Canadian alternative act Arcade Fire are at 12 with Sprawl II, their dip into a more electro sound than usual. Eurovision rears it's head again, this time courtesy of Ukrainian entrant, Gaitana and there's more Melodifestivalen at #19 thanks to Afro-Dite who made their return to the competition following their 2002 Eurovision entry. One quarter of Katzenjammer is at #14 with her interesting cover of a SBTRKT song and another former Swedish Eurovision entrant follows at #15 with a dance cover of Laleh's memorable track. Drum & Bass makes an appearance here too thanks to High Contrast, as does a good old powerful schlager track from Elisa's. A mash-up (proper one, not the X Factor sense of the word) between Icona Pop's Nights Like This and Madonna's La Isla Bonita is at #17 and Norwegian pop star Tone Damli rounds off the top 20 with Look Back. 21-30 21 Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know 22 Värttinä - Tuuterin Tyttäret 23 Charlotte Perrelli - The Girl 24 Carolina Wallin Pérez - Sanningen 25 Reverend And The Makers - Bassline 26 David Lindgren - Shout It Out 27 Marie Serneholt - Salt & Pepper 28 3 Daft Monkeys - Days Of The Dance 29 Hanna Lindblad - Gossebumps 30 Gabrielle - Høster Lower down the chart we see one of the biggest UK chart hits from Gotye and many more Melodifestivalen entries from 1999 Eurovision winner Charlotte Perrelli, Carolina Wallin Pérez, David Lindgren, former A*Teen Marie Serneholt and Hanna Lindblad. Folk music plays it's part here too with appearances from Finnish act Värttinä and Cornish act 3 Daft Monkeys. Meanwhile the return single from Reverend And The Makers is at #25 and one of many singles from the amazing Norwegian artist Gabrielle finishes off the top 30 nicely. 31-40 31 Nightwish - Turn Loose The Mermaids 32 The Király's - Untried 33 Nabiha - Never Played The Bass 34 Jess Mills - Pixelated People 35 MNDR - #1 In Heaven 36 Sonja Aldén - I Din Himmel 37 First Aid Kit - Emmylou 38 Hej Matematik - Livet I Plastik 39 Ian Carey & Rosette feat. Timbaland & Brasco - Amnesia 40 Paulina Rubio - Heat Of The Night The final batch of singles in the top 40 opens with a wonderful, almost Celtic sounding BJSC entry from Nightwish. There's yet more Eurovision related tunes from Hungary's Kiraly family and the final Melodifestivalen appearance here from Sonja Aldén. There's three more Scandinavian hits here from Nabiha, First Ait Kit and Hej Matematik as well as some great pop and dance tunes from Jess Mills, MNDR, Ian Carey and Paulina Rubio. Top 5 Albums: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/VarldenSnurrar_zpsf5a9e253.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/DanceOrDie_zps8fd93546.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/GreatestHits-AnnaAbreu_zpsfa50772e.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/OurVersionOfEvents_zpsd4494e65.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Utu_zps8d5c1559.jpg 01 Lena Philipsson - Världen Snurrar Top Tracks: Live Tomorrow, Du Följer Väl Med 02 Lise Karlsnes - Dance Or Die Top Tracks: Red Hot, Here We Go 03 Anna Abreu - Greatest Hits Top Tracks: Music Everywhere, Vinegar 04 Emeli Sandé - Our Version Of Events Top Tracks: Clown, Read All About It (Part Million) 05 Värttinä - Utu Top Tracks: Tuuterin tyttäret, Utuneito Another quiet month for albums in February and all but one of these albums comes from the Nordic region. Lena Philipsson's fabulous pop album Världen Snurrar deservedly takes the top spot here just ahead of Norwegian pop artist, Lise Karlsnes whose album came with very high expectations that were sadly not achieved. Third place goes to the Greatest Hits compilation from Finnish singer Anna Abrue and the face of music on literally every TV show going, Emeli Sandé is 4th with her decent debut offering. Fifth spot goes to Finnish folk act, Värttinä

Considering it's a given what my year end #1 is going to be, I thought I'd present my end of year chart this way in an attempt to make it a bit more interesting :lol: Never Forget will make an appearance later on too! Which will be higher in the 2012 chart remains to be seen however! :D

Blue Jeans is wonderful!

The two people who voted for it in BJSC you mean? :lol:

The LIPS should have been top 10 in BJSC :(

What a brilliant number one album! It's a shame Anette's decided to quit the band though :( I also very much approve of appearances from iamamiwhoami and Loreen here! :D

jonna (should be no.1!) <3

Welcome to my review of 2012! Over the next two weeks, I'll be having a look back over the year in music and selecting my Top 40 Singles and Top 5 Albums for each month. This will culminate in a list of my definitive Top 50 Singles and Top 20 Albums of for the entire year of 2012 on New Year's Eve. So, let's start with a look back at what happened at the start of the year in... January January means mostly one thing - Eurovision National Final season gets into full swing! Across the continent, from Iceland to Cyprus, various contests and shows start to take place to find the 40+ entries that will represent their countries at the Eurovision Song Contest. Most of my top 40 songs from January come from these selections, but dotted in between are some UK hits and other discoveries from across the globe. January in general is a relatively quiet month for releases and for me, the quality of the following list of top 40 songs for that month reflects that. In terms of song quality, overall this is one of the weakest lists I have compiled for the months of 2012. The best was very much still to come! Top 40 Singles: 01-10 http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/LaLaLove_zps78da554f.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Overflow_zps3f97f3fd.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/HelloHello_zpsd862a25f.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/YouAndI_zps99895839.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/MunduEfterMer_zps87b20f69.jpg 01 Ivi Adamou - La La Love 02 Ditte Marie - Overflow 03 Bic Runga - Hello Hello 04 Minnie-Oh - You And I 05 Gréta Salóme & Jónsi - Mundu Eftir Mér 06 Soluna Samay - Should've Known Better 07 War Of Words - Panic 08 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die 09 Tooji - Stay 10 Íris Hólm - Leyndarmál Top of the pile is a well loved fan favourite of this year's Eurovision courtesy of Cyprus and Ivi Adamou. La La Love is an infectious Mediterranean pop song and it earned Cyprus a rare but very much well deserved place in the Eurovision final and achieving their best result since 2004. Runner up to Ivi is a wonderful song from the Danish Eurovision selection. Ditte Marie is joined in the top 10 by fellow Danish competitor and eventual winner of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, Soluna Samay who is 6th on this list. Norway and Iceland put in two appearances each in this list as well. The original Icelandic version Gréta Salóme & Jónsi's Eurovision entry appears at #5 with fellow Icelandic competitor Íris Hólm at #10. From Norway we have their Eurovision entry from Tooji at #9 and the rather underrated effort from Minnie-Oh at #4. Aside from the Eurovision related happenings, we have New Zealander and a former Unknown Pleasures entry of mine from Bic Runga at #3, the rather sombre but sensational Popjustice release from War Of Words at #7 and Lana Del Rey's first big single of 2012 appearing at #8. 11-20 11 Map Of Moscow - Sleep Alone 12 Karen Viuff - Universe 13 Michel Teló - Ai Se Eu Te Pego 14 The Young Professionals - Video Games 15 SoSo - Who's Gonna Love Me 16 Iiris - Melyse 17 Oh Land - Speak Out Now 18 Aura - Hands Up 19 John The Valiant feat. Peti Puskás - Holdfény 20 Martin Rolinski - Blame It On A Decent Matter Just missing out on a place in the top 10 is Swedish electro-alternative band Map Of Moscow. Fellow Swedes SoSo and former BWO frontman Martin Rolinski also make an appearance inside the top 20. There's more Eurovision related tunes here too with Danish candidate Karen Viuff at #12 and an entry from the Belarussian national final at #18. Brazilian sensation Michel Teló makes it to #13 with his worldwide smash hit, Israeli electronica duo The Young Professionals at at #14 with their fantastic cover of the Lana Del Rey single and Estonian experimental artist Iiris is at #16. Danish singer Oh Land makes it to #17 with the impressive Speak Out Now and Hungarian artist Peti Puskás makes it to #19 with John The Valiant's dance track which he features on. 21-30 21 Lena - Who'd Want To Find Love 22 Kelly Clarkson - What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) 23 Donkeyboy - City Boy 24 Alyssa Reid - Alone Again 25 Pastora - Jungla 26 Unique - Ugye Mindig Itt Leszel 27 Sunday Girl - Where Is My Mind? 28 Emma Lewin - No Excuses 29 Graziella Schazad - Safe 30 Marlon Roudette - New Age Former German Eurovision winner, Lena reaches #21 with a song from her re-release of the Good News album. Who'd Want To Find Love is co-written by Ellie Goulding. Big hits from Kelly Clarkson, Alyssa Reid and Marlon Roudette also make an appearance here alongside Norwegian favourites, Donkeyboy, Hungarian dance act Unique and former Sheelah and Caracola singer Emma Lewin. Spanish electronica act Pastora make it to #25 whilst Sunday Girl's Pixies cover, Where Is My Mind? is at #27. Finally German violinist and singer Graziella Schazad appears at #29. 31-40 31 Reidun Sæther - High On Love 32 Jesper Nohrstedt - Take Our Hearts 33 Malin - Crush 34 Lise Karlsnes - Sailors 35 Don Omar feat. Lucenzo - Danza Kuduro 36 Romanița - Te Ador 37 Silya Nymoen - Euphoria 38 Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra feat. Caro Emerald - Mad About The Boy 39 Jessie J - Domino 40 Pokey LaFarge And The South City Three - La La Blues Eurovision related songs dominate this group. Entries into the Norwegian selection from Reidun Sæther, Malin, Lise Karlsnes and Silya Nymoen appear as does Jesper Nohrstedt's entry into the Danish National Final and Romanita from Moldova's selection, Eurodance stomper Danza Kuduro is at #35 and Jessie J's monster hit Domino reaches #39. Finally two fantastic songs performed on Jools Holland's Hootenanny appear at #38 and #40. Top 5 Albums: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Kasiotone_zps0b30f57c.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/DarkAdrenaline_zpsdbef00b4.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/MGP2012_zpse648c598.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/DMGP2012_zpsced46ac3.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/YoungLondon_zpsb65787da.jpg 01 Kid Kasio - Kasiotone Top Tracks: Telephone Line, Not For Turning 02 Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline Top Tracks: Losing My Religion, Trip The Darkness 03 Various Artists - Melodi Grand Prix 2012 Top Tracks: You And I, Stay 04 Various Artists - Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2012 Top Tracks: Overflow, Should've Known Better 05 Young London - Young London Top Tracks: Let Me Go, Celebrity January is a fairly quiet time for new album releases. My favourite album of the month came from ex-The Modern keyboardist and singer, Kid Kasio. His 80's inspired electronica album was sorely underrated. The sixth studio album from Lacuna Coil is second and followed on really well from their previous LP, Shallow Life. Two Eurovision related compilations trail in 3rd and 4th, these albums featuring all the songs participating in the Norwegian and Danish National Finals respectively. Rounding off the top 5 is the debut self-titled album from American duo, Young London.

An absolutely superb selection! I'd first heard of them back in January with the single "Depende de ti" and they reminded me of a punchier version of The Corrs or an Irish version of Speedway :lol: . Can't wait to hear their potential Eurovision tracks!

Ghosty’s Chart - 16/12/12 SINGLES: http://www.clixie.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/clixieart.jpg 01 (03) Lauren Aquilina ~ Fools ~ 6 [44-8-4-2-3-1] 02 (01) Girls Aloud ~ Something New ~ 4 [1-1-1-2] 03 (02) Dia Frampton ~ Billy The Kid ~ 3 [12-2-3] 04 (23) Katzenjammer with Ben Caplan and Trondheimsolistene ~ A Fairytale Of New York ~ 3 [56-23-4] 05 (**) Melissa ~ The Point Of No Return ~ 1 [5] 06 (14) IAMX ~ The Unified Field ~ 2 [14-6] 07 (04) Steps ~ Light Up The World ~ 8 [1-3-2-2-3-3-4-7] 08 (22) Young London ~ Broken ~ 3 [53-22-8] 09 (**) Röyksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør ~ Running To The Sea ~ 1 [9] 10 (06) Summer Camp ~ Always EP ~ 7 [2-3-1-2-4-6-10] 11 (05) A*M*E ~ Play The Game Boy ~ 4 [14-5-5-11] 12 (09) Gabrielle Aplin ~ The Power Of Love ~ 6 [35-4-8-9-9-12] 13 (07) Alphabeat ~ X-Mas (Let's Do It Again) ~ 4 [17-8-7-13] 14 (10) Infernal ~ Can't Go Back ~ 3 [23-10-14] 15 (36) Jay James Picton ~ Long May They Roll ~ 2 [36-15] 16 (**) DJ Fresh ~ Gold Dust (Shy FX Re-edit) ~ 1 [16] 17 (11) Loreen ~ Euphoria ~ 46 [1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-1-1-3-2-3-2-4-8-6-6-7-6-4-6-8-7-8-13-14-12-11-10-11-17] 18 (08) Retro Stefson ~ Glow ~ 7 [1-1-3-5-7-8-18] 19 (12) Loreen ~ Crying Out Your Name/My Heart Is Refusing Me 2012 ~ 11 [1-1-2-2-4-4-6-6-6-12-19] 20 (40) Lukas Graham ~ Better Than Yourself ~ 2 [40-20] 21 (20) Ke$ha ~ Die Young ~ 3 [34-20-21] 22 (13) Christina Perri ~ A Thousand Years ~ 3 [15-13-22] 23 (21) Havana Brown ~ We Run The Night ~ 3 [28-21-23] 24 (26) Stooshe ~ Waterfalls ~ 4 [40-31-26-24] 25 (**) Cazzette ~ Beam Me Up (Kill Mode) ~ 1 [25] 26 (19) Stockholm Syndrome ~ Pretty Girl ~ 10 [18-4-10-15-20-21-21-21-19-26] 27 (18) Eivør ~ Rain ~ 16 [1-2-5-8-10-12-17-27-25-14-13-14-18-17-18-27] 28 (17) Shiny Toy Guns ~ Waiting Alone/The Sun ~ 7 [7-6-7-12-14-17-28] 29 (15) Little Mix ~ DNA ~ 4 [9-13-15-29] 30 (28) M Pokora & Tal ~ Envole-Moi ~ 3 [54-28-30] 31 (33) Haim ~ Don't Save Me ~ 4 [53-42-33-31] 32 (30) Victor Ark & Daniela ~ Bacia Me ~ 13 [4-2-2-11-13-20-27-33-28-26-24-30-32] 33 (**) Andreea Banica ~ Could U ~ 1 [33] 34 (41) Ivy Quainoo feat. Stanfour ~ Who You Are ~ 3 [51-41-34] 35 (16) Shoes For Julia ~ Bringing On The Heartache ~ 12 [26-7-6-3-5-6-5-5-7-11-16-35] 36 (55) Queen Of Hearts ~ Warrior ~ 2 [55-36] 37 (24) Timoteij ~ Jag Kommer Hem Till Jul ~ 6 [15-10-10-16-24-37] 38 (32) Olly Murs feat. Flo-Rida ~ Troublemaker ~ 4 [28-30-32-38] 39 (**) Bruno Mars ~ Locked Out Of Heaven ~ 1 [39] 40 (39) Linkin Park ~ Castle Of Glass ~ 4 [52-46-39-40] 41 (38) Frida Sundemo ~ Indigo ~ 5 [29-22-22-38-41] 42 (**) Sinine ~ I'm Dreaming ~ 1 [42] 43 (54) Whigfield ~ Jeg Kommer Hjem ~ 2 [54-43] 44 (25) Of Monsters And Men ~ Mountain Sound ~ 6 [29-26-16-19-25-44] 45 (49) Medina ~ Har Du Glemt ~ 3 [59-49-45] 46 (34) Siobhan Dillon ~ Powerless ~ 3 [48-34-46] 47 (59) Dragonette ~ Merry Xmas (Says Your Text Message) ~ 2 [59-47] 48 (**) Daughter ~ Youth ~ 1 [48] 49 (53) Ruby Frost ~ Young ~ 2 [53-49] 50 (**) Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra feat. Rumer ~ Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive ~ 1 [50] 51 (27) Lenka ~ Everything At Once ~ 6 [59-22-25-27-27-51] 52 (31) Mylène Farmer ~ À L'ombre ~ 8 [39-51-28-27-23-26-31-52] 53 (35) Mutine ~ Pose Tes Mains ~ 5 [32-27-35-35-53] 54 (**) Gabby Young & Other Animals ~ Walk Away ~ 1 [54] 55 (37) Masters In France ~ Playin' With My Friends ~ 3 [52-37-55] 56 (**) Superbus ~ Whisper ~ 1 [56] 57 (**) Enrique Iglesias feat. Sammy Adams ~ Finally Found You ~ 1 [57] 58 (**) Jake Bugg ~ Lightning Bolt ~ 1 [58] 59 (**) P!nk ~ Try ~ 1 [59] 60 (**) Los Campesinos! ~ A Doe To A Dear ~ 1 [60] Dropouts 29 (18) Chiara ~ Forget Forgetting Me ~ 6 [9-7-11-13-18-29] 42 (20) Shy'm ~ On Se Fout De Nous ~ 14 [59-27-26-9-4-5-5-7-11-19-23-19-20-42] 43 (25) Tal ~ Rien N'est Parfait ~ 10 [44-33-26-18-24-27-13-20-25-43] 44 (33) Whigfield ~ 4Ever ~ 9 [23-19-11-20-22-24-30-33-44] 45 (32) Bananarama ~ Now Or Never ~ 10 [5-4-9-6-10-10-16-24-32-45] 46 (36) CHVRCHES ~ The Mother We Share ~ 10 [38-27-29-28-31-38-37-32-36-46] 47 (39) Fibes, Oh Fibes! feat. Icona Pop ~ Cerahtonia ~ 8 [38-3-5-9-17-35-39-47] 48 (**) Belle Lawrence ~ Skyfall ~ 1 [48] 50 (**) Daniel Oliver ~ DJ Blow My Speakers ~ 1 [50] 51 (**) Sarah Nixey ~ Christmas Without You ~ 1 [51] 52 (**) Sebastien Tellier ~ Russian Attractions ~ 1 [52] 56 (**) Blutengel ~ Save Our Souls ~ 1 [56] 57 (40) Adele ~ Skyfall ~ 10 [18-26-37-42-18-30-36-37-40-57] 58 (**) Mary-Jess ~ Keep The Flame ~ 1 [58] 60 (**) Leslie Clio ~ I Couldn't Care Less ~ 1 [60] Fresh Hits: 05. Melissa - The Point Of No Return LbcYqxcpiMk 25. Cazzette - Beam Me Up (Kill Mode) MD162HGoVpA 42. Sinine - I'm Dreaming XlVETfpEENw Album of the Week: Sinine - Dreams Come True http://images.plixid.com/imager/w_500/h_/294c06973940bcc1c0f79e72d11c19d1.jpg

Hey! My comments: 9. Nádine - Light In The Sky (NEW) (CR-9) This is actually pretty decent! Haven't really taken to her material in the past though, would you recommend the album? 11. Girls Aloud - Beautiful Cause You Love Me (6) (CR-4-5-5-6-11) What's going on with this release now? It seems to have disappeared off the release schedule :unsure: 12. Röyksopp feat Susanne Sundfør - Running To The Sea (21) (CR-21-12) As stunning as this is, I am finding the reaction to it a little over the top. Both artists have released much better material in the past imo! 17. Cascada - Winter Wonderland (30) (CR-30-17) Stunned that they are trying for Eurovision, but it would be absolutely amazing if Germany do select them! Fingers crossed! 27. Tone Damli - Smash (NEW) (CR-27) I absolutely love this! Can't wait to hear her MF entry and surely a new album will be on the way within the next couple of months? 48. Yohanna - Coming Home (NEW) (CR-48) Quite nice, but not as good as her entries for Eurovision