Beyoncé, the Amercian superstar and former Destiny’s Child lead singer, has moved up two places to top the UK chart this week with If I Were A Boy. Hero by the X Factor Finalists drops a spot to No.2 whilst Human by The Killers moves up to a new peak of No.3.

(BuzzJack.com) – American star Beyoncé first went solo from Destiny’s Child back in 2002 with the No.7 debut single Work It Out, which was taken from the Austin Powers: Goldmember soundtrack. She has had a number of hit singles before now, the biggest being her other No.1 singles, 2003’s Crazy In Love and 2006’s Déjà vu, both of which featured her now husband Jay-Z and her 2007 Shakira duet Beautiful Liar. If I Were A Boy, the first single from her new double album, I Am Sasha Fierce, debuted at No.2 two weeks ago before falling back a place to No.3 last week when it was physically released. However, with sales of the X Factor single declining, the star has enough power to haul herself up two places to score a fourth UK solo No.1 this week. It is the sixth UK No.1 single that she has featured on if you include the Destiny’s Child chart toppers, Independent Women Part 1 and Survivor. It is the seventeenth UK No.1 single of 2008, equalling the 2007 total tally, and the ninth to climb to the top from a lower position. An astonishing turnaround to the start of the decade where nearly every No.1 single debuted at the top of the charts.

Hero by the X Factor Finalists, now 2008’s biggest selling single with a convincing lead over nearest competitor Duffy, drops a spot to No.2 after three weeks at the top, and Human by The Killers, the first single from their new album Day And Age, moves up a spot to No.3 this week, their third UK top three hit now after Somebody Told Me and When You Were Young. Live Your Life by T.I. and Rihanna soared from No.39 to No.2 last week but falls back to No.4 this week, still on download sales with the physical due out on Monday. The song remains at No.1 in the US this week but looks unlikely to peak higher than No.2 here now. Also out on Monday and climbing two places to a new peak of No.5 this week is Hot ‘N’ Cold by Katy Perry. It is the second big single of 2008 from the rising American star who had one of the year’s biggest hits with the pop anthem I Kissed A Girl.

Alesha Dixon’s The Boy Does Nothing slides a place to No.6 this week whilst Girls Aloud’s former No.1 single, The Promise, drops a spot to No.7 after five weeks inside the top ten so far. Infinity 2008, the dance anthem from Guru Josh Project, climbs back up a place to No.8, Womanizer by Britney Spears is down a spot to No.9 with the physical release due on Monday, and Forgive Me by Leona Lewis stays put at No.10 on its third week inside the top ten. In a mildly shuffling top ten with no newcomers there are once again five British acts, four American acts and one American/Barbadian act.

In a very slow moving chart there is similarly little action outside the top ten, although Pink moves back up a place to No.11 with the former No.1 single So What. Akon is the most notable top twenty climber as he moves up six places to No.14 with new single Right Now (Na Na Na). Duffy’s Rain On Your Parade, one of the new tracks on the deluxe edition of her album Rockferry which is out on Monday, moves up seven places to No.15 after a physical release. I Hate This Part by Pussycat Dolls continues to make slow progress but it is upwards nonetheless, going up three places this week from No.19 to No.16. Use Somebody, the second single to be taken from Kings Of Leon’s Only By The Night, is also moving in the right direction as it climbs four places to No.17 this week. Canadian rock act Nickelback also benefit from the physical release of new single Gotta Be Somebody as they climb six places to No.20 this week. Let Your Love Flow by American country act The Bellamy Brothers, which has recently become popular again due to its use on a Barclaycard advert, has started to pick up notable airplay and as a result continues its climb up the chart, moving up seven places to No.21 this week.

Although not quite as noticeable as its effect has been in the past ‘the Now effect’, the process of songs from the latest Now That’s What I Call Music’ compilation album being cherry picked enough to help them to rise back up the chart, has had some effect this week. A number of songs from the compilation are on their way back up whilst others have stabilised or are having a slower than expected decline this week. Katy Perry has two songs on the album and whilst Hot ‘N’ Cold would arguably have climbed without the help of the album, I Kissed A Girl, which moves back up four places to No.26 this week, clearly owes its climb to its inclusion on the compilation. Album releases in the past used to hinder singles but now it would seem that the complete opposite happens and instead of buying the albums, of which sales are in a quick decline, people would rather buy one or two tracks as singular downloads instead. A prime example of this is Beyoncé whose album has missed the top five but has seen her single climb to No.1 on the week of her album release. Rihanna’s Disturbia is another beneficiary of ‘the Now effect’, the former No.3 hit moving back up four places to No.27 this week.

One of the biggest music stories of the week revolves around an unreleased single from former X Factor winner Leona Lewis. The singer performed her cover of Snow Patrol’s Run on last weekend’s X Factor to great critical acclaim, much in the same vein as her breakthrough performance of Bleeding Love on the show last year. It was expected that the song would have been released to download on Monday and would have duly flown to No.1 this week. However, despite the deluxe edition of Leona’s album Spirit, which features the track, being released on Monday physically, the package is not available digitally until December 1st, which will be the date that Run will be able to purchase as a standalone track. Until that date, anybody that wants a legal copy of the track is forced to buy the new version of her album. Of course not everybody is willing to do this and this has resulted in the original Snow Patrol version of the track, a No.5 hit back in 2004, returning to the chart at No.28 this week. A number of karaoke versions of Run in the style of Leona Lewis’ version have also proved popular on iTunes this week in the absence of the track itself.

The week’s first new entry, way down at No.29, goes to Swedish stars Christian Falk and Robyn. Dream On is a track essentially by producer Christian, who had another top thirty hit back in 2000, the No.22 single Make It Right. The track has featured on various albums over the past year or two including the US version of Robyn’s own eponymous album. The Swedish singer has of course had an unexpected career revival in the past 18 months, returning to the UK charts last year with With Every Heartbeat, a No.1 single, over nine years since she had last been in the top ten with Show Me Love. Since then she has had a well received album, which peaked at No.11 in the UK, and further hit singles with Handle Me, Be Mine and Who’s That Girl. Dream On is therefore Robyn’s fifth hit single in the last eighteen months and will be featured on a new version of her album, which is due for release on Monday. It also includes new versions of the aforementioned Show Me Love and the European hit, Keep This Fire Burning, which was made famous here when soul singer Beverley Knight covered it in 2005.

The only other new entry inside the top forty this week is from London hip-hop trio N-Dubz. The band, who have been slowly building up a fanbase in the last few years, released their debut album, Uncle B, on Monday and Papa Can You Hear Me, their new single, has been cherry picked from that album by enough people to ensure a top forty entry this week. The single goes in at No.30 this week quickly following up previous hit Ouch, a No.22 success just last month. It is the third top forty success in total for the band, the other being 2007’s reactivation of their debut single You Better Not Waste My Time. Girls by Sugababes is back up four places to No.33 on its ninth week inside the top forty, another ‘Now effect’ beneficiary, the only other major gainer from this album being Beggin’ by Norwegian rap duo Madcon which returns to the top forty at No.38 this week having previously peaked at No.5.

After the controversial decision to stop the digital release of Run, enough people have bought the deluxe edition of Leona Lewis’ debut album Spirit to ensure that it goes back to No.1 this week, the same position that it originally reached exactly a year ago. The new version, which features Run as well as other new tracks Misses Glass and Forgive Me, and a bonus DVD with her music videos, marks the eighth occasion that Spirit has topped the UK album chart in total now, after its initial seven week run last year. This has denied Dido, another of the UK’s biggest selling female artists of the decade, the chance to have a third consecutive No.1 album. No Angel and Life For Rent both sold around three million copies in the UK, but after a five year break and a poorly received comeback single, new album Safe Trip Home goes in at No.2 this week.

Welsh trio Stereophonics fall a spot to No.3 with A Decade In The Sun – Best Of, and Canadian group Nickelback score their second top five album of the year with Dark Horse, which goes in at No.4. Girls Aloud’s former No.1 album, Out Of Control, drops two places to No.5 whilst Kings Of Leon’s Only By The Night, another former No.1, goes down two places to No.6. Last week’s No.1 from Il Divo plummets to No.7 this week ahead of Pink’s Funhouse which drops three spots to No.8. A couple of new entries round off the top ten. Simply Red’s Greatest Hits 25, which marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the British band, fronted by Mick Hucknall, goes in at No.9 this week. Beyoncé is having huge success with If I Were A Boy but this has not translated into as much albums success as expected; her new double album I Am Sasha Fierce goes in at No.10 this week, seven places lower than her last album B’Day peaked at.

Next week’s chart could well see a new chart topper in the form of Take That’s Greatest Day. The British group, who reformed in 2005 and have scored huge success since with classic singles such as Shine, Patience and Rule The World, are expected to score another chart topper next week ahead of the December 1st release of new album The Circus. Beyoncé and The Killers should remain at the top end of the chart but a huge number of acts release singles physically on Monday and many are set to make a notable impact in seven days time. Akon, Alphabeat, Bob The Builder, Britney Spears, Chris Brown, Frankmusik, George Sampson, Katy Perry, Madonna, McFly, N-Dubz, Pussycat Dolls, Same Difference, Solange and T.I. feat Rihanna will all have varying levels of success with their new singles. The most likely acts to feature in next week’s top ten out of those are Britney Spears, Katy Perry, McFly, T.I. and Akon with outside chances for George Sampson, Bob The Builder, Same Difference and Pussycat Dolls. Madonna’s Miles Away has had little promotion and is not expected to give the queen of pop a huge hit but her loyal fanbase should at least ensure a top forty hit, though it looks poised be her smallest hit in years. In the quickly approaching run up to Christmas, the albums market is also set to be flooded with new releases next week to halt Leona Lewis in her tracks. The Killers are expected to score a third No.1 album with Day And Age although the long awaited new Guns N’ Roses album, Chinese Democracy should give The Killers a good run for their money. Other albums expected to be big are due from Kanye West, Rhydian Roberts, The Priests, Duffy, Coldplay, Only Men Aloud!, Alesha Dixon, Lemar, Linkin Park, John Barrowman, Dr Dre, Paramore, James Blunt, Craig David, Gabriella Cilmi, The Ting Tings, James Morrison and Robyn, a large number of those being reissued deluxe versions of previously released albums.

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Former political reporter John Sergeant has announced he’s pulling out of the BBC One show Strictly Come Dancing.

The 64-year-old received loads of criticism from the judges for his dancing, but the public kept voting to keep him in.

(BuzzJack.com) – In a statement John said that his aim was to stay in for as long as he could, but added “The trouble is that there is now a real danger that I might win the competition. Even for me that would be a joke too far”.

John and his partner Kristina Rihanoff will perform one final dance on this Saturday’s show.

Former Rugby player Austin Healy remains favourite to win the show, which is now in it’s 7th series. Whilst Actor Tom Chambers and pop singer Rachel Stevens are not far behind. Model Jodie Kidd is the rank outsider to win the show at odd’s of 40-1.

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The X Factor charity single, Hero, has held off all competitors at the top of another chart with high sales figures across the board. Live Your Life by T.I. and Rihanna equals Pink’s biggest top forty jump of thirty eight places as the song jumps 39-2, Beyoncé’s If I Were A Boy slides to No.3 and Human by The Killers debuts at No.4.

(BuzzJack.com) – Hero by the twelve X Factor finalists from the current series has been a huge selling single, already 2008’s biggest seller, replacing Duffy’s Mercy at the top. This of course opens up the possibility that all future series’ will have similar group finalist singles, whether or not they will be for the same charities, if any at all, will of course be determined in the future. The Mariah Carey cover is the second Mariah No.1 in less than a year, the other being 2007’s X Factor winner Leon Jackson’s cover of her 1998 single, When You Believe. Mariah has twice visited the UK top five in the last twelve months, with All I Want For Christmas Is You (No.4) and Touch My Body (No.5). The former, and the Christmas classic, will no doubt be back in the top ten a month from now.

Having entered down at No.39 last week after a day’s worth of download sales, US rapper T.I.’s collaboration with Barbadian superstar Rihanna, Live Your Life, surges up a record equalling thirty seven places inside the top forty to No.2. Despite so far receiving no physical release, it is far and away T.I.’s biggest UK hit, the previous biggest being the No.22 2006 hit, Why You Wanna, although he has featured on UK top five hits by Justin Timberlake and Destiny’s Child. He has had considerably more success in his native US and has been one of the biggest stars of 2008, scoring two No.1 singles there, this song and his last single Whatever You Like, which limped up to No.47 here last month. Live Your Life, which samples Romanian boyband O-Zone’s 2004 top three hit Dragostea Din Tei, marks Rihanna’s sixth visit to the UK top five in the last eighteen months, after Umbrella, Shut Up & Drive, Don’t Stop The Music, Take A Bow and Disturbia. She has been by far the biggest star of the latter half of the noughties.

Beyoncé slides a place to No.3 this week with If I Were A Boy, despite the single receiving its physical release this week. Singles sliding in the week of physical release is becoming more and more commonplace now, proving that for many songs, a physical is not really needed now. Some songs of course prove that this is not always the case, Hero being the major recent example; it would not even be inside the top three this week on download sales alone. American electronic indie-rock act The Killers have had huge success in the UK since their 2004 debut. Somebody Told Me and When You Were Young were both huge top three singles in the UK in 2005 and 2006 respectively, whilst 2004’s Mr Brightside, despite only peaking at No.10, has gone on to become one of the most highly regarded singles of the decade. Human, the first single from their third studio album, Day And Age, goes straight in at No.4 this week on download sales and could challenge for the top spot in seven days time. Their highly anticipated new album is due out on November 24th.

Alesha Dixon’s physical release has helped her out as the Xenomania penned The Boy Does Nothing moves up three spots to No.5 this week. The last time Alesha was in the UK top ten was in July 2003 when her former band Mis-Teeq’s Can’t Get It Back reached No.8. Mis-Teeq’s biggest UK hits were the No.2 singles All I Want (2001) and Scandalous (2003). Fellow band member, former lead singer Sabrina, won the BBC reality show Celebrity Scissorhands this week, a year after Alesha won BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. Girls Aloud are down three places this week to No.6 with The Promise, which spends its fourth week inside the top ten now and is well on its way to becoming one of the year’s biggest selling singles and certainly their biggest hit since 2002. Katy Perry’s second single, Hot ‘N’ Cold, is still a download only release, and stays at No.7 this week, also spending its fourth week inside the top ten. Far from being the all conquering No.1 single many expected it to be, Britney Spears’ new release, Womanizer, falls four places to No.8 on its second week inside the top ten. The physical release might help it out later in the month though, as will her impending X Factor performance. British dance act Guru Josh Project slide three spots to No.9 with the former top three hit Infinity 2008 whilst Forgive Me by Leona Lewis drops five places to No.10 on its second week in the chart. The top ten this week therefore includes five Brits, four Americans and one American/Barbadian collaboration.

Kanye West’s Love Lockdown is the first of the movers outside the top ten, the former No.8 single moving back up a place to No.11, continuing to grow in popularity in a much higher sales climate than it found itself in when it first reached the top ten. UK soul singer Lemar has the second highest new entry this week, going straight into the top forty at No.14 with If She Knew. It is Lemar’s ninth top forty hit since he debuted in 2003 with the No.2 single Dance (With U) after coming third in the BBC reality show Fame Academy, behind the long forgotten David Sneddon and Sinead Quinn. Along with Will Young and Girls Aloud, Lemar is seen as one of the few reality survivors from the earlier part of the decade, his defining career moment being the classic 2004 single If There’s Any Justice. If She Knew is Lemar’s first single from his new album The Reason which is out on November 24th.

The Pussycat Dolls make a very minor climb of a place from No.20 to No.19 with new single I Hate This Part, perhaps suggesting that this will be their first single to miss the UK top ten. Kings Of Leon are up four places to No.21 with the second single to be taken from Only By The Night, Use Somebody. The album is already looking likely to be one of the big sellers over the Christmas period and could well pass a million sales before the end of the year. Welsh soul singer Duffy has undoubtedly been the biggest star of 2008 with singles such as Mercy and Warwick Avenue, and the million selling debut album Rockferry. Her new single, Rain On Your Parade, is a new track taken from the forthcoming deluxe edition of that album and debuts at No.22 this week on download sales. The Script jump ten places to No.24 this week with Break Even, the third single to be lifted from their eponymous debut album which topped the UK chart earlier in the year. Last single, The Man Who Can’t Be Moved, is still a top forty fixture, going down two places to No.39 on its seventeenth week inside the top forty. It is more than likely to be one of many tracks to benefit from ‘the Now effect’ in seven days time, where cherry picked tracks from the new Now compilation, Now 71, will lead to a sales rise, and potentially chart position rise for many of the current chart singles that feature on the album.

Gotta Be Somebody by Canadian rock group Nickelback is the next new entry to the top forty this week, debuting at No.26 after its digital release. The first single to be taken from new album Dark Horse, due out on Monday, it quickly follows up the renewed success the band have had in the UK this year with the huge No.2 gold selling single Rockstar and No.2 album All The Right Reasons, a relative flop when first released in 2005. Legendary American rock group Guns N’ Roses make their long awaited return to the singles chart, debuting at No.27 this week with Chinese Democracy. The band were huge in the late 1980s and early 1990s producing classic singles such as Sweet Child O’ Mine, Paradise City, November Rain and Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door. Chinese Democracy is the first single to be taken from the long delayed new album of the same name which will finally be released on November 24th.

US country duo The Bellamy Brothers continue to gain exposure from the Barclaycard advert. Their 1976 No.7 hit Let Your Love Flow is up two places to No.28 this week. The final new entry to the top forty is the only Children In Need themed single in the top forty, two days after the annual televised event took place. We Have A Dream by Pudsey’s Beautiful Dreamers, a collective of famous Scottish singers and actors, debuts at No.40 this week after a physical and digital release. The official Children In Need single, the double a-side Stay With Me/Do Ya by McFly, is due out on November 24th. The band will hope that it follows its predecessors, One For The Radio and Lies, into the top five, and not follow the path of last year’s Children In Need single, Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) by Spice Girls which missed the top ten, peaking at No.11 a year ago.

The album chart sees another change at the top with the Simon Cowell created opera group Il Divo, who transform contemporary classics into Italian operatic pop songs, going straight in at No.1 with their third chart topping album out of four releases, The Promise. The four members of the band come from the US, Spain, Switzerland and France and therefore cater to a huge worldwide audience. They have already topped the album charts in the UK, the US, Canada, Spain, Finland, Hong Kong, Colombia, New Zealand, Slovenia, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Portugal, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Mexico, Argentina, Australia and Sweden, and have reached the top five in many other countries. A Decade In The Sun, the best of The Stereophonics has to settle for a new entry at No.2. The Welsh trio have had a huge career over the past decade or so, achieving five huge UK No.1 albums including the critical successes 1999’s Performance And Cocktails and 2005’s Language.Sex.Violence.Other? which gave them their only No.1 single, Dakota.

Girls Aloud’s Out Of Control slides to No.3 after a week at the top and Kings Of Leon’s Only By The Night is back up two places to No.4 this week. Pink’s former chart topper Funhouse drops three places to No.5. Irish singer Enya continues to find album chart success two decades after her only UK No.1 single, Orinoco Flow. Her new album And Winter Came debuts at No.6 this week as the follow up to 2005’s Amarantine, a No.8 hit. It is her eighth UK top ten album to date. Greatest Hits by Enrique Iglesias slides four places to No.7 this week and Celine Dion’s My Love – The Essential Collection is down one spot to No.8. Snow Patrol’s A Hundred Million Suns fails to recover from its poor start, falling a further four places to No.9. Christina Aguilera rounds off the top ten at No.10 with her first hits album, Keeps Gettin’ Better – A Decade Of Hits, which features her four UK No.1 singles Genie In A Bottle, Lady Marmalade, Dirrrty and Beautiful as well as new songs Keeps Gettin’ Better and Dynamite, and reworked songs Genie 2.0 and You Are What You Are.

Next week’s chart should be very interesting as it looks increasingly likely that Hero, the X Factor single might die down enough to allow a new No.1, which would most likely be a climber from either T.I. and Rihanna, Beyonce or The Killers. Current hits from Alesha Dixon and Katy Perry should also continue to stay around or climb further. Notable physical releases, besides The Killers whose single is only available on 7”, are due from Duffy, James Blunt, John Barrowman, Nickelback and The Verve. The highest new physical entry is likely to come from Christian Falk feat Robyn, the Swedish duo unleashing the dance anthem Dream On simultaneously physically and digitally on Monday. The string laden anthem is likely to give Robyn, who has had a miraculous career revival recently, another big hit after the recent top forty success of With Every Heartbeat, Handle Me, Be Mine! And Who’s That Girl. New download entries should come from Craig David, whose dance/R&B anthem Insomnia is out on Monday, Papa by British hip-hop trio N-Dubz and Run by Leona Lewis, the Snow Patrol cover that the former X Factor winner sang on this weekend’s live X Factor show.

A number of big new albums will most likely see Il Divo have to surrender their No.1 album. Dido’s long awaited third album Safe Trip Home is out on Monday but after the flop of the lead single, Don’t Believe In Love, it won’t be a huge surprise if the album misses the top spot. Nickelback are hoping for their second top five album of the year with Dark Horse whilst UK hip hop trio N-Dubz are likely to reach the top ten with their debut album, Uncle B. As Christmas draws ever nearer, other big albums are due from Beyoncé, Leona Lewis, Russell Watson, Tom Jones, Simply Red, Scooter, Adele, T.I. and T-Pain, a number of these being deluxe editions of previously released albums.

Thanks to Polyhex, EveryHit, ManicKangaroo and Play.com for various information and resources.

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British pop starlet Leona Lewis won two awards at the World Music Awards 2008 collecting awards for “World’s Best Pop Female Artist” and “World’s New Best Artist”.

(BuzzJack.com) – The former X Factor winner, whose single Bleeding Love topped the UK charts for seven weeks in 2007, beat the likes of Duffy, Rihanna and Mariah Carey to win the awards.

American rockstar Kid Rock took home awards for “World’s Best Pop Male Artist” and “World’s Best Pop Rock Male Artist”. His 2008 single All Summer Long topped the charts in Australia, Austria, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. His album “Rock ‘N’ Roll Jesus” topped the charts in the United States whilst it peaked at #4 here in the United Kingdom.

Other winners at the event, hosted by former Destiny’s Child singer Michelle Williams & Desperate Housewives hunk Jesse Metcalfe, included Amy Winehouse who collected the award for “World’s Best Pop Rock Female”, Coldplay who collected the award for “World’s Best Rock Act”, Alicia Keys who was presented with the “World’s Best R&B Act” and American rapper Lil Wayne who collected the “World’s Best Hiphop Act”.

Special awards were presented to Mariah Carey who was presented with the Special Achievement Award whilst Beyoncé Knowles was presented with an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts award. The Diamond Award was presented to Ringo Starr.

Previous winners of the Diamond Award include Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Bon Jovi.

Performances at the ceremony came from Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Akon, Kid Rock, Estelle, The Script, Solange, Laurent Wolf, Anastacia, Madcon and Philip Kirkorov.

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British soap award winner Emma Rigby is to leave her role as Hannah Ashworth behind in March, and try her luck at British films.

The 19 year old, who joined the soap in October 2005, won the British Soap Award for Best Actress this year for her portrayel of Hannah’s bulima.

(BuzzJack.com) – Speaking of her decision to quit- the teenager said “I’ve been on Hollyoaks since I was 15 and I’ve grown up on the show. I’m so very fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn my craft in such a fantastic environment. I just feel that the time is right to move on and hopefully get into dramas and films as I love to play different roles.”

Emma will not finish filming with Hollyoaks until March 2009 and her character will remain on screen until June that year.

The news comes just days after Roxanne McKee who plays Louise Summers in the Channel 4 soap revealed she would be leaving the show at Christmas. Big names such as James Sutton & Guy Burnett have also recently left the show- which peaks around 2 million viewers a day.

Hollyoaks producer Bryan Kirkwood- who is also departing the show next year- said of Emma’s exit “It’s a real shame that Emma has decided to leave Hollyoaks but viewers will see her on screen until June 2009 and we can guarantee another brilliant year in the show for her.

“With Lucy Allan taking the helm, 2009 looks set to be another action-packed year for Hollyoaks that will consolidate the show’s award-winning success.”

Noteable Hannah Ashworth stories include her battle with anorexia and bulima, her finding out that her boyfriend John Paul McQueen was gay, and the death of baby Grace whilst herself and Nancy Hayton were babysitting the child.

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In a week that has seen a barrage of huge comeback singles from some of the world’s biggest female artists, the X Factor Finalists single, Hero, remains at the top for a second week, comfortably outselling everybody else largely thanks to its high physical sales. Beyoncé wins the diva battle, going in at No.2, whilst Girls Aloud complete the top three with The Promise.

(BuzzJack.com) – The finalists of this year’s X Factor are still in control with their charity single Hero, raising money for the Help For Heroes campaign and The Poppy Appeal. The Mariah Carey cover has lost its top spot on iTunes during the week but the huge physical sales that the track is still generating have kept it comfortably in control, the song now passing the half a million sales mark after just two weeks on sale having shifted another 189,600 copies this week. It is certain to become the biggest selling single of 2008 by this time next week particularly as it has had another boost this weekend when the finalists performed the track with Mariah on the live X Factor show.

The much hyped diva battle got underway this week and four of the big female singers made promising starts by going straight into the top ten in yet another top ten of drama and high turnover. Former Destiny’s Child lead singer Beyoncé Knowles has had a huge solo career in the past six years since the release of her first single, 2002’s Work It Out, a No.7 UK hit. She has gone on to top the charts with 2003’s Crazy In Love, 2006’s Déjà Vu and 2007’s Beautiful Liar, a duet with Shakira. The superstar has also had three No.2 hits; 2003’s Bonnie & Clyde and Baby Boy and now her new single If I Were A Boy. The ballad, the first single to be taken from her upcoming third studio album, I Am Sasha Fierce, has gone straight in at No.2 on downloads alone, the dark horse of the battle coming out on top this week with most onlookers expecting Britney Spears or Leona Lewis to have the highest new entry. The song has received by far the most airplay of all of the tracks though so its high debut is perhaps not surprising, the mid-tempo ballad being suitable for most radio playlists. Whether the song can be a future UK No.1 depends on how quickly the physical sales of the X Factor single die down, but it certainly looks set to be one of the star’s biggest selling solo hits to date.

Girls Aloud’s former No.1 single, The Promise, is still selling enough to be No.1 on most weeks, as is much of the top ten in fact in a very high sales climate which saw the No.10 record, So What by Pink, sell 26,839 copies, enough to have been No.1 on certain weeks in the middle of 2008. The Promise falls another spot to No.3 this week. The second of the big female comebacks is Womanizer by Britney Spears. The first single from the US pop singer’s new album Circus, due out on December 2nd, Womanizer has already been a No.1 single in her native America, her first there since her debut single Baby One More Time. Her last UK No.1 single was 2004’s Everytime but it looks unlikely that Womanizer will give her another. The song is seen as her true comeback after last year’s Gimme More, a No.3 UK hit this time last year, and it will be interesting to see how much higher this song can go. It is the star’s nineteenth UK top ten hit in total, the only three of her singles to miss out on the top ten were Don’t Let Me Be The Last To Know (No.12, 2001), I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll (No.13, 2002) and Break The Ice (No.15, 2008). Completing the top five this week is X Factor 2006 victor Leona Lewis. Leona has had a stunning start to her career in comparison to most winner’s of the show. Her debut single A Moment Like This was her first No.1 whilst the 2007 follow up Bleeding Love was a worldwide No.1 hit, spending seven weeks at the top of the UK chart this time last year. Better In Time/Footprints In The Sand was a No.2 success earlier in the year and now Forgive Me, the first single from the deluxe edition of her multi million selling debut album Spirit, is her fourth successive top five hit, going straight in at No.5 following a simultaneous physical and digital release.

Infinity 2008 by Guru Josh Project is down two places at No.6, the updated dance anthem suffering a chart decline despite being physically released this week. Katy Perry’s second UK single, Hot ‘N’ Cold, is pushed down a place to No.7 despite the physical release of the single still two weeks away yet, currently scheduled for November 24th. The next new entry is the first solo top ten hit for former Mis-Teeq MC Alesha Dixon. The star, who was famous for her rapping in the female trio’s early noughties hits, rocketed back to fame in the last series of Strictly Come Dancing, which she won convincingly. Alesha launched a solo career originally in 2006 but the hotly tipped Lipstick failed to reach the top ten whilst Knockdown, the follow up, missed the top forty altogether. It will be a relief to the singer then that Strictly Come Dancing seems to have completely reignited her career. The Xenomania produced single, The Boy Does Nothing, goes straight in at No.8 this week, and with the physical release due on Monday it could well go higher.

The huge success of the new Bond film, Quantum Of Solace, continues to have a knock on effect on the soundtrack song, Another Way To Die by Jack White & Alicia Keys. It climbs a further place to a new peak of No.9 on its seventh week inside the top forty. Alicia’s last big hit was 2007’s No One, which peaked at No.6 but went on to spend six weeks inside the top ten and was a huge radio hit. This is Jack’s first solo success outside of his bands The White Stripes and The Raconteurs. Pink rounds off the top ten, diving from No.3 to No.10 this week with the former No.1 So What which is spending its sixth week inside the top ten now. This week’s top ten therefore features five British acts and five American acts.

The next new entry is Keeps Gettin’ Better, the new single from Christina Aguilera, another big US diva. The star, who launched her career in 1999 with Genie In A Bottle, last reached the UK top ten on her own with the No.2 2006 hit Ain’t No Other Man, missing the top ten with the follow up singles Hurt (No.11, 2006) and Candyman (No.17, 2007) despite both songs going on to become highly regarded singles and X Factor favourites. Her P Diddy duet Tell Me was the last UK top ten hit she featured on, a No.8 hit in late 2006. Keeps Gettin’ Better, a download only release, is one of the new tracks from her greatest hits album of the same name which is due out on Monday. It is a subtle electro track and about as far removed as can be from the 1940s influenced big band sound of her 2006 album Back To Basics.

The two Akon tracks both move into the top twenty this week. Dangerous, the former US top five hit and collaboration with Canadian rapper Kardinal Offishall, is up five places to No.16 following its physical release whilst his own new single, Right Now, is up four places to No.19. I Hate This Part, the second single from Pussycat Dolls’ new album Doll Domination, jumps sixteen places to No.20, well on its way to becoming the seventh top ten single for the band. Use Somebody, the second single from Kings Of Leon’s Only By The Night, climbs five places to a new peak of No.25 this week whilst the physical release of 7 Things by Miley Cyrus propels the track up eleven places to No.26, the track’s second week inside the top 40 now.

Let Your Love Flow, by American country duo The Bellamy Brothers, was a No.7 hit back in 1976 and returns to the chart this week at No.30. This is due to its use on a Barclaycard commercial featuring an office worker going from his workplace to his home through a long flume that winds around a city. Superhuman, the current single from Chris Brown and Keri Hilson, is up another six places to No.32, now on its third week inside the top forty with the physical release due on November 17th. The next new entry to the top forty is Break Even, the third single from Irish trio The Script which debuts at No.34 this week. It is the follow up to the huge No.2 single The Man Who Can’t Be Moved. These two singles and their debut single We Cry are all taken from their eponymous debut album which reached No.1 recently. Will Young’s Grace, the second single from his current album Let It Go, is a new entry on downloads at No.35, following his performance of the track on last weekend’s X Factor. The song’s predecessor, Changes, was a No.10 hit a short while ago but many fans see Grace as the album’s standout track.

Two further singles join the back end of the top forty this week in a chart that has seen ten new songs enter, the weekly turnover gradually getting faster again. US rapper T.I. has already had a huge year in the US, currently No.1 and No.2 over there with Live Your Life and Whatever You Like respectively. Live Your Life, which features guest vocals from Barbadian superstar Rihanna enters at No.39 this week on a few hours worth of download sales, having been made available on Saturday. The track should shoot into the top five next week and give the rapper by far his biggest hit, his previous best in the UK being the 2006 Crystal Waters sampling No.22 hit Why You Wanna. He also featured on top five UK hits by Destiny’s Child and Justin Timberlake in 2006, Solider and My Love. Live Your Life samples the 2004 Europop hit Dragostea Din Tei by Romanian boy band O-Zone, that single reached No.3 here. Finally, London based pop-indie trio Scouting For Girls score the fifth top forty single from their eponymous debut No.1 album. I Wish I Was James Bond makes its first top forty appearance at No.40 this week, following up the singles It’s Not About You (No.31, 2007/No.38, 2008), She’s So Lovely (No.7, 2007), Elvis Ain’t Dead (No.8, 2007) and Heartbeat (No.10, 2008).

Continuing their sensational recent success, British girl group Girls Aloud go straight in at No.1 with their new album Out Of Control. It is their first No.1 studio album out of five attempts, although their 2006 hits album, The Sound Of Girls Aloud, was their first album chart topper. Pink’s Funhouse slides a place to No.2 after a week at the top and Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias’ Greatest Hits goes in at No.3 this week. It his third UK top three album after 2002’s Escape, which reached No.1, and last year’s No.3 success Insomniac. Razorlight’s Slipway Fires is the latest hyped release to miss No.1, going in at No.4 this week and following similar surprise non-chart toppers from Kaiser Chiefs and Snow Patrol. Snow Patrol’s A Hundred Million Suns slides three places to No.5 whilst Kings Of Leon dip two places to No.6 with Only By The Night. Celine Dion’s My Love: Essential Collection also slides two places to No.7 ahead of a new entry from Status Quo, Pictures – 40 Years Of Hits at No.8. AC/DC’s Black Ice drops six spots to No.9 and German dance collective Sash!’s Best Of stays strong, falling just a spot to No.10 this week on its third week inside the top ten.

Next week’s chart should see a third week at the top for the X Factor single Hero unless the physical sales drop significantly. Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Leona Lewis and Alesha Dixon all have further potential, Alesha and Beyoncé’s singles being released physically on Monday. Other physically released singles that could make an impact are due from Enya, Lemar, N-Force, New Kids On The Block, The Script and Simply Red, whilst high download entries are certain from The Killers comeback single Human and Duffy’s Rain On Your Parade, a new track from the deluxe edition of her Rockferry album. James Blunt also releases a new single digitally, the new track Love Love Love, and T.I. and Rihanna’s Live Your Life should climb from the bottom end to the top end of the top forty in seven days time. Girls Aloud will be looking for a second week at the top with Out Of Control but a series of big releases is likely to stop that from happening. New albums from Il Divo, Enya, Stereophonics, Christina Aguilera, Seal, The Smiths, Jason Donovan, Tony Christie and Fron Male Voice Choir should all at least have a minor impact in seven days time.

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The crowd booed as 21 year old Laura White was announced as the fifth contestant to get the boot from the ITV1 show.
Laura, 21 sang Mariah song Endless Love. Show creator and judge Simon Cowell said it was one of her worst performances to date.

(BuzzJack.com) – The Wigan girl was one of the favourite’s to win the show, and was tipped by mentor Cheryl Cole earlier this week to win. However, Cheryl was the only one who voted to keep her in- whilst Simon, Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh decided to opt for spanish rock chick Ruth Lorenzo instead.
Ruth and Laura were the bottom two after receiving the least amount of votes. This was Ruth’s second bottom two performance- and for the second time she wowed the judges.

Laura’s choice of Somewhere Over The Rainbow received critical acclaim from all three of the other judge’s but they preferred Ruth’s version of Bob Dylan’s hit single Knockin’ On Heavens Door.

Show guest Mariah Carey performed twice on the show- her new single “I Stay In Love” plus her classic song “Hero”- along with the remaining X Factor finalists.

Diana Vicker’s remains the bookie’s favourite to win the show- despite not singing this week due to laryngitis. Alexandra Burke remains 2nd favourite. Daniel Evans is still the outsider to win the show but at improved odd’s of 40-1.

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Britain’s biggest TV show, X Factor has once again proved its chart dominance by providing another UK No.1 single. After chart topping hits from Steve Brookstein, Shayne Ward, Chico, Leona Lewis (twice) and Leon Jackson, the song Hero, by this year’s twelve finalists, is the seventh UK No.1 single related to the show to date. The eventual winner is certain to make it eight next month when they yet again will inevitably score the Christmas No.1 single. Girls Aloud fall to No.2 with The Promise and Pink’s So What slides another spot to No.3.

(BuzzJack.com) – Hero, a cover of the classic nineties hit by Mariah Carey, has been given a 2008 treatment by the X Factor finalists in aid of the Help For Heroes charity, which gives aid to British service men and women wounded in action. Mariah’s original, from 1993, peaked at a lowly No.7 in the UK, so this X Factor cover instantly blows the success of the original out of the water. The song features vocals from all twelve finalists, including the already eliminated acts, Bad Lashes, Girlband, Scott and Austin. The combination of a charity single and the biggest television show in Britain right now has resulted in a huge selling No.1 single, by far the biggest one week tally of 2008, eclipsing the new benchmark that Girls Aloud set last week. In the last seven days, the song sold 313,244 copies and with the song almost guaranteed continued promotion on X Factor, particularly in the lead up to remembrance Sunday and Mariah’s guest appearance on next weekend’s show, it should hold onto the top spot for another few weeks and should pass Duffy’s Mercy in a few weeks time to become 2008’s biggest selling single.

With debuts at No.1 becoming more commonplace again now that downloads have overtaken CD singles as the format of choice, Hero is the second chart topper in a row to debut at No.1, and third out of the last four. Only Pink’s So What did not debut at the top, although arguably would have done if the download had been released on a Monday. The last single to debut at the top was of course just last week and The Promise by Girls Aloud. The fourth No.1 single of their career in the UK, any other week it would have easily kept hold off the top spot for a second week, but due to the crushing nature of the X Factor single, it is forced down to No.2 to join singles from The Ting Tings, Ne-Yo, Coldplay and Kid Rock to be 2008’s only one week chart toppers. In contrast, thirty five of the chart toppers in 2000 had only a sole week at the top, when the chart was moving at its fastest speed at the top. The Promise is however still selling incredibly well and has already outsold more than half of Girls Aloud’s previous singles totals in just two weeks, looking well on its way to become their second biggest selling hit, behind their 2002 debut Sound Of The Underground, their only single to date to have passed the half a million sales mark. Their new album, Out Of Control, is out on Monday and is expected to give Razorlight a tough challenge in next week’s album chart.

Pink’s former chart topper, So What, spends a fifth week inside the top five, falling another place to No.3 this week, and Infinity 2008 by Guru Josh Project falls a place to No.4, a week ahead of the release of the physical which should give it a sales boost next week, even if the single falls further down the chart. Kings Of Leon’s Sex On Fire is the fourth former No.1 single in the top five, that song falling another spot to No.5 this week after eight weeks inside the top five now. Katy Perry’s second single Hot ‘N’ Cold climbs a place to a new peak of No.6 despite continuing controversy surrounding the singer due to the internet pictures of her holding a flick knife in a promotional shot that were picked up on by The Sun recently. Up by The Saturdays is not living up to its name and is down a place to No.7 this week, although this is its third week in the top ten, If This Is Love, the group’s first single, had fallen as far as No.19 in its third chart week.

Kanye West’s Love Lockdown stays at No.8 and Razorlight’s Wire To Wire surprisingly falls four places to No.9 this week despite receiving its physical release, proving that even indie fans refuse to buy CD singles anymore. Indeed, it seems that only singles at the bottom of the chart receive notable boosts from physical releases these days, sales in the top ten now too high for them to make a notable difference. Jack White & Alicia Keys finally went top twenty last week with the new Bond theme Another Way To Die, and with the film finally being released in cinemas in the past few days, the song receives an expected boost, going up eight places to No.10 this week, though still three places lower than the peak scaled by Chris Cornell’s You Know My Name, the theme to the 2006 Bond film Casino Royale. The song could well climb higher again next week though. The top ten this week therefore features four British acts and one British/Swedish act, and five American acts.

Outside the top ten there are various other climbers and newcomers this week. After seven weeks around, Jennifer Hudson’s Spotlight is on the up again, climbing one place back to No.12 having moved 15-11-13-11-12-13 previously. The continuing success of the song, which has topped the UK airplay charts already, is hardly any consolation for the singer who has been in the news prominently during the week when her mother, brother and nephew were killed in a mass shooting/kidnap ordeal. A few other old hits climb back up the chart this week in a slow chart. Rihanna’s former No.3 hit Disturbia is back up a place at No.14, Snow Patrol’s Take Back The City moves one place north at No.15, a former No.6 hit, and Katy Perry’s I Kissed A Girl is back up one to No.16, the second consecutive week that the singer has two simultaneous top twenty hits. Also moving back up the chart this week are Pussycat Dolls’ When I Grow Up (20-18), Madcon’s Beggin’ (28-27) and Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown’s No Air (36-34).

Dangerous by Kardinal Offishall and Akon is climbing rather more quickly, the former US top five hit jumping eleven places to No.21 this week. Another Akon track, his new single Right Now, makes its top forty debut at No.23 this week. Adding up all of his own singles or those that he has featured on since his chart debut with Locked Up, the Senegalese rapper has had an astonishing twenty top seventy five hits in less than five years, making him one of the most prolific chart stars of the decade. London soul singer Adele scores her fourth top forty single of 2008 this week with Make You Feel My Love, the latest single from her former No.1 album, 19. It goes into the top forty at No.26 this week, with the physical out on Monday. The single, a cover of a Bob Dylan song, follows the No.2 hit Chasing Pavements and the top twenty follow up’s Cold Shoulder and Hometown Glory. Kings Of Leon’s next single, Use Somebody, re-enters at No.30, having initially peaked at No.29 when the album was released a few weeks ago.

Michael Jackson’s classic hit Thriller is back into the UK top forty at No.35 this week, a Halloween themed download re-entry. Amazingly, the song only peaked at No.10 back in 1983, although the fact that it was the fifth single from the now world’s biggest selling album of all time could have something to do with this low peak. The song also re-entered at No.57 last Halloween. I Hate This Part, the second single to be taken from the new
Pussycat Dolls album Doll Domination debuts at No.36 this week on download sales and is likely to follow its predecessor, When I Grow Up, into the top ten in the coming weeks. US Disney star Miley Cyrus, the star of the popular Hannah Montana series, goes into the top forty at No.37 this week with 7 Things, her second UK top forty hit after See You Again, which recently reached No.11 here. Finally, Chris Brown and Keri Hilson’s duet Superhuman moves up the chart slightly this week. The track, which debuted at No.40 last week, moves up two places to No.38 this week.

In another packed album chart, there are five newcomers this week. Pink follows her huge No.1 single So What with her first UK No.1 album, Funhouse. She has had two million sellers in the UK already though, Missundaztood and I’m Not Dead. Snow Patrol are right behind Pink with their new album A Hundred Million Suns, a surprising turn of events considering their last two albums were multi million sellers. It seems that album success in the UK is no longer based on your previous album, but on the strength of the lead single of your current album. Even Dido’s Safe Trip Home, the forthcoming follow up to two of the decade’s biggest sellers, No Angel and Life For Rent, is by no means a certainty to top the album chart considering the lack of success of the album’s first single Don’t Believe In Love which was released this week physically and digitally and failed to make the top forty at all. Similarly, Anastacia’s Heavy Rotation, the follow up to her huge eponymous 2004 No.1 album, has gone in at a lowly No.17 this week after the complete flop of the album’s first single, I Can Feel You. Back to the top ten, AC/DC’s Black Ice is down two places to No.3 this week and Kings Of Leon’s Only By The Night dips a place to No.4.

Celine Dion returns to the top five with My Love: The Essential Collection which goes straight in at No.5 and Irish crooner Daniel O’Donnell returns to the top ten at No.6 with Country Boy. It is incredibly the singer’s eleventh UK top ten album in the last ten years. Katherine Jenkins is down two places at No.7 with Sacred Arias and Bloc Party’s new album Intimacy, formerly released online, goes in at No.8 after a physical release. German dance act Sash! climb a place to No.9 on their second week with The Best Of, an incredible result considering that albums from Kaiser Chiefs, Leon Jackson, Oasis, Keane, Sugababes and Boyzone, all of which were above Sash! last week, have all been forced below the dance act this week. Finally, Dig Out Your Soul by Oasis drops three places to No.10 on its fourth week around.

Next week’s chart should see a second week at the top for the year’s fastest seller, Hero by the X Factor Finalists. Girls Aloud are still selling incredibly well and will undoubtedly remain at the top end of the chart, along with Pink, Guru Josh Project, whose single receives its physical release on Monday, and Katy Perry, but a number of high profile female artists release new singles next week and at least some of them are guaranteed top ten entries next week. Christina Aguilera releases her greatest hits album, A Decade Of Hits, on November 10th and the token single Keeps Gettin’ Better is released digitally this week and could well be a contender for the top ten. Her old rival Britney Spears is also back though with new single Womanizer, which is almost certainly going to beat Christina’s offering, and if not for the X Factor single, would surely have been a guaranteed No.1. As it stands, the single might have to settle for No.2 next week.

Beyoncé is back with new single If I Were A Boy, which has shot to No.3 in the US this week, and it should have similar success here. Leona Lewis has been one of the biggest stars of the past couple of years, and her first uptempo release, Forgive Me, from the forthcoming re-release of her Spirit album, should go top five next week. The physical and download versions are both out on Monday. And last year’s Strictly Come Dancing victor, and former Mis-Teeq MC Alesha Dixon is back with her first single since 2006, the Xenomania produced The Boy Does Nothing, which should be her first solo top ten hit in seven days time.

Other singles physically released on Monday that could make a notable chart impact in seven days time include songs from Adele, Kanye West, Kardinal Offishall & Akon, Miley Cyrus, Paul Weller and Scouting For Girls. Pink is almost certain to lose the No.1 album after one week as Girls Aloud and Razorlight look set to battle it out for the top honours. With lead singles seemingly setting the barometer for album success these days, Girls Aloud seem to be the favourites to top the chart following their chart topping success with The Promise. In their six year career, the band have never scored a No.1 studio album, although their 2006 hits album, The Sound Of Girls Aloud topped the chart. Razorlight’s Slipway Fires might have to settle for No.2 although there is still a chance that it could top the chart. Other albums that should make a notable impact include new releases from Enrique Iglesias, Cliff Richard, Andrea Bocelli, Status Quo and Paul Weller.

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(BuzzJack.com) – The judges opted to save Rachel in a 3-1 vote, with only Austins mentor Simon Cowell saving him from the chop.

The bottom two had to sing again- with Austin opting to sing “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” by the Shirylees and Rachel singing “No More Drama” by hip hop superstar Mary J Blige.

The judge’s- which consist of singer Dannii Minogue, Girls Aloud babe Cheryl Cole and Westlife manager Lewis Walsh plus Simon Cowell- all agreed that the two singers performed thier best performance to date, but opted for Rachel’s “magnificent” performance of No More Drama.

Favourite to get the chop, Daniel Evans, survived the bottom two- much to the shock and horror of judge’s Lewis and Simon. He still remains favourite for the chop next week with odd’s of 100-1. Diana Vickers is still the bookie’s favourite at 6-4, followed by Cheryl’s other two acts Laura White and Alexandra Burke both with 3-1.

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British girl group Girls Aloud have proved that they just keep on getting stronger with new single The Promise blasting its competition to debut at No.1 this week. Pink’s So What slides to No.2 after three weeks in control and Razorlight and Guru Josh Project also arrive in the top five this week.

(BuzzJack.com) – Cheryl, Nadine, Nicola, Sarah and Kimberley formed as Girls Aloud in late 2002 as winners of Popstars: The Rivals. They went head to head with One True Voice, the male band formed by the show, in a battle for Christmas No.1, and Girls Aloud triumphed with the edgy pop single Sound Of The Underground. Their second chart topper was 2004’s Children In Need single and Pretenders cover I’ll Stand By You, and their third No.1 single was last year’s Walk This Way, a Sugababes collaboration with proceeds going to Comic Relief. The Promise is their 19th consecutive top ten single in the UK, and the first of their four No.1’s not to be associated with any TV show or charity, making this quite an achievement six years after the band first got together. The Promise is a retro sounding mid-tempo pop song and very much a natural successor to Can’t Speak French, their last single from their hugely successful 2007 album Tangled Up, with that single and its predecessor Call The Shots arguably opening up the band to a wider audience with a more accessible, radio friendly sound. The girls highly anticipated fifth studio album, Out Of Control, is due out on November 3rd.

Pink’s So What has reigned supreme for the past three weeks but the power of Girls Aloud proves to be too much for her and the American singer slides a place to No.2 this week, although still selling well. It is now well on its way to becoming her biggest selling UK single to date. Paul Walden is a British dance producer better known as Guru Josh Project. He had huge success in 1990 with the horn laden anthem Infinity which reached No.5 in the UK as well as the top ten in various other European countries. He returns this year with a 2008 electro re-working of the song and it ends up going in instantly higher on download sales alone, entering at No.3 this week. It has been a huge European hit already this year, reaching the top ten in Austria, France, Germany, The Netherlands and Sweden. American indie rock act Kings Of Leon stay at No.4 with Sex On Fire, their former three week chart topper, and British/Swedish indie rock act Razorlight have a huge leap from No.30 to No.5 with Wire To Wire. The first single from their third album Slipway Fires, due out on November 3rd, it is their fourth UK top five hit after Somewhere Else, In The Morning and America, the latter being their only UK No.1 single to date.

The lowest of last week’s top five entries slips the least, Up by girl group The Saturdays easing just a place to No.6 while Geraldine McQueen and Leon Jackson suffer more substantial drops moving 2-10 and 3-11 respectively. Katy Perry’s second single, Hot ‘N’ Cold, surges nineteen places to No.7 to give the American singer her second top ten hit after the huge No.1 I Kissed A Girl. Another Dr Luke/Max Martin creation, the single has seemingly been unaffected by claims that Katy has been glamourising the use of knives after a promotional picture of her holding a knife was picked up on by the media this week, despite having been on the internet for months and not having been deemed newsworthy enough before. The singer, who will be hosting the MTV European Music Awards in November next month, is on her way to becoming a global superstar, this single having already gone top ten in the US, Canada, Australia and now the UK.

Kanye West finally moves into the top ten on his fifth week around with the grower, Love Lockdown, his new single. It moves up three places from No.11 to No.8 after four weeks previously inside the top twenty. German dance collective Sash! debuted at No.9 last week with Raindrops (Encore Une Fois), their first single for eight years in the UK, and the single stays in the same place this week. The aforementioned Geraldine, Peter Kay’s fictional talent show winning creation, slides to No.10 on ‘her’ second week in the chart with The Winners Song, marking the biggest slide from No.2 since McFly dived 2-21 with One For The Radio in July. The top ten this week therefore features five British acts (one of those part-Swedish), four Americans and one German act.

The second week in a row that the top ten has seen five singles leave simultaneously, Leon Jackson, Ne-Yo, Sugababes, Rihanna and Snow Patrol are the casualties this week in a volatile chart, Leon and Snow Patrol both only managing one week inside the top ten. Jack White & Alicia Keys have the next climber, Another Way To Die moving from No.27 to No.18 on the week of its physical release. The theme, to the new Bond film The Quantum Of Solace, it had looked destined to peak at No.26 after spending its first three weeks there before sliding to No.27 last week. Whether it can rise again in the future remains to be seen but it is entirely likely seeing as the film is due out next Friday which could well give the track an added boost. American Idol 2007 winner Jordin Sparks rises fives places to No.24, with the download only single Tattoo, and six singles join the lower end of the top forty this week.

Canadian rapper Kardinal Offishall makes his top forty entrance with the Akon collaboration and new single Dangerous this week, which is up from No.46 to No.32, still a download only release, but gradually picking up more airplay. This is not the rapper’s first time in the UK charts, he reached No.9 with Scottish band Texas in an unlikely collaboration on 2003’s Carnival Girl, the lead single from their Careful What You Wish For album. American alternative rock band Fall Out Boy have been one of the major success stories of the last few years, scoring top ten hits in the UK with Sugar We’re Going Down, Dance Dance and last year’s No.2 hit This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race. I Don’t Care is the first single to be taken from their new album, Folie à Deux, which had been due for release next month but has been postponed until December now to avoid a clash with the American presidential election. I Don’t Care previously reached No.40 on downloads but returns to the chart at a new peak of No.33 after its physical release this week, though still a long way short of their previous successes. It has been similarly ignored in other major markets, reaching only No.21 in the US and only No.35 so far in Australia.

American rapper The Game returns to the top forty this week with new single, the Lil’ Wayne collaboration My Life. The single received its physical release this week and duly bounces from No.55 into the top forty at No.34. Another American entry next, singer John Legend’s new album Evolver came out this week and it finally gives the lead single Green Light, which features André 3000 from Outkast, a boost into the top forty, climbing from No.50 to No.35 on its fourth week inside the top seventy five, beating its previous peak of No.45. British indie act Bloc Party score another hit single with Talons, taken from the physical release of new album Intimacy, previously released digitally earlier in the year. Talons, the follow up to the top twenty hit Mercury, was not available on the digital album and has been released as a physical/digital single this week for the first time, making its entrance at No.39, although it is their smallest hit since 2004. Finally, American R&B singer Chris Brown continues an incredible year with a fifth top forty hit. He has already scored top ten hits with With You, Forever and No Air, and the recent re-release of Kiss Kiss reached No.39. Superhuman was another of the bonus tracks added to the ‘Forever Edition’ of his album Exclusive and it is a duet with Keri Hilson, who has previously featured on Scream and The Way I Are by Timbaland, the latter was of course a huge UK No.1 single last summer. Superhuman is in at No.40 on downloads with the physical release due on November 17th.

In a packed week of album releases, it is Australian rockers AC/DC who top the chart with new album Black Ice, their first studio album since 2000’s Stiff Upper Lip, surprisingly only a No.12 success here. The classic album Back To Black was their only previous album chart topper here back in 1980. They have famously never achieved a UK top ten single in a chart career spanning over thirty years, coming closest in 1988 with the No.12 single Heatseeker. British rock band Kaiser Chiefs go in at No.2 with their third album Off With Their Heads whilst Kings Of Leon stay strong with Only By The Night sticking at No.3 and looking set to be one of the big sellers this Christmas. X Factor 2007 winner Leon Jackson is the first of the show’s victors not to score a No.1 album, with his debut set Right Now going in at No.4. Welsh classical singer Katherine Jenkins goes in at No.5 with Sacred Arias, her fourth top five album in the UK.

Last week’s top two albums, Keane’s Perfect Symmetry and Oasis’ Dig Out Your Soul both dive down the chart this week from 1-6 and 2-7 respectively. British girl group Sugababes have had five former top three albums in the UK, including two No.1’s, but new album Catfights And Spotlights can only debut at No.8 this week after the relative failure of the lead single Girls, at least in comparison to other lead singles and UK No.1’s Freak Like Me, Hole In The Head, Push The Button and About You Now. Boyzone’s second Greatest Hits compilation, Back Again…No Matter What, falls to No.9 this week and German dance act Sash! follow their comeback top ten single Raindrops with their first top ten album since 1998. The Best Of, which features huge hits such as Encore Une Fois, Ecuador, Stay, La Primavera, Mysterious Times and Adelante, is in at No.10 meaning that on her thirty fourth week on the chart, Duffy’s Rockferry finally leaves the top ten as it falls to No.13 this week.

Next week’s chart should see a titanic battle as more big new releases are due out on Monday. Girls Aloud will be hoping that the huge opening sales of The Promise will ensure a second week at No.1, but their main competition is likely to be Hero by Help For Heroes, a cover of the Mariah Carey classic by the current X Factor finalists, as performed on this weekend’s live show. Guru Josh Project will be hoping to challenge these two big contenders with the current download hit Infinity 2008, whilst Razorlight will be hoping to move upwards with Wire To Wire, which is physically released on Monday. Pink looks set to stay strong, Katy Perry should move upwards with Hot ‘N’ Cold and Dido should make her chart return with new single Don’t Believe In Love, out this week. Other singles out physically on Monday and likely to make some sort of impact on next week’s chart come from Adele, David Guetta, Robin Thicke and The View. AC/DC are not likely to get a second week as the UK’s biggest album with big new albums on Monday due out from Pink, Snow Patrol, Bloc Party, The Saturdays, Anastacia, Katie Melua and Celine Dion.

Thanks to Polyhex, EveryHit, ManicKangaroo and Play.com for various information and resources.

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