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Label: the charts

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On air on sale = amazing

In the autumn of 2009, with various knockoff cover versions of Shakira's 'She Wolf' scaling the charts before Shakira's own version of the tune had even been released, we did…
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Meanwhile, in a branch of Tile Magic…

Another week, and with it another release from Alexandra Burke's appar­ently bot­tom­less 'Overcome' album. This time the single chosen for release is 'The Silence'. Only last week we were chatting,…
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Flo Rida feat David Guetta — 'Club Can't Handle Me'

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Michael Jackson — 'Man In The Mirror'

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"It's a good day's work"

The Radio 1 Newsbeat website has a good article about Def Jam's first UK writing camp. In one muggy room Danish poppers Alphabeat are writing a new track poten­tially for…
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Ding dong — it's a vague indication of the midweeks

Here are the relative successes and failures likely to be featured in the charts this Sunday.  Vika Jigulina — 'Stereo Love' {audio}images/stories/audio/bell.mp3{/audio} Christina Aguilera — 'Not Myself Tonight' {audio}images/stories/audio/foghorn.mp3{/audio} Fugative…
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Ding dong — it's this week's midweeks

Here are the relative successes and failures likely to be featured in the charts this Sunday but neither will be mentioned in the odd Radio 1 midweek chart countdown thing…
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The new Goldfrapp single is not exactly setting the charts on fire.

There could be many reasons for this but to con­cen­trate on radio let's see if Compare My Radio (ie the world's greatest website) can shed any light.  Radio 1 played this…
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The Newsdump, March 1 2010: from DeRulo atop the charts to Goulding's fluttering heart

Hold onto your hats: » A song called 'In My Head' at Number One? We wouldn't 'derulo' it out. (Radio 1)  (Lady Gaga's 'The Fame' is at Number One in the…
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Notes on 'Fireflies' by Owl City

It's out today, which is earlier than it was supposed to be out, and the reason for that is that there were some cover versions creeping up the iTunes chart…

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