The Loving Kind GMTV Performance

SO the next Girls Aloud single is The Loving Kind co-written by the powerhouse production team Xenomania and Pet shop boy Neil Tennant. The Girls performed this on GMTV and sang live, not Sarah's best vocal performance but we love her anyway!

Click to 3.45 for the best bit!

Poker Face (Dave Audé Radio Edit) - Lady Gaga

In my opinion the bast remix of this Poker Face. Just is dance is still number 3 in the US and is finally set for release on the 12th of January here in the UK. Get ready for the GAGA invasion!

Leona Lewis on Letterman

With the news of Leona being nominated for 3 Grammy awards for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album for Spirit and Record Of The Year for Bleeding Love she performed 'I Will Be' the next single release from Spirit state side on the David Letterman show.

Christmas Chart 2008

Alexandria Burke sold a massive 576,000 copies of of the Leonard Cohen classic 'Hallelujah' to become this years christmas number 1.

Its sales tally makes it the fastest-selling single by a female artist in UK chart history, beating the previous record held by Leona Lewis and 'A Moment Like This'.

Jeff Buckley's interpretation of 'Hallelujah' - taken from the late singer's 1994 album Grace - sold 81,000 copies to chart in second place, while Leona Lewis sold 72,000 copies of 'Run' to claim third position.

Meanwhile, Beyoncé places two singles in the festive top ten, climbing to four with 'If I Were A Boy' and zooming to eight with 'Listen', the Dream girls ballad she sang with Burke on last week's X Factor final.

In the album chart Take That sell a further 382,000 this week with The Circus which takes its three-week sales tally to 1.133m. The second biggest selling album of the year behind Duffys Rockaferry.

Leona Lewis charts at two with 165,000 sales of Spirit, while Kings of Leon climb to three after selling 153,000 copies of Only By The Night.

Meanwhile, Girls Aloud bounce back to five with Out of Control following last week's ITV1 special The Girls Aloud Party.

Beyoncé climbs to a new peak of nine with I Am... Sasha Fierce, while Fall Out Boy score the highest new entry of the week, debuting at 39 with Folie A Deux



Singles:

01 Alexandra Burke 576,046
02 Jeff Buckley 80,883
03 Leona Lewis 72,417
04 Beyonce 47,092
05 Geraldine 42,541
06 James Morrison/Nelly Furtado 36,021
07 Kings Of Leon 29,821
08 Beyonce 28,913
09 Take That 24,174
10 Britney Spears 22,722


Albums:


01 Take That 382,000
02 Leona Lewis 165,000
03 Kings of Leon 153,000

Alexandra and Beyonce - Listen

So Alexandra has won the xfactor 2008 and what a performance tonight she had with Beyonce singing Listen. No doubt she will be as big as Leona if not bigger.

Leona Lewis - Loving You

Thanks to her devoted fanbase demanding for its release, Leona is sitting pretty at the top of the charts with her interpretation of Snow Patrol’s Run. And now, spurred on by the success of that campaign, her fans are now putting the pressure on for another Leona cover to be released – her version of Minnie Ripperton’s Loving You (you know the one – it’s the one with all the high-pitched oohs and ahhs in it). You can hear Leona singing the track right here (when she was just 15 – impressive, no?), but you might have heard it before – over a million people have listened to it online! So, would you like to Leona to re-record the track and get it into the charts, or are you bored of cover versions?

What is the best christamas song ever??

Mariah - All I Want For Christmas, John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over), Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bruce Springsteen, Do They Know Its Christmas - Band Aid or something else?

This Day in Music have launched a poll to find out what your favourite Christmas songs are.

What song would you pick? You can see a full list of songs and vote on http://www.thisdayinmusic.com

Saturday Chart Updates midweeks

01 Leona Lewis - Run
02 Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody
03 Sir Terry Wogan & Aled Jones - Bandaged
04 Britney Spears - Womaniser
05 Take That - Greatest Day

Whilst in the albums charts:

01 Take That - Circus
02 Leona Lewis - spirit (Deluxe Edition)
03 Killers - Day and Age
04 Kings Of Leon - Only by the Night
05 II Divo - The Promise

Alesha Dixon - Breathe Slow

Breathe Slow is the second single from Alesha's brilliant album 'The Alesha show'. The song is written by Soulshock & Karlin the Dainsh duo who have also written Jamelia's Something about you and Jojo's Leave (Get out). Hopefully this will be a big as her last single 'The Boy Does Nothing'.

Lily Allen - The Fear

Lily Allen's new video for The Fear which is not out until the 26th of January and it's already on the Radio1 play list. I reckon this is going to be a massive hit :D go Lily!

Franz are back

Franz Ferdinand are going on tour again! In February and March next year.

The new Franz album is released on January 26 with single Ulysses out the week before.

TOUR DATES BELOW

FEBRUARY

28th Limerick Dolans

MARCH

1st Dublin Olympia
4th Glasgow Barrowlands
6th Manchester Academy
8th Birmingham Academy
9th London Hammersmith Apollo

Tickets go on sale this Friday December 12 priced £20/ 22.50.

But no Newcastle date :((

My delirium - Ladyhawke's

Ladyhawke's My delirium has finally been released and it's on the Radio 1's B-playlist which is brilliant too, here is the video.

Goodbye Paddy Boom :(

I didn't realise until today but this scissor sisters released a statement, IN OCTOBER!!! on their official website saying that they have amicably parted ways with their drummer Paddy boom! He was a legend and the only straight man in the band lol. Ill miss you Mr boom!

My Singles Chart predictions for 14th December

1 Leona - Run
2 Kings of Leon - Use Someboday
3 Britney - Womaniser
4 Take That - Greatest Day
5 Sir Terry Wogan & Aled Jones - Bandaged

DAXpop

This is my new blog where ill try my best to follow the latest in the pop world :D