Yet Another Year In Pop: 46

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Black Eyed Peas beat Leona to #1 - news which has rocked the OCC to its very core i.e. they haven't updated their site yet this morning so we'll have to make do with slightly unreliable Yahoo Music instead (apols for duplications/omissions etc).

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Reminder! You have roughly 24 hours to vote in Heat #6 of 2003, where Missy, Lumidee, Benassi and Blur are all battling it out for the last two qualification spots. Don't forget to put your new favourite in the text box!

Comments

[rechabite.livejournal.com]

The BEP triumph - even though they owe it in some part to the Cowell factor - may be the first chink of revolt as far as the Cowell gameplan is concerned.

Leona's performance on the show was complacent as though another number one was a formality. With a 15,000 sales difference it clearly wasn't.

Perhaps people are finally beginning of tire of the conveyor belt. It'll be interesting to see how well the charity single "Your Burgers Are The Best" does or how long it stays on the list.

But there you go. In the States you have Miley, Britney and Owl City getting to the top - over here it's pabulum bought by people who don't particularly like music.

I suppose the only other way out is for Cowell to go mad and have a Hughie Green "Stand Up And Be Counted" moment on the Christmas edition.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

For a moment there I thought you'd typed "a Howard Beale moment".

[rechabite.livejournal.com]

For Hughie's own "Howard Beale moment" (sadly, audio only) see here:



I fully expect an X-Factor Finalists cover sooner rather than later.