Official Top 40!

The X Factor finalists have scored a third week at the top of the Irish singles chart with their charity song 'You Are Not Alone'.

In a week of little change in the top five, Black Eyed Peas' 'Meet Me Halfway', Lady GaGa's 'Bad Romance' and Cheryl Cole's 'Fight For This Love' take second, third and fourth positions respectively. Cole's debut solo single has now been in the top five for eight weeks.

Westlife bounce up five spots to fifth position with their cover of Daughtry hit 'What About Now', followed by Ke$ha's 'Tik Tok' at sixth, which is up one place.

Meanwhile, Timbaland's 'Morning After Dark', which sees the musician collaborating with Nelly Furtado and SoShy, is the highest new entry of the week, debuting at 16.

The Top 10 singles in full:

1. (1) X Factor Finalists 2009: 'You Are Not Alone'
2. (2) Black Eyed Peas: 'Meet Me Halfway'
3. (3) Lady GaGa: 'Bad Romance'
4. (4) Cheryl Cole: 'Fight For This Love'
5. (10) Westlife: 'What About Now'
6. (7) Ke$ha: 'Tik Tok'
7. (6) Jason Derulo: 'Whatcha Say'
8. (14) Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys: 'Empire State Of Mind'
9. (16) Rihanna: 'Russian Roulette'
10. (18) Big Pink: 'Dominos'

westlife still heading for number 2 in mids

Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band has topped the UK singles chart for the second week running.

'The Official BBC Children In Need Medley', which features over 100 animated characters, was released in aid of charity.

Elsewhere in the chart, Alicia Keys reached number eight with 'Don't Mean Anything', while Timbaland and Nelly Furtado got to number nine with 'Morning After Dark'.

After her performance on last week's X Factor, Rihanna moved four places up the chart to number two with 'Russian Roulette'.

Lady GaGa's 'Bad Romance' climbed two places to number three, but Leona Lewis slipped out of the top ten to number 15 with 'Happy'.

The top ten singles in full (click for our reviews):

1. (1) Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: 'The Official BBC Children In Need Medley'
2. (6) Rihanna: 'Russian Roulette'
3. (5) Lady GaGa: 'Bad Romance'
4. (4) Black Eyed Peas: 'Meet Me Halfway'
5. (2) 'X Factor' Finalists 2009: 'You Are Not Alone'
6. (3) Jason Derulo: 'Whatcha Say'
7. (7) Ke$ha: 'Tik Tok'
8. (-) Alicia Keys: 'Doesn't Mean Anything'
9. (-) Timbaland ft. Nelly Furtado, SoShy: 'Morning After Dark'
10. (8) Cheryl Cole: 'Fight For This Love'

Source: Official Charts Company

Glad Russian Roulette climbed :thumbsup:

Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band has topped the UK singles chart for the second week running.

'The Official BBC Children In Need Medley', which features over 100 animated characters, was released in aid of charity.

Elsewhere in the chart, Alicia Keys reached number eight with 'Don't Mean Anything', while Timbaland and Nelly Furtado got to number nine with 'Morning After Dark'.

After her performance on last week's X Factor, Rihanna moved four places up the chart to number two with 'Russian Roulette'.

Lady GaGa's 'Bad Romance' climbed two places to number three, but Leona Lewis slipped out of the top ten to number 15 with 'Happy'.

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Originally Posted by tammyy2j

Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band has topped the UK singles chart for the second week running.

'The Official BBC Children In Need Medley', which features over 100 animated characters, was released in aid of charity.

Elsewhere in the chart, Alicia Keys reached number eight with 'Don't Mean Anything', while Timbaland and Nelly Furtado got to number nine with 'Morning After Dark'.

After her performance on last week's X Factor, Rihanna moved four places up the chart to number two with 'Russian Roulette'.

Lady GaGa's 'Bad Romance' climbed two places to number three, but Leona Lewis slipped out of the top ten to number 15 with 'Happy'.

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Already posted two posts above ^^ :)

Lady GaGa has topped the UK singles chart with 'Bad Romance'.

The track, which has been in the charts for seven weeks, climbed up from number three to claim the top spot.

GaGa, who performed on last week's X Factor, already has the UK's biggest-selling single of the year so far with 'Poker Face' and currently holds the title for the biggest-selling album of 2009 with The Fame.

The only new entry in the singles chart is Chuckie and LMFAO's 'Let The Bass Kick In Miami Girl', which reached number nine.

Chipmunk climbed up nine places to number ten with 'Look For Me', while Timbaland moved up to number six with 'Morning After Dark'.

Elsewhere in the chart, the X Factor Finalists dropped out of the top ten with 'You Are Not Alone', sliding six places to number 11.

1. (3) Lady GaGa: 'Bad Romance'
2. (1) Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: 'The Official BBC Children In Need Medley'
3. (2) Rihanna: 'Russian Roulette'
4. (4) Black Eyed Peas: 'Meet Me Halfway'
5. (7) Ke$ha: 'Tik Tok'
6. (9) Timbaland ft. Nelly Furtado, SoShy: 'Morning After Dark'
7. (6) Jason Derulo: 'Whatcha Say'
8. (8) Alicia Keys: 'Doesn't Mean Anything'
9. (-) Chuckie and LMFAO: 'Let The Bass Kick In Miami Girl'
10. (19) Chipmunk ft. Talay Riley: 'Look For Me'

Source: Official Charts Company

Rage Against The Machine have beaten X Factor winner Joe McElderry to the Christmas number one.

The band's 1992 single 'Killing In The Name' sold over 500,000 copies this week after a Facebook campaign urged fans to stop McElderry from reaching the top spot.

Rage Against The Machine led the race from the beginning of the week, although their advantage slipped when the CD version of McElderry's debut single 'The Climb' was released on Wednesday and by Friday morning they were ahead by just 9,000 copies. However, they went on to sell over 200,000 copies on Friday and Saturday.

McElderry sold over 450,000 copies of 'The Climb', but sales of the CD dropped over the last couple of days. The Official Charts Company suggested that the fall in sales could be linked to the bad weather.

'Killing In The Name' has now become the UK's first download-only Christmas number one and has broken the record for the biggest one-week download sales in British chart history.

The Official Charts Company's managing director Martin Talbot said: "Congratulations to Rage Against The Machine on their number one - as we have seen in recent years, overhauling any X Factor winner in the race for Christmas number one is no mean achievement. The public support we have seen for the record this week has been truly amazing - and handed them two all-time records.

"But congratulations too should also go to Joe McElderry. In taking the number two spot, he has still achieved one of the highest weekly sales of any single this year - in almost any other year, 450,000 copies would have given him the Christmas number one."

He added: "Through this week, these two tracks have accounted for 950,000 single sales, a fact which is truly remarkable."

The top ten singles in full :

1. (-) Rage Against The Machine: 'Killing In The Name'
2. (-) Joe McElderry: 'The Climb'
3. (1) Lady GaGa: 'Bad Romance'
4. (2) Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: 'The Official BBC Children In Need Medley'
5. (-) 3OH!3 ft. Katy Perry: 'Starstrukk
6. (15) Robbie Williams: 'You Know Me'
7. (14) Cheryl Cole: '3 Words'
8. (3) Rihanna: 'Russian Roulette'
9. (-) Journey: 'Don't Stop Believin'
10. (4) Black Eyed Peas: 'Meet Me Halfway'

Source: Official Charts Company

Susan Boyle is expected to secure the biggest-selling album of the year in the UK with her debut I Dreamed A Dream.

The record, which has been at the top of the chart for the past four weeks, has so far shifted over 1.4 million copies.

Lady GaGa's The Fame is on course to be the second most successful album of the year, while King's Of Leon's Only By The Night, released in September 2008, is in third place.

"In just four weeks, Susan Boyle has become the biggest album artist in the UK by some margin - an extraordinary achievement for an artist who was totally unknown until last April," said Martin Talbot of the Official Charts Company.

"She has clearly connected with a massive proportion of the British population and is now looking solidly in place to take the title of the biggest album of the year."

The top five best-selling UK albums in full (click where possible for reviews):

1. Susan Boyle: 'I Dreamed A Dream'
2. Lady GaGa: The Fame
3. Kings Of Leon: 'Only By The Night'
4. Michael Buble: 'Crazy Love'
5. Black Eyed Peas: 'The E.N.D.'

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Joe McElderry has reached number one in the UK singles chart.

The X Factor winner lost out on the Christmas number one last week after an online campaign urged fans to buy the Rage Against The Machine song 'Killing In The Name'.

However, McElderry sold 196,000 copies of his debut single 'The Climb' over the last week, outselling Rage Against The Machine by 130,000 units.

'The Climb' may also become one of the year's top five biggest-selling singles. The number five spot is currently held by La Roux's 'In For The Kill', which shifted 660,000 copies, but McElderry is close behind after selling 650,000 singles so far.

The Official Charts Company managing director Martin Talbot said: "The race for Christmas number one was the most exciting many of us can remember, but, having secured his own number one, McElderry can top his year off with another honour and has an excellent chance of making the year-end top five by next week."

Elsewhere in the singles chart, Cheryl Cole climbed into the top five with '3 Words', while Ke$ha re-entered the top ten with 'Tik Tok'.

However, Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band dropped out of the top ten to number 11 with 'The Official BBC Children In Need Medley'.

The top ten singles in full:

1. (2) Joe McElderry: 'The Climb
2. (1) Rage Against The Machine: 'Killing In The Name'
3. (3) Lady GaGa: 'Bad Romance'
4. (7) Cheryl Cole: '3 Words'
5. (5) 3OH!3 ft. Katy Perry: 'Starstrukk'
6. (10) Black Eyed Peas: 'Meet Me Halfway'
7. (9) Journey: 'Don't Stop Believin'
8. (8) Rihanna: 'Russian Roulette'
9. (6) Robbie Williams: 'You Know Me'
10. (11) Ke$ha: 'Tik Tok'

Source: Official Charts Company