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The People’s Artist Chart

Those of you not lucky [Ha ha] enough to live in the UK may have missed this Easter Monday’s broadcast of The People’s Artist Chart on the Beeb. Based on plays reported to Phonographic Performance Limited, AKA PPL, a body that licenses broadcast and other performances of tracks that are signed up to its catalogue (and charges mysteriously priced licensing fees to venues), the chart detailed the artists that had most plays in the decade 2000-2009. Here they are:

1. Madonna
2. The Beatles
3. Robbie Williams
4. Queen
5. Take That
6. Sugababes
7. Elton John
8. Elvis Presley
9. Abba
10. Coldplay

Incredible to see Elvis still topping the play charts after almost 40 years since his death, and that the pop bands of yesteryear are still more active on the airwaves than current acts. Does this list really define the decade? Listen to the programme via the BBC iPlayer here, and make your own mind up.

Jay-Z Signs Ting Tings To His Record Label Roc Nation

It has been reported that British pop duo, The Ting Tings have signed with Jay-Z and his record label Roc Nation.

What’s funny is that they report this as the duo’s big chance to make it big in America by saying things such as “Jay can make them one of the biggest British bands in America.” The next Coldplay? No, thanks.

Im very interested to hear a Roc Nation influences album, will that mean I will be hearing a lot more hard baselines in their songs.

Apart from The Ting Tings Jay-Z also signed another British pop group, the Sugababes. No Jay, why the hell did you sign a band in complete decline even in their native country?