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		<title>It Oughta Sell A Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is for most performers the ultimate dream. Something which marks them out as something particularly special, yet at the same time is not so out of reach as to be a wild unattainable fantasy. Selling a million copies of a record, any record. For years it has been a badge of honour for any track,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defence Of Christmas 1992&#8211;Part Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to know what the odds were for the big Christmas Number One race in 1992? Well sadly the only clippings I can turn up are quoting prices as of Tuesday December 15th, which was during the week of sales covered by this chart. Nonetheless, it shows you where the thinking was at the time,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defence Of Christmas 1992&#8211;Part Three</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is traditionally where a quick hunt around some of the news headlines of the week throws up the exact social context in which these songs were heard, or something. Being as it was the run-up to Christmas it was the mixture of the grim and the trivial. Back in the days when the international  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defence Of Christmas 1992&#8211;Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My own memories of Christmas 1992? All a bit of a rush I think, a mixture of driving friends who were mobile DJs around to an endless succession of other people&#8217;s parties, mixed in with a holiday job working at a firm of accountants. I spent the the Christmas period wrestling with the mini computer  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defence Of Christmas 1992&#8211;Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two confessions before we start. I’d originally “scheduled” this chart recap to be the big Christmas countdown a year ago, but certain baby related events got in the way and the opportunity to do writing of any kind just didn’t present itself in the run up to the holiday. Hence we’re winding back a  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smells Like Military Wives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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Say hello to my little friend on the left. Or rather say hello to the new little friend of the Official Charts Company. From this week onwards, the feat of making it to Number One on the charts will be marked with far more than just a place forever in the record books. Each artist topping the  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Corridor Had A Better Echo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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As my friend and colleague Ben so neatly illustrates above, Noddy Holder made a guest appearance at the office during the week. As painfully affable as the legendary rock singer is, I got the feeling that the endless parade of people wanting a photograph was something he was enduring rather than  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Freedom Of Speech Issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was it ever going to be a good idea to challenge a ruling by the broadcast regulator? Back in July, when former national radio presenter Jon Gaunt lost his appeal over a court decision not to overturn the Ofcom ruling that he had breached the Broadcasting Code during an interview he conducted in  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love, Lust and Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Musicals? I’m kind of indifferent to them to be honest.
I’ve a funny feeling this is linked to endless Saturday mornings spent as a child performing at the Wetherby Music Centre, tooting away on my flute as part of an ever changing series of musical ensembles which rehearsed and performed and  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s What I&#8217;m &#8216;About&#8217; After All</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you been missing the weekly instalments of what used to be the Chart Watch UK column, absent from the net since Yahoo! Music shuttered its site in the UK? If so it is clear that you aren’t alone, as the enormous amount of traffic that this site has generated since the end of September has  [...]]]></description>
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