The winner will no longer land a £1 million recording contract, with figures showing successful contestants would need to have a career of at least four albums to amass the sum... more
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It’s the last quarter of the year and the record companies are bringing out their star performers. So can Kanye, Duffy and JLS scale the heights? Or will they all be pipped to the top by SuBo?... more
When Simon Cowell described the battle for the Christmas number one as a "David and Goliath" fight, the music mogul may have been referring to more than just the musical reputations of the two main candidates... more
Video: Pop mogul Simon Cowell has offered jobs to the couple who launched a successful campaign to prevent The X Factor notching up yet another Christmas number one... more
Couple behind the Facebook campaign - which saw Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner Joe McElderry to the Christmas No1 - reveal their plan to try to mastermind a World Cup chart upset... more
The kids from Glee, the new high school musical hit that just landed from America, are coming — and they’ve already sold two million downloads.... more
Rage Against The Machine praised the campaign which has made them unlikely Christmas number one contenders and declared: "Let the people decide"
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Joe McElderry is the favourite to win this weekend’s X Factor final after sales of tracks he has covered on the show soared by 2,000 per cent.
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The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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