X Factor UK news, UK Airplay Chart and Official Charts update.
Living the high life boys? One Direction mobbed by fans at signings across the country travelling in style by private helicopter
Their popularity has soared since they formed on last year’s X Factor and the boys of One Direction are finding themselves mobbed by screaming fans wherever they go.
But it’s not just the attention that they are getting used to, they boys are also living the luxury jet set lifestyle, quite literally.
Earlier today the boys were mobbed by fans at a signing for their debut single What Makes You Beautiful and afterwards the boys climbed aboard a luxury private jet to take them back to Manchester before heading to London.
Read more: The Daily Mail
‘Absolutely outstanding, amazing, unbelievable’: 20-year-old Lascel blows X Factor judges away as he performs in front of his real mother for the very first time
Every hopeful’s performance in front of the X Factor judges is special but for one young singer his time on stage was more important than most.
And for college student Lascel Wood it was the first time his own mother had heard him sing.
The 20-year-old from Brighton blew all the judges away with his rendition of Kings Of Leon Use Somebody and left Kelly close to tears.
Read more: The Daily Mail
‘If they’re really your friends they’re going to be right behind you’: Gary Barlow couldn’t have been more wrong, as X Factor hopeful is ditched by her bandmates after going solo
It was a life-changing moment that should have felt euphoric, but instead X Factor hopeful, Chrissie Pitt was left feeling hurt and alone after qualifying for bootcamp, when her bandmates turned against her.
The 26-year-old part-time model was in tears on last night’s show after judge Kelly Rowland persuaded her to audition without her three friends.
And it seems the wannabe singer was right to be upset, as moments after Chrissie’s solo performance, the girls viciously turned their backs on her and even left her stranded at the studio in Manchester.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Cheryl shows she’s still got the X Factor in stunning calendar poses
If Simon Cowell needed convincing that dropping Cheryl Cole from the U.S. version of The X Factor could have been a mistake, these pictures might do the trick.
The singer posed for the shots – some of her most provocative to date – in various locations in the South of France for her official 2012 calendar.
In July’s photograph, a tousled-haired and pouting Mrs Cole poses on all fours on a bed.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Cheryl Cole’s gypsy chic
SEXY Cheryl Cole looks cara-glam as she turns up the heat for 2012.
Read more: The Sun
The ex factor: Sinitta slams ‘horny salty’ love cheat Simon Cowell
Eighties star and X Factor mentor Sinitta has accused Simon Cowell of being a serial cheater.
The So Macho singer claims the X Factor boss cheated on her with a lot of women during their on-off 20-year relationship.
Simon, who recently admitted that he once enjoyed three-in-a-bed sex, would disappear regularly and Sinitta would have no idea where he had been.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Simon Cowell’s fiancée Mezhgan moves into ‘girlfriend graveyard’ amid claims their engagement is off
Just days after Simon Cowell admitted he wasn’t sure if he was still engaged to Mezhgan Hussainy, the make-up artist is said to have moved out of his house.
Hussainy is thought to have relocated to another of Simon’s properties, nicknamed the ‘girlfriend graveyard’ by the music mogul’s friends.
The move is the latest indication that Cowell and Hussainy’s 18-month engagement is off.
Read more: The Daily Mail
‘I was a teenage truant and I’ve got no regrets… I still passed 13 GCSEs’: The world according to Stacey Solomon
Stacey Solomon can’t stop smiling, and with good reason. Just three years ago she was a single mother living with her mum in Dagenham and surviving on benefits. Now she’s one of Britain’s fastest-rising stars.
Her transformation from shy, troubled teenager to showbiz phenomenon began in 2009, when she came third on The X Factor.
Last year she entered I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here, winning the final with over 80 per cent of the public vote. She has since co-presented the Saturday-night ITV show Sing If You Can, written an autobiography and performed live at numerous sporting events, including this year’s FA Cup final.
More recently she has embarked on a solo music career. Now 21, she is dating painter Aaron Barham and lives with her three-year-old son Zachary in Dagenham.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Oh my God, that’s Wicked! Stacey Solomon joins the West End musical to perform the closing song in aid of Children In Need
After winning I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, making her presenting debut on ITV and winning Celebrity Mum of the Year, it’s easy to forget that Stacey Solomon is first and foremost a singer.
And fans were reminded just how amazing her voice is as she took to the stage in London last night to perform the closing number in the hit musical Wicked.
Solomon, who first shot to fame when she came third in the X Factor in 2009, joined actresses Rachel Tucker, who plays Elphaba, and Louise Dearman, who plays Glinda, for the duet For Good.
Read more: The Daily Mail
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The UK Radio Airplay Chart
Week 36 | Sun Sep 04 to Sat Sep 10 inclusive
1 Olly Murs – Heart Skips A Beat Label: Epic Plays: 3, 780 Impacts: 58.43m LW: 2
4 Will Young – Jealousy Label: RCA Plays: 3, 564 Impacts: 52.21m LW: 5
15 JLS ft. Dev – She Makes Me Wanna Label: Epic Plays: 3, 030 Impacts: 35.57m LW: 8
19 One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful Label: Syco Plays: 1, 696 Impacts: 30.95m LW: 27
45 Leona Lewis – Collide Label: Syco Plays: 1, 510 Impacts: 18.03m LW: 67
83 Matt Cardle – Run For Your Life Label: Syco Plays: 563 Impacts: 9.87m LW: new
This chart is compiled by www.radiomonitor.com
UK TV Airplay Chart
Week 36 | Sun Sep 04 to Sat Sep 10 inclusive
3 Leona Lewis – Collide Label: Syco Plays: 491 LW: 20
4 JLS ft. Dev – She Makes Me Wanna Label: Epic Plays: 488 LW: 7
11 Olly Murs – Heart Skips A Beat Label: Epic Plays: 433 LW: 16
15 One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful Label: Syco Plays: 399 LW: 6
32 Matt Cardle – Run For Your Life Label: Syco Plays: 233 LW: new
38 Will Young – Jealousy Label: RCA Plays: 217 LW: 34
60 Cher Lloyd – Swagger Jagger Label: Syco Plays: 133 LW: 51
This chart is compiled by www.radiomonitor.com
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The Official Charts Update
Singles
1 Pixie Lott – All About Tonight
2 Maroon 5 – Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)
3 The Saturdays – All Fired Up
4 Leona Lewis/Avicii – Collide
5 Example – Stay Awake
6 Olly Murs – Heart Skips A Beat (feat. Rizzle Kicks)
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12 Will Young – Jealousy
16 JLS – She Makes Me Wanna (feat. Dev)
41 Cher Lloyd – Swagger Jagger
76 David Guetta – Night of Your Life (feat. Jennifer Hudson)
Albums
1. Example – Playing In The Shadows
2. Adele – 21
3. Joe McElderry – Classic
4. David Guetta – Nothing But The Beat
5. Will Young – Echoes
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52 Olly Murs – Olly Murs
62 Will Young – The Hits
99 Leona Lewis – Spirit
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One Direction iTunes Takeover
“What Makes You Beautiful” was released to iTunes UK at midnight last night. About two hours later, the song was already #2 on the singles chart. When I got up, before 8am BST, the song was #1. That was FAST – newly released singles usually climb the iTunes chart all day Sunday.
iTunes UK popularity numbers – 09/11/11 at 9:45pm local time
1 One Direction What Makes You Beautiful 1.000000
2 Maroon 5 Moves Like Jagger 0.391810
3 Pixie Lott All About Tonight 0.283882
4 The Saturdays All Fired Up 0.202257
5 Olly Murs Heart Skips a Beat (feat. Rizzle Kicks) 0.185513
6 Christina Perri Jar of Hearts 0.167628
7 Calvin Harris Feel So Close [Radio Edit] 0.152703
8 Example Stay Awake (Radio Edit) 0.149897
9 Leona Lewis & Avicii Collide (Radio Edit) 0.147306
10 Sean Kingston Party All Night (Sleep All Day) 0.138888
iTunes Ireland popularity numbers – 09/11/11 at 9:45pm local time
1 One Direction What Makes You Beautiful 1.000000
2 Maroon 5 Moves Like Jagger 0.422374
3 Christina Perri Jar of Hearts 0.251142
4 Calvin Harris Feel So Close [Radio Edit] 0.223744
5 David Guetta & Sia Titanium (feat. Sia) 0.189498
6 Snow Patrol Called Out In the Dark 0.164384
7 Leona Lewis & Avicii Collide (Radio Edit) 0.157534
8 Pixie Lott All About Tonight 0.150685
9 Foster the People Pumped Up Kicks 0.146119
10 Bruno Mars Marry You 0.136986