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Snow Patrol's 2006 single "Chasing Cars" was the most played song in England during the 2000s, the BBC reported.

JAMES BLUNT will have an extra reason to celebrate this New Year - his album BACK TO BEDLAM has been named Britain's best-selling record of the last decade.

Yay! James Blunt's album Back To Bedlam was the biggest seller of the past decade.

By Vicky Shaw WILL Young had the biggest-selling single of the decade, while fellow reality show stars including Gareth Gates, Alexandra Burke, Shayne Ward and Hear'Say also dominated the Top Ten, Official Charts Company data showed yesterday.

Will Young and James Blunt have scored the biggest selling UK single and album sales of the decade.

As another set of end of decade statistics gets released there's another angry mob ready to aim a heavy boot at the door of popular culture.

Are you still smarting over Nickelback being named America's top-charting rock group of the decade? Take some solace in another nation's shame: According to Billboard , James Blunt's Back to Bedlam - yeah, the one with "You're Beautiful" on it - is the U.K.'s biggest album of the decade.

Without it, we would never have had You're Beautiful. But while Back to Bedlam was the UK's noughties favourite, Robbie Williams sold most CDs overall Me? The best-selling album? Get over! Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images The markets will crash, the seas will rise, and the Four Horsemen will surely approacheth, because it's official a ' James ...

James Blunt's Back to Bedlam has been revealed as the biggest selling album of the decade.

Do you know what a "Puakenikeni" is? It is not a new super strain of Pokemon - it's a Hawaiian flower.

1 one-hit wonder of the 2000s. That ubiquitous tune of his sat atop the magazine's pop charts for five weeks in 2006 ... and then he was never heard from again.

"I do raise roosters, but I wasn't fighting any chickens". So this Alba guy wasn't running any cockfighting events, but he just happens to know the lingo? Disingenuous, much? I share your disgust, Kitson.

James Blunt has promised that he is recording a "fun" third album. The 'You're Beautiful' singer, who is expected to release the new record in September 2010, revealed that he is working with a string of collaborators on the follow-up to 2007's All The Lost Souls .

Canadian Daniel Powter has been named the top one-hit wonder of the last decade, BBC reports.

DANIEL POWTER's BAD DAY has beaten out YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL by JAMES BLUNT to claim the top spot on a new one-hit wonders poll.

From today's Department of Self-Fulfilling Song Titles: On Wednesday, Billboard named Daniel Powter, whose song "Bad Day" was as ubiquitous in 2006 as subprime mortgages and skinny jeans, the one-hit wonder of the decade.

LADY GAGA was disappointed when organisers of the Royal Variety Performance told her to "tone down" her act in front of QUEEN ELIZABETH II - because she had planned to resurrect her staged suicide from a recent awards show appearance.

They came, they conquered ... they were never heard from again. After reaching the Hot 100's Top 10 with their very first singles, none of these acts managed to crack the Top 25 for the rest of the decade.

Billboard has just published a list of the decade's one-hittiest one-hit wonders .

Billboard has named Daniel Powter's 2006 hit Bad Day the biggest one hit wonder of the noughties.