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Seven days on No Rock and Roll Fun

The ten most-accessed pages this week:

1. Radio One at Forty
2. R Kelly's sex video tape - free for court showing
3. Beth Ditto strips for the NME
4. 500 people type 'lily allen naked' into Google
5. Meg White sex tape stars someone other than Meg White
6. McFly remove their boxer shorts, last dignity
7. KT Tunstall's sexuality: a hot topic
8. Britney Spears tanks at MTV Video awards
9. Meg White anxiety axes White Stripes tour
10. When The Glums ruled lunchtime

Also this week, Babyshambles ripped off Kate Mosses' face; Nicola Roberts called for a Reform Treaty referendum, without once calling the Treaty by its actual name; TV Hits folded while Amazon opened its mp3 store and Clear Channel put a slew of US radio stations on the market. Thank god Alan McGee has got a university gig to explain it all to us.

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Five years ago:
Seven magazine abandoned its second life as a monthly; Ryan Adams recorded an answer song to a Britney track; Kelly Jones predicted Hear'Say would kill music but the band pocketed half a million each. Politically, Peter Tatchell protested outside the MOBOs while Roger Waters came out supporting the Countryside Alliance and Keith Richards had ramblers thrown off his property and the UK music industry's attempts to embrace digital with Digital Download Day suggested Mac OS X users upgrade to Windows 98 before falling over.

This week's floggamatics:


At last: White Chalk, new from PJ Harvey


Vic Goddard's re-recruited Subway Sect re-record their lost 1978 album


... not quite as delayed, but still late: Metric's never-released 2001 debut


Devendra Banhart's Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. Which sounds like a fart joke, to be honest


McCluskey-as-was Future of the Left debut


Last Sucker: and with this album, Ministry leap into their Jesus-built hotrod and head for history


In search of a more acoustic sound - that's why Mum's gone back to Iceland


Early reports on Sweet Danger pin this as Suzy Bogguss - but slinky


Skins in full - including the Please Sir movie rip-off episode written by Simon Amstell and the Dennis Potter tribute final scene


Old kids TV on DVD and student loan cheques being issued? That's snap!