This week just gone

The most-read things between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day were:

1. Tatu are bemused that people think they're gay
2. NME's singles of the year, 1993
3. One Direction working with Good Charlotte
4. What song is the indie one cooler than Taylor Swift?
5. Charlotte Church wears latex for GAY
6. Look over there, says Gordon Smart: it's a Tulisa sex tape
7. The 2012 vale
8. 2012 in review: May
9. Dave Rowntree demands restoration of grafitti
10. Pop Papers: New Statesman worries for the NME

And, for the record, there were the top-ten stories from 2012:

1. Noel Gallagher pines for the Thatcher days
2. Gordon Smart promotes the Tulisa sex tape
3. MySpace surges back... sort of
4. Brits Liveblog
5. Olympics 2012 Closing Ceremony
6. Mick Jagger endorses Boris Johnson
7. Frank Skinner thinks the Brits isn't as good as it used to be
8. Whitney Houston considered
9. Spotify announce intention to kill iTunes
10. Kanye West reckons he could be an architect

These were out just before Christmas:


Rachel Zeffira - The Deserters

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Memory Tapes - Grace/Confusion

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