EMI scores hat-trick as Room 5 tops radio chart: radio programmers made their mark in 2003 by backing tracks from a diverse range of acts--often at variance with the views of TV stations and sales charts success.(Year-end charts)

EMI completes a hat-trick of victories on the annual airplay chart, with Room 5's deliciously retro Make Luv, based on Oliver Cheatham's Get Down Saturday Night, finishing ahead of the field. Kylie Minogue won the title for EMI in 2001 with Can't Get You Out Of My Head mad again last year with Love At First Sight.

Perhaps surprisingly, Make Luv earned a bigger audience and more plays last year than either Minogue single did when they topped the list. Of its 57,186 spins, 1,296 were on Hallam FM but only one was on Xfm. Make Luv was on Radio One's playlist for several weeks and racked up 606 plays on the station, a total beaten by only two other records, namely ...