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It Is three weeks since Leona Lewis' Run was knocked off the top of the sales chart by latest X Factor champ Alexandra Burke's Hallelujah but Lewis gets her revenge this week, as Run jumps 5-1 on the radio airplay chart, pushing Hallelujah into second place. Hallelujah secured 100 more plays than its rival last week (2,359) but was heard by almost a million fewer listeners.
Exactly half of the Top 20 songs on radio a fortnight ago were Christmas-themed but the only one to be found in the Top 100 this week is Gabriella Cilmi's Warm This Winter, which dips 6-11, and probably owes its survival to the fact its lyrics don't specifically mention the C word.
The departure of so many songs just a week after they reached their peak means that many regular releases which appeared to be in steep decline a week ago are now resurgent - none more so than James Morrison and Nelly Furtado's Broken Strings which has yo-yoed 5-20-4. Kings Of Leon's Use Somebody has moved 8-28-13, Sugababes' No Can Do has bounced 13-22-9 and Lily Allen's The Fear has careered 23-51-20.
Keane's Perfect Symmetry finally breaks into the ...