Here's what we like in Norway:

The top 10 singles list:
1. Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
2. Lady Gaga - Poker Face
3. Beyonce - If I Were a Boy
4. Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl
5. ABBA - Happy New Year
6. Rihanna - Rehab
7. Guru Josh Project - Infinity 2008
8. Killers - Human
9. Gabriella Cilmi - Sweet About Me
10. Madcon - Liar

Top 10 album list
1. Killers - Day & Age
2. Il Divo - The Promise
3. Various artists - Dansebandkampen 2008
4. Bjørn Eidsvåg - Pust
5. Marit Larsen - The Chase
6. AC/DC - Black Ice
7. Katy Perry - One of the Boys
8. Karpe Diem - Fire vegger
9. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
10. Seal - Soul

The songs with heavy rotation on the most popular "young" radio station:
* Alesha Dixon - The Boy Does Nothing
* Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
* Eva & The Heartmaker - Superhero
* Bellman - Spaceship, Move Slow!
* Maria Mena - All This Time
* Coldplay & Jay-Z - Lost
* The Killers - Human

It's pretty cold in my country right now

Hey, guys, you still alive
Given the cold even in France and Spain, thought that you guys up there were turned into snowmen !!

It's -9 in Stockholm. Colder than normal nowadays, but just as it used to be when I was a kid.

Last night, -28 was measured here in Germany.

And in my home country, Holland, people are slowly but surely getting the eleven-city-tour fever (that's a big skating event, but only takes place if it really, really freezes strong for a long time, about once every decade on average).

Not gonna happen this year Andre, the ice is almost melting up here in the north.

Meh ... that's too bad

For what's musically hot in Denmark, a pointer of sorts could be the "national" part of this list.

In terms of climate, it's been pretty darn cold for a while (by Danish standards, that is), although they're still telling people not to walk on the ice on lakes etc.

Number 1 single in Ireland right now is Hallelujah by Alexandra Burke. She was the winner of the UK TV show the X Factor this year for anyone who is fortunate enough not to know. Its just bellow freezing here right now which is quite cold for us but the rain is on its way so its gonna get milder soon.

Well, here in my city it is... at least 30-35ºC!

God, I have never seen snow in my whole life!!!

Best sales in France from the 29th of December to the 4th of January

1) Seal - Soul
2) Roberto Alagna - Sicilien
3) Christophe Maé - Comme à la Maison
4) Alain Souchon - Ecoutez d'où Ma Peine Vient
5) Bénabar - Infréquentable
6) Charles Aznavour - Duos
7) Grégoire - Toi + Moi (very bad music but first album to be released in France with every production and studio costs paid by internauts. There is a website where you can invest money in singers or bands you like, and once a certain amount is reached, the CD is produced and released. And if there are benefits, you get your share of it !)
8) AC/DC - Black Ice
9) Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (??? guess there is a special offer on this one)
10) Salvatore Adamo - Le Bal des Gens Bien

Singles :
1) Britney Spears - Womanizer
2) Christophe Maé - Mon p'tit gars (Comme A La Maison)
3) Patrick Sébastien - Ah... Si Tu Pouvais Fermer Ta Gueule (the French equivalent of redneck music)
4) Guru Josh Project - Infinity 2008
5) Beyoncé - If I Were A Boy
6) Madcon - Beggin'
7) Widtonik - Jusqu'au Bout
8) Pink - So What
9) Quentin Mosimann - Il Y A Je T'Aime Et Je T'Aime
10) Brandy - Right Here (departed)

Believe me, if there are songs you don't know, you should be glad.

Feel free to feel sorry for us.

Fun to see my fellow Norwegians Madcon on the singles charts in France. Even though they are a bit annoying.

I never heard any of the French top 10 songs. It's funny because sometimes I've got the impression to know everything BUT what's hot in my country

...tout pomponnés, tout maquillés...

sticky. very, very sticky.



now thanks a lot, panda, you

You're welcome !
He has done even worse and more sticky songs... you should try "le petit bonhomme en mousse", "la fiesta" or "tourner les serviettes"... all the typical musics you will hear at the wedding of that cousin you are ashamed of which stopped his studies at 14 to become a Johnny Hallyday professional look-alike, or car seller, or just at that big village party on the middle of Aveyron... well, French rednecks as I said.

We call them "les beaufs"

which means brothers in law

the title means "if you could shut the fuck up", and it's about people "who talk too much" on tv : politicians, debates, the usual populist anti-political, anti-intellectual rant (nauseous)
but in the end the singer includes himself... at least he makes fun of himself
Looks like I didn't miss much...

Please don't think all French people look like the guys in the video

oh God i can't get over that video
definition of populism

Sometimes I feel ashamed of being french...