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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent

For those about to download, we salute you

It seems that Britain is a nation of poodle-permed soft rockers. If the eternal popularity of Queen - and their East Anglian mini-mes, The Darkness - wasn't enough, a new mobile phone music download chart from WebTV Europe shows exactly what we like to listen to.

Here's the top 10:

1. Guns N'Roses
2. Band Aid 20
3. Bon Jovi
4. Scissor Sisters
5. Black Eyed Peas
6. Rachel Stevens
7. Rolling Stones
8. U2
9. Meat Loaf
10. 50 Cent


OK, so the cool kids score with Scissor Sisters. And the pop tarts get a showing with Rachel Stevens and the Black Eyed Peas. Charidee scores highly too, with Band Aid 20 in at number two.

But Guns n'Roses? Meatloaf? BON JOVI?

You have disappointed me, Britain.

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