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Band Aid 20 hangs on to UK top spot

Band Aid 20 - staying top
Band Aid 20 - staying top

Band Aid 20 held off a strong challenge from X Factor winner Steve Brookstein to hold onto the number one spot in the UK charts.

The reworked version of Do They Know It's Christmas?, featuring Chris Martin of Coldplay and Robbie Williams as well as Bono and others, notched up a fourth week at the top of the charts yesterday.

Steve's debut single, a version of Phil Collins' Against All Odds which he performed on the show, was the highest new entry at number two.

It is the second time the song has been in the upper reaches of the charts in recent years - Westlife and Mariah Carey took it to number one in September 2000.

Steve's success means that Ronan Keating and Yusuf - formerly known as Cat Stevens - were pushed back to number three with Father and Son, while Kylie Minogue also slipped one place to four with I Believe In You.

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