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The start of a new year is always full of some amount of trepidation about what unknown tangents the future will bring. Then a rapper gets shot and you realise that this year will be just the same.
This time it was Eminem's pal Obie Trice who was shot as was driving his car through Detroit. Police are now seeking witnesses to the shooting. Or anyone who still listens to and enjoys his 2003 album Cheers. Whichever there are more of.
First Eminem loves Kim Scott (Mathers), then he marries her, then he divorces her, then he sings about throwing her into the trunk of a car with a violent kicking emu, or something along those lines. Love like that always seems so fresh, y'know?
The date's been set for what could be the wedding of the century, or was that the John/Furnish wedding? Big sweeping headlines like that are thrown around so lightly and in mass that hecklerspray gets confused. Plus, wasn't this the wedding of last century? Regardless of all this confusion, the wedding date's etched in stone, and it's soon...
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Earlier in the day, you'll have read all about the CDs that the hecklerspray cats deemed - in all their heavenly glory - to be the best of 2005. But that's not the end of things, oh no...
In our short lifespan, we've made a bunch of friends. And, crucially, these friends know their shit. So we've asked them what their best CDs of 2005 are, too. Who are these friends? Some are in bands, some are managers, all are jolly good eggs. What have they chosen? Read on...
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It's Boxing Day! And what does that mean? Eating rubbish to stave off your hangover, getting bored with your presents and pretending to be nice to relatives you're only really semi-familiar with!
But it's also a time for reflection. Reflection on the year gone by. And that's what we're going to do right now. All this week to avoid doing any real work look back fondly on the year gone by. And that starts right now, as a whole bunch of hecklerspray writers decide upon their best CD of 2005...
Normally at this point in the day, we'd provide you with a set of blazingly accurate Christmas Number One betting odds. Not today, though. Shayne Ward's pretty much got it all sewn up, you see.
In face, Shayne Ward's version of That's My Goal is so certain of getting the 2005 UK Christmas Number One that there aren't any odds. It's a closed book, and X Factor winner Shayne was the one who closed it. Which must be a disappointment for all those fans of beat-boxing men playing double bass and talking about diggers a lot.
Lots of things are going to happen in 2006: England will go out in the World Cup semis, the Gulf Stream system will shut down and we'll all freeze to death, and some people will get number one records.
But who? It's time to take a look at a few more 2006 music betting odds - and today we'll be exploring the chances of Victoria Beckham, the England football team and Peter Andre getting a number one record before January 1st 2007.
Here's part one of our 2006 music betting odds, with help from SportingOdds.com...
Here we are at the arse-end of 2005, and what have we got to look forward to in 2006? More of the same relentless drudgery combined with a growing sense of your own mortality, that's what.
But - hey - apart from that, things are looking up! Why? Because we've got a brand new set of 2006 music betting odds for you to place some money on.
The good people at SportingOdds.com have devised a betting market based on artists getting a number one single at any point before 1/1/2007. We'll be seeing the week out with these betting odds, starting today with the chances that Michael Jackson, Cliff Richard and Any Former Big Brother Contestant have of getting a number one record in 2006.
So here's part one of our 2006 music betting odds, with help from SportingOdds.com...
Today is probably the most pivotal day of the year in the race to become UK 2005 Christmas Number One - it's the day that X Factor winner Shayne Ward releases That's My Goal.
Until today, the Christmas Number One hunt had been mainly made up of a man pretending to be a baby singing a song about a digger and Westlife - a band who couldn't be more dull if you painted them beige and ordered them to sing about carpets.
Has the release of That's My Goal livened up the Christmas Number One race? There's only one way to find out.
Here comes today's batch of Christmas Number One betting odds, with help from SportingOdds.com...
