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James Arthur may have just missed out on the Christmas number one spot but it looks as though he might be having an excellent start to the New Year with his single “Impossible” climbing back up to the top spot in the mid-week charts.

Natasha Hamilton has revealed that 90s girl band Atomic Kitten will be making a comeback in 2013.

Rumours started flying that she will be returning along with fellow band mates Liz McClarnon Kerry Katona after the trio were seen together in London in November.

Simon Cowell is reportedly hoping to get supermodel Kate Moss on board to help with styling for next year’s series of the X Factor.

This year’s series has struggled to pull in viewers with ratings slumping to an all time low for the show so Cowell has hinted that a major overhaul could be on the cards.

It has been revealed that Tulisa is poised to quit the X Factor according to her father.

Plato Contosavlos told magazine celebrity gossip magazine Now: "Tulisa doesn't want to be there. She's bored of it. She doesn't need The X Factor, she's got N-Dubz," Plato Constavlos tells the celebrity magazine.

Muhammad Nazir, the man behind the novelty song that invaded the Christmas charts; “One Pound Fish”, has been deported back to his native country Pakistan.

Former Scary Spice Mel B could be in line to replace Tulisa on the X Factor for the new series in 2013.

She was a guest judge for some of the auditions in the 2012 series and is currently a judge on the Australian version of the show but she reportedly wants to move back to the UK, and taking the job would allow her the perfect opportunity.

Since the advent of the internet, enjoying music has become much easier. Today, you will get everything on the internet starting form karaoke version backing tracks to magnificent music videos. At present, the internet is enough to make a musician, singer or performer popular and wealthy, the newest example of such effects of the internet is Psy.

Rihanna’s security team saw some festive action when a crazed fan managed to get within 12 feet of the singer while she was sunbathing at her holiday home in Barbados.

She is having some down time in her homeland after an eventful year of touring and many personal relationship issues.

The Justice Collective just managed to snatch the Christmas number one title away from James Arthur after one of the closest battles in three years.

The track, “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” managed to sell over 269,000 copies beating James Arthur’s song “Impossible” by 45,000 copies, despite James taking an early lead in the first half of the week.

Singer Adele has reportedly trademarked her own name in order to stop it being used against products that she hasn't endorsed herself.

She has filed an application with the Intellectual Property Office according to the Sun newspaper.

Tulisa has come under fire after apparently shouting abuse at a girl who greeted her boyfriend outside a club.

Tulisa was with her boyfriend Danny Simpson and they had hit Newcastle after Simpson had played in the Newcastle v Manchester City match.

A Swedish man has been awarded state disability benefits for his addiction to heavy metal music after a long campaign.

42 year old Roger Tullgren claimed: "I have been trying for 10 years to get this classified as a handicap.

The Government are planning to reform copyright laws which will finally make ripping music from CDs legal for the first time ever.

Currently it is technically illegal to create digital copies of music from CDs to allow transfer onto MP3 players but the Government’s Business Secretary Vince Cable has said: "Bringing the law into line with ordinary people's reasonable expectations will boost respect for copyright, on which our creative industries rely."

The race for the Christmas Number One in the UK is heating up and there are many exciting artist's and songs in the hunt. James Arthur, who prevailed as the X Factor winner, is in front right now, but does he have the staying power to hold the spot a week longer?

Adele has had a very good week having been named “Entertainer of the Year” by the Associated Press and has had her song “Someone Like You” named as the song people are most likely to sing on karaoke by website the Lucky Voice.

If you thought it was just a craze that would go away with time then you could be wrong as “Gangnam Style” could be entered into the Collins British Dictionary this year.

Lostprophets have responded to allegations of child sex offences against their front man Ian Watkins and have shown that they are equally as surprised as the public.

Radio 1’s Breakfast Show presenter Nick Grimshaw has been banned from doing one of his regular features on his show since the death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha.

In the feature “Call or Delete” Grimshaw gets celebrity guests to go through the contacts on their phones and choose one at random to either prank call or delete all together.

Jahmene Douglas has become the latest X Factor alumni to get a record deal with Sony music.

He joins fellow contestants Ella Henderson and Union J who appeared on the show with him this year.

The Official Charts Company has announced that Cheryl Cole and Carly Rae Jepsen have both become members of the “million seller’s club” by exceeding sales of a million with their songs “Fight for this Love” and “Call me Maybe” respectively.

It’s turning out to be a real battle for the Christmas number one spot this year with X Factor winner James Arthur’s single Impossible still selling extremely well after its peak week of sales.