Duffy rules the Mojo’s

The Mojo awards took place on Monday night and Duffy came out on top winning the Song of the Year award with Mercy. It’s taken six months for this former waitress to shoot to fame, offering a clean-cut, far too nice, version of Amy Winehouse.

The awards, voted by readers of Mojo magazine hailed Duffy’s Mercy as a “timeless classic.”

The full list of winners reads:
Song of the Year Award: Mercy by Duffy
Best Breakthrough Act: The Last Shadow Puppets
Best Album Award: Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Hero Award: Motorhead
Icon Award: the Sex Pistols
Best Live Act Award: Led Zeppelin
Classic Songwriter Award: Neil Diamond
Hall of Fame: The Specials
Lifetime Achievement Award: Genesis
Special Award: Judy Collins
Legend Award: Irma Thomas
Classic Album Award: Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Inspiration Award: John Fogerty
Outstanding Contribution to Music Award: Paul Weller
Roots Award: Toots Hibbert
Les Paul Award: John Martyn
Maverick Award: Mark E Smith
Vision Award: Julien Temple for The Future is Unwritten
Compilation of the Year Award: Juno Original Soundtrack
Catalogue Release of the Year: Pillows & Prayers Cherry Red Records 1981-1984

Average ipod has 842 illegal tracks

What a surprise…the average young person’s ipod has 842 illegally downloaded tracks, according to recent research carried out by the University of Hertfordshire, which showed that half of 14 to 24 year olds share their digital collection, allowing others to freely copy tracks.

Findings showed that the average mp3 player contains 1,770 songs.

The positive message according to the survey showed that 80% of downloaders said they would pay for a legal subscription-based service.


In other news…
* Amy Winehouse has been told by doctors to quit drugs now – or die.
* Britain’s Got Talent winner George Sampson, is set to star in a video for Mint Royale’s remix of Singin In the Rain. It will be the first time Simon Cowell’s Sy-co music has signed up a non-singing act solely to make a video.
* Britney Spears is reported to be paying her dad £1250 per week to talk to her and cook her food.
* Anyone a BB fan already? Up for eviction this week if you don’t know already is 2008’s BB bully Alexandra, and the really annoying beef-man Mario. Can both of them go?
* Sienna Mill is to star as Maid Marian in a new Robin Hood film.

RUMOUR MILL
- Britney Spears attempted suicide twice?
- Peter Andre to adopt Jordan’s Harvey within the next two years?