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To all our community members, we wish you a very happy new year and hope that 2026 brings you endless blessings - thank you for showing up and supporting UKMIX throughout 2025, we can’t wait to see more of you this year!
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Music legend Ozzy Osborne has died aged 76, just weeks after final performance, “surrounded by love” according to his family.
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In the Lonely Hour by @samsmith is the UK’s 19th biggest-selling album of the 21st century with total consumption sales of 2,984,371 units.
The album was released 10 years ago, this year.
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Today is the 15th anniversary of the UKMIX Twitter account. We like a throwback, number one in the U.K. charts on this day in 2009 was none other than Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh) by @PixieLott (great song!).
The actual website itself celebrated its 25th birthday earlier this year.
The Queen of Pop makes history, playing to 1.6m fans - the most of any act playing a standalone show ever. Madonna continues to set the tone for an industry she has dominated for over 40 years and we love to see it. #CelebrationTourInRio#CelebrationTour#QueenofPop
Congratulations to pop music legend @kylieminogue as #PadamPadam wins the Grammy award for best Pop Dance Recording.
It’s only her second Grammy, following her first win in 2004 with Come into My World.
In U.K. TV ratings news, BBC’s return of Gladiators was watched by an average of 6m, with a peak of 6.4m in the overnights. The most watched show of the day and one of the BBC’s best January Saturday night launches in a long time.
58 years and 5 months since her first Billboard Hot 100 hit single, the legendary @cher makes her grand return to the Hot 100 with DJ Play a Christmas Song entering at #94, her first chart hit since 2002.
Congratulations to @MariahCarey as All I Want For Christmas Is You becomes her third song to stay at least 14 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (joining One Sweet Day and We Belong Together).
She is also the only artist to spend 14 weeks at #1 with three different songs.
The Queen of Country Music Dolly Parton released her first single in 1959. This week, some 64 years later, she is set to achieve her first #1 album in the US, with #Rockstar predicted to debut at the top spot with 140k.
Legendary!
Please note that the necessary domain changes have been completed by our domain registrar. This was regrettably their - human - error. However, I’m pleased to report the website is now at least back online. - Wayne
Please note I am aware of some issues with the site at the moment. These aren’t server related, they are domain related. I’m currently liaising with our web hosts to resolve. - Wayne