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A host of top stars including Robbie Williams , Dizzee Rascal and JLS are set to appear in this year's Top Of The Pops Christmas and New Year Specials. BBC Radio 1's Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates will present the two special shows which will be shown on BBC One on Christmas Day and New Year's Eve. Top Of The Pops Christmas Day Special (25 December 2009, 2.00-3.00pm) offers up an hour of stellar performances from some of the year's biggest stars including Dizzee Rascal ; Kasabian ; Lily Allen ; JLS ; Alexandra Burke ; La Roux ; Sugababes ; Florence and the Machine ; Diversity ; and Muse . The hour of top music and festive fun culminates in a glistening performance from this year's Christmas number one! Then, on New Year's Eve (31 December, 6.30-7.30pm) , Fearne and Reggie are back on BBC One with the Top Of The Pops New Year Special to review the year in pop, taking in 2009's greatest hits and brightest stars. The show features special performances fro

• New single ‘White Feather’ to be released February 1st, 2010 •Norwich date added to previously announced January tour Wolfmother are indeed back. Critical acclaim aside, the fans have spoken as well - the new album "Cosmic Egg" surpassed the chart debut for their Grammy-winning first album around the globe, including the U.S, Australia, Germany, Canada, France, Ireland, Holland, Austria, and more. The fans have also come out in force to the band's live shows - Wolfmother already played a string of packed out shows across Europe and UK, and tickets are going fast for their next European tour, in January 2010. Amidst all this, Wolfmother get ready to release their second single - the rolling hard rock of White Feather. With it's bluesy lead licks, AC/DC-esque thump and stadium-sized chorus, White Feather is Wolfmother’s latest anthem, and one of the many highlights from Cosmic Egg. Expect it to be sung like a terrace anthem at their forthcoming live shows. White

“AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH” Release date 21st December 13 year old London-born soul singer Dionne Bromfield, whose sensational debut TV performance on Strictly Come Dancing introduced her as an exciting new talent, has her new Lioness Records single, “ Ain’t No Mountain High Enough ” released on December 21st. The single is a double A-side with Dionne’s festive rendition of Christmas classic “I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus”. Dionne is the first signing to five time Grammy winner Amy Winehouse’s brand new label Lioness Records, and the single is taken from her recently releaSed debut album “Introducing Dionne Bromfield” . Speaking about Dionne Amy says, “ The first time I heard Dionne sing, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing… such an amazing voice from such a young girl. I’m just so proud of her. I’m very lucky to have a record label. I’ve got all these people that I love, that are really talented – and Dionne is my number one” .   It was at the age of ten that Dionne start