Given how many times Westlife have won ITV's Record Of The Year, and the number of Asda shopping record buyers among the show's demographic, it was perhaps predictable that they'd be successful again this time. But then Busted won last year, so I hoped that perhaps things were improving and top popsters McFly or the ever popular Black Eyed Peas might come through.
Obviously of the ten tracks shortlisted for the prize Gorillaz' 'Demon Days' was the best track, but that was never going to win. It was, alas, the Irish warblers regained their position as ITV viewers' favourite band on Saturday night with the positively mediocre 'You Raise Me Up', though possibly only because of a slight revamp in the Eurovision style region to region voting system, in which text votes were no longer treated as their own 'region', penalising the text-savvy Busted-turned-McFly voters.