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Alexandra Burke spends three weeks at No.1

X Factor winner Alexandra Burke has continued her stranglehold on the UK single chart.

'Hallelujah' held Leona Lewis's appropriation of Snow Patrol's 'Run' to No.2, while US singer Lady Gaga is this week's No.3 with 'Just Dance'.

Beyoncé's 'If I Were A Boy' is still going strong after nine weeks in the chart, coming in at No.4 this week.

Gravel-voiced crooner James Morrison completes the Top 5 with his duet with Nelly Furtado, 'Broken Strings'.

Elsewhere, Take That are celebrating five weeks at No.1 in the UK album chart with their latest opus, The Circus.