Pop Idol runner-up Gareth Gates might give champion Will Young a run for his money on the charts, but 23-year-old Will easily stands alone at the top spot in our Hottest Song Of The Summer Poll. More than 10,000 hellomagazine.com readers voted for Will’s red hot hit Light My Fire as their favourite of the season, giving him a whopping 60 per cent of the vote.
Gareth’s romantic Anyone Of Us was a distant second, garnering a respectable 22 percent of the more than 17,000 votes counted. The popular Pop Idol pair have teamed up for The Long And Winding Road, which will be released as a duet on September 23. And Will's next single, Don’t Let Me Down, which hits stores in November, will raise money for this year’s Children In Need charity campaign.
“I wanted to release my very first original track at a very special time,” says Will, who came in second in our top Golden Jubilee act poll earlier this summer. “I have chosen to do this for Children in Need as I know there is a huge demand for the single, so hopefully I will be able to raise as much money as possible for such a good cause."
The two Pop Idols had a strong finish in our song poll, but other summer shakers weren’t so lucky. Enrique Iglesias’s Escape received just eight per cent of the votes for a third place showing, placing far ahead of both the catchy Elvis remix A Little Less Conversation and Whenever, Wherever by Colombian beauty Shakira, which gained about three per cent of the votes. Just two per cent of readers chose Liberty X’s Just A Little, but the numbers were enough to help the tune edge past Without Me by Eminem, leaving the controversial rapper in last place.
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