I can't claim to have been present at the Society Of Magazine Editors Awards tonight, so I will pretend that I am a Daily Mail journalist and make up a report.

Mackem goddess Lauren Laverne steps up to the mike and announces:
"Now we come to the final......and most prestigious award of the evening. Editors Editor Of The Year".

A hush falls over the assembled throng. A list of names is read out. Titans in the world of Editry, one and all. Various besuited/bedressed figures attempt unconvincingly to look nonchalant. Beads of perspiration break out over more than one brow.

"And the winner is...........*now follows the compulsory pause for dramatic effect*........Mark Ellen of The Word". The crowd erupts with delight...nay...joy. The dumbstruck Maccalike is surrounded by well-wishers, some of whom hoist him aloft and bear him towards the stage on their shoulders, through the sea of acclaim.

Once upon the stage and in possession of the hallowed gong, the star of the evening proceeds to thank his family, God, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and all at The Word - curiously forgetting to mention David Hepworth. He then proceeds to regale the wrapt audience with several HOEAs (Hoary Old Editing Anecdotes). After but half an hour of this, he leaves the stage to general cries of "Tell us another" and "You've made me miss my last train home".

He then leads the revellers onto the dance floor, where he may still be engaged in a stately gavotte, even as I type.

Many congratulations sir. Let joy be unconfined.

Congratulations to all at 6 Music.

The latest RAJAR figures show that the station's audience rose by 50% in the first quarter. They now have a weekly reach of over a million.

If there is any justice, there should be some red faces amongst the BBC bureacrats. What they had to do was just tell people about the station, not close it. Unsurprisingly, chief radio goon Tim Davie failed to single out this spectacular performance in his smug statement praising the corporation's output.

The RAJAR figures also show that - contrary to the naysayers' forecasts - Chris Evans has actually substantially increased the audience for the Radio 2 Breakfast Show. His show's weekly reach of 9.5 million compared with Wogan's last figure of 8.1 million.

This video is genius, but I can't help thinking that OK Go must spend more time on their videos than they do on their music.

Indeed this is the second elaborate video that they've made for this song. I think the first has been posted here before, but for comparison purposes, here it is again.

I wonder how many takes they need to get these right!

A number of "Albums Of The Decade" lists have appeared on here and have been thoroughly disected by the massive. Each has been judged (and sometimes discounted) according to the target market and specialisation of the publication. Now, however, someone with way too much free time on their hands has aggregated these lists from all around the world (http://acclaimedmusic.net/). This "ultimate" ranking is made up of no less than 48 individual lists, including 22 from the US and Canada, 14 from Britain & Ireland, 4 from Spain, 2 from Germany, 2 from Norway, and one each from France, Finland, Italy and the Netherlands.

This chart therefore smoothes out the biases of each publication and provides a consensus view from around the world.

Three clear winners emerge. Funeral, This Is It and In Rainbows all appear in over half of the Top Tens. The three are very close together, with 412, 409 and 407 ranking points respectively. As a comparison, the No.4 album has just 208.

The full Top 50 appears in the comments.

The Beeb has produced its shortlist of 15 "rising music stars" for 2010.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8395789.stm

The winners of this almost inevitably become successful because this sort of high profile contest becomes self-fulfilling. The winners for the last three years have been Little Boots, Adele and Mika.

Of course it is difficult to judge the quality of the artists on the basis of one listen to one song, but none of them really stand out to me. Most of them make a decent enough noise by they all seem a bit derivative (Delphic = New Order, Marina = Kate Bush etc).

I'm not sure what Owl City is doing on the list as they/he has already had a No. 1 single in the US.

Usually the winner has a lot of record label muscle behind them and on the basis of how much has been spent on their videos, I would say that The Drums have no chance and that Marina & The Diamonds and Ellie Goulding are heading for fame and fortune.

Is the massive's boat floated by any of these?