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On 20 July 2008, Sampson was a guest on stage at the T4 on the Beach music festival at Weston-super-Mare beach teaching presenters Steve Jones and Rick Edwards how to dance. On 4 August 2008, Sampson made his stage debut in the West End hip-hop musical Into the Hoods. With some exceptions, he appeared in the show until it closed on 30 August.
The second series of British talent competition programme Britain's Got Talent was broadcast on ITV, from 12 April to 31 May 2008.Following the success of its first series, ITV commissioned the programme for additional episodes, with more venues used for auditions than in the previous series, and the number of semi-finalists, semi-final rounds, and finalists increased by production staff.
Opera singer Paul Potts won the first series of the competition in 2007, street dancer George Sampson won the second series in 2008, dance troupe Diversity won the third series in 2009, gymnast troupe Spelbound won the fourth series in 2010, singer Jai McDowall won the fifth series in 2011, dancing dog act Ashleigh and Pudsey won the sixth ...
Barbadian singer Rihanna had five songs on the chart. Her best-performing song was "Take a Bow" at number 12. R&B singer Ne-Yo had four songs on the chart, two of which are his own: "Closer" at number 20 and "Miss Independent" at 57. Taylor Swift was the most successful country artist, with three songs on the chart: "Our Song" at 41, "Teardrops ...
Between 2008 and 2011, several of the show's semi-finalists, finalists, and winners from various series, took part in a live tour titled "Britain's Got Talent Tour". The event consisted of several shows held across various UK cities during the Summer months, with site locations including: Cardiff , Liverpool , Birmingham , Belfast , Sheffield ...
Alexandra Burke achieved the biggest-selling single of 2008 with her X Factor winner's song "Hallelujah", the Christmas number-one for 2008. Welsh singer Duffy had her breakthrough this year with two top 10 entries, including "Mercy", which peaked at number-one for five weeks and became the year's third best selling single.
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Simon Cowell ordered the song to have a big promotional push to get it to the top of the UK Singles Chart, and the contestants performed the song live on The X Factor and again with Carey herself. [ citation needed ] On 2 November 2008 it debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, staying there for three consecutive weeks and becoming the ...