Brace yourselves for some full-on emotion: Mariah Carey - perhaps inspired by her recent performance on the UK’s X Factor - has re-recorded her mega-ballad ‘Hero’. We don’t know why either, but the new version appears on ‘Mariah: The Ballads’, released January 20th in America.

The album features 18 of Mariah’s biggest slowies including “One Sweet Day”, “Vision of Love”, “Always Be My Baby” and “Dreamlover.” How are the last two ballads?!

Watch the “Hero” video below. Cute doggy!

WHO KNEW IT EVEN EXISTED?!

20. Stars, “Bitches In Tokyo”
19. Vampire Weekend, “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa”
18. Omaha Bitch, “Orgasmic Troopers”
17. Bert and Ernie, “Ante Up”
16. Bowerbirds, “In Our Talons”
15. Feist, “I Feel It All”
14. Yeasayer, “Wait for the Summer”
13. Utah Saints, “Somethin Good ‘08″
12. Terry Lynn, “The System”
11. Thunderheist, “Jerk It”

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X Factor winner Alexandra Burke has become the latest person to smash the record for fastest-selling download with her cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’.

Burke’s version of the track shifted over 100,000 copies in its first 24 hours on sale, with the physical CD single not being released until tomorrow.

We think it’s fairly safe to say she’s got the Christmas number one in the bag.

Congrats, Alexandra!

Check out the ‘Hallelujah’ video above.

Check out Lady Sovereign’s brand new video for comeback track ‘I Got You Dancin’‘.

The clip was inspired by cult ‘70s movie The Warriors.

Britain’s Got The Pop Factor ‘winner’ Geraldine McQueen - aka Peter Kay in drag - is releasing her second single, ‘Once Upon A Christmas Song’.

It’s for charity - but somehow we don’t think it’s going to hold X Factor winner Alexandra Burke from the top of the charts.

Watch Geraldine McQueen’s ‘Once Upon A Christmas Song’ here.

Sandwiched between X Factor’s two shows on Saturday night was The Girls Aloud Party - a one hour celebration of the Girls’ astonishing six years at the top.

Guests on the show included Kaiser Chiefs, Cilla Black, Julie Goodyear and James Morrison.

Here’s a clip of Girls Aloud filling in for Nelly Furtado on James Morrison’s current single ‘Broken Strings’.

Alesha Dixon returns with the follow-up to her smash hit, ‘The Boy Does Nothing’.

Check out the gorgeous ‘Breathe Slow’ here.