Friday, 3 January 2020

A Decade In Britain

Where we normally get a run down of the best and worst from the past year, as this is the end of the decade, the lists have been what Brits have liked the most over the past ten years. 
Adele had two of the top three albums, her 2011 Album '21' and her 2015 Album '25' knocked Ed Sheerans 'X' into third place although the ginger singer had the first and third biggest hits with 'Shape of You' in 2017 and 'Thinking Out Loud' in 2014 and Bruno Mars 2014 song 'Uptown Funk' separating the two to take second place.
The literary efforts of EL James showed just what British were reading over the past decade with her 'Fifty Shades of Grey', 'Fifty Shades Darker' and 'Fifty Shades Freed' selling 11.5 million copies and probably being solely responsible for the increase in furry handcuffs and silk blindfolds.
When we were not reading pervy books, we were watching the biggest film 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens', or Craig David in 'Skyfall' or 'Spectre' or playing one of the top three video games 'Grand Theft Auto V', 'Call of Duty: Black Ops' and 'Minecraft'.
The most watched TV programmes were all sport related with the largest audience being for the 'Olympics 2012 Closing Ceremony', the Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony' and the 2018 'Croatia v England World Cup Semi-Final which we lost, obviously.
The programmes with the most viewers which didn't include somebody kicking, throwing or running very fast was The X Factor, Gavin and Stacey and EastEnders which taken all together means that us Brits spent large parts of the past ten years humming along to Adele songs while reading 50 shades of grey and looking up occasionally to watch the bits of the Olympics without the Sport.

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