Hate that: Celtic Love is a collection of con- temporary melodies played on, you guessed it, traditional Celtic instruments. Retch at renditions of epic love ballads like LeAnn Rimes' How Do I Live, performed in a Celtic style.

Ropin' the sales: Garth Brooks now has the top two biggest-selling country albums of all time, as certified by the Recording Industry Of America (RIAA). The Cat in the Stetson has shifted 16 million copies of No Fences, and 13 million of Ropin' The Wind.

In an interview with Q magazine, Dundalk band The Corrs reveal that they're "not squeaky clean at all". Oh, goody. However, lest we mistake them for hotel-wrecking, sex-obsessed, party-animal rock monsters, they also add: "Sorry, we're boring!" Darn!