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| Video premiere for Haiti single | Video premiere for Haiti single |
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| The music video for Simon Cowell's Haiti charity single, featuring Leona Lewis and Mika, has been released. | The music video for Simon Cowell's Haiti charity single, featuring Leona Lewis and Mika, has been released. |
| The cover of REM's Everybody Hurts was made available as a download on Sunday and is expected hit number one. | The cover of REM's Everybody Hurts was made available as a download on Sunday and is expected hit number one. |
| In the video, footage of the song's vocalists in the recording studio is intercut with images of the aftermath of the devastating earthquake. | In the video, footage of the song's vocalists in the recording studio is intercut with images of the aftermath of the devastating earthquake. |
| The magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti in mid-January, killing more than 200,000 people. | The magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti in mid-January, killing more than 200,000 people. |
| Singers including Rod Stewart, James Blunt, Robbie Williams, Cheryl Cole and Susan Boyle all feature in the five-and-a-half minute promo, which opens with a statement recalling the events of 12 January. | Singers including Rod Stewart, James Blunt, Robbie Williams, Cheryl Cole and Susan Boyle all feature in the five-and-a-half minute promo, which opens with a statement recalling the events of 12 January. |
| The CD single hit shop shelves on Monday | The CD single hit shop shelves on Monday |
| The Helping Haiti single was recorded in Los Angeles and London. | The Helping Haiti single was recorded in Los Angeles and London. |
| Artists including James Morrison and Alexandra Burke sang their lines at the Sarm Studios in Notting Hill - where the original Band Aid single was recorded in 1984. | Artists including James Morrison and Alexandra Burke sang their lines at the Sarm Studios in Notting Hill - where the original Band Aid single was recorded in 1984. |
| The record, which is currently topping the iTunes and Amazon download charts, is also released to shops on Monday. | |
| HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo said: "Helping Haiti's cover of Everybody Hurts should comfortably make number one and will hopefully go on to dominate the charts over the course of the next few weeks. | |
| "We could not only be looking at the biggest single of 2010 but possibly one of the most successful releases of the past ten years." | |
| REM, who recorded the original song in 1992, are waiving royalties to the track, while the Government has said it will not collect VAT on the record. | REM, who recorded the original song in 1992, are waiving royalties to the track, while the Government has said it will not collect VAT on the record. |
| Proceeds will be split between the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and the Sun newspaper's Helping Haiti campaign. | Proceeds will be split between the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and the Sun newspaper's Helping Haiti campaign. |