American band The Killers' song Mr Brightside has set a new UK singles chart record, having spent more than 260 non-consecutive weeks, or five years, in the top 100.
The song, first released in 2003, initially lasted four weeks in the top 100 UK singles chart but has since re-entered a number of times, says the Official Charts Company. Its closest competitor is Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars, which has spent 166 non-consecutive weeks on the top 100 singles chart.
Mr Brightside is the Las Vegas band's debut single, and was added to their 2004 debut album Hot Fuss, which reached No 1 on the UK albums chart. It is also one of the top 15 most downloaded songs ever in the UK, and was listed at No 48 on the Rolling Stone's best songs of the 21st Century in 2010.
Written by frontman Brandon Flowers following the end of a serious relationship, the song was inspired by an incident after he discovered his girlfriend was cheating on him.
"I was asleep and I knew something was wrong," he told Q Magazine in 2009. "I have these instincts. I went to the Crown and Anchor and my girlfriend was there with another guy."
Flowers said it is still one of his favourite songs.
“We’ve never not played that song live, because it’s stood the test of time and I’m proud of it. I never get bored of singing it,” he told spin.com in 2015.
The Killers have performed in the UAE a number of times, most recently as one of the headliners of the Abu Dhabi Formula One after-race concert series in 2019.
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Series info
Test series schedule 1st Test, Abu Dhabi: Sri Lanka won by 21 runs; 2nd Test, Dubai: Play starts at 2pm, Friday-Tuesday
ODI series schedule 1st ODI, Dubai: October 13; 2nd ODI, Abu Dhabi: October 16; 3rd ODI, Abu Dhabi: October 18; 4th ODI, Sharjah: October 20; 5th ODI, Sharjah: October 23
T20 series schedule 1st T20, Abu Dhabi: October 26; 2nd T20, Abu Dhabi: October 27; 3rd T20, Lahore: October 29
Tickets Available at www.q-tickets.com
Stat Fourteen Fourteen of the past 15 Test matches in the UAE have been decided on the final day. Both of the previous two Tests at Dubai International Stadium have been settled in the last session. Pakistan won with less than an hour to go against West Indies last year. Against England in 2015, there were just three balls left.
Key battle - Azhar Ali v Rangana Herath Herath may not quite be as flash as Muttiah Muralitharan, his former spin-twin who ended his career by taking his 800th wicket with his final delivery in Tests. He still has a decent sense of an ending, though. He won the Abu Dhabi match for his side with 11 wickets, the last of which was his 400th in Tests. It was not the first time he has owned Pakistan, either. A quarter of all his Test victims have been Pakistani. If Pakistan are going to avoid a first ever series defeat in the UAE, Azhar, their senior batsman, needs to stand up and show the way to blunt Herath.
US tops drug cost charts
The study of 13 essential drugs showed costs in the United States were about 300 per cent higher than the global average, followed by Germany at 126 per cent and 122 per cent in the UAE.
Thailand, Kenya and Malaysia were rated as nations with the lowest costs, about 90 per cent cheaper.
In the case of insulin, diabetic patients in the US paid five and a half times the global average, while in the UAE the costs are about 50 per cent higher than the median price of branded and generic drugs.
Some of the costliest drugs worldwide include Lipitor for high cholesterol.
The study’s price index placed the US at an exorbitant 2,170 per cent higher for Lipitor than the average global price and the UAE at the eighth spot globally with costs 252 per cent higher.
High blood pressure medication Zestril was also more than 2,680 per cent higher in the US and the UAE price was 187 per cent higher than the global price.
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