Assuming you have more than one holiday to make a choice, the idea here is that the best will be where you hear the tunes featured on this double CD.

But really it's a cunning way to milk the cash cow that is a chart hit.

I play the what-tunes-do-I-actually-like game with these releases. And the winners are... S Clubs 7, Don't Stop Movin'; Britney Spears, Oops!... I Did It Again; Spiller, Groovejet; Planet Funk, Chase The Sun; and the ubiquitous Dancing In The Moonlight by Toploader.

The worst? Steps; Atomic Kitten's lifeless Whole Again; that bloody Hear'Say single and all the Spice Girls' stuff.

The rest is the usual chart-friendly mulch that helps us get through the day (or not). Happy hols.

Nik Stephens