Some ITC facts and figures to pass the time...

OK - here goes:

8 acts that started out at In The City have gone on to have a total of 17 UK No. 1 singles between them. In The City scored their first No. 1 in May 1996 with ‘Some Might Say’ by Oasis. The most recent was ‘When The Sun Goes Down’ by Arctic Monkeys in January 2006.

31 acts have collectively gained an impressive 144 UK Top 10 Singles. All in all there have been over 400 UK Top 40 Singles released by bands that have come through the In The City ranks, spending more than a whopping 1560 weeks on the UK Singles Chart. That’s 30 years!

To prove that acts who play In The City aren’t just all about having hit singles, 20 acts have together achieved 47 UK No. 1 Albums. Overall, there have been more than 100 UK Top 10 Albums.

In The City can lay claim to launching the careers of 19 Mercury Music Award nominees. These 19 acts have received a total of 28 nominations between them.

These nominations have resulted in 3 Winners of the Mercury Music Prize (Suede – 1993, Badly Drawn Boy – 2000, Arctic Monkeys – 2006).

13 acts have shared 34 Brit Awards between them. This includes the current holders of British Group (Arctic Monkeys), British Album (Arctic Monkeys), British Breakthrough Act (The Fratellis), British Live Act (Muse), International Breakthrough Act (Orson) and Outstanding Contribution to Music (Oasis).

Hey, if you're not going to blow your own trumpet who will?