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HIP HOP is a very broad umbrella these days, a fact underlined by the track listing on new compilation Hip Hop Love.

Sub-titled 40 of Today's Sexiest Rap Licks, it includes some of the biggest hits of the year - Twista's Slow Jamz, Brandy's Talk About Our Love, Blue Cantrell and Sean Paul's No 1 Breathe and 411's debut On My Knees.

And other artists featured include Nelly and Kelly Rowland, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Timberlake, Busta Rhymes, Coolio, Missy Elliott, Beyonce, The Fugees, 2Pac, Blessed, Madonna and Dr Dre/Snoop Doggy Dogg.

AS THE title suggests, Pure Harmony is a collection of some of the sweetest combinations in pop history.

All-time classics like The Beach Boys' Good Vibrations, America's A Horse With No Name, The Isley Brothers' Summer Breeze and - highly topical this - Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence rub shoulders with modern artists like The Corrs, Westlife, Destiny's Child and Wilson Phillips. There are 36 tracks in all, with other artists featured including The Monkees, Voice of the Beehive, The Moody Blues, 10CC, The Christians and En Vogue.

THE NEW breed of lounge singers has revived interest in some of the golden-oldie crooners, many of whom are getting a fresh lease of commercial life by supplying the soundtracks to television adverts for the likes of Fiat, Peugeot and Nike.

New compilation The Good Life is a bumper 42-track headed off by the Tony Bennett's classic and ending, somewhat bizarrely, with Morecambe and Wise's Bring Me Sunshine.

In between is enough material to satisfy the most dedicated easy listening fan with artists like Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Matt Monroe, Al Martino, Dusty Springfield, Dinah Shore, Vic Damone, Doris Day, Julie London and Mel TormA.