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The moment that Madonna and Britney Spears puckered up to each other at the MTV Video Music Awards has been voted the top kiss.

The 2003 kiss, which made headlines around the world, tops a list of the most famous kissing moments of the Noughties, compiled by Selfridges.

Tobey Maguire’s upside-down smooch with Kirsten Dunst in Spider-Man came second, followed by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal’s slow-burning snog in Brokeback Mountain.

Same sex kisses scored highly in the poll – Scarlett Johansson with Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and Lindsay Lohan with Samantha Ronson outside the Mercer hotel in New York, marking their couple status, both made the list.

Jennifer Aniston and Winona Ryder’s liplock on Friends, and Sacha Baron Cohen giving Will Ferrell a big smacker at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, recreating the infamous Madonna and Britney incident, also feature in the top ten.

Romantic screen snogs with rumoured real-life couples completed the list, including Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in Mr And Mrs Smith, and Freida Pinto and Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire.

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Hope for Haiti Now album has become the biggest one-day album pre-order in iTunes history and currently is at No. 1 on iTunes’ album chart in 22 countries!

‘Hope for Haiti Now’ is #1 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States

Organizers for the all-star “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon say the event raised $57 million and counting.

“The public has set a new standard of giving for a relief telethon with ‘Hope for Haiti Now,’ and the donations continue to come in,” Lisa Paulsen, president and CEO of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, said in a statement released Saturday. The group is helping to oversee the funds gathered from the event.

The two-hour telethon aired Friday night on the major networks and dozens of other channels, including MTV, Bravo, and PBS, and was also streamed live online. Stars like Brad Pitt, Beyonce, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and more used their presence to encourage donations for Haiti, following a Jan. 12 earthquake that killed an estimated 200,000 people.

The total released Saturday includes money raised by phone, text and the Web. It does not include donations by corporations or via iTunes, where people are able to buy performances of the event for 99 cents each, or the entire album for $7.99. Those funds also go to Haiti relief.

The “Hope for Haiti Now” CD is the biggest one-day pre-order in the site’s history and the new song “Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)” by Jay-Z, Rihanna, Bono and the Edge, debuted during the telethon, is the No. 1 single on iTunes.

People can donate via text, phone or through the “Hope for Haiti” Web site for the next six months. Among the organizations who will receive funds from the telethon include Oxfam America, UNICEF, and the Clinton-Bush Haiti Foundation.

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All proceeds from album sales of Hope for Haiti Now will go to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, Oxfam America, Partners in Health, Red Cross, UNICEF, United Nations World Food Programme, and Yele Haiti Foundation. In addition, all proceeds from the special studio version of “Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)” by Jay-Z, Bono, the Edge, and Rihanna will go to Partners in Health.

Hope For Haiti Now Digital Album at Amazon.com / Video on Demand at Amazon.com

Tracklisting:

1. Send Me An Angel – Alicia Keys
2. A Message 2010 – Coldplay
3. We Shall Overcome – Bruce Springsteen
4. Time To Love / Bridge Over Troubled Water – Stevie Wonder
5. I’ll Stand By You (with The Roots) – Shakira
6. Motherless Child – John Legend
7. Hard Times Come Again No More (with The Roots) – Mary J. Blige
8. Breathless – Taylor Swift
9. Lift Me Up – Christina Aguilera
10. Driven To Tears – Sting
11. Halo – Beyoncé
12. Lean On Me (with Keith Urban & Kid Rock) – Sheryl Crow
13. Like A Prayer – Madonna
14. Hallelujah (with Charlie Sexton) – Justin Timberlake
15. Let It Be (The Roots) – Jennifer Hudson
16. Many Rivers To Cross – Emeline Michel
17. Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) – Jay-Z (with Rihanna, Bono & The Edge) (Live Version)
18. Alone And Forsaken – Neil Young (with Dave Mathews)
19. Rivers Of Babylon / Yele (Medley) – Wyclef Jean
20. Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) – Jay-Z (with Rihanna, Bono & The Edge) (Version 1.0)

Madonna with Sting / performing Like A Prayer at the Hope For Haiti Telethon in New York (January 22 2010)

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“I’m thrilled to have been a part of such a special night. It’s only the beginning of what we all need to do to help rebuild Haiti…”

– Madonna / via Guy Oseary’s Twitter

Backed by a choir, Madonna performed her 1989 single “Like a Prayer” at the “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon on Friday (January 22). She performed in the telethon’s New York studio, as did Bruce Springsteen, Shakira and Sting.

The arrangement of “Like a Prayer” took its cues from the original version’s instructions to “let the choir sing,” with the only non-vocal instrumentation provided by a guitarist and a keyboard player. It was a shining performance, with the choir serving as a perfect counterpoint to Madonna’s vocals.

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Madonna performing Like A Prayer at the Hope For Haiti Telethon in New York (January 22 2010)