The Oscar-winning actor/songwriters who fell in love for real on the set of Irish independent movie Once have split.

As another year ends and 2009 looms, we wondered if you've all been paying attention for the past 12 months.

NEW YORK (AP) - Coldplay was the hottest iTunes album download this year: Its "Viva la Vida" was crowned the best-selling album of 2008,

Hit movie Once is set for a revamp - as a stage musical. The film, which earned stars Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova a Best Song Oscar for "Falling Slowly," is to be adapted for Broadway by award-winning producers John N. Hart, Jr., Jeff Sine and Fred Zoll.

M.I.A. Santogold M.I.A. without a doubt put out one of the best albums (Kala) of 2007! An amazing mix of jungle dance and 80s new wave, it was unprecedented! With all that being said, it's time to put your "Paper Planes" down and make some room for the next female MC to change your world.

R&B hunk Usher has scored U.S. pop chart history by claiming the third-largest jump to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in history. The "Yeah!" hitmaker has stormed to the top from number 51 with his new hit "Love In This Club," which features Young Jeezy.

Janet Jackson has claimed her first U.S. number one album since 2001 after toppling another famous J.J. - Jack Johnson. Jackson ended the surf-rocker's three-week reign atop the Billboard 200 by debuting Discipline at number one, as experts predicted.

Melissa Etheridge turned out to be a lucky charm for Once star Marketa Irglova after a chance meeting in the days before the Oscars. Irglova and partner Glen Hansard's "Falling Slowly" was the surprise winner of the Best Song category at the Academy Awards on Sunday - the honor Etheridge won in 2007.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - They ground up Steve Buscemi in a wood-chipper. They made baby-snatchers out of Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter. They turned mythic Greek wanderer Odysseus into a Depression-era roots-music minstrel with George Clooney's face.

Only about 3,000 lucky spectators get to experience the majesty of Oscar night from inside the Kodak Theater, while the rest of us follow the action from our couch.