Strictly Icons weekend: Who's your favourite pop act?

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On Saturday evening, Strictly Come Dancing will introduce a brand new themed week - Icons week!

To celebrate twenty years of the famous dance show, couples will take to the floor to dance to songs by the world's most successful artists.

Here are the songs each couple will be performing to.

  • JB Gill and Lauren Oakley — Couples Choice to Bruno Mars Medley

  • Montell Douglas and Johannes Radebe — Waltz to I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston

  • Sam Quek and Nikita Kuzmin — American Smooth to Love Story (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift

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A modern day icon? How will Sam and Nikita get on dancing to one of Taylor's most famous numbers?

  • Sarah Hadland and Vito Coppola — Cha Cha to Like A Prayer by Madonna

  • Tasha Ghouri and Aljaž Škorjanec — Couple’s Choice to What About Us by P!nk

  • Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell — Tango to Rock and Roll All Nite by KISS

  • Jamie Borthwick and Michelle Tsiakkas — Samba to Faith by George Michael

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Arguably the most iconic band in history, The Beatles. But will Shayne and Nancy need 'Help' after their quickstep?

  • Pete Wicks and Jowita Pryzstal — Salsa to Another One Bites The Dust by Queen

  • Shayne Ward and Nancy Xu — Quickstep to Help! By The Beatles

  • Wynne Evans and Katya Jones — Rumba to This Is My Life by Shirley Bassey

But, who would you choose as your musical icon? And what would you dance to? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Other special weeks in Strictly include: Movies, Blackpool and Musicals

What is Strictly icons week all about?

The aim of Icons week is to honour some of the biggest and most influential singers and bands in the history of the music industry.

Strictly have said we can expect cowboy hats, power ballad moves and lot of sparkle.

So far, we have seen the Halloween special and Movie week, but still to come this series are and Musicals week and - the always iconic - Blackpool extravaganza.