ah I was just looking at that on MW, beat me to it.

Given that I've only heard about the Military Wives Choir after reading this post, I very much doubt they will get the Christmas Number 1. It'll be the X Factor this year, with Nirvana just about cracking the top 20.

Given that I've only heard about the Military Wives Choir after reading this post, I very much doubt they will get the Christmas Number 1. It'll be the X Factor this year, with Nirvana just about cracking the top 20.

 

Honestly?

That would be a completely WTF Christmas number 1.

Finally we have some news on this years Christmas Single for (RED). The single will be called The Cowboy’s Christmas Ball and as well as being available exclusively on iTunes as a download, it will also be part of a 6 track EP featuring all of The Killers’ Christmas singles to date. As usual all profits will go to the charity (RED) and the single will be released on 1st December to coincide with World Aids Day.

 

There will be a video to go with the song which will involve our boys dressed as cowboys and reportedly some robots as well!

 

Thanks for the info - ecstatic at the news!!!! :w00t:

I really hope the X factor winner doesnt make Christmas no1 again. I'm fed up with x factor dominating the charts every christmas with another dreary cover version and pathetic video to match. It would be great if something else pipped it to the post and surprised us all.

Years biggest number one single??. That would be Adele though, cant see anyone, not even X factor overtaking it by year end.

 

 

Latest odds (best odds available at oddschecker)

 

Military Wives Choir - Evens

X-Factor Winner - 11-10

Nirvana - 8-1

Dirty Mavis 12-1

Cast of Jersey Shore 12-1

George Formby 14-1

Oh My 14-1

Amy Winehouse 16-1

Stacey Solomon 20-1

Cast of The Only Way Is Essex 20-1

Mariah Carey & Justin Bieber 20-1

Wham! 20-1

Smiths 20-1

 

25-1 Bar

I'm officially LOST at how Military Wives Choir are now the favourites for the Xmas #1. Now I've said this it'll probably happen but seriously, where did it even come from?

 

And who or what is 'Dirty Mavis'? And why do George Formby and Oh My! have any chance of being in the Christmas top 200 let alone #1? I wish these things came with explanations :lol:

Edited December 5, 201113 yr by Bré

How the HELL are Oh My on 14/1? I'd be ECSTATIC if they managed it but they can barely scrape top 1000 on iTunes, you may as well chuck LeAnn Rimes, Wynter Gordon and whatever other random acts you can think of on there :lol:

For me personally, I find the wonder of what Xmas songs will make the top 40 this year and who will have to biggest hit, more fun than who will be the Xmas number 1, because with that I feel a little bit psychic, tho I hope I'm not.

Edited December 5, 201113 yr by house.martin

I'm officially LOST at how Military Wives Choir are now the favourites for the Xmas #1. Now I've said this it'll probably happen but seriously, where did it even come from?

 

And who or what is 'Dirty Mavis'? And why do George Formby and Oh My! have any chance of being in the Christmas top 200 let alone #1? I wish these things came with explanations :lol:

Dirty Mavis are a folk band that have a protest song against the high speed rail link

 

Edited December 5, 201113 yr by ukchartstatsfan

Having seen the sales for 'Wishing On A Star' (not even 100k for the whole of last week? Ha!!!), I have a feeling whoever does win The X Factor could potentially have a poor (compared to Alexandra Burke/Shayne Ward) selling winners single. Probably looking at Leon Jackson-esque first week sales barely over 300k and will be lucky to get a second week at #1.

 

Wouldn't be at all surprised if this Military Wives Choir did take the official Xmas #1 (ie; announced on Christmas Day). Gareth Malone, as someone else mentioned, has continued to produce some excellent TV documentaries based on the concept of chior singing.

 

That said, I also have a feeling Stacey Soloman is going to do well with her version of 'Driving Home For Christmas'.

Why the hell are Oh My! in the xmas no.1 betting? :lol: Someone must be having a laugh surely?! You might as well put Gruff Rhys in there too, at least he has a Xmas EP coming out ;)

 

Military Wives Choir? That kinda came out of nowhere, I could never imagine it topping the charts, but some people seem to think it has a better chance than the XF winner :mellow:

 

I see Nirvana's odds have been drifting out, I'm guessing the campaign hasn't been picking up much steam lately?

Edited December 5, 201113 yr by SevenSeize

Posted by Jon Morter (he of the RATM campaign) on the Nirvana for #1 group:

 

OK listen up guys let me just say a few things in comparison to the 2009 RATM campaign.

1 ➽ I've checked back on my emails from December '09. At this exact time (2nd week of December, Monday) I had only ONE national media mention...Shaun Keaveny on Saved BBC 6Music. That was it. Sky News requested a short chat on the following Friday.

2 ➽ At this time 2 years ago the RATM group had only just hit the 100,000 members mark. My mind was blown with that figure as it was.

3 ➽ For the record, the numbers didn't really spiral until about the 10th. That was when the X Factor press conference was held and Simon Cowell had a go at us. This was the catalyst for the group being around 100k to TRIPLING by around the 13th. This is when RATM themselves decided to reform for a Radio 5Live interview. We all know what happened there...and the numbers doubled again.

So it was a very steep curve of likes by the end of it...but those of you saying "this'll never happen etc" are just being negative for the sake of it. If anything, this campaign is in a much better position than I was 2 years ago.

 

Sounds promising, especially as the Nirvana official Facebook page made good of its promise and four hours ago posted a link to the page. Currently on 107,000 and you would imagine that quite a few of the 13,500,000 people on the Nirvana page may boost that pretty quickly.

Justin Bieber a contender for the Christmas #1 - you've got to be kidding me; no chance. It'll be Nirvana or the X-Factor winner, nothing else will even be in the top 10.

Not keen on the idea of another campaign, everything was executed brilliantly in 2009 (my favourite chart of the last ten years easily) and Trashmen's appearance in the top three and swift chart exit last year was pointless and proved nothing. I couldn't care less about the Nirvana campaign, and I like the song far more than I like Killing In The Name - which I downloaded two versions of during xmas week 2009!

 

Also though I'd like for it NOT to be the X Factor winner at the top, but rather a genuine contender, therefore if the Military Wives are shaping up to be one of those then good luck to them. I've listened to the song and whilst it's not really my sort of thing it would be a 'different' xmas #1, I'm just unsure of how likely it is to be a big download seller.

 

Could be an interesting three way battle for the top anyway which is better than the foregone conclusion that the xmas #1 usually is.

Justin Bieber a contender for the Christmas #1 - you've got to be kidding me; no chance. It'll be Nirvana or the X-Factor winner, nothing else will even be in the top 10.

 

Think you may get a shock as I now expect it to be the Military Wives.

Latest odds (best odds available at oddschecker)

 

Military Wives Choir - Evens

X-Factor Winner - 6-4

Nirvana - 8-1

Cast of Jersey Shore 14-1

Ariana Morgan 25-1

Justin Bieber 25-1

Wham! 25-1

Cast of The Only Way Is Essex 25-1

McFly 25-1

Smiths 25-1

Mariah Carey & Justin Bieber 28-1

Stacey Solomon 28-1

 

33-1 Bar

 

George Formby, Oh My and Dirty Mavis seem to have disappeared from the lists completely (I think each act had only one bookie offering odds on them yesterday, the same applies today for the Cast of Jersey Shore and Ariana Morgan so those odds are not really representative)

 

Every site where odds on both are shown now have the Military Wives favourite over the X-Factor winner.

 

Mcfly?! Do they even have a single coming out before Christmas?!