a) they made a song as part of a TV series. Rather like Amelia Lily will do as of this weekend

 

b) Where is all this "hype"? As far as I know there wasn't even any plans to make a record until Chris Evans played it once on Radio 2 and it has sort of grown from there.

I just don't like it, only my opinion. I didn't know the whole story behind it, I just thought that it was random (well not random, but you know what I mean) military wives singing and it being released for charity or something.

I actually really love Alexandra's Hallelujah, beautiful I think. However would have to agree Westlife's cover of I have a Dream is one of the most scary things I have ever heard! Genuinely terrible :lol:

 

 

The scary xmas #1 I've ever heard was Mr Blobby.

Mr. Blobby and Bob The Builder are saved from the awful pile for novelty value. Especially as the latter stopped Westlife from getting a second Xmas #1 :D

I just don't like it, only my opinion. I didn't know the whole story behind it, I just thought that it was random (well not random, but you know what I mean) military wives singing and it being released for charity or something.

 

I'm with you on this, it's just really maudlin and overly sentimental. And I'm also a bit pissed off because my choir recorded a song this year to support a charity and because of this we haven't been able to get any national press or airplay... Hope some of you like it anyway, it would be great if you would pre-order it if you do :)

 

 

 

Best Xmas #1s

1. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody

2. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

3. Human League - Don't You Want Me

4. East 17 - Stay Another Day

5. Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah

:D

Worst Xmas #1s

1. Leon Jackson - When You Believe

2. Spice Girls - Too Much

3. Band Aid 2 - Do They Know It's Christmas?

:(

Worst Xmas #1s

 

2. Spice Girls - Too Much

 

:(

I think not! *bans*

I'm with you on this, it's just really maudlin and overly sentimental. And I'm also a bit pissed off because my choir recorded a song this year to support a charity and because of this we haven't been able to get any national press or airplay... Hope some of you like it anyway, it would be great if you would pre-order it if you do :)

 

Yes, please everyone support the choir our Tom is in! :wub:

Yes, please everyone support the choir our Tom is in! :wub:

 

Thanks Matt :wub: Hope you've pre-ordered :kink:

I think not! *bans*

 

Why do you think it is so good Jester? :unsure: I do not see any redeeming features about it!

I'm with you on this, it's just really maudlin and overly sentimental. And I'm also a bit pissed off because my choir recorded a song this year to support a charity and because of this we haven't been able to get any national press or airplay... Hope some of you like it anyway, it would be great if you would pre-order it if you do :)

 

 

Are you the bald one with glasses? :o :kink:

I'm with you on this, it's just really maudlin and overly sentimental. And I'm also a bit pissed off because my choir recorded a song this year to support a charity and because of this we haven't been able to get any national press or airplay... Hope some of you like it anyway, it would be great if you would pre-order it if you do :)

 

 

 

Is that you tapping the tambourine on the bum towards the end of the video :unsure:

 

Actually the track is very good, better than the Military Wives Choir.

The scary xmas #1 I've ever heard was Mr Blobby.

 

Noel Edmonds should be made to pay heavily for inflicting that on the British public. Truly horrendous. I mean I know people must have bought it but who for cryng out loud!

Are you the bald one with glasses? :o :kink:

 

No.

 

Is that you tapping the tambourine on the bum towards the end of the video :unsure:

 

Actually the track is very good, better than the Military Wives Choir.

 

Also no :lol:

 

Thanks :wub:

Having seen Ireland's Christmas #1s of recent years I'm not sure it's any better, "Stan" held on in 2000 but "Killing In The Name" missed out in 2009. I think I'd rather have ours, given "Stan" made #1 anyway. "Lose Yourself" also made it over "Sound of the Underground", they like Eminem! :o

 

CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONES RATE! (post-1970, the ones I actually know)

 

08 Slade "Merry Xmas Everybody"

08 Mud "Lonely This Christmas"

10 Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody"

02 Wings "Mull of Kintyre"

08 Pink Floyd "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"

01 St Winifred's School Choir "There's No One Quite Like Grandma"

09 The Human League "Don't You Want Me"

09 Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

09 Shakin' Stevens "Merry Christmas Everyone"

06 Pet Shop Boys "Always on My Mind"

03 Cliff Richard "Mistletoe and Wine"

02 Band Aid II "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

02 Cliff Richard "Saviour's Day"

10 Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody" / "These Are the Days of Our Lives"

05 Whitney Houston "I Will Always Love You"

04 Mr Blobby "Mr Blobby"

05 East 17 "Stay Another Day"

06 Michael Jackson "Earth Song"

05 Spice Girls "2 Become 1"

05 Spice Girls "Too Much"

04 Spice Girls "Goodbye"

03 Westlife "I Have a Dream" / "Seasons in the Sun"

03 Bob the Builder "Can We Fix It?"

06 Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman "Somethin' Stupid"

07 Girls Aloud "Sound of the Underground"

07 Michael Andrews & Gary Jules "Mad World"

06 Band Aid 20 "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

04 Shayne Ward "That's My Goal"

06 Leona Lewis "A Moment Like This"

03 Leon Jackson "When You Believe"

07 Alexandra Burke "Hallelujah"

11 Rage Against the Machine "Killing in the Name"

07 Matt Cardle "When We Collide"

Misteltoe and Wine Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :angry:

Maybe we should have an 'Ultimate Christmas #1s' rate (similar to danielXF's 'Ultimate [x]' series earlier this year but slightly different as there's nowhere near as many songs on the list) :P I'm bagsying that idea if people would be interested in it.

 

Maybe I could take the Christmas top 3 of every year (I'll probably just keep it to since 1980 or something because obviously people are less likely to know the songs the further you go back) and do them in chunks of decades? Then the rest is just the same as Daniel's games. Would anyone be up for that? :D

Edited December 7, 201113 yr by Bré

I don't actually mind this Military Wives song, the lead singer looks like Wizadora :lol: It's doing well on CD single pre-orders and might manage to shift 30k-50k of them if its incredibly lucky but is it really the sort of song likely to shoot to the top of iTunes? I'm not so sure...

Maybe we should have an 'Ultimate Christmas #1s' rate (similar to danielXF's 'Ultimate [x]' series earlier this year but slightly different as there's nowhere near as many songs on the list) :P I'm bagsying that idea if people would be interested in it.

 

Maybe I could take the Christmas top 3 of every year (I'll probably just keep it to since 1980 or something because obviously people are less likely to know the songs the further you go back) and do them in chunks of decades? Then the rest is just the same as Daniel's games. Would anyone be up for that? :D

Go for it :D

 

You could, perhaps, do all the number ones plus the specifically Christmas songs from the 2s and 3s. Perhaps you could add the obvious pre-1980 classics as well. After all, it wouldn't be a proper Christmas song rate without Slade, Wham and Wizzard.

I don't actually mind the Military Wives Choir, extremely over-sentimental but its harmless enough, I don't really think its 'campaigning' as such, so I wouldn't mind it being a Christmas number 1 - SLTS would technically be the better option as its a great song, but the facebook campaigns are becoming just as bad as the Winners single

Go for it :D

 

You could, perhaps, do all the number ones plus the specifically Christmas songs from the 2s and 3s. Perhaps you could add the obvious pre-1980 classics as well. After all, it wouldn't be a proper Christmas song rate without Slade, Wham and Wizzard.

 

I suppose I could do just the #1s of 1971-1980 (most of them are reasonably well-known), then the top 3s of 1981-90, 91-2000 and 01-11. It's supposed to be a Christmas hits rate rather than a Christmas songs rate though so I wouldn't include Wizzard as that never went top 3. The only non-Xmas-top-3 hit I'd include would be 'Justified And Ancient' by The KLF feat. Tammy Wynette (Xmas #4 in 1991), as I can't have Bohemian Rhapsody appearing twice. (Have any other songs been top 3 at Christmas twice? If so the same applies to whatever was #4 in the week of its second Xmas top 3 appearance).

 

Anyway, I shall start this on Saturday :D

 

EDIT: Band Aid (1984) were Christmas top 3 again in '85, so Pet Shop Boys' West End Girls would also feature.

Edited December 7, 201113 yr by Bré