December 26, 201113 yr Author The Bros song is weird as Silent Night was the b-side was it not...? Band Aid 20 should be top 5 in this chart - its sold 1.125 million? Double A- Side (they were the days)
December 26, 201113 yr Double A- Side (they were the days) So how does that work for sales then...just award both songs?
December 26, 201113 yr I think that Band Aid is the 80s total I'm sure- I have 3,502,000 sales for it in the 80s leaving 148,000 unaccounted for (downloads) In that case the other 2 versions have been totally ignored, surely they would have been top 10 at least, on their own. Anyhow just realised the time, I'm off.
December 26, 201113 yr Yeah band aid 20 would have been no5/6!! Mud and Johnny Mathis sold bucketloads of their singles didnt they!!
December 26, 201113 yr Why is East 17 listed in this. It isn't actualy a christmas song. It was just released at Christmas time...
December 26, 201113 yr Indeed theres loads of others i would demand to be in there now theyve opened a can of worms by adding East 17 - i would love Gary Jules to be in there, one of my fav xmas hits - it would be around no20 or so!!
December 26, 201113 yr I think Stay Another Day has just BECOME a Christmas song for some reason, it does get bopsted back up iTunes around Christmas (it's currently #81 in the official chart and was #96 last week). I don't get it either. I don't see how Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love is a Christmas song either.
December 26, 201113 yr I think Stay Another Day has just BECOME a Christmas song for some reason, it does get bopsted back up iTunes around Christmas (it's currently #81 in the official chart and was #96 last week). I don't get it either. I don't see how Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love is a Christmas song either. The video is the nativity and the lyrics: Feels like fire I'm so in love with you Dreams are like angels They keep bad at bay-bad at bay Love is the light Scaring darkness away-yeah I'm so in love with you Purge the soul Make love your goal [1]-The power of love A force from above Cleaning my soul Flame on burn desire Love with tongues of fire Purge the soul Make love your goal
December 26, 201113 yr The video is the nativity and the lyrics: Feels like fire I'm so in love with you Dreams are like angels They keep bad at bay-bad at bay Love is the light Scaring darkness away-yeah I'm so in love with you Purge the soul Make love your goal [1]-The power of love A force from above Cleaning my soul Flame on burn desire Love with tongues of fire Purge the soul Make love your goal I don't think "The Power Of Love" was conceived as a Christmas song, it was just the timing of the release and as mentioned above, the video that seems to allow it to be categorised this. I just think of it as the follow up to "Two Tribes" and the song that allowed them to become just the second act to have their first three singles hit number one.
December 26, 201113 yr And also even though people keep saying about missing out 2 Band Aid versions, they have done the same with Harry Belafonte's version of Mary's Boy Child, which I think is a million seller in itself
December 26, 201113 yr Author I think they've just used the biggest selling version of each song to avoid repetition in the TV show- Another OCC mish mash of Info- why do the lists they always do end up posing more questions than they answer?!
December 26, 201113 yr There's no one quite like Grandma should not be classed as a Christmas song. If Bionic Santa is in the list then where is Renta Santa ? What about Make a daft noise for Christmas by The Goodies ?
December 26, 201113 yr The OCC worked on the List in September. Well, one of their Staff did so. As with all such Lists he, (& maybe others), made the final decision as to what was to go in it. (Channel 5 have definitely excluded some Hits, that were in The OCC List - on the grounds that the Chart contained more than one version of those Songs). 1) It is not meant to be a Christmas Themed Songs List. It is meant to reflect the Singles that sold the most over the Christmas period, in the UK. 2) I saw the initial List, & it did have Band Aid 20 in it - with 1,154,821 Sales. It also had Band Aid II in it - 425,908 sales. 3) Halleujah, by Alexandra Burke, was in the initial List - 1,222,079 Sales. 4) In the List that I saw, White Christmas, by Bing Crosby, was in 4th place, with 1,461,843 Sales. The Total in the List has had almost 472,000 of those Sales removed. 5) Harry Belafonte's Mary's Boy Child, was in too - 1,182,621 Sales. 6) It even had Killing In The Name, by Rage Against The Machine, in it - 713,240 Sales. 7) As far as I know, they did include 1981 Sales for the St Winifred's School Choir, Hit. It was only the 20th Best Seller of 1980 - in the Year End Chart that included the entire Year. Super Trouper, by ABBA, was 4th, & I believe that sold 709,000 in 1980. The ABBA Hit then sold only 31,000 more in 1981, even though it did this, in January 1981:, 5 - 8 - 28 - 48 - 71. That's because Sales were very low in January 1981. The St. Winifred's School Choir Hit, can't have sold much more than the ABBA Hit, in January 1981. It did this - 1 - 6 - 22 - 58 - 70. Maybe 45,000 to 55,000 Sales? 8) As regards the other 2 Band Aid Hits, & Harry Belafonte, not being in the List - it looks like a Channel 5 decision, to me. They obviously did not want to show the same Song, more than once. So, they chose to show/include only the versions that are the most well known. That's the Boney M, Mary's Boy Child, & the original Band Aid's, Do They Know It's Christmas?, from 1984. (In other words, it is not The OCC's decision, that the other versions were excluded from the Channel 5 Chart). So, The OCC were not ignoring those Hits - Channel 5 were. 9) Stay Another Day, got 768,444 Sales, in the List, I saw. Rounded up to 770,000. The OCC clearly have 2 'Sets' of 1994 - 1996 Sales, in their Files, & the Guy who did the Chart looked at the lower Totals for the East 17 Hit. (I know him, so I will ask him about it, in January). 10) I was not aware that MW's Alan Jones had declared Fairytale Of New York a UK Million Seller. I do know that The OCC added up its Annual Totals for 1987/1988, (No.2 Hit), & 1991/1992, (No.36 Hit), & then they added in Downloads from 2004 to 2010. This gave a Total of 815,000 - not including its December 2011 Sales, of course. I don't think that Fairytale Of New York has sold a Million. It would have had to suddenly gain 180,000 Sales, that it never had before. Unless it is supposed to have got them in December 2011..... Edited December 26, 201113 yr by zeus555
December 26, 201113 yr The video is the nativity and the lyrics: Feels like fire I'm so in love with you Dreams are like angels They keep bad at bay-bad at bay Love is the light Scaring darkness away-yeah I'm so in love with you Purge the soul Make love your goal [1]-The power of love A force from above Cleaning my soul Flame on burn desire Love with tongues of fire Purge the soul Make love your goal I don't see how those lyrics are Christmassy at all?
December 26, 201113 yr I don't think "The Power Of Love" was conceived as a Christmas song, it was just the timing of the release and as mentioned above, the video that seems to allow it to be categorised this. I just think of it as the follow up to "Two Tribes" and the song that allowed them to become just the second act to have their first three singles hit number one. It was no1 in early december and the christmas top 3 in 1984 was 1) Band Aid 2)Wham 3) Frankie Think they tried to widen their re\ord buying market for the time of year by doing a seasonal ballad (a bit like Syco does each november by getting 1D and JLS to release a ballad). Technically you could be religious and say Jesus' birth was about love or something. The East 17 one was simply a seasonal ballad too that sounds christmassy in a strange way.I would put Gary Jules and Ellie Goulding in there in the same way. What about Winter Winds by Mumford and Sons - i would put that in - its lyric fit well and its sold around 100k now!! Edited December 26, 201113 yr by steve201
December 26, 201113 yr I think they've just used the biggest selling version of each song to avoid repetition in the TV show- Another OCC mish mash of Info- why do the lists they always do end up posing more questions than they answer?! I thought it was a good countdown overall with Martin Talbot speaking. I think we could use the countdown as a basis for most of the songs and update things with the popular download songs. In 20 years the chart will look much different - old classics like Let it Snow, Rockin around the christmas tree and Chestnuts roasting will all climb and the novelty record will eventually fall away. Could anyone use this and add the dload figures since 2005 to get more offical stats? Mariah as someone on here said is on 893k (not sure if thats up to this week or before xmas)and the pogues according to Alan Jones are over a million!!
December 26, 201113 yr Spot the ones not included or missed shall we?! 01 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? Band Aid 3,650,000 02 MARY'S BOY CHILD Boney M 1,840,000 03 LAST CHRISTMAS Wham 1,610,000 SLADE...should be here, with this year's sales = 1,180,000 MARY'S BOY CHILD - HARRY BELAFONTE 1.17 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS - BAND AID 20 1.1517 04 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 1,150,000 05 WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby 990,000 06 THE MILLENNIUM PRAYER Cliff Richard 910,000 POGUES & KIRSTY MACOLL...Should be here, with this year's sales = 905,000 07 WHEN A CHILD IS BORN Johnny Mathis 890,000 08 MISTLETOE & WINE Cliff Richard 865,000 09 HAPPY CHRISTMAS (WAR IS OVER) John Lennon & Yoko Ono 860,000 MARIAH CAREY...should be here, with this year's sales = 820,000 10 A FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl 815,000 11 LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS Mud 810,000 12 STAY ANOTHER DAY East 17 770,000 13 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 750,000 14 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE Shakin' Stevens 700,000 15 THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 660,000 16 I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 590,000 17 THERE'S NO-ONE QUITE LIKE GRANDMA St. Winifred's School Choir 550,000 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS - BAND AID II 480,000 18 I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS Greg Lake 470,000 19 WOMBLING MERRY CHRISTMAS The Wombles 460,000 LET'S PARTY - JIVE BUNNY 435,000 20 STOP THE CAVALRY Jona Lewie 420,000 21 CHRISTMAS TIME (DON'T LET THE BELLS END) The Darkness 410,000 22 BLUE CHRISTMAS Shakin' Stevens 400,000 23 PIPES OF PEACE Paul McCartney 370,000 24 ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE Mel (Smith) and Kim (Wilde) 310,000 25 SAVIOUR'S DAY Cliff Richard 300,000 WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME - JASON DONOVAN 270,000 RUDOLF THE RED-NOSED REINDEER - GENE AUTRY 270,000 26 WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME Paul McCartney 260,000 CHRISTMAS ALPHABET - DICKIE VALENTINE 250,000 27 IT'S GONNA BE A COLD, COLD CHRISTMAS Dana 230,000 28 PEACE ON EARTH - LITTLE DRUMMER BOY David Bowie and Bing Crosby 212,000 29 SILENT NIGHT Bros 210,000 DAVID ESSEX...Should be here, as 1982's 3 weeks have been ignored = 206,000 30 FATHER CHRISTMAS, DO NOT TOUCH ME The Goodies 205,000 PEFECT YEAR - DINA CARROLL 205,000 31 PROPER CRIMBO! Bo Selecta 202,000 32 MR. HANKEY THE CHRISTMAS POO Mr. Hankey (South Park) 201,000 33 PRETTY PAPER Roy Orbison 200,000 34 IN DULCE JUBILO Mike Oldfield 200,000 35 SANTO NATALE David Whitfield 190,000 36 WALKING IN THE AIR Aled Jones 181,000 37 ANOTHER ROCK AND ROLL CHRISTMAS Gary Glitter 180,000 38 LITTLE TOWN Cliff Richard 180,000 39 BIONIC SANTA Chris Hill 170,000 RENTA SANTA - CHRIS HILL 165,000 40 I'M WALKING BACKWARDS FOR CHRISTMAS The Goons 160,000 41 GAUDETE Steeleye Span 160,000 42 HEY MR CHRISTMAS Showaddywaddy 152,000 43 SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN Bruce Springsteen 151,000 THE CHRISTMAS SONG - GILBERT O' SULLIVAN 44 LITTLE DONKEY Nina and Frederick 150,000 45 PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Bon Jovi 148,000 GRANDMA'S PARTY - PAUL NICHOLAS 145,000 WINTER'S TALE - QUEEN 145,000 HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS - KATIE MELUA 143,000 SNOW COACH - RUSS CONWAY 140,000 THE GIFT OF CHRISTMAS - CHILDLINERS 140,000 LONELY PUP - ADAM FAITH 140,000 HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) - THE IDOLS 135,000 ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE - BRENDA LEE 130,000 CHRISTMAS THROUGH YOUR EYES - GLORIA ESTEFAN 130,000 46 A WINTER'S TALE David Essex 125,000 47 YOUR CHRISTMAS WISH The Smurfs 120,000 48 2000 MILES (The) Pretenders 117,000 MIRRORS - SALLY OLDFIELD 117,000 49 DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Chris Rea 115,000 50 I BELIEVE IN CHRISTMAS The Tweenies 112,000 WINTER WORLD OF LOVE - ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK 110,000 LITTLE DRUMMER BOY - BEVERLY SISTERS 110,000 SANTA BRING MY BABY BACK TO ME - ELVIS PRESLEY 110,000 SLEIGH RIDE - S. CLUB JUNIORS 110,000 51 STEP INTO CHRISTMAS Elton John 110,000 52 ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS SONG Geraldine (Peter Kay) 105,000 I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUS - JIMMY BOYD 100,000 53 CRUISE INTO CHRISTMAS (MEDLEY) Jane McDonald 100,000 DOMINICK THE DONKEY - LOU MONTE 93,000+ I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUS - BEVERLY SISTERS 90,000 MERRIE GENTLE POPS - BARRON KNIGHTS 90,000 NEW YEAR - SUGABABES 85,000 54 CHRISTMAS LIGHTS Coldplay 85,000 HOKEY COKEY - SNOWMEN 76,000 55 THANK GOD IT'S CHRISTMAS Queen 75,000 JINGLE BELLS - CRAZY FROG 70,000 WHITE CHRISTMAS - MANTOVANI 70,000 JINGLE BELL ROCK - MAX BYGRAVES 70,000 LAST CHRISTMAS - CASCADA 70,000 IF EVERY DAY WAS LIKE CHRISTMAS - ELVIS PRESLEY 70,000 CHRISTMAS IN SMURFLAND - FATHER ABRAHAM 70,000 SANTA'S LIST - CLIFF RICHARD 69,000 WHEN A CHILD IS BORN - LUTRICIA MCNEIL 69,000 BLUE CHRISTMAS - ELVIS PRESLEY 68,000 CHRISTMAS IN DREADLAND - JUDGE DREAD 68,000 56 BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews 65,000 LITTLE DRUMMER BOY-PEACE ON EARTH - BANDAGED 61,000 NEVER MIND THE PRESENTS - BARRON KNIGHTS 60,000 WE SHOULD BE TOGETHER - CLIFF RICHARD 60,000 LITTLE DRUMMER BOY - ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS 60,000 LITTLE DONKEY - BEVERLY SISTERS 60,000 BAMBINO - SPRINGFIELDS 60,000 SING-A-LONG-A-SANTA - SANTA CLAUS & THE CHRISTMAS TREES 60,000 MAKE A DAFT NOISE FOR CHRISTMAS - THE GOODIES 60,000 WHAT WE GONNA GET 'ER IN DOORS - DENNIS WATERMAN/GEORGE COLE 60,000 57 NAUGHTY CHRISTMAS (GOBLIN IN THE OFFICE) Fat Les 60,000 58 MERRY CHRISTMAS, DARLING The Carpenters 59,000 DECEMBER WILL BE MAGIC AGAIN - KATE BUSH 55,000 59 SANTA BABY Eartha Kitt 55,000 60 A CHRISTMAS KISS Daniel O'Donnell 52,000 WARM THIS WINTER - GABRIELLA CILMI 51,000 61 THE BEST CHRISTMAS OF THEM ALL Shakin' Stevens 50,000 IT WON'T SEEM LIKE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT YOU - ELVIS PRESLEY 50,000 LITTLE DRUMMER BOY - HARRY SIMEONE CHORALE 50,000 CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN - FRANK KELLY 50,000 I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUS - BILLY COTTON & HIS BAND 50,000 ALL I WANT FOR CHISTMAS IS A BEATLE - DORA BRYAN 50,000 CHRISTMAS ISLAND - DICKIE VALENTINE 50,000 62 HAVE A CHEEKY CHRISTMAS The Cheeky Girls 47,000 63 SO NEAR TO CHRISTMAS Alvin Stardust 46,000 64 THE CHRISTMAS SONG (CHESTNUTS ROASTING ON AN OPEN FIRE/ MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU) Nat 'King' Cole 46,000 RING OUT SOLSTICE BELLS - JETHRO TULL 46,000 PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS - EAGLES 46,000 CHRISTMAS RAPPING - KURTIS BLOW 45,000 A MERRY JINGLE - GREEDIES 45,000 HERE'S TO LOVE - JOHN CHRISTIE 44,000 HOKEY COKEY - BLACK LACE 44,000 65 SANTA CLAUS IS ON THE DOLE Spitting Image 43,000 21ST CENTURY CHRISTMAS - CLIFF RICHARD 43,000 DECEMBER SONG - GEORGE MICHAEL 42,000 IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR - ANDY WILLIAMS A SPACEMAN CAME TRAVELLING - CHRIS DE BURGH IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS - PERRY COMO CHRISTMAS WILL BE JUST ANOTHER LONELY DAY - BRENDA LEE THE CHRISTMAS SONG - ALEXANDER O' NEAL WINTER MELODY - DONNA SUMMER CHRISTMAS WRAPPING - WAITRESSES That's everything selling over 40,000. Credit: Mike Robinson ex mrib Edited March 8, 201213 yr by davetaylor
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