Wonder where it charted in the radio airplay chart?

Stop The Cavalry by Jona Lewie was also not meant to be a Christmas song although it does mention Christmas. It was meant to be an anti-war song and was a summer hit in France.

 

I think the Salvation Army band sound helps it too though.

 

East 17's Stay Another Day also has no mention of Christmas but it seems to have connotations because people immediately think of 4 "big hard lads" dressed as big softy marshmallows.

 

I've got my own selection of Christmas tracks I wheel out every year which don't include many of the songs that appear on the usual Christmas compilations...and it's a good thing too.

Wonder where it charted in the radio airplay chart?

I recall it being played a lot at the time, I guess it's just one of those tracks that for whatever reason manages to garner a lot of airplay that never gets translated into sales.

 

Does anybody know where it normally gets to on iTunes?

It's not in there yet.

It was in the charts in 1982 at the same time as a track called "Christmas Rapping" by someone calling himself Dizzy Heights.

 

Never mind Slade, this is the best Christmas song of all time.

 

 

Peaked at a miserable no.37 in 1993, should have been massive.

And unlike 'Christmas Wrapping' I think this has been largely forgotten, more's the pity.

I recall it being played a lot at the time, I guess it's just one of those tracks that for whatever reason manages to garner a lot of airplay that never gets translated into sales.

 

Does anybody know where it normally gets to on iTunes?

It's not in there yet.

 

 

Yea this happens a lot. The most recent example would be by The Wombats in 2010 when radio 1 played it alot (alisted) but it peaked at no48! Dont think capital etc would have played them though!

Never mind Slade, this is the best Christmas song of all time.

 

Peaked at a miserable no.37 in 1993, should have been massive.

And unlike 'Christmas Wrapping' I think this has been largely forgotten, more's the pity.

 

Well, that's one of the tracks I get out every year and have done since 1993 when I bought the 7" (yeah, wish more people had) It was pretty weird actually as St Etienne and the Charlatans were both really popular in 1993.

Lurvs em.

Ok so the Xmas songs are officially doing poorly this year?

 

The usually don't get another boost until the 28 nov - 5 dec period before falling a bit mid dec & peaking on 23/12!

Edited November 20, 201311 yr by steve201

There are only so many times people will buy a song. With iTunes and Amazon allowing you to re-download previous purchases from the Cloud (am I right in saying that?) people won't keep buying Christmas tunes every year because they deleted / misplaced their copy from the year before.

 

There's bound to be a little Christmas action in the lower reaches from now on, but I think we've seen the end of old Christmas tunes troubling the top 20 again. Could be wrong.

Yea you could well be right about the icloud feature. But there will be further movement in december as video plays increase & radio airplay starts. There are always new younger people just discovering xmas songs they havent heard before too so there will always be trickle sales and they might all be reduced to 59p/have a XF performance.

 

Im still confident AIWFCIY & FONY will be top 20 on xmas week like they normally are - both usually sell 25-30k in the 7 days running up to xmas although whether they have a full week sales leading up to xmas is another thing that might effect their peak chart position!

Edited November 20, 201311 yr by steve201

If you ask me the new additions this year are pretty awesome compared to other years. Ariana Grande, Leona Lewis, Kelly Clarkson, Mary J Blige, Tamar...

And the Killers newbie!!

Love them.

 

Apart from music channel VIVA bleeping out 'f*****' and '$l*t and 'arse'' in 'Fairytale of New York'. I think that is stupid to edit those words after Radio 1 did that in 2007. It's a Christmas classic leave it alone!

Edited November 23, 201311 yr by Mack

I love Christmas songs, I listen to them all year round :lol:

Faith Hill's Where Are You, Christmas? and Bananarama's Baby, It's Christmas being the best of the bunch CLEARLY.

 

:wub: I love Where Are You, Christmas? It is my all time fav!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Can someone give me the link to the Buzzjack favorite christmas song thread please? :D

"Happy New Year" is *not* a Christmas song. Keep it to new year and the days immediately before Jan 1

 

Madonna's version of "Santa Baby" is the definitive one for me. You can keep Kylie's.

I wouldn't call it a New Year song by default either. I'd more or less just call it a fortunate document of the Cold War :lol:

Always liked Slade (any of their singles), and Wizard. Besides them Xmas songs are 99% dross :0)

Hope Everyday charts this december as the ad is pushing it up the chart alot along with the xmas one obv!

Hope Everyday charts this december as the ad is pushing it up the chart alot along with the xmas one obv!

 

Assuming you mean Slade, 'Everyday' has already charted. Entered at #93 last week.

Yea I did but I meant top 40!