December 15, 201312 yr 4 (6) Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day :wub: My third favourite Christmas song after John Lennon/Yoko Ono & The Pogues. :P :heart:
December 15, 201312 yr Wouldn't 'Do They Know It's Christmas' be the biggest-selling Christmas title ever?
December 15, 201312 yr Wouldn't 'Do They Know It's Christmas' be the biggest-selling Christmas title ever? I would think so (though unofficially White Christmas?).
December 15, 201312 yr Whoops - yes, I've made a rather huge mistake there! Apologies all. I declared Last Christmas the biggest selling xmas song the other day. Totally forgot Band Aid as well! :lol:
December 15, 201312 yr 2003 1- CHANGES- Kelly & Ozzy Osbourne (86,000) 2- LEAVE RIGHT NOW- Will Young (69,000) 3- SHUT UP- Black Eyes Peas (52,100) 4- I’M YOUR MAN- Shane Richie (34,000) 5- SANTA’S LIST- Cliff Richard (26,000) 6- MANDY- Westlife (20,000) 7- MY IMMORTAL- Evanescence (19,000) 8- SAY IT ISN’T SO- Gareth Gates (19,000) 9- THE VOICE WITHIN- Christina Aguilera (17,600) 10- HAVE A CHEEKY CHRISTMAS- Cheeky Girls (17,200) Sadly this was the first chart compiled after Dotmusic announced it was closing down :( Blimey, 10 years ago, where has the time gone?
December 15, 201312 yr I'm sure Leona has the #3 on lock but the optimist in me hopes she's #1. I'm 99.7% sure she won't be though.
December 15, 201312 yr 40 :arrowup: (from 44) Wham! - Last Christmas [D] http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51u5cT3tENL._AA160_.jpg Chart Run 1984 (double A side - Everything She Wants): 2-2-2-2-2-3-8-11-21-33-38-51-67 [13 wks] Chart Run 1985: 32-10-6-6-14-36-68 [7 wks] Chart Run 1986: 63-47-45-71 [4 wks] Chart Run 2007: 50-23-14-16-40 [5 wks] Chart Run 2008: 67-36-26-27-45 [5 wks] Chart Run 2009: 53-39-41-34 [4 wks] Chart Run 2010: 57-53-56-61 [4 wks] Chart Run 2011: 55-26-28-34-55 [5 wks] Chart Run 2012: 55-34-41-35 [4 wks] Chart Run: 44-40 [2 wks] Release date: 1984 Format: download only track Sales: 1,700k+ Video here: E8gmARGvPlI Biography Wham! were an English musical duo formed by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in the early 1980s. They were briefly known in the United States as Wham! UK due to a naming conflict with an American band. Wham! have sold more than sold 25 million certified records worldwide from 1982 to 1986. - Wikipedia Chart history (Year peak title): 1982 03 Young Guns (Go For It) -1- 1983 08 Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) -2- 1983 02 Bad Boys -3- 1983 04 Club Tropicana -4- 1983 15 Club Fantastic Megamix -NAS- 1984 01 Wake Me Up Before You Go Go -1- 1984 01 Freedom -2- 1984 02 Last Christmas / Everything She Wants -1- MILLION SELLER 1985 01 I'm Your Man -2- 1985 06 Last Christmas 1986 01 The Edge Of Heaven -3-
December 15, 201312 yr For the "Random Retro" this week, we go back forty years, to a week when two of the perpetual Christmas classics were at their peak: Week Ending : 22/12/1973 1 (1) Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody 2 (2) Gary Glitter - I Love You Love Me Love 3 (4) New Seekers - You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me 4 (6) Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day 5 (3) Alvin Stardust - My Coo-Ca-Choo 6 (5) Marie Osmond - Paper Roses 7 (24) Leo Sayer - The Show Must Go On 8 (7) David Essex - Lamplight 9 (8) Mott The Hoople - Roll Away The Stone 10 (9) Roxy Music - Street Life Sidestepping 1971, when "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)" was number one, and 1972 when the top two were "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" and "My Ding-A-Ling" we arrive at 1973 and one of the Christmas classics topping the chart. "Merry Xmas Everybody", the third biggest selling Christmas title ever (behind "Mary's Boy Child" and "Last Christmas", although "White Christmas" may have also sold more) was at that time one of a very few records to enter the chart at Number One, and the fifth of Slade's number ones. It gets regularly into the Top 75 each year, and has had two Slade related remakes (a live version from the 1980 Reading Festival credited to Slade & The Reading Choir and a remix credited to Slade vs Flush. Suffice it to say we'll be hearing it next year, the year after, and for years after that. The same cannot be said about the number 2, as Gary Glitter's criminal record has led to him being ignored and omitted from most 70s reviews. "I Love You Love Me Love" was typical Glitter, a catchy chorus, overblown visual image and not much else, but it was enough for this to also be a million seller. The New Seekers were formed from the ashes of the 60s group The Seekers, and managed six Top 5 singles, including two number ones, this being the second, early in 1974 with a top 10 run of 7-3-4-3-3-2-2-{1}-5-3-8. Typical early 70s MOR, of which more later. Back to the Christmas classics at 4 - "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" with the full artist credit being famously "Wizzard featuring vocal backing by The Suedettes plus the Stockland Green Bilateral School First Year Choir with additional noises by Miss Snob & Class 3C" but original copies just say "Wizzard" on the label on both the 1973 original (HAR 5079) and the 1981 re-release (HAR 5173) and only later copies of the latter give the extended credit. More "Glam" at 5, but perhaps a watered down version. Alvin Stardust featured in last week's 1984 Retro with one of his last hits, this was the first under the Stardust name, and was on the way down after peaking at number 2 I mentioned early 70s MOR above, and one of the biggest purveyors of some of the mushiest of it, was the Osmond empire. The brothers group, Donny solo, Donny & Marie, Little Jimmy, and on this occasion, Marie solo, they were everywhere. "Paper Roses" had been a hit for three different acts in 1960, and was revived here. To be fair, of it's type it's not bad, but you still get the feeling that she would have not had a musical career had she had a different surname Leo Sayer was only on his second ever week on the chart with a song that would eventually peak at number 2 in the new year. His two number ones were nearly 30 years apart, "When I Need You" in 1977 and "Thunder In My Heart Again" by Meck featuring Leo Sayer in 2006. David Essex was having the second of his 25 hits, he too would go on to have two number ones (in his case within 12 months of each other) before becoming a West End singer in musicals such as "Evita" and "Mutiny!" he was awarded the OBE in 1999. Moot The Hoople were a prolific album group that had morphed from late 60s R&B (no real relation to what is known as R&B today) to glam-rock, and despite large amounts of critical acclaim (both at the time and since), don't have many hit singles to their name. "All The Young Dudes" (a David Bowie song) being their best known. This was one of their only two other top tenners. Finally at number 10 we have perhaps the "thinking man's" version of glam rock, Roxy Music. Led by the suave Bryan Ferry with the innovative Brian Eno creating unusual synthesiser-based melodies (long before electric music became commonplace). "Love Is The Drug", while not a patch on their debut "Virginia Plain", spent 4 weeks in the top 10, and was revived in a remix version in 1996. In other places, Wizzard front man Roy Wood had a solo record, "Forever" at number 11, Steeleye Span's version of "Gaudete" (recently covered by Erasure) leapt up from 27 to 14, there was more Osmond presence at 15 (Donny) and 19 (the group), and another festive regular, "Step Into Christmas" by Elton John slipped one place to number 26. This week's chart was published as a Top 30 only, but positions 31-50 do appear in some sources, most likely "retro-fitted" the official Top 30. Apart from the New Seekers that is about as close as it gets to a stereotypical top five of its time :D
December 15, 201312 yr I wonder if "Last Christmas" would still chart every year had George Michael had kept its original title, "Last Easter"?
December 15, 201312 yr Last Christmas :wub: What a classic! I guess that means there'll be 5 Xmas songs charting tonight (this, Wizzard, Pogues, Mariah and Leona)
December 15, 201312 yr Wasn't expecting Wham! to sneak in there. Good thing I can just copy and paste the chart run from last year's Xmas chart thread :P Not too big a fan of this but it is nice to see 4 Xmas songs top 40. Thought we would only get 3 this year. Shame Slade and Band Aid aren't gonna make it this time. EDIT: Not including Leona ofc
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