That years X Factor winner was up against a parody talent show winner... well if you can't beat them join them!

 

2008 – Geraldine – Once Upon A Christmas Song (!8 previous week 5)

 

One of my favourties of recent years...

 

2009 – Queen And The Muppets – Bohemian Rhapsody (*32)

 

In 2010 novelty hit fans were asking you 'don't you know about the word?'...

(P.S. this is another video you may not want to show the children)

 

2010 – The Trashmen – Surfin’ Bird (R3)

 

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Thanks to Chris Moyles there was a great novelty track in the christmas chart for 2011

 

2011- Lou Monte - Dominick The Donkey (^3 previous week 132)

 

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And a weird one from last year...

 

2012 – £1 Fish Man – One Pound Fish (^29)

 

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And finally a great novelty track' from this year. I was going to end by saying 'Where in the Top 40 will this chart?' but it seems in the event I'd have to add at least one extra 0 to that number... oh well never mind. Merry Christmas everyone!!

 

2013 – The Retrobot – Christmas Robot (??)

 

Does anyone else think that it's weird a 9-year-old kid singing a song with "lover" in the title?

 

Depends how old the person he was singing it for was... but yeah it's a bit weird. Not the only time that such a young lover appeared in the charts though, off the top of my head I can recall that Claire something or other sang 'It's orrible being in love when you're only 8 1/2' and I'm sure there are other examples.

Not Christmas #6. Number 2 (revealed on Tuesday 22nd December at 12.30pm on Radio One). Remember Music Week/Record Retailer missed a couple of weeks, in those days & the w/k ending dates came from the week, that it was published. Not the week the chart was announced by the BBC.

 

And the same for 1974. The Wombles were Christmas #2 not #5). It was revealed on Tuesday 24th Dec 1974, with Johnnie Walker.

 

Oh beep beep boop boop, to quote the retrobot, I started at 1970 to avoid muck ups of that sort (and to conveniently avoid a certain member of the 'Taxus Baccata' club). So does that mean that Record Retailer compiled a chart and gave it to Radio 1 to be announced but didn't themselves publish it that week, then a week later when they weren't even compiling a new chart as they were taking their xmas break they nonetheless published the chart they ordinarily would have published a week sooner? Are 1970 and 1974 the only years that happened?

Dominick the Donkey charted at #3 in 2011! http://www.officialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/1/2011-12-31/

1973 is the one exception I mentioned in the opening to this, because that years christmas chart was only a top 30, and there were 27 fairly normal hits, and three christmas classics, so I'm at a loss as to what to include here and am open to your suggestions/opinions.

 

Straight to 1974 then and some lovable furry children's characters

 

1974 – The Wombles – Wombling Merry Christmas (^5)

 

 

Was this one really that old? did other a re-release?

Dominick the Donkey charted at #3 in 2011! http://www.officialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/1/2011-12-31/

 

Thanks. I've fixed that now.

Was this one really that old? did other a re-release?

 

The video I've used was made a few years ago when they released their greatest hits album, The W Factor, hence the references to Jedward etc, but I believe it uses the original track from 1974.

 

Here is how they would have looked to the original 1974 audience

 

Nice rundown Dan, particulary admired the use of the word lagomorphic!

Oops, another accidental double post there, sorry, I'm having a bit of a mare with my connection...

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Nice rundown Dan, particulary admired the use of the word lagomorphic!

 

Thanks fchd, glad you enjoyed it!