Actually These Days is growing on me. It's still a simple pop ditty but it kind of gained me slightly.

I prefer Dolphin

 

Depends if it is in a sandwich or in a kebab

Really liking Band Aid 30

 

Ellie, Sinead, Bastille are the best parts :wub:

Good to see Band Aid 30 rising, even if I don't like it.

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Band Aid 30

Do They Know It's Christmas? (2014)

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Chart Run: 1-2-12-3

 

Release date: 17-11-2014 / 08-12-2014

Format: digital single / CDS

Label: Virgin EMI

 

Chart sales: 300k+

 

Video here:

 

Song info

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a song written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in 1984 to raise money for relief of the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia. The original version was produced by Midge Ure and released by Band Aid on 28 November 1984.

 

At a press conference on 10 November 2014, Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure announced that in 2014 a group of artists would again come together to re-record the song, this time under the banner of 'Band Aid 30' and in aid of the Ebola crisis. It was released on the following Monday, 17 November, just 11 days short of the 30th anniversary of the release of the original version of the track. - iTunes

 

Chart history (Year peak title):

 

1984 01 Do They Know It's Christmas? -NAS- MILLION SELLER

1989 01 Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid II) -NAS-

2004 01 Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid 20) -NAS- MILLION SELLER

2014 01 Do They Know It's Christmas? (2014) (Band Aid 30) -NAS-

 

Discussion Thread Here

Band Aid 30 at number 3. CALLED IT. :D

Decent enough for Band Aid but Asda must be gutted that they paid upfront for 250k physicals, when it must have only sold around 60k this week perhaps (presumably only a proportion of those from Asda!)

Some of the guests are really good on this while some (*cough* Sinead) rather less so.

 

They really need to make a brand new song though, this is getting a bit tiresome.

Niall looks so adorable in that YT screen grab :)

If it wasn't for Sinead O'Connor's part, this version of "Do They Know..." would be better than the previous one.

I'm surprised it fell to number 3.

This is totally atrocious.

I bet in 10 years time they will be Band Aid 40!

I admit I popped this in with my food shop on Friday, it has Band Aid II on it. No longer snubbed forever!?! :o *.*

Some of the guests are really good on this while some (*cough* Sinead) rather less so.

 

They really need to make a brand new song though, this is getting a bit tiresome.

Sinead O'Connor is trully dreadful, she lost her little voice she had...

Yes this is worse than Band Aid II.

I still wish this was much more upbeat. I prefer God Only Knows and Wake Me Up

Odd chart run for Band Aid 30! :lol:

I can't imagine Band Aid's CD singles would've passed 70k really, doesn't look like this will come anywhere near a million. Yikes, think this can be brushed under the rug as a bit of a whimper overall like Band Aid II, however much money it has raised.

Yay for uptown funk at 1. I love it :wub:

So bored of thinking out loud though again :zzz:

Take That still holding on strong in the Top 5. Shame the album is flopping. :(

 

LOL You can't be serious? III had one of the strongest opening sales of the year and will go platinum in two weeks.