I honestly think this is it now for XFactor number ones - hopefully next year should see some new battles again!

 

Fingers crossed, I suppose they'll be low sales battles between already long-charting songs from now on, as few people will wait to release huge smashes on Xmas week.

 

If they do they'll be OA/OS, so only the very biggest artists would be able to get a Xmas No.1 debut. And I can't see the biggest artists leaving a single debut to Xmas week as they'll release their music earlier in Q4 to rack up album sales.

 

I have a feeling that next year will be the last X Factor is on the air too, so unless next year's winning song really connects with the public in an Impossible type way The X Factor won't be getting the Christmas #1 ever again and it'll be the turn of 'normal' or charity songs

 

I wonder if ITV will do the same Xmas week release trick with The Voice, or whether they'll screen it at a different time of the year. Either way, the public are well and truly sick of winners singles from these shows by the looks of it, so it's doubtful they'll ever have the same impact again. It's just a shame that the decade of 'damage' is already done and now the Xmas No.1 is much less of 'a thing'/far less people care about it now. Hopefully the media can whip it into a big event again over the coming years.

It's just a shame that the decade of 'damage' is already done and now the Xmas No.1 is much less of 'a thing'/far less people care about it now. Hopefully the media can whip it into a big event again over the coming years.

I'm quite confident the Xmas #1 will be a big thing again. The reason people didn't care is because it was just a foregone conclusion that either X Factor or a charity single would get to #1 and it looked like that's how it would be for the foreseeable future. I think if JB manages to get to Xmas #1, the hype will quickly return and hopefully big current names will consider releasing in time for Xmas #1. I wouldn't be surprised if an OA/OS release managed it, if that release strategy is still used in a year's time.

Yes, Xmas no. 1's used to be a real event in chart music, so I hope it is back to being such next year!

 

Pos Artist and Title 0.9 3.1

1 Louisa Johnson - Forever Young 1.0000 1.0000

2 Justin Bieber - Love Yourself 0.7618 0.7244

3 Stormzy - Shut Up (Studio Version) 0.7194 0.6907

85. Tinie Tempah - Been the Man (feat. Jme, Stormzy & Ms Banks)

bieber over 0.8 now

44. Snakehips featuring Tinashe & Chance The Rapper - All My Friends :cheer: Hope this gets top 40 officially after Xmas

OMG YES. PLEASE BE HUGE. It's got frozen A list support from Radio 1 now so hopefully!

bieber closing in fast ~ up to 0.8690 now

bieber closing in fast ~ up to 0.8690 now

 

With his second version he is already 92% of Louisa. It's over!

I'm thinking Louisa may even end up low top 5 at this rate now.

I'm getting Idols - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) vibes from this release. There's a 'surefire reality show No.1' that spectacularly failed at Xmas.

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I don't think it will, but I really hope it won't make too much of a mess up of her career. She's marketable, just not with that song. PLEASE get it right Syco!

I don't think this flop is going to affect her long-term viability. Remember Little Mix's winners' single did relatively poorly, they turned out just fine. It all depends on the strength of her actual material.

Justin Bieber truly sleighing the chart in the leadup to Christmas! http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/christmas/skiing-santa-smiley-emoticon.gif

 

It seems like Louisa would be missing #1 even if she had the whole week of sales, ouch!!

What does it mean when a song is in white on kworb?

That it ain't movin'.

That's strange because Love Yourself is in white right now and it certainly is moving.......... towards number one!

Just realised that Louisa looking like missing #1 entirely buys me more time of being younger than every artist who's ever had a #1. Slayyy. (I assume this will finally be broken fairly early into 2016).

That's strange because Love Yourself is in white right now and it certainly is moving.......... towards number one!

That's because Louisa is falling faster than JB is selling.

Exactly, white means it's holding steady. In relation to Louisa who is obviously dropping rapidly, hence why his Kworb number is getting closer to hers.