December 6, 20213 yr Author December 5th results Vote A - 1628 votes cast 1989 - Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas - 27% (440 votes) 2009 - Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name - 73% (1188 votes) Vote B - 854 votes cast 1981 - Human League - Don't You Want Me - 69.3% (592 votes) 2016 - Clean Bandit - Rockabye - 30.7% (262 votes) December 6th voting open Vote C - 1974 Mud - Lonely This Christmas 2006 Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This Vote D - 1987 Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind 2002 Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground In Vote C the oldest contender still in the contest is up against one of most recent. Mud did get more straight votes and a higher percentage in their first round vote than Leona did, but Leona could benefit this time from being newer. In Vote D the contenders had very similar vote totals and percentages in Round 1, albeit with the Pet Shop Boys marginally higher on both measures, so this could be a close one.
December 6, 20213 yr Mud easily in the first vote but the second is a lot harder, i've gone Pet Shop Boys although I love the Girls Aloud track too.
December 6, 20213 yr The right winner for both of those. Rage have to be a strong contender to win this poll overall with them seemingly attracting voters who aren't engaging with this otherwise (nearly twice as many total votes in their round than the other simultaneous one!)
December 7, 20213 yr Author December 6th results Vote C - 699 votes cast 1974 Mud - Lonely This Christmas - 46.9% (328 votes) 2006 Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This - 53.1% (371 votes) Vote D - 815 votes cast 1987 Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind - 43.4% (354 votes) 2002 Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground - 56.6% (461 votes) December 7th voting open Vote E - 1995 Michael Jackson - Earth Song 1997 Spice Girls - Too Much Vote F - 2001 Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid 2008 Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah In Vote E Michael Jackon gained considerably more straight votes in round 1 than the Spice Girls did, but the Spice Girls had a marginally higher percentage of their vote, whilst in Vote F Alexandra had both more staight votes in round 1 and a higher percentage of her vote than Robbie and Nicole did.
December 7, 20213 yr Mud’s classic being beaten by an X Factor winning song is just :lol: . (No disrespect to Leona who’s obviously one of the most successful X Factor winners - I’m sure she wouldn’t class it as her finest work herself.) And the other result is wrong too in my view, though SOTU is great. I’m fast losing interest in this - not because of the discussion here but because the electorate is so obviously skewed. Edited December 7, 20213 yr by Jingle Jules
December 7, 20213 yr Much closer results there! Shame to see Mud go but Girls Aloud was the right winner in the second one imo (though I like the Pet Shop Boys song too). Gonna need them to stop giving that awful Alexandra thing such easy matches.
December 7, 20213 yr Had it been Bleeding Love (not a Chrismtas #1 i know) beating Mud I would have said fair enough but that generic winners song bollocks I can't.... Anyway these are two pretty weak votes, can't say i'm particularly massive on any of them. Spice Girls and Robbie/Nicole I suppose. Edited December 7, 20213 yr by Dot Branning
December 8, 20213 yr Author 7th December results Vote E - 646 votes cast 1995 Michael Jackson - Earth Song - 40.2% (260 votes) 1997 Spice Girls - Too Much - 59.8% (386 votes) Vote F - 521 votes cast 2001 Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid - 43% (224 votes) 2008 Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah - 57% (297 votes) Probably worth pointing out that all four songs got less votes in Round 2 than they did in Round 1, with Alexandra's votes more or less halving, and Michael Jackson's reduced to exactly a third of what it was before. Of the previous 8 songs in Round 2 only one of them, the Pet Shop Boys, got less votes than hey had in Round 1. 8th December voting now open Vote G - 1984 - Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas 1998 - Spice Girls - Goodbye Vote H - 1975/1991 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 1986 - Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite In Vote G we have the song that gained the highest percentage of the vote in Round 1, Band Aid, versus Goodbye which got slightly more straight votes than it. In Vote B Queen got comfortably more straight votes in round 1 than Jackie, but Jackie got a sligthly larger perecentage of his vote. Edited December 8, 20213 yr by DanChartFan
December 9, 20213 yr Author 8th December results Vote G - 894 votes cast 1984 - Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas - 40.9% (366 votes) 1998 - Spice Girls - Goodbye - 59.1% (528 votes) Vote H - 636 votes cast 1975/1991 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - 80.8% (514 votes) 1986 - Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite - 19.2% (122 votes) 9th December voting now open Vote I - 1985 - Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone 1996 - Spice Girl - 2 Become 1 Of the final pair the Spice Girls were comfortably ahead of Shaky in both measures in Round 1, but Shaky seems to be taking an early lead so far in Round 2.
December 9, 20213 yr Ridiculous that the Spices are beating some christmas classics! Bet Shaky gets beat too although 2 Become 1 has become their classic xmas track so that would be a little more bearable!
December 9, 20213 yr Voting numbers are such a tiny proportion of the population that an organised fan base is getting their faves sailing through against actual christmas classics that chart every year and that have sold millions :P Pointless exercise if you arent doing it across all media via a phone or internet vote to appeal to all parts of the population.... :lol:
December 9, 20213 yr It’s not just that - I have no confidence that the people voting are weighing up the merits of the songs properly. Like when Buzzjack does polls of course they’re slightly skewed because the forum represents a particular demographic but I have every confidence that the people voting will have done the research necessary and will have at least tried to put aside their prejudices and vote fairly. This vote seems to be largely coming down to “Which one was out when I was growing up?” I do realise it’s just a little Twitter poll and not worth getting worked up about. :arrr: :D
December 9, 20213 yr Goodbye beating Band Aid wtaf lol! One of those ITV "The Nations Favourite..." programmes would probably have got a better demographic mix but it is what it is.
December 11, 20213 yr Author 9th December results - Vote I - 1041 votes cast 1985 - Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone - 41.8% (435 votes) 1996 - Spice Girl - 2 Become 1 - 58.2% (606 votes)
December 11, 20213 yr Author Round 2 contenders ranked by both straight votes and percentage By straight votes 1188 - 2009- Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name (Up 229 votes on round 1) 606 - 1996 - Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 (Down 126 votes on round 1) 592 - 1981 - Human League - Don't You Want Me (Up 362 votes on round 1) 528 - 1998 - Spice Girls - Goodbye (Up 93 votes on round 1) 514 - 1975/1991 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (Up 68 votes on round 1) 461 - 2002 - Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground (Up 39 votes on round 1) 440 - 1989 - Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas (Up 52 votes on round 1) 435 - 1985 - Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone (Up 110 votes on round 1) 386 - 1997 - Spice Girls - Too Much (Down 35 votes on round 1) 371 - 2006 - Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This (Up 31 votes on round 1) 366 - 1984 - Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas (Down 16 votes on round 1) 354 - 1987 - Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind (Down 57 votes on round 1) 328 - 1974 - Mud - Lonely This Christmas (Down 76 votes on round 1) 297 - 2008 - Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah (Down 309 votes on round 1) 262 - 2016 - Clean Bandit - Rockabye (Up 100 votes on round 1) 260 - 1995 - Michael Jackson - Earth Song (Down 520 votes on round 1) 224 - 2001 - Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid (Down 91 votes on round 1) 122 - 1986 - Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite (Down 125 votes on round 1) By perecentage 80.8% - 1975/1991 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 73% - 2009- Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name 69.3% - 1981 - Human League - Don't You Want Me 59.8% - 1997 - Spice Girls - Too Much 59.1% - 1998 - Spice Girls - Goodbye 58.2% - 1996 - Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 57% - 2008 - Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah 56.6% - 2002 - Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground 53.1% - 2006 - Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This 46.9% - 1974 - Mud - Lonely This Christmas 43.4% - 1987 - Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind 43% - 2001 - Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid 41.8% - 1985 - Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone 40.9% - 1984 - Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas 40.2% - 1995 - Michael Jackson - Earth Song 30.7% - 2016 - Clean Bandit - Rockabye 27% - 1989 - Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas 19.2% - 1986 - Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite So of those eliminated in Round 2, Band Aid II had the most straight votes, very closely followed by Shaky, whilst Mud had the highest percentage of their vote of any eliminated contender in the round. We've lost the last bastion of the 2010s now, with the elimation of Clean Bandit, leaving us with the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s, and even then Queen is the sole representative of the 70s and Human League are the only 80s contenders remaining. Aside from the second coming of Bo Rhap, the 90s are now soley a Spice Girls zone, but they do at least have three fingers still in the pie so to speak, as all 3 of their yuletide toppers are through. Edited December 11, 20213 yr by DanChartFan
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