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A hat-trick for X Factor but a weak winner meant a much lower sale, not that there was any threat to its crown...yet.

 

1. Leon Jackson - When You Believe (NEW)

2. Katie Melua & Eva Cassidy - What A Wonderful World (1)

3. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love (2)

4. The Pogues feat Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York (8)

5. Soulja Boy Tell'em - Crank That (Soulja Boy) (3)

6. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (4)

7. Take That - Rule The World (7)

8. Mark Ronson feat Amy Winehouse - Valerie (11)

9. Girls Aloud - Call The Shots (5)

10. Timbaland presents OneRepublic - Apologize (6)

11. T2 feat Jodie Aysha - Heartbroken (9)

12. Cascada - What Hurts The Most (10)

13. Sugababes - Change (26)

14. Alicia Keys - No One (14)

15. Shayne Ward - Breathless (13)

16. Wham! - Last Christmas (14)

17. Westlife - Home (17)

18. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (16)

19. Sugababes - About You Now (15)

20. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody (22)

 

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31. Malcolm Middleton - We're All Going To Die (NEW)

32. Kylie Minogue - Wow (NEW)

34. Killers - Don't Shoot Me Santa (43)

39. Filo & Peri feat Eric Lumiere - Anthem (62)

40. Kate Nash - Pumpkin Soup (58)

65. Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston - When You Believe (Re-entry)

69. Britney Spears - Piece Of Me (Re-entry)

75. Mika - Relax - Take It Easy (Re-entry)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Scottish singer Leon Jackson won the fourth series of The X Factor and delivered its third Christmas No.1, the choice cover of a 1998 Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston duet shifting a respectable 275,742 copies - half as much as Leona the year before but way ahead of the former No.1, a 'duet' that added Katie Melua's vocals onto the late Eva Cassidy's existing version of What A Wonderful World. The single had been a Tesco exclusive and increased its sales on Christmas week to 59,680 while slipping to No.2 - sadly the Tesco trick didn't work for Nadine's Insatiable three years later.

 

Leona Lewis was in the Christmas top three for a second year running, her huge smash Bleeding Love on the way down after a seven week stay at No.1. Her album Spirit was a comfortable No.1 for Christmas ahead of albums by Westlife and Michael Bublé.

 

The floodgates had by this point opened to allow anything available to download into the charts, even without a physical product being available, and - naturally - this brought with it for the first time ever an onslaught of returning Christmas classics. 2007 would be the biggest impact for the festive perennials until the streaming era, as clearly a lot of people didn't yet have these songs on their iPods. Back in 2007 The Pogues and Mariah were fighting it out as the UK's favourite Christmas song - a battle that would go on for years after - and Mariah was quickest off the blocks, reaching No.4 the week before Christmas in her first appearance since she peaked at No.2 on first release in 1994, but The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl (on their third consecutive year in the top ten) ended up highest on Christmas week as Mariah slipped to No.6. Wham! also returned as the UK's then third favourite, while the 1973 classics from Wizzard and Slade also returned to the top 20, back when both were still the dominant sound of a British Christmas.

 

Elsewhere in the top 20, there were no other new entries but Sugababes vaulted to No.13 with ballad Change while the big (falling) dance hits came from garage revival Heartbroken by T2 and Cascada's What Hurts The Most, a Eurodance cover of a song that previously made the top 15 for Jo O'Meara in 2005, which was listed on the 2-track single as a double a-side with a popular cover of... Wham!'s Last Christmas. Yes, Cascada were basically higher than the original in 2007.

 

Rather than posting the MANY other returning Christmas classics, I've just gone for the new entries, re-entries and significant climbers to focus on outside the top 20. Scottish singer-songwriter Malcolm Middleton's cheery We're All Going To Die was the chart's second highest new entry, ahead of Kylie's follow up to 2 Hearts, Wow, which would peak inside the top five in the new year. One of many Killers' Christmas offerings, Don't Shoot Me Santa leapt to No.34 for Christmas while a very rare trance top 40 hit also arrived in the form of big climber Anthem by Filo & Peri feat Eric Lumiere. One of 2007's major new stars, Kate Nash, was on the climb into the top 40 with her new single, Pumpkin Soup, while there were re-entries for Mariah and Whitney (in the wake of Leon's cover), plus early 2008 hits from Britney Spears and Mika.

 

Let's see how BuzzJack reacted to the return of the Christmas faves, and Leon's victory, along with a few classic quotes:

 

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=59326

 

RabbitFurCoat on the Mariah/Soulja Boy No.5 battle:

 

'Crank That' may be the worst single to be released this year but it's still better than the tripe it's challenging for number 5. laugh.gif
Gary on the veteran members negatively commenting on Rihanna's Don't Stop The Music:

 

Why do all the older people in just complain about the music? blink.gif

 

Martin on Shaun The Sheep:

 

I just had his son for dinner, it was yum with gravy
Mikal on Slade:

 

I've never liked this Slade song. It scares me, the voices are weird LOL

 

andyboiUK on Kylie's single choices:

 

wow would have been no1, no doubt about that, not so sure with using it as 2nd single
Jessie Where on Girls Aloud's Call The Shots after Ben calls it the best song on Tangled Up:

 

I disagree strongly, I think it's one of the worst on the album.
thisispop on Leon Jackson:

 

After Shayne Ward & Leona Lewis' sales in Xmas week in the last two years if Leon has sold less than 300,000 in the first week, then I would label this single as a flop.

 

The reason why there is all this venom on the worldwide internet is due to the fact that Leon lacks some basic fundamental requirements to be a decent singer, he lacks charisma and has no stage presence, He looks out of his depth when performing in front of a camera, he can't move on stage, he speaks in such a dull voice that he makes PM Gordon Brown sound exciting. But most importantly he can not hold a melody or sing in tune (listen to the video of a live GMTV performance for evidence). I see better singers week in week out performing at my local. At least Michelle McManus & Steve Brookstein had that basic vocal quality.

 

I think it says something that within the last week the likes of KT Tunstall "Leon winning X Factor is an embarrassment to Scotland. I'm ashamed of my compatriots who voted for him just because of his nationality when he clearly was not the best singer in the final by a long, long margin....", Lee Mead, Connie Fisher, Vocal coaches to the stars Carrie & David Grant "he has a nice tone to his voice, but is range is limited & is vocally weak outside of his comfort zone. And he needs to do some serious work to be able to consistantly sing in key and in time..." , Alesha Dixon, Lemar, Simon Le Bon, Louie Walsh, Denise Van Outen, Melanie C "(laughing) Victoria & Geri are better singers than he is", former Fame Academy "headmaster" & former head of Universal records A&R in the UK and fellow Scot Richard Park "Leon winning ahead of Rhydian, is probably the biggest miscarriage in the history of British TV talent shows. And I would include going way back to Opportunity Knocks & New Faces. It would be tragic if it was not so hilarious..."

 

Leon might be for Christmas, but Rhydian will be around for a lot longer.

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'Change' SO deserved better in the charts, it's an absolutely beautiful song :cry:

 

Although post-album single at Christmas, and still being massively overshadowed by 'About You Now' it was probably gonna always be an uphill struggle for it.

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I discovered the other day that the sample running through the track is a royalty free soundbed that used to be on some of Apple's software?

 

Quite a choice, although tbf Sugababes used it very well:

 

 

I really loved all three singles from Change, as well as Never Gonna Dance Again.

Same Difference were the first reality TV act I was ever invested in and 10-year-old me was gutted that Leon won X Factor over them :lol: I was completely oblivious to odds at that point so had no idea which way it would swing, apparently Rhydian was actually the favourite.

 

My festive favourites here are from The Pogues and Wizzard while Girls Aloud and Take That are my top 'regular' songs, so glad I finally got to hear 'Call The Shots' live this year.

Love reading the old BJ Christmas threads :lol: all the complaints at the Xmas songs in the top 40 little did they know!! Also to think The Pogues was 20 years old in this thread and now it’s 40 years old, jaysus time really does fly!

 

And Amy Winehouse was no9 & 10 in the albums 😳

T2 & Jodie Aysha Heartbroken and Cascada What Hurts The Most are very good. I am so used to the Cascada version of the latter that I don't think I would like the original much.

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Love reading the old BJ Christmas threads :lol: all the complaints at the Xmas songs in the top 40 little did they know!! Also to think The Pogues was 20 years old in this thread and now it’s 40 years old, jaysus time really does fly!

 

And Amy Winehouse was no9 & 10 in the albums 😳

 

Glad they are a good addition, I find it fascinating looking back into the archives of a now nearly 20-year-old-website, which is mad in itself.

 

T2 & Jodie Aysha Heartbroken and Cascada What Hurts The Most are very good. I am so used to the Cascada version of the latter that I don't think I would like the original much.

 

Annoyingly the version on Spotify is clearly a re-recorded vocal :( Very close to the original, but not quite right.

It was thanks to an performance in The X Factor final that 'Wow' entered the chart in that week:

 

 

 

 

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Thanks, I forgot to mention that. Also meant to say that the climbs for Change, Pumpkin Soup and The Anthem, as well as a small climb for Scouting For Girls, were all due to physical releases. It was starting to get to the point where they made less of a difference and of course some top ten hits in 2007 (Say It Right by Nelly Furtado being one) didn’t even get a physical release.

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Glad they are a good addition, I find it fascinating looking back into the archives of a now nearly 20-year-old-website, which is mad in itself.

Annoyingly the version on Spotify is clearly a re-recorded vocal :( Very close to the original, but not quite right.

 

I know, that thread was only a few days before I signed up and I’ve made nearly 50k posts now!

I discovered the other day that the sample running through the track is a royalty free soundbed that used to be on some of Apple's software?

 

Quite a choice, although tbf Sugababes used it very well:

 

 

Utterly random! :lol:

 

Wizzard above Slade here *.*

 

'Change' :wub: found all the singles from this era very strong and Cascada's 'What Hurts The Most' is great too. Was glad to see that go top 10 just about. Of course other great hits like 'Rule The World', 'Call The Shots' and 'No One' riding high as was 'Apologize'.

 

 

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