January 7Jan 7 Looks like the Ultimate Christmas Classic poll will need to be redone - a certain song which was left out of that is getting its justice here for sure! Mariah outdid The Darkness by more than 3:2 in that poll too.
January 8Jan 8 Author 5th: 301 points Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars (2014) Voters: detonate 20, dancemberlexa 19, CoolHand501 19, chartjack2 18, gooddelta 18, dandy* 18, gasman449 17, Roba. 16, Leonardo 15, Tuttavilla 15, chrissmith276 14, Electroboy 14, CowTzy 13, awardinary 13, JosephCarey 12, jimwatts 11, Jade 9, My…Stockings 8, popchartfreak 7, RabbitFurCoat 6, Chez Wombat 5, …ready for it 5, Mangø ho! ho! 4, Jester 3, Michael Bubré 2 20/12/2014 Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars Uptown Funk! Peak: 1 Chart run: {1}-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-3-3-6-9-8-8-5-8-12-12-12-11-12-14-16-18-19-18-21-19-28-28-30-32-32-35-35-41-43-36-43-39-47-50-48-49-48-53-61-72R(2)-71R(4)-55-53-73-74R(2)-74R(2)-71-68-71R(2)-75-75R(2)->61 OPf0YbXqDm0 Our favourite Christmas #2 of the last 15 years, this is as it stands the latest released song to reach 1 million paid for sales. It is Mark’s only #1 though he has had 3 #2s, and for Bruno it’s still his most recent chart topper. Its mammoth #1 run was interrupted for a week by Ben Haenow’s “Something I Need”, the last X Factor winner’s single to top the charts.
January 8Jan 8 Author 4th: 314 points I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake (1975) Voters: Jade 20, dandy* 20, Sausage Rollo 20, WhoOdyssey 19, Leonardo 19, Chez Wombat 19, RabbitFurCoat 19, popchartfreak 19, Roba. 19, Jester 18, dancemberlexa 17, chartjack2 17, JulianT 17, Severin 16, Michael Bubré 16, CoolHand501 12, Viper* 12, Dobbo 8, gooddelta 6, jimwatts 1 06/12/1975 Greg Lake Title: I Believe In Father Christmas Peak: 2 Chart run: 40-16-3-{2}-2-3-18->7 yfY4b1NszpY This Christmas song protesting about its commercialisation was held off #1 by the original “Bohemian Rhapsody” . It was Greg Lake’s only solo hit, though he reached #2 again a couple of years later as part of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. 15 of us placed it in our Top 5 here, and it very narrowly missed a Top 3 placing.
January 8Jan 8 If I didn't place the restriction of no Christmas songs on myself this one would've been in my top 5. Great festive song
January 8Jan 8 Ah, there goes my top pointer! Thrilled that 'I Believe In Father Christmas' has performed so well in this rate.
January 8Jan 8 Just did it for a laugh icl :lol: I assumed all the big ones would've done well without my votes anyway.
January 8Jan 8 I think I voted for all of this top 10, love seeing I Believe in Father Christmas do so well, remains one of the most beautiful and thoughtful Christmas songs, I pity Spotify's boring Americanised playlists for ignoring it x I'd be cool with any of the top 3 winning, though I guess The Pogues would be most appropriate.
January 8Jan 8 This is my first time hearing either the Housemartins or Greg Lake songs - both very nice! My dad did used to occasionally sing the first two lines of the Greg Lake song but I didn't know what it was. Would have given it double figures of points if I'd known it at the start of this rate!
January 8Jan 8 Mark Robson :heehee: Great to see that and Greg in the Top 5, the latter despite the 2 peak never gets a look in with all the classics :(
January 9Jan 9 Ah Greg Lake, the first record I ever bought with my own pocket money. It was partly a fruitless attempt to get it to Christmas number one ahead of Queen. Thinking back that was probably the start of my lifelong love affair with the UK charts! It’s still my favourite Christmas song, really beautiful with bittersweet lyrics, that are still very relevant to our modern world (sadly). So pleased and surprised at Jeff Buckley placing so high. That’s one of my favourite songs of all time, never mind number 2s at Christmas. Fantastic work guys! Edited January 9Jan 9 by Jaz13music
January 9Jan 9 Author Ah Greg Lake, the first record I ever bought with my own pocket money. It was partly a fruitless attempt to get it to Christmas number one ahead of Queen. Thinking back that was probably the start of my lifelong love affair with the UK charts! It’s still my favourite Christmas song, really beautiful with bittersweet lyrics, that are still very relevant to our modern world (sadly). So pleased and surprised at Jeff Buckley placing so high. That’s one of my favourite songs of all time, never mind number 2s at Christmas. Fantastic work guys! Welcome and glad you’re enjoying the countdown! :)
January 9Jan 9 Patience top 3? Would never ever have called that but it's a great song so rooting for either that or the Pogues to win. Massively unpopular opinion but I hate the Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah.
January 9Jan 9 Author 3rd: 320 points Patience - Take That (2006) Voters: Electroboy 20, CowTzy 19, JosephCarey 19, Mangø ho! ho! 18, Jade 18, CoolHand501 18, Michael Bubré 18, gooddelta 17, rio309 17, Chez Wombat 17, WhoOdyssey 15, Viper* 13, Dobbo 12, DarrenJames 11, dandy* 10, RabbitFurCoat 10, dancemberlexa 9, gasman449 9, JackJones 9, awardinary 7, detonate 7, Severin 6, Jason 5, My…Stockings 5, Leonardo 4, Tuttavilla 4, Jester 2, chartjack2 1 25/11/2006 Take That Patience Peak: 1 Chart run: 4-{1}-1-1-1-2-2-3-5-8-15-15-22-10-15-14-20-16-20-26-31-40-52-50-48-53-65-64-73-47R(5)-69-74-71-64R(13)-74-61R(8)-50-66-74-59R(45)->40 273eSvOwpKk What a comeback this was after just over 10 years. It spent 4 weeks at #1 before being knocked off by the X Factor winner’s single from Leona Lewis. Here it received points from 28 of 36 voters, the most of any song.
January 9Jan 9 Impressive result for Take That! I'm not that fussed on their 90s material ('Back For Good' aside) but the comeback was on point; 'Patience' is my favourite song of theirs.
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