A festive survivor to determine the best and worst singles for John Lewis ads over the years.

The previous round has seen the following song eliminated;

2015: Aurora – Half The World Away

Featuring a cover of Oasis' 1994 B-side "Half the World Away", sung by Norwegian singer Aurora, the 2015 campaign tells the story of a young girl trying to contact an old man spotted living alone on the Moon. Her attempts to catch the man's attention fail until she sends him a special delivery of a telescope, via hot-air balloon, and the man finally gets to see Earth on Christmas night. The strapline for the advert is "Show someone they're loved this Christmas", with the company teaming up with the charity Age UK. The advert, the first of the brand's Christmastime commercials that was directed by a woman – Kim Gehrig –, is estimated to have cost around £7 million.

2009: Taken By Trees – Sweet Child o' Mine
2010: Ellie Goulding – Your Song
2011: Slow Moving Millie – Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
2012: Gabrielle Aplin – The Power Of Love
2013: Lily Allen – Somewhere Only We Know
2014: Tom Odell – Real Love
2015: Aurora – Half The World Away
2016: Vaults – One Day I'll Fly Away
2017: Elbow – Golden Slumbers
2018: Elton John – Your Song
2019: Bastille – Can't Fight This Feeling
2020: Celeste – A Little Love
2021: Lola Young – Together In Electric Dreams
2022: Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox feat. Puddles Pity Party – All The Small Things
2023: Andrea Bocelli – Festa
2024: Richard Ashcroft – Sonnet

Here is a Spotify playlist to assist you;



You have around 48 hours for this round before the winner is announced! :o

'The Power Of Love' to win. A very strong cover imo!

Love both, but Gabrielle gets my vote :wub:

Ellie Goulding - This was the first song I heard playing when I came to London for the first time in April 2011. So it’ll always hold a special place with me.

Gabrielle to win, her song is the better one here.

Going with Gabrielle Aplin

 

Saw her supporting Passenger before and she didn’t perform this!!!

Gabrielle very comfortably.

Gabrielle is one of the worst ones lmao

Went for Ellie as the lesser of 2 evils.

Gone for Ellie to win, thought it was a really nice cover and the first really big Christmas one from John Lewis.

There's still time to vote for your winner as I will reveal the winner tomorrow sometime! ;)

I've always had a soft spot for Gabrielle's Power of Love, it's a very nice cover that suits her quite well. Ellie's is rather pleasant as well which I guess is enough to say we have the correct top 2 x

Any final votes for this final round? ^_^