World Cup Singles go head to head

Source: Music Week

 

Two of the biggest selling singles artists of 2005 have stepped onto the pitch for the battle for World Cop chart glory.

 

Both Tony Christie and Crazy Frog will record new football-themed tracks released by Gut records this May and Tony with a new version of (Is this the way to) Amarillo retitled to (Is The Way To) The World Cup.

 

Amarillo was the only single to sell more than im million copies last year, while Axel F 493,000 sales placed it as 2005's third biggest singles seller. Christie and Crazy Frog will be among a host of acts offering world Cup songs around this June's event in Germany with others Embrace who will be recording the England Team Song, II Divo singing FIFA's official Tournament Anthem 'Time Of Our Lives'

 

Gut is no newcomer to the fottball related releases, having enjoyed a NO.2 hit with the Euro 2004 single Come on England by 4-4-2 featuring Talk Sport presenters which sold more than 70,000 units

 

"Tony Christie was the biggest-selling artist of 2005," says Gut Managing Director Steve Tandy. "Wouldn't it be fantastic if he can do the same again this year?"

Oh please! :rolleyes: Embrcae will be the only decent one!

from bbc

 

Punk singer Jimmy Pursey, formerly of Sham 69, is to record an alternative England World Cup song.

Hurry Up England, a reworking of his band's 1978 hit Hurry Up Harry, was chosen by Virgin Radio listeners as the station's rival to the official song.

 

All proceeds from sales of the single, chosen following a competition, will go to the Teenage Cancer Trust.

 

Rock band Embrace have been chosen to record England's official World Cup song, World At Your Feet.

 

The station's breakfast DJ Christian O'Connell, who organised the competition, said: "Unlike other football songs, this will truly be a single made by the fans, for the fans."

 

The single's B-side will be the runner-up in the competition, Howling At The Moon, entered by a group of under-eights from Dorchester Raiders football team.

 

Conference hit

 

Former England footballer John Barnes, who appeared on New Order's 1990 official song World in Motion, will rap on one of the tracks.

 

Sham 69's 1978 song If The Kids Are United was Tony Blair's surprise choice of walk-on music for his appearance at last year's Labour Party conference.

 

The World Cup contest begins in Germany on 9 June.

 

Singer Joe Fagin is reworking his 1984 hit That's Livin' Alright, the theme tune to TV show Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, as another alternative World Cup football anthem.

 

Oh please! :rolleyes: Embrcae will be the only decent one!

There's not a chance of it being decent. When has there EVER been a good official song?

Tony Christie has had his time now! I can't stand it when things are just redone and repackaged because it sold well, I hope it flops! :lol:

it will flop like that dj otzi rehash of hey baby at WC 2002

hang on, didnt jamster promise no more crazy frog singles :cry:

 

doesnt matter as crazy frog is soooooooo old now

Surely even the people stupid enough to buy Crazy Frog are over it now? :rolleyes:

 

And talk about Tony Christie milking it :rofl: He did the same thing again last Xmas and it all it was was a FLOP

I think its good when everyone gets behind their countries with their songs but there all rubbish........... and both singles will probably flops but I do reckon that the Tony Christie one might do pretty well.

"Tony Christie was the biggest-selling artist of 2005," says Gut Managing Director Steve Tandy. "Wouldn't it be fantastic if he can do the same again this year?"

 

Couple of points here...

 

1. Yeah mate, it'd be fantastic for you to recoup some of the cash you spent promoting his latest comeback which has fallen on its arse.

 

2. Amarillo sold the majority of its copies because it was for Comic Relief or because people somehow didn't see enough of that effing treadmill video on the TV, they had to buy the DVD too.

 

This is cynical, exploitative c**p from Gut records and I hope they go bust over it.