Leon set for Christmas number one

Source: bbc.co.uk

 

X Factor winner Leon Jackson is on track to score this year's Christmas number one single.

The 18-year-old Scot is currently number one in the mid-week chart with his debut track, When You Believe, according to industry paper Music Week.

 

Katie Melua and the late Eva Cassidy are set to be number two spot with What A Wonderful World, while Leona Lewis's Bleeding Love is in third place.

 

The Pogues' Fairytale Of New York has also seen a sales surge this week.

 

HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo told the BBC that download sales for the 1987 track had increased following Radio 1's decision to censor its lyrics.

 

'Momentum'

 

"It's one of those songs where, as people realise it's available to buy, they'll pick up on it and start downloading which is why momentum is growing for it," he said.

 

"It's not enough to beat the X Factor winner, but probably enough to propel it into the top three."

 

Radio 1 initially bleeped out the word "f*****" from the duet between Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan and the late Kirsty MacColl in case it offended listeners but changed its mind after complaints.

 

Castaldo added that it did not seem that Leon's song would sell as well as last year's Christmas number one by previous X Factor winner, Leona Lewis.

 

"It won't be quite as phenomenal as Leona," he said. "She sold 500,000 copies in four days.

 

"But he's still selling three to four times the amount of his closest rival."

 

Daniel Himsworth, a spokesman for Woolworths, said that copies of Leon's single were selling at the rate of 40-per-minute at the chain.

 

"There are definitely no challengers. If it continues this way he'll sell 350,000 in a week," he said.

 

YAWN.................. :mellow:

 

The xmas battle number one is dead now i'm afraid :mellow:

Is it just me or gosh is this xmas BORING? - Katie Melua/Leon/Pogues

Is it just me or gosh is this xmas BORING? - Katie Melua/Leon/Pogues

 

how can you include The Pogues in that list and call it boring? Please..... :rolleyes:

how can you include The Pogues in that list and call it boring? Please..... :rolleyes:

Maybe he mean't that because it isn't a new song and it's around every year in the charts?

I HATE the pogues song!

The Pogues is one of the ultimate xmas classics, I'd rather have that then Leon at #1.

Maybe he mean't that because it isn't a new song and it's around every year in the charts?

 

exactly - hardly exciting when its been around for years and years and years and years and years

It does seem that hardly any effort has been made in releasing xmas singles this year...

probably because of the X-Factor ruining any race for the top spot.

I HATE the pogues song!

 

:manson:

 

And why does that make it boring? Katie Melua? Yes. The Pogues? No. 'Biology' by Girls Aloud is about my worst song of the decade but under no circumstances would I call it BORING!

:manson:

 

And why does that make it boring? Katie Melua? Yes. The Pogues? No. 'Biology' by Girls Aloud is about my worst song of the decade but under no circumstances would I call it BORING!

 

 

quite

It does seem that hardly any effort has been made in releasing xmas singles this year...

probably because of the X-Factor ruining any race for the top spot.

Yeah, it seems like most acts just accept that they can't win so don't bother. This christmas chart has to be the most dullest ever, if it wasn't for the christmas songs than I would completely lose all interest. :(

how can you include The Pogues in that list and call it boring? Please..... :rolleyes:

Oh, please. Absolutely everybody I've spoken to is sick to the back teeth of that bloody song. Good originally? Yes. Good now, after thousands of rotations year-in-year-out on radio? Ermm, no. It's tedious now.

Oh, please. Absolutely everybody I've spoken to is sick to the back teeth of that bloody song. Good originally? Yes. Good now, after thousands of rotations year-in-year-out on radio? Ermm, no. It's tedious now.

:lol:

 

If EVERYONE is so sick to the back teeth of it why has it been a top 10 hit for three christmas running and constantly gets praise for being one of the greatest songs ever.

 

I'm certainly not bored of it, could listen to it all year..

:lol:

 

If EVERYONE is so sick to the back teeth of it why has it been a top 10 hit for three christmas running and constantly gets praise for being one of the greatest songs ever.

 

I'm certainly not bored of it, could listen to it all year..

Well good for you, but I couldn't. And was everyone on here not full of hatred for Sean Kingston? I rather think that was #1... :P

:lol:

 

If EVERYONE is so sick to the back teeth of it why has it been a top 10 hit for three christmas running and constantly gets praise for being one of the greatest songs ever.

 

I'm certainly not bored of it, could listen to it all year..

 

same here - it's THE Christmas song, really, isn't it? And if the song being massive again highlights the still-ongoing Justice For Kirsty campaign - then it's all good by me. The guy who murdered her still evades justice in Cuba - and it's a disgrace.

 

To call Fairytale of New York tedious - hilarious, really hilarious - I can think of 9 other songs in this weeks' top 10 I'd call 'tedious' - but tedium is something The Pogues could never, ever be accused of inspiring. Plus I've not spoken to a single person who's sick to the back teeth of it - quite the contrary, everyone I've spoken to is buying it again in a (sadly) vain attempt to prevent that shoddy little XFactor single getting to number one.... in fact, 3 other music messageboards I've visited today alone are all campaigning for people to buy the single again for this very reason :cheer:

everyone on here not full of hatred for Sean Kingston? I rather think that was #1... :P

 

but Jark - 'everyone on here' are hardly choosy or a fair representation of the record buying public - if it aint cheesy, female and camp - it's almost a foregone conclusion (many) Buzzjack members won't 'get' it.... <_<

Well good for you, but I couldn't. And was everyone on here not full of hatred for Sean Kingston? I rather think that was #1... :P

Do you not know people in real life then?

 

This site is far from the tastes of the general public! If you're not female, no matter how successful you are you're not going to be as popular as some flop American teen star on here!

 

 

same here - it's THE Christmas song, really, isn't it? And if the song being massive again highlights the still-ongoing Justice For Kirsty campaign - then it's all good by me. The guy who murdered her still evades justice in Cuba - and it's a disgrace.

 

To call Fairytale of New York tedious - hilarious, really hilarious - I can think of 9 other songs in this weeks' top 10 I'd call 'tedious' - but tedium is something The Pogues could never, ever be accused of inspiring. Plus I've not spoken to a single person who's sick to the back teeth of it - quite the contrary, everyone I've spoken to is buying it again in a (sadly) vain attempt to prevent that shoddy little XFactor single getting to number one.... in fact, 3 other music messageboards I've visited today alone are all campaigning for people to buy the single again for this very reason :cheer:

 

I totally agree. The Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl track will be the best record in the Top40 countdown on Sunday. Plus, if it is that bad, then why has it overtaken Mariah Carey in this week's midweeks? answer: Because it is a proper Christmas song. Not that the middle class University educated idiots on Radio 1 who decided to edit out the word f***** because they thought it was referring to to an offensive American slang for male homosexuals, when any one from a working class background, listens to the lyrics of the actual song, knows the context that the song was written from, or actually watched one of their own BBC documentary's about the making of the song would know from it's lyricist Shane MacGowan, the f***** referred to the popular traditional food dish made of meat balls with sauce which was increasingly popular during times of poverty & recession.

 

Yet they choose to A-Playlist the vile, lyrically repulsive Soulja Boy track Crank That!

All I'm saying is a lot of the people I speak to are sick of it, and a LOT of other people seem to rave about it just for the sake of it; just because it's cool to rave about such a classic. I'm not denying it's a classic, and I do really like the song, but it's been played to absolute death. And then back again.