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    There's another AF Song Contest coming up and the next theme is BALLADS. Leona finished 9th in AFSC:1 so hopefully she'll do even better this time around. :lol:

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    We have until Tuesday to decide which of Leona's many ballads should go through to the final!

    RULES: Rank your top 5 Leona ballads below by 5.00 pm on Saturday 10th December. No criteria other than it has to be a ballad: so NO MID-TEMPOS. :P Once this round has closed, I'll tally the scores and the top 5 ballads will go through to the Final Poll which will open soon after. This round's full results will be posted there too.

    EDIT: If you can't think of five, just rank as many as you want but 5 is the max. :D

    Happy voting. :dance:

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    Yes but the difference this year is that streaming has a much bigger effect on the chart than ever before, and from what I understand she always hits the streaming #1 in the week or so before Christmas, so rather than just even out over the next 2 weeks I think she might very well climb. I can certainly see her finishing Top 3 this year, if not #1.

     

    This.

     

    If Drake can stay at number one for 15 weeks despite not being in the iTunes top 10 at one point (IIRC), I think Mariah has a good shot for just a week.

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    01. Leona Lewis - One More Sleep

    02. Wham - Last Christmas

    03. Jackson 5 - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

    04. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You

    05. The Pogues & Kirsty McCall - Fairytale of New York

    06. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

    07. Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody

    08. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

    09. Destiny's Child - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

    10. Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

     

    Honorary shout-out to Mr Right by Leona. I didn't want to duplicate artists.

    Fingers crossed the hospice & x factor both underperform allowing either Mariah or CB to take it. :P

     

    I know it sounds morally bad to say, but I'm sick of the charity choirs always taking the Christmas #1. It's good that they raise money for charity but do it another time of year. I wish the race for Christmas #1 could be an event again. Also, why don't people just make their own donation to the charity rather than buy a song they'll probably never listen to again?

     

    I can foresee the rising force of streaming helping the annual Christmas songs dominate the chart in the future. In the download era, barely anyone was going to buy the Christmas songs each and every year. A lot of people would've already got them on some compilation, in their original format, or even downloaded the songs the previous year. With streaming being the dominant platform these days, in the run up to Christmas, surely most music consumers would be listening to the Xmas Spotify playlists to get in the festive mood, and for Christmas parties etc. Nobody is going to stream an uninspired song for charity - and last year's one only sold 127,000 copies.

    Good luck all the Mariah betters. Someone start a Mariah for #1 campaign. :D

     

    but over the years in addition to the religious connotations of Christmas, a theme of happiness and joyousness has been incoorporated into the 'Christmas spirit', so it's not as if Christmas songs are totally irrelevant to Christmas :D

     

    Band Aid - poverty

    Wham - heartbreak

    Mariah - "f**k the Christmas Spirit, I want a man"

     

    It seems other things have been incorporated into the Christmas Spirit too. :lol:

    I can actually see Saara getting a traditional Christmas song like 'Silent Night' or 'O Holy Night' over the contemporary pop songs!

     

    Ew no Silent Night needs to be buried. Hopefully One More Sleep and Underneath The Tree get performed but I'm expecting the usual songs as always. :lol: