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Old 09-12-2013, 09:07
JEFF62
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There was a time when the Christmas number one was a big event. As early as October there would be predictions on what could be xmas number one. Then around late November the race would begin. Potential songs would start entering the charts and climb week by week. Certainly by this time in December the song destined for number one would be in the charts, probably in the top 5 or in a lot of cases would already be at number one. So what is happening this year. There are just two charts to go and nobody has a clue what will be number one in just 11 days. If it is The X Factor winner there is no clue as to what the song will be. Then whatever does get the xmas number one will appear at the top on December 22nd. By New Years Day it will be at number 29! So the xmas number one is no longer the big event it once was. Who remembers last years that well. It was actually the remake of He Aint Heavy He's Your Brother.How often do you hear that version now? You dont you hear The Hollies original more likely. So lets look forward to this years chart topper which will have its seven days of glory before dropping out of the top forty about two weeks later!
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Old 09-12-2013, 10:38
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It depends. There's a few songs that are contenders, we just don't know which of the contenders will do best yet (which surely makes it more exciting than those situations where the Christmas #1 is obvious since October?)

There's an old UK garage/bassline tune from Birmingham in the late 90's that in the running, and Capital FM has been backing the song too (which is honestly strange behaviour from a radio station that refused to play Bassline Junkie earlier in the year, but whatever...).

There's also a remix of an old rave tune from the 90's that's in the running. I think this one actually charted when it was first released, so it was a mainstream hit.

Both the examples I mentioned have been removed from download sites, and are going to be released on the Sunday for Christmas week, which gives them a better chance at getting #1, so we don't get them charting beforehand like JCB did in the mid 00's.

All the 90's pop groups that were part of the Big Reunion are getting together to do a Christmas single too. I honestly wouldn't mind them getting it to be honest, for nostalgia's sake, although I'd prefer the B15 Project to get it since I'm also from Birmingham and I love that time of music.

However, it's true this year that there doesn't seem to be one particular contender that has huge backing this year, like Killing in the Name or the Surfin' Bird song from from Family Guy did (although the latter didn't even manage to beat Rihanna and Drake's hit single What's My Name? at the time, let alone the X Factor single).

I think in general the Christmas #1 single will not be THAT remembered (whether it is the X Factor winners single or a campaign song). They're kind of novelty really. The only way in which it would be was if it was a "normal" song that won.
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Old 09-12-2013, 11:53
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I actually think Leona has a chance with 'One More Sleep'! It's starting to get a decent amount of airplay which will no doubt increase over this week!
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Old 09-12-2013, 13:14
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Technically no-one ever knows what it will be, but the bookies suspect it will be the X Factor winner again.
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Old 09-12-2013, 14:03
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I actually think Leona has a chance with 'One More Sleep'! It's starting to get a decent amount of airplay which will no doubt increase over this week!
It's doing well, but you need really high sales to compete with the X Factor winners song. It'll sell 200,000 at an absolute minimum imo, and I don't think any other song out now will sell that much naturally. It'll have to be an organized campaign to dethrone it.

Technically no-one ever knows what it will be, but the bookies suspect it will be the X Factor winner again.
I think it will be the X Factor as well. None of the other campaigns seem to have enough of a backing.
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