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Christmas Number Ones

Well, it’s that time of year again… when the bigwigs of the music industry encourage us to all vote with our wallets for the record that will form part of Christmas Compilation albums for years to come.

I will get around to writing my top 10 Christmas #1′s soon, but first a look at what could be setting the theme to Christmas 2005:

According to redabet the top ones are as follows:

  1. The Choirboys ‘Tears in Heaven’ (William Hill odds: 12/1)
  2. Tony Christie ‘Merry Xmas Everyone’ / ‘(Is This the Way to) Amarillo?’ (William Hill odds: 8-1)
  3. Westlife with Diana Ross ‘When You Tell Me That You Love Me’ (William Hill odds: 9/4)
  4. G4 feat. Robin Gibb ‘ When a Child is Born’ / ‘First of May’ (William Hill odds: 5-1)
  5. Girls Aloud ‘See the Day’ (William Hill odds: 10/1)
  6. Mariah Carey ‘Don’t You Forget About Us’ (William Hill odds: 40/1)
  7. Robbie Williams ‘ Advertising Space’ (William Hill odds: 12/1)
  8. Crazy Frog – title tbc (William Hill odds: 7/2)
  9. Coldplay ‘Talk’ (William Hill odds: 33/1)
  10. James Blunt ‘Goodbye My Lover’

so in their top 10, the first 4 are covers. I have already ranted about G4 covering one of my favourite songs in my review of Jasper Carrot’s Rock With Laughter. But still, why can’t they be original? is the lack of musical talent so bad in the UK that we are going for consecutive covers for 3 years as christmas number one?

And Will Tony Christie please stop living off Peter Kay?

The ‘Crazy’ ‘Frog’ (notable for being neither crazy nor a frog) has also had its day. it will be there for novelty value, but I don’t think it will be a contender for Christmas #1 (however, if it looks like a 1 on 1 with G4 and the ‘frog’ then I will buy as many copies of the frog as I can afford!)

However, a notable exception on the list, and a track which is starting to gain a lot of following on the internet is The JCB Song. I heard this last night and it is being released on 12th December. I quite fancy this as an underground hit… it happened with Gary Jule’s cover of ‘Mad World’. Check out the video on the website – it’s absolutely fantastic. The song is OK, too, a change from the manufactured rubbish we have been force-fed.



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