Update 2: The Christmas Number One battle is over, the X Factor lost to Rage Against the Machine. I’ve posted about it here.
Update: Decided to back Chris Moyles’ attempt to knock X Factor off the number one spot instead. See Chris Moyles vs. The X Factor for Christmas Number One? for details!
Buy the songs:
- Rage Against the Machine: Killing In The Name [Explicit]
- Joe McElderry: The Climb
So, that time of year is fast approaching. It’s almost Christmas, and it’s very likely to be another Christmas number one for the winner of the X Factor. Just as it has been for the last four years. We were talking about this at work earlier and we decided that it’s time to give an actual Christmas song a chance, for a change! To take that honour, we chose Bruce Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.”
Who really wants to spend Christmas listening to John and Edward murder another song, anyway? Or just as bad, who wants to spend it listening to Jamie Afro, Danyl Johnson, or any of the others singing about love, anyway? We all know there’s nothing better than sitting around with your family, having a drink and listening to cheesy Christmas classics. Don’t deprive the kids of that!
Now, our plan is as follows: We would like everyone, and I mean everyone, to forego buying this year’s XFactor single, and instead – pop onto iTunes or Amazon and instead, buy Santa Claus is Coming to Town. It’s important that you don’t do this now, you need to buy it during the week of the 14th to the 20th of December, so we get it into the charts for the 2009 Christmas Number One.
We know that a group of people tried to do this last year and got their song to number two, but that’s not going to put us off. We think that should only make everyone try harder to get Bruce Springsteen to number one for Christmas 2009! To help us do this, please re-blog this, linking to either this post, or Wade’s post. If you don’t have a blog, please tweet this post, or put it on Facebook. We will, of course, be posting about this a few more times between now and Christmas, so don’t worry about forgetting.
He’s makin’ a list, checkin’ it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty or nice… Santa Claus is comin’ to town…
[...] My friend at work Dan (who I was discussing this with today) has blogged about it too and he made a good point I missed [...]
Last years contestants seem to be doing well for themselves!Did you know last years contestant Laura White has a new single out? Its called ‘you should have known’Ex contestant Laura White has a new song out called you should have known!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Yyq13UYXA
though i prefer ‘for the love of it all’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08s4EOqt98I&feature=related
Jess: We’re not saying that they’re not doing well… They certainly are.
The problem is, they’re getting Christmas number one every year even though they’re not really releasing Christmas music. We’d like to see an actual Christmas song hit number one.
i don’t agree with you at all!! i hate the cheesy annoying christmas songs. i like the way x factor gets in to the number 1 every year even if it is crap.
screw u
we hear the same old christmas songs every year on music channels and its so annoying!! who doesn’t agree with me???
thats why the popstar has a chance ofcourse!and its a new song to be heard for xmas which is niiice.
i think x factor should just stick to charity songs and let a proper Christmas song be number 1
I like this Christmas song. No money involved here:
Have a top top top top Christmas
by Ricardo M & The Christmas Helpers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-yLm_Qhmy
http://www.facebook.com/topchristmas
please join my facebook group let make sure that the x factor christmas song does not reach number