come 'anticipate' this year's Christmas number 1...

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contenders:

Christina Aguilera - 'The Voice Within'
Blue feat. Stevie Wonder & Angie Stone - 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered'
The Cheeky Girls - 'Have A Cheeky Christmas'
Ozzy & Kelly Osbourne - 'Changes'
Cliff Richard - 'Santa's List'
The Darkness - 'Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)'/'Friday Night'
Four Poofs And A Piano - 'Camp Up Your Christmas'
Robin Gibb feat. Alistair Griffin - 'Lover's Prayer'
Wyclef Jean & Missy Elliot - 'Party To Damascus'
Billy Mack - 'Christmas Is All Around'
Avid Merrion - 'Little Drummer Boy'/'Proper Crim-bo!'
Pop Idol Finalists - 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over)'

truly frightful

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I see that there is no bob the builder, so I must conclude that neither this, nor anything else matters anymore.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Most of these are made up, right?

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It will have to be The Darkness. The music industry can't afford it not to be The Darkness.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 10 November 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

no, they all look quite believable to me.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

If "Crashed The Wedding" was out a month later I'd go for Busted, but Ver Darkness out of that lot.

― Nick H, Monday, 10 November 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

in case you didn't know Four Poofs And A Piano are the quasi-musical accompaniment on Jonathan Ross's chatshow in the UK

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

so in with a bullet at 97 for them then

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

You forgot THE DARK HORSE:

Gary Jules - Mad World

But it'll probably be Your Pop Idols. By submission.

If The Osbournes think they even have a sniff of the top 10... well, they're wrong, basically.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Ving Raymes - 'White Christmas'

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

rank outsiders:

Frank Bruno 'Crazy'
Peter Reid 'Stay Another Day'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Topical

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish it could be trousers every day...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

> Pop Idol Finalists - 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over)'

How about

Plastic Ono Band - 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over)'
Delta Goodrem - 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over)'

― Alan Connor (Alan Connor), Monday, 10 November 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a rubbish song!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 10 November 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i was thin king about going home to london from toronto this christmas. but now... never.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 10 November 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

heh, black eyed peas' "shut up" = boxing day No.1 fa sheezy

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i was thin king about going home to london from toronto this christmas. but now... never.

Come to Cali, you twat! you thin king!

Avid Merrion!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

If only it was Elephant Man's "Badman Holiday"!!

"Party To Damascus" is quite good but I'm not sure where the tune is so I doubt it'll chart that hugely.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Having carefully reviewed all of the contenders, I think I can confidently state that I fully anticipate completely and utterly loathing it.... that doesn't actually help to narrow the field down at all 'though, does it?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope it's "Shut Up".

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i left out Justin Timberlake's 'I'm Lovin' It' btw

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

.. and them Paul McCartney pops his clogs and so we all go out and buy "Hey Jude"!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

the Jose Ferrante version!

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I wouldn't mind seeing Robin Gibb have a second UK hit without his brother(s), 20 years too late of course ... but I'm not sure whether I want it to be "Lover's Prayer".

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Want to bet on the Xmas no. 1 already?

I stand by my post there ;)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Billy Mack - 'Christmas Is All Around'

Dude!

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 12 November 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

nobody's mentioned Noddy yet!!!

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Alright, here we go maaan!

The Xmas No 1 is going to be:

BUSTED : Hark the herald angels sing. It's the b-side of Crash the wedding, and I just know it's going to get flipped in mid december. and will go back to number one.

Get good odds now.

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 16 November 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Gary Jules - Mad World

heard zanewood play this. he said anyone who hadn't seen 'donnie darko' needed to 'educate themselves' and 'buy the dvd'. twat. i don't see why it cdn't be, though.

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"i left out Justin Timberlake's 'I'm Lovin' It' btw "

please tell me this isn't being released as a single?

― robin (robin), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not being released as a single

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Dark horse rising - Mad World debuts on the Radio 1 B-List today.

Which makes the shutting out of 'Hurt' just that little bit more perplexing.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I have just heard "Proper Crim-bo"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 21 November 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Could someone please come round to my house and kill me?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 21 November 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

X Factor 08 winner 1/6
Rolf Harris and Fron Male Choir 33/1
Boyzone 66/1
Terry Wogan and Aled Jones 11/2
The Priests 33/1
Alesha Dixon 66/1
Leona Lewis 12/1
The Pogues 33/1
Glasvegas 66/1
Geraldine McQueen 14/1
Pink 33/1
James Morrison feat Nelly Furtado 80/1
Status Quo 16/1
Britney Spears 40/1
Glam Chops 80/1
Take That 16/1
Girls Aloud 40/1
Sugababes 100/1
Only Men Aloud! 20/1
Wombats 40/1
Razorlight 100/1
Bob the Builder 25/1
Ricky Hatton 40/1
Leon Jackson 100/1
Mariah Carey 25/1
Killers 40/1
Same Difference 100/1
Kings of Leon 25/1

― Mark G, Monday, 1 December 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

There's George Michael too (but is that just a free thing though?)

― NickB, Monday, 1 December 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

*supply hilarious punchline of your choice*

― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 1 December 2008 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

The Bob the Builder track is called "Big fish Little fish Cardboard box"

― Mark G, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:06 (seventeen years ago)

Glam Chops?? Whatever it is - ftw.

― DavidM, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:07 (seventeen years ago)

Something to do with Art Brut and/or David Devant and his Spirit Wife, the latter of whom senior readers may dimly recall.

― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 1 December 2008 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

It's also free: http://www.purr.org.uk/glamchops/

― James Mitchell, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

David Devant? Good grief!

― DavidM, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:15 (seventeen years ago)

Something to do with Art Brut and/or David Devant and his Spirit Wife, the latter of whom ~~senior~~ ginger readers may dimly recall.

(Nearly brought 'em up on late-90s-"glam"-(schm)indie thread, except I didn't hate them, so thought they'd be out of place)

― ..··¨ rush ~°~ push ~°~ ca$h ¨··.. (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 1 December 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

Only Men Aloud!

Lol, only a decade late with that one fellas.

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:55 (seventeen years ago)

Glam Chops = this year's Malcolm Middleton then, yes?

― ailsa, Monday, 1 December 2008 18:04 (seventeen years ago)

Rolf Harris and Fron Male Choir 33/1 = this years Four Poofs And A Piano - 'Camp Up Your Christmas'?

― DavidM, Monday, 1 December 2008 18:07 (seventeen years ago)

Terry and Aled could maybe have given X-Factor vs Laughing Len Cohen a run for their money if they hadn't bottled it and schedule the release of theirs for the week before. It is truly fucking horrible though.

― ailsa, Monday, 1 December 2008 18:16 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/event/703210

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 1 December 2008 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

"5 attending" - poor sod!

― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 08:02 (seventeen years ago)

OK, so what are the current odds on this?

― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 10:04 (seventeen years ago)

What's that Ricky Hatton thing? Is it a hook-up with his bezzie mates Noel and Liam? I hope not.

― robo20, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 10:08 (seventeen years ago)

Let's Not Fight This Christmas will be released on December 8. Written by Squeeze's Chris Difford, it is a collaboration between Sergeant, 64, and Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley of The One Show.

so, a joke not quite far enough?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 10:16 (seventeen years ago)

What's that Ricky Hatton thing? Is it a hook-up with his bezzie mates Noel and Liam? I hope not.

― robo20, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 10:08 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Apparently:

They say he's never seen a salad, that's why he's fat/He's never been on a diet, and he'll drink to that/He likes his pies and pasties, a pint of Guinness or two/He's the one they call Ricky Fatton, tonight he's here for you/And it's hi ho Ricky Hatton, he ate all the pies/He's never seen a salad, he ate all the pies."

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 10:17 (seventeen years ago)

James Morrison feat Nelly Furtado 80/1

oh nelly!

― or something, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 10:41 (seventeen years ago)

At least John Sargeant is not famous for the colour of his suit like that other one

― robo20, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 10:51 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

what should be the wacky social media-enabled xmas no. 1 for 2k10?

― l'avventura: pet detective (history mayne), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 17:35 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UbkDzp5LuY

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 17:43 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=211698724139&ref=ts -_-

― teledyldonix, Thursday, 30 September 2010 08:36 (fifteen years ago)

Lets get as many members as possible for another great Xmas number 1 in 2010, Simon and crappy X-Factor number 1s can suck my balls!

― teledyldonix, Thursday, 30 September 2010 08:37 (fifteen years ago)

Fuck that shit, I'd rather have Diva Fever covering Captain Sensible's 'Happy Talk' at #1 for ten weeks before I'll ever listen to bloody 'Rollin'' again.

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 30 September 2010 08:48 (fifteen years ago)

Rollin?

Blimey.

Since last year, there's been a bunch of "We can do this too" entries, but by nature of there being mre than one, none of them will get any kind of consensus: People will just not pick any.

Yeah, I'd like Earl Brutus' "Union Jackson" version of Mouldy Old Dough to succeed, but.

― Mark G, Thursday, 30 September 2010 08:53 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I'd like Earl Brutus' "Union Jackson" version of Mouldy Old Dough to succeed, but.

yeah .. i too would like this.

but having the pre new out there wearing suits on a saturday night and making new(ish) noise will suffice.

[also, being honest, i'm not sure what to do with the mp3s at the moment as that particular adventure seems to have hit a brick wall in recent times
.. may be that if there is no progress the music will be posted in relevant places .. ]

― mark e, Thursday, 30 September 2010 09:12 (fifteen years ago)

there is a facebk group to make cage's 4:33 the xmas no1

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 30 September 2010 09:30 (fifteen years ago)

Please let it be performed by Jedward...

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 30 September 2010 09:34 (fifteen years ago)

Would get behind a campaign for Mungo Jerry's In The Summertime.

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 30 September 2010 09:47 (fifteen years ago)

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