What a disappointment for this year’s Christmas no. 1 with that cretin Justin Bieber looking to have won the race unless there is some divine intervention from God, PLEASE?
The 21-year-old's new track Love Yourself has nudged ahead of the NHS Choir's A Bridge over you in the race for the Christmas top spot, according to the Official Charts Company. His song is currently on the top spot. His lead is reported to be only 3,000 to 7,000 sales ahead with three days before the Christmas Day announcement.
With any luck, the charity song by the Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir's a re-working of Coldplay's Fix You and Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge over Troubled Water will pick up some momentum. All the proceeds from the song will be shared between healthcare charities, including Carers UK and Mind - with a percentage also being distributed to Samh (Scotland) and Niamh (Northern Ireland).
Looks like Simon Cowell and his X Factor winner Louisa Johnson will be lucky to break into the top five with her song Forever Young at the rate sales are going. Cowell’s record company and the man himself are now putting the poor performance down to the wrong song.
The charts have a sprinkling of festive classics in the mid-week Top 40. At number 13 there is one of my all-time favourites and a regular Christmas entry over the years ‘All I want for Christmas is you’ a hit for Mariah Carey. Another Christmas favourite a place behind is the Pogues featuring the late Kirsty MacColl and the little ditty Fairytale of New York.
Wham's ‘Last Christmas’ is in the top 40 sitting at number 22 with Slade’s Christmas anthem ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ making plenty of noise at 29. The other big Glam rock band around the same time as Slade, Wizzard have charted once again with ‘I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday’ a popular favourite, first released in 1973, is at number 30.
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