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  Christmas number-one single - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Having the UK Christmas number one is very prestigious and leads to a lot of media coverage.
Since people are buying gifts for the Christmas period, single sales are extremely high in the week before Christmas, and since the Christmas number one is the single with the highest sales, record companies can make sizable profit from trying to get their single to Number One.
The race for the Christmas number-one of 2002 was also focussed on by the British ITV television programme Popstars: the Rivals, a reality TV show that formed an all-male and an all-female pop group - One True Voice and Girls aloud respectively - and made them compete for the Christmas number-one spot.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christmas_number_one_single   (474 words)

  
 Betting & Odds for the Christmas Number One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Christmas No 1 has been the holy grail for singers and groups for many years, with some memorable entries the best ever to date are Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, Do They Know It's Christmas for Band Aid.
The 2004 Christmas number one was a rerelease of Do They Know It's Christmas for Band Aid 20, twenty years since the original hit the top of the charts.
The Christmas No 1 has offered a great opportunity for punters to wager, though often to get the best odds you'll need to get your bets placed very early and do your researh so you know what is going to be released.
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 Christmas Betting Odds - Xmas Number One
If he does enter the yule charts - i'll be under the christmas tree with wrapping and tinsel wrapped around my head with the bauble decorations plugged into my earholes to drown out the sound.
I think the christmas dinner turkey, mince pies and cream may go out of the window in fit of what could best be described as brandy christmas cake blues.
BETFAIR claim they were right to void Christmas No. 1 bets on Gary Jules despite incurring the wrath of several punters who believe they are entitled to a payout at big odds.
www.gamblog.co.uk /2005/11/christmas-betting-odds-xmas-number-one.htm   (943 words)

  
 Girls Aloud hit number one for Christmas | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
And the old custom of moaning about the Christmas number one is set to continue this year as Girls Aloud, a pop group manufactured for a TV series, top the charts despite low sales of their single.
The Christmas charts are usually plagued by novelty hits because of their popularity at office parties and with people who do not usually buy records.
Although Christmas sales fluctuate, they do appear to be in long-term decline: the number of singles sold this December has dropped 19% from last year and 44% from 2000.
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 List of Christmas number one singles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of Christmas number one singles in the United Kingdom.
The number one single as given by the official UK Singles Chart
Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is the only single to have reached the top twice at Christmas time, in 1975 and 1991, although Do They Know It's Christmas has been Christmas number one in each of its three versions.
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 Christmas Number One Betting | Xmas Number 1 Single Odds
Odds on Christmas number one single are now available with the X Factor Winner among the favourites.
Hills spokesman Rupert Adams said," The X Factor winner is still the 4/7 odds on favourite for the Xmas 1, but we have taken considerable sums on Chico which would be a big shock for all music fans." Hills have also installed the Cantamus girls' choir as a 25/1 outsider in the Xmas 1 betting.
William Hill Christmas: 4/7 Winner Of X Factor, 5/1 Nizlopi, 6/1 Westlife and Diana Ross, 8/1 Chico Slimani, 10/1 The Pogues, 10/1 England Cricketers, 12/1 The Choir Boys, 16/1 Girls Aloud, 16/1 Cantamus, 20/1 Robbie Williams, 20/1 Crazy Frog, 20/1 Eminem, 25/1 James Blunt, 25/1 Take That, 33/1 Tony Christie.
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 Christmas World
He provides Christmas information to Charles Osgood and can often be heard during Christmas week on "The Osgood File" on the CBS Radio Network.
Christmas 2002: Bill discussed the history of "Silent Night" on WMFE 90.7-FM Orlando during Christmas week.
For Christmas 2001, he is designed "Christmas in the Alps" a museum exhibit for an historic Florida museum.
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 Christmas Number 1 1999
What Was the Christmas Number 1 in 1999 in the UK
Number 1 singles from the 1960's to the present day.
Christmas means a complete covering of snow, ideally falling between...
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 Origin of Christmas Cards
The first Christmas card’s inscription read: "merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you." "Merry" was then a spiritual word meaning "blessed," as in "merry old England." Of the original one thousand cards printed for Henry Cole, twelve exist today in private collections.
Christmas is the number one card-selling holiday of the year.
For those who cringe at the creeping materialism surrounding Christmas, a pious story about the origins of the candy cane is definitely a change of pace.
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 Essential UK - Christmas Number One - British Council - Language Assistant
The Christmas number one single is written about in newspapers, talked about on the radio and people can even bet money in betting shops to see which single will win the race.
The Christmas single must be the type of record that everyone in the family will like, from 6 to 60.
Some famous Christmas singles are anthem songs which lots of people like to sing along to, others are just great to dance to and have no lyrics that refer to Christmas.
www.britishcouncil.org /languageassistant-christmas-number1.htm   (1639 words)

  
 Christmas number 1 2005
One astounding facet from Xmas that is passed down from the book to commonly found lore was the annunciation produced by angels of God to a variety of herders of sheep with respect to the obstetrical delivery.
Christmas Number One singles are that Christmassy (no, Forum Member.
The Christmas number one is an odd little beast, most of them aren't the week Entered the charts at and 2, climbed to number 1 the following ones number.
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 » Number One Hits - Yahoo! Radish
This playlist contains 197 tracks that hit the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the decade that was the 1970s.
The same year that The Scrabble board game debuted, Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Ca, James Dean was killed in an automobile accident, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat and the Sudan declared independence.
The 1950s society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the baby boom from returning GIs who went to college under the G.I. Bill and settled in suburban America.
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 Search: Christmas Number 1 - MetaCrawler
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 Song about a JCB tipped for Christmas No 1 | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
So far this week they've performed live on XFM, been interviewed by Central TV and had their song aired on Radio 2 and Radio 1, which considering their single hasn't been released yet must be some kind of record.
The track, a heartwarming ditty about a boy riding on his father's mechanical digger to escape bullies at school, is being hailed as a welcome antidote to manufactured pop and the real people's choice this Christmas.
Much of their success is down to the internet: armed with an imaginative animated video featuring childlike drawings of toys and monsters, and a fanatical cult following, Nizlopi - who met on a school bus when they were 13 - began streaming the song from their jcbsong.co.uk website this summer.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1646297,00.html   (714 words)

  
 UK Christmas Number One Betting
There was a time when the Christmas number one was a big betting heat but due to the success of the Pop Idol show the winner of this show provided the number one at Christmas for a number of years.
The music industry tries really hard to produce a number one hit for Christmas as the record sales at this time of the year are much bigger than any other.
A number of the Online Bookmakers listed on this site offer Christmas number one betting under the specials section markets and you can open an account with any of these bookmakers by simply clicking on the bookmaker of your choice right here on this site.
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 The UK Christmas Number Ones
It was regarded as the most traditional Christmas number one for many years.
This tune stayed at number one for eleven weeks, which is the longest stay for a Christmas number one.
Wacko Jacko’s appearance at number one ended what could not be called a classic year for the record industry.
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 The Christmas Number One - Icons of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Christmas hasn’t always been a time for annoying, throwaway songs – ever since Al Martino had the first festive British number one in 1952 with 'Here In My Heart' there have been some passable and even classic songs at the top on December 25th, including The Beatles with 'I Want To Hold Your Hand'.
Everything was going fine until 1969, when Rolf Harris’ 'Two Little Boys' became the first novelty record to hit the Christmas number one.
In 1973, the first of the big seasonal songs arrived: 'Merry Xmas Everybody' was at the top for five weeks from the beginning of December.
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 Christmas number one
Despite missing the number one spot, Christmas coveted early for Irish heartthrob one.
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 Beech Mountain Fraser Fir Farms - wholesale & mail order christmas trees
Whether you purchase your Christmas trees and/or Christmas wreaths wholesale, mail-order, or from one of our retail lots, your complete satisfaction is our number one priority.
We do not begin the harvest of wholesale Christmas trees until the second week in November and all trees are stored under shade cloth, with the stump on the ground to ensure freshness.
Our mail-order Christmas trees are cut no more than 24 hours prior to the shipping date, and our Christmas wreaths are made to order.
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 Christmas number one 2002 article learnenglish
Read on to find out which records could be number 1 in the UK this Christmas...
And the Cheeky Girls, who didn't last long on Popstars, but whose Cheeky Song went straight to number one two weeks ago, have to be considered as well.
Currently in top place is Elton John's remake of Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word, which has guest vocals from the boyband Blue.
www.learnenglish.org.uk /magazine/xmas_number_one_2002.html   (194 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Gary Jules tops Christmas charts
Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) was widely expected to be The Darkness's first UK number one.
Their song, which debuted at number five, had been odds-on favourite to reach the top spot before their rivals' records were released.
And Christmas Is All Around by actor Bill Nighy, from the film Love Actually, only made it to number 26.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3335473.stm   (445 words)

  
 Christmas Number One Betting Odds - Choirboys, Coldplay, Madonna… - Hecklerspray: Music, Movies, TV, Celebs, ...
Then in 2010, when the 2005 Christmas Number One makes you nauseous, you can at least console yourself by remembering that you won a few quid on it.
Christmas Number One Fact Of The Day - Although that beardy fool Justin Lee Collins keeps running about the telly shouting that there hasn’t been a UK Christmas Number One for 15 years, he’s wrong.
Christmas Number One singles every day between now and Christmas.
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 Christmas Number One Update
This year's festive pudding is comprised of a mixture of pop sludge, CND rants, quad bike accidents, Tears For Fears covers and the bizarre sight of one man in a worryingly festive catsuit.
Hot on their heels, however, are those stalwarts of the seasonal double guitar assault, The Darkness, with 'Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)' (currently 5/1).
Coming off the back of a sold out tour and a number 2 single, the Lowestoft four-piece were hotly tipped to take the prize, but may just have to make do with a new US record deal with Universal Music Publishing.
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 Crazy songs for Christmas number one
Crazy songs for Christmas number one: One of the stories from our all new celebrity news and gossip section.
The single, which is targeting the pop holy grail of Christmas number one, is a double A side, featuring the song Jingle Bells and a remix of the 1990s MC Hammer classic, U Can't Touch This.
Coral, the bookmaker, currently has the Crazy Frog at 12/1 to be top of the Christmas chart, behind 4/6 favourite the X Factor 2005 winner.
www.northernbase.co.uk /crazy_songs_for_christmas_number_one.html   (206 words)

  
 Christmas number one single - Definition, explanation
In addition single sales are extremely high in the week before Christmas so a lot of money can be earned as well.
Traditionally very many people place a bet on who will be the Christmas number one at a bookmaker's.
See the list of Christmas number one singles.
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 Gary Jules: Pips the Darkness to Christmas Number one
Gary Jules Pips the Darkness to Christmas Number 1
Michael Andrews and Gary Jules have topped the Christmas charts with their cover of the Tears For Fears song Mad World.
He said being made the UK's Christmas number one with the piano and vocals song from the film Donnie Darko was "the greatest thing in the world".
www.femalefirst.co.uk /entertainment/christmas-number-one-confirmed.php   (145 words)

  
 The Daily Punt - Christmas Number One Single (Sunday 25th December!)
....Christmas Number One ALBUM is a market that William Hill occasionally like to put out and as soon as the big hitters have put up what albums are available to buy during Christmas, it may be worth a few quid to back something in that market instead of the Christmas Number One SINGLE crapshoot.
Just coming off a number 1 debut song and this song is top of all the music channel viewer charts too.
The winner of The X Factor will be in the running for the Christmas number one, it has been confirmed.
www.thedailypunt.com /forum/showthread.php?t=5726   (2453 words)

  
 NME.COM - News - Christmas number one - the latest odds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The X Factor winner is on course to become the Christmas number one, according to Ladbrokes.
The winning X Factor song will be rush released by Simon Cowell, giving the public just 4 days to take it to the top spot.
Ladbrokes spokesman Karl Williams said: "This year's battle for Christmas number 1 could yet be the closest in years, despite the X Factor's strong presence'
www.nme.com /news/nme/21624   (133 words)

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