Hi
Christmas is drawing ever closer, and here in the UK there is a real fascination about who will have the Number One Single on Christmas Day. In the last few years it has rather predictably always been the winner of X-Factor, so if things go to plan for Simon Cowell and Co this would mean that Joe McElderry’s version of “The Climb” will take the No.1 spot.
Anyway, I thought I might take you through the UK Christmas Number One Singles, decade by decade, starting with our current decade.
2000 Bob The Builder “Can We Fix It?” (probably one of the more embarrassing No. Ones)
2001 Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman “Somethin’ Stupid” (Nicole and Robbie cover Frank and daughter Nancy Sinatra’s hit)
2002 Girls Aloud “Sound of the Underground” (groovy guitar line a la Misirlou)
2003 Michael Andrews & Gary Jules “Mad World” (a hauntingly beautiful reinterpretation of the Tears for Fears original from the eigthies, which sounds very different. It featured in the movie Donnie Darko. This video was shot by French director Michel Gondry, who also made the movies Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind and The Science of Sleep)
2004 Band Aid 20 “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” (I have to say, I think the original version sounded better – but we’ll get to hear that when we get round to the eighties)
2005 Shayne Ward “That’s My Goal” (I have to be honest here, I cannot remember this one at all!)
2006 Leona Lewis “A Moment Like This” (another X-Factor winner)
2007 Leon Jackson “When You Believe” (… more X-Factor)
2008 Alexandra Burke “Hallelujah” (… is it me, or do the X-Factor winners al sound the same?)
