I don’t agree with people looking down on pop music because it’s not cool or alternative enough for them, so I wouldn’t normally go along with this campaign. They are right though, UK Christmas Number 1’s are more often than not, awful. Forget the campaign, Lucky Soul’s, Lips Are Unhappy is a catchy song with great lyrics (they sound a lot like The Pipettes). I’ve pre ordered.
Lucky Soul For Christmas No 1
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November 20th, 2007 |
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The thing I find most interesting about the idea is whether an Internet campaign like this actually stand a snowball’s chance against the TV-reality-show-manufactured group-of-choice who will undoubtedly emerge a week before Christmas and have screaming teens buying singles by the shedload.
I’ve pre-ordered too
Comment by Andy Piper — November 21, 2007 @ 1:49 pmI’m not sure, I don’t think singles don’t get that massive sales any more, so it does have a chance. They’ve also been clever in doing it as a pre-release and only actually releasing it the week that counts. They’re kind of cheating a bit and buffering up 6 weeks of sales into one.
Comment by Darren Shaw — November 22, 2007 @ 8:50 am[...] 22, 2007 · No Comments I noticed that Darren blogged about the effort in one of the Last.FM groups to try to get Lucky Soul’s ‘Lips Are [...]
Pingback by Can the Internet "make" Christmas No 1? « The lost outpost — November 22, 2007 @ 7:06 pm“They’re kind of cheating a bit and buffering up 6 weeks of sales into one.”
Which is only a little bit worse than ‘opening weekends’ for films which stretch out for ages beforehand.
I ordered it too. It’s quite good, and for 40p any attempt to mess with the system seems well worth it.
Comment by Roo — November 22, 2007 @ 8:57 pmAnd here I thought the whole Christmas No. 1 thing was just a thing in my favorite sappy holiday movie, “Love Actually”.
I can’t remember if I sent you this link, but I like this video.
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Comment by login — February 14, 2008 @ 12:09 am