Radio stations across the UK will take delivery of a Christmas number one contender designed to rival the winning act from The X Factor. But this single, a copy of Shakin' Stevens hit Merry Christmas Everyone, has been recorded and produced by UK radio presenters.
The song has been produced to raise funds for CLIC Sergeant, the children’s cancer charity, and will be distributed to every commercial radio station in the UK via IMD Fastrax on Thursday afternoon. It will be under embargo until 8:15am on Monday 3rd December, with a release date of Monday 17th December.
Capital Radio presenter Chris Brooks was only too happy to get involved for such a good cause. He said “Recording this record was fun and quite surreal as I'm more used to playing records than making them! The fact that CLIC Sergeant will benefit from this is a great bonus."
The project has been put together by London based presenter Rich Harvey, a long time supporter of CLIC Sergeant. The ex-Mercury and CFM presenter was keen to encourage more groups to get involved. “The response from the industry as a whole has been fantastic. We still have a couple of groups who are not represented on the song, including GMG, Emap and Lincs FM Group. Everybody else has at least one employee on the record, and we would love to have more. The single is supposed to be a combined effort from everyone, regardless of station or group. It is a way for radio to give something back, and what better way to give something back than by throwing snowballs at rival presenters!”
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Alesha Dixon to battle for Christmas No.1?
Sunday, November 25 2007, 10:45 GMT
By Daniel Kilkelly
Strictly Come Dancing contestant Alesha Dixon could compete against the X Factor winner in the battle for the Christmas number one spot.
The Strictly theme tune has been turned into a song called 'Let's Go Dancing', which will be released next month, and pop singer Alesha is the first choice to record the track.
"We hope one of the show's stars will sing it and propel it to the top," Dan McGrath, who co-wrote the track with Josh Phillips, told the Sunday Mirror. "Strictly is winning the ratings war - now we're going to pile on the agony."
He added: "We're expecting Simon Cowell to be crying into his Christmas turkey."
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Contenders
X Factor Winner "When You Believe"
UK radio presenters "Merry Christmas Everyone"
Sugababes "Change"
Spice Girls "Memories"
Girls Aloud's "Call The Shots"
Soulja Boy "Crank That"
Leona Lewis "Bleeding Love"
Shayne Ward "Breathless"
Amy Winehouse "Love Is A Losing Game"
T2 Ft Jodie Aysha "Heartbroken"
Justin Timberlake with Beyonce "Until The End of Time"
Shaun the Sheep "Life's a Treat"
Alesha Dixon "Let's Go Dancing"
McFly " Umbrella"
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Originally Posted by tammyy2j
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtfb4m6xGCA"]YouTube - Shaun The Sheep - Life's A Treat[/ame] I love Shaun. I don't think he should be number one though. It's time we had a proper Christmas tune at number one again.
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