Cliff joins battle for Xmas #1.

[rubcale]

Good old Cliff has joined the battle for this year's Christmas #1 with a song titled "21st Century Christmas". Apparently it is not in a similar vein to his sentimental biggies but more a "Little Town".

What is interesting is that it is a double-A with a duet of his first UK hit Move It with Brian May.

Already I can see a lot of Haveners beginning to feel nauseous but listen to Move It with an open mind. It is a great rock record.

[Chris]

Can't see any chance of No.1 as it'll be the X-Factor winner.

[ManicKangaroo]

I would never rule Cliff out

and do we know that the X-Factor winner will be out for Christmas or are you just assuming Chris?

[Admin]

X factor may take the easy option and go for Jan and a gauranteed spell at #1.

[Smoocham]

Oh I used to love cliff richard when I was young. The fight for number one will bring back memories from my childhood, good luck to him!

Not such a fan these days but theres always a soft spot for your first musical love right

[Matt Aloud]

is there a couple of 0's missing from the title

[sunshine]

I think Cliff mostly gets top 10 when he releases, which is no mean feat after all these years. He still has his lots of fans.

[Deleted]

Be great if he got a No.1 in this decade, then he will have No.1s in 6 different decades.

[Chris]

manickangaroo said:

I would never rule Cliff out

and do we know that the X-Factor winner will be out for Christmas or are you just assuming Chris?

Read it on Teletext I think,that they'll go for it again.

[S1m]

It'd be ace if Cliff could get to #1 the week before xmas just to achieve the record.

[Chris]

Doubt he will have another No.1 ever again tbh.

[sparky]

x factor ruins christmas number 1's, its not fair on other artists, coldplay should of been number 1 last year

and....cliff richard.....rock??...are you serious???

[S1m]

sparky said:

x factor ruins christmas number 1's, its not fair on other artists, coldplay should of been number 1 last year

and....cliff richard.....rock??...are you serious???

It's not like Coldplay were #2 though is it? They were like #10 or something! Nizlopi would have been Christmas #1 if there were no X-Factor. Well, actually, someone else might have dared release something big that week instead, but I'd have preferred "JCB Song"

[Jay]

I think Shayne was deserving of the #1 really, it was his time, but I'd hate to think the X Factor would want to release the singles every Christmas week.

[Dory]

I would love to see Cliff get another #1 - every decade since the 50s would be excellent.
Hopefully this song will be better then Millenium Prayer though...

And I wish X-factor etc would not release in Christmas week. I wouldn't be quite so bad if the winner's songs were not always total cheesy rubbish

[sparky]

jay1 said:

I think Shayne was deserving of the #1 really, it was his time, but I'd hate to think the X Factor would want to release the singles every Christmas week.

not really, its not even his own song, hes obviously going to be a one and half hit wonder like most x factor winners, its ruins the music charts, he has got lots of talent but all the sales were from a back of a reality tv show

and it only takes around 10% or even less of the viewers buying the single to make it number 1,in the future. we are going to be looking back in the past at christmas number 1's as oh, which x factor winner was number that year? its going to be a race for number 2 now

and you cant blame whoever releases these because if you look back at shaynes sales, they are great so why change a date when you have massive sales for that date??