No amount of Facebook campaigns could prevent Simon Cowell’s hold over the UK’s traditional Christmas Number One returning yesterday, as the 2010 X Factor winner Matt Cardle comfortably claimed this week’s number one spot with his cover of Biffy Clyro’s ‘Many Of Horror’. The effort to push the Scottish rock band’s original version to no.1 fell some way short, with the track re-entering at no.8. A similar group aiming to push The Trashmen’s novelty single ‘Surfin Bird’ up the charts was more successful (#3), while The Pogues’ classic festive single ‘Fairytale Of New York’ is once again in the top twenty for Christmas.
On the Christmas Album chart, Take That remain on top with their new record ‘Progress’, while Kings Of Leon drop out of the top ten (#11).
Top 20 Albums:
1/ Take That – Progress
2/ Rihanna – Loud
3/ Michael Buble – Crazy Love
4/ Michael Jackson – Michael
5/ Olly Murs – Olly Murs
6/ Susan Boyle – The Gift
7/ Robbie Williams – Greatest Hits 1990-2010
8/ JLS – Outta This World
9/ Bon Jovi – Greatest Hits
10/ The Black Eyed Peas – The Beginning
11/ Kings Of Leon – Come Around Sundown
12/ Andre Rieu & Johann Strauss Orchestra – Moonlight Serenade
13/ Pink – Greatest Hits So Far
14/ Katy Perry- Teenage Dream
15/ Westlife – Gravity
16/ The Script – Science & Faith
17/ Cheryl Cole – Messy Little Raindrops
18/ Annie Lennox – A Christmas Cornucopia
19/ Rumer – Seasons Of My Soul
20/ N-Dubz – Love Live Life
Top 20 Singles:
1/ Matt Cardle – When We Collide
2/ Rihanna – What’s My Name
3/ The Trashmen – Surfin Bird
4/ The Black Eyed Peas – The Time
5/ Ellie Goulding – Your Song
6/ Take That – The Flood
7/ Rihanna – Only Girl (In The World)
8/ Biffy Clyro – Many Of Horror
9/ Willow – Whip My Hair
10/ Michael Jackson – Hold My Hand
11/ Far East Movement – Like a G6
12/ Katy Perry – Firework
13/ Olly Murs – Thinking Of Me
14/ The X Factor 2010 Finalists – Heroes
15/ David Guetta – Who’s That Chick?
16/ Cee Lo Green – Forget You
17/ Coldplay – Christmas Lights
18/ Nicole Scherzinger – Poison
19/ The Pogues – Fairytale Of New York
20/ Bruno Mars – Just The Way You Are (Amazing)