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The search for the UK 2005 Christmas Number One continues to hot up, even though the record that'll probably actually be Christmas Number One isn't even out yet.
Even though Shayne Ward bleating That's My Goal will probably be everyone's abiding memory of Christmas 2005, the betting for the Christmas Number One is by no means over, although it is technically a three-horse race. One of the horses is Irish, one of them sounds like Athlete in a power cut (don't take it as a compliment, it wasn't meant as one) and one has just received millions of votes in a national talent competition. Not looking good is it, diggerboy?
So here's another Christmas Number One betting odds update, with help from SportingOdds.com...
It's the start of the last week before the most important day of the year - the day that the UK 2005 Christmas Number One is revealed. And, um, Christmas day and stuff.
Over the last few weeks, we took a long hard look at the 43 possible contenders for this year's Christmas Number One slot. But not all of them were real contenders - some of the acts weren't releasing Christmas Number one efforts, some had released their singles too early to feasibly get the Christmas Number One, and others were so totally crap that nobody in their right mind would even buy their single, let alone make them Christmas Number One.
That's why this week - as Christmas day (and the all-important announcement of the Christmas Number One) quickly approaches - we'll be looking squarely at the betting odds of the front-runners only. So here are today's Christmas Number One Betting Odds, with help from SportingOdds.com...
Time for another tidal wave of Christmas Number One betting odds. Which - if any - of the following acts will be top of the Christmas pile in eight days time?
Christmas Number One Fact Of The Day: The Christmas Number One in 1955 was Christmas Alphabet by Dickie Valentine, in which Dickie made a Christmassy acronym of the word 'Christmas'. C was for Candy, H was for Happiness... R wasn't for Rubbish, but it may as well have been.
Today's pile of potential Christmas Number One hits comes via Eminem, Simon Webbe, The Darkness, and the interestingly-titled Anyone Else. Christmas Number One betting odds, as ever, from SportingOdds.com...
Time for another beastly rampage through some UK Christmas Number One 2005 betting odds - a quick squint at a bunch of soppy songs all trying to be as good as 2 Become 1 by The Spice Girls.
Christmas Number One Fact Of The Day - In the Christmas of 1980, people were still struggling to come to terms with the brutal assassination of John Lennon. And yet they still chose There's No One Quite Like Grandma by the St Winifred's School Choir as their Christmas Number One. What's that all about?
Today's globule of potential Christmas Number One hits come in the form of songs by The Pogues, Elton John And Joss Stone, Pussycat Dolls and Take That. Christmas Number One betting odds, as ever, from SportingOdds.com...
Well, The Smiths are kind of reforming, anyway.
Two members of the seminal Manchester pop band have announced that they will be teaming up for the first time since The Smiths split in 1987.
Disappointingly, the reunion won't be involving crazy-quiffed yelping Smiths frontman Morrissey. The long-awaited get-together will instead feature bassist Andy Rourke and legendary guitarist Johnny Marr - a man whose fingers are so dexterous he reminds hecklerspray of that strange stretchy monster-bloke in an early episode of The X-Files.
In a good way.
It's time for a blast through another five contenders for the UK 2005 Christmas Number One Spot - a careful weighing up before we realise that, yes, the X Factor winner's probably got it in the bag.
Christmas Number One Fact Of The Day: The first ever formally recognised Christmas Number One single was Here In My Heart by Al Martino, a song mostly about ventricles. Or something.
Today's splattering of potential Christmas Number One betting odds come from James Blunt, Craig David, Peter Andre and Jordan, Paul McCartney and Rachel Stevens. Betting odds, as ever, come from SportingOdds.com...
Christmas Number One betting odds time again - where we get to see which bands are cynically releasing the rubbish ballads off their albums to try and get the UK 2005 Christmas Number One.
Christmas Number One Fact Of The Day - Probably the crappiest Christmas Number One of all time was Mr Blobby by My Blobby. Noel Edmonds may be trying to move on with his life by doing that Deal Or No Deal shtick. But we haven't forgotten. Oh no. We haven't forgotten.
Today's glob of Christmas Number One betting odds come in the following flavours: Girls Aloud, Black Eyed Peas, Oasis, Mariah Carey and Lemar. As usual, the odds come from SportingOdds.com...
Here we go again with another dollop of UK 2005 Christmas Number One betting odds - all the information you'll need on who to bet on with stolen Christmas Club money, just like naughty Arthur Fowler off Eastenders.
Christmas Number One Fact Of The Day: A member of one of the acts who have had a UK Christmas Number once told hecklerspray to "fuck off" when we were still at school. We won't tell you who it was, but it wasn't Elvis Presley. Or Mr Blobby.
Today we'll be looking at the Christmas Number One betting odds chances of Chico Slimari, McFly, Kelly Clarkson, Katie Melua and Kylie Minogue, with help from SportingOdds.com...
