Christmas Number One Betting Odds - Choirboys, Coldplay, Madonna…

Time to take another sneaky peak at some 2005 UK Christmas Number One contenders. Take a look, and place a bet. Then in 2010, when the 2005 Christmas Number One makes you nauseous, you can at least console yourself by remembering that you won a few quid on it.

Christmas Number One Fact Of The Day - Although that beardy fool Justin Lee Collins keeps running about the telly shouting that there hasn’t been a UK Christmas Number One for 15 years, he’s wrong. What was number one on Christmas Day last year? Do They Know It’s Christmas by Band Aid 20. That is a Christmas song. It’s even got the word Christmas in the title. That Justin Lee Collins, eh? What a general disappointment.

So here’s today’s mound of Christmas Number One betting odds - featuring Choirboys, Coldplay, Liberty X, Madonna and Lee Ryan. Help, as ever, comes from the good people at SportingOdds.com…

Choirboys - All Choirboys give us the creeps. We can’t help it - there’s some deep swirling subconscious monster lurking within us that makes us suspicious of the tiny girl-voiced squeakers. But getting some of them to try and get a Christmas Number One single by singing Tears In Heaven - a song that
Eric Clapton wrote after his son fell out of a 53rd floor window -
strikes us as incredibly bad taste. Proceeds go to charity, which is
good. It’s a frontrunner to make it as Christmas Number One, which is
bad. Current Christmas Number One odds - 16/1

Coldplay - Coldplay are releasing Talk on December 19th. There are
plus points to this announcement - it’s released one week before
Christmas so it’ll reach it’s peak position (potentially Christmas
Number One) on Christmas day; and also, the song is - surprising - OK. For
a Coldplay song. However - so many people already own the
Coldplay album that there isn’t a single person in the country who is
anticipating the release of Talk - certainly not enough to make it the
Christmas Number One. And, although Coldplay are big, they’re no
Brenda/Andy/Journey South/Shayne off X Factor, are they? Current
Christmas Number One odds - 40/1

Liberty X - We’ve had a look, and it doesn’t appear as if Liberty X
are releasing a new single to try and get to the Christmas Number One
spot. Which means that their odds are based on A Night To Remember,
their shonky Children In Need cover version. And that’s not even in the
top 30 any more. Sadly, Liberty X aren’t likely to be Christmas Number
One this year. Sadly? What are we talking about? Liberty X are rubbish!
Current Christmas Number One odds - 80/1

Madonna - Again, the only thing that Madonna is releasing remotely
near Christmas - apart from a pained yelp each time she looks at a
horse - is Hung Up, a single that’s already been number one before. Is
she going to on TV and promote it as heavily as she did last month just
to try and get a Christmas Number One? No way - that fake English
accent thing looks far too exhausting for that. Current Christmas
Number One odds - 80/1

Lee Ryan - Another odd choice. Lee Ryan isn’t trying to be the
Christmas Number One at all this year. He hasn’t released a single for
ages. And even if he did try and pop out a Christmas Number One single,
nobody would buy it. Current Christmas Number One odds - 80/1

You lucky people: we’ll be looking at the betting odds of different
Christmas Number One singles every day between now and Christmas.
That’s plenty of time for you to check out the amazingly comprehensive
Christmas Number One betting market over at the Specials section of
SportingOdds.com. And get betting - it’s the only way to stop you
becoming completely sick of the bloody songs.

[story by Stuart Heritage]