The annual fight for top spot in the Christmas charts started on Friday the 16th and will continue through to the 22nd.
As is modern tradition, the top contenders include this year’s X Factor winner, Matt Terry, and a choir group, Friends of Jo Cox, who have covered the Rolling Stones 1969 classic ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’. The group was set up to commemorate murdered MP Jo Cox and to raise money for causes supported by Cox. The group boasts some big names such as KT Tunstall, David Gray, and Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson.
However, there are a lot of competitors who could steal the number one spot, such as Steve Aoki and Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Taylor Swift, and Clean Bandit. The bookies currently have Matt Terry sitting at an underwhelming 14/1, Clean Bandit at 8/1, and Friends of Jo Cox are favourites with promising 3/1 odds. Bookmakers, William Hill, have announced that they will donate all money staked on Friends of Jo Cox to charity while the Rolling Stones recently waived all royalties from the charity single.
Although the contest is always fairly interesting to follow, if not slightly overbearing, it will be hard to beat the 2009 battle between Rage Against The Machines ‘Killing In The Name Of’ and X Factor winner Joe McElderry with ‘The Climb’ which saw, for the first time in 5 years, an X Factor winner fail to reach the number one Christmas spot.
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