LONDON: The X Factor talent show winner Shayne Ward annexed another first in less than a week's time when his song "That's My Goal" got the coveted Christmas No 1 spot in the British music charts. The 21-year-old singer had released his debut song Wednesday last.
That's My Goal beat Nizlopi's JCB Song, which was about bullying at school, and which had topped the list last week. Fairy Tale of New York from the Pogues came third. The song was released to coincide with the fifth death anniversary of Kirsty MacColl, who sang with Shane MacGowan on the original track.
Irish boyband Westlife with its When You Tell Me That You Love Me, was at fourth spot, down two, while U.S. singer Eminem with When I'm gone was at fifth. The other singers in the top 10 were Crazy Frog (Jingle Bells/U Can't Touch This), Pussycat Dolls (Stickwitu), Madonna (Hung Up) British girl band Girls Aloud (See the Day) and Coldplay (Talk).
Ward's That's My Goal became the second fastest selling non-charity single ever, just behind pop star Will Young's creation of 2002. He also becomes the second youngest male solo singer to have a Christmas No 1. The youngest male to win the Christmas No 1 is Jimmy Osmond in 1972 for his I'll Be Your Long Haired Lover From Liverpool. He was just nine then.
Ward, a former Manchester shop assistant, also set a new record for the most Internet downloads in a week -- 60,000.
A total of 742,180 That's My Goal records were sold, more than a million ahead of Nizlopi's. The presses that burnt the CDs with his song had run non-stop from the moment he beat Andy Abraham in the X Factor final on 17 December, which ensured adequate stock of the CDs for the Christmas sale. Some 11 million viewers voted in the final. Ward also got a 1 million-pound recording contract as the winner of the ITV series entered by some 75,000 hopefuls.
Ward said when he got the news: "I am so thrilled that my single is the Christmas number one. Thank you to everyone who bought That's My Goal, and all the thousands of people who voted for me on The X Factor."
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on : Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:05 GMT | General News
By : Rob Davis
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