1 NEW ALEXANDRA BURKE 150,000 Sales all digital
2 LEONA LEWIS
3 30 JEFF BUCKLEY 20,000 Sales all digital
4 BEYONCE If I Were A Boy
5 60 BEYONCE Listen
6 18 JAMES MORRISON FT NELLY FURTADO
7 KINGS OF LEON
8 BRITNEY
9 TAKE THAT
10 NEW GERALDINE

34 NEW LEONARD COHEN - the original

ALBUMS
6 24 BEYONCE

Word on the street is that if the Tipsheet campaign had been picked up on 2 weeks ago when it was started, Jeff could even be beating Alexandra at No1.

Where are the JLS and Eowok and Diana versions of Hallelujah?

If not available on iTunes, they should sue Syco for damaging their careers by incompetence.

First time ever two versions of the same song in the two three for Christmas; all the Top 5 are connected to X Factor. Tw*t or no tw*t , that Cowell can sell records.

If you can`t sell tracks from prime time TV Walter, you would be the world's biggest loser, I am sure you agree.

The last time there were 2 versions of the same song
in the xmas Top 10 was 1987 when Rick Astley and Nat 'King' Cole both had versions of When I Fall In Love on the chart.

Any news on Rick Astley?

Jeff Buckley was never going to come within a couple of hundred thousand of the X-Factor winner. Internet campaigns like this never work when it comes down to cold hard sales.

There's been Facebook groups trying to organise this, NME behind it, The Sun, Radio 1 etc and even with the BBC's clever use of the song to advertise the iPlayer for the past month Buckley's version has still only sold under 1/7th of the Alexandra version.

When I started the campaign, my hope was to get Jeff to No1 last week - even if, as likely, the X Factor winner overtook it this week, it would have made a huge statement that she/he was covering the current No1.

But hits take on a life of their own and the impetus of Jeff being there might well have exploded his sales past Alex.

Still, I'm delighted we started such an effective crusade. I just wish we could put the best version - Cohen himself - in the top 3 too.

I love the suggestion that the "campaign" started on this board.

One to add to a long list of spurious claims.

Not spurious Badger - see the Jeff thread below and check the dates.

I would actually give credit (and do) to the BBC person who started to use Jeff under beds for trails but it was seeing and hearing that which inspired me.

Any way, long before the Sun (and probably most other boards - like b3ta?)...

The Independent's Pandora column can claim to have run the first mention of this particular little gem in print a couple of weeks ago, but who cares where it started, it had legs and came through to put smiles on all our faces, and of course Len's

Actually, when you consider that the James Morrison record was given a useful plug when he performed it on the Girls Aloud special which came on between the two halves of Saturday's final then the top six could be said to be X Factor-related.

Any sign of the Jeff B and/or Leonard C back catalogue appearing in the album list? It really would be a boon if the song encouraged listeners to go back and check out more of their work.

even that would have been a huge stretch given Leona's sales of Run last week. Buckley really needed the X-Factor final for sales to get the oomph needed and he wouldn't have got that last week.

As far as I was aware the campaign first started (in the "mainstream") on Digital Spy's Music forum on November 24th.

ATB wrote:
The last time there were 2 versions of the same song
in the xmas Top 10 was 1987 when Rick Astley and Nat 'King' Cole both had versions of When I Fall In Love on the chart.

No it wasn't it was WONDERWALL in Christmas 1995 by Mike Flowers Pops (No. 2) and Oasis (No.7)

I have a sneaking feeling there may be more than two versions of Hallelujah in the Xmas top ten.

So it looks like HALLELUJAH will be No. 1 and No. 2 this Sunday. So when was the last time the same song was at No. 1 and No. 2 in the charts?


ANSWER: In July 1955, when, for two weeks, UNCHAINED MELODY was No. 1 by JIMMY YOUNG and No. 2 by AL HIBBLER.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!