Simon's Cabbage Patch Dolls (formerly known as Oxfam) against the out-of-tune Wives of Child Killers (preferably Muslim) are suddenly challenged by a kid who wrote and recorded a song in his bedroom and sells 10,000 downloads in one day on iTunes.

www.bigtop40.com/gossip/alex-day-goes-top-10/

Hang about JK first of all this is a great achievement and is a testament to power of Youtube.
However, this bit disturbs me a little

"The single has been released in aid of World Vision,
a charity who Alex volunteered with in Zambia".

I thought you of all people hated chariddy singles???? So why aren't you slagging this off.

Anyway I hope it does well but I don't think it will hit the top spot this week but good luck
to the guy. Will you release a "how we did it" video or post.

I'm not against people deciding to give to charity J&B - I'm just against bad music being feted because of a charitable label.

As for "how we did it"... simples; make commercial music, spread the word. 'Twas always such.

Erm you are doing exactly that. The song is not really that great and in the article you are using
the charity angle to tug our heart strings which is fine as far as I am concerned as I don't care
what song you release as long as you're happy with it screw the world. They either like it or not.
But you make such a song and dance and lambast Bob Geldof et al at any opportunity you have and then
go out and do the same thing, come on man. That's just hypocrisy BUT that's my view. Be consistent.

Also If you expect us to believe that all you did was make a commercial single
and then just "spread the word", then you really must think we are stupid. The question is what tools
did you use to promote it? How was Youtube and Facebook deployed. The meat and veg and not secret
nebulous music industry hogwash which is what you are doing right now.

The savvier ones on this board would boot up the Google machine and find out exactly how you "hyped"
oops promoted this song
But everyone else would like to know. The Nizlopi guys even did a seminar with AIM to explain how
they did it with their song.

By the way to 'spread the word' you would have needed to do something so what was it that you did?

By the way if you want to keep it all a secret that is your right but then again that is dinosaur
music industry tactics and in the digital age you can easily be found out.

Indeed. The very song you are hyping, JK, is far more inept than anything else which is a challenger for the Xmas No.1. It's appallingly bad, sung badly and sounds like a poor demo. Cutting out the David vs Goliath angle only leaves you with bad music in this case.

So you are claiming some involvement in this "success", JK. Good for you managing to by-pass the Tabloid feeding frenzy which would have occurred had they realised you were involved.

Only as a friend Dodger. And I love the track, Balls - different strokes...

Jaded and Bored wrote:
[quote]Erm you are doing exactly that. The song is not really that great and in the article you are using the charity angle to tug our heart strings which is fine as far as I am concerned as I don't care what song you release as long as you're happy with it screw the world. They either like it or not. But you make such a song and dance and lambast Bob Geldof et al at any opportunity you have and then go out and do the same thing, come on man. That's just hypocrisy BUT that's my view. Be consistent. quote]

Couldn't agree more - average song, above average hypocrisy

I was in HMV yesterday playing the latest Christmas box set 'Do They Know It's Christmas' was playing. It's patronizing all the celebs singing together asking us to pledge money to them who are ones with millions it's not us, and how many people celebrate Christmas in Africa ?

Geldof has no idea of charity in Africa for example Red Cross give a certain percentage to the people and keep the rest how else are they going to live and keep their vans filled up ?

The two charity concerts Geldof arranged was nothing but a couple of good festivals and publicity. Too much conflict, too many people hungry, too many people with HIV, too many people with dying and there is fuck all we can do it's up their leaders to do something not us.

I want everyone to read Dark Star Safari-Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux it tell you why charity don't work over there.

www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Star-Safari-Overla...324347069&sr=1-3

andrew wrote:
how many people celebrate Christmas in Africa ?


Millions of them do. The Christian Church in some parts of Africa is stronger then the one in England. Ethiopia, for example, has a near enough fanatical Christian following, and Nigeria sends missionaries to the UK.