Military Wives Choir for Xmas Number 1

[Flora]

I love this song and hope it makes the Xmas Number 1 - the lyrics are taken from letters exchanged between wives/girlfriends and their men serving overseas. The proceeds are going to The Royal British Legion and SSAFA Forces Help (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association). You can pre-order your copy from amazon or iTunes - link here: http://whereveryouare.co.uk/

[klr]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16264571

Military Wives single is fastest selling in six years

The Military Wives Choir looks certain to have the Christmas number one, after becoming the fastest-selling single in six years.

The Official Charts Company says 242,000 copies of the single, Wherever You Are, have been sold in two days.

The last time a single sold so well in its first two days was when X Factor winner Shayne Ward shifted 313,000 copies of That's My Goal in 2005.

The choir has outsold Little Mix by a ratio of 6:1 since Sunday.

The foursome, who became the first group to ever win the X Factor, have so far this week shifted 38,000 copies of their single, Cannonball, which topped the charts on Sunday.

Love poems

Last week the girl band sold 210,000 copies of their Damien Rice cover record, considerably lower than previous X Factor winners.

The Military Wives single was recorded as part of a BBC Two programme.

The Choir: Military Wives saw Gareth Malone create a choral group from the wives and partners of military personnel who have been deployed to Afghanistan.

The lyrics of Wherever You Are were taken from love poems, which were written between the women and their absent husbands.

Royal Wedding composer Paul Mealor wrote the music.

The choir performed the song at the Royal British Legion's Festival Of Remembrance earlier this year.

Some bookmakers have stopped taking bets on the Christmas chart outcome.

It means the X Factor could be denied the festive top spot for the second time in three years - after Rage Against The Machine beat Joe McElderry to number one in 2009.

The show's creator Simon Cowell congratulated Malone and his choir, tweeting: "Congrats to Little Mix & congrats to Military Wives. It's a great cause & a worthy Christmas No.1."

Other contenders for the official Christmas number one this week include Lou Monte's Dominick The Donkey, two different versions of Last Christmas and Stacey Solomon's rendition of Driving Home For Christmas.

Proceeds from the sale of each Military Wives CD will be donated jointly to The Royal British Legion and the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen Families Association.

[Animavore]

Not my cup of tea (actually, it's dreadful) but at least it's going to a better cause than the Simon Cowell Needs a Brand New Testarossa fund.

[klr]

Not my cup of tea (actually, it's dreadful) but at least it's going to a better cause than the Simon Cowell Needs a Brand New Testarossa fund.

Likewise.

[Atheist-Lite]

Adding insult to injury for those who've lost everything because of the 'war for peace' over that way?

http://www.internal-displacement.org/co ... fghanistan

[Audley Strange]

Adding insult to injury for those who've lost everything because of the 'war for peace' over that way?

http://www.internal-displacement.org/co ... fghanistan

I think I love you Crumple.