Tom Waits for christmas No1

jimogr

Apologies if this has been posted already, have searched.

Download Tom Waits’ ‘Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis’ from iTunes or eircom.net and make it number one in Ireland this Christmas.

For more:

http://waitsforchristmas.blogspot.com/

Pigman II

Willdo. What's your creditcard details?

MrJoeSoap

Tom Waits is a legend, why any fan would want to spoil that by making him Christmas No.1 is beyond me.

boneless

The idea has a nice anti-Christmas appeal to me but I have to agree with the other poster... Tom is too cool. Sorry...

Rb

No.

Reported.

jimogr

Pigman II wrote: »

Willdo. What's your creditcard details?

Mastercard: 8569552100027256 Exp: 11/07

jimogr

rb_ie wrote: »

Reported.

For what?

Rb

jimogr wrote: »

For what?

Spam(ish).

Also, all mastercards start with a 5.

humanji

Pigman II wrote: »

Willdo. What's your creditcard details?

lol

jimogr

rb_ie wrote: »

Spam(ish).

No Spam involved. I've no connection to any music retailer or to the guy who started this, just thought it was cool and posted it.

rb_ie wrote: »

Also, all mastercards start with a 5.

Thanks, I'll get on to the bank to see what's wrong with mine.

MrJoeSoap

Surely it belongs in the music forum though?

flogen

I'm the guy who started it - thanks to jimogr for posting about it (something I was going to do myself early next week).

Not sure how it's spam - the only people that are going to profit from this are the online music outlets and perhaps Waits and his label. If a mod thinks it is that's fair enough - no complaints.

I also don't know how you could think anyone too cool to be Christmas number 1... wouldn't it be even cooler to see Waits beat Westlife and X-Factor hands down? How does being in the charts make an artist any less good?

Anyway - it's all a bit of fun really, nothing else. If people are up for it I'd appreciate them spending their €1 to try and make it happen. If they're not, oh well!

Raskolnikov

Done.

Ammended sig

Raskolnikov

I bought my track on eircom, do they have any kind of chart detailing the current most popular downloaded songs? Will be interesting to see if this gains any momentum.

Kold

You simply won't beat the hype of dumb little kids. The music industry > you.

Gonna stick on Rain Dogs now though ^_^ "independant as a hog on ice!boom boom"

Raskolnikov

If it got into the top 40 though, job done.

Kold wrote: »

You simply won't beat the hype of dumb little kids. The music industry > you.

Gonna stick on Rain Dogs now though ^_^ "independant as a hog on ice!boom boom"

jimogr

Raskolnikov wrote: »

I bought my track on eircom, do they have any kind of chart detailing the current most popular downloaded songs? Will be interesting to see if this gains any momentum.

Their chart seems to only list Irish artists.

Fanny Cradock

flogen wrote: »

I'm the guy who started it - thanks to jimogr for posting about it (something I was going to do myself early next week).

Not sure how it's spam - the only people that are going to profit from this are the online music outlets and perhaps Waits and his label. If a mod thinks it is that's fair enough - no complaints.

I also don't know how you could think anyone too cool to be Christmas number 1... wouldn't it be even cooler to see Waits beat Westlife and X-Factor hands down? How does being in the charts make an artist any less good?

Anyway - it's all a bit of fun really, nothing else. If people are up for it I'd appreciate them spending their €1 to try and make it happen. If they're not, oh well!

I love the idea. Wasn't there something similar a few years back? Though I can't remember the artist, the song, what position it charted at or if it even happened.

flogen

Raskolnikov wrote: »

I bought my track on eircom, do they have any kind of chart detailing the current most popular downloaded songs? Will be interesting to see if this gains any momentum.

I don't think they do... the only indication I've seen is on iTunes where the song's popularity is way ahead of the rest of that particular album's tracks... not sure if it was before though.

Also iTunes have a 'popular songs' section but it doesn't seem to be updated daily - maybe once or twice a week.

Kold wrote: »

You simply won't beat the hype of dumb little kids. The music industry > you.

Gonna stick on Rain Dogs now though ^_^ "independant as a hog on ice!boom boom"

Christmas singles sell in far greater numbers than on normal weeks, but the numbers are still quite low to get top 10 - even relatively low for number 1. I don't know the exact numbers but Leona Lewis sold well under 20k singles to get to number 1 last Christmas. The population of Leitrim could out-do that on their own... while the population of Boards.ie would absolutely destroy it!

Fanny Cradock wrote: »

I love the idea. Wasn't there something similar a few years back? Though I can't remember the artist, the song, what position it charted at or if it even happened.

Well it's only since early 2007 that you could get a song into the Irish charts based on downloads alone. That said I know Ray Foley had a campaign to get Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" back into the charts while there's a campaign in the UK to get Malcom Middleton's "We're all gonna die" into the charts there.

You Suck!

Ahhh! Why can't we have some hardcore techno for christmas No.!

Ceephax acid crew ftw!