Boards.ie Favorite Christmas Song 2024 - The Finals

Loughc

Round 12 and it is now a 3 horse race for second place with only 5 points between 2nd and 4th.

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Round 13 is in…. and the final final results are in….

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20th to 26th place are;

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11th to 19th place are;

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And now Boards.ie top 10 Christmas Songs are….

In 10th place…. it's Noddy and it's Slade with Merry Christmas Everybody with 34 points.

It's Christmasssssssss!!!!

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In 9th place it's a classic…

It's Nat King Cole - The Christmas song, also with 34 points.

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8th place it's Wizzard - I Wish it could be Christmas Everyday with 35 points

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In 7th Place - It's Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas with 38 points.

No podium finish for this racer!

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In 6th place - From loser to the people's champion…. it's Andy Williams - The Most wonderful time of the year - 40 points

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In 5th place it's Greg Lake's - I believe in Father Christmas with 42 points

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In 4th place… he shakes and jived his way to 4th place, once held 1st place for a while…

It's Shaking Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone with 50 points

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And 1 point in the difference in 3rd place.

It's the original and BEST - Band Aid - Do They know it's Christmas Time? with 51 points.

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And just like when it entered the charts in 1984 in at number 2 is Wham - Last Christmas with 58 points.

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And our winner with a MASSIVE 95 points.

The Irish Favourite… The Pogues - Fairytale of New York

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122961274#Comment_122961274

I always felt Band Aid 2 was the best one

And ever since that comment was made they never saw Red Silurian again!

Loughc

Despite coming first The Pogues only scored two 12 points all game. It scored 10 & 8 points in 7 other rounds tho, showing consistency is key.

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Both Wham and Shakey both score 12 points twice as well.

But Wham had 4 rounds of no score and Shakey had 5 rounds of no scores, killing their chances to win.

Quantum Erasure

Fair play, that was great craic @Loughc

Quantum Erasure

And fair play to Fairytale... but for some reason I've got The Ronnetts 'Sleigh Ride' stuck in my head now

DvB

Thanks for that @Loughc

Always good to have a reset of these type of things. Even if they all end the same way🤣

dubstepper

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122961354#Comment_122961354

Yes think it was The Pogues when we did the knock out version before

Necro

Yeah I figured Fairytale would storm to the title, I love it but scored it lower to give others somewhat of a fighting chance. Cheers for running Lough!!

Red Silurian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122961307#Comment_122961307

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122961314#Comment_122961314

I think it's a sign that we all have our own personal favourites and after that the Pogues, Wham and Shakey are what cut the mustard for us

Thanks for organising, that was great craic

DvB

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122961360#Comment_122961360

Its won at least 3 times in here now.

CrowdedHouse

Well done @Loughc and the Jury, that was fun 😊

Fairytale wouldn't be my No.1 and I'm most surprised by the love for Andy Williams 😀

(There's 3 songs I can't say I've ever heard, I'll find them on Spotify before the season is out!)

JP Liz V1

Thanks @Loughc

Rmgblue

LOVED this

BK5

Thought my fav Wham were going to come nowhere at the start there. Songs like food are so relative, I personally don't like Shakey's song but it's obviously well loved by others.

Thanks Loughc for arranging, better than the Eurovision anyday!

Loughc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122963959#Comment_122963959

Funny I didn’t vote but if I did shakey was getting 12 from me.

donegal_man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122962063#Comment_122962063

I'm with you on Fairytale, I may have mentioned before that although I love Kirsty MacColl I think it's a depressing dirge.