Yesterday the prime minister revealed that he would be dipping into his pocket to support Burke. Gennaro Castaldo, a spokesman for HMV, said: "It's ironic, to say the least, that it's taken a mass audience populist show like The X Factor to prompt massive interest in the highly individualist music of Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley, and their album sales at HMV are up as well." The bookies' Christmas odds include 9-2 for the song to take the top three chart positions. "Jeff Buckley looks nailed on for the No 2, but there is little point in us creating No 2 betting as Leonard Cohen's version of Hallelujah is in with a chance of making it a Hallelujah hat-trick," said a spokesman for William Hill. Cohen, meanwhile, is expected to find a respectable place in the top 40. William Hill has already closed the betting on X Factor winner Burke taking the top spot, but, such has been the success of an online campaign to get Buckley's cover to the top of the charts that the company is now considering calling an end to bets on the late American singer's version as well. 9.Barring an asteroid collision or the onset of a very tardy millennium bug, nothing will stop Alexandra Burke's cover of Hallelujah rocketing to the Christmas No 1 slot later this afternoon.įar more interesting, though, will be discovering whether Jeff Buckley's version of the same song – and Leonard Cohen's original – manage to make the top three. 8, and “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” jumped 24-20, all of which helped the parent album “I Am … Sasha Fierce” move from No. 1 “If I Were a Boy” (Columbia/Sony BMG) moved back from No. The Christmas charts also contained plenty of good news for Beyonce, who had no fewer than three singles climbing the top 20. 2 for the second of those, before they traded places for a week and then traded back again, giving Mitchell a total of three weeks on top to Steele’s one. Mitchell led the way in the first two weeks, with Steele at No. Nevertheless, her 289,000 downloads are a one-week digital record, beating former “X Factor” winner Leona Lewis’ 140,000 sales for “A Moment Like This” in 2006.īurke’s 576,000 sales dwarfed Buckley’s, at 81,000, but it’s the first time one song has dominated the top two spots on the chart since January 1957, when Guy Mitchell’s “Singing the Blues” and Tommy Steele’s British cover did battle throughout the month. Although downloads now make up the vast majority of the singles market, the breakdown of Burke’s sales underlined that the British music consumer will still buy a physical single when it’s seen as a true “event”: Almost exactly half of Burke’s sales, 287,000, were as physical singles.
top 40 hit as an artist, at the age of 74. 36, giving the Canadian singer-songwriter his first U.K. To complete an extraordinary week for Cohen, his own 1984 original of “Hallelujah” entered the singles chart at No. 1 album as “The Circus” (Polydor/Universal) started a third week at the summit, with another big sales week of 382,000 units. Meanwhile, Take That secured the festive No.
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