After an impressive start to the 'Blue Christmas' Campaign (storming into the Amazon downloads Chart at #3 and showing up in the Top 40 of the HMV Chart), early reports of the official UK Music Charts show that 'Blue Christmas' will fail to even scrape into the Top 200, let alone a new Top 10.
It's a huge disappointment to the OEPFC of GB run campaign and E.E.R.s Brian Quinn shares his thoughts, "After perusing many music websites it appears that we all have a lot to learn about today's music charts. For a start, many of the Xmas Singles were already on the i-Tunes Chart in November. Further, the week the 'Blue Christmas' Campaign was launched was the peak purchasing week for Christmas singles which were all on sale for around 59p. Of course we only had one day before the charts were compiled for that week. After that, prices were raised by the retailers to just under a pound for most. Next time around, the campaign will have to be Project Managed. Of course, there were no hard copies on sale in the Supermarkets/Record Shops etc., and any future Campaign will, I suspect, have to have the backing of SONY(UK) if we are to stand a hope of a Top 30 entry."
How many downloads did "Blue Christmas" get since the 10th? There are actually no numbers released for those songs that did not make the top 200. However, we do know that Johnny Cash's 'Hurt' sold 4,175 downloads, and that song is at 70. Which suggests that the Elvis number is less that 1,000. According to one source the actual download total in the UK was 317 ...
Dutch Chart Success
The 'Christmas Duetts' CD on which Dutch artists couple with 'Oldies' climbed from #20 to #8 on the Combined Album Chart. It contains the first male Elvis duet, Guus Meeuwis singing 'Blue Christmas' with Elvis Presley.
(Source: Elvis Express / Dutch Charts)
