Talk:I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

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As downloads as well as physicaly sales became eligible for the weekly Top 75 as from January 2007, and with the help of additional exposure thanks to an Argos television advertisement later in the year using an excerpt of the song for a soundtrack, it was one of several Christmas oldies to chart again in November and December 2007~ the above sentence may be considerd a run on sentence and in any case is hard to understand

"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" - Weeks on chart

The original version (credited to Wizzard featuring vocal backing by The Suedettes plus The Stockland Green Bilateral School First Year Choir with additional noises by Miss Snob and Class 3C' spent 9 wks in the charts from 08.12.1973.

Then the mastertapes were lost in the late 1970s and so the record had to be re-recorded again with children from Kempsey Primary School pretending to be the kids from the 1973 school (the record was actually more like a Roy Wood solo record with Wood playing every instrument)

That recording was released in 1981 and got to No. 23 in 1984 on the Top 100 chart for 8 weeks. However it is listed twice as there was an additional extended 12-inch version issued in 1984, so I am guessing it got listed twice by the OCC as they were now using the slightly different catalogue number from that additional release from that point (and I am not going to spend the rest of the day getting out the old Guinness Book of British Hit Singles to find that information).

Also on the chart of 02 December 1984 - 08 December 1984 "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" is new at number 86 credited to ROY WOOD AND WIZZARD but doesn't state which label its on. It could be an Old Gold release but more likely it's the one with the 'Dennis the Menace' single cover (Harvest Records ‎– HAR 5173) as that only has Roy Wood's name on the front.

Then on the chart of 09 December 1984 - 15 December 1984, "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" is new at number 50 credited to WIZZARD with the 'Dennis the Menace' gone from the chart. As Gallup would have been using EPOS at that time, it could be that they were already combining records...with a few true copies hanging about from the 1970s getting a couple of sales but most being the fake 1980s recording with the same cat. no.

Then in the internet-era (on 08.12.2007) "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" charted for the first time as a download, which will be the 1980s recording as EMI didn't have the 1970s mastertapes in the archive when they put it out on iTunes and if they did all versions would no doubt be combined in 2020 like LEVITATING by DUA LIPA (on the chart of 11 December 2020 - 17 December 2020 it was one place below "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" at number 20) which gets a lot of points put into its sales total thanks to the version with DaBaby (uncredited in the UK). The 2007 entry has 55 weeks on the Top 75 as of 11 December 2020 - 17 December 2020, and 60 weeks in the Top 100.

The Official Charts Company have "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" as four different hits when it should only be two (1973 and the 1981-2020 version) if by rules set out in the The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles state that a re-recording is only a new hit with a different vocal track mean that (excluding the non-hit number 86 track for a moment) "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" gets 9 weeks in the chart for 1973 and 68 weeks for the 1981 version still charting in 2020. However that rises to 80 weeks in the top 100 since the 1970s by using 2020's chart combining methodology whereby you have to ask the OCC to list it separately like the two versions of "Lay Me Down" by Sam Smith and maybe "Holy" by Justin Bieber in a few days when the NHS version comes out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.170.74 (talk) 13:24, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

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