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Band Aid 40 fails to reach UK Top 40 in opening week

Band Aid 40 fails to reach UK Top 40 in opening week



All-star version of Do They Know It’s Christmas?, spliced together from previous versions, falls short of the No 1 success of those earlier hitsThe 40th anniversary version of Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? has failed to enter this week’s Top 40, reaching No 45.The new version of the song was made up of performances spliced together from three previous versions, in an arrangement by producer Trevor Horn. But despite featuring the unusual A-list juxtaposition of George Michael, Sinead O’Connor, Chris Martin, One Direction and more, the new version has not yet matched the success of its predecessors, which each went straight to No 1 in 1984, 2004 and 2014. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/29/band-aid-40-fails-to-reach-uk-top-40-in-opening-week

Author : Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Publish date : 2024-11-29 18:00:03

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