Music LadBaby and Christmas Number Ones

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The YouTube duo are now teaming up with MSE Martin Lewis to cover Band Aid legendary Christmas hit ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ in a bid to get a fifth consecutive festive number one..

Why!!! Who purchases and downloads this!!!

Feck sake. Absolutely ruin it :(
 
The charts have never mattered. If they ever did then it ceased too when they clearly fudged it too keep the Pistols off of the top during silver jubilee.

Here is hoping this sells a shit load and all the money goes to worthy causes.
 
Stobzilla said:
The charts have never mattered. If they ever did then it ceased too when they clearly fudged it too keep the Pistols off of the top during silver jubilee.

Here is hoping this sells a shit load and all the money goes to worthy causes.
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Meh. The fact you have LadBaby on par with The Beatles in the history books isn’t right.

Fair play to them for the charity work they do but would be nice to see someone else get a chance of having a Christmas Number One.
 
TheReligion said:
Meh. The fact you have LadBaby on par with The Beatles in the history books isn’t right.

Fair play to them for the charity work they do but would be nice to see someone else get a chance of having a Christmas Number One.
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Yeah I know The Beatles divide opinion with people,however they shouldn't lose their 55 year record to a pair of charity YouTubers
 
The only way I’m even aware of this is through here. Who is actually buying/streaming this?
 
Meh. They make loads of cash for charities. Before they came along the Christmas number one was a bad orchestral cover by whoever won the latest version of Simon Cowell's "People with Sob Stories Warbling Shite" TV show, so it doesn't really matter.
 
Solius said:
The only way I’m even aware of this is through here. Who is actually buying/streaming this?
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People who love Gavin & Stacey and Mrs Brown's Boys.
 
Found it funny when things like this stopped X factor getting number one. Completely indifferent now. Fair play on raising money. Just glad it doesn’t get much air time on the radio.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Meh. They make loads of cash for charities. Before they came along the Christmas number one was a bad orchestral cover by whoever won the latest version of Simon Cowell's "People with Sob Stories Warbling Shite" TV show, so it doesn't really matter.
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Bit weird though that you have a song about food banks and the people that made it voted for the tories.
 
I couldn’t give a feck about Christmas number 1 singles or the records associated with them, but these cnuts can feck all the way off with their PR machine “philanthropy” that only exists to draw more viewers into the shite they serve up the other 51 weeks of the year.

The Tory cnuts don’t give a shit about food banks, they’re just capitalising on the plight of people who are struggling while they line their pockets with Adsense money from their views.
 
1429 downloads of Ladbaby's latest single = £100 to the Trussell Trust food bank.

Or if all 1429 people gave their 99p directly, the food bank would get £1414.

Is it really a charity fundraising effort, or a self promotion exercise?
 
antsmithmk said:
1429 downloads of Ladbaby's latest single = £100 to the Trussell Trust food bank.

Or if all 1429 people gave their 99p directly, the food bank would get £1414.

Is it really a charity fundraising effort, or a self promotion exercise?
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How many more donate off the back of the publicity?
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Meh. They make loads of cash for charities. Before they came along the Christmas number one was a bad orchestral cover by whoever won the latest version of Simon Cowell's "People with Sob Stories Warbling Shite" TV show, so it doesn't really matter.
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Least they were different artists,also charity singles are usually one offs not 5 years in a row
 
That'sHernandez said:
Where have you seen they voted Tory?
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...usage-rolls-christmas-no-1-charity-food-banks

Of the new Conservative administration, Hoyle said: “I’m sure they’re gonna do a great job.” Pressed on whether a government that introduced austerity would do anything to mitigate the issue of food poverty, he said that the nation had to have faith that “the right people” had been voted in. He declined to state who he had voted for, but clarified that he had voted, and that it was important to do so.
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Beats those cringe as feck sidemen getting top spot tbh. I was pretty surprised that Mariah Carey hasn’t ever had a Christmas number 1.
 
Plus also there's something fishy about how much actually gets donated. They donate only the profits of each single to charity, and looking at their records on companies house. Having had a few records signed, most of the contracts will assume high levels of costs to extract the cash early on during the agreement, with royalties (profits) only paid out after costs have been taken into consideration.

Someone has worked out that they've only donated £350k over the 4 years so far, which would assume that they have allegedly significant costs before the Trussell Trust get anything.



It also wouldn't surprise me that they're bank rolling purchases/streaming of the song via just to get it to number one as well. Spotify only has it at half a million streams so far.
 
To be fair I suspect other than this week they make no royalties at all
 
F-Red said:
Plus also there's something fishy about how much actually gets donated. They donate only the profits of each single to charity, and looking at their records on companies house. Having had a few records signed, most of the contracts will assume high levels of costs to extract the cash early on during the agreement, with royalties (profits) only paid out after costs have been taken into consideration.

Someone has worked out that they've only donated £350k over the 4 years so far, which would assume that they have allegedly significant costs before the Trussell Trust get anything.



It also wouldn't surprise me that they're bank rolling purchases/streaming of the song via just to get it to number one as well. Spotify only has it at half a million streams so far.
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I think they are dodgy, but not for this reason. The royalties from these songs won't be high will they? My understanding of the royalties were they were based on airplay, appearances on TV/compilation albums etc (that could be incorrect). These songs do not get played. The only time I have ever heard any one of them is when I have gone on Spotify and listened to it for 30 seconds out of curiosity. I've never heard any of them anywhere else.
 
Bobade said:
I think they are dodgy, but not for this reason. The royalties from these songs won't be high will they? My understanding of the royalties were they were based on airplay, appearances on TV/compilation albums etc (that could be incorrect). These songs do not get played. The only time I have ever heard any one of them is when I have gone on Spotify and listened to it for 30 seconds out of curiosity. I've never heard any of them anywhere else.
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The royalties for a number one will be significant, all of those sources you mention will generate more combined than on any streaming platform and certainly more than the £75k a year they’re donating currently. Even on specialist shows on Radio One back in the mid-2000s were paying £10-£20 per minute in royalties for airtime. Peak time shows is considerably higher and that’s just one station, who probably play a number one at least once per hour.
 
Their YouTube channel is mainly fake 'pranks' isn't it?

For a while YouTube's algorithm kept recommending them for me to watch incessantly
 
5 consecutive years as Christmas #1 and I only heard of them/him today. Probably tells you all you need to know about the significance of the charts these days.
 
Someone said that the same people who got this to number 1 are probably the same folks who voted for Matt Hancock on I'm a Celeb. Suddenly it all makes so much sense.
 
I am happy to have never heard of these LadBaby gimps until this year, somehow. Is anything in life not a meme these days.
 
F-Red said:
The royalties for a number one will be significant, all of those sources you mention will generate more combined than on any streaming platform and certainly more than the £75k a year they’re donating currently. Even on specialist shows on Radio One back in the mid-2000s were paying £10-£20 per minute in royalties for airtime. Peak time shows is considerably higher and that’s just one station, who probably play a number one at least once per hour.
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Since they're parody songs it's doubtful they'll make as much as that, as they'll need to negotiate with the publisher/writer of the original song and they'll probably take a percentage.
 
Rado_N said:
I couldn’t give a feck about Christmas number 1 singles or the records associated with them, but these cnuts can feck all the way off with their PR machine “philanthropy” that only exists to draw more viewers into the shite they serve up the other 51 weeks of the year.

The Tory cnuts don’t give a shit about food banks, they’re just capitalising on the plight of people who are struggling while they line their pockets with Adsense money from their views.
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Exactly. They are making an obscene amount of money from it all. They’ve gone from filming their videos in a two bed terrace house a few years back to a mansion now.

“Saving” the poor has made them multi millionaires.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Since they're parody songs it's doubtful they'll make as much as that, as they'll need to negotiate with the publisher/writer of the original song and they'll probably take a percentage.
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I'm talking about total royalties paid by collection societies before any cuts are made by the publisher.
 
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