Christmas Number One Betting 2009
What are the chances of Michael Jackson grabbing the 2009 Christmas number one single? No, not a Harry Hill catchphrase, but a rather pertinent question that many Christmas number one betting 2009 pop-picking folk will be asking themselves round about now as the music betting industry gears up for the time the music-making industry drops the biggest clues as to who's set to release a Christmas-primed single in a few months from now.
We're sure that was one of the many questions raised on the sad news of the King of Pop's demise earlier this year. Come on? Didn't you even think about it for a minute? Well obviously the online bookmaker's did, otherwise Paddy Power for one wouldn't have installed Wacko Jacko as 8/1 for the Christmas number one spot. Fourth favourite behind this year's eventual X Factor winner across the early Christmas number one betting 2009 markets.
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Rage Against The Machine New Christmas Number One Betting 2009 Bookies Favourite
From absolutely nowhere a new Christmas number one betting 2009 favourite has emerged, albeit with a rather dark underbelly that's set to frighten the somewhat whimsical competition into submission. All hail the mighty Rage Against The Machine. That's correct, you heard right. The thrash metal ensemble's festive sounding 'Killing In The Name' has rocketed into the Christmas number one betting 2009 reckoning thanks to the absolute power of social networking it seems.Extraordinary as it may sound, an unprecidented internet campaign started on Facebook has forced several Christmas number one betting 2009 web bookies (including Paddy Power) to install Rage Against The Machine as the most improbable betting favourite this oft-surreal market has ever witnessed.
Set in motion with the express intention of derailing the seemingly unstoppable Simon Cowell X Factor machine - and it's now-annual stranglehold of the Christmas number one betting markets in recent years - to date 45,000 Facebook members have allegedly signed up to the online campaign in the past few weeks to tackle the scourge of the modern music industry. According to Paddy Power, Rage Against The Machine are 9/2 second favourites behind the 1/8 odds on X Factor song to score the Christmas number one betting 2009 slot, whilst in the increasingly popular 'Christmas Number One Without The X Factor' online music betting bookies' markets the American rockers are 2/5 favourites ahead of Susan Boyle, Leona Lewis and Robbie Williams.
In other Christmas number one betting 2009 news, there's rumours circulating that Miley Cyrus' hit single of earlier this year, 'The Climb' is to be the record that the eventual 2009 X Factor winner will have at their disposal for their pop at the Yuletide top spot. Which again will be seen as a massive slap in the face/insult to the intelligence of traditional music buyers, if only because it's blatantly a cover. At least normally the X Factor winner gets to lend their voice to an originally penned number. It's enough to have you pulling your hair out, so perhaps those crazy Facebookers are onto something here. The rest of us will have to just wait and see.....
Susan Boyle 4/1 For UK Christmas Number One Single According To Online Betting Markets
Continuing on the same ragga tip, and Britains Got Talent 2009 also-ran, Susan Boyle is listed as a 4/1 pop with Bet365 for the Xmas biggie, perhaps putting two and two together and getting seven in light of the Hairy Angel's debut long-player containing her very own interpretation of Christmas favourite, 'Silent Night'. Prompting many virtual bookies to follow suit (at one point recently Ladbrokes were somewhat brazenly offering odds on Boyle claiming the festive top spot at 2/1) and offer a strong challenger to the usual X Factor staple Christmas diet that gets most of us requesting the cold turkey treatment long before the big day. One thing's for sure if all this gossip-mongering turns out true, and that's with SuBo potentially going head-to head with the X Factor winner, it's a win-win situation for the star maker who's officially ruined Christmas for many in a way Scrooge could only dream of. That's right folks, Mr Simon Cowell owns the recording rights to both acts.
Elsewhere and you best brace yourself in advance because we're not alleviating any festive pain by duly informing you that the Teletubbies are mounting a comeback. We hate to be the bearer of bad tidings at such a joyous time of the year, however facts are facts. After spending a few years in the televisual wilderness, tots' favourite jobbing actors in brightly coloured adult-size baby grows are set to return to our TV screen between now and Christmas, closely followed by a potential new record that could easily tip the Christmas Number One Betting 2009 balance.
X Factor 2009 Winner Set To Go Up Against Susan Boyle In Race For Xmas Number One
As fate (Simon Cowell in the Grim Reaper's rig-out – what a scary thought!) would have it, the X Factor 2009 winner is all set to land the Christmas Number One betting 2009 honours. That's according to Ladbrokes who are pricing the inglorious inevitability at 1/8. There's a little more joyous Christmas cheer being spread elsewhere though, as Bet365, Totesport, SportingBet and Paddy Power are plumping for Britain's Got Talent also-ran, Susan Boyle (4/1) nabbing the official Yuletide top spot. Following hot on her heels is previous X Factor winner, Leona Lewis (trading at 6/1 on average), whilst the returning Robster, back in full effect; with the same four online Christmas Number One betting 2009 bookies fervently believing that former Take That star Robbie Williams' (10/1) star quality is in the ascension once more. The obvious calls for Michael Jackson (12/1) cannot be ignored, whilst larger-than-life comedian Peter Kay (10/1) has built a reputation on going head-to-head with Cowell's X Factor-winning protégées at Christmas and running them perilously close.
Don't Bet Against X Factor's 'Jedward' Grabbing Xmas Number One Single Chart Glory
X Factor 2009's rejected upstarts, John and Edward were at one stage 12/1 to hit the right Christmas Number One betting 2009 notes in the eyes and (obvious) tone deaf ears of Bet365. Vera Lynn, Lady Ga Ga, George Michael, The Muppets, Alexandra Burke, Westlife, Cheryl Cole and the St Winifreds School Choir are also generating a lot of Christmas Number One betting 2009 interest across the bookies' market-specific sites. For our money there are two stand-out acts who could also be there or thereabouts on the 25th December this year, The Soldiers and Boyzone. The former are serving military men with cracking voices who have recorded both a Christmas-angled song and an album of big ballads, with all proceeds going to the incredibly worthy Help For Heroes charity. Boyzone on the other hand could score yet another hit with a little help from their absent friend, the late Stephen Gately as the Irish boy band make a play for the top spot.
The current UK Christmas Number One betting 2009 markets look like this;
X Factor 2009 Winner – 1/6 with Ladbrokes
Rage Against The Machine - 7/2 with SkyBet
Susan Boyle – 4/1 with Bet365
Robbie Williams – 6/1 with Paddy Power
Michael Jackson – 50/1 with Paddy Power
Vera Lynn/Fron Male Choir - 20/1 with William Hill
John and Edward Grimes – 25/1 with Betfred
Peter Kay/Children In Need – 14/1 with Bet365
Leona Lewis – 5/1 with SportingBet
George Michael – 9/1 with Paddy Power
St Winifreds School Choir – 9/1 with Totesport
Boyzone – 20/1 with Totesport
Bandaged – 20/1 with Totesport
Rolf Harris/Rick Parfitt – 12/1 with Paddy Power
Alexandra Burke – 7/1 with SportingBet
Cheryl Cole – 14/1 with Totesport
The Soldiers – 20/1 with Bet365
Take That – 10/1 with Paddy Power
Other selected acts include, Teletubbies (25/1 with Totesport), Lily Allen (33/1 with SportingBet), JLS (33/1 with Bet365), The Pope (33/1 with Paddy Power), Michael Buble (40/1 with Bet365) and The Pogues, Wizzard, The Beatles, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Andrea Bocelli And The Muppets, Cliff Richard, Peter Andre and Katie Price are all trading between 50/1 and 500/1. I.e, don't waste your money.
Teletubbies, Singing Meerkat And Katie Price In With Christmas Number One Shocker
The Teletubbies are aiming to add to their sole number one to date; the 1997 'hit single' - and instantly forgettable 'Teletubbies Say Eh Oh'. A banal theme tune to accompany the then TV show claimed the number one spot and sold in excess of a million copies. No really. Paddy Power were so adamant of the Teletubbies reforming and penning this year's Christmas number one that they slapped a 12/1 odds-on price on their heads at one point. Even the more conservative William Hill were offering odds of 20/1 on the same tip. Although they were also pretty much admitting that it was academical regardless as they had the X Factor winner as 1/5 on to scoop the Crimbo top spot.
If you're looking towards the novelty market (like the X Factor is serious musical hardware???), then a certain singing meerkat could pique your interest and gatecrash the Christmas number one betting 2009 party. Aleksandr Orlov might not mean an awful lot to you unless you're an inebriated first year student or an employee of a certain price comparison website, but to the uninitiated Orlov was until recently a 14/1 shot for this year's Christmas number one tilt. And he's a meerkat. Not a real one obviously, no, some puppeteer's flight of fancy that somehow made it big in TV commercial circles and now thinks it can command its own Christmas single audience. Which given Christmas number one betting history means it can and will.
Speaking of being barking (or whatever noise emits from a meerkat's frontal orifice), estranged celebrity couple Katie Price and Peter Andre were 33/1 and 25/1 respectively to land the cherished Christmas number one spot this year a couple of weeks back, as silly season evidentally cranks up. One cannot sing for toffee and continues to make a tool of themselves at every given (PR) opportunity, whilst the other is Katie Price, need we say more. The perfect credentials for sitting atop the Crimbo single tree then if you look back over recent years and indicative of how the standards have slipped since the days of East 17 and Mr. Blobby.
Golden Oldies Cliff Richard And Terry Wogan Could Turn Back Christmas Number One Clock
On a more sensible Christmas number one betting 2009 note, and BBC Radio 2 furniture and ex-Eurovision Song Contest broadcasting saviour (and therein a man clearly with his pulse on the contemporary musical scene), Terry Wogan, is rumoured to be cutting a disc as we speak. Or should that read 'slipping?'. God forbid. 20/1 said this is not just idle banter up until t'other day. Meanwhile The Beatles could be on their way back (although not literally before you get too excited because there's only two of the original quartet remaining in case you hadn't noticed), with some bookies announcing they're 50/1 to grab the Christmas number one slot. Really? We would have thought there was more chance of failed-crooner-on-a-comeback-from-early-retirement Robbie Williams finding himself with a shock Christmas number one. Although not if you're Paddy Power, who are busy telling anyone who cares to listen up y'all that he's in with a 6/1 shot of being numero uno in the hit parade by the time you're carving up the turkey.
Hey, and let's not be too hasty and rule out perennial Noel-based pap-peddler, Sir Cliff Richard, who as sure as day follows night will be re-hashing some form of Christmas ditty or another in the coming weeks. There's even a Facebook site entitled 'Cliff Richard For Christmas Number One 2009' up and running (proof if proof was needed that social networking is just evil) that currently boasts 25 members and counting. Not exactly a snow-balling petition just yet, but you never know where Cliff is concerned and Free Betting Online would never bet against the tennis one in a Christmas number one betting 2009 market we can assure you.
For us personally however the biggest miscarriage of Christmas number one justice ever stands as Wham's 'Last Christmas' having never made it to the promised land. Which to many of you will just about sum up the Christmas number one betting malarkey for better or for worse.