Angels v Leona in chart race

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From shorpshirestar.co.uk...

Angels v Leona in chart race

Shropshire teenager Melanie Nakhla will take on X Factor winner Leona Lewis in the race for a Christmas number one as classical sensations All Angels release their debut single today.

Melanie, 17, is one quarter of the high-flying foursome, who last month broke the record for the fastest selling album by a classical act - subsequently broken by the Fron Choir, which is based near Oswestry.

Today the choir girls release their bid for the Christmas top spot - a cover version of the Robbie Williams classic Angels.

They will face stiff competition from Leona, who was crowned the first female winner of the ITV1 talent show on Saturday and has a £1 million record deal prize to look forward to.

One million advance orders of her debut track A Moment Like This have been recorded, and 50,000 copies of the download were sold within 30 minutes of going on sale at midnight.

The CD version will be available in shops on Wednesday when it is expected thousands of fans will rush out to buy copies.

Leona, 21, said: “I’m just shocked. It’s unbelievable. I feel like my dream has come true, the dream I’ve been dreaming since a little girl has come true.”

The All Angels single is being released in partnership with the Royal British Legion, raising money for the annual Poppy Appeal. A minimum contribution of 55p from every copy of the single sold will be donated to the charity.

And Melanie will face another challenge today, when she appears on a festive edition of Ready Steady Cook at 4.30pm.

She will battle it out with her fellow band member Charlotte Ritchie to cook the best dish.

On Wednesday, All Angels will appear in Shrewsbury at the town’s Carols in the Square.

Roger

[admin]

Following on from the above, this is Leona Lewis who won this year's series of the X-Factor on Saturday.

As All Angels single was released two days before Leona's, I would like to think our girls have something of a head start. However, if it is true that "One million advance orders of her debut track A Moment Like This have been recorded, and 50,000 copies of the download were sold within 30 minutes of going on sale at midnight", we could have a battle on our hands!

No prizes for guessing who I am supporting but, in case there is any doubt, here is a clue:

Roger

[richnorri]

Thanks for posting the article, Roger!

I hope somebody took note of this bit:-

And Melanie will face another challenge today, when she appears on a festive edition of Ready Steady Cook at 4.30pm.

She will battle it out with her fellow band member Charlotte Ritchie to cook the best dish.

This programme is mentioned on All Angels' official site, but there are no details at the moment on Ready Steady Cook's website. The programme is on BBC 2 starting at 4:30pm, which is in just over ninety minutes!

Best Wishes,

Richard

[Dave]

Hi Roger,

I'd love to think there was in fact a race but of course, it's all media hype! The rest of the top 10 combined probably could not beat the X Factor winner (even the ghost of Tiny Tim would go top if they said he won X Factor!).

I think All Angels will do very well to get into the top 10, based on their apparent (and expected) lack of airplay which all "classical" artists suffer from.

In a couple of pop music forums I've looked at today, where they have weekly "predict the chart position" games, they are suggesting that All Angels will struggle to get into the top 40 - but even that would be 22 places higher than Katherine Jenkins recent charity single got (Green Green Grass of Home) and look how much publicity Katherine gets.

So, we should not expect too much from this. The music station bias against such acts creates a huge mountain to climb and it makes me mad!

However, I have all my fingers and toes crossed *trip!* for and

Cheers, Dave

PS Richard, no I completely ignored the mention of Ready Steady Cook and I absolutely refuse to do anything more about it.

That's because last night I set my DVD and TV recorders to... er... record it (!) and if I touch them again it could all go pear shaped!

The Sky Guide confirms that this will be an "All Angels" special but the article above only mentions two of them!

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What bugged me was the announcement during the programme on Saturday, that 100,000 copies of the winning song had already been pre-sold. But that was before the winner had even been decided. I accept some people would be happy to buy whichever happened to win but it implies that a high proportion of the british public had committed themselves to buying it simply on the basis that it won X-factor! Gullable, or what?

Btw, All Angels are listed in the current edition of the Radio Times as appearing on today's Ready Steady Cook.

Roger

[jeffrey]

Although it pains me to say it, I do fear the media hype and marketed pop act of Leona has to much backing for it not to be a number 1!!

But in saying that, if All Angels DO make the festive Number 1 spot it will make it all the more a remarkable achievement, because they haven't been marketed and promoted through an over-rated tv show.

I don't want to start rows on this forum, but in my opinion I think talent show "winners" rarely last longer than a year at most at the top, whereas I feel a hard working talented group such as All Angels has the ability to last as long as they want to ;D

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jeffrey said:

I don't want to start rows on this forum, but in my opinion I think talent show "winners" rarely last longer than a year at most at the top...

You'll get no argument from me, Jeffrey. I expect there are exceptions to that rule but, on the whole, you are probably right.

Roger

[nicky]

I did not see this link yesterday and was tuning my TV in this afternoon, to see the girls cooking on TV!

Both were very chatty and really enjoying themselves, all four girls sang beautifully while the cooks carried on cooking!

I hope the CD single does well especially as a percentage is going to charity

Nicky