The X Factor ruins christmas!

Is it just me or has the x factor ruined the christmas number one? I dont know if it is the same in the rest of the world but here in the UK the race for the christmas number one was always a big deal. Sure, sometimes the christmas number one would be a novelty record or something by cliff richard but it was always fun and if you cant have a terrible song at number one for christmas then when can you!
Part of the fun was that you knew that grandparents that hadn’t bought a chart single for years were going into record stores trying to buy a cd for their grandchildren and probably getting it horribly wrong!

But for the last three or four years the christmas number one has been a forgone conclusion, the x factor starts in autum and has a 12 week ad campaign then releases the winners single the week before christmas and what a suprise all the brainwashed go out and buy it!

This has now taken all the fun and magic out of the christmas number one, I have even noticed for the last couple of years other labels are not releasing as much during that week as if they know there is no point.

So come everyone lets not be brainwashed, lets put the fun back into the christmas charts and boycott the x factor single when it comes out, tell your grandparents now that you do not want to find that cd in your christmas stocking!