The viewers of VH1 have voted 'Fairytale Of New York' as their favourite Christmas song for the second year running. I hope this poll has only been running two years, because surely, the Pogues track has been the best Christmas song in the world ever since it's initial release in 1987?
Anyway, if those viewers got number one bang on, they failed in other areas, as two Cliff Richard songs made it in there ('Mistletoe And Wine' is rubbish) as did Wham's 'Last Christmas' (only 'Christmassy' because it contains the word 'Christmas'). However, the truly truly Christmas classics - Slade's 'Merry Christmas' and Wizzard's 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day' did okay - and so did Mariah's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You'.
The Darkness should also take heart; those Kerrang! types may hate them, but those VH1 types like their Christmas tune.
Here's how the top ten list goes:
1. The Pogues/ Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
2. Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You
3. Wham! - Last Christmas
4. Cliff Richard - Mistletoe and Wine
5. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody
6. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
7. The Darkness - Christmas Time
8. Cliff Richard - Saviour's Day
9. Band Aid - Do They Know it's Christmas
10. Mud - Lonely This Christmas