Entertainment 20-12-2004 what: when: snippet: While it`s wonderful to have raised so much money for such a worthy cause, it`s a shame that Sir Bob Geldof has cheated us out of the annual festive fun of attempting to predict the christmas Number One. This year, as we all knew it would be, it is of course Band Aid 20`s `Do They Know It`s Christmas?`. James Masterton, in his weekly column for Yahoo! Launch, points out some interesting chart history trivia relating to the christmas chart-topper this week which chart watchers are advised to investigate. For instance, why was the christmas chart show broadcast a day late in 1988? And what is the similarity between Band Aid 20 and Michael Jackson`s 1995 chart-topper, `Earth Song`? Ten years after Boyzone had a hit with `Father and Son` by Cat Stevens, their former lead singer, Ronan Keating, returns to the song, this time duetting with the writer, now known as Yusuf Islam, and reaching this week`s Number Two. Kylie Minogue`s `I Believe In You` drops from Two to Three and Ice Cube drops from Three to Four with `You Can Do It`. There`s a new entry at Five for Leigh "Avid Merrion" Francis`s Bo Selecta christmas novelty record, `I Got You Babe` and there`s just one other new entry in the Top Ten for Morrissey at Ten with `I Have Forgiven Jesus`. After a Top Five hiot last year with `Santa`s List`, Sir Cliff Richard falls a long way short of contention for the festive Number One this time round - his single `I Cannot Give You My Love` limps in at Number 13. [... more]

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