These guys want to keep X-Factor off the Christmas No.1 spot for some great Irish children’s charities.
That’s something absolutely everyone at JOE can fully get behind.
When I Grow Up was recorded in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre and features a chorus of over 2,000 voices from AIMS, the Association of Irish Musical Societies – the largest ensemble choir ever gathered together for a charity single in Irish chart history.
The song is taken from comedian Tim Minchin’s Matilda The Musical and the Aussie comic been getting right behind it:
The money they raise will be in aid of The Children’s Medical Research Foundation, Crumlin and The Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.
If the single is to scoop the Christmas No.1 spot, they have a big job on their hands.
- X-Factor has held the Irish Christmas No.1 title every year since 2006.
- The last time there was an Irish produced Christmas No.1 was in 2005 with Gift Grub’s ‘Leave Right
Now’. - The last time a charity single took the Irish Christmas No.1 spot was in 2004 with the 20th Anniversary rerelease of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’.
- It has been a quarter of a century since an Irish charity single took the Christmas No.1 spot and that was Zig and Zag’s ‘Christmas No.1’ (they must have known) in 1990. The beneficiary back then was also The Children’s Medical Research Foundation.
The single is available globally on iTunes, Google Play and all digital stores and on CD exclusively from HMV & Xtra-Vision in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland too.
We really hope they do it.
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