U.K. puts Jeff at No. 2. History is made.
Posted by Niall in Christmas, England, Entertainment, Marketing, Media, Music, Radio, Video, archive, facebook, poetry on 22-Dec-2008 at 5:32 am GMT.
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Certainly for the first time at Christmas (and possibly for the first time EVER, – not sure), the same song by two different artists sits at No. 1 and No. 2 in the UK charts. The song is Hallelujah – the No. 1 spot is held (predictably enough) by Alexandra Burke’s high-octane choir-supported commercialised X-Factor winning version and No. 2 is Jeff Buckley’s sweet heart-wrenching poetic masterpiece.
Here’s the video of Alexandra Burke delivering the song for the first time, live:
I still prefer Buckley’s version of course, but there’s no denying that – while I may not agree completely with their choice of what song to cover here – Alexandra is an excellent singer. It’s nice that the radio stations will now have to play Jeff again 
The Jeff fans who were trying to get him to No. 1 are delighted with themselves – and sure, why not? It’s extremely cool for him – and for this wonderful song – to get exposure like this over a decade after his death.
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In January 1957, apparently both Tommy Mitchell and Guy Steele had versions of the song “Singin’ The Blues” at Number 1 and 2 respectively.
There are now 3 versions of Hallelujah in the UK Top 40 – original writer Leonard Cohen’s version is at number 36.
NME.com proves useful for once.