December Song Chart Position – Told Ya

I hate to say, “I told you so!”, but I did (I think pretty much everything I said would happen, did happen).  I said then I thought that, as great a record as it undoubtedly is,the new George Michael single December Song had no chance of being a Top 5, or even a Top 10 single because of the flawed promotional strategy aka “Perform on X-Factor”.    Tonight, December Song charted at #14 in the UK singles chart.

A New Version Of Last Christmas

The cast of US TV show, Glee, recently recorded  a version of George Michael’s first Christmas song, Last Christmas.  I think they did a great job, both with the singing, and with the group vocal arrangement.  You can listen to the Glee version here – Happy Christmas!

George Michael Talks Selling Out To Loose Women

George Michael just phoned the live UK  TV show “Loose Women” (kinda like The View in the US) to say sorry to everyone that has tried to buy his single, December Song, only to find it’s sold out.  George said that the record company didn’t think he would sell that many, and so didn’t make enough to satisfy the demand coming from his recent X-Factor performance.

This doesn’t sound like the whole story to me.  For one thing, if Island didn’t think he would sell any records, why the hell would they bother signing him?  Also, the level of stock of the record in shops was so low as to be ridiculous.  Forget about selling out because it’s popular.  At the stock levels supplied to shops (often just a handful of copies), it would have sold out even it wasn’t popular.

Anyway, George says the stores will have more copies of December Song in stock next Monday, 21st December.

Important News Re: Official Fanclub And Forum

Hi Everyone! This is Remarkable.

I’ve been popping into the official George Michael forums recently, from time to time, just to check what’s going on.  I have to be honest – I was dismayed by what I found.  I could not find a single post insulting George’s exiled cousin, Andros; or even very much intrusive discussion about George’s family and friends at all.  I couldn’t even find any threads that had got totally out of hand with different factions of fans insulting each other for the football team they support.  That last finding is truly shocking with the World Cup coming up.  Don’t any of you people want to kick back (mama), and watch the World Cup?  I was also shocked to find that, though the word, “pink” is not blocked, there were not even any abusive threads about pink shorts.

Anyway, the upshot of all this is that, because of the lack of any juicy threads on the official forums, I felt I had to send a note to George and his team, suggesting they just close the whole thing down because it’s clearly not working in the way George wants.

I realize that people have made friendships on the official forums, and that Australian fans in particular would like support from the fanclub in terms of things like ticket pre-sales.  So, they will remain in place and open for the time being.  After that, though, the existing fan club will close, and all the boring threads on the official forum will be deleted.

I’m sorry it had to come to this, but you know the drill, people. Peace and love…  or nothing at all…

More On The George Michael – Joe X-Factor Duet

I’ve now had the opportunity to watch the performance of George Michael and Joe McElderry from last night’s X-Factor final Part 1 with high-quality sound.  Suffice to say, both did a good job.

Now, I hate to say I told you so, but I did… George is getting a fair amount of abuse for his performance with Joe last night.  Criticisms on Twitter ranged from “How rough did George Michael look?” and “OMG Joe is outsinging George Michael on his own song” through “Who does George Michael think he is?”, “George Michael is such a hasbeen”, “OMG How arrogant is George Michael?” all the way to “George Michael is very angular”, “How creepy did George Michael look with Joe?”, “What a disgusting perv George Michael is” and “OMG did you see George Michael being all paedo with Joe?”

Of course, none of these criticisms are reasonable.  The point is this… as I said previously – people that are fans of the X-Factor fall into two categories, the largest one of which contains pretty much the whole of the dregs of UK society.  Truly thick, revolting so-called humans. Why anyone would want to perform to an audience of ten million (or more) of the great unwashed I have no idea.  Now that reality TV and the Internet have given these retards a voice, surely smart people would only put their heads above the parapet when there’s a chance to ridicule the sub-humans in the way they deserve.  It’s for their own good – they can only benefit from learning that their opinions, like everything else about their lives, are worthless…

Still, that’s in the past now – George Michael’s performance last night was strong enough that it seems that most the papers haven’t felt able to really put the boot in (By the way – @DavidFurnish – George didn’t seem that ill, did he? Can you think what that might be?)

On tonight’s X-Factor Final Part 2, George will be singing solo.  Looking forward to seeing it.  Be interesting to see if George becomes a trending topic on Twitter tonight, like he was last night.  That really confused the fuck out a bunch of dim-witted Twitter users that couldn’t comprehend that George Michael might be big news for something other than getting arrested…