Can someone delete this thread or something, to kill this daft notion. Every fan forum of every artist in the UK is probably discussing/plotting the same thing. Some internet users really are naive about this kind of stuff.
Morrissey doesn't have the support or the songs to get a number one in the UK, simple as that. If he wants a number one, it's up to him and a record company to do something about it.
Morrissey said he could end his career happily now, having released his last three albums. Who wouldn't want to end their career happy? The signs are all there. We are seeing the dying days of Morrissey as a recording artist.
I disagree. It's actually a very amusing and far from inconceivable notion. Even if it fails, it would be a rip-roaring success. Especially if it fails, in fact. The statement of plotting as a weird, little community (and probably being joined by the disaffected indie-listening masses, bored to tears of R&B, rap and Simon Cowell) to put a 51-year old Mancunian 'misery' at the top of the charts on Christmas day would be hilarious and touching. I also think it's entirely possible that - with a strong single - there are enough people in the UK who own Smiths records and/or Morrissey records (surely well over the 3 million mark) to join such a campaign and succeed.
Of course, the song should really have a Christmas theme - and a typically Morrissey theme at that.
"52,000 Shapeshifters (1)
43,000 Rachel Stevens (2)
19,000 J-Kwon (4)
18,300 Jamelia (5)
16,800 Morrissey (6)
9,600 Flip & Fill (11)
2,600 Nelly Furtado (40)
not as close i would have thought "
Amazing. So there are more people willing to pay over £30 to turn up and watch Wigan Athletic play football every couple of weeks than are willing to spend £3.99 on a great Morrissey single with b-sides.
I think this sums up the present climate of apathy surrounding the pop charts. The reality is that the charts are now quite simply
bad. Despite all the promotion in the world and the fact we are told to love R&B, rap and 'urban music' daily by the BBC, the music scene in the UK no longer reflects the passions of the British people. As someone who was a teenager during 'Britpop,' I didn't realise quite how lucky I was to live in a time when one could share one's love of popular artists such as Morrissey, Pulp, Radiohead and the Stone Roses
with other people. That's impossible today.