Day 2 - Christmas Number One

 Day 2 - Christmas Number One


Christmas Number One - play song on Bandcamp

So a completely tongue-in-cheek effort on Day 2 - the very idea that having a Christmas number 1 hit single could turn you into a millionaire overnight (or at least, when the next royalty check is paid!)

Perhaps it did happen to Noddy, Woody and Macca? I don't know but somewhere in my heart I still hold onto the notion that the elusive festive hit, played endlessly and annually would bring some financial rewards.

In the modern era of streaming, especially for a D.I.Y. artist such as myself, this is indeed a fanciful notion or a pipe dream but nevertheless it is the hope which keeps me going! 

I suppose I can dream that someone might ask their smart speaker to play 'Christmas Number One', expecting Mariah Carey or Wham! and is instead greeted with my effort. It could work?

It would also be lovely to think that one day I'd hear one of my own songs being performed by a busker, or endlessly on a loop in a supermarket, to the annoyance of shoppers.

There isn't much more I can say about this track, other than it was a deliberate ploy to attract the attention of DJs who might think it's clever (or funny, or both).


'Christmas Number One' by Les Bicyclettes de Belsize
Written, recorded, performed, produced by Les Bicyclettes de Belsize
(c) Richard Longley 2025

lyrics

Christmas number one
I'll write a Christmas number one
This time next year
I'll be a millionaire
With my Christmas number one

It's got an 80's synth-pop theme
I'll get a choir and I'll add strings
There'll be a video
That we filmed in snow
And everyone will sing

Christmas number one
I'll write a Christmas number one
This time next year
I'll be a millionaire
With my Christmas number one

It's got a chorus on repeat
It's got a rhythm and backbeat
In December when shopping
You will hear it non-stopping
Buskers play it on the street

Christmas number one
I'll write a Christmas number one
This time next year
I'll be a millionaire
With my Christmas number one

Were the old songs really the best
Are you rocking and rolling with the rest

Yet this is the sound
You'll hear all around
The greatest song I confess

Christmas number one
I'll write a Christmas number one
This time next year
I'll be a millionaire
With my Christmas number one



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