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'X Factor' winner Alexandra Burke's 'Hallelujah' breaks download record

The song is set to become the show's biggest-selling release

December 15, 2008 | 5 Comments
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'X Factor' winner Alexandra Burke is on course to claim the UK's Christmas Number One single position through download sales alone.

Burke's cover of 's version of 'Hallelujah' also looks likely to feature in next week's chart, after rising to Number 30 yesterday. NME.COM reported last week (December 9) that Buckley fans were campaigning to get his song to Number One.

One Facebook group dedicated to the cause currently has over 35,000 members, who are being encouraged to download Buckley's version of the song this week. It originally appeared on his 1994 debut album 'Grace'.

Find out more about the history of 'Hallelujah' at NME.COM/PHOTOS. You can also watch different versions of the song, and debate whose 'Hallelujah' is the best, on the NME Office Blog.

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andyg1983

Dec 15, 2008

Oh come on people ffs!! Stop buying CRAP!! This is not just about getting Jeff Buckley to number one, its for the sake of music everywhere and to stop what is an awful cover of a classic! I mean there is a key change, a key change ffs, what the hell is going on!!

No-Busesx

Dec 15, 2008

This song is waaaaaaaay to good for the X FactorWay too good.Nobody takes the X Factor that seriously, and Hallelujah is possibly one of the most serious songs ever written.Alexandra is an amazing singer, and she sings it really well, but I think it puts a lot of christmas novelty into in, If you get what I mean.

ynnijei

Dec 15, 2008

Oh you poor ignorants who keep ranting about a thing like that when you don't even know that it's not a Jeff Buckley song. Ever heard of a guy called Leonard Cohen?

This-charming-man26

Dec 15, 2008

ynnijei, we know its not jeff's song, but it might as well be after the way he sang it, the fact that the X factor has decided to cover it takes all the purity and meaning out of it, its not even a woman's song (hence the lyrics). People please join the facebook group and do the decent thing, X factor no1 again???? Hallelujah coming to a kareoke machine near you.

gazhat

Dec 16, 2008

........yet another classic tune killed for the sake of enterainment, and lining Cowell's pockets again...doesn't he not have enough money now to just fuck off and buy an island somewhere ???...