O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 1

[pgn]

Welcome all, another chance for the Forum Festive Frivolities to continue - come join the fun!

Hidden in a straight line across, up, down or diagonally (backwards or forwards too!) in the grid below are 31 singles titles. Each has been a #1 hit in the UK in the week in which Christmas Day fell, from the 1950s to last year, 

The rules are simple:

 - Find a title in the grid, give me the full title as printed in the grid, the start and end co-ordinates of the title and the title's group/singer/band name for a point;

 - For a bonus, give me the year (or years - a bonus point per year) that the title by that artist was at the top in the Christmas Week chart;

 - First person to tell me the year or years gets the bonus.

Then give someone else a chance, and repeat.

I'll be back to update the grid and keep track of the scores at intervals during the day. I will compile the winners towards the end of day.

NB: There are a few tricky ones in there, where a song or variant of a song was released by different artists, or where a release was a double A-side, watch out!

PS. Feel free to use any tool at your disposal to check date(s) and/or artist/s once you have found a title in the grid.

Here's an Example answer:

  R1 - L8 "Mr Blobby", by Mr Blobby, in 1993  - this would score 1 point + 1 bonus point

Over to you, happy hunting: @Cleoriff @Bambino @blissgirl @BobM @Cairdeas1 @gmarkj @J9el @lewys-gp @madasaf1sh @MAKAZAGA @Martin-O2 @Mi-Amigo 

@MI5 @Pennywren @Projectionist @RafaC @RunrigForever @sheepdog @TallTrees and anyone else who fancies a go!  (@jonsie has a buy-ball in this one, by prior arrangement )

[Mi-Amigo]

OMG - I scored 28 ??? Unbelievable... Thank you.

Well done everyone who took part - an awesome effort.

[RafaC]

Brilliant game @pgn thanks so much for organising and running it, it was good fun and I'm looking forward to part 2 as well

Well done everyone, great collective effort on finding those 31 titles, although it was great fun, it wasn't an easy task!

[BobM]

Arrived late to this but well done all and can see @Mi-Amigo way up at the top.  Thanks goes to @pgn for organising it so well.  Good game 👍

[lewys-gp]

Such an amazing effort, @pgn. Should be proud 👏.

Loads of fun but also some hair-pulling moments for me 🤣. I can see some of the titles I knew wasn't in this part, so I'm hoping part 2 will be more favourable to me.

Thanks again and well done to everyone involved! 

[Cleoriff]

Thanks for all this effort @pgn . I'm not that good at Word Searches. (Genuinely, my eyes are peculiar in that they, along with my brain, don't compute anything which is printed vertically and on a slant). However I gave it a go and it was well thought out. Thanks again. x

[J9el]

Well done all….especially @Mi-Amigo 🎉

[TallTrees]

Lots of work for you 'pressure pressure' 😁

@pgn very well done 

Unlike @Cleoriff  My eyes are not too bad for word searches.  My big problem is I don't know the song titles 🤣 

One correct is amazing. 

Thanks for the game enjoyed.  I'll have another go next time  of course may find one🙄

[gmarkj]

Well done everyone - looks like a good game @pgn sorry I missed it!

[pgn]

Thanks everyone - it went pretty well, I thought, for a Word Grid - and everyone was a good sport whenever something cropped up, with several people combining effort to get the full answer and sharing the Answer and Bonus point.

I enjoyed putting in all the YouTube videos on every "win", possibly to the detriment of posting Grid updates - but I hope even those coming along after the event enjoyed some of the music on the thread.

For those who missed out, I'll kick off the second half (approximately - some titles had to be dropped for legibility in the grid!) on 24-Dec-2021 at around the same time, 9am - unless anyone has a preference for an earlier or a later start that day?

Thanks everyone, and well done to all who had a shot - even Mr Blobby got a look-in 🤣