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

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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]

S1 - S11 I HAVE A DREAM - Westlife Xmas No 1 1998

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@J9el wrote:

17 - Stay another Day - E17 - 1994

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And out of the pit-lane, in shoots @J9el with a band and a date for East 17's Stay Another Day in 1994:

Keep it up! 

[J9el]

I have a dream - Westlife - 1999

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

S1 - S11 I HAVE A DREAM - Westlife Xmas No 1 1998

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And another title and artist, but the date's off, @Mi-Amigo 

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@J9el wrote:

I have a dream - Westlife - 1999

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You get the bonus for the correct date, @J9el - @Mi-Amigo beat you by a couple of minutes, must've been that tyre change lol!

[Mi-Amigo]

Getting harder now...

Xmas No 1s which should be in grid, I can`t find 😂

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Grid update: 24 of 31 found!

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

Getting harder now...

Xmas No 1s which should be in grid, I can`t find 😂

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Keep that bit of paper, @Mi-Amigo - there's another 30 in a grid to come on 24-Dec! 

(Assuming I survive this one of course lol!)

[Mi-Amigo]

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@pgn wrote:

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

Getting harder now...

Xmas No 1s which should be in grid, I can`t find 😂

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Keep that bit of paper, @Mi-Amigo - there's another 30 in a grid to come on 24-Dec! 

(Assuming I survive this one of course lol!)

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Bit of paper ?? I`ve got a notebook, not that it`s much help at the minute 😂

OK a wild guess...

E8 - L1 [another diagonal] - MAD WORLD - got no idea of who did it nor the date but think it`s after 2000 ??

[Cleoriff]

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