O2 Community Forum 2021 - Christmas Singles Mega Word Grid Part 2

[pgn]

Welcome back everyone - Christmas Eve and bored of wrapping presents?  Well, here's 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 30 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 around 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.

Over to you, happy hunting: @Cleoriff @Bambino @blissgirl @BobM @Cairdeas1 @gmarkj @J9el @jonsie  @lewys-gp @madasaf1sh @MAKAZAGA @Martin-O2 @Mi-Amigo  @MI5 @Pennywren @Projectionist @RafaC @RunrigForever @sheepdog @TallTrees and anyone else who fancies a go! 

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @pgn for setting and running another a brilliant game, which was way more difficult than the previous one.

I can`t believe my score. I guess I was lucky with a few Beatles songs in the grid.

It was great fun to have the tag team with @Cleoriff and @TallTrees this time, which added something new to the Word Search. 

I wish each and everyone of the players and our Word Search setter, a very Happy Christmas.

[lewys-gp]

Well done, @pgn. Great effort putting this together and hosting 👍. 

Big congrats to everyone else who got involved too! I really enjoy being a part of this community and seeing the effort put in by everyone is amazing 😊. Merry Christmas to one and all. Happy Holidays!

[TallTrees]

Hello @pgn 

Thank you for a super game, I enjoyed it until my eyes crossed!  

Great Scores Everyone 

Thank you to my tag team @Mi-Amigo  and  @Cleoriff 

Without you I would have nothing😩 but it was fantastic to enable me to take part.

Well done everyone I liked the videos enjoyed them whilst multi-tasking Chrissy Dinner

Enjoy your Chrissy Dins and have a happy day everyone 💝

[RafaC]

Thanks a lot for another fantastic round of word grig @pgn! As have been said, amazing effort coming up with it, running it and not only that, but also providing us with some many joyful Christmas singles videos

I was mesmerised by how many Beatles singles topped the charts during Christmas time! I especially enjoyed that We Can Work It Out is amongst them, as it's one of my favourite Beatles records

Well done everyone, great effort from the participants as well as this one wasn't an easy one! Merry Christmas to one and all! 

[pgn]

Thanks everyone for the lovely messages - the guts of the work were done sometime before the first grid, all titles compiled, mangled and de-spaced/de-punctuated in a Google sheet.

Then a few trial runs through the grid generator applet I found, to get the balance of size and density - you'll note about 8 or so hits were omitted... 

Once the grid, and solution grid, was ready, these had to be "played" to get the answers - the co-ordinates (cue D and S #1, who happened to be around the house for that).

Then it was just a matter of setting the game, rules and letting the Grid Gurus loose on it - which you did spectacularly, thank you.

If I had to do it again, there would be points for a correct title, and a bonus for the year and the group for each entry - this was a bit constraining this time around when people could see a title but knew not the other 2 bits of information.

All in all, a great way to spend a few days, and most enjoyable - the YouTube links were a bonus, I wonder how many listened to them while waiting for another responder to answer?

Merry Christmas everyone!

[Cleoriff]

Really great game @pgn. It was lovely to be able to take part for some of it. Hairdressers, people visiting, checking a neighbours house as he has gone away, wrapping presents etc etc. All that aside, I would never have scored as many as @Mi-Amigo who was on fire 😂 Good to be part of a tag team though.

Well done to you for all your hard work. Happy Christmas one and all.

[pgn]

Says it all 😉