"the single is a choral setting by Paul Mealor of the Christmas song ""A Spotless Rose"". The song is part of Mealor's ""Rose Cycle "" of songs entitled ""Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal"". Wherever You Are (Military Wives song) ""Wherever You Are"" is a song written by Paul Mealor and performed by the Military Wives Choir, sung by ladies from Chivenor and Plymouth under the direction of Gareth Malone. It is a spin-off of the BBC Two television series """". It was released on 19 December 2011 following a campaign to make it the 2011 UK Christmas number one. The"
"Wives. Chris Moyles' support of this rival song for Christmas number 1 was controversial because the BBC appeared to be supporting ""Wherever You Are"" to be Christmas number 1 as BBC Radio 2 added the song to their A-list and Chris Evans was a major supporter of the record and the choir. On 29 December 2011 Piers Morgan campaigned on Twitter for the Military Wives Choir to reach number one in the US. He urged his 1.6 million followers to invest in the collective's charity track 'Wherever You Are' following its stateside release on Boxing Day. He tweeted ""Just heard"
"against first day sales on 19 December 2011, it was revealed that the single was outselling the group a hundred to one. This combined with the volume of money being placed on the single caused bookmakers Ladbrokes to close all bets on the Christmas number one. Simon Cowell congratulated the Choir via his Twitter account, saying ""Congrats to Little Mix & congrats to Military Wives. It’s a great cause & a worthy Christmas No 1."" Roger Greensmith, music and MP3 manager at Amazon.co.uk said regarding the single’s performance following its release, “Wherever You Are has no real competition for the"
"1992 single ""Killing in the Name"" reached number one in the UK instead of that year's ""X Factor"" winner, Joe McElderry. In 2011, ""Wherever You Are"", the single from a choir of military wives assembled by the TV series ""The Choir"", earned the Christmas number-one single in Britain—upsetting""X Factor"" winners Little Mix. With the Military Wives Choir single not being released in Ireland, Little Mix won Christmas number-one in Ireland that year. Situated in the southern hemisphere, where seasons are reversed from the northern, the heat of early summer in Australia affects the way Christmas is celebrated and how northern"
"the UK, with Christmas Number 1 going to Military Wives for their single ""Wherever You Are"". The single sold 100,000 copies worldwide in the same period. Forever Yours then dropped to number 112 the following week, setting a record for the biggest drop in UK Singles Chart history, falling 108 places. Had Alex topped the chart, he would have been the first unsigned artist to do so. The music video for ""Forever Yours"" was directed by housemate and fellow YouTuber Charlie McDonnell, and was released on 1 December 2011. In the music video, Day acts as both a superhero and"
"Flavia Cacace danced to their performance of ""Wherever You Are"". A campaign was launched to promote sales of the CD single, with the aim of it becoming the 2011 Christmas number one in the UK Singles Chart. Support for this campaign was received from BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans. In the traditional, competitive speculation in the run-up to Christmas, the Military Wives single was said to be in competition for the title with the ""X Factor"" winners Little Mix, who released a cover version of Damien Rice's ""Cannonball"", a campaign to promote the 2011 re-release of Nirvana's ""Smells Like"
"""The Choir: Military Wives"", first broadcast in November 2011, Malone went to Chivenor Barracks in Devon, creating a choir from wives and partners of military personnel deployed to Afghanistan. The culmination of the programme was the opening performance for the Royal British Legion's Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on 12 November 2011. The three-minute piece performed by the Military Wives Choir was the song ""Wherever You Are"", a love poem compiled from letters written between the women and their absent husbands and partners and set to music by composer Paul Mealor. A successful campaign was launched to"
"day's sales."" This makes it the fastest selling single since the Military Wives track ""Wherever You Are"" in December 2011. The line up for Band Aid 30: Unlike Band Aid II and Band Aid 20, where lyrics were almost identical to the original, the lyrics to ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" for Band Aid 30 have been altered to address the current situation in Western Africa, with the ongoing Ebola epidemic. The changes include: British artist Tracey Emin designed the cover sleeve for the physical release of the single. After release for download, the single went straight to number one"
"hit, ""Wherever You Are"", composed by Paul Mealor. The title track, ""In My Dreams"", also composed by Mealor, features the voice of Jonjo Kerr, a previous contestant in the television music competition ""The X Factor"". The success of the TV series and the creation of the new choirs that feature on the album was the beginning of the formation of the Military Wives Choirs Foundation to whom £1 from the sale of each album will go to further their aims of creating a social support network across the UK for Military Wives through the medium of song. In My Dreams"
"the Military Wives single gets released in the US today,"", posting a link to the official video. ""Watch this my American friends, then go buy it...Good luck ladies, hope you get a No1 in America."" The Sun reported that the former Britain's Got Talent judge invited the choir to perform on his US show Piers Morgan Tonight. The song was also promoted on the front page of ""The Blaze"", the news site run by American commentator Glenn Beck. The text of ""Wherever You Are"" is a love poem compiled from letters written between the women and their absent husbands and"
"special version of ""Wherever You Are"", a song by the composer Paul Mealor which was performed by the Military Wives Choir at the 2011 Festival of Remembrance. The Duke of York's School version featured a pupil of the school reading a letter to her father who served in Afghanistan over Christmas 2011 and was broadcast on the Chris Evans BBC Radio 2 breakfast show on Wednesday 14 December and repeated several times in full on BBC Radio Kent throughout the Christmas period. The YouTube video of the Duke of York's School averaged 1000 hits a day during the weeks leading"
"to women in the military community. Produced by BMG and steered by three accomplished choral conductors - Hilary Davan Wetton, Will Dawes and Mark De-Lisser, the Military Wives Choirs’ beautiful collection of songs embodies the true spirit of Christmas – its religious significance, love, family and harmony. The album was accompanied by a Cathedral tour through the UK, which involved 17 different choirs. The Military Wives Choirs are currently recording an album to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War I, conducted by Hilary Davan Wetton, with music by a number of composers including Joanna L’Estrange, Alexander L’Estrange"
"to enlist voices for an all-women choir - the wives and girlfriends of military personnel deployed to Afghanistan. The programme explores the vulnerability of the women while their partners are away on active service, and Malone's aim is to strengthen their morale and raise their profile in the public perception. The culmination of the programme is a performance by the Military Wives Choir in The Royal British Legion's Remembrance service at the Royal Albert Hall on 12 November 2011. As a spin-off of the Military Wives series, the Military Wives Choir recorded a CD single of the song ""Wherever You"
"at No 1 in the Classical charts. Mealor's motet, a setting of Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (rearranged as ""Ubi Caritas et Amor),"" was commissioned by Prince William for his marriage to Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011, when it was sung by the Choirs of Westminster Abbey and Her Majesty's Chapel Royal conducted by James O'Donnell. Later that year, Mealor was commissioned to write the music for ""Wherever You Are"", a song setting a text compiled from letters written to British Army military personnel deployed on active service in the Afghanistan War by their wives or"
"in the presence of HM The Queen. The song was created by Paul Mealor from extracts of correspondence between the choir and their spouses in Afghanistan. Following the series, the song ""Wherever You Are"" was released as a single on 19 December 2011, with the aim of becoming the 2011 UK Singles Chart Christmas number one, a feat it achieved when it sold 556,000 copies within a week of launch (more than the rest of the top 12 combined). A section of the cost of the single was donated to the Royal British Legion and the SSAFA Forces Help charities."
"2018, he was appointed as an Officer of the Venerable Order of St John (OStJ) by HM Queen Elizabeth II. Paul Mealor Paul Mealor OStJ FRSA (born 25 November 1975) is a Welsh composer. A large proportion of his output is for chorus, both a cappella and accompanied. He came to wider notice when his motet ""Ubi Caritas et Amor"" was performed at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011. He later composed the song ""Wherever You Are"", which became the 2011 Christmas number one in the UK Singles Chart. Born in St Asaph, Denbighshire, North Wales,"
"Where Are You, Christmas? ""Christmas, Why Can't I Find You?"" is a song co-written by James Horner, Will Jennings and Mariah Carey, for the movie ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas"" in 2000. In the movie, it is first sung by Taylor Momsen, who played Cindy Lou Who. A longer version of this song, called ""Where Are You, Christmas?"", was co-written by Horner, Jennings and Carey. The song was originally recorded by Carey, but because of a legal case with her ex-husband Tommy Mottola, it could not be released, so it was re-recorded and released by Faith Hill. A video was"
"2009, ""Where Are You, Christmas"" was covered by Hollie Steel, the child soprano from ""Britain Got Talent"" finals. On October 29, 2009, Then There Were None released a cover of the Christmas single. During a Christmas concert in 2011, a cover of the song was performed by The Piano Guys (Jon Schmidt, Steven Sharp Nelson), featuring Jon's young daughter Sarah Schmidt. Pentatonix covered the song for their 2018 album ""Christmas Is Here!"". Where Are You, Christmas? ""Christmas, Why Can't I Find You?"" is a song co-written by James Horner, Will Jennings and Mariah Carey, for the movie ""How the Grinch"
"Christmas number one single. In mid-December 2011 it was reported that ""Wherever You Are"" had broken sales records in becoming the most pre-ordered music item ever on the UK Amazon website. According to Amazon, the pre-order sales were three times as many as those of Take That’s 2010 album ""Progress"". Little Mix’s single was released a week earlier than normal X Factor winner’s singles, going to number one in the UK singles chart a week before the Christmas number one race, but with the lowest first week sales of any ""X Factor"" winner’s single since 2004. With pre-order figures counting"
"partners, as part of the BBC Two television series ""The Choir: Military Wives"". The single, released on 19 December 2011, became the 2011 Christmas number one in the UK Singles Chart and raised money for military charities. In the 2012 Classic FM Hall of Fame, he was voted the 'nation's favourite living composer' and succeeded in achieving the highest placing of any new entry in the history of the Hall of Fame with ""Wherever You Are"" charting at No 5. In 2012, he was appointed a Free Burgess of the City of Aberdeen. In 2013 Mealor composed the song ""With"
"thirty five date UK tour throughout March and April to perform the single. This is something which had never been done before by a mainstream artist and the Choirs were thrilled to be involved in. In November 2016, the Military Wives Choirs came together for their biggest project yet, ‘Home for Christmas’. Recorded in ten different locations, the album includes over 1,000 ladies from 63 choirs across the UK and overseas and can all be heard on the title track ""Home for Christmas"". The album also features six classic carols which have been updated with lyrics reflecting what Christmas means"
"Military Wives Military Wives Choirs are a group of British choirs formed of wives, partners and widows of British Military personnel as well as service women and veterans and are located around the UK and in several locations abroad. Formed in 2010, the choir has performed at major military events and also at the Diamond Jubilee Concert. The first choir held their first rehearsal in April 2010 in Catterick Garrison. It was the idea of two Scots Guards wives who decided, whilst their husbands deployed in Afghanistan in 2009, to put up posters at the Garrison to actively encourage and"
"director of classical music record label Naxos UK, stated: ""By its nature, this chart will be more relevant to other companies."" The Official Classical Singles Chart was launched in 2012. According to Umusic, the official website for Universal Music in the UK, it reflected a shift in the British public's consumption of classical music from albums to tracks. At the time of the launch, classical music was becoming more popular in the UK; the previous year, download sales of individual classical tracks had increased by 46% (from 834,000 to 1.2 million), while the single ""Wherever You Are"" by Military Wives"
"144 on the UK Singles Chart. The following week the song climbed to the number-one spot, becoming the Christmas number one of 2011. It sold 555,622 copies, more than the rest of the top 12 combined. It is also the biggest first-week sales since ""A Moment Like This"" by Leona Lewis sold over 571,000 copies in its first week in 2006. Despite impressive first week sales, ""Wherever You Are"" only spent one week atop the chart, with Coldplay's ""Paradise"" replacing it at the summit on January 1; causing it to fall three places to number four. The B side of"
"active service in the Afghanistan War. In forming a choir, Malone aimed to raise the women's morale and raise their profile in the public perception. The song ""Wherever You Are"" was recorded by the Military Wives Choir and was released as a single in December 2011, with proceeds going to the Royal British Legion and SSAFA Forces Help. RM Chivenor Royal Marines Barracks Chivenor is a British military base used primarily by 3 Commando Brigade. It is situated on the northern shore of the River Taw estuary, adjacent to the South West Coast Path, on the north coast of Devon,"
"home for Christmas' as well as the brass band arrangements made it an appropriately styled song to play around Christmas time. Lewis had said that royalties received from the song account for 50% of his income stream. The song's promotional video is set in the trenches of the First World War. The lyrics of the song mention cavalry and Churchill (who served as the First Lord of the Admiralty in the first year of the war, prior to serving in the trenches himself), but it breaks with the First World War theme with references to nuclear fallout and the line"
"December: 10° Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing<br>9° Fito Páez - El Amor Después del Amor<br>8° Jimmy Ray - Are You Jimmy Ray?<br>7° Lighthouse Family - High<br>6° Supertramp - Sooner or Later<br>5° Céline Dion - My Heart Will Go On<br>4° Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply<br>3° Shania Twain - You're Still the One<br>2° Fool's Garden - Lemon Tree<br>Hot Z: Natalie Imbruglia - Torn/ Fastball - The Way 20°<br>19°<br>18°<br>17°<br>16°<br>15° Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like a Woman!<br>14°<br>13°<br>12°<br>11°<br>10° Santana feat. Maná - Corazón Espinado<br>9° Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much<br>8° Backstreet Boys - I Want It"
"until 1991. Many songs this year competed for the Christmas number one single, and the entire top 3 from 1984 re-entered the chart this year; Paul McCartney's ""We All Stand Together"" at number 32, Wham!'s ""Last Christmas"" at number 6, and Band Aid's ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" at number 3. There were also attempts from Bruce Springsteen with a cover of ""Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"", and ventriloquist Keith Harris released a cover of ""White Christmas"" with his green puppet Orville the Duck. However, the Christmas number one went to Shakin' Stevens with the song ""Merry Christmas Everyone""."
"Christmas, Kyoko"", followed by Lennon whispering, ""Happy Christmas, Julian."" The song reached No. 4 in the UK, where its release was delayed until 1972, and has periodically reemerged on the UK Singles Chart. Originally a protest song about the Vietnam War, ""Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"" has since become a Christmas standard. That August the couple appeared together at a benefit in Madison Square Garden with Roberta Flack, Stevie Wonder, and Sha Na Na for mentally handicapped children organized by WABC-TV's Geraldo Rivera. In a 2018 issue of Portland Magazine, editor Colin W. Sargent writes of interviewing Yoko while she"
"give a cross-like structure to the building. King George V re-granted the title ""Royal Chapel"" in 1927 during a visit to the Royal Citadel. The 2011 BBC television series ""The Choir: Military Wives"" featured the Royal Citadel along with RMB Chivenor in Devon. The programme documented choirmaster Gareth Malone forming a choir of wives and partners of Royal Citadel personnel deployed on active service in the Afghanistan War. In forming a choir, Malone aimed to raise the women's morale and raise their profile in the public perception. The song ""Wherever You Are"" was recorded by the Military Wives Choir and"
"where Benjamin (Morris Chestnut) is working as Santa in a shopping mall. The movie also stars Queen Latifah and Terrence Howard. The song appeared in ""A Dennis the Menace Christmas"" starring Robert Wagner and Maxwell Perry Cotton. The song is featured in a scene where Mr. Wilson (Robert Wagner) goes Christmas shopping with the kids. Santa U Are the One ""Santa U Are the One"" is a Christmas song written and composed by the Norwegian songwriter Ove Andre Brenna. It was first made popular by the Korean boy band Super Junior. ""Santa U Are the One"" is an uptempo and"
"during Christmas 2007. A total of 19 achieved this without being officially re-issued (on downloads alone). Two of these (by Mariah Carey and The Pogues), reached the Top 5. Eleven Christmas hits returned to the Top 75 for Christmas 2008, nine in 2009, eight in 2010 and twelve in 2011, with the Mariah Carey and Pogues songs faring best each year. The first unsigned artist to break the top 5 was Alex Day, who reached number 4 with his single ""Forever Yours"" in the Christmas chart, beating Coldplay and Olly Murs, following a large-scale social media campaign. In February 2013,"
"the song with a children's chorus from The Stuttering Association for the Youth. On 14 December 2018, Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson released a cover version of ""Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"" featuring Lennon's son, Sean Ono Lennon. The three of them performed their cover on the December 15 2018 episode of ""Saturday Night Live"" where Ronson and Cyrus were booked as the episodes musical guests. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) ""Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"" is a Christmas song released in 1971 as a single by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir. The lyrics, by"