Mary Reid

Is Love is Enough enough?

By | Fri 29th November 2024 - 9:32 am

As Caron reported on Wednesday, Ed Davey is performing on a Christmas single by Bath Philharmonia and its Young Carers’ Choir.

We can now reveal it in all its glory.

We held it back because downloads only count from today.

The BBC has some words to say about it:

As far as we can tell, Sir Ed is the first leader of a major political party to release a Christmas single (although in 2017 Lord Buckethead put out his festive song, A Bucketful of Happiness).

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Those hoping to hear Sir Ed on lead vocals in the new single may be disappointed.

In Love is Enough, Sir Ed perhaps wisely leaves the bulk of the singing to the members of the Bath Philharmonia’s Young Carers’ Choir.

He joins in at the bridge around three quarters of the way through the song and during the chorus – but there is no big show-stopping solo.

The BBC also explains how charts measure the success of a single:

These days the Official Charts Company uses a formula to combine CD and vinyl sales with downloads, streams and YouTube views, giving greater weight to actual sales (physical or downloaded).

As part of the formula, a song needs to be streamed 100 times on a paid-for subscription service to be worth the same as one download sale. For free video and audio streams, 600 plays are required.

So please also download it from iTunes for 99p to enhance its chances of getting to No 1. In addition the download is supporting Carers Trust and Bath Philharmonia.

You can stream or download it here: https://slinky.to/LoveIsEnough.

* Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.

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2 Comments

  • nigel hunter 29th Nov '24 - 9:49am

    Spread the word,shout it from the rooftops

  • Suzanne Fletcher 30th Nov '24 - 9:26pm

    this is too late for anyone to see my comment, but thank goodness someone has explained clearly just how to support this.
    I did manage yesterday but nobody was really telling me. Some of us don’t use itunes!

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