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'X Factor' Little Mix single 'UK's most unwanted Christmas gift'
Published Wednesday, Dec 28 2011, 21:35 GMT | By Daniel Sperling | 76 comments
The debut single from X Factor winners Little Mix has been named as the UK's least wanted Christmas gift.
The girl band's 'Cannonball' cover topped a British Heart Foundation poll looking for the most disappointing present to open on December 25.
Little Mix's record beat products such as raunchy underwear, musical ties and foot spas to the title after being singled out by a quarter of those surveyed.
Little Mix were knocked from the top of the UK singles chart on Christmas Day by Gareth Malone and the Military Wives Choir, making them only the third X Factor-winning act after Steve Brookstein and Joe McElderry to miss out on the Christmas number one.
'Cannonball' also achieved the lowest first-week sales for an X Factor winner's single since 'Against All Odds' by Brookstein in 2004.
Little Mix shifted 210,000 copies of their track over seven days, significantly fewer than the 556,000 recorded by the Military Wives and 'Wherever You Are'.
> Little Mix: 'We want international success'
Watch Little Mix in the video for 'Cannonball' below:
The girl band's 'Cannonball' cover topped a British Heart Foundation poll looking for the most disappointing present to open on December 25.
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Little Mix's record beat products such as raunchy underwear, musical ties and foot spas to the title after being singled out by a quarter of those surveyed.
Little Mix were knocked from the top of the UK singles chart on Christmas Day by Gareth Malone and the Military Wives Choir, making them only the third X Factor-winning act after Steve Brookstein and Joe McElderry to miss out on the Christmas number one.
'Cannonball' also achieved the lowest first-week sales for an X Factor winner's single since 'Against All Odds' by Brookstein in 2004.
Little Mix shifted 210,000 copies of their track over seven days, significantly fewer than the 556,000 recorded by the Military Wives and 'Wherever You Are'.
> Little Mix: 'We want international success'
Watch Little Mix in the video for 'Cannonball' below:
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