{"id":30950,"date":"2024-11-28T00:03:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T00:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/new-campaign-aims-to-make-elos-mr-blue-sky-the-uk-christmas-1\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T00:03:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T00:03:32","slug":"new-campaign-aims-to-make-elos-mr-blue-sky-the-uk-christmas-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/new-campaign-aims-to-make-elos-mr-blue-sky-the-uk-christmas-1\/","title":{"rendered":"New campaign aims to make ELO\u2019s ‘Mr. Blue Sky’ the UK Christmas #1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lester Cohen\/Getty Images for ASCAP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the U.K. it\u2019s a big deal for a song to land at #1 for Christmas, and a new campaign is trying to make that happen for the classic ELO<\/strong> tune \u201cMr. Blue Sky.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the <\/span>Official Charts<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0site, the “Mr. Blue Sky” Christmas #1 campaign was started on social media by Jon Morter<\/strong>, who was behind a successful 2009 campaign to get Rage Against the Machine<\/strong> to #1 for Christmas. The new campaign was sparked\u00a0by a desire to\u00a0help promote the Bluesky social media app over Elon Musk<\/strong>\u2019s X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It certainly became apparent after I’d made the suggestion that many [users] on the Bluesky app want to make it happen to help promote the new place [now that] many are going away from X\/Twitter,\u201d Morter tells the\u00a0 site. \u201cIf nothing else it will be a lot of fun to see if Bluesky users can have an impact on the annual Christmas #1 race.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The campaign\u00a0will also serve as a way to celebrate\u00a0the band, now dubbed\u00a0Jeff Lynne’s ELO<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>performing at the\u00a0<\/strong>upcoming British Summertime Hyde Park festival. The concert is happening\u00a0July 13 and has already been announced as their final show.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lester Cohen\/Getty Images for ASCAP In the U.K. it\u2019s a big deal for a song to land at #1 for Christmas, and a new campaign is trying to make that happen for the classic ELO tune \u201cMr. Blue Sky.\u201d\u00a0 According to the Official Charts\u00a0site, the “Mr. Blue Sky” Christmas #1Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}