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Buckley's 'Hallelujah' reaches number 2

Jeff Buckley's 'Hallelujah' gatecrashed the top five UK singles chart as REAL music fans rediscovered the definitive version of the song that was used for 2008's X Factor Christmas number one.

Absolute Radio backed The Sun's campaign to get Jeff Buckley's version of 'Hallelujah' in the UK singles chart this Christmas. Simon Cowell's X Factor finalist hit the Crimbo charts with a cover of
Leonard Cohen's classic, but it's Buckley's beautiful cover that needed to be heard by a new generation of real music fans.

Coming in at number 2 was no mean feat this Christmas, beating off rivals Leona Lewis and Beyonce to almost hit the top spot.

X Factor is great but it's not about music - it's about entertainment. Hallujah is a brilliant, all time classic song but I know the X Factor version will pail into insignificance compared to the incredibly moving Jeff Buckley version - you need to have had a life to sing this song.

We need to get it the Top 10 so people know there is another 'real' version out there.

I urge all Sun readers and my breakfast show listeners to download it and get it into the charts to rival the X Factor winners version - Christian O'Connell

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