{"id":3118,"date":"2010-12-20T14:26:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T13:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2010-12-21T22:02:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T21:02:22","slug":"the-x-factor-matt-cardle-lands-christmas-number-one-single-with-%e2%80%98when-we-collide%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/3118\/the-x-factor-matt-cardle-lands-christmas-number-one-single-with-%e2%80%98when-we-collide%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"The X Factor: Matt Cardle Lands Christmas Number One Single with \u2018When We Collide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Matt cardle\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/uk\/x2010\/week3_live\/matt\/matt_s304.JPG\" alt=\"Matt cardle\" width=\"723\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The X Factor 2010 winner Matt Cardle has secured the coveted Christmas number one spot with his debut single \u2018When We Collide\u2019, selling over 400,000 copies in the first week alone.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook campaigns which had attempted to derail Matt\u2019s efforts flopped badly, with John Cage\u2019s \u2018silence track\u2019 called 4\u201933\u201d reaching only 21.<\/p>\n<p>On hearing that his track was Christmas number one an elated Matt said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just can\u2019t believe it. As if winning wasn\u2019t enough! I honestly didn\u2019t think I\u2019d even make it on to the live shows, let alone win and now I\u2019m the Christmas number one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t even begin to describe how if feels. It\u2019s nuts, crackers and crazy. To think that many people have supported me and bought the record is absolutely mind blowing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out his video below or click here to downlod <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B004G4GAPA?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thetalentzone-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;creativeASIN=B004G4GAPA\">When We Collide<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=thetalentzone-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=B004G4GAPA\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> from Amazon.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* largexfactor 336x280, created 11\/25\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7071761240\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<object width=\"590\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/80sa7NngY7o&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The X Factor 2010 winner Matt Cardle has secured the coveted Christmas number one spot with his debut single \u2018When We Collide\u2019, selling \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/3118\/the-x-factor-matt-cardle-lands-christmas-number-one-single-with-%e2%80%98when-we-collide%e2%80%99\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-the-x-factor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3133,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}