Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir

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Albums
Something Inside So Strong
  UK 69 07/07/2016 (1 week)
Singles
A bridge over you
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link December 25, 2015 (2 weeks)

The Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir is a vocal group made up of members of the London health care system that had a number one hit in the UK on Christmas 2015 with their benefit single A Bridge over You .

background

The Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir is a UK National Health Service (NHS) choir based in Lewisham and Greenwich , London . The choir was put together by Gareth Malone in 2012. He is a choir director and show master for the BBC and was looking for staff choirs across the country to compete against each other on his show Sing While You Work . The choir from south east London reached the finals.

The following year, the members recorded a single and chose a medley of Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel and Fix You by Coldplay as the song . In 2013, 10,000 of these were sold as downloads through internal advertising among friends.

Two years later, a resident doctor from Cambridgeshire discovered the video on the internet and had the idea of ​​launching a Christmas campaign. Since the 1970s, the UK has had a special contest to see which song will be number one on the charts over the Christmas holidays, and in previous years social media had been used to promote certain candidates. Thanks to online support, a live appearance on BBC radio and the appeal for support from Justin Bieber , the only promising competitor , the choir finally succeeded with their song A Bridge over You , with 127,000 units sold, becoming the best-selling song of the week up to and including Christmas Eve . The proceeds were donated to charity and went to the organizations Carers UK and Mind , among others .

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  1. ↑ UK chart discography
  2. ↑ National HIT service: ROBERT HARDMAN tells the utterly inspirational story behind the NHS choir who've beaten Justin Bieber to be the Christmas No1 , Robert Hardman, Mail Online, December 25, 2015
  3. ↑ NHS Choir defeat Justin Bieber to secure the UK's Official Christmas Number 1 2015 , Official Charts, December 25, 2015

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