"The Winner's Song" is a single by fictional character Geraldine McQueen from '' Peter Kay's Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice'', a spoof talent contest/comedy by British comedian

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, who also plays Geraldine. It was released in Europe on 13 October 2008 and reached number two on the

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. It also reached number one in Scotland in June 2009. The song was co-written by Kay together with

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from

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, and parodies the style of changing key part-way through a song - a popular trick of modern-day pop songs - starting out in A flat major, moving up to B flat major, and then quickly up to B major.

Video

The video to the song was released both as a DVD single and as part of the Peter Kay compilation "Special Kay",

Parody

The video itself is a parody of

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' video for her cover of

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's, " A Moment Like This", and the box art of the single is a parody of ''

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'', the debut album from

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, who won the second series of ''

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'' in 2003.

Track listing

The CD for the Winners Song featured the tracks; #"The Winners Song" #"The Winners Song" (2 Up, 2 Down Version)

Chart performance

In the United Kingdom, the song debuted at number two, beating "

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" by

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, the winner of the 2007 series of ''The X Factor'', but was not to dislodge

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's "

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" from the top spot. In Scotland, the opposite occurred: it was beaten to the top by "Don't Call This Love" and charted one position ahead of "So What". The song remained on the

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for the rest of 2008 and during the first half of 2009, finally reaching the number-one spot on 14 June 2009. Overall, the song spent almost a full consecutive year on the Scottish Singles Chart, making its last chart appearance on 4 October 2009, before leaving the top 100.

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

2008 singles Songs written by Gary Barlow 2008 songs Number-one singles in Scotland {{2000s-pop-single-stub