Anti-Thatcher song hits number one

Ding Dong! The witch is dead has raced to the top of the Amazon download chart in Britain.

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• Over 100,000 copies sold since Margaret Thatcher's death
• Facebook campaign for anti-Thatcher song
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ANTI-Margaret Thatcher fans have sent Ding Dong the Witch is Dead to No.1 on the UK iTunes chart today.

The track, being downloaded to protest the late former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has sold over 10,000 copies in the UK since Margaret Thatcher’s death.

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That places it at No.10 on the UK’s midweek chart, which combines all digital sales. A Facebook campaign is aiming to get the track to No.1.

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Several versions of Ding Dong are charting in the UK. The main is Judy Garland’s original, while an Ella Fitzgerald cover from 1961 has also been reactivated.

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The UK chart have now credited the song to Wizard of Oz Film Cast meaning all sales of both Garland’s version and the Munchkins version from the 1939 movie have been combined.

If Ding Dong sells 5000 copies more in the next three days it will break into the Top 3 in the UK and may make No.1 on next week’s official chart.

The official UK chart is released on 7pm Sunday, UK time.

Ding Dong may make another UK record – at 51 seconds it may become the shortest song to top the British charts.

The shortest UK No.1 to date was Adam Faith’s What Do You Want at one minute 38 seconds in 1959.
 

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