We Are The World (1985) vs. Do They Know It's Christmas? (1984)

[GMFlop]

Both of these songs were a recorded to support Africa Famine back in the 80s and each of these songs were stacked by the music artists of that time from both sides of the Atlantic. 

 

We Are The World

 "We Are the World" is a charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World. With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it is the eighth best-selling physical single of all time.

 

 

Do They Know It's Christmas 

 

 

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a song written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in reaction to television reports of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. It was first recorded in a single day on 25 November 1984 by Band Aid, a supergroup put together by Geldof and Ure and consisting mainly of the biggest British and Irish musical acts at the time. The single was released in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1984 and aided by considerable publicity it entered the UK Singles Chart at number one and stayed there for five weeks, becoming the Christmas number one of 1984. The record became the fastest selling single in UK chart history, selling a million copies in the first week alone and passing three million sales on the last day of 1984, on the way to displacing Wings's "Mull of Kintyre" as the biggest-selling single of all time in the UK. It held this title until 1997 when it was overtaken by Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997", released in tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales following her death. The original version of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" has sold 3.8 million copies in the UK to date. In a UK-wide poll in December 2012, it was voted sixth on the ITV television special The Nation's Favourite Christmas Song.

 

Watch and listen of those videos and pick one of them. @Roxxy can you put this on front page? Thank you. 

Edited November 12, 2020 by Roxxy
Featured. TEEHEE 💛💜

[Roxxy]

Wow, I didn't expect you to make such a thread. You tagged me at the right moment. I was just taking a break for a while. Anyway, i featured it. We love charity singles. 💛💜

Now back to playing. 

[BritneyWithGlasses]

with this song, I'm glad I dont know its Christmas 

 

[Sea flower]

I like both songs, but since they did it first in the UK...I will say Do they know it's Christmas, for the win.