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One Direction beat Cliff Richard at selling calendars
By Aly Barchi | Published on Thursday 17 October 2013
One Direction have overtaken Cliff Richard as pop’s most popular seasonal pin-ups, beating the ‘Livin Doll’ hitmaker (not literally) to first place in Amazon UK’s list of its bestselling ‘male celebrity’ calendars ever (or since it started selling such things in the 1990s).
1D have managed to almost double Cliff’s ‘all-time’ Amazon calendar sales record in only three years, despite the fact he topped the etailer’s calendar charts every year from 1998-2011. It seems that since the 1D boys entered the random-pose-per-month business it’s all changed.
Amazon’s VP of EU Retail, Xavier Garambois, says: “Before 2011, no one could get near Cliff Richard at the top of the calendar charts but One Direction’s unrivalled popularity has seen them shoot to the top of the all-time bestsellers list”.
Personally, I don’t know what I’d rather have hanging on my bedroom wall at night: Cliff’s wrinkly mug or Harry Styles’ slightly smoother one. Think I’ll go with neither.
