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"Merry Christmas Jakey Boy" 
Single by Jake Stevens from the album - Released December 2006 Recorded 2006 Genre Rock "Merry Christmas Jakey Boy" is a single released exclusively for the Irish market in December 2006 by Jake Stevens. Stevens is an alter ego of the comedian PJ Gallagher who features in the popular RTÉ Two hidden camera/comedy style television series, Naked Camera. The Jakey Boy in the song's title refers obviously to Stevens himself. The single reached #9 in the Irish Singles Chart and was performed on a number of television shows including The Cafe and Tubridy Tonight.
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Chart performance
"Merry Christmas Jakey Boy" featured in the Irish Singles Chart, where it remained listed for a total of four weeks in the Ireland Singles Top 50. A total of two of these four weeks were spent in the Ireland Top 20.[1] The song entered the charts for the first time in the forty-ninth week of the year 2006 at a position of #11, making its final appearance on the fifty-second and final week of that year. It peaked at #9, and remained at this point for two weeks of its tenure in the Irish Singles Chart.[2]
Chart (2006) Peak
positionIrish Singles Chart 9 Television performances
"Merry Christmas Jakey Boy" was performed by PJ Gallagher (as his alter ego Jake Stevens) on at least two television shows, the youth programme The Cafe and the primetime chat show Tubridy Tonight. The Cafe performance came on 14 December 2006, following a guest appearance by Gallagher alongside his Naked Camera colleague Maeve Higgins and the corporate magician Jack Wise. UK band The Charlatans also performed their single "Blackened Blue Eyes" on the same show.[3] The Tubridy Tonight performance saw Stevens engage with the audience as the credits rolled.[4]
References
- ^ "Merry Christmas Jakey Boy". top40-charts.com. Accessed 24 December 2008.
- ^ "Jake Stevens - Merry Christmas Jakey Boy". acharts.us. Accessed 24 December 2008.
- ^ The Cafe - 14 December 2006. RTÉ. Accessed 7 November 2008.
- ^ Jake Stevens. Tubridy Tonight. Accessed 24 December 2008.
External links
Naked Camera Cast Characters Jake Stevens · Full listRelated articles Christmas single · Spin-off showSee also: List of programmes broadcast by RTÉCategories:- Christmas songs
- 2006 singles
- Irish pop songs
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