Joe, without a doubt. I've never seen anything special about the Christmas #1. It's an old tradition that people keep wanting to hold on to, and honestly, people should just stop caring. There are a few versions of Halleujah last year that tried to stop Alexandra and look how that turned out...
I imagine The X-Factor's timing is more convenient than anything else as well. Unless Simon Cowell moves Idol and Got Talent around, he has no other place to put The X-Factor really. Give or take a few weeks, obviously. It's a business.