{"id":2203820,"date":"2025-12-18T05:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2203820"},"modified":"2025-12-18T05:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:59:56","slug":"man-breaks-world-record-with-marathon-christmas-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/man-breaks-world-record-with-marathon-christmas-singing\/","title":{"rendered":"Man breaks world record with marathon Christmas singing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A man has broken a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/guinness-world-records\/\">Guinness World Record<\/a> after singing Christmas tunes for 42 hours straight \u2013 without losing his voice.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Purchase spent almost two days singing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/06\/health\/the-10-best-christmas-songs-to-work-out-to\/\">Christmas classics <\/a>from Mariah Carey to Wham! in an attempt to have his name on the book of records.<\/p>\n<p>Despite feeling like he was \u201challucinating\u201d and being close to quit at 32 hours, Dave, 63, did not give up.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Dave Purchase spent almost two days singing Christmas songs to break a world record. <span class=\"credit\">Liz Tonkin \/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He started the challenged at midnight on Wednesday (10\/12) and finished on Friday (12\/12) after singing 684 songs.<\/p>\n<p>Helping Dave through the singathon at Gloucester\u2019s docks were a dementia choir, a children\u2019s choir and locals who came to show their support.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the challenge Dave, from Gloucester, said it was not just a vocal challenge but also a physical one.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Purchase spent sang Christmas classics from Mariah Carey to Wham!, totaling 684 songs. <span class=\"credit\">Liz Tonkin \/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He continued: \u201cI nearly gave up at about 4 o\u2019clock on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt as I couldn\u2019t carry on because I was hallucinating with the lack of sleep. I was falling to sleep singing the songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI though \u2018I don\u2019t know whether I can carry on for another 10 hours\u2019 but strangely enough when the crowd started to come into the venue the adrenaline took over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApart from the lower register of my voice which had gone, and the falsetto part which was slightly gone, the middle range of my vocal was fine.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cApart from the lower register of my voice which had gone, and the falsetto part which was slightly gone, the middle range of my vocal was fine,\u201d Purchase said. <span class=\"credit\">Liz Tonkin \/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI knew that if I could just keep myself awake, I keep myself physically focused, then I can get through this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a world record and this is what they are about. You literally push yourself to the actual limit to actually achieve that record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dave chose 38 songs, which he repeated 18 times each \u2013 making a total of 684 songs.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the tunes on the list included Step Into Christmas, Jingle Bells and Last Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>To abide by the world record rules, each hour, Dave could only have a five-minute break.<\/p>\n<p>He also had the option to sing continuously for four hours to earn a 20-minute break.<\/p>\n<p>Between each song he could take a break of just 20 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>At 6pm on Friday he had successfully completed the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI started to sing and I used to sing for hours when I was a kid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told myself I could do this because I know I can sing for hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSinging used to be my passion. I did cruise ships and theatre so I had a background in singing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dave, who owns On Toast in Gloucester, said he wanted to do a \u201cnutty event\u201d to help the docks attract trade.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cSinging used to be my passion. I did cruise ships and theatre so I had a background in singing,\u201d Purchase said. <span class=\"credit\">Liz Tonkin \/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But most importantly he said it turned out to be a \u201cbrilliant\u201d community event.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public arrived dressed as characters and singers linked to well-known <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/12\/24\/entertainment\/10-christmas-songs-to-get-into-the-holiday-groove\/\">Christmas songs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cYou had people when we started at midnight on the Wednesday going into the Thursday sitting wanting to sit there for four hours to be our timekeepers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were part of something, they made friends when we did the event because they met people they\u2019d never met before \u2013 it was a great interaction between people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was packed and the actual electric atmosphere in the venue was fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The current holder of the award is Ewaoluwa Olatunji, from Lagos, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Ewa sang for a total of 31 hours from 27-28 December in 2023 to become the first holder of this record.<\/p>\n<p>She said she took on this challenge to \u201cpromote peace and unity\u201d and to inspire confidence in young people.<\/p>\n<p>Dave and his team have now submitted their evidence including video tapes, time sheets, reels, photographs to Guinness for their decision of the record being official.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has broken a Guinness World Record after singing Christmas tunes for 42 hours straight \u2013 without losing his voice. Dave Purchase spent almost two days singing Christmas classics from Mariah Carey to Wham! in an attempt to have his name on the book of records. Despite feeling like he was \u201challucinating\u201d and being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2203821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[22116,338479,21818,29901,356927,377311],"class_list":["post-2203820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-christmas","tag-guinness-world-records","tag-lifestyle","tag-singers","tag-weird-but-true","tag-world-record"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Man-breaks-world-record-with-marathon-Christmas-singing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203822,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203820\/revisions\/2203822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2203821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}