Al Martino was the first person to reach Christmas number one, in 1952
The Christmas number one is considered especially prestigious, more so than any other time of year.[2][3] Christmas number-one singles have often also been the best-selling song of the year, though in recent years they have been released by reality television contestants and charity efforts. Due to the common practice of dating a chart by the date on which it is announced (the end of the sales week), the Christmas chart is dated before Christmas Day in the chart week (so the new sales week not still ended) containing 25 December. The most recent Christmas number one single is "Food Aid" by LadBaby.[4]
The UK Singles Chart began in 1952 – appearing in the New Musical Express.[5] The positions of all songs are based on weekly sales (from Sunday to Saturday until 2015, then from Friday to Thursday).[6][7] Before 1987, they were released on a Tuesday due to the need for manual calculation.[8] The emergence of a serious contest for the Christmas number-one spot began in 1973, when the glam rock bands Slade and Wizzard deliberately released festive songs in an effort to reach the top of the charts at Christmas, with Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" beating Wizzard's "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday".[2][9] The Christmas number-one single was not revealed on Christmas Day itself until 1994.[10]
From 2002 until 2014, the competition for the Christmas number one was dominated by reality television contests, with the winners often heading straight to number one in the week before Christmas. This trend began when Popstars: The Rivals contestants released the top three singles on the Christmas chart.[11][nb 2] Between 2005 and 2014, the winners of The X Factor took the number-one spot on seven occasions. In 2007, the X Factor single was such a strong favourite for number one that bookmakers began taking bets on which song would be the "Christmas Number Two" instead.[12]Rage Against the Machine's 1992 single "Killing in the Name" outsold Joe McElderry in 2009 following a successful Facebook campaign against this trend.[13] This made them the first group to get a Christmas number one with a download-only single, and resulted in the most download sales in a single week in UK chart history.[13] Similar campaigns in 2010 promoting acts such as Biffy Clyro, John Cage and the Trashmen were unsuccessful.[14]
In 2011, the Military Wives and Gareth Malone, both involved with the reality television show The Choir, outsold X Factor winners Little Mix and a host of social network campaigns for various novelty acts.[15][16] In 2012, a supergroup cover of "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", supporting charities associated with the Hillsborough disaster, reached the number one ahead of The X Factor's James Arthur.[17] Following the UK Charts' move to Fridays,[18] the Christmas number one is revealed on Christmas Day whenever it falls on a Friday, such as in 2015 and 2020;[19][20] the former year's chart was the first in a decade to not feature the X Factor winner's single in the top two.[21][22]Amazon Music has released a number of exclusive festive tracks since 2018, recorded with acts such as Justin Bieber, Jess Glynne, and Ellie Goulding, none of which have topped the Christmas chart, though Goulding's track later reached number one.[23][24][25][26] More recently, non-traditional acts have been successful with novelty songs released for charity; most notably, YouTuberLadBaby achieved number one every year between 2018 and 2022, each time raising money for the Trussell Trust.[4][27]
RecordsEdit
LadBaby is the act with the most Christmas number ones with five, surpassing the Beatles' previous record in 2022.[4] On two occasions, in 1963 and 1967, the Beatles had both the Christmas number one and the number two, the first act to have achieved this. As part of two acts, George Michael repeated the feat with Band Aid and Wham! in 1984, and Ed Sheeran did so in 2017 with duets with Beyoncé and Eminem, and again in 2021 with duets with LadBaby and Elton John. Paul McCartney has been top eight times with various acts. Cliff Richard has spent four Christmases at number one; two as a solo act, one with The Shadows and one as part of Band Aid II. The Spice Girls later equalled the then-record of three consecutive Christmas number ones, from 1996 to 1998; Spice Girl Melanie C achieved a fourth Christmas number one as a member of the Justice Collective in 2012, which also gave Robbie Williams his third. In 2022, LadBaby became the first act to achieve five consecutive number ones.[28]
"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, which reached the number-one spot at Christmas 1975 and 1991, is the only record to have reached the top twice. "Mary's Boy Child" is the only song to be Christmas number one for two artists — Harry Belafonte in 1957 and Boney M. in 1978 — although "Do They Know It's Christmas?" has been Christmas number one for three generations of Band Aid.[29] The original version of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" is the second-bestselling single in UK history (behind "Candle in the Wind 1997" by Elton John), while "Bohemian Rhapsody" is third.[30][31]
ListEdit
The Beatles had four Christmas number ones during the 1960s, three of which were consecutiveSlade reached number one with a Christmas-themed novelty song in 1973Bob Geldof, creator of charity supergroupBand Aid who, with "Do They Know It's Christmas?", were Christmas number one in three incarnations"Bohemian Rhapsody", by Queen, reached the number one slot twice, in 1975 and 1991Cliff Richard, who reached the number one slot at Christmas three times (four times with the inclusion of Band Aid II)The Spice Girls had three consecutive Christmas number ones in the 1990sRage Against the Machine's record "Killing in the Name" achieved the Christmas number one in 2009, 17 years after the song's original release.
^This song originally peaked at No. 25 on the chart in 1993; first download-only single to be a Christmas number one, which it achieved as a result of a successful Internet campaign.
^The Justice Collective was the name taken by a group of British musicians and football personalities who released the song in aid of various charities associated with the Hillsborough disaster.[17][36]
^Versions of "Perfect" featuring Beyoncé ("Perfect Duet") and Andrea Bocelli ("Perfect Symphony") counted towards the placement; however, due to chart rules, only Sheeran was officially credited.[38][39]
^Douglas, Jayne (23 December 2001). "Have a chart-topping Christmas". BBC News. from the original on 22 October 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
^ abMeighan, Nicola (2004). "Why do we still love Christmas number ones?". BBC. from the original on 12 May 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
^"Sound of silence vies to be Christmas number one". The Daily Telegraph. 16 October 2010. from the original on 19 October 2010. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
^ abcdSavage, Mark (23 December 2022). "LadBaby: Food Aid is the UK's Christmas number one". BBC News. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
^"The story of the single". BBC News. 23 March 2001. from the original on 5 June 2007. Retrieved 21 April 2008.
^. Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
^"Who We Are - How the Official Charts are compiled". Official Charts Company. from the original on 18 January 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
^. When We Were Kids. Archived from the original on 29 May 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
^Shennan, Paddy (13 December 2011). "Will Christmas Number One hopes 'The W Factor' (The Wombles) or 'MW Factor' (The Military Wives) beat The X Factor?". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
^"Official UK Top 40 with Bruno Brookes". BBC Genome. 25 December 1994. from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
^ ab"Girls Aloud top festive chart". BBC News. 23 December 2009. Archived from the original on 15 July 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
^Swash, Rosie (16 November 2007). "X Factor faces online Christmas chart challenge". The Guardian. London. ISSN 0261-3077. OCLC 60623878. from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
^ ab"Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner in charts". BBC News. 20 December 2009. from the original on 21 December 2009. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
^"X Factor's Matt Cardle beats Biffy Clyro, Surfin' Bird and John Cage to UK Christmas Number One". NME. 19 December 2010. from the original on 22 December 2010. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
^"Military Wives Choir capture Christmas number one". BBC News. 25 December 2011. from the original on 25 December 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
^Sexton, Paul (23 December 2011). "Military Wives & Italian Donkey in Race for U.K.'s No. 1 Christmas Single". Billboard. from the original on 29 May 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
^ ab"Hillsborough single is Christmas number one". BBC News. 24 December 2012. from the original on 5 October 2018. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
^"The Official Chart on BBC Radio 1 to move to Fridays from July - Greg James to present the weekly show from 4-6pm". BBC. 24 March 2015. from the original on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
^"The Christmas No 1!, The Official Chart with Greg James - BBC Radio 1". BBC. from the original on 27 December 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
^Furness, Hannah (21 December 2015). "NHS Choir in the lead in race for Christmas number one". Telegraph.co.uk. from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
^Blake, Jimmy (22 December 2015). "Christmas number one: Why the X Factor is an outsider". Newsbeat. from the original on 11 January 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
^"The demise of the X Factor Christmas Number 1". The Independent. 21 December 2015. from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
^"George Ezra, Camila Cabello and Alessia Cara announced for Amazon Exclusive Christmas songs line-up". Official Charts Company. 3 November 2021. from the original on 5 November 2021. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
^"New Christmas songs by Jess Glynne and Justin Bieber set to enter Top 40". www.officialcharts.com. from the original on 7 December 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
^"Jess Glynne enters Christmas Number 1 race with festive cover". www.officialcharts.com. from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
^Savage, Mark (27 December 2019). "Ellie Goulding gets the final number one of the 2010s". BBC News Online. from the original on 8 November 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
^"Christmas number one: Why is the festive chart-topper such a big deal? - CBBC Newsround". BBC Newsround. 13 December 2018. from the original on 5 December 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
^"LadBaby make history with fifth consecutive Christmas No 1". BBC News. 23 December 2022. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
^ ab"All the Christmas number ones". Children's BBC. 16 December 2002. from the original on 12 May 2011. Retrieved 21 April 2008.
^"Do They Know It's Christmas?". BBC Radio 2: Sold on Song. BBC. from the original on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
^"The UK's top 50 million-selling singles". NME. 5 November 2012. from the original on 23 December 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
^Myers, Justin (13 December 2013). "Every Official Christmas Number 1 ever!". Official Charts Company. from the original on 30 November 2015. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
^"Christmas Number Ones – Singles". EveryHit. from the original on 12 April 2008. Retrieved 19 April 2008.
^"Thirty years of Christmas No 1s". The Guardian. London. from the original on 19 May 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2008.
^Masterton, James (20 December 2004). . London: LAUNCHcast. Archived from the original on 31 December 2004. Retrieved 6 June 2011. ... This actually did happen back in 1988 when Christmas Day fell on a Sunday (the usual chart day). This resulted in the chart show being broadcast a day late on Monday 26th and with the industry agreeing that the crowning of Cliff Richard as that years Christmas Number One would take place then. ...
^"Paul McCartney guests on Hillsborough charity single with Robbie Williams". The Guardian. 23 November 2012. from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
^ ab"NHS Choir beat Bieber to UK Christmas number one". BBC News. 25 December 2015. from the original on 25 December 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
^"Ed Sheeran claims Christmas Number 1: "It's an actual dream"". Official Charts Company. 22 December 2017. from the original on 10 July 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
^Savage, Mark (22 December 2017). "Ed Sheeran is number one for Christmas". BBC News. from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2017. though chart rules mean Beyonce is denied a credit on the Christmas number one, with Sheeran's original counted as the lead track.
^Savage, Mark (24 December 2021). "LadBaby score historic fourth Christmas number one". BBC News Online. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
^O'Connor, Roisin (10 December 2021). "Sausage Rolls for Everyone: Ed Sheeran and Elton John announce surprise LadBaby Christmas song collaboration". The Independent. from the original on 10 December 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
^"LadBaby announce bid for record-breaking fourth consecutive Christmas Number 1 with Ed Sheeran and Elton John". Official Charts Company. 10 December 2021. from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
Further readingEdit
Robinson, Peter (10 December 2015). "Drugs, austerity and Thatcher – what Christmas No 1s tell us about Britain". The Guardian.
Clarkson, Natalie (15 December 2014). "What's the most important factor when making a Christmas number one?". Virgin.
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Christmas number one redirects here For the similar competition in Ireland see List of Irish Singles Chart Christmas number ones In the United Kingdom Christmas number ones are singles that top the UK Singles Chart in the week in which Christmas Day falls nb 1 The singles have often been novelty songs charity songs or songs with a Christmas theme Historically the volume of record sales in the UK has peaked at Christmas 1 Al Martino was the first person to reach Christmas number one in 1952The Christmas number one is considered especially prestigious more so than any other time of year 2 3 Christmas number one singles have often also been the best selling song of the year though in recent years they have been released by reality television contestants and charity efforts Due to the common practice of dating a chart by the date on which it is announced the end of the sales week the Christmas chart is dated before Christmas Day in the chart week so the new sales week not still ended containing 25 December The most recent Christmas number one single is Food Aid by LadBaby 4 Contents 1 History 2 Records 3 List 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 7 Further readingHistory EditThe UK Singles Chart began in 1952 appearing in the New Musical Express 5 The positions of all songs are based on weekly sales from Sunday to Saturday until 2015 then from Friday to Thursday 6 7 Before 1987 they were released on a Tuesday due to the need for manual calculation 8 The emergence of a serious contest for the Christmas number one spot began in 1973 when the glam rock bands Slade and Wizzard deliberately released festive songs in an effort to reach the top of the charts at Christmas with Slade s Merry Xmas Everybody beating Wizzard s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 2 9 The Christmas number one single was not revealed on Christmas Day itself until 1994 10 From 2002 until 2014 the competition for the Christmas number one was dominated by reality television contests with the winners often heading straight to number one in the week before Christmas This trend began when Popstars The Rivals contestants released the top three singles on the Christmas chart 11 nb 2 Between 2005 and 2014 the winners of The X Factor took the number one spot on seven occasions In 2007 the X Factor single was such a strong favourite for number one that bookmakers began taking bets on which song would be the Christmas Number Two instead 12 Rage Against the Machine s 1992 single Killing in the Name outsold Joe McElderry in 2009 following a successful Facebook campaign against this trend 13 This made them the first group to get a Christmas number one with a download only single and resulted in the most download sales in a single week in UK chart history 13 Similar campaigns in 2010 promoting acts such as Biffy Clyro John Cage and the Trashmen were unsuccessful 14 In 2011 the Military Wives and Gareth Malone both involved with the reality television show The Choir outsold X Factor winners Little Mix and a host of social network campaigns for various novelty acts 15 16 In 2012 a supergroup cover of He Ain t Heavy He s My Brother supporting charities associated with the Hillsborough disaster reached the number one ahead of The X Factor s James Arthur 17 Following the UK Charts move to Fridays 18 the Christmas number one is revealed on Christmas Day whenever it falls on a Friday such as in 2015 and 2020 19 20 the former year s chart was the first in a decade to not feature the X Factor winner s single in the top two 21 22 Amazon Music has released a number of exclusive festive tracks since 2018 recorded with acts such as Justin Bieber Jess Glynne and Ellie Goulding none of which have topped the Christmas chart though Goulding s track later reached number one 23 24 25 26 More recently non traditional acts have been successful with novelty songs released for charity most notably YouTuber LadBaby achieved number one every year between 2018 and 2022 each time raising money for the Trussell Trust 4 27 Records EditLadBaby is the act with the most Christmas number ones with five surpassing the Beatles previous record in 2022 4 On two occasions in 1963 and 1967 the Beatles had both the Christmas number one and the number two the first act to have achieved this As part of two acts George Michael repeated the feat with Band Aid and Wham in 1984 and Ed Sheeran did so in 2017 with duets with Beyonce and Eminem and again in 2021 with duets with LadBaby and Elton John Paul McCartney has been top eight times with various acts Cliff Richard has spent four Christmases at number one two as a solo act one with The Shadows and one as part of Band Aid II The Spice Girls later equalled the then record of three consecutive Christmas number ones from 1996 to 1998 Spice Girl Melanie C achieved a fourth Christmas number one as a member of the Justice Collective in 2012 which also gave Robbie Williams his third In 2022 LadBaby became the first act to achieve five consecutive number ones 28 Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen which reached the number one spot at Christmas 1975 and 1991 is the only record to have reached the top twice Mary s Boy Child is the only song to be Christmas number one for two artists Harry Belafonte in 1957 and Boney M in 1978 although Do They Know It s Christmas has been Christmas number one for three generations of Band Aid 29 The original version of Do They Know It s Christmas is the second bestselling single in UK history behind Candle in the Wind 1997 by Elton John while Bohemian Rhapsody is third 30 31 List Edit nbsp The Beatles had four Christmas number ones during the 1960s three of which were consecutive nbsp Slade reached number one with a Christmas themed novelty song in 1973 nbsp Bob Geldof creator of charity supergroup Band Aid who with Do They Know It s Christmas were Christmas number one in three incarnations nbsp Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen reached the number one slot twice in 1975 and 1991 nbsp Cliff Richard who reached the number one slot at Christmas three times four times with the inclusion of Band Aid II nbsp The Spice Girls had three consecutive Christmas number ones in the 1990s nbsp Rage Against the Machine s record Killing in the Name achieved the Christmas number one in 2009 17 years after the song s original release Year Primary Artist Song 32 Weeks atNo 1 29 33 34 1952 Al Martino Here in My Heart 91953 Frankie Laine Answer Me 81954 Winifred Atwell Let s Have Another Party 51955 Dickie Valentine Christmas Alphabet 31956 Johnnie Ray Just Walkin in the Rain 71957 Harry Belafonte Mary s Boy Child 71958 Conway Twitty It s Only Make Believe 51959 Emile Ford and the Checkmates What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For 61960 Cliff Richard and the Shadows I Love You 21961 Danny Williams Moon River 21962 Elvis Presley Return to Sender 31963 The Beatles I Want to Hold Your Hand 51964 I Feel Fine 51965 Day Tripper We Can Work It Out nb 3 51966 Tom Jones Green Green Grass of Home 71967 The Beatles Hello Goodbye 71968 The Scaffold Lily the Pink 41969 Rolf Harris Two Little Boys 61970 Dave Edmunds I Hear You Knocking 61971 Benny Hill Ernie The Fastest Milkman in the West 41972 Jimmy Osmond Long Haired Lover from Liverpool 51973 Slade Merry Xmas Everybody 51974 Mud Lonely This Christmas 41975 Queen Bohemian Rhapsody 91976 Johnny Mathis When a Child Is Born Soleado 31977 Wings Mull of Kintyre Girls School nb 3 91978 Boney M Mary s Boy Child Oh My Lord 41979 Pink Floyd Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 51980 St Winifred s School Choir There s No One Quite Like Grandma 21981 The Human League Don t You Want Me 51982 Renee and Renato Save Your Love 41983 The Flying Pickets Only You 51984 Band Aid Do They Know It s Christmas 51985 Shakin Stevens Merry Christmas Everyone 21986 Jackie Wilson Reet Petite 41987 Pet Shop Boys Always on My Mind 41988 Cliff Richard Mistletoe and Wine nb 4 41989 Band Aid II Do They Know It s Christmas 31990 Cliff Richard Saviour s Day 11991 Queen Bohemian Rhapsody These Are the Days of Our Lives nb 3 51992 Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You 101993 Mr Blobby Mr Blobby 31994 East 17 Stay Another Day 51995 Michael Jackson Earth Song 61996 Spice Girls 2 Become 1 31997 Too Much 21998 Goodbye 11999 Westlife I Have a Dream Seasons in the Sun nb 3 42000 Bob the Builder Can We Fix It 32001 Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman Somethin Stupid 32002 Girls Aloud Sound of the Underground 42003 Michael Andrews and Gary Jules Mad World 32004 Band Aid 20 Do They Know It s Christmas 42005 Shayne Ward That s My Goal 42006 Leona Lewis A Moment Like This 42007 Leon Jackson When You Believe 32008 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 32009 Rage Against the Machine Killing in the Name nb 5 12010 Matt Cardle When We Collide nb 6 32011 Military Wives with Gareth Malone Wherever You Are 12012 The Justice Collective nb 7 He Ain t Heavy He s My Brother 12013 Sam Bailey Skyscraper 12014 Ben Haenow Something I Need 12015 Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir 37 A Bridge over You nb 8 12016 Clean Bandit Rockabye ft Sean Paul and Anne Marie 92017 Ed Sheeran nb 9 Perfect 62018 LadBaby We Built This City 12019 I Love Sausage Rolls 12020 Don t Stop Me Eatin 12021 Sausage Rolls for Everyone ft Ed Sheeran and Elton John 40 nb 10 12022 Food Aid 4 1See also EditList of UK Singles Chart Christmas number twos List of UK Albums Chart Christmas number onesNotes Edit This means that sales streams on Christmas Day itself are not a factor in determining the Christmas number one In addition to the two groups that were the focus of the show Girls Aloud and One True Voice who charted at No 1 and No 2 respectively the No 3 on the chart was Cheeky Song Touch My Bum by The Cheeky Girls who had also been contestants on Popstars 11 a b c d Released as a double A side Mistletoe and Wine by Cliff Richard was announced as the 1988 Christmas number one a day later than usual on Monday 26 December 35 This song originally peaked at No 25 on the chart in 1993 first download only single to be a Christmas number one which it achieved as a result of a successful Internet campaign A cover of a Biffy Clyro song originally titled Many of Horror The Justice Collective was the name taken by a group of British musicians and football personalities who released the song in aid of various charities associated with the Hillsborough disaster 17 36 A mashup cover of the Simon amp Garfunkel song Bridge over Troubled Water and Coldplay s Fix You 37 Versions of Perfect featuring Beyonce Perfect Duet and Andrea Bocelli Perfect Symphony counted towards the placement however due to chart rules only Sheeran was officially credited 38 39 A novelty version of the Ed Sheeran and Elton John song Merry Christmas 41 42 References Edit Douglas Jayne 23 December 2001 Have a chart topping Christmas BBC News Archived from the original on 22 October 2009 Retrieved 7 March 2011 a b Meighan Nicola 2004 Why do we still love Christmas number ones BBC Archived from the original on 12 May 2017 Retrieved 17 April 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