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- "White Christmas" - Bing Crosby. The Guinness Book of Records has named "White Christmas" as not only the best-selling Christmas song of all time, but also the best-selling single generally of all time, with an estimated 50 million copies sold.
- "Silent Night" - Bing Crosby. If Mariah is the queen of Christmas, then Big Crosby is its king, with the two biggest Holiday songs of all time being his.
- "All I Want For Christmas is You" - Mariah Carey. A six-time Multi-Platinum award-winner, Mariah's most famous festive song has sold at least 6 million copies, with its worldwide total of 16 million making it the 12th best-selling single of all time.
- "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" - Gene Autry. In 1998, The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives in their entry on Autry reported that "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" has sold 12.5 million copies, making it the 20th best-selling of all time.
Dec 3, 2021 · In terms of UK Christmas number ones, the biggest selling single is Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas, which was released in 1984. The charity single has sold 3.82 million...
- They Know It's Christmas? Sales: 3.82 Million
- Emian Rhapsody Sales: 2.62 Million
- L of Kintyre Sales: 2.09 Million
- Y's Boy Child – OH My Lord Sales: 1.9 Million
- Ant to Hold Your Hand Sales: 1.82 Million
- Ill Always Love You Sales: 1.66 Million
- Lelujah Sales: 1.33 Million
- Ry Xmas Everybody Sales: 1.32 Million
- Ecome 1 Sales: 1.15 Million
Despite its overarching air of melancholy, the UK's top-selling festive chart-topper is both Christmas-themed AND a Christmas Number 1. The second biggest selling single of all time, Band Aidand their clanging chimes of doom first hit the top in 1984, spawning three successful cover versions which also went to Number 1. It's the only Xmas hit to se...
Not particularly festive, but Bohemian Rhapsody has got serious Christmas credentials, scoring the Christmas Number 1 twice with the exact same version, sixteen years apart, on its first release in 1975 and again in 1991, following the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury. An impressive 2.62 million copies later, and it's the third biggest selling ...
The Official Singles Chart welcomed all kinds of unusual, unlikely hits in the '70s, and 1977's Christmas Number 1 was the mega-selling Mull of Kintyre from Wings, led by none other than former Beatle Paul McCartney. With 2.09 million copies sold, it's Macca's top selling single ever, more than any of his Beatles hits. What are the chances? Take a ...
The UK's fourth biggest Christmas smash has got the lot: glitz, campery and, of course, actual Jesus popping up in the lyrics. Mary's Boy Child has hit Christmas Number 1 twice by separate artists: Boney M's disco-lite version from 1978 – like we said, the '70s were wild – is the biggest, though, with 1.9 million sales. Harry Belafonte's version is...
The Beatles have the record for the most Christmas Number 1s – four – and three of them make the Top 20. Biggest selling, however, is the first: I Want to Hold Your Hand is on 1.82 million. The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand (1963)
The biggest selling Christmas Number 1 by a female solo artist, Whitney's dramatic rendition version of Dolly Parton's ballad soundtracked the movie The Bodyguard, topping the charts for ten weeks. 1.66 million of you bought this one, belting out the high note at Christmas karaoke, aided no doubt by potent eggnog. See all of Whitney's UK chart hits...
This relatively Christmassy Leonard Cohen cover from Alexandra Burkeruled the festive rundown in 2008. The first X Factor winner's single to be released on download right after the final, Hallelujah has sold 1.33 million copies and its nearest competition for Christmas Number 1 was another cover of the same song, this time by Jeff Buckley.
Slade's classic shouty and raucous festive fave first hit the chart way back in 1973, becoming that year's Christmas Number 1, and the sixth and final chart-topper for the band. Since that first release, it's returned to the Top 40 ten times, peaking the highest in 2017, at Number 16. It's sold 1.32 million. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody (1973)
Not a Christmas song, no, it's actually a thinly disguised sex education campaign, but 2 Become 1 topped the charts at Christmas 1996 and the girls look like they're half-frozen in the video, don't they? Luckily, they sold 1.15 million copies of this song, earning them enough cash to invest in hats, scarves, and an oil-filled radiator so they could...
Dec 22, 2023 · Well, it's the obvious answer: Bing Crosby's White Christmas. Not only is this evergreen ballad the biggest-selling Christmas song ever, in terms of physical sales, it's the...
- White Christmas - Bing Crosby. Not only is White Christmas the best-selling festive tune ever, it's the biggest-selling single of all time with an estimated 50 million sales.
- Silent Night - Bing Crosby. Bing Crosby's instantly recognisable Christmas classic, first released in 1935, is now thought to have shifted more than 30 million copies.
- All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey. As Christmassy as pigs in blankets and mulled wine, Mariah's iconic festive hit, released in 1994, is a six-time multi-platinum award winner, and has surpassed 16 million total worldwide sales.
- Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid. The 1984 charity single, featuring a supergroup including the likes of Boy George, Bono, George Michael, Sting and many more, shifted more than 2.5 million copies in the U.S. alone, according to the New York Times, and 3.8 million in the UK.
Dec 10, 2023 · Santa Tell Me by Ariana Grande with 113 million streams: One of the most modern Christmas songs to reach the top of the chart in recent years. One More Sleep by Leona Lewis with 92 million streams: A modern song created by one of the most famous X-Factor winners from the UK.
Dec 14, 2023 · White Christmas – Bing Crosby. Crooner Bing Crosby makes his second appearance on this list with his iconic “White Christmas” – the best-selling Christmas single of all time. Written by Irving Berlin in 1940, Crosby’s version has sold a record-breaking 50 million copies worldwide.
