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- Nothing Like The Holidays by Shaggy & Bunji Garlin. Now, Shaggy was teetering close to exclusion from this list, thanks to his cheeky reissue of his 2020 Christmas album, Christmas on the Islands.
- Something Magical by Daði Freyr. This electro-pop offering from the Icelandic artist that should have won 2020’s cancelled Eurovision pretty much sounds like viral hit Think About Things but with festive lyrics, which is precisely why we love it.
- Unwrap Me by Pia Mia. Remember Pia Mia? Well, this year she’s taken a page out of Ariana Grande’s horny Christmas & Chill book with Unwrap Me, a song about getting down and dirty on Christmas Eve.
- I Dream of Christmas by Norah Jones. No stranger to a cosy jazz ballad, Norah Jones is back on the scene with this wistful ode to Christmas. Lyrically, it’s pretty simple, mainly consisting of “I dream of Christmas” and “fa la la las”.
- Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas
- Kelly Clarkson & Ariana Grande - Santa Can You Hear Me?
- Sigrid – Home to You
- The Lathums – Krampus
- Mariah Carey - Fall in Love at Christmas
- Leona Lewis - Kiss Me It’S Christmas Ft. Ne-Yo
- Gary Barlow Ft. Sheridan Smith - How Christmas Is Supposed to Be
- Abba – Little Things
- Michael Bublé - The Christmas Sweater
- George Ezra - Come on Home For Christmas
Both Ed and Elton have spent time at the top in 2021, so a combination of the pair of them looks set to – putting in mildly – do quite well. Ed himself has had chart-toppers in Decembers past with Thinking Out Loud in 2014 and a Christmas Number 1 Perfect in 2017- can he go all the way again this year? Elton himself has seen his 1973 hit Step Into ...
Kelly’s Underneath The Tree from 2013 is one of the more recent additions to the festive canon to accumulate chart interest, reaching a new peak of Number 15 in December 2020. Having just released her second collection of holiday songs titled When Christmas Comes Around, the peppy, pass-agg Santa Can You Hear Me? is proving very popular this year, ...
Norwegian pop titan Sigrid has updated her Home To You song, which took off after it was used in the 2021 Olympics BBC highlights earlier this year. She’s now made it even cosier and slightly blubsome by sprinkling it with a bit of festive fairy dust and a pair of brackets as Home To You (This Christmas). It has all the makings of a modern standard...
Hoping to spectacularly finish off a chart-topping 2021, when their album How Beautiful Life Can Be was an Official Album Chart Number 1 in October, are Wigan’s The Lathums. Krampus was inspired by an Inside No.9episode, and is a rollicking anti-festive number which sounds not unlike The Smiths with sleighbells attached. It’s a thank you to their i...
The queen of Christmas finally made it to Number 1 with All I Want For Christmas Is You last year, and it’s a no-brainer to suggest that her 1994 evergreen will be near the top again in 2021. Could Fall In Love At Christmas featuring Khalid and Kirk Franklin usurp AIWFCIY and find itself battling against it? Last year’s Oh Santa team-up with Ariana...
Leona’s 2013 toe-tap One More Sleep is another recent-ish addition to the pantheon, and has enjoyed an afterlife thanks to streaming. Kiss Me It’s Christmas could join that too, being a sentimental canoodle with Ne-Yo. It’s also a new track added to what she’s calling a ‘repack’ of her album Christmas With Love, Always.
Taken from what has been billed as Gary’s ‘first Christmas album’ – which you can either take as a treat or a threat – The Dream of Christmas, How Christmas is Supposed to Be sees him call on great showbiz mate Sheridan Smith for a seasonal duet, and while Gary has had form in previous years, such as 1993’s near-miss of Take That’s Babe becoming th...
One of 2021’s greatest back. Back. BACK! stories, ABBA have thrown their hat into the ring with the twinkling sweetness of Little Things. They’ve kind of had a Christmas Number 1 in the past, when their I Have A Dream was covered by Westlife and hit the top in 1999, and Little Things has everything going for it – a children’s choir, mentions of San...
The most swingingest swinger Bublé has staked his claim as the King of Christmas in the past decade, with his Christmas album becoming one of the biggest-selling festive collections of all time – indeed this new co-penned by the man himself track is part of a tenth anniversary deluxe edition. His biggest single success has been his take on It’s Beg...
George Ezra enters the Christmas Pop arena for the first time with a reworked take on Charles Brown's Please Come Home For Christmas. Released as part of Amazon’s now traditional festive offerings, it could follow the success of Ellie Goulding’s River and Jess Glynne’s This Christmas to the top this year. With this wedged into Echo and Alexa playli...
Dec 7, 2021 · From Michal Buble to Norah Jones, Meghan Trainor, George Ezra and John Legend… here are 10 new Christmas songs released for 2021. John Legend – You Deserve it all. Michael Buble – Christmas Sweater. Mariah Carey – Fall in love with Christmas. Ed Sheeran – Merry Christmas.
Dec 9, 2021 · New Christmas Songs For 2021: Our Verdict Featuring new music from ABBA, Ed Sheeran and RuPaul – plus a festive comeback from the Queen of Christmas herself. By Daniel Welsh
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- Kelly Clarkson, ‘Christmas Isn’t Cancelled, Just You’ When I read the title of Kelly Clarkson’s latest festive jingle, I let out the sort of baying groan that might’ve emitted from the donkey that carried Mary up that gigantic hill to Bethlehem.
- Ed Sheeran & Elton John, ‘Merry Christmas’ Fair play: this one’s actually quite wholesome in that it manages to conjure up a bit of much needed festive cheer while including a quick nod to “the ones who have gone” and the absolute shitter of a year everyone’s had.
- ABBA, ‘Little Things’ Advertisement. Few could’ve predicted that ABBA’s first ever festive single would be about a couple of weary parents trying to sneak in a quick Christmas shag before the kids wake up, but here we are.
- Leona Lewis, ‘Kiss Me It’s Christmas’ (ft. Ne-Yo) Leona Lewis and Ne-Yo singing on a track together – is it still 2007? Aside from the fact that transporting back to another era when ‘Bleeding Love’ and ‘Miss Independent’ topped the charts sounds like an appealing escape from the current pandemic shits-cape, ‘Kiss Me It’s Christmas’ is also one of the more pleasant-sounding Christmas songs out this year.
Nov 26, 2021 · It's official! LadBaby have officially entered the race for 2021's Christmas Number 1 - and want to make history as the first act in UK chart history to achieve four consecutive Christmas...
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Dec 22, 2021 · Mariah Carey and Khalid have released a new Christmas song. Mariah Carey is the queen of Christmas songs with All I Want for Christmas Is You consistently in the top spot of most streamed...
