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Wham! 's "Last Christmas", originally released in 1984, is the most-recent Christmas number one. 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.
Dec 22, 2023 · The Official Christmas Number 1s. The list of every UK Christmas Number 1 single ever, from the very first festive chart topper in 1952 - Al Martino's Here In My Heart - to LadBaby's...
Dec 18, 2023 · Band Aid's 1984 classic Do They Know It's Christmas? tops the list as the Official biggest Christmas Number 1 of all time in the UK. With a massive 5.8 million chart units to its name, the...
- 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 19, 2023 · The Christmas number one is the single that tops the charts in the week Christmas Day lands in. The Official Charts Company surveys 8,000 retailers and digital services each day to count...
Dec 27, 2023 · In 2021, husband-and-wife duo LadBaby beat out The Beatles for the record of the the most consecutive Christmas No.1s – with four to their name – and, the following year, smashed Lennon and co’s bar-settling record of scoring four UK Christmas No.1s in total, when their cover of Band Aid’s charity single, Do They Know It’s Christmas ...
Dec 20, 2023 · There have been over 70 Christmas number ones, but which song is the best? We've gone through every single Christmas number one since 1952, to pick out the greatest ever.
