LOOKING BACK ON ALL THE UK CHART CHRISTMAS #1 SONGS. 

Concludes tomorrow: who will have the 2023 X'mas Song?

Today- The 2010s.

Caffè ☕️Lattè looks back on the

UK CHART

CHRISTMAS

No. 1s

The Christmas #1 is a hard-fought chart battle waged every year. It encompasses the week of December 15 - 21. As we await the announcement of this year’s winner, let’s retrace the songs that have accomplished the long-held tradition in the past since the inaugural chart back in 1952.That first #1 single was still on top at Christmastime.

During the 1960s, The Beatles were the biggest British musical export and this is reflected with the Fab Four achieving 4 X’mas #1s in 5 years; another chart record that the band broke.

In the 1970s, there were a few more Yuletide-themed at the top during the festive season. Including a remake of a previous X’mas #1 song.

The Eighties saw Cliff earn his second Christmas #1 and one of the all-time best-selling singles raise money for famine relief in two different versions.

Cliff did it again in the 1990s. Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was re-issued after the passing of Freddie Mercury and was at #1 for another X’mas. The Spice Girls used girl power to earn 3 consecutive Christmas chart-topping singles.

In the new millennium, a third version of the Band Aid festive classic reached the top. As its first decade neared its end, “The X-Factor” was the most popular TV program on British TV. It had spawned 4 Christmas #1s (from 2005-2008) in-a-row. This sparked a campaign to prevent it achieving a fifth. Support was thrown behind the 1992 single “Killing In The Name Of”. The campaign was successful in achieving its aim when the re-released disc finally climbed to #1. 

British online sensation Ladbaby posed a threat to the record books with 2 consecutive Christmas #1 songs in the last two years of the 2010s. More would follow.

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2010

WHEN WE COLLIDE Matt Cardle

2011

WHEREVER YOU ARE

Military Wives with Gareth Malone

2012

HE AIN’T HEAVY, HE’S MY BROTHER

The Justice Collective

2013

SKYSCRAPER Sam Bailey

2014

SOMETHING I NEED Ben Haenow

2015

A BRIDGE FOR YOU

The Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir

2016

ROCKABYE Clean Bandit

2017

PERFECT Ed Sheeran

2018

WE BUILT THIS CITY Ladbaby

2019

I LOVE SAUSAGE ROLLS Ladbaby