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In the United Kingdom, Christmas number ones are singles that are top of the UK Singles Chart in the week in which Christmas Day falls. 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. The Christmas number one is considered especially prestigious, more so than any other time of year. Christmas number one singles have often also been the best-selling song of the year, though in recent years, the accolade has gone to reality television contestants and charity efforts. Due to the common practice of dating a chart by the date on which the week ends, the Christmas chart is dated the end of the week containing 25 December. The most recent Christmas number one single on The Official Big Top 40 is "Christmas Drillings" by Sidemen.[1]
The following is a list of Christmas number ones on The Official Big Top 40.
List edit
Year | Artist | Song | Weeks at No. 1 |
---|---|---|---|
2009 | Rage Against the Machine | “Killing in the Name” | 1 |
2010 | Matt Cardle | “When We Collide” | 2 |
2011 | Military Wives, Gareth Malone and | “Wherever You Are” | 2 |
2012 | The Justice Collective | “He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother” | 1 |
2013 | Pharrell Williams | “Happy” | 2 |
2014 | Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars | “Uptown Funk” | 7 |
2015 | Justin Bieber | “Love Yourself” | 6 |
2016 | Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul and | “Rockabye” | 7 |
2017 | Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran | “River” | 3 |
2018 | LadBaby | “We Built This City” | 1 |
2019 | “I Love Sausage Rolls” | 2 | |
2020 | “Don't Stop Me Eatin'” | 1 | |
2021 | Ed Sheeran and Elton John | “Merry Christmas” | 3 |
2022 | Sidemen | “Christmas Drillings” | 1 |
References edit
- ^ "Big Top 40". BigTop40. Retrieved 2022-12-27.