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LadBaby became only the third act, i.e. after Cliff Richard (including in his role as a member of Band Aid II) and the Beatles, to secure four Christmas number-one singles, and also made history by becoming the first act to achieve four consecutive Christmas chart-toppers, surpassing the joint record of the Beatles, Richard and the Spice Girls.
The song became the Christmas number one, beating the likes of Stormzy (No. 2), Lewis Capaldi (No. 3) and Dua Lipa (No. 4), and spent one week in the top 40. The couple were the third act to have two consecutive Christmas number one singles [25] [26] and the first to have two successive novelty Christmas number ones in the UK. [27]
Wham!'s "Last Christmas", originally released in 1984, was the 2024 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. The singles have often been novelty songs, charity songs or songs with a Christmas theme. Historically, the volume of record ...
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The song also set a new UK chart record, reaching number-one in its seventieth week in the top 40; no other song in UK chart history has spent more weeks in the top 40 before reaching number-one. [12] It held the top spot for a second week before being denied the UK's Christmas number-one single for 2020 by LadBaby's "Don't Stop Me Eatin'".
The Christmas number one is considered especially prestigious, more so than any other time of year. [2] [3] 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 ...