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Dec 21 2014, 08:07 PM
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UK CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONES
SINGLES 1952 Al Martino Here in my heart 1953 Frankie Laine Answer me 1954 Winifred Atwell Let’s have another party 1955 Dickie Valentine Christmas Alphabet 1956 Johnnie Ray Just walking in the rain 1957 Harry Belafonte Mary’s Boy Child 1958 Conway Twitty Its only make believe 1959 Emile Ford & The Checkmates What do you want to make those eyes at me for 1960 Cliff Richard I love you 1961 Danny Williams Moon River 1962 Elvis Presley Return to sender 1963 Beatles I want to hold your hand 1964 Beatles I feel fine 1965 Beatles We can work it out / Day Tripper 1966 Tom Jones Green Green Grass of Home 1967 Beatles Hello Goodbye 1968 Scaffold Lily the Pink 1969 Rolf Harris Two Little Boys 1970 Dave Edmunds I hear you knockin’ 1971 Benny Hill Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) 1972 Little Jimmy Osmond Long Haired Lover from Liverpool 1973 Slade Merry Christmas Everybody 1974 Mud Lonely this Christmas 1975 Queen Bohemian Rhapsody 1976 Johnny Mathis When a child is born 1977 Mull Of Kintyre 1978 Mary's Boy 1979 Another Brick In The Wall 1980 St. Winifred’s School Choir There’s no one quite like grandma 189,000 1981 Human League Don’t you want me 188,000 1982 Renee & Renato Save your love 121,000 1983 Flying Pickets Only you 174,000 1984 Band Aid Do they know it’s Christmas 882,000 1985 Shakin’ Stevens Merry Christmas Everyone 145,000 1986 Jackie Wilson Reet Petite (The sweetest girl in town) 135,000 1987 Pet Shop Boys Always on my mind 107,000 1988 Cliff Richard Mistletoe and Wine 210,000 1989 Band Aid II Do they know it’s Christmas 198,000 1990 Cliff Richard Saviours Day 102,000 1991 Queen Bohemian Rhapsody / These are the best days of our lives 279,000 1992 Whitney Houston I will always love you 217,000 1993 Mr. Blobby Mr. Blobby 92,500 1994 East 17 Just another day 204,000 1995 Michael Jackson Earth Song 261,851 1996 Spice Girls 2 Become 1 429,000 1997 Spice Girls Too Much 252,000 1998 Spice Girls Goodbye 380,000 1999 Westlife I have a dream / Seasons in the sun 213,000 2000 Bob the Builder Can we fix it? 359,639 2001 Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman Somethin’ Stupid 110,000 2002 Girls Aloud Sound of the Underground 213,140 2003 Michael Andrews ft. Gary Jules Mad World 227,547 2004 Band Aid 20 Do They Know Its Christmas? 231,492 2005 Shayne Ward That’s My Goal 742,180 2006 Leona Lewis A Moment Like This 571,992 2007 Leon Jackson When You Believe 275,742 2008 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 576,046 2009 Rage Against The Machine Killing In The Name 502,672 2010 Matt Cardle When We Collide 439,007 2011 Military Wives with Gareth Malone Wherever You Are 555,622 2012 The Justice Collective He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother 269,248 2013 Sam Bailey Skyscraper 148,853 2014 Ben Haenow Somethiing I Need 214,000 2015 The Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir – A Bridge Over You 127,490 ALBUMS 1956 Original Soundtrack The King And I 1957 Original Soundtrack The King And I 1958 Original Soundtrack South Pacific 1959 Original Soundtrack.South Pacific 1960 Original Soundtrack.South Pacific 1961 The George Mitchell Minstrels.Another Black And White Minstrel Show 1962 The Shadows Out Of The Shadows 1963 The Beatles With The Beatles 1964 The Beatles Beatles For Sale 1965 The Beatles Rubber Soul 1966 Original Soundtrack The Sound Of Music 1967 The Beatles Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1968 The Beatles The Beatles (The White Album) 1969 The Beatles Abbey Road 1970 Andy Williams Andy Williams Greatest Hits 1971 T. Rex Electric Warrior 1972 Various artist compilation (K-Tel).20 All Time Hits Of The 50's 1973 Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 1974 Elton John Elton John's Greatest Hits 1975 Queen A Night At The Opera 1976 Glen Campbell 20 Golden Greats 1977 Various artist compilation (K-Tel) Disco Fever 1978 Original Soundtrack Grease 1979 Rod Stewart Greatest Hits Vol. 1 1980 Abba Super Trouper 1981 Abba The Visitors 1982 John Lennon The John Lennon Collection 1983 Various artist compilation Now, That's What I Call Music 1984 Various artist compilation The Hits Album/The Hits Tape - 32 Original Hits 1985 Various artist compilation Now - The Christmas Album 1986 Various artist compilation Now, That's What I Call Music 8 1987 Various artist compilation Now That's What I Call Music 10 1988 Cliff Richard Private Collection 1979-1988 200,000 1989 Phil Collins But Seriously 1990 Madonna The Immaculate Collection 340,000 1991 Queen Greatest Hits II 179,000 1992 Cher Cher's Greatest Hits: 1965-1992 193,000 1993 Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell II - Back Into Hell 189,000 1994 Beautiful South Carry On Up The Charts - The Best Of The Beautiful South 264,258 1995 Robson & Jerome Robson & Jerome 483,000 1996 Spice Girls Spice 439,000 1997 Celine Dion Let's Talk About Love 219,918 1998 George Michael Ladies & Gentlemen - The Best Of George Michael 308,714 1999 Shania Twain Come On Over 239,559 2000 The Beatles 1 422,042 2001 Robbie Williams Swing When You're Winning 365,208 2002 Robbie Williams Escapology 310,237 2003 Dido Life For Rent 270,652 2004 Robbie Williams Greatest Hits 183,871 2005 Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits 314,553 2006 Take That Beautiful World 443,070 2007 Leona Lewis Spirit 286,437 2008 Take That The Circus 381,650 2009 Susan Boyle I Dreamed A Dream 352,612 2010 Take That Progress 330,251 2011 Michael Bublé Christmas 317,114 2012 Emeli Sandé Our Version Of Events 177,696 2013 Robbie Williams Swings Both Ways 126,330 2014 Ed Sheeran - X 214,000 2015 Adele – 25 449,870 |
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Dec 21 2014, 08:19 PM
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We haven't had a Christmas No1 that's not a X Factor winner, charity record, or internet campaign since 2003!
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Dec 21 2014, 08:33 PM
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We haven't had a Christmas No1 that's not a X Factor winner, charity record, or internet campaign since 2003! probably won't be like that until X Factor stops unfortunately, when we'll get some "normal" songs going to Christmas #1 like Happy/Uptown Funk would've done, but also with the occasional charity record going all the way |
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Dec 21 2014, 09:06 PM
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Wow underwhelming Mr Blobby sales. The Christmas No1 sales since the turn of the century have been massive considering the troubles with sales.
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Dec 21 2014, 09:53 PM
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It seems to be the first year both number 1 single and album sell the same amount of copies
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Dec 21 2014, 11:03 PM
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2006 Take That Beautiful World 443,070 amazing, in a week, seems impossible now.
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Dec 21 2014, 11:25 PM
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Ben Haenow's song is 3,000 copies behind Whitney Houston's Xmas #1. She had an impressive first week sales considering sales in 1992's singles chart were absolutely poor
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Dec 21 2014, 11:37 PM
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Wow 1996 saw Spice Girls selling 870k odd albums &
Singles, that's just unreal. Robbie/Take That dominates the 21st century!! |
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Dec 22 2014, 01:31 AM
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Wow underwhelming Mr Blobby sales. The Christmas No1 sales since the turn of the century have been massive considering the troubles with sales. It was one of those years when the Christmas fell on a Saturday, so the Christmas #1 was revealed 6 days before the actual day. Mr Blobby actually sold more copies the following week lol. Ben Haenow's song is 3,000 copies behind Whitney Houston's Xmas #1. She had an impressive first week sales considering sales in 1992's singles chart were absolutely poor That was Whitney's fourth week at #1, not her first. The first Christmas #1 to enter at #1 was "2 Become 1". |
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Dec 22 2014, 01:39 AM
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Dec 22 2014, 02:11 AM
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Wow underwhelming Mr Blobby sales. The Christmas No1 sales since the turn of the century have been massive considering the troubles with sales. Mr Blobby's sales for the Christmas chart in 1993 suffered to an extent because the Christmas chart was based on sales from 12 to 18 December (chart dated 25 December). The following week (chart dated 1 January 1994) the chart was based on the sales week in the run up to Christmas (19 to 25 December) and the single recorded a sales increase of over 50% with sales of around 140,000. |
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Dec 22 2014, 02:39 AM
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Wow 1996 saw Spice Girls selling 870k odd albums & Singles, that's just unreal. Robbie/Take That dominates the 21st century!! Spectacular sales in 1996 for the Spice Girls! They ended 1996 with over 2.8m singles sales, and almost 1.8m album sales (at the time I think 'Spice' was reported to have sold over 2m by the time 2 Become 1 came out, but it seems its figure was eventually revised down slightly). Anyway, over 4 and a half million records sold in their first 6 months alone. |
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Dec 22 2014, 10:10 AM
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Interestingly, if Mark Ronson had been up against last year's x factor winner and she had sold the same amount then he would have been no1 for Christmas. what a shame!! Also, x factor haven't dominated the albums Christmas chart in the same way as the singles....
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Dec 22 2014, 10:30 AM
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probably won't be like that until X Factor stops unfortunately, when we'll get some "normal" songs going to Christmas #1 like Happy/Uptown Funk would've done, but also with the occasional charity record going all the way Sadly I can't see Cowell stopping X Factor anytime soon, maybe another 4/5 years maybe but I think it needs to be rested for a year at least though I'd rather it just disappeared forever!! |
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Dec 22 2014, 11:18 AM
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probably won't be like that until X Factor stops unfortunately, when we'll get some "normal" songs going to Christmas #1 like Happy/Uptown Funk would've done, but also with the occasional charity record going all the way Unless Simon decides to shift it 3 months early, I read somewhere that he is planning to shake the format next year, whatever that entails we have to wait and see. |
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Dec 22 2014, 01:05 PM
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Mr Blobby's sales for the Christmas chart in 1993 suffered to an extent because the Christmas chart was based on sales from 12 to 18 December (chart dated 25 December). The following week (chart dated 1 January 1994) the chart was based on the sales week in the run up to Christmas (19 to 25 December) and the single recorded a sales increase of over 50% with sales of around 140,000. Ah yeh I actually forgot about that.Knew Mr Blobby sold quite a bit overall. Suppose it was 93, just before the norm became held back releases. Thanks Robbie |
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Dec 22 2014, 01:10 PM
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Unless Simon decides to shift it 3 months early, I read somewhere that he is planning to shake the format next year, whatever that entails we have to wait and see. whilst I think the show ran tiring years ago to move it a month or two early would be a great idea. I really don't want XF hogging the Christmas #1 all the time (except the 3 years they missed it). Would be pretty cool to see something non charity on top too. |
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Dec 22 2014, 01:15 PM
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whilst I think the show ran tiring years ago to move it a month or two early would be a great idea. I really don't want XF hogging the Christmas #1 all the time (except the 3 years they missed it). Would be pretty cool to see something non charity on top too. Or have the final a week before the race for Xmas no. 1 starts like in 2011 and 2012 |
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Dec 22 2014, 01:18 PM
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X-Factor needs moving to January or someone could make a false story about the winner and start a blacklash? I know the latter is highly immoral and wrong, but it's one way. Just destory the winner in the press.
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Dec 22 2014, 03:09 PM
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whilst I think the show ran tiring years ago to move it a month or two early would be a great idea. I really don't want XF hogging the Christmas #1 all the time (except the 3 years they missed it). Would be pretty cool to see something non charity on top too. Indeed a Summer version starting in June would be great boosting sales and songs up the chart in a quieter period but less people watch TV during the long warm summer nights and they wouldnt want a fall in audience. It would also leave the way open for artists to release on xmas week too. Hope the Voice boosts sales in Jan/Feb too when it starts in the new year! |
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