Posted December 22, 201311 yr 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 Wings Mull of Kintyre / Girls School 1978 Boney M Mary’s Boy Child – Oh My Lord 1979 Pink Floyd Another brick in the wall 1980 St. Winifred’s School Choir There’s no one quite like grandma 1981 Human League Don’t you want me 1982 Renee & Renato Save your love 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 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
December 22, 201311 yr It's worth noting that the figures for 80-82 were not Christmas weeks as the charts were not compiled for those years :D
December 22, 201311 yr So 2013 has the lowest selling Christmas No1 album for at least 24 years... :( Cheers for the information. :D
December 22, 201311 yr Hope you don't mind, but I thought it might be interesting for some people to see the Airplay Chart Christmas number ones too. AIRPLAY 1991 Simply Red - Stars 1992 Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You 1993 Take That - Babe 1994 East 17 - Stay Another Day 1995 Michael Jackson - Earth Song 1996 Toni Braxton - Unbreak My Heart 1997 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 1998 The Corrs - So Young 1999 Robbie Williams - She's The One 2000 Robbie Williams - Supreme 2001 Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This 2002 Robbie Williams - Feel 2003 Will Young - Leave Right Now 2004 Kylie Minogue - I Believe In You 2005 Madonna - Hung Up 2006 Take That - Patience 2007 Girls Aloud - Call The Shots 2008 Take That - Greatest Day 2009 Joe McElderry - The Climb 2010 Ellie Goulding - Your Song 2011 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You 2012 Olly Murs feat. Flo Rida - Troublemaker 2013 Avicii - Hey Brother
December 23, 201311 yr Thought I'd add this to the list too UK CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE EPs Record Retailer started the EP chart from it's first issue, chart w/e 12/03/1960 w/e 31/12/1960 OST - South Pacific No.1 w/e 30/12/1961 Helen Shapiro - Helen w/e 29/12/1962 The George Mitchell Minstrells - The Black And White Minstrell Show (btw I think they were also xmas #1 album in 1962 rather than The Shadows in the earlier list) w/e 28/12/1963 The Beatles - Twist And Shout w/e 26/12/1964 The Bachelors - Bachelor's Hits w/e 25/12/1965 Manfred Mann - No Living Without Loving w/e 31/12/1966 The Who - Ready Steady Who Record Retailer published it's last EP chart for w/e 02/12/1967, since when EPs were usually eligible for the singles chart. The Beatles are therefore the only act in history to do the Christmas Number One treble of Singles, EPs and Albums! Can anyone add the xmas number ones for any of the following? Compilation Chart, Download Chart, Physical Chart (I think Cliff had an extra one in the 00s on that chart).
December 23, 201311 yr Hope you don't mind, but I thought it might be interesting for some people to see the Airplay Chart Christmas number ones too. AIRPLAY 1991 Simply Red - Stars 1992 Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You 1993 Take That - Babe 1994 East 17 - Stay Another Day 1995 Michael Jackson - Earth Song 1996 Toni Braxton - Unbreak My Heart 1997 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 1998 The Corrs - So Young 1999 Robbie Williams - She's The One 2000 Robbie Williams - Supreme 2001 Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This 2002 Robbie Williams - Feel 2003 Will Young - Leave Right Now 2004 Kylie Minogue - I Believe In You 2005 Madonna - Hung Up 2006 Take That - Patience 2007 Girls Aloud - Call The Shots 2008 Take That - Greatest Day 2009 Joe McElderry - The Climb 2010 Ellie Goulding - Your Song 2011 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You 2012 Olly Murs feat. Flo Rida - Troublemaker 2013 Avicii - Hey Brother Wow so in the last 18 years the only sales based xmas number one that was also airplay based xmas number one was Joe McElderry of all people. I guess he was being played more than most X Factor winners singles due to the hype around the Rage campaign that year. Interestingly too there are two songs here that were not in the sales based singles top 10 for that week but still top 20, and one song wasn't even top 30 on the sales based singles chart of the same week (of course I realise that they may have been getting played based more on album success than singles). Edited December 23, 201311 yr by DanChartFan
December 23, 201311 yr I always thought the Pogues were no1 in the airplay charts a few years back when xmas day was at the end of a specific week?!
December 23, 201311 yr Wow so in the last 18 years the only sales based xmas number one that was also airplay based xmas number one was Joe McElderry of all people. I guess he was being played more than most X Factor winners singles due to the hype around the Rage campaign that year. Interestingly too there are two songs here that were not in the sales based singles top 10 for that week but still top 20, and one song wasn't even top 30 on the sales based singles chart of the same week (of course I realise that they may have been getting played based more on album success than singles). Except of course Joe mcelderry wasn't Christmas no 1
December 23, 201311 yr Except of course Joe mcelderry wasn't Christmas no 1 Oh of course not, I was being dopey there, but then he is the only X Factor winner to have an airplay xmas number one, even though he is one of only 4 who didn't have a sales based one and the only one of those 4 who was actually released in the relevant sales week and realistically enter the battle in the first place. So no sales based xmas number one has also been the airplay based christmas number one for 18 years now, blimey. Edited December 23, 201311 yr by DanChartFan
December 23, 201311 yr Christmas #1 sales (with Panel Sales too...To save argument! :mellow: ) 1977 Mull Of Kintyre 320,008 (18824 Panel Sales) 1978 Mary's Boy Child 235,000 (11750 Panel Sales) 1979 Another Brick In The Wall 177,940 (8897 Panel Sales) 1980 There's No One Quite Like Grandma 144,980 (7249 Panel Sales) 1981 Don't You Want Me 187,370 (18737 Panel Sales) 1982 Save Your Love 152,240 (15224 Panel Sales)
December 23, 201311 yr So That's My Goal is the biggest selling XMAS #1 after Band Aid then. Good stuff, was and still is one of my fave X Factor singles ^_^
December 23, 201311 yr Thanks for posting! So this MIGHT have the best Xmas week sales ever: 1995 Robson & Jerome ..Robson & Jerome 483,000 Oh dear.
December 23, 201311 yr Amazing to think the Spice girls sold over 1 million singles in those 3 Christmas weeks. That is an eighth of all their total UK singles sales sold in 3 weeks.
December 23, 201311 yr 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 Three of the best number ones of al time, let alone the best three Christmas number ones AND consecutive too :DD, followed by the absolute worst :| . Can we replace it with Stop, please??
December 23, 201311 yr 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 Three of the best number ones of al time, let alone the best three Christmas number ones AND consecutive too :DD, followed by the absolute worst :| . Can we replace it with Stop, please?? The Spice girls were probably still big enough in 1999 to have out sold Westlife's single. They did a 10 date sell out arena tour in Dec 1999, they could have sang it every night and done the usual round of promo and got a 4th Christmas #1.
December 23, 201311 yr The Spice girls were probably still big enough in 1999 to have out sold Westlife's single. They did a 10 date sell out arena tour in Dec 1999, they could have sang it every night and done the usual round of promo and got a 4th Christmas #1. Seriously? I don;t know if that makes me feel better or worse haha! Why didn't they do it then for a fourth consecutive no.1 at Xmas? They could have released W.O.M.A.N or a simple Christmas song cover!
December 23, 201311 yr Seriously? I don;t know if that makes me feel better or worse haha! Why didn't they do it then for a fourth consecutive no.1 at Xmas? They could have released W.O.M.A.N or a simple Christmas song cover! They were all onto solo projects by then so no real interest. I think a Xmas No 1 might have stretched them by this point against Westlife. They more or less went up against them in November 2000 and got well and truly beaten in the album charts (and would have in the singles chart if they had gone head to head) :(
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