Here is a Top 20 of the best performing Christmas tracks on my chart over the past 15 years:

Note: I haven't included 2007's Malcolm Middleton "We're All Going To Die" on the list as it isn't a Christmas song per-se. Although obviously it was a Christmas #1 campaign single!

 

Frightened Rabbit missed out on the Christmas #1 in 2008 by a width of a hare(!) beaten soundly by New Zealand's Ladyhawke and "My Delirium"

 

01 Mew "She Came Home For Christmas" (2003, #1)

02 The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale Of New York" (2005, #2)

03 The Water Babies "Under The Tree" (2005, #3)

04 Frightened Rabbit "It's Christmas So We'll Stop" (2008, #3)

05 Laura Marling "Goodbye England (Covered In Snow)" (2009, #4)

06 Julian Casablancas "I Wish It Was Christmas Today" (2009, #5)

07 The Darkness "Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)" (2003, #6)

08 The Black Arts "Christmas Number One" (2007, #6)

09 Los Campesinos! "When Christmas Comes" (2014, #7*)

10 !!! (Chk, Chk, Chk) "And Anyway It's Christmas" (2013, #8)

11 The Raveonettes "The Christmas Song" (2011, #10)

12 The Wombats "Is This Christmas?" (2008, #12)

13 Orbital "Christmas Chime" (2013, #12)

14 Geraldine McQueen "Once Upon A Christmas Song" (2008, #14) :lol:

15 Smith & Burrows "When The Thames Froze" (2011, #14)

16 Coldplay "Christmas Lights" (2010, #17)

17 The Futureheads "Christmas Was Better In The 80s" (2010, #18)

18 Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler "Home for the Holidays" (2011, #20)

19 Hurts "All I Want For Christmas Is New Years Day" (2010, #21)

20 Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie "Prince" Billy "Christmas Eve Can Kill You" (2012, #26)

 

*still charting

All Christmas related # 1s in my chart :

Dora Bryan - All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle (1963)

Mary Hopkin - Mary Had A Baby (1972)

Dana - It's Gonna Be A Cold Cold Christmas (1975)

Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers - Christmas Without You (1984)

Kim Wilde & Mel Smith - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (1987)

Anne Charleston & Ian Smith - Old Fashioned Christmas (1990)

Bjorn Again - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (1992)

Saint Etienne - I Was Born On Christmas Day (1993)

Cheeky Girls - Have A Cheeky Christmas (2003)

Fast Food Rockers - I Love Christmas (2003)

Hot Pantz - Give You One For Christmas (2004)

Me & My - Too Much Christmas (2007)

Britney Spears - My Only Wish (This Year) (2008)

Aza - Hunky Santa (2012)

Go!Go!Go! - I Love Christmas (2014)

Kristen Bell & Straight No Chaser - Text Me Merry Christmas (2014)

 

+ Sandy Molling - All I Want For Christmas Is You was illegal for # 1, because wasn't a single.

Edited December 24, 201411 yr by NICI Moose