Posted December 18, 20204 yr Since the race for the Christmas number one single is now well and truly on, here is every Christmas number one since the UK Singles Chart’s inception: 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 Walkin’ In The Rain 1957: Harry Belafonte - Mary’s Boy Child 1958: Conway Twitty - It’s Only Make Believe 1959: Emile Ford and the Checkmates - What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For? 1960: Cliff Richard and the Shadows - I Love You 1961: Danny Williams - Moon River 1962: Elvis Presley - Return To Sender 1963: The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand 1964: The Beatles - I Feel Fine 1965: The Beatles - Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out 1966: Tom Jones - Green, Green Grass Of Home 1967: The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye 1968: The Scaffold - Lily The Pink 1969: Rolf Harris - Two Little Boys 1970: Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knocking 1971: Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In Thr West) 1972: Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool 1973: Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody 1974: Mud - Lonely This Christmas 1975: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 1976: Johnny Mathis - When A Child Is Born (Soleado) 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 (Pt. 2) 1980: St. Winifred’s School Choir - There’s No One Quite Like Grandma 1981: The Human League - Do You Want Me 1982: Reneé and Renato - Save Your Love 1983: The Flying Pickets - Only You 1984: Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas? 1985: Shakin’ Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone 1986: Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite 1987: Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind 1988: Cliff Richard - Mistletoe And Wine 1989: Band Aid II - Do They Know It’s Christmas? 1990: Cliff Richard - Saviour’s Day 1991: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives 1992: Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You 1993: Mr Blobby - Mr Blobby 1994: East 17 - Stay Another Day 1995: Michael Jackson - Earth Song 1996: Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 1997: Spice Girls - Too Much 1998: Spice Girls - Goodbye 1999: Westlife - I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun 2000: Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It? 2001: Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman - Somethin’ Stupid 2002: Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground 2003: Michael Andrews & Gary Jules - Mad World 2004: Band Aid 29 - Do They Know It’s Christmas? 2005: Shayne Ward - That’s My Goal 2006: Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This 2007: Leon Jackson - When You Believe 2008: Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah 2009: Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name 2010: Matt Cardle - When We Collide 2011: Military Wives & Gareth Malone - Wherever You Are 2012: The Justice League - He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother 2013: Sam Bailey - Skyscraper 2014: Ben Haenow - Something I Need 2015: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir - A Bridge Over You 2016: Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie - Rockabye 2017: Ed Sheeran - Perfect 2018: LadBaby - We Built This City 2019: LadBaby - I Love Sausage Rolls Who is your pick for the 2020 Christmas number one? Edited December 18, 20204 yr by daniellovesmusic
December 18, 20204 yr Save Your Love is a masterpiece. :heart: Edited December 18, 20204 yr by Last Dreamer
December 18, 20204 yr I still can't get over Mr Blobby beating Take That to Christmas number one in 1993, that has to go down as the worst Christmas number one ever.
December 18, 20204 yr My absolute favourites: 1954: Winifred Atwell - Let’s Have Another Party 1959: Emile Ford and the Checkmates - What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For? 1961: Danny Williams - Moon River 1963: The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand 1964: The Beatles - I Feel Fine 1965: The Beatles - Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out 1967: The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye 1973: Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody 1975: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 1978: Boney M. - Mary’s Boy Child / Oh My Lord 1979: Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Pt. 2) 1981: The Human League - Don't You Want Me 1984: Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas? 1985: Shakin’ Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone 1987: Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind 1994: East 17 - Stay Another Day 1995: Michael Jackson - Earth Song 1996: Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 1997: Spice Girls - Too Much 2002: Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground 2003: Michael Andrews & Gary Jules - Mad World 2009: Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name 2016: Clean Bandit feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie - Rockabye Pink Floyd probably the best of the best. :wub: Not heard the new LadBaby song yet (which will inevitably be the latest addition) but expectations are low after the last two :kink:
December 18, 20204 yr Starts from the 80s with sales, it needs updating... If someone can finish it off it be great as I need to get on Singles 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 2016 Clean Bandit feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie – Rockabye 57,361 2017 Ed Sheeran - Perfect 85,397 2018 LadBaby - We Built This City 75,442 2019 LadBaby - I Love Sausage Rolls 92,896 Albums 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 2016 Michael Ball & Alfie Boe – Together 2017 Eminem - Revival 2018 The Greatest Showman - The Greatest Showman 2019 Rod Stewart - You’re In My Heart
December 18, 20204 yr Mariah should be number one or Wham or any Christmas song, better than these novelty songs that people won’t remember in a month time...
December 18, 20204 yr Author Mariah should be number one or Wham or any Christmas song, better than these novelty songs that people won’t remember in a month time... I agree. I’d love to see both Mariah and Wham in that list someday. I don’t think it’ll be this year, unfortunately.
December 18, 20204 yr Conversely I always tend to remember the novelty hits (assuming they're big hits in the first place). Wealdstone Raider & Lou Monte for example always get a spin on my Spotify every year :D Interesting that before LadBaby that last novelty #1 was way back in 2000. So it is very rare for novelty songs to actually go all the way to the top. LadBaby just makes it look so easy.
December 18, 20204 yr We should do a quick rate of these to find out Buzzjacks favourite Christmas number 1, everyone just giving their top 20 or top 10. Edited December 18, 20204 yr by Road Salt Mixer
December 18, 20204 yr Some great sales in the singles and albums there the notable exception being Mr Blobby lol but he was a big Saturday night Noel Edmonds show star then so no surprising the single sold alright. Lol at ‘Mistletoe and Wine outsold Band Aid 2 in Xmas week in 1988/89!
December 18, 20204 yr Albums 2001 Robbie Williams Swing When You're Winning 365,208 2002 Robbie Williams Escapology 310,237 2004 Robbie Williams Greatest Hits 183,871 [2006 Take That Beautiful World 443,070] [2008 Take That The Circus 381,650] [2010 Take That Progress 330,251] 2013 Robbie Williams Swings Both Ways 126,330 Pretty amazing! Whatever happened to Robbie recently?
December 18, 20204 yr 2015 Adele – 25 449,870 And on her fifth week in the chart when she'd already sold 2m copies in the first 4 weeks. What an icon *.*
December 18, 20204 yr For completeness sake (in the singles): 2016 Rockabye 57,361 2017 Perfect 85,397 2018 We Built This City 75,442 2019 I Love Sausage Rolls 92,896 Rockabye the lowest Christmas #1 weekly sale of the last 40 years by some distance!
December 18, 20204 yr Albums 2001 Robbie Williams Swing When You're Winning 365,208 2002 Robbie Williams Escapology 310,237 2004 Robbie Williams Greatest Hits 183,871 [2006 Take That Beautiful World 443,070] [2008 Take That The Circus 381,650] [2010 Take That Progress 330,251] 2013 Robbie Williams Swings Both Ways 126,330 Pretty amazing! Whatever happened to Robbie recently? He's releasing coronavirus-related Christmas songs about Santa being on his way but keeping 2m away.
December 18, 20204 yr Pretty amazing! Whatever happened to Robbie recently? He wasn't too far off getting the Christmas #1 album again last year so I'd say... not much? x
December 18, 20204 yr He's releasing coronavirus-related Christmas songs about Santa being on his way but keeping 2m away. Don’t knock a future Christmas classic
December 18, 20204 yr 1993 Mr. Blobby Mr. Blobby 92,500 2007 Leon Jackson When You Believe 275,742 2012 The Justice Collective He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother 269,248 Mad thinking that these 3 songs were at one point top of the biggest sales week of the year, but now aren't available digitally at all. Band Aid II appeared on Spotify for the first time this year - surely these would pick up enough streams to make it worthwhile for the rights owners? Edited December 18, 20204 yr by TomJ1991
December 18, 20204 yr Don’t knock a future Christmas classic Walk This Sleigh is way better from Robbie Williams than his new Christmas song. I do have good memories of Walk This Sleigh despite it not being a UK hit as the chorus was used quite a bit as a soundbed in ITV's This Morning I think around Christmas in the early 00s.
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