Posted December 1, 20222 yr Top 40 Most Streamed Christmas Number 1s of all time https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/b...mber-1s__38001/ It's 1 December, which means the Christmas season has officially kicked off! To mark the occasion, BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright is revealing the Top 40 Most Streamed Christmas Number 1s of all time, compiled exclusively by the Official Charts Company for Radio 2 and BBC Sounds. Over the past 70 years, the race for the coveted Christmas Number 1 spot has seen one-off novelty acts triumph over established superstars, ground-breaking charity hits, reality TV newbies instantly making their mark, and (on occasion) actual festive songs taking the top spot. The new streaming Top 40 has been compiled based on the number of times each song has been streamed, all year round, since records began. Steve Wright counts down the Top 40 chart in Most Streamed Christmas Number 1s now on BBC Sounds here, or tune into Radio 2 on Christmas Day (4-7pm). POS - TITLE - ARTIST - YEAR 1 - PERFECT - ED SHEERAN - 2017 2 - BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - QUEEN - 1975 & 1991 3 - ROCKABYE - CLEAN BANDIT - 2016 4 - MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE - SHAKIN' STEVENS - 1985 5 - DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? - BAND AID - 1984 6 - MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY - SLADE - 1973 7 - DON'T YOU WANT ME - HUMAN LEAGUE - 1981 8 - I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU - WHITNEY HOUSTON - 1992 9 - KILLING IN THE NAME - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - 2009 10 - MARY'S BOY CHILD/OH MY LORD - BONEY M - 1978 11 - STAY ANOTHER DAY - EAST 17 - 1994 12 - ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) - PINK FLOYD - 1979 13 - LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS - MUD - 1974 14 - HALLELUJAH - ALEXANDRA BURKE - 2008 15 - MISTLETOE AND WINE - CLIFF RICHARD - 1988 16 - ALWAYS ON MY MIND - PET SHOP BOYS - 1987 17 - I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND - BEATLES - 1963 18 - SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND - GIRLS ALOUD - 2002 19 - MAD WORLD - MICHAEL ANDREWS & GARY JULES - 2003 20 - 2 BECOME 1 - SPICE GIRLS - 1996 21 - SOMETHING I NEED - BEN HAENOW - 2014 22 - RETURN TO SENDER - ELVIS PRESLEY - 1962 23 - WHEN A CHILD IS BORN (SOLEADO) - JOHNNY MATHIS - 1976 24 - THESE ARE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES - QUEEN - 1991 25 - EARTH SONG - MICHAEL JACKSON - 1995 26 - DAY TRIPPER - BEATLES - 1965 27 - GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME - TOM JONES - 1966 28 - A MOMENT LIKE THIS - LEONA LEWIS - 2006 29 - HELLO, GOODBYE - BEATLES - 1967 30 - REET PETITE - JACKIE WILSON - 1986 31 - WE CAN WORK IT OUT - BEATLES - 1965 32 - I FEEL FINE - BEATLES - 1964 33 - SOMETHIN' STUPID - ROBBIE WILLIAMS & NICOLE KIDMAN - 2001 34 - THAT'S MY GOAL - SHAYNE WARD - 2005 35 - SEASONS IN THE SUN - WESTLIFE - 1999 36 - WHEN WE COLLIDE - MATT CARDLE - 2010 37 - TOO MUCH - SPICE GIRLS - 1997 38 - GOODBYE - SPICE GIRLS - 1998 39 - ONLY YOU - FLYING PICKETS - 1983 40 - SAVIOUR'S DAY - CLIFF RICHARD - 1990
December 1, 20222 yr Hah that'll annoy a few people. I love Perfect though. Edited December 1, 20222 yr by AcerBen
December 1, 20222 yr Top 40 Most Streamed Christmas Number 1s of all time POS - TITLE - ARTIST - YEAR 14 - HALLELUJAH - ALEXANDRA BURKE - 2008 21 - SOMETHING I NEED - BEN HAENOW - 2014 28 - A MOMENT LIKE THIS - LEONA LEWIS - 2006 34 - THAT'S MY GOAL - SHAYNE WARD - 2005 36 - WHEN WE COLLIDE - MATT CARDLE - 2010 These are the X Factor number 1s in the top 40...I'm pretty surprised to see that the songs by Ben/Shayne/Matt have done so well in the streaming era! Ben especially, considering how short his chart career was. Edited December 1, 20222 yr by TomJ1991
December 1, 20222 yr Ben’s was the only one actually released in the streaming age though so it has a massive advantage compared to the others.
December 1, 20222 yr It's a shame Matt Terry's isn't there. I actually really quite like 'When Christmas Comes Around' and it gets a couple of plays from me every year tbh. EDIT: IGNORE ME! I completely forgot it was a topic about Christmas #1's lmao
December 1, 20222 yr Only 3 songs here since 2010, despite them having the advantage of being released when streaming was available, goes some way to explaining why the Christmas chart has generally become my least favourite chart of the year.
December 1, 20222 yr Rage Against The Machine in the top 10 :cheeseblock: Even with it being released in the streaming era I am surprised Ben Haenow is that high tbh (although I suspect that is more a reflection of how pitifully low the mark to be the 21st most streamed Xmas #1 is than anything else)
December 1, 20222 yr Robbie and Nicole must have 125k streaming equivalent sales based on sales of it in 2014 ( 378k ) and this year (505k). Any further information would be interesting ;) Edited December 1, 20222 yr by Charis
December 2, 20222 yr I'm shocked that Pink Floyd's'Another Brick in the Wall' is as high as 12 and Spice Girls '2 Become 1' is only 20th!
December 2, 20222 yr It's interesting to also note what DIDN't make the Top 40: All xmas number ones from 1952-1961, which is perhaps no surprise (but Harry Belafonte surely's gets some streams each xmas?). 1968 The Scaffold - Lily The Pink 1969 Rolf Harris - Two Little Boys [wonder if that may have made the the threshold but been excluded for other reasons?] 1970 Dave Edmunds Rockpile - I Hear You Knockin' 1971 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) 1972 Little Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool 1977 Wings - Mull Of Kintyre/Girls School 1980 St Winifred's School Choir - There's No One Quite Like Grandma 1982 Renee and Renato - Save Your Love 1989 Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas? 1993 Mr Blobby - Mr Blobby 1999 Westlife - I Have A Dream [the other side of the AA does make the Top 40] 2000 Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It? 2004 Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas? 2007 Leon Jackson - When You Believe 2011 Military Wives with Gareth Malone - Wherever You Are 2012 The Justice Collective - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother 2013 Sam Bailey - Skyscraper 2015 Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir - A Bridge Over You 2018 Ladbaby - We Built This City 2019 Ladbaby - I Love Sausage Rolls 2020 Ladbaby - Don't Stop Me Eatin' 2021 Ladbaby ft Elton John and Ed Sheeran - Sausage Roll For Everyone I suppose most of the post 2000 on this list, being for charity, are probably not on streaming, but I'd guess most of the earlier ones will be.
December 2, 20222 yr very unlikely re: Rolf Harris - the song was never that popular on streaming, and he got charged in 2014 which was when OCC started counting streaming anyway it is sitting on just over a million spotify plays at present
December 2, 20222 yr very unlikely re: Rolf Harris - the song was never that popular on streaming, and he got charged in 2014 which was when OCC started counting streaming anyway it is sitting on just over a million spotify plays at present Yeah I realised afterwards that it was that long ago that he was charged. I also hadn't realised he was ever released again until I was looking it up just now, apparenly he was out in 2017.
December 2, 20222 yr Leon Jackson and The Justice Collective are the only post-2000 Christmas #1s that aren't on Spotify (and maybe Bob The Builder too including 2000 itself, I see a version of the BTB theme on there but I think it is a different version to the one that charted). Actually pretty surprised Band Aid 20 didn't make the list!
December 3, 20222 yr Well done Ed Sheeran its so much fun to see people getting pissed of with you having the no1 on this list too!!
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