LadBaby announce bid for record-breaking fourth consecutive Christmas Number 1 with Ed Sheeran and Elton John
LadBaby have announced their bid to break a long-held Christmas Number 1 record with their new single, out next week.
Sausage Rolls For Everyone comes as a last-minute entrant into this year's battle for Christmas Number 1, and will also feature Ed Sheeran and Elton John as a humourous, sausage-roll based remix of their current festive duet Merry Christmas (which was funnily enough earmarked as one of the favourites to clinch the Christmas Number 1 this year).
Apparently, Ed had reached out to LadBaby following their historic third consecutive Christmas Number 1 last year, and the plan was made for a very festive team-up to see if they could break the all-time chart record.
If Sausage Rolls For Everyone does indeed become this year's Christmas Number 1, LadBaby would make Official Charts history as the first act to ever score four consecutive Christmas Number 1 singles.
As it stands, the Youtube stars currently tie with The Beatles and Spice Girls, all with a consecutive hat-trick of Christmas Number 1s each. They previously reached Number 1 with We Built This City (2018), I Love Sausage Rolls (2019) and Don't Stop Me Eatin' (2020).
MORE: The Christmas Number 1 2021 contenders in full
Mark and Roxanne Hoyle (aka the husband and wife duo behind LadBaby) said in a statement: "We always said we’d only go for a fourth number one if we could make it bigger and raise even more money for the Trussell Trust.
"We approached Ed and Elton with an idea to do something that had never been done: to combine the music world with the social media world and join forces to make a difference to the people in the UK that need it most!
"Ed and Elton are pop royalty and they’ve both had huge success at Christmas, so we’re honoured and excited to be coming together to help families this Christmas and bring back some true Christmas spirit with the power of sausage rolls!"
Ed Sheeran added: "I’m proud to be supporting and featuring on LadBaby’s very fun rework of Merry Christmas. All profits will be donated to The Trussell Trust which is a very wonderful and important charity, so make sure you stream it, buy it and play it on repeat."
100% of the song's profits will go to The Trussell Trust, a food bank charity that who are campaigning to end poverty in the UK.
Sausage Rolls For Everyone will be released next Friday (December 17). The 2021 Official Christmas Number 1 will be announced on Friday, December 24. The full Christmas Top 40 will be counted down on BBC Radio 1's Official Chart from 4pm.
The full Top 100 Official Christmas Singles Chart and Albums Chart will be published on OfficialCharts.com from 5.45pm.
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aimee aimee
please no can we not have a decent christmas number 1 for once these people ruin the xmas charts
lets get a real christmas song to number one like
Mariah Carey ft. Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson - Oh Santa
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RyanT
ugh...Ginger head is so desperate for chart records, that he will stoop to anything and can someone push ladbaby into the sea, they have ruined Xmas #1 with their trashy tunes and I don't care about their charity angle..not for a 4th one now.
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
oh my god bore off please, the sausage roll parodies weren't funny the first time and they certainly aren't three years after the first. i know this is for charity but just run a marathon or some sh*t because we're all sick and tired of hearing the same gag EVERY CHRISTMAS. i hope this stalls at number 2 or lower because while i appreciate what they're both doing, chart positions don't matter as long as enough money is being raised for it. no one would really unironically listen to this, right?
as for ed, you know he's a horrible artist when he's stooped low enough to let himself be humiliated by these pair of clowns. imagine doing that?! no other artist would ever dream of it!
Sakgra
well said
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Paul Sloan
Ladbaby not again, we want proper Christmas No 1's
CW
Carole Williams
YES MAAATEEE !!!!!
Küll
God no!
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Cat
I don't like this and it's nonsense but it would create some interesting chart trivia aside from the obvious record.
Firstly, it would probably mean a song being knocked off number one by a cover of itself. That's rare: I think it has only happened twice: in 1953 with David Whitfield and Frankie Laine's versions of Answer Me and 1957 with Singing the Blues (Guy Mitchell and Tommy Steele). Perhaps someone will think of another.
Secondly, a track being knocked off number one by a parody of itself is, I think, a new phenomenon. The only parallel I can think of is Eamon's F*** It: I Don't Want You Back being replaced by Frankee's F.U.R.B, which was an answer song to the previous record, and is kind of sui generis.
Thirdly, since I assume Ed and Elton will be officially credited, it makes Elton John's chart career look even more impressive. It's the most successful late period of any popstar. It adds Elton to the list of artists who have knocked themselves off number one and adds him to the select group who have had three number ones in a year. Considering his musical peak was the 1970s but resulted in only one UK #1, his chart records since 1990 are crazy.
BleeUK
we will have to see if it #1 on Singles Charts from 31st December 2021 as that's the christmas Week Charts not the 24th Edition as that based on 17th to 23rd only that days before Christmas, did you know, a factoid Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops branded Christmas charts is not a Christmas charts at all, as the data is always before christmas Day not during Christmas.
Blank
Most of which depends on how they record it in chart history. In the CD era, it would simply be a B-side and not add anything to the chart stats, but only being a bit of marketing.
Remarkably, it would add to Elton's record of both never having a #1 on first release without a collaboration, and having hits with the most different collaborators (13 at the last count i think?) but stand to be corrected on that one.
Blank
As said before, for most of chart history shops were closed over Christmas so there could be no "chistmas week" sales, and therefore no Christmas week under your definition. Hence, until 1983, there were no weeks published between Christmas and New Year. They just repeated the proper Christmas week.
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Cat
Not quite right. As others have said; the Christmas Number One is what we call the record which is the current reigning number one on December 25th. It doesn't have anything to do with which song was the most streamed on Christmas Day itself.
Obviously, Christmas music sells most in the week before Christmas and not at all (traditionally) on the day itself. I'm not sure what more we could glean from including Christmas Day, but it would likely just be the same chart watered down by the post-Xmas period streams of more non-xmas songs.
BleeUK
But the questions is, will it be Ladbaby 1st Christmas week Data #1 for the first time for Singles Charts, it needs to stick at the Top for 2 weeks (Download/stream from 24th to 30th December), find out from 31st December, as from 2018 to 2020, Sweet But Pyscho by Ava Max. River By Ellie Goulding and Last Christmas By Wham, All Was Christmas Week #1 Data Here In UK.
Blank
They can kiss goodbye to their 100% record then.
BleeUK
Could it be tech there 1st #1 during Christmas Data, from 2018 to 2020 it was Sweet But Psycho at by Ava Max, River By Ellie Goulding and Last Christmas By Wham #1 during the festive peroid, Ladbaby was before Christmas. Find out if Ladbaby can be #1 for the first time at Christmas From 31st December