LadBaby claims 2018's Christmas Number 1 single: “YES MAAAATE!”

The YouTube sensation beats the odds to score this year's festive chart-topper.
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Congratulations to LadBaby, who claims this year’s Official Christmas Number 1 with We Built This City.

The 31-year-old YouTube sensation and dad blogger – real name Mark Hoyle – plus his wife Roxanne and two sons, recorded their own version of Starship’s 1985 hit as an ode to sausage rolls (rather than rock and roll). Proceeds from the single go to foodbank charity The Trussell Trust.

LadBaby’s We Built This City shifted 75,000 combined sales this week to take the top spot, and despite a fiercely close race all week, finishes 18,500 ahead of his closest competition after a last-minute push. 93% of his sales were downloads, with the remainder made up from audio and video streams. 

We Built This City is also the first novelty song to claim the festive top spot in 18 years, since Bob The Builder’s Can We Fix It? in 2000. Look back over every UK Christmas Number 1 single here.

Celebrating with OfficialCharts.com, LadBaby said: “Thank you everybody in the UK who has got a sausage roll to the top. I can’t thank you enough not only for downloading the song but for raising money for such an incredible charity. I’m honestly speechless and lost for words. Thank you so much. YES MAAATE!”

Watch Ladbaby celebrate scoring this year's Christmas Number 1 below:

Official Charts chief executive Martin Talbot adds: “It is a truly fantastic achievement by LadBaby to claim the 2018 Official Christmas Number 1, in what has been an incredibly competitive race against two massive hits of the moment. In doing so, he has also shown once again the enduring power of campaign singles, especially at this time of year. The success is tribute to the huge effort put into the campaign by Ladbaby himself, plus all of his supporters - and, in raising money for the Trussell Trust, is very much in the spirit of Christmas."

After leading the way at the midweek stage, US singer Ava Max’s Sweet But Psycho has to settle for Number 2, while last week’s chart-topper thank u, next by Ariana Grande is at 3. Look back at every Christmas Number 2 single here.

New entries and high climbers

Mariah Carey leads the charge of festive classics in this year’s Official Christmas Chart with All I Want For Christmas Is You at Number 4, Last Christmas by Wham! is at 7, and Ariana Grande’s Imagine is new at 8.

More Christmas favourites feature in this week’s Top 40: The Pogues’ Fairytale of New York (11), Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? (13), Michael Buble’s It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (16), Elton John’s Step Into Christmas (18) and Leona Lewis’ One More Sleep (19).

Shakin’ Stevens’ 1985 chart-topper Merry Christmas Everyone is at 20, Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree places at 21, Chris Rea’s Driving Home For Christmas climbs to 22, Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me lifts seven places to an new peak at 23, and Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday is at 24.

Finally, John & Yoko Ono’s Happy Xmas (War Is Over) returns to the Top 40 at 29, as does Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmastime at 35 and Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody at 36.

View this year's Official Christmas Singles Chart Top 100 in full

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Amie

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Who are they

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Nightcrawler

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Awful cover version. One of the worst Christmas Number One hits ever!

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Someone

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you must of not heard blobby blobby blobby

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Wez

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It's for a charity and you're complaining... I'm glad it won seeing as it clearly you off, we need more songs like this to be number 1 seeing as it you off!

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Eoin Sioda

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Third ever Nottingham number one! The first being Paper Lace's "Billy Don't Be a Hero" in 1974 and the second being KWS's "Please Don't Go" in 1992.

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Piran

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Honestly, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m really pleased the sausage roll song got the Christmas #1!

Yes, the lyrics are completely ridiculous, but in a year where the headlines were mostly miserable, we all needed a laugh & this song definitely achieved that! Plus, it’s a charity song as well as novelty one (mostly to raise awareness for child poverty), so that’s another reason to respect it.

For as much as I love ‘Sweet But Psycho’, even if it doesn’t hit the top spot now, I’m just happy that it’s done as well as it has. Good for Ariana on an impressive six weeks leading the charts too!

Congrats LadBaby on a successful campaign & Merry Christmas to you all. :)

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Ebony

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I used to think AC/DCs it's a long way to the top went it's a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll so I'm definitely behind more songs about sausage rolls

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Piran

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Hey Ebony! :)
Haha, I've never noticed that before, I'll have to check it out again & listen out for it.

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Ebony

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It was just how I always sung it as a kid but it's definitely there

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Piran

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I've misheard a ton of lyrics growing up too, haha.
Merry Christmas by the way! :)

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Lloyd Franklin

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They deserved it, amazing family. Yes Mate!!!