LadBaby score second Official Christmas Number 1 with I Love Sausage Rolls: "It's a Christmas miracle - again!"
LadBaby is officially on a (sausage) roll as he is crowned the UK’s Official Christmas Number 1 for a second year in a row and sets a new chart record, the Official Charts Company can confirm.
YouTuber and dad blogger Mark Hoyle, along with his wife Roxanne and their two sons, proves that lightning CAN strike twice, taking the coveted festive top spot today with I Love Sausage Rolls - a playful twist on Joan Jett’s I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll. Money raised from the single goes to foodbank charity The Trussell Trust, who support a network of food banks across the UK and provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty.
According to Official Charts Company data, I Love Sausage Rolls smashes last year’s total too, scoring a huge 93,000 chart sales this week (18,000 more than last year’s winning track We Built This City) – and with 85,000 of that total coming via downloads, LadBaby not only claims the festive chart crown, but also the fastest-selling download of the year, in fact the fastest-selling download since June 2017’s Artists For Grenfell chart-topping charity single.
Watch LadBaby celebrate their second festive chart-topper below:
LadBaby are now one of only three acts to claim consecutive Christmas Number 1s in the history of the Official Chart, and the first in 21 years - the only other acts to claim consecutive Christmas Number 1s are The Beatles (three between 1963 – 1965) and Spice Girls (three between 1996 – 1998). Look back over every Official Christmas Number 1 single ever.
He also sets a new record, becoming the first ever act to deliver two novelty Christmas Number 1 singles back to back.
Celebrating the news, LadBaby told OfficialCharts.com: "How have we done this again? It’s the best feeling in the world - it’s a Christmas miracle yet again! Thank you everybody for supporting us once again, and all for an amazing cause. It’s going to the Trussell Trust – to the 14 million people living in poverty in the UK. Who doesn’t love a sausage roll at Christmas?"
Martin Talbot, Chief Executive, Official Charts Company adds: "Congratulations to Ladbaby. It is a superb achievement to score an Official Christmas Number 1 once, let alone twice in successive years. And to do so with increased sales year-on-year is quite phenomenal – and all for a fantastic cause.
"Of course, commiserations to Stormzy, Lewis Capaldi, Dua Lipa and Wham! who made up the Official Top 5 in what has proven to be a genuinely competitive race, which has ended up spanning generations and genres."
LadBaby beat Stormzy’s Own It ft. Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy to the Number 1 spot, holding at Number 2, while a strong challenge from Wham!’s Last Christmas sees the 35-year-old festive classic finish at Number 5. The track is the best seller of the week on vinyl, topping this Official Vinyl Singles Chart with just under 5,000 sales after being given a limited edition 7” release. Last Christmas originally peaked at Number 2, missing out on the Christmas Number 1 in 1984 to Band Aid.
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Another Christmas essential, Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You, is at Number 8, marking its return to the Top 10 for a fourth consecutive year.
Over a third of this week’s Top 40 is made up of new and classic festive songs, including Pogues’ Fairytale of New York ft. Kirsty MacColl (14); Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone (16); Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas (17); Elton John’s Step Into Christmas (19); Michael Buble’s It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (24); Leona Lewis’s One More Sleep (25);
Further down the Top 40, there’s Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me (28); Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (29); Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody (31); Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (32); Kelly Clarkson’s Underneath The Tree (33); John Legend’s Happy Christmas (War Is Over) (34); and Sia’s Santa’s Coming For Us (36).
A last-minute challenge to get Jarvis Cocker’s political song Running The World into this year’s Official Christmas Chart narrowly misses out on the Top 40, landing at Number 48.
Meanwhile, Stormzy lands two new entries in the Top 40 from his new album Heavy Is The Head: Audacity ft. Headie One enters at Number 6, and Lessons lands at Number 9.
Harry Styles bags three Top 40 entries following the release of his new album Fine Line, led by Adore You at 12, Watermelon Sugar, up 29 places to 18, and Falling at 39.
Finally, Juice Wrld’s Lucid Dreams re-enters the Top 40 at 27 following his death last week.
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BleeUK
It's very false the christmas charts, as the UK never has included Christmas day Sales, to radio 1 charts (this is due to Silly Week Ending/Frozen thing) due to calculations for week ending purpose, the charts are always from 6 days before the big day to the latest up in selected years to christmas eve max.
Ludovicah
I think it is great that Alan Merrill's music finally topped the UK chart 44 years after his original version was released. I dont care that it had different lyrics, It doesn't change the fact that finally, Alan Merrill has a #1 songwriter credit in the UK
AW
Alicia Wong
Find album here https://tinyurl.com/LadBabyalb
Gary McCune
What a load of that song is
dariowestern
I’m surprised Sparks’ “Please Don’t Up My World” hasn’t made the charts this week. It deserves to be a No.1 hit.
Ludovicah
Can you stop calling it "Joan Jett's "I Love Rock n Roll" She did a cover of it that got to #4 in the UK, seven years later..but it wasnt written by her, or for her. It was done by the Arrows in 1975 written in London by Alan Merrill and played frequently on their eponymous 1976 Granada TV show
Karl Compton
I’m sorry but the no.1 is ridiculous and it’s an embarrassment of a song.
Ok, I respect Lad Baby for helping a charity he gets a lot of love from me for that but just cos it’s for charity doesn’t mean it should have the Xmas no.1 or I have to like the song. it’s an awful song and Mariah Carey lost out to this??. It’s pathetic.
Ludovicah
Mariah Carey wasnt even close.. it was between Ladbaby and Stormzy. The American charts are and always have been a very different thing
etin
totally disgrace
Piran
Some records LadBaby broke this week…
- Biggest download week of 2019.
- First act to have back-to-back novelty Christmas #1’s.
- First solo act to have consecutive Christmas #1’s.
I mean, I didn’t want this to be Christmas #1, but it did make a laugh a bit, I’ll give him that! :P
Rob Parkinson
Hi Piran, I'm really shocked in really didnt think it would hold up but has proved me wrong. Least it's for charity which can only be a good thing.
Be interesting to see the position of all tracks had acr not been in effect and see who next week claims the No.1 with the build up to xmas still being active for xmas classics before they all drop out the week after
Piran
Yeah, regardless of the quality of the song, it being for charity is an instant positive! It clearly means a lot to LadBaby & his family, so I'll support him for that at least!
Hmm... that'd be interesting! I think with 93k combined chart sales, he probably would've got it anyway, but not with a massive lead at all.
Interesting, that's a total of 18k more than what 'We Built This City' debuted with last year! :O
Piran
Again, I respect LadBaby that he’s doing this all for charity, but that doesn’t mean I have to like his “sausage roll” song being #1 again (even if the video is admittedly hilarious).
We already had the exact same thing happen for last year’s Christmas #1, so the fact that there's essentially no change from then kills the excitement a lot for me!
Hey, at least this means ‘Own It’ has a much better shot at being #1 next week, although I’m still hoping Mariah or WHAM! will pull a surprise.
Regardless, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas! :D
Alfred Lock
You don't have to like it but so you like sausage rolls? I certainly do and will eat one to celebrate to all the good hearts of Britain helping the needy.What if he dares do the triple next year? Stormzy more than likely will do it to finish the year but he's a bit miffed as anyone would be to miss out on the most prized spot of the chart year. Happy festivities as I have a Kopperberg cider with my turkey Xmas dinner next Wednesday.
Piran
Yeah, I like sausage rolls, sure, but I just wanted to see something different at #1 this year, not the same as what we had last time. Although this definitely means a lot of people, so I'm glad for them!
Thanks, you too! Oh wow, that's actually my favourite cider, haha. ;)
MA
michael anthony
Helping the needy, eh? Certainly a great cause, but some "charities" use most of money earned for "expenses". Would be interesting to see how much goes to charity.
Im not against the song, but to call a sausage roll song the Xmas #1 is kind of laughable.
thierry henon
AWful news!! I can't believe that the amazing MARIAH dropped to number 8 this week??!! and BRENDA LEE is only at 32 this year when she made it to the top 10 last year!!