It’s official: LadBaby’s Don’t Stop Me Eatin’ is the winner of the 2020 Official Christmas Number 1, securing a hat-trick of festive chart-toppers and the fastest-selling single of the year.
The social media stars’ third festive (and sausage roll-themed) single scores 158,000 to land at the Yuletide summit – the biggest opening week for a single this year, overtaking Billie Eilish’s No Time To Die, and the fastest selling single in more than three years, since Artists For Grenfell’s Bridge Over Troubled Water in June 2017.
94% of its total figure came from downloads and physical CD sales – money raised from the single goes to foodbank charity The Trussell Trust. Watch the moment news was broken to LadBaby on BBC Radio 1 below:
LadBaby – aka Mark Hoyle and his wife Roxanne – now match a record jointly held by The Beatles and Spice Girls – the only other acts who can lay claim to a trio of consecutive Christmas Number 1s. LadBaby claimed the Official Christmas Number 1 in 2018 with We Built This City, and I Love Sausage Rolls in 2019.
And the accolades keep rolling in: Don’t Stop Me Eatin’ is LadBaby’s biggest Number 1 yet, out-performing the first-week figures of his previous two chart-toppers.
Celebrating the news, LadBaby told OfficialCharts.com: “From the bottom of our hearts, we just want to say thank you again to everybody. We can’t believe that, a third year on, we’ve had so much support yet again. We’re trying to raise money for an amazing cause, so thank you.
"Merry Christmas to everyone and don’t stop believin’ – that things are going to get better. 2021 is going to be better for everyone.”
Watch our full Christmas Number 1 interview with LadBaby - including whether he will go for the festive crown again next year - below:
Martin Talbot, chief executive, Official Charts Company, added: "LadBaby’s achievement in matching the records of The Beatles and Spice Girls, not to mention the staggering sales and money raised, is nothing short of incredible – and it is great to have a national treasure like Sir Paul McCartney on top of the Official Albums Chart at Christmas, after a gap of more than 30 years. The two successes are a perfect summary of all that is special about the UK’s Official Charts.”
LadBaby holds off challenges from festive classics All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey (2), and Last Christmas by Wham! (3), while Jess Glynne's rendition of Donny Hathaway's This Christmas - newly recorded for 2020 – climbs five places to a new peak at Number 4.
Meanwhile, a late challenge for the coveted top spot from cult Essex punk act The K**ts – an expletive-laden protest track about the prime minister titled Boris Johnson is a F**king C**t – manages to gatecrash all the way to Number 5.
Justin Bieber lands three entries in the Official Christmas Chart: his cover of Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (8), Mistletoe (29) and a new version of his hit song Holy with the Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir finishes just outside the Top 40 at 41.
Liam Gallagher’s new winter-warmer single All You’re Dreaming Of re-enters the Top 40 at Number 24 following its release on vinyl this week. Money raised from the song goes to charity Action For Children. Further down, Ed Sheeran’s surprise ‘fan track’ Afterglow debuts at Number 30.
Elsewhere, a total of 26 festive favourites feature in this week’s Christmas Top 40, including The Pogues’ Fairytale Of New York ft. Kirsty MacColl (6), Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone (7), Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas (9), and Elton John’s Step Into Christmas (10).
Time will tell, who is going to be the christmas week and #1 for this year check it out! 1st Jan 2021, as the data is the christmas week sales & units with Download, brought paid songs and streams of the festive season from 25th December to 31st Dec. Remember last week was the run up to Christmas
BleeUK
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1st Jan 2021 we find out of the christmas Weeks charts & Christmas #1 data, could Ladbaby hold on! for the first time ever as they never got it before during christmas, and get that festive effect officially, or maybe a classic christmas song like Mariah, Wham, or the new one from Ed Sheeran. time will tell you got till 31st December by 23:59 to download, buy and stream your tune as the sales/units is from 25th to 31st December.
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Funny how the other charts put the Kunts at #2 on Xmas eve and now they're number 5? Not remotely suspicious at all.
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Three Christmas No.1s in a row? Don't even THINK of naming this awful lot in the same breath as The Beatles or The Spice Girls. They had talent. The excuse of "raising money for charity" is all very noble but it has degraded the UK Christmas Number One tradition. Mariah Carey DESERVED the top spot. At least it's a song about Christmas, not bloody-boring-sausage-rolls again!!! [LADBABY: Learn when an idea/joke is NO LONGER FUNNY.]
BleeUK
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The only Reasons why Ladbaby got top this year again, its a charity song & got promo the most (which is great what they do for charity by the way) & Classic Christmas Songs/Classic hits was hit by ACR over christmas charts and like normal times since 2016. which means over half of all total units for classic was knocked off units, as classic hits had had bucket loads of streaming millions than Ladbaby had by a clear mile as christmas charts focus on download/sales spec over high streaming points.
JoeNak
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LadBaby should release 3 minutes of silence next year. It would be a charity for my ears.
DamionThorn
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/facepalm
I look forward to stupidity not taking over the coveted spot next year after three truly WTF Christmas #1s.
julesin09
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Lazy crap charity songs are one thing; repeating said lazy crap charity song year after year really is taking the p**s.
misterber
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Agree. The sentiment behind the song is commendable, but this is like when the X-Factor used to perfectly time their final show so the winner would always get the Xmas No. 1. Enough already. Oh well, the people have spoken.
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12 Songs with Christmas in the title. 2 more with Xmas 1 more with Christmastime
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The 10th (and 11th) people to be Christmas #1 3 years running: 4 Beatles (1964-66) Cliff Richard (1988-90) 4 Spice Girls (1996-98)
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Aaron Webb
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Cliff Richards hasn't had 3 no.1s in a row though. Being a part of Band Aid in 84 and claiming that counts is like saying Ronan Keating has a Christmas No.1 because he did a Duet with Ladbaby this year.
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I'm literally counting the individual people to have done it, so it counts. (PS it's Band Aid II in '89 as well, not the 84 original). No solo artist has ever achieved the feat, but only 9 people before to day had. I'm not too up on the credits of the digital era, so can't argue one way or the other on the Ronan Keating issue, or why it would (or would not) be eligible. All I know there is no official credit here, which doesn't mean a lot considering the amount of artist crediting errors there are on the website of the digital era single. Physical records are easy to check the official credits of - by simply looking at the record!
Yolanda Merkel
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Yawn. The schtick is getting really stale. I would've preferred the song about Boris to hit #1. Perhaps it was and the Official Charts fudged the numbers, as they did a million years ago with "God Save the Queen."
Kevzee
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That's the bbc for ya. didn't want to upset there best mate Boris
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Marcus Holmes
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Yeah they were at #2 for a while and apparently dropped to #5 despite all odds saying otherwise.
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New peak for Kylie !!!!
Nomine Patris
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The absolute social decadence in a chart
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PN
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Top 10 EOY songs: 1. Blinding Lights 2. Dance Monkey 3. Roses 4. Before You Go 5. Don't Start Now 6. Rockstar 7. Head + Heart 8. Someone You Loved 9. Own It 10. Watermelon Sugar
Capaldi has two songs in the top 10, despite not really doing much this year! I find that insane. And how is Watermelon Sugar in the top 10? I know it stuck around for a while, but it didn't stay around in the top area of the chart for too long (at least as far as I can remember)
Piran
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I guess the only surprise here is 'The Box' not making the Top 10! :O
The song soured on me a lot throughout the year unfortunately, but I still thought it would be here.
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PN
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I thought it would too, but it didn't stick around for too long, which is probably why it isn't in the top 10. Not the best song of 2020, I agree :)
Piran
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I'm so chuffed that 'Blinding Lights' is #1 though & that 'Head & Heart' also managed to sneak into the Top 10 just in time! :D
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PN
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It also shows how much longevity plays a very important factor in deciding the EOY charts - look at Dance Monkey and Someone You Loved. You don't need to be near number 1 to be in the top 10 of the EOY charts. Blinding Lights was always going to be number 1, and I don't find many people complaining about it, definitely including myself!
Piran
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It also shows yet another reason why ACR & the three songs per artist rules should go! They don't count in the Chart Of The Year, so why should they count in any weekly chart? Even in 2017, Ed Sheeran got a ton of songs in the Top 100 for that year, so you might as well make that consistent with the rules on every chart! :P
'Blinding Lights' sounds like it could've been a big hit even it was released in the 80's, which is honestly something I can't say about many #1 songs of the year in recent times, haha.
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It shows a sad state of affairs singles wise when nearly half of 2020s best selling songs were released in 2019.
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PN
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To be honest, does anyone even care about LadBaby being number 1? I don't.
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Me neither even though I haven't heard it or streamed it. I wanted to stream AIWFCIY every day hoping it would stay on No.1 this week but it didn't but it could reclaim the top spot next week hopefully. Hopefully a different artist will have a Christmas No.1 next year. To be fair, I feel like next year's Christmas No.1 will not be LadBaby as I think that their 3rd Christmas No.1 this year is the last Christmas No.1. I think that is fair because by the time next year comes more people will stop listening to LadBaby because they are not really well known but they cover iconic songs but doesn't by them using the words 'sausage rolls' which is ridiculous and they are not even household names because they only release charity singles. Overall, I am happy for them, I don't think that their singles are my cup of tea. Well I am sure that another artist will beat LadBaby in the next Christmas No.1 battle. What do you guys think about my opinion?
Piran
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Top 10 without Christmas songs...
#1: Positions #2: Sweet Melody #3: Whoopty #4: 34+35 #5: Afterglow #6: Without You #7: Prisoner #8: Midnight Sky #9: Willow #10: Get Out My Head
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PN
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Positions still at number 1... Hopefully should change next week; I think it's between Ari, Ed Sheeran, Little Mix and maybe (stressed) Blinding Lights - I know, a radical claim, but still
Piran
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Merry Christmas PN! :D
'Positions' is probably heading for ACR next week, so I think it's looking like it'll be Ed Sheeran for now, although Little Mix & CJ are still contenders too.
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Merry Christmas to you too, Piran! Didn't know that Positions was heading for ACR, but still. And I forgot about CJ - not the biggest fan of that song, to be honest :)
Piran
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I don't like 'Whoopty' either, but I get the feeling that it'll be #1 on Spotify by the start of next week, whether we like it or not! :P
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I wonder what’ll happen next week. I see Positions, Sweet Melody or maybe Whoopity being on ACR.
But if it survives, it’ll take it, and if not it’s either Afterglow or ideally 34+35.
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I think 'Positions' & maybe 'Sweet Melody' will be on ACR, so looking at how it's doing on Spotify right now outside of all the Christmas songs, I think that 'Whoopty' could potentially be #1 next week. :/
Andrew_Robinson
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You've developed the same strange blindness that the BBC are suffering from.
Piran
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Umm... how exactly?
Andrew_Robinson
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Number 5 was released in July and makes no reference to Christmas whatsoever.
Piran
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It doesn't matter when it was released! It only made the charts because of the Christmas #1 campaign & how much more renowned this chart is compared to the rest of the year.
It was any other time of year, this song probably wouldn't have even charted at all, let alone in the Top 5! :P
Andrew_Robinson
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Don't be ridiculous. It's not a Christmas song.
Piran
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I've already justified on multiple pages why I didn't include it in the list! 🙄
I highly doubt this song would've been here at all if Boris didn't announce Tier 4 so close to Christmas.
Andrew_Robinson
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No, you haven't justified it at all.
Piran
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Because. It. Was. A. Christmas. Number. One. Campaign. :/
If it wasn’t, it would’ve already charted by now!
You said it was released in July, then why did we only hear about it in the days building up to Christmas Day?
In fact, I’ll tell you why... because The Kunts wanted it to be #1 on that chart due to its importance & I’m fairly sure that they didn’t care about getting to the top spot in any other week.
Andrew_Robinson
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That doesn't make it a "Christmas song". By your twisted logic "Afterglow" would also be excluded.
Piran
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That still doesn't change the fact that it's only charting because of Christmas!
If you think back to 'Killing In The Name' by Rage Against The Machine, it was released as hard rock song back in 1991, but it saw its biggest wave of success in December 2009! That reason was because of the Christmas charts & there's no way it would've just randomly reappeared at #1 18 years later for any other reason.
The point of my original post was to show what the chart would've looked like if it wasn't for the festive period that we're currently in, so it's kind of interesting that you call me out for leaving 'BJIAFC' off the list, but you say absolutely nothing about 'Don't Stop Me Eatin'!
Regarding 'Afterglow', Ed's only said that it's a one-off single for his fans, so that would've become a hit no matter when in the year it was released! It's Ed Sheeran, for goodness sake.
Even putting all that aside, maybe this is an ambiguous one like 'Stay Another Day' was for East 17 & whether or not it fits into the discussion of "Christmas" music, but at least I'm trying to keep this a civil & respectful debate, rather than mindlessly trolling through downvoting every reply & making accusations of "twisted logic" among those who disagree with you (false ones, at that!).
If anything, it just proves to me that you can't take other people's opinions if they're not the same as yours. :)
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omg! don't talk about Rage Against The Machine VS X factor you know who was true christmas week sales at the Top, on 27th December that year It Was Joe all the way, with the climb from #2 to #1 as that data sales was 20-26th Dec,as Rage was the weeks before (Broadcast On 20th December) like a pre-christmas or run up to christmas as Killing in hte name was top for one week from 13-18th December that many days before christmas. Radio 1 charts is so misleading for christmas charts, as it sticking to the week ending advanced charts like billboard systems in the states, adding 6 days ahead from broadcast calendars than list of dates of what your brought in that week.
Piran
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'Killing In The Name' was kind of a one-off though!
I kind of agree with you that the dates of the chart should be changed! The current chart is based on the most popular songs from the 18th to the 24th of December, so it should be listed under time period (rather than the 25th December to the 31st of December, as that's the tracking week that we're in currently).
Billboard is a much weirder case, on the other hand, since their charts also include a different tracking week for airplay (Monday to Monday), which is separate from sales & streaming (Friday to Friday!). :P
BleeUK
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I agree, but I do think its misleading the christmas charts for radio 1 and UK music industry as the charts they do is the run up to christmas and the data from sales and units should include christmas day at least (mainly the christmas week) (so the following weeks from radio 1 christmas charts is more true), and that year it was X Factor between 20- 26th December (for 27th December) on week ending it was Rage but not the sales that matter. so in my book X Factor Won! strange to think Ireland #1 was the climb at their christmas.
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This year's Christmas chart was weird though, since both 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' & 'Don't Stop Me Eatin' were both #1 on the 25th, so you could almost say that we had two "Christmas #1's" this year, haha. :)
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Mariah would of won it by a landslide as ladbaby didn't have the huge streaming numbers and did not enter the Top 200 Spotify, as Mariah done 2.4 million plays on spotify in UK at christmas day alone (That is a landslide Number right there) Ladbaby was nowhere to be seen in the Top 200 and was way below 100k plays, also the run up to christmas data ladbaby were boosted by huge download specs (18-24th Dec) yes your right it was #1 on I Tunes on 25th December, but i have to point out radio 1 uses ACR systems on classic songs like Mariah as it a classic so remember all units is cut by over half (ACR) so Mariah would of been christmas #1 for radio 1 last week but slip to #2 for that reason,
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It’s a fantastic charity, however it makes the Christmas chart boring as they’ll always get number one.
Joshua Sombra
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I think that this is their last No.1 single and even Christmas No.1 single.
Joshua Sombra
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I feel like it will probably drop off the charts next as through the years for example in 2018 their 'We Built This City' it charted for three weeks then in 2019 they released the song 'I Love Sausage Rolls' which only charted for two weeks so I think you can clearly see that their celebration of the song being No.1 will be very short lived.
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Dr. A.W.K. Ward
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He said that last year...
.. and lied. Ladbaby will be back around the 15th of December 2021 with a version of Oasises '(Sausage) Roll With It'. I'll bet the life of me budgie on it !
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Dr. A.W.K. Ward
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Spot on Josh ! #64 midweek. Could be the first UK #1 to drop from the top 100 after 1 week., which makes a mockery of the song in chart terms.
Piran
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'Holy' isn't even in the Top 40 now?! That's so disappointing.
To all the NHS workers out there, you're all absolutely amazing for what you do for our country! ❤️ 🌈 🇬🇧
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https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/88d843988cff4cb77449947920100940a4132d508c238f2be4c210ea9c29754b.jpg ladbaby number 1 again
Piran
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Honestly, I don't even care that this is #1, all the money that's been raised for the Trussell Trust food bank is the biggest victory here. :)
Yeah, the song might not be my cup of tea, but we really needed a charity song to top the charts this Christmas, so congratulations to LadBaby, I guess!
Yolanda Merkel
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Lol, you are such a nice guy that even you're throwing shade it comes across as a compliment 😁
Piran
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Thanks... I guess! :D
Honestly, if I look at 'Don't Stop Me Eatin' for its cause, it's an easy 10/10... but as a song? Hmm... not on the same level for me personally, haha.
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Paulius Tumosa
very sad
BleeUK
Time will tell, who is going to be the christmas week and #1 for this year check it out! 1st Jan 2021, as the data is the christmas week sales & units with Download, brought paid songs and streams of the festive season from 25th December to 31st Dec. Remember last week was the run up to Christmas
BleeUK
1st Jan 2021 we find out of the christmas Weeks charts & Christmas #1 data, could Ladbaby hold on! for the first time ever as they never got it before during christmas, and get that festive effect officially, or maybe a classic christmas song like Mariah, Wham, or the new one from Ed Sheeran. time will tell you got till 31st December by
23:59 to download, buy and stream your tune as the sales/units is from 25th to 31st December.
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Marcus Holmes
Funny how the other charts put the Kunts at #2 on Xmas eve and now they're number 5? Not remotely suspicious at all.
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Ken Smith
Three Christmas No.1s in a row?
Don't even THINK of naming this awful lot in the same breath as The Beatles or The Spice Girls.
They had talent. The excuse of "raising money for charity" is all very noble but it has degraded the UK Christmas Number One tradition.
Mariah Carey DESERVED the top spot. At least it's a song about Christmas, not bloody-boring-sausage-rolls again!!! [LADBABY: Learn when an idea/joke is NO LONGER FUNNY.]
BleeUK
The only Reasons why Ladbaby got top this year again, its a charity song & got promo the most (which is great what they do for charity by the way) & Classic Christmas Songs/Classic hits was hit by ACR over christmas charts and like normal times since 2016. which means over half of all total units for classic was knocked off units, as classic hits had had bucket loads of streaming millions than Ladbaby had by a clear mile as christmas charts focus on download/sales spec over high streaming points.
JoeNak
LadBaby should release 3 minutes of silence next year. It would be a charity for my ears.
DamionThorn
/facepalm
I look forward to stupidity not taking over the coveted spot next year after three truly WTF Christmas #1s.
julesin09
Lazy crap charity songs are one thing; repeating said lazy crap charity song year after year really is taking the p**s.
misterber
Agree. The sentiment behind the song is commendable, but this is like when the X-Factor used to perfectly time their final show so the winner would always get the Xmas No. 1. Enough already. Oh well, the people have spoken.
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12 Songs with Christmas in the title.
2 more with Xmas
1 more with Christmastime
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The 10th (and 11th) people to be Christmas #1 3 years running:
4 Beatles (1964-66)
Cliff Richard (1988-90)
4 Spice Girls (1996-98)
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Aaron Webb
Cliff Richards hasn't had 3 no.1s in a row though. Being a part of Band Aid in 84 and claiming that counts is like saying Ronan Keating has a Christmas No.1 because he did a Duet with Ladbaby this year.
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I'm literally counting the individual people to have done it, so it counts. (PS it's Band Aid II in '89 as well, not the 84 original). No solo artist has ever achieved the feat, but only 9 people before to day had.
I'm not too up on the credits of the digital era, so can't argue one way or the other on the Ronan Keating issue, or why it would (or would not) be eligible. All I know there is no official credit here, which doesn't mean a lot considering the amount of artist crediting errors there are on the website of the digital era single.
Physical records are easy to check the official credits of - by simply looking at the record!
Yolanda Merkel
Yawn. The schtick is getting really stale.
I would've preferred the song about Boris to hit #1. Perhaps it was and the Official Charts fudged the numbers, as they did a million years ago with "God Save the Queen."
Kevzee
That's the bbc for ya. didn't want to upset there best mate Boris
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Marcus Holmes
Yeah they were at #2 for a while and apparently dropped to #5 despite all odds saying otherwise.
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New peak for Kylie !!!!
Nomine Patris
The absolute social decadence in a chart
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Top 10 EOY songs:
1. Blinding Lights
2. Dance Monkey
3. Roses
4. Before You Go
5. Don't Start Now
6. Rockstar
7. Head + Heart
8. Someone You Loved
9. Own It
10. Watermelon Sugar
Capaldi has two songs in the top 10, despite not really doing much this year! I find that insane. And how is Watermelon Sugar in the top 10? I know it stuck around for a while, but it didn't stay around in the top area of the chart for too long (at least as far as I can remember)
Piran
I guess the only surprise here is 'The Box' not making the Top 10! :O
The song soured on me a lot throughout the year unfortunately, but I still thought it would be here.
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PN
I thought it would too, but it didn't stick around for too long, which is probably why it isn't in the top 10.
Not the best song of 2020, I agree :)
Piran
I'm so chuffed that 'Blinding Lights' is #1 though & that 'Head & Heart' also managed to sneak into the Top 10 just in time! :D
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It also shows how much longevity plays a very important factor in deciding the EOY charts - look at Dance Monkey and Someone You Loved. You don't need to be near number 1 to be in the top 10 of the EOY charts.
Blinding Lights was always going to be number 1, and I don't find many people complaining about it, definitely including myself!
Piran
It also shows yet another reason why ACR & the three songs per artist rules should go! They don't count in the Chart Of The Year, so why should they count in any weekly chart? Even in 2017, Ed Sheeran got a ton of songs in the Top 100 for that year, so you might as well make that consistent with the rules on every chart! :P
'Blinding Lights' sounds like it could've been a big hit even it was released in the 80's, which is honestly something I can't say about many #1 songs of the year in recent times, haha.
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Dr. A.W.K. Ward
It shows a sad state of affairs singles wise when nearly half of 2020s best selling songs were released in 2019.
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To be honest, does anyone even care about LadBaby being number 1? I don't.
Joshua Sombra
Me neither even though I haven't heard it or streamed it. I wanted to stream AIWFCIY every day hoping it would stay on No.1 this week but it didn't but it could reclaim the top spot next week hopefully. Hopefully a different artist will have a Christmas No.1 next year. To be fair, I feel like next year's Christmas No.1 will not be LadBaby as I think that their 3rd Christmas No.1 this year is the last Christmas No.1. I think that is fair because by the time next year comes more people will stop listening to LadBaby because they are not really well known but they cover iconic songs but doesn't by them using the words 'sausage rolls' which is ridiculous and they are not even household names because they only release charity singles. Overall, I am happy for them, I don't think that their singles are my cup of tea. Well I am sure that another artist will beat LadBaby in the next Christmas No.1 battle. What do you guys think about my opinion?
Piran
Top 10 without Christmas songs...
#1: Positions
#2: Sweet Melody
#3: Whoopty
#4: 34+35
#5: Afterglow
#6: Without You
#7: Prisoner
#8: Midnight Sky
#9: Willow
#10: Get Out My Head
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PN
Positions still at number 1...
Hopefully should change next week; I think it's between Ari, Ed Sheeran, Little Mix and maybe (stressed) Blinding Lights - I know, a radical claim, but still
Piran
Merry Christmas PN! :D
'Positions' is probably heading for ACR next week, so I think it's looking like it'll be Ed Sheeran for now, although Little Mix & CJ are still contenders too.
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PN
Merry Christmas to you too, Piran!
Didn't know that Positions was heading for ACR, but still. And I forgot about CJ - not the biggest fan of that song, to be honest :)
Piran
I don't like 'Whoopty' either, but I get the feeling that it'll be #1 on Spotify by the start of next week, whether we like it or not! :P
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I wonder what’ll happen next week. I see Positions, Sweet Melody or maybe Whoopity being on ACR.
But if it survives, it’ll take it, and if not it’s either Afterglow or ideally 34+35.
Piran
I think 'Positions' & maybe 'Sweet Melody' will be on ACR, so looking at how it's doing on Spotify right now outside of all the Christmas songs, I think that 'Whoopty' could potentially be #1 next week. :/
Andrew_Robinson
You've developed the same strange blindness that the BBC are suffering from.
Piran
Umm... how exactly?
Andrew_Robinson
Number 5 was released in July and makes no reference to Christmas whatsoever.
Piran
It doesn't matter when it was released! It only made the charts because of the Christmas #1 campaign & how much more renowned this chart is compared to the rest of the year.
It was any other time of year, this song probably wouldn't have even charted at all, let alone in the Top 5! :P
Andrew_Robinson
Don't be ridiculous. It's not a Christmas song.
Piran
I've already justified on multiple pages why I didn't include it in the list! 🙄
I highly doubt this song would've been here at all if Boris didn't announce Tier 4 so close to Christmas.
Andrew_Robinson
No, you haven't justified it at all.
Piran
Because. It. Was. A. Christmas. Number. One. Campaign. :/
If it wasn’t, it would’ve already charted by now!
You said it was released in July, then why did we only hear about it in the days building up to Christmas Day?
In fact, I’ll tell you why... because The Kunts wanted it to be #1 on that chart due to its importance & I’m fairly sure that they didn’t care about getting to the top spot in any other week.
Andrew_Robinson
That doesn't make it a "Christmas song". By your twisted logic "Afterglow" would also be excluded.
Piran
That still doesn't change the fact that it's only charting because of Christmas!
If you think back to 'Killing In The Name' by Rage Against The Machine, it was released as hard rock song back in 1991, but it saw its biggest wave of success in December 2009! That reason was because of the Christmas charts & there's no way it would've just randomly reappeared at #1 18 years later for any other reason.
The point of my original post was to show what the chart would've looked like if it wasn't for the festive period that we're currently in, so it's kind of interesting that you call me out for leaving 'BJIAFC' off the list, but you say absolutely nothing about 'Don't Stop Me Eatin'!
Regarding 'Afterglow', Ed's only said that it's a one-off single for his fans, so that would've become a hit no matter when in the year it was released! It's Ed Sheeran, for goodness sake.
Even putting all that aside, maybe this is an ambiguous one like 'Stay Another Day' was for East 17 & whether or not it fits into the discussion of "Christmas" music, but at least I'm trying to keep this a civil & respectful debate, rather than mindlessly trolling through downvoting every reply & making accusations of "twisted logic" among those who disagree with you (false ones, at that!).
If anything, it just proves to me that you can't take other people's opinions if they're not the same as yours. :)
BleeUK
omg! don't talk about Rage Against The Machine VS X factor you know who was true christmas week sales at the Top, on 27th December that year It Was Joe all the way, with the climb from #2 to #1 as that data sales was 20-26th Dec,as Rage was the weeks before (Broadcast On 20th December) like a pre-christmas or run up to christmas as Killing in hte name was top for one week from 13-18th December that many days before christmas. Radio 1 charts is so misleading for christmas charts, as it sticking to the week ending advanced charts like billboard systems in the states, adding 6 days ahead from broadcast calendars than list of dates of what your brought in that week.
Piran
'Killing In The Name' was kind of a one-off though!
I kind of agree with you that the dates of the chart should be changed! The current chart is based on the most popular songs from the 18th to the 24th of December, so it should be listed under time period (rather than the 25th December to the 31st of December, as that's the tracking week that we're in currently).
Billboard is a much weirder case, on the other hand, since their charts also include a different tracking week for airplay (Monday to Monday), which is separate from sales & streaming (Friday to Friday!). :P
BleeUK
I agree, but I do think its misleading the christmas charts for radio 1 and UK music industry as the charts they do is the run up to christmas and the data from sales and units should include christmas day at least (mainly the christmas week) (so the following weeks from radio 1 christmas charts is more true), and that year it was X Factor between 20- 26th December (for 27th December) on week ending it was Rage but not the sales that matter. so in my book X Factor Won! strange to think Ireland #1 was the climb at their christmas.
Piran
This year's Christmas chart was weird though, since both 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' & 'Don't Stop Me Eatin' were both #1 on the 25th, so you could almost say that we had two "Christmas #1's" this year, haha. :)
BleeUK
Mariah would of won it by a landslide as ladbaby didn't have the huge streaming numbers and did not enter the Top 200 Spotify, as Mariah done 2.4 million plays on spotify in UK at christmas day alone (That is a landslide Number right there) Ladbaby was nowhere to be seen in the Top 200 and was way below 100k plays, also the run up to christmas data ladbaby were boosted by huge download specs (18-24th Dec) yes your right it was #1 on I Tunes on 25th December, but i have to point out radio 1 uses ACR systems on classic songs like Mariah as it a classic so remember all units is cut by over half (ACR) so Mariah would of been christmas #1 for radio 1 last week but slip to #2 for that reason,
Mark Willmott
It’s a fantastic charity, however it makes the Christmas chart boring as they’ll always get number one.
Joshua Sombra
I think that this is their last No.1 single and even Christmas No.1 single.
Joshua Sombra
I feel like it will probably drop off the charts next as through the years for example in 2018 their 'We Built This City' it charted for three weeks then in 2019 they released the song 'I Love Sausage Rolls' which only charted for two weeks so I think you can clearly see that their celebration of the song being No.1 will be very short lived.
DAW
Dr. A.W.K. Ward
He said that last year...
.. and lied.
Ladbaby will be back around the 15th of December 2021 with a version of Oasises '(Sausage) Roll With It'. I'll bet the life of me budgie on it !
DAW
Dr. A.W.K. Ward
Spot on Josh ! #64 midweek. Could be the first UK #1 to drop from the top 100 after 1 week., which makes a mockery of the song in chart terms.
Piran
'Holy' isn't even in the Top 40 now?! That's so disappointing.
To all the NHS workers out there, you're all absolutely amazing for what you do for our country! ❤️ 🌈 🇬🇧
O2
Obama 2
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ladbaby number 1 again
Piran
Honestly, I don't even care that this is #1, all the money that's been raised for the Trussell Trust food bank is the biggest victory here. :)
Yeah, the song might not be my cup of tea, but we really needed a charity song to top the charts this Christmas, so congratulations to LadBaby, I guess!
Yolanda Merkel
Lol, you are such a nice guy that even you're throwing shade it comes across as a compliment 😁
Piran
Thanks... I guess! :D
Honestly, if I look at 'Don't Stop Me Eatin' for its cause, it's an easy 10/10... but as a song? Hmm... not on the same level for me personally, haha.