Christmas Number 1 2021: The contenders revealed

The Queen has "regretfully" decided to cancel the Royal Family's annual pre-Christmas party and lunch as Omicron fears continue to grow. As cases continue to surge in the UK, Her Majesty reportedly feels that the “risk” is too high on the rest of the family’s plans over the Christmas period.

It’s been a trying, exhausting, and turbulent year all round. With just days until Christmas, the Omicron variant has firmly taken its grip across the UK – leaving many of us fearing for our health as well as wondering what we’ll be allowed to do.

While December 25 is just around the corner, the prospect of a white Christmas isn’t looking likely. As we organise the last of our Christmas shopping, temperatures are set to soar unseasonably high with the mercury reading higher than Madrid.

The holidays are coming, but they bring some health warnings with them. As much as festive Brits are looking forward to tucking into their Christmas dinner and setting up camp in front of the TV, leading charity Asthma UK has warned that for many, Christmas brings with it health complications.

It may not as highly regarded as a Christmas Number 1 single, but topping the Official Albums Chart at Christmas still carries a hefty amount of cachet.

Elton John and Ed Sheeran‘s new Christmas song is set for a second week at the top of the UK singles charts.The pair’s festive collaboration ‘Merry Christmas’, which came out earlier this month (December 3), hit top spot in the charts last week. Its first week sales saw the song rack up 76,700 chart sales, including 7.6million streams.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, which can only mean one thing – the race for the Official Christmas Number 1 is coming.

You’ve probably been thinking that – having seen all the major competition for the UK Christmas number one spot this year – LadBaby had decided to throw in the towel and not even try to get to the top of the festive singles chart for the fourth year in a row. Well, you are wrong, my friend.

If there's one thing that confirms the festive period has arrived, it's Christmas songs. Each year a host of popular festive tracks take over shops, radio, and venues as December gets underway.

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly continued to entertain the British public with another dig aimed at Boris Johnson.The Prime Minister has been at the centre of great controversy over recent days amid claims of a Christmas Party hosted at Downing Street last year, which he vehemently denies.

It must nearly be Christmas... because Aldi has launched its incredible Pigs In Blanket Footlong Sandwich.

Ed Sheeran and Elton John's Merry Christmas has become the UK's Number 1 Trending Song.

Ed Sheeran and Elton John have dropped the very festive music video for their new single, Merry Christmas.

With The Radfords being one of Britain’s biggest families, it makes sense that their Christmas doesn’t come small. Mum Sue Radford makes sure that her 22 kids have a festive day they won’t forget and that their Morecambe home is full of festive cheer.This year, they’ve kicked off the seasonal fun with a special Elf on the Shelf themed breakfast to celebrate the arrival of the Elf to their home for the first day of December.

Having gone top five in the Christmas singles chart last year with their song ‘Boris Johnson Is A Fucking Cunt’, The Kunts are making another bid for the UK’s festive number one this year.

Ed Sheeran and Elton John have announced the title and release date of their highly anticipated Christmas duet.

The Official Charts, in partnership with Nine Eight Books, is launching a campaign to find out the UK’s favourite Official Christmas Number 1 single of all time.

For the last three years in a row, the UK Christmas number one has been a sausage roll themed parody of a classic song. All of them by Ladbaby, of course, that wasn’t just a weird coincidence.