Official Charts and Nine Eight Books launch poll to find the UK’s favourite Official Christmas Number 1 of all time

There are some songs that feel like they have been around forever. Much can be said about the handful of Christmas standards that have become as commonplace in British life as turkey, tinsel and re-purposing your kitchen towel as the costume of a Wise Man in the Nativity.

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.

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.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentThe first Oscars for documentary were in 1941: special awards to Rey Scott for “Kukan” (described as “a film record of China’s struggles”) and to the British Ministry of Information for “Target for Tonight” (about the Royal Air Force). Docus became a category in 1943 and for many years, a documentary was the broccoli of the film world: Good for you, but no fun.Things have changed, thanks to many greats who combined storytelling with urgency and heart.

The Modern Music Masters book series has launched its seventh title: Paul Weller - The Solo Years.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Tapping a widely successful genre, Sony Pictures Int’l Productions (SPIP) is producing the musical romantic comedy “Voy a pasarmelo bien” (“I’m Going to Have A Good Time”) in association with transatlantic production powerhouse, El Estudio and Spanish pop rock band Hombres G.The film is inspired by the music of the iconic band which rose to prominence in the ‘80s with their Beatles and British new wave-influenced music.Based in Madrid, Hombres G is formed by David

Westlife are one of the most successful groups of all time in the UK, holding fourteen Number 1 singles in the UK: a number only surpassed by The Beatles and Elvis Presley.

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.