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16.12.2022 - 16:19 / completemusicupdate.com
It’s the penultimate Friday before Christmas and I think we all know what that means. It means that the race to Christmas number one has begun.
Since one minute past midnight this morning, every one of your streams and downloads has been nudging your favourite artists towards the most coveted chart position of the year, which we all definitely still care about.Well, in theory every stream and download counts towards the big Christmas chart. Except where it’s a stream or download of a track that for some tedious chart rule reason isn’t eligible.
Plus, of course, for most of the artists you’re streaming, the Christmas number one spot is well out of reach. If the artist isn’t actively trying to get there – or doesn’t even have a perennial festive favourite in their oeuvre – there’s basically no hope that they’ll get the Christmas Day number one honour this year.So who is the running? That’s the big question, isn’t it? Well, worry not, I’m here to help.
We’ve looked at the contenders and have picked out the ten we think are most likely to make it to the top of the chart next Friday, making them the number one single on Christmas Day 2022, before they crash out of the top 40 again the following week, as is the tradition.When we first started planning this round up, there was still a chance that England might get to the final of the men’s football World Cup. There are various wintery football songs that would have been in the running for the top of the chart had the team made it to this weekend’s final game – even more so if they had won it.
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LadBaby have made chart history by securing the Christmas number one for a fifth consecutive year - surpassing a record set by The Beatles in the 1960s.
LadBaby’s latest charity single is this year’s UK Christmas number one, meaning the YouTubers have now occupied the festive top spot for five years running. And they’ve also scored more Christmas number ones than any other artist, breaking a record previously held by The Beatles, who topped the festive chart in 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1967.This year LadBaby – aka Mark and Roxanne Hoyle – joined up with money-saving expert Martin Lewis to release a cover of Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ As with their previous releases, food bank charity The Trussell Trust is a beneficiary of the charity record, though this year the Band Aid Trust will also get some of the money generated by the release.Commenting on their latest chart achievement, Mark Doyle says: “I can’t quite believe it! We’re number one! The charity has made it five years in a row.
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LadBaby take early lead with Food Aid in the race for the most important Number 1 of the year – the coveted Official Christmas Number 1 2022, the Official Charts Company can confirm, but early data shows they’re in for a tussle.
Christmas, for some, can be a very lonely time of year. That's not talked about enough. But it seems that for droves of people up and down the country, they've found solace and acceptance in one song in particular - Raye's bold and bracing Escapism., which has quickly become the most unlikely contender for the coveted Official Christmas Number 1 in years.
The king – or at least duke – of Christmas, Michael Bublé, has backed Lewis Capaldi in the race for this year’s UK Christmas number one. Despite Capaldi’s latest track being in no way Chrismassy. This follows Capaldi saying that he has a “gripe to grind with Mr Bublé”, as his new single, ‘Pointless’, is getting “hammered in the charts by Christmas songs”.Capaldi made his jokey comments last week while filming his ‘BBC Radio 2 In Concert’ show, which will air on Radio 2 tonight, as well as being watchable on the BBC’s iPlayer.“No one told me that it was probably a bad idea to release a song at Christmas – a song that has no reference to Christmas”, he told the audience at the BBC Radio Theatre.
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