This year’s Christmas number one single will be unwrapped on Friday, with a mixture of old favourites, new efforts and wild cards all in the running. Last year, Wham!’s classic Last Christmas topped the yuletide singles chart, remarkably for the first time since its release in 1984, when the original Band Aid release kept it off the number one spot. As is tradition, the festive number one will be announced on BBC Radio 1’s chart show from 16:00 GMT on the Friday before Christmas. At the time of writing, a stocking full of artists – naughty and nice – are hoping to top the list. They’re joined by new festive tunes by Tom Grennan, while songs by Ariana Grande, Kelly Clarkson, Gracie Abrams, Rose, and Bruno Mars have established themselves as returning Christmas classics. Or the chart crown could go to something non-Christmas – like recent hits by Lola Young. There was a long period when the Christmas number one was reserved for the latest X Factor winner – seven times between 2005-14 – or novelty charity-fundraising sausage-roll enthusiast LadBaby, a five-time victor between 2018-22.
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