It used to be an open contest, then Cliff Richard started to dominate things in the late 80s and 90s, then the Spice Girls had a turn. These days there is something of an X-Factor monopoly on Christmas number ones (apart from the one year when we all rebelled and put Rage Against The Machine up to number one at Christmas - Facebook power!)
Christmas 2010 and it was the X-Factor again beating everyone else to the number one spot, with Matt Cardle's "When We Collide".
Here's a list of all the Christmas No 1 songs from the last few decades!
Christmas Number 1 Hits of the Past
Noughties Christmas Number Ones:
- 2009 - Rage Against the Machine "Killing in the Name"
- 2008 - Alexandra Burke "Hallelujah"
- 2007 - Leon Jackson "When You Believe"
- 2006 - Leona Lewis "A Moment Like This"
- 2005 - Shayne Ward "That's My Goal"
- 2004 - Band Aid 20 "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
- 2003 - Michael Andrews & Gary Jules "Mad World"
- 2002 - Girls Aloud "Sound of the Underground"
- 2001 - Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman "Somethin' Stupid"
- 2000 - Bob The Builder "Can We Fix It?"
Nineties Christmas Number Ones:
- 1999 - Westlife "I Have A Dream" / "Seasons in the Sun"
- 1998 - Spice Girls "Goodbye"
- 1997 - Spice Girls "Too Much"
- 1996 - Spice Girls "2 Become 1"
- 1995 - Michael Jackson "Earth Song"
- 1994 - East 17 "Stay Another Day"
- 1993 - Mr Blobby "Mr Blobby"
- 1992 - Whitney Houston "I Will Always Love You"
- 1991 - Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody" / "These Are the Days of Our Lives"
- 1990 - Cliff Richard "Saviour's Day"
Eighties Christmas Number Ones:
- 1989 - Band Aid II "Do They Know It's Christmas?
- 1988 - Cliff Richard "Mistletoe and Wine"
- 1987 - Pet Shop Boys "Always on My Mind"
- 1986 - Jackie Wilson "Reet Petite"
- 1985 - Shakin' Stevens "Merry Christmas Everyone"
- 1984 - Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
- 1983 - The Flying Pickets "Only You"
- 1982 - Renée and Renato "Save Your Love"
- 1981 - The Human League "Don't You Want Me"
- 1980 - St Winifred's School Choir "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma"
Seventies Christmas Number Ones:
- 1979 - Pink Floyd "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
- 1978 - Boney M "Mary's Boy Child" / "Oh My Lord"
- 1977 - Wings "Mull of Kintyre"
- 1976 - Johnny Mathis "When A Child Is Born (Soleado)"
- 1975 - Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- 1974 - Mud "Lonely This Christmas"
- 1973 - Slade "Merry Xmas Everybody"
- 1972 - Jimmy Osmond "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool"
- 1971 - Benny Hill "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)"
- 1970 - Dave Edmunds "I Hear You Knocking"
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