LadBaby has made chart history by securing the Christmas number one for the fifth consecutive year, surpassing a record set by The Beatles in the 1960s.
Social media star Mark Hoyle and his wife Roxanne, known as LadBaby Mum, took the top spot with their single Food Aid, a reworking of the Band Aid song Do They Know It’s Christmas?
In the run up to Christmas, the song sold over 65,000 units to become the best-selling single of 2022 to date.
Making history: LadBaby has made chart history by securing the Christmas number one for the fifth consecutive year, surpassing a record set by The Beatles in the 1960s.
Featuring a cameo by TV’s favorite financial expert Martin Lewis, the lyrics deal with the cost of living crisis.
Last year, LadBaby equaled the Beatles’ total of four Christmas number ones, earned by the Fab Four non-consecutively in 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1967.
Proceeds from the new single will be split equally between the food bank charity Trussell Trust and the Band Aid Trust.
Wow: Last year, LadBaby equaled the Beatles’ total of four Christmas number ones, earned by the Fab Four non-consecutively in 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1967, but now they’ve broken records.
Celebrations: They said, ‘I can’t believe it. We are number one. The charity has done it five years in a row. How did we do this again?
LadBaby topped the festive chart with food-inspired tracks We Built This City (2018), I Love Sausage Rolls (2019), Don’t Stop Me Eatin’ (2020) and Ed Sheeran and Sir Elton John’s Sausage. Rolls for everyone (2021).
They said, ‘I can’t believe it. We are number one. The charity has done it five years in a row. How have we done this again?
‘We want to thank everyone who has supported us over the last five years. A massive apology to The Beatles, and to all the fans of The Beatles… I’m sorry.
‘Charity wins. Trussell Trust is number one again at Christmas.
Fantastic: Featuring a cameo by TV’s favorite financial expert, Martin Lewis, the lyrics deal with the cost of living crisis.
Competition: LadBaby beat out music heavyweights Stormzy (left) and Cliff Richard (right) to first place
‘Thank you to all the people who have downloaded, all the people who believed in us and brought a little Christmas magic. We love you all. Yes friend.’
In second place were Wham! with Last Christmas, while YouTube group Sidemen took third place with Christmas Drillings with JME, in aid of food poverty charity FareShare.
Mariah Carey followed with All I Want For Christmas Is You at four, with Sheeran and Sir Elton’s Merry Christmas completing the Christmas top five.
Lizzo’s Amazon Music Original version of Stevie Wonder’s Someday At Christmas moved up seven spots to No. 15.
Charity: Proceeds from the new single will be split equally between the food bank charity Trussell Trust and the Band Aid Trust.
Martin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company, said: “It seems like yesterday that LadBaby came out with their first festive campaign four years ago, so it feels a bit surreal to send hearty congratulations on their fifth consecutive official Christmas number one.” .
‘To get a Christmas number one is a huge achievement in itself – doing it five times, in successive years, is unprecedented and downright incredible.
“The success of Mark, Roxanne and their family is more than a chart-topping feat.
“The work they have done to raise the profile and funding for food banks in general and the Trussell Trust in particular has been immense over the last five years, especially at a time that remains so difficult for many people in the UK. “.
On the Holiday Albums chart, Taylor Swift’s Midnights returned to number one after a battle with Sir Cliff Richard, whose Christmas With Cliff gave her her highest chart position since 1993.
The week’s run kicked off at midnight on Friday, December 16 with artists trying to rack up as many buys and streams as possible.
LadBaby was the bookies’ favorite to be crowned number one.
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The British YouTuber promised last week that he would stop making Christmas themes if everyone came together to support food banks.
He told presenters Martin and Kate Garraway: ‘If you want to stop me, donate to food banks all year long. ‘Those baskets you see in supermarkets behind the tills, put food in there and I can go, I can have Christmas off.
‘I wanted last year to be my last and then we had a cost of living crisis and I became an ambassador for the Trussell Trust and found out about the problems.
He added: “I didn’t want to come back, but I have to when I’m making a difference.”
The track proved to be a huge success, achieving over 136,000 chart sales in its first week, according to the Official Charts Company.
Helping hand: The British YouTuber, whose real name is Mark Ian Hoyle, vowed last week to stop making Christmas songs if everyone comes together to support food banks.