Christmas Number 1

In 2007, you guessed it, the X-Factor Winner Leon Jackson took the Christmas Number 1 Spot with When You Believe.

You can view the official video here.

All this in spite of the fact that, fed up with the manufactured xmas number 1 singles, Colin Murray, Scott Mills and Edith Bowman from Radio 1 all publicly backed former Arab Strap star Malcolm Middleton and his song We’re All Going To Die (nme).

We await this years X-Factor announcement, Cliffs new single and the potential alternative Christmas number 1!

In 2006 Leona Lewis of X-Factor fame (see where this is going) hit the number one spot with a cover of A Moment Like This by Kelly Clarkson.

You can view the official video here.

2005 saw Shayne Ward, the first X Factor winner to get to number one at Christmas.

You can view the official video here.

2004 saw Band Aid 20 get to number 1 with an updated version of the 1984 Do They Know It’s Christmas?.

Official video can be viewed here.

2003 saw Michael Andrews & Gary Jules grab the Christmas Number 1 spot with their version of Mad World by Tears for Fears. The track also featured in 2001 cult classic film Donnie Darko.

This sadly meant a narrow miss for the Darkness with Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End).

2002 marks the first year of the demise of the Christmas Number 1 forever where the latest TV manufactured band will take the Christmas crown.

Girls Aloud are a British girl group created by ITV1 talent show Popstars: The Rivals and they took the Christmas Number 1 in 2002 with Sound of the Underground.

The band formed on TV just weeks before the songs release hit Number 1 in the UK charts and Cheryl Cole (nee Tweedy) of the band became a judge in an equivilent X-Factor program in 2008.

2001 saw a return of the more fmilar pop pap (instead of the terrible but funny Bob The Builder of the previous year) that we have become used to in the British pop charts…. Robbie Williams featuring Nicole Kidman – Somethin’ Stupid.

2000’s Christmas Number 1 single was Bob The Builder – Can We Fix it? Pure cheese, but a welcome break from the Spice Girls and Westlife singles that had dominated since 1995.

Can We Fix It was later voted by Channel 4 viewers as one of the 100 worst singles of all-time in 2003.

Check out the official video below: