List of UK Official Download Chart Christmas number ones
The UK Official Download Chart is a weekly record chart based on sales of music downloads in the United Kingdom; the term "Christmas number ones" refers to the downloads that are at the top of the chart on Christmas Day. Typically, this will refer to the download that was number one on the Sunday before 25 December—when Christmas Day falls on a Sunday itself, the official number one is the one announced on that day's chart. , six different albums and eight different singles have become Christmas number ones. The download chart was first published in 2004. The first single to be Christmas number-one was the "Do They Know It's Christmas" by Band Aid 20, a cover version of the Band Aid track from 20 years earlier. The download charts and overall singles charts have matched the number one and number two songs every year between 2008 and 2010; the two charts also had the same song at number one in 2004 and 2011.
Two winners of British TV series The X Factor have topped the singles download chart at Christmas time: Alexandra Burke and Matt Cardle. This is in contrast to the UK Singles Chart Christmas number ones, where The X Factor contestants reached the top of the chart five times in six years. In 2005 and 2006, the number two songs on the singles charts those years (both of which had finished behind X Factor winners) finished at the top of the download charts.
Number-one singles
Year |
Artist |
Single |
Record label |
Reached |
Weeks at |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2004 |
Band Aid 20 |
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" |
Universal |
4 |
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2005 |
Nizlopi |
"JCB" |
FDM |
3 |
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2006 |
Take That |
"Patience" |
Universal |
6 |
— |
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2007 |
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" |
Sony BMG |
1 |
— |
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2008 |
"Hallelujah" |
Sony BMG |
3 |
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2009 |
Rage Against the Machine |
"[...] in the Name" |
Sony BMG |
2 |
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2010 |
"When We Collide" |
Sony BMG |
2 |
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2011 |
Military Wives with Gareth Malone |
"Wherever You Are" |
Universal |
1 |
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2012 |
"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" |
Metropolis |
1 |
Number-one albums
Year |
Artist |
Album |
Record label |
Reached |
Weeks at |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2006 |
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2007 |
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2008 |
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2009 |
Rage Against the Machine |
Rage Against the Machine |
Sony BMG |
1 |
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2010 |
Rihanna |
Loud |
Universal |
4 |
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2011 |
Christmas |
Warner |
2 |
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2012 |
Various artists |
Now That's What I Call Christmas! |
EMI/Universal |
4 |
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See also
- List of artists who have had number one singles on the UK Official Download Chart
- List of best-selling music downloads in the United Kingdom
- List of Christmas hit singles (UK)
- List of UK Albums Chart Christmas number ones
- List of UK Official Download Chart number-one albums
- List of UK Official Download Chart number-one singles
- List of UK Singles Chart Christmas number ones
External links
- Album Download Chart at the Official Charts Company
- Singles Download Chart at the Official Charts Company