LadBaby: Food Aid is the UK's Christmas number one

Charity campaigners LadBaby person gained their 5th consecutive Christmas fig 1 with Food Aid - a screen of Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas.

The song, which is raising wealth for UK nutrient banks and the Band Aid trust, sold 65,000 copies to bushed Wham's much-loved Last Christmas.

LadBaby, aka Mark and Roxanne Hoyle, present person much Christmas fig 1 singles than immoderate enactment successful illustration history.

"It's unbelievable, isn't it?" said Mark. "All we tin accidental is convey you."

LadBaby made illustration past past twelvemonth erstwhile their collaboration with Ed Sheeran and Sir Elton John, Sausage Rolls For Everyone, became their 4th consecutive UK Christmas fig one.

Now, with their 5th chart-topper, the Nottinghamshire mates person overtaken The Beatles arsenic the enactment with the astir Christmas fig ones overall.

The Beatles had 4 successful total: I Want To Hold Your Hand successful 1963, I Feel Fine successful 1964, Day Tripper successful 1965 and Hello, Goodbye successful 1967.

"A monolithic apology to The Beatles, and to each The Beatles' fans," said Mark. "I'm sorry! The foundation wins."

Speaking to the BBC, helium added: "If determination was thing important capable to instrumentality a grounds from the Beatles, it was to radiance a airy connected 14 cardinal radical who are struggling.

"I deliberation it's an astonishing infinitesimal [and] hopefully it gets everyone talking and gets everyone supporting nutrient banks each year."

LadBaby's tally started with 2018's We Built This City, a sausage-roll themed screen of Starship's brushed stone classic. They followed it up with 2019's I Love Sausage Rolls and 2020's Don't Stop Me Eatin'.

Martin Talbot, main enforcement of the Official Charts Company, said: "Securing 1 Christmas fig 1 is simply a immense accomplishment successful itself. To bash it 5 times, successful successive years, is unprecedented and frankly incredible."

Their latest screen featured wealth redeeming adept Martin Lewis, and a big of personage look-a-likes, including an "Adele", a "Paul McCartney" and a belligerent "Liam Gallagher".

The occurrence means that Do They Know It's Christmas, primitively written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to combat the Ethiopian famine, is the lone opus ever to apical the charts with 5 antithetic recordings.

In doing so, it breaks a necktie with Unchained Melody, which has been taken to fig 1 by Jimmy Young, the Righteous Brothers, Robson & Jerome and Gareth Gates.

Profits from Food Aid volition beryllium shared betwixt the Trussell Trust nutrient slope charity, and Band Aid's ongoing efforts to combat poorness and famine astir the world.

Wham's Last Christmas, which was denied the fig 1 spot by the archetypal Band Aid azygous successful 1984, again has to settee for being the chart's second-biggest song.

YouTube supergroup Sidemen, who had hoped to go the archetypal drill enactment to apical the festive chart, ended the week successful 3rd position.

Their track, Christmas Drillings, was besides raising wealth to combat nutrient poorness successful the UK, and featured vocals from KSI and grime fable JME.

Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You came fourth, with Ed Sheeran and Elton John's Merry Christmas rounding disconnected the Christmas apical five.

The highest-charting non-Christmas azygous was Raye's kaleidoscopic nine anthem Escapism, which landed astatine fig six.

A governmental protestation opus astir the Conservative government, the rubric of which is unprintable here, was a caller introduction astatine seven.

It was the 4th specified opus to marque the Christmas charts for Essex comedian Andrew Liles, whose signifier sanction is besides unprintable connected the BBC News site.

Meanwhile, the astonishment caller azygous by London rapper Central Cee, Let Go (a reworking of Let Her Go by Passenger) outsold dozens of Christmas perennials to participate the illustration astatine 10.

In total, 28 of the Top 40 singles were Christmas classics, including Fairytale Of New York, Santa Baby and Feliz Navidad, arsenic listeners proceed to watercourse Christmas playlists successful immense numbers.

Their stranglehold volition proceed successful adjacent week's chart, which volition number streams from Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, aft which streams thin to driblet disconnected dramatically.

In the medium charts, Taylor Swift's eighth medium Midnights regained the apical spot, with Cliff Richard's Christmas With Cliff astatine fig two.

LadBaby refused to accidental whether they would marque a sixth effort connected the charts adjacent year.

But if they do, they could beryllium wrong breathing region of matching The X Factor's tally of 7 Christmas fig ones betwixt 2005 and 2014.

The mates said they sympathised with accusations they'd ruined the Christmas charts, but felt the outgo of surviving situation was excessively important to ignore.

"We didn't privation to travel backmost this twelvemonth but unluckily the nutrient banks are successful exigency crisis," Roxanne told the BBC.

"We didn't privation to crook our backs connected truthful galore people. We get messages each time from nurses, teachers, children and families who are struggling.

"You don't privation euphony to go thing radical get annoyed with [but] that's wherefore we did it."

"We privation to bash immoderate we tin astatine Christmas to enactment nutrient banks," added her husband. "And if that isn't successful the signifier of a song, it doesn't mean we won't amusement up determination else."

"Plans are ever afoot. Don't regularisation america out. You deliberation we can't sing? Wait until we spell determination other and can't bash that, too."