THERE’S SOMETHING SPECIAL about the Christmas number one.
It means so much more than any other week of the year, and that’s potentially because it get revisited every year around this time.
And with that in mind, we decided to look back through the musical archives at what everyone was bopping to in the years gone by.
It’s been a fairly mixed bunch over the years with pretty much every genre making an appearance. And we can’t help but get nostalgic hearing some of these chart-toppers again.
So, from Christmas classics to forgotten pop gems, we’d be very surprised if you didn’t remember the majority of these hits.
1980 St Winifred’s School Choir – There’s No-one Quite Like Grandma
1981 ABBA – One of Us
1982 Renee and Renato – Save Your Love
1983 Flying Pickets – Only You
1984 Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
1985 Dermot Morgan – Thank You Very Much Mr. Eastwood
1986 The Housemartins – Caravan of Love
1987 The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York
1988 Cliff Richard – Mistletoe and Wine
1989 Band Aid II – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
1990 Zig and Zag -The Christmas No.1
1991 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are the Days of Our Lives
1992 Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You
1993 Take That – Babe
1994 East 17 – Stay Another Day
1995 Boyzone – Father and Son
1996 Spice Girls – 2 Become 1
1997 Various artists for Children in Need – Perfect Day
1998 Spice Girls – Goodbye
1999 Westlife – I Have a Dream
2000 Eminem – Stan
2001 Kate Winslet – What If
2002 Eminem – Lose Yourself
2003 Will Young – Leave Right Now
2004 Band Aid 20 – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
2005 Mario Rosenstock – Gift Grub/Leave Right Now
2006 Leona Lewis – A Moment Like This
2007 Leon Jackson – When You Believe
2008 Alexandra Burke – Hallelujah
2009 Joe McElderry – The Climb
2010 Matt Cardle – When We Collide
2011 Little Mix – Cannonball
2012 James Arthur – Impossible
2013 Sam Bailey – Skyscraper
2014 Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
2015 Justin Bieber – Love Yourself
2016 Clean Bandit ft.Sean Paul and Anne-Marie – Rockabye
2017 Ed Sheeran – Perfect
