The official Christmas No. 1 has become a "British institution", the "most prestigious and hard-fought-for chart topper" in any calendar year, said Official Charts. But how do you define the UK's ...

Here’s our rundown of over half a century of Christmas number ones, from the top of the pops ... but also the first ever UK number one. It was a couple of years until we had a tailor-made ...

Click the button below to learn about some of our earliest Christmas number ones. Sir Cliff Richard has ... sell a million copies of a single in the UK. Ed Sheeran was named UK artist of the ...

Wham! top Christmas Number One charts with major record tying with Whitney Houston ...

Returning to her native London to manage the UK's hottest boyband, 5 Together ... in the opinion of record company boss Grainger Cocksmith, they need a Christmas number one to prevent them from being ...

Shirley Bassey - As I Love You (UK number one, January 1959) Watch Shirley Bassey performing As I Love You on Show Of The Week Ricky Valance - Tell Laura I Love Her (UK number one, August 1960 ...

including 3 Christmas Number 1s. By year-end, UK album sales have topped 200 million units for the first time. 1997 – released in August, Oasis’s Be Here Now album becomes the fastest-seller ...

Alexandra Burke won the 2008 series of The X Factor and went onto have the best-selling X Factor winner's single ever with her cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, the UK Christmas Number 1 2008.