The Christmas number one for 2019 has been revealed – and for the second year in a row, we’ve all gone crazy for sausage rolls.
LadBaby has managed to see off competition from Stormzy to achieve the Christmas number one with his festive track, I Love Sausage Rolls – a savoury take on Joan Jett’s I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll.
The YouTuber, real name Mark Hoyle, his wife Roxanne and their two sons Phoenix and Kobe scored a huge 93,000 chart sales – that 18,000 more than the 2018 Christmas number one from LadBaby, We Built This City (On Sausage Rolls).
And with 85,000 of that coming from digital sales, I Love Sausage Rolls is the fastest selling download since Artists For Grenfell’s Bridge Over Troubled Water in June 2017.
While some may be a bit miffed that a song about sausage rolls has beat Stormzy to the number one crown, it’s all for a fantastic cause.
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Money raised from the single is going to help the Trussell Trust, which hopes to end the need for food banks in the UK by supporting more than 1,200 food banks across the nation.
LadBaby said: ‘Oh my God! I can’t believe we’ve done it again, Christmas number one twice! What is even going on?
‘Thank you so much to everybody that downloaded the song, that streamed it, that got us to number one again.
‘It’s all for the Trussell Trust, it’s all for people in the UK living in poverty, the 14 million people.
‘So thank you so much. I’m honestly speechless. And I’m out of sausage roll songs, so I don’t know if we can do it again. But thank you, honestly, it’s incredible.’
Roxanne added: ‘I can’t believe it, I’m speechless. Thanks so much to everyone.’
LadBaby hadn’t planned on doing a second novelty song after achieving the number one in 2018, but his mind was changed after seeing the help it provided.
‘I told everyone all year I’d never do it again just because I didn’t think the world needed to hear my singing voice again,’ he explained to Metro.co.uk
‘But it was when we’d spent a bit of time with the charity, we went to the food banks in Nottingham and we learnt how far the money goes.’
Last year’s song, We Built This City…On Sausage Rolls, bought a whopping 70,000 emergency food parcels for families around the UK, with Mark declaring: ‘If we can make people laugh while doing something for charity, then it’s what Christmas is about, isn’t it?’
Not only has the Hoyle family won the Christmas number one, but LadBaby is also the first artist to achieve two back to back novelty Christmas number ones.
The only other acts to claim consecutive Christmas number ones are The Beatles (I Want To Hold Your Hand in 1963, I Feel Fine in 1964 and Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out in 1965) and The Spice Girls (2 Become 1 in 1996, Too Much in 1997 and Goodbye in 1998).
Chief executive of the Official Charts Company Martin Talbot said: ‘Congratulations to Ladbaby. It is a superb achievement to score an Official Christmas Number 1 once, let alone twice in successive years. And to do so with increased sales year-on-year is quite phenomenal – and all for a fantastic cause.
‘Of course, commiserations to Stormzy, Lewis Capaldi, Dua Lipa and Wham! who made up the Official Top 5 in what has proven to be a genuinely competitive race, which has ended up spanning generations and genres.’
Stormzy’s Own It featuring Burna Boy and Ed Sheeran had to settle for number two, with Lewis Capaldi’s Before You Go sitting at number three and Dua Lipa’s Don’t Start Now at number four.
And Wham!’s Christmas classic Last Christmas squeaked into the top five.
Sadly, Jarvis Cocker’s political song Running The World missed out on the top 40, coming in at number 48.
However, there was plenty of traditional Christmas representation in the chart – Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl (14), Merry Christmas Everyone by Shakin’ Stevens (16), Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Chirstmas (17), Step Into Christmas by Elton John (19), It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas by Michael Buble (24), One More Sleep by Leona Lewis (25), Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me (28), Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (29), Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade (31), Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee (32), Kelly Clarkson’s Underneath The Tree (33), Happy Christmas (War Is Over) sung by John Legend (34) and Santa’s Coming For Us (36) all made the top 40.
Meanwhile, over on the albums side of the charts, Rod Stewart beat Harry Styles’ Fine Line and Stormzy’s Heavy Is The Head to the Christmas number one with You’re In My Heart – his 10th number one album.
Stormzy again took the number two spot, with Harry Styles having to make do with number three.
Lewis Capaldi’s Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent and Michael Ball and Alfie Boe’s Back Together round off the top five.
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