It’s also a new track added to what she’s calling a ‘repack’ of her album Christmas With Love, Always. Kiss Me It’s Christmas could join that too, being a sentimental canoodle with Ne-Yo. Leona’s 2013 toe-tap One More Sleep is another recent-ish addition to the pantheon, and has enjoyed an afterlife thanks to streaming. Could Fall In Love At Christmas featuring Khalid and Kirk Franklin usurp AIWFCIY and find itself battling against it? Last year’s Oh Santa team-up with Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson topped out at Number 67, so it’s anybody’s guess. The queen of Christmas finally made it to Number 1 with All I Want For Christmas Is You last year, and it’s a no-brainer to suggest that her 1994 evergreen will be near the top again in 2021.
It’s a thank you to their increasing legion of fans, and the tone of begrudgingly going along with festivities will be something many people can relate to. Krampus was inspired by an Inside No.9 episode, and is a rollicking anti-festive number which sounds not unlike The Smiths with sleighbells attached. Hoping to spectacularly finish off a chart-topping 2021, when their album How Beautiful Life Can Be was an Official Album Chart Number 1 in October, are Wigan’s The Lathums.
It has all the makings of a modern standard and could become a regular returnee to the Official Singles Chart in Decembers to come. She’s now made it even cosier and slightly blubsome by sprinkling it with a bit of festive fairy dust and a pair of brackets as Home To You (This Christmas). Norwegian pop titan Sigrid has updated her Home To You song, which took off after it was used in the 2021 Olympics BBC highlights earlier this year. Having just released her second collection of holiday songs titled When Christmas Comes Around, the peppy, pass-agg Santa Can You Hear Me? is proving very popular this year, and could feasibly be jostling among the jingle too this year. Kelly’s Underneath The Tree from 2013 is one of the more recent additions to the festive canon to accumulate chart interest, reaching a new peak of Number 15 in December 2020. Kelly Clarkson & Ariana Grande - Santa Can You Hear Me? a lot of them." Just what we were hoping for, then. Could that change this year? Ed said of their duet Merry Christmas: "It has sleigh bells. Ed himself has had chart-toppers in Decembers past with Thinking Out Loud in 2014 and a Christmas Number 1 Perfect in 2017 - can he go all the way again this year?Įlton himself has seen his 1973 hit Step Into Christmas gradually crawl up to new best position of 8 in recent years too, but has never had a Christmas Number 1. Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmasīoth Ed and Elton have spent time at the top in 2021, so a combination of the pair of them looks set to – putting in mildly – do quite well. Check out a few highlights below, and a longer playlist at the bottom of the page. Now that both Mariah and Wham have finally achieved Number 1 with their classics, we at Official Charts are looking to see which of the Christmas-themed releases hope to join them this year. It’s that time of year when loads of festive favourites edge their way towards the chart again - which means songs from across several generations of pop competing against each other on the Official Christmas Chart.