LadBaby have scored their fourth consecutive UK Christmas No 1, making them the first artist to ever achieve that feat – while an expletive-strewn protest against Boris Johnson has reached the festive top five. LadBaby’s four Christmas No 1s puts them level with the Beatles, who topped the Christmas chart in 1963, 64, 65 and 67. In 2018 they covered Starship’s We Built This City (its foundations recast from rock’n’roll to sausage rolls), and followed it with Joan Jett’s I Love Rock’n’Roll twisted into I Love Sausage Rolls. But the pair gave LadBaby a boost by letting them do a cover of Merry Christmas and appearing on the recording, titled Sausage Rolls for Everyone. New Christmas recordings elsewhere in this year’s chart include George Ezra’s Come on Home for Christmas at No 10 (a cover of Please Come Home for Christmas by Charles Brown), and Olivia Dean’s cover of Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song at No 27.

Source: The Guardian December 25, 2021 17:17 UTC